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Tori Klassen Jeffery 🇨🇦 she/her

@velozebra.bsky.social
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Active transportation supporter 🚎🚲. Cargo bike-riding Grandmama (“Nona”) 👵. Vegan 🌱 for the planet 🌎 and the animals 🐖. No rage bait ⛔️, only collective action 🤲. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦

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BCMECR spooky/pumpkin spice mode @b1kes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You mean like how you promised a grocery rebate cheque to subsidize grocery store revenue? Or how you never did anything with the gas station price fixing? Or how you are basically destroying TransLink and BC Transit to make sure everyone is having to burn more gas to drive everywhere?
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Tori Klassen Jeffery 🇨🇦 she/her @velozebra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We’re almost at the “Unauthorized Toast”’stage of enshittification á la @doctorow.pluralistic.net
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Tori Klassen Jeffery 🇨🇦 she/her @velozebra.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m getting one for my cargo bike. 💀
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Tori Klassen Jeffery 🇨🇦 she/her @velozebra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Went to UVic GoByBike Week Celebration station. Took the two-way bike lane on Finnerty road. Saanich rescue at the scene of a crash: a driver turning into a parking lot right-hooked a cyclist. For the love of pete, drivers need to shoulder check! 😡 we also need better infrastructure in Saanich.
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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Gotta love a government that sees labour rights and environmental protections as barriers to overcome because sovereignty or something like that.
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Tori Klassen Jeffery 🇨🇦 she/her @velozebra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hey listen to this overcast.fm/+ABTxbYgZZLA @thewaroncars.bsky.social episode on cycling safety and helmet use. It’s spot on, especially talking about fear-based reactions. Really gave food for thought. Thanks!
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Fine, We’re Doing a Helmet Episode — The War on Cars
After New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani posted a social media video showing him listening to concerned citizens and deciding to wear a bicycle helmet, social media exploded. Some people praised the m...
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Regenerative grazing has gotten a lot of buzz — maybe thanks to big money from the beef industry? — but it’s NOT an effective climate solution. I wish it was. But it’s time to move on from greenwashing and focus on things that work.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.
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Tab C @drtcombs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
allowing drivers to proceed on a red light is inherently and inescapably anti-social ban #RTOR everywhere #RightOnRed #VisionZero
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Tori Klassen Jeffery 🇨🇦 she/her @velozebra.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Haven’t found the sci fi portion of BlueSky yet but can we talk about Silo s3 finale and The Prisoner references? I’ve been hate-watching this season of Silo (ugh so much to loathe) and nearly gagged at the “W H Y ?” and the “Be seeing you.” It’s giving “get that name out of your filthy mouth.”
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I love how ebikes spark the moral panic while I, on an ebike, am constantly getting my doors blown off by exercise bros trying to set a new personal best on our shared path system using nothing but their leg power.
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Tori Klassen Jeffery 🇨🇦 she/her @velozebra.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
We biked to Fibration fibre festival in Fernwood today with the wee bairns. I’m surprised there weren’t more bikes there, it seems the knitters and weavers among us still skew to the blue-haired set who don’t use bicycles for transportation?
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Tori Klassen Jeffery 🇨🇦 she/her @velozebra.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
You can bet the family farm that the children & grandchildren of Trump and all his sycophants are up to date and on schedule with all the recommended vaccinations.
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Tori Klassen Jeffery 🇨🇦 she/her @velozebra.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Grocery shopping in my big-ass bike.
A cargo bike box filled with canned goods and non-perishables
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Tori Klassen Jeffery 🇨🇦 she/her @velozebra.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Why does no one ever mention going vegan Or at least drastically reducing consumption of animal products.
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Wilderness Committee @wildernews.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Prime Minister Carney's enthusiastic willingness to accept and fund oil and private profit is putting the Salish Sea in danger. Take action to protect endangered species today ⬇️ #biodiversity #fossilfuel www.wildernesscommittee.org/take-action/...
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Stop PM Carney from gutting Canada’s environmental laws
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 04/08/2026
What is our government doing? This project defies common sense - this is corporate welfare on a surreal scale, giving a gift to an industry making $90 billion in excess profits this year, and which still refuses to pay for its own infrastructure.
