Reposted by October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin)The Chicago Bench Collective @chicagobenchcollective.org · 04/10/2026Folks at this bus stop will now have a place to sit! 4988
October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Am now riding the far turn of my 60 year Horse cycle. Whoa, let’s slow down and enjoy the next lap… #genx #horse #kick 000
Reposted by October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin)Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Seafood at the Blues Brothers bridge 1553
October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026we know who the money wants to win #Brasil 010
Reposted by October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin)Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026An Englishman on a Bike Happy #BicycleBirthday, Sting! Born October 2, 1951 3598
Reposted by October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin)Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Gesundheit! 061
Reposted by October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin)How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 02/10/2026Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?cbc.caHidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC NewsA new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young... 511665381
Reposted by October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin)Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I appreciate that the Ontario Greens were the only opposition party in the last election to put reversing Doug Ford’s bike lane meddling in their platform. The Liberals and NDP did not. 211912
Reposted by October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin)Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 01/10/2026Lighthouses of the BC South Coast. Cool. mapped.earth/lighthouses/... 938592
Reposted by October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin)Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 30/09/2026#Crepuscular view of the #GulfofStLawrence, from the north shore of #Gaspesie, #Quebec, #Canada #sunset #Sunsets #SunsetSky #CanadaSky 3334
October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Very last night of September. #dlws 110
October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Why do I love my #cargobike? reason#42 - because I went to get dog food before the store closed, and stopped for milk afterwards (and dont even need a bag for everything 2 arms carried out.) 1223
Reposted by October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin)DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Look how fast Mayor Mamdani is getting essential things done. Why can’t Toronto do these things this fast? It obviously CAN be done. #TOpoli 282
October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026OMG just experienced Recipe for Disaster, cross walk version. People crossing either side, luckily, as I follow behind slightly person in a wheel chair. Pickup turning on our side, stops partially in bike lane. DUMP TRUCK cannot see Person ahead of me, drives thru. Luckily traffic stops after this 000
Reposted by October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin)Cycle Toronto @cycletoronto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Doctors for Safe Cycling is back! "A coalition of Ontario health-care workers gathered in downtown Toronto on Tuesday to denounce the provincial government’s plan to remove bike lanes on three major roadways across the city."cbc.caOntario health-care coalition denounces province's plan to remove bike lanes across Toronto | CBC NewsA coalition of Ontario health-care workers gathered in downtown Toronto on Tuesday to denounce the provincial government’s plan to remove bike lanes on three major roadways across the city. 415651
October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026TTC platforms are a sauna today #dlws 001
Reposted by October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin)Timothy @landbeforetim.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026Since we’re discussing sexual assault and the rape culture in universities, I remind everyone of Emma Sulkowicz’s Carry That Weight where she carried a dormitory mattress, identical to the one she was raped on, until her rapist was expelled. She sadly carried it an entire year until her graduation. 15727
October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It’s great to have reporters in Bsky! All the best Isaac. 010
Reposted by October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin)Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Tobi Lutke, our most outspoken billionaire, does not understand cities or public space or transportation. Someone needs to put him in a room with Mike Bloomberg and Janette Sadik-Khan. I'm serious. @michaelrbloomberg.bsky.social @jskstreet.bsky.social 239011
October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“Condo Boards have the legal power to ban e-bikes, Tribunal rules.” For Toronto condo & apartment renters, *stuff* is about to get real, as they say. This ruling, although it could be appealed, indicates that bringing an e-bike or similar device… 🧵 www.torontotoday.ca/local/crime-...torontotoday.caCondo boards have the legal power to ban e-bikes, tribunal rules‘A condominium corporation is not required to wait until an accident, fire or property loss occurs before acting to address a reasonably perceived risk’ 100
