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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 05/10/2026

If anyone outside Canada has ever wondered why most of the population lives in the southern bit, it’s because the northern bit often looks like this. Roads: ha ha, the Canadian Shield laughs at you

A photo showing a patchwork of land and small bodies of water

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 01/10/2026

If you see this post a vampire that isn't Dracula

Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon in The Hunger

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 03/08/2026

Spectacular ride by Sigrid Haugset -- nothing like jumping 45 (!!) places in the GC to take the yellow jersey #TDFF2026

Screenshot of the provisional classification for Stage 3 of the Tour de France Femmes, showing S. Haugset up 45 places in the GC to take first place with an advantage of 2 minutes 2 seconds over the second-place rider.

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 04/07/2026

Fixed that for ya. If you live at Palmerston and College why on earth would you own a car at all? You can get a taxi within seconds. Or streetcar. Or bike. Or, as they say, walk.

Text from a newspaper real estate article reading in part “We don’t need a three-car garage in a place where we walk everywhere.” The words “three-car” are crossed out.

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 07/06/2026

Even scammers forget about GenX, apparently (from this weekend’s Globe feature)

Screenshot of text from a newspaper article, which reads: Scammers tailor their approaches based on the victims' age demographics, said Larry Zelvin, head of security advisory at Bank of Montreal. Baby boomers, for instance, are often targeted by fraudsters impersonating their grandchildren, a bank employee, or a potential romantic partners, while millenials are more likely to encounter fraudulent cryptocurrency investment schemes, said Mr. Zelvin. People in Gen Z, meanwhile, are most likely to be targeted with fake job or concert ticket scams.

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 02/06/2026

#PedalPoll 2026! 243 bikes, I'd say 3/4 eastbound? The pedestrians were about even. Neither bike numbers nor pedestrian numbers are anywhere close to as minimal as the city estimates.

Pedal Poll screenshot of 2 hours of counting everything but cars. 188 bikes, 29 ebikes, 18 Bixi bikes, 8 cargo bikes, 7 e-scooters, 450 pedestrians, 1 Segway, and 5 of those motorcycle things pretending to be ebikes. Total 706.

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 28/05/2026

It's lovely that they changed the Google Workspace icons so they're not identical rainbow squiggles, but um. Now I can't tell Chat from Sheets.

Icons in a browser. Both the Google Chat icon and the Sheets icon are subtly different green blobs with a white squiggle at the bottom.

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 27/05/2026

Bike parking grades: Stockyards Beer Store gets a C+, a gentleman’s pass. Proper ring properly secured to the ground, usable but much too close to the wall; my right pannier was obstructed. And only one bike can use each of the two available posts. Another 50cm from the wall would get an A.

An orange bicycle locked to a Toronto bike ring that is set parallel to, and about six inches away from, the brick front wall of the Stockyards Beer Store

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 30/04/2026

The Robarts cherry blooms are glorious today

Pink-white cherry blossoms in full bloom against a bright blue sky. At the bottom is the top half of my face, showing tired eyes after two days of conferencing.

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 28/04/2026

Hello #birdsky, what in the heck are these very long-beaked birds I'm seeing on the Swedish Moose Migration? They hang out in the field setting. Brownish. SUPER LONG BEAK. I'm hoping it's obvious what they are? I don't know birds at all but I love these guys.

Screenshot from the Swedish Moose Migration: Two birds in a windswept brown field. It's hard to tell how large they might be. They're brown, with some mottled colouration? They have HUGELY LONG and pointy beaks, maybe half again the length of their bodies. It's unclear how long their legs are because they're standing/sitting in a bumpy grass field.

Screenshot from the Swedish Moose Migration: Closer-up view of a bird in a windswept brown field. It's hard to tell how large it might be. It's brown, with some mottled colouration on its wings and a HUGELY LONG and pointy beak, maybe half again the length of the body. It's unclear how long its legs are because it's standing/sitting in a bumpy grass field.

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 26/04/2026

Pineapple containers from the same supplier, February vs. April. Clearly they’re cutting off the top and bottom to chop up and sell separately #shrinkflation

Two plastic containers with lids. They have the same diameter but one is about 3/4 the height of the other.