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Tori Klassen Jeffery 🇨🇦 she/her @velozebra.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
How much more Canadian can you get? A Snowbird parked underneath the wing of a Martin Mars water bomber
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Tori Klassen Jeffery 🇨🇦 she/her @velozebra.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Ted Lasso season 1 ep 3 (?) rewatch EPIPHANY: we find out that Keely is the GOAT. She waltzes into Rebecca’s office to thank her for killing the Ted photo, saying “It’s always the woman who bears the brunt of the bad press, amirite😉?” She knows/suspects it was Rebecca behind it! 🤯
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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.
TORONTO STAR
BOOK REVIEW
Sylvia Plath, a New York vigilante and Shah of Iran featured in latest historical fiction
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Tori Klassen Jeffery 🇨🇦 she/her @velozebra.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
@iwriteok.bsky.social Canadians have probably let you know this already but (re: Ian Smith episode 1 on BTB) we repatriated our constitution from Britain in 1982; we haven’t been a British dominion since then.
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Tori Klassen Jeffery 🇨🇦 she/her @velozebra.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The wrong public figures keep dying. RIP Sam Neill. We wanted to visit Two Paddocks when we were in Otago several years ago but they had no cellar door, and besides it was Christmas break. We did see a Two Paddocks truck on the road and imagined it was Sam Neill going to feed Helena Bonham Carter ♥️
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Tori Klassen Jeffery 🇨🇦 she/her @velozebra.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
visionzerovancouver.ca/2026/07/08/r...
visionzerovancouver.ca
Road violence is not normal
On June 29, a cyclist struck two pedestrians in downtown Vancouver, sending one to hospital in critical condition. (Tragically, a week later the man passed away). As a road safety advocacy group, w…
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Tori Klassen Jeffery 🇨🇦 she/her @velozebra.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This is one of the busiest stretches in and out of the most populous area of BC and there is precious little public transportation to serve all the people who need to get around - so a large part of the solution is buses and dare I say train service…
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Tori Klassen Jeffery 🇨🇦 she/her @velozebra.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
If our PM thinks fighting climate change is “expensive” and “divisive” then he ain’t seen nothing yet as we continue to do practically nothing about it.
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Bryson The Gaytive @brysonthegaytive.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
John a MacDonald wasn’t a great leader. He wasn’t a nation builder. He was racist. He participated in genocide. He was a horrible person. His legacy is that. Plain and simple. He doesn’t deserve to be revered, nor have statues or be commemorated.
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Tori Klassen Jeffery 🇨🇦 she/her @velozebra.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Why are we not marching in the streets over this.
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Tori Klassen Jeffery 🇨🇦 she/her @velozebra.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
My new NonaBike™️ commute is to UVic via Mackenzie. Sorry, but Nona NOPED out of that route. I don’t care if there are plastic “bollards”-it does not feel safe enough. Looking for alternative routes to UVic that don’t involve 4 & 5-lane stroads with lots of sketchy intersections and slip lanes.
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Tori Klassen Jeffery 🇨🇦 she/her @velozebra.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Is the UK just generally the land of last-minute chaos? We thought it was just trains that announced the platform five minutes before boarding. Turns out it’s airports too, with announcing the gate for your flight at the last moment.
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Tori Klassen Jeffery 🇨🇦 she/her @velozebra.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
When in Scotland, you must get something you can’t get at home (yet) .. the UK edition of “Flick: The Story of Female Pleasure” by Dr Kate Lister.
A photo of the hardcover book “Flick: The Story of Female Pleasure” by Dr Kate Lister.
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Tori Klassen Jeffery 🇨🇦 she/her @velozebra.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I am a new fan of Yorkshire tea. I took the last bag from our London hotel room and (ironically) had to brew it when we got to York, where it was NOT provided in our hotel room(!) I bought a bag of loose tea at the Tesco in Inverness but I hope it’s available in Canada when we go back home.
