Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦Claudia Chender @claudiachenderns.bsky.social · 2hWe stand with Muslim Nova Scotians and condemn Islamophobia in all its forms — today and every day. Everyone deserves to feel safe, respected, and welcome in their community. 0144
Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 2hOnce more, statistically, the mother in this (I'm sure totally true) story would be in the safest possible human company if completely surrounded by trans people. Certainly my experience would suggest their company would have been kinder than that of their child... 020
Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 3hseveral people involved in this need to be in jail including some CRA folks 040
Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14hA girl won the role of Seymour in South Grand Prairie High School in Texas. Then, the district freaked out because of Texas' anti-trans and anti-gay law. So they tried to strip her role and give it to a boy. She refused, so now they are cancelling the play. Subscribe to support our journalism.erininthemorning.comTexas School Kills ‘Little Shop Of Horrors’ After Girl Cast As Seymour, Citing Anti-LGBTQ+ LawFollowing backlash, the school gave one young actress’s role to a boy—and told her to share the role of Audrey with another girl as consolation. Then they cancelled it altogether. 661566419
Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Summer 1987: New York City mayor Ed Koch announces a bicycle ban in midtown. Slow-ride protests led by bike messengers fought the ban, & city residents sided with the cyclists. The ban was lifted before it ever went into effect. 📷Carl Hultberg 936991
Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 20hThis is insane, anti-literary, book banning, barbarous behaviour from the UK. It’s an utterly Orwellian, oppressive state attack on free speech and thought. www.cbsnews.com/news/sally-r...cbsnews.comSally Rooney's books withdrawn in U.K. over author's support for designated terror group Palestine ActionIrish author Sally Rooney's books are no longer being supplied to U.K. retailers over her support for the banned group Palestine Action. 615653
Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 13hthere's enough to dislike with this dude without fake stuff www.snopes.com/fact-check/n... 000
Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 13hEmbrace change, huh? I admit, widespread anti-industrial arson would be a change, but I'm ready to embrace it. 010
Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 14hHave thoughts? mayor_chow@toronto.ca Premier@ontario.ca 000
Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 15hAdd “for Tax Purposes” to a movie: Sleeping With the Enemy for Tax Purposes 010
Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦Jag Villani @jagvillani.bsky.social · 22hSingle file, one at a time. Fill the whole block. 1029337
Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 15hAnything with less than three hundred horsepower will be banned from city streets, no vehicle traveling less than thirty kilometres per hour will be allowed on sidewalks, and all urban speed limits will be doubled. Stands to reason traffic will move faster with these changes amirite 171
Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 15hI expect he'll be announcing that the city is fast-tracking completion of the integrated mobility plan! --- Narrator: he will not 190
Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The Cornell story got a lot of folks thinking about bystander intervention. We like to believe we'd do the right thing but few of us actually do - often because we have no idea HOW to do it. Let me teach you! It's free, cameras/mics muted & it's suuuuper practical info zoom.us/webinar/regi... 111474
Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Cannot believe this is happening. 313324
Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦hobnail.bsky.social @hobnail.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Lit Window, Spring Garden Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia #Halifax #NovaScotia #Photography 061
Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 21hAdd a photo you took of something good. (go ahead and listen, too) 120
Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 21hThese are wonderfully effective tools to hold up against the claims of nationalists (especially as they may be authoritarians or Fascists instrumentalizing nationalism) as a litmus test - are we in rational conversation land, or are we in the place of nostalgic fee-fees? 010
Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 21h1. Nations are objectively modern despite claims to antiquity 2. The formal universality of nationality vs the particular & unique nature of its practice 3. The political power of nationalisms vs. their philosophical poverty and even incoherence. (Anderson, Imagined Communities, 2006, p5) 110
Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 21hBenedict Anderson's take on nationalism is getting dated but it's still pretty important. One of my favourite little bits in the book is his quiet brutality in introducing the concept of nationalism. He names three paradoxes inherent to nationalism: 100
Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 15/10/2026As a former civil servant, I would’ve been mortified if any error made it into an official document I helped draft, because accuracy *is* the job. The continued use of AI in government is an admission that governments no longer care about accuracy. It‘s shockingly contemptuous of the public. 45925
Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 22hFunny how this never comes up in the Alberta Grievances discussion. Is that because there is no plausible way to blame the Feds for this epic fail? globalnews.ca/news/1004550...globalnews.caHow Alberta became a green energy leader then squandered it | Globalnews.caCanada’s oil and gas province quietly became a wind and solar powerhouse, then hit the brakes. What happens now? 11611
Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 21husing a different computer, opened a PDF in Acrobat instead of my usual (FoxIt). Jeebus Murphy the AI and the cruft of it! No, I don't want a summary, I want to read the words myself so I learn things. ARGH! Downloading foxit now... 170
Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026I had to car commute onto the peninsula of Halifax today and compared to riding on Tuesday this is miserable, frustrating business. It took longer, I spent most of my time staring at taillights, and there are some bananas hostile drivers out here. Give that soaring arc down the COLT! #BikeHFX 2143
Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦Waye Mason 🇨🇦 @wayemason.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Gripens for Canada. A rethink on US supplied weapons systems for the River class (ie go back to the same systems the UK and Australians are using). SAMP/T NG over Patriots. Join the MDBA missle ecosystem. Etc etc etc. 3142
Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 14/10/2026Local woman wakes up, awards herself a billion dollar contract to establish multiple recovery facilities in Alberta that turn conservatives into socialists, makes oatmeal. 619822
Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/10/2026WAPO: The lining “failed in at least 85 places because of errors in the renovation, including the premature refilling of the basin before the liner had fully dried ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... 1642693881
Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦Sean Boots @bluesky.sboots.ca · 15/10/2026“…a dense web of rules, sign-offs and reporting that slows the public service down far more than it holds it to account for results. Government never measures the effort spent complying with processes against the effort spent doing the actual work.” Clarke & Charbonneau: irpp.org/research-stu...irpp.orgDismantling Ottawa’s Costly Web of Rules: How to Build a Functioning Federal Accountability Regime - IRPPImproving the federal accountability regime requires simplifying the existing rule set and transparently reporting on the costs and impacts of red tape. 121
Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦Jesi🃏♠️🔥 @luciferjesit.bsky.social · 13/10/2026This was such a great answer from Abdul El-Sayed about his previous criticisms of President Obama. 11861531416
Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026there is no obligation to make this completely outrageous abuse of power seem normal 031
Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026#cat in basket update: the cat is in the basket 090
Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026once again demonstrating the @tomflood.bsky.social proposition... 111015
Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I forget what the active transportation route paralleling the rail cut by the arm and around the south end was called in The Plan, but that's the route I need... please please council just finish the grid 030
Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026let's increase demand on the worst bottlenecks for commuters and then actively work against alternatives - Premier Tim 0132
Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026did you try reading it while seated with your heart and head centered above your perineum though 110
Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I can’t click through without ruining my algorithm forever but I am dying to know what exactly they want a historian to do at ICE 8102
Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦Bank of Canada Museum @bankofcanadamuseum.ca · 11/10/2026Many people love birds and they’ve been a very popular subject on bank notes the world over. See our blog on the Birds of Canada bank note series. 👉 bit.ly/3XoBcmU #SundayReading 051
Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026uncomfortable sectional tension in this thread of replies 010
Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026is there a plant-based alternative? Beyond Fuzz? Impossible Cop? 010
Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026(read: i have a pre-written obituary specifying my death while biking the stretch by the cemetery on Mumford) 330
Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦Sam Austin @samaustind5.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Photo radar works. In cities where it was removed, speeds went up. Police can't be everywhere. I would rather they focus on stuff that really needs a human. Allowing cameras is the most significant road safety measure the Province could do... too bad there is no will www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.ca'Not on our table': N.S. still won't allow municipalities to install traffic radar cameras | CBC NewsNova Scotia has rules in place for speed cameras, but the province still won't let municipalities install them. The decision came during an announcement about the new Traffic Safety Act taking effect ... 44919
Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦Observing The City @observingthecity.ca · 14/10/2026Construction trucks leaving Bloor and Islington area after being successfully deterred from starting work on removing bike lanes in Toronto by a large protest. 391981449
Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦king's co-op boo store 👻 @kingsbookstore.bsky.social · 13/10/2026hell yeah 515026
Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The COLT is the middle part of my commute, and I really enjoy it. It's safe and sociable! (It doesn't really link up well with routes to the South End yet, though...) 140
Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 13/10/2026C'mon, Keith. *How* did Norway turn its oil reserves into "extraordinary national wealth"? *Public ownership of oil companies *78 per cent profit tax on oil companies *25 per cent sales tax economy-wide so the oil revenues could be saved These are not serious people. #abpoli 64771257
Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Anti-queer bigotry is a load-bearing component of the modern international fascist movement, and so job #1 for any reconstruction government is to support queer rights. 1101