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 24/04/2026

This is what the internet is for -- letting me watch the Swedish moose migration proceed in a corner of my screen while also doing my actual work. (www.svtplay.se/video/jXv3A5... should you also wish to cheer on some migrating Swedish meese)

A screenshot of a Swedish moose in a forest. You can see her head peeking out from behind some birch trees. The forest floor is covered in low greenery.

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 31/03/2026

Oh, you know. About a tenth of what we charge fare jumpers.

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 07/03/2026

Gee, wouldn’t it be nice if the TTC had a nice inclusive attitude like this

Translink (Vancouver) sign on a bike rack, describing their new bike paths, bike parking, sidewalks, and other active travel options

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 27/02/2026

I do love #publictransit with windows at the front. This is the Skytrain in Vancouver

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 02/01/2026

I read about 10% less in 2025 than I usually do (it came to about 27,000 pages) but I spent more time playing computer games for sure. Here are my 5-star reads of 2025.

Image shows the covers of eight books: the hands of the emperor, death of the author, the lost words, the wee free men, crackdown, the fated sky, the letter of marque, and the mirror and the light.

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 20/12/2025

Tangential, but they should also stop prescribing antibiotics for viruses

Screenshot of a newspaper clipping describing a taking antibiotics after being diagnosed with influenza and a rhinovirus

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 19/12/2025

So we're fighting Nazis and taking away their toys, I guess? I'm up for that.

A movie poster for Raiders of the Lost Ark

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 09/12/2025

I keep a photo of this Calvin and Hobbes strip on my phone as reassurance it's not just me.

A four-panel strip from Calvin & Hobbes. The parents are in bed (after their house has been broken into). First panel - Mom: "Are you still awake, too?" Dad: "Mm-hmm. I was thinking." Second panel, Dad continues, "It's funny. When I was a kid, I thought grown-ups never worried about anything. I trusted my parents to take care of everything, and it never occurred to me that they might not know how." Third panel, Dad continues, "I figured that once you grew up, you automatically knew what to do in any given scenario". Fourth panel, Dad continues, "I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed".

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 18/11/2025

Treats must not be eaten on top of the filing cabinet but must be knocked to the floor one at a time and eaten there. #CatsOfBluesky

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 14/11/2025

Post a bird to support @sbworkersunited.org and warn your followers not to buy Starbucks for the duration of the strike 🪶

A fancy sort of chicken with large, fluffy feathers on its head

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 30/10/2025

Physicists should study it, for sure

Two posts by someone named genderfluid-druid. First: hurr hurr I'm a human body hurr hurr I'm gonna solve all my problems using mucus. Second: "I require more fluids" well what did you do with the fluids I already gave you. hmm? did you make more mucus with them? you made more mucus with them.

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 28/10/2025

Lola sleeps with one eye open

A black cat asleep on a fuzzy gray mat. Her head is tilted sideways and one green eye is weirdly half-open.

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 27/10/2025

Apparently it’s Black Cat Day in the UK. I’m not in the UK and neither is my cat, but here he is, wearing one of my t-shirts

A black cat peers out the neck hole of a black t-shirt. He looks mildly disgruntled.

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 29/09/2025

It’s nice of the cats to leave me nearly 1/4 of the bathmat #catsofbluesky

Two black cats sprawled on a grey bathmat, looking pleased with themselves and leaving very little room for a human to use the bathmat for its intended purpose

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 24/07/2025

I organized it a couple of months ago

A set of plastic drawers, labelled with the bike parts in each drawer. There are also wall compartments. It’s tidy, for the moment.

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 14/07/2025

A tale of two headlines. CityNews: active tense, there's a driver involved ("struck dead by driver") -- kudos for reporting this way. CP: passive ("being hit by vehicle"), vehicle apparently acting on its own. Driver escapes mention, let alone responsibility, yet again.

Screenshot of a Canadia Press headline: Child dead after being hit by vehicle in Surrey, B.C.

Screenshot of a CityNews headline: Surrey police: 3-year-old struck dead by driver

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 03/07/2025

I keep this Pratchett bit on my phone because it was so unexpected and I laugh every single time I read it. So much talent to set it up.

Text reads: ...lodgings were on the top floor next to the well-guarded premises of a respectable dealer in stolen property because, as Granny had heard, good fences make good neighbours.

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 01/07/2025

#SentenceOfTheDay from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark. “…the exhilarating feeling of being in on the faint smell of row, without being endangered by it” 👨‍🍳💋

Text reads: Taking inward note of this, and with the exhilarating feeling of being in on the faint smell of row, without being endangered by it, they followed dangerous Miss Brodie into the secure shade of the elm.