Photo of a red tea packet that reads “Yorkshire tea: let’s have a proper brew”
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/05/2026
Unlike Mark Carney, I *support* Carneyism. Carneyism promises protection for Canadians, from monopolists and mad emperors, petty thieves and potholes. But Carney himself ardently opposes these policies. 30/
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/05/2026
Guess who just *eliminated* Canada's consumer protection agency? www.donotpassgo.ca/p/carney-gov... Oh, to be a scammer in Mark Carney's Canada! Whatever Galen Weston doesn't steal is yours for the taking! 21/
donotpassgo.ca
Carney Government Slashes Consumer Protection Funding
Office of Consumer Affairs and the projects it funds are being wound down by March, stretching already marginalized advocacy groups
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/05/2026
"Third Way" liberal politics involves *saying* things that working people love, but *doing* things that sociopathic plutocrats love. It works ...right up until voters notice that you're not *doing* the things. That realisation breeds cynicism and fury and paves the way for fascist strongmen. 2/
A turn-of-the-century Main Street, USA. Over the horizon looms a giant Canadian flag, made out of circuitry. In the foreground is a pixelboard sign reading 'U.S. BORDER CLOSED.' In the foreground looms a giant lumberjack, about to swing his axe into the sign.
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Tori Klassen Jeffery 🇨🇦 she/her @velozebra.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
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What the Supreme Court's Wolastoqey Decision Actually Did
The legal boundaries of Aboriginal title over private property are still evolving
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Tori Klassen Jeffery 🇨🇦 she/her @velozebra.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
We’ve taken 4 “National Rail” (they were 2 different rail service companies) trains in the UK so far. We are 1/4 that were on time with no disruptions. Is that a better track record than BCFerries? Not so sure…
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Tori Klassen Jeffery 🇨🇦 she/her @velozebra.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I hope everyone in the greater Victoria region reads this.
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Tori Klassen Jeffery 🇨🇦 she/her @velozebra.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
This is my resting unsurprised face 🙄
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Tori Klassen Jeffery 🇨🇦 she/her @velozebra.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
We are still driving our 2015 Nissan LEAF (bought used in 2018) and our battery is still over 80%; we’ve only lost one bar. We’ve spent maybe $2000 in car maintenance over the time we’ve owned it.
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Tori Klassen Jeffery 🇨🇦 she/her @velozebra.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This video from a travel blogger made me tear up right along with him this morning. It is a powerful message in allyship (although he doesn’t put it that way) and privilege. youtu.be/f5BqznkxT5U?...
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I Should've Known Better. Instead, I Put a Kid in Danger.
YouTube video by Maurice Moves
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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 04/05/2026
If we could PSA our way out of traffic violence, we would have the safest streets in the world. People drive the design, not the sign.
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We Built a Dangerous System. Then We Made a PSA About It. | Strong Towns
How public safety messaging shifts responsibility away from the systems that cause harm.
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Tori Klassen Jeffery 🇨🇦 she/her @velozebra.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
It was 22 degrees outside today which made the cargo bike errand so gosh darn pleasant. ☀️🕶️
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 28/04/2026
6/ Prime Minister Carney’s approach is to seed the fund with public money to subsidize big private projects. In other words, Norway uses industry profits to support the public good. Prime Minister Carney’s fund uses public money to support private profits.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Some people continue to advocate for regenerative grazing as a big climate solution. But it's not. The better answer is to cut back on beef consumption, curb food waste, and rethink the food system. drawdown.org/insights/gre...
drawdown.org
Greenwashing and denial won’t solve beef’s enormous climate problems
Dive into the world of beef's environmental impact, from deforestation to climate change. Learn about the myths of "eco-friendly" beef and the industry's narratives.
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Tori Klassen Jeffery 🇨🇦 she/her @velozebra.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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Urban Truth Collective: The One-Hour City Conspiracy — Streetsblog USA
Here's the real conspiracy: Too many people are forced into car-dependent lives, with more health harms, more crashes, more noise, more air pollution, more social isolation — and less space for everyt...
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Tori Klassen Jeffery 🇨🇦 she/her @velozebra.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, and we are allowing billionaires to exist, then who has all the power? Right, it seems elementary that we should tax billionaires out of existence, yet here we are.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
A Nissan Sentra weighs a little more than 3,000 pounds (I picked a small, common car) An Aventon Level 3 E-bike weighs 67 pounds (plus rider weight) These things do not pose remotely the same risk when traveling at 28 mph. I am begging people to understand basic physics.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
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Tori Klassen Jeffery 🇨🇦 she/her @velozebra.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Free parking is never free - the new price is most assuredly still heavily subsidized www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
ctvnews.ca
From $0 to $4.25 in 2 years: Price of parking surges at Vancouver’s Spanish Banks Beach
Less than two years after it was introduced, paid parking at Vancouver’s Spanish Banks now costs $4.25 an hour.
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