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 21/06/2025

Carson says happy solstice, and he hopes you find a nice patch of sunlight to stand in (because he is not sharing his) #caturday

A black cat stands in a patch of sunlight on a desk. He’s looking at you and he wants scritches.

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 15/06/2025

My tiny mint plant enjoyed the ride home strapped to my bike rack. The basil plants purchased at a later stop perched in the top of one of the panniers full of groceries #DoItByBike

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 18/05/2025

#SentenceOfTheDay today is by @scalzi.com. So perfect—I hate it, and yet I still somehow want to go there

Image of a sentence from When The Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi: “It was what a goth club would be like if it were designed by Jony Ive”.

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 15/05/2025

At Lonsdale Quay in North Vancouver. Love it.

Sign attached to a pole reads “bait bike in area”

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 10/05/2025

#NowReading - Crackdown: Surviving and resisting the war on drugs, by Garth Mullins

Cover photo of the book Crackdown: Surviving and resisting the war on drugs, by Garth Mullins

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 28/04/2025

I did the thing. You should too.

Me and an Elections Canada sign, in front of my voting location

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 23/04/2025

I am developing a strong parasocial relationship with this sleepy Swedish bear and its excellent bleps (From the #GreatMooseMigration 24/7 live stream, which I highly recommend. www.svtplay.se/video/e7d4VX...)

Rather dark shot of a large Swedish brown bear with a wide white stripe across its shoulders. It is sitting in a grassy area nearly facing the camera and it is doing a blep.

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 04/04/2025

I do love the Ask a Manager open threads sometimes

Question in a discussion thread asks whether lycanthropy would be covered under the ADA. Another person asks whether it's a medical condition or a curse, and notes that if it's medical, it's probably covered under the ADA, but if it's a curse you're probably looking for some kind of religious exemption.

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 25/02/2025

Throw the subway in there for an even more dramatic picture of how Bloor works

Image from the City bike-lane study showing the Bloor subway carries 81% of total Bloor corridor volume. Of the street volume, 88% is cars, 12% pedestrians, and a smidge cyclists (I dispute those numbers based on other counts we've done, but never mind, the subway is the main thing).

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 25/02/2025

This is an appalling attack on bodily autonomy; they're just starting with this population because they think they can get away with it--all the evidence says involuntary "treatment" is ineffective and dangerous. Ask yourself: who's next? www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Clipping from the Globe and Mail: Alberta to build involuntary treatment centres for addiction - province set to table country's first legislation to enable adults to be forced into care.

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 24/02/2025

For sale at that ever-radical institution the Art Gallery of Ontario

A variety of goods for sale hanging on a wall, including baseball caps and toques saying CANADA IS NOT FOR SALE.

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 19/02/2025

Sentence of the day, from Le Comte de Monte Cristo, written in 1846 and yet oh so relevant

Danglars était un de ces hommes de calcul qui naissent avec une plume derrière l’oreille et un encrier à la place du cœur; tout était pour lui dans ce monde soustraction ou multiplication, et un chiffre lui paraissait bien plus précieux qu’un homme.

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 13/02/2025

Wow St John’s, way to show a big middle finger to pedestrians

Globe and Mail photo of a man in St John’s shoveling several feet of snow off his sidewalk after a street plow piled the snow onto it

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 11/02/2025

Sentence of the Day (well, two sentences) is won hands-down today by @brownoftheglobe.bsky.social in his book Sixty. I always read anything Ian Brown writes, because whatever it is always has perfect sentences like this. <chef's kiss> Thank you, sir. #booksky 📚💙

Screenshot of a book sentence: "...waiting for the light to change, watching, on the other side of the street, a guy in a modern slimline jacket so tight that he looks like an overstuffed cannoli. It is so tight I can see his political inclinations."

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 11/02/2025

Not only are they energy independent, they also do fantastic Kraftwerk covers

Photo of the three Baltic leaders and some European Commission reps lined up behind lit-up podiums in a very Kraftwerk way

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Robyn is still here @r.kalda.ca · 07/02/2025

That stage of making a quilt where all you have is an idea and a big messy pile of fabric bits

A pile of strips of various black and white fabrics. One fabric is red.

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