October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Without a word of context, The Star covers this story as a triumph. And e-bikes are getting so dangerous. What the actual Fuck www.thestar.com/life/autos/r...thestar.comRam’s new 777-horsepower super truck can launch its three-tonne frame to 96 km/h in just 3.5 secondsPriced at $147,990, the 2027 TRX SRT lands at Canadian dealerships this fall with a supercharged V8 and luxury cabin. 1519230
October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The fine for this should be at least equivalent to Fare Evasion x everyone whose fare you are devaluing 1140
Reposted by October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin)Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 26/09/2026You listening, Toronto? 4236
Reposted by October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin)Henry VanderSpek - Photographer @culturesnapca.bsky.social · 26/09/2026An elevated view of cyclists along Bloor Street West at sunset yesterday. Exercising their rights. (Video shared with me by a family member.) @cycletoronto.bsky.social #cycleTO #bikesky #bikes #Toronto 26013
October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Kids you’re on your own for dinner, Dad’s out protesting 2161
October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026AI phone support: Sorry you're having trouble. Let's spell out your email letter by letter, starting wth the first one. I'll repeat each one. Please start. Me: "K" AI: Great. Let's spell out your email letter by letter, starting wth the first one. I'll repeat each one. Please start. 121
October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026What is Canada (and one would urge, the USA) doing to make corporations and their Directors accountable for the actions of their AI? Australia is at least talking about it... www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.comPM rejects ‘nonsense’ suggestion he delayed revealing OpenAI Medicare hack as Labor considers changing lawsExpert says Australia’s criminal laws should be clarified to determine how fault is applied to a corporation when its AI agent commits a crime 000
Reposted by October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin)Alex Freeman @northernnerd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026#BikeSky #BikeTO 071
Reposted by October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin)The Hill Times @hilltimes.com · 24/09/2026Ottawa set a target of 155,000 new international student arrivals for 2026. However, according to Universities Canada, only 28,200 had arrived as of July 31, or about 18 per cent of the annual target. www.hilltimes.com/2026/09/23/o... 166
Reposted by October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin)Marta O'Brien @archhistory.bsky.social · 24/09/2026People living without cars: Other day on TTC bus I spoke with couple travelling with toddler & very young baby. I asked how old baby was. She'd been born the day before & they were on their way home from the hospital! 1101
Reposted by October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin)🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 123123385250
Reposted by October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin)Cycle Toronto @cycletoronto.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Calling all Toronto candidates! Check your inboxes! The Cycle Toronto 2026 Municipal Election Questionnaire is here! Email us if you didn't get yours: info[at]cycleto[dot]ca 0122
October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026We did a thing in Vegas... 24 years ago 000
Reposted by October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin)Kanchan @kayehm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I met a resident who lives across the street from the Parkside camera (RIP) & saw it happen multiple times. Saw the people & vehicles used. Had recordings. They didn't say anything to police because they "didn't want to be a narc" 🫠 There are def doorbell cameras that had plenty of evidence. 3397
Reposted by October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin)Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I often think about the speed camera chopping vigilante who returned to the scene of their crime on Parkside Drive multiple times but Toronto police didn’t catch them & it led to Doug Ford banning speed cameras for 16 million people & now speeding is at epidemic levels & people will die. 2331080
Reposted by October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin)Rory White @rorywh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Bradford's campaign is now distancing itself from AI: "A human member of our campaign team sees, redrafts, edits and approves every single suggested comment before it goes to supporters - who personally decide whether or not to post it on their individual accounts." Meanwhile, they tell supporters 59135
October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"Currently, there are no specific regulations regarding lithium-ion batteries in Canada... Mayors + fire chiefs have been asking the feds + provinces to regulate / enforce." Great to see the @theglobeandmail.com voici g an opinion (if buried online) gift www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/efe980e...theglobeandmail.comThe dangerous wait for battery regulationsMany lithium-ion battery fires could be avoided with proper regulation 000
October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026oh ya, not just Maple Syrup www.wsj.com/health/healt...wsj.comAmericans Are About to Lose Access to Cheap Gray-Market Prescriptions From CanadaMillions who use online pharmacies from Canada and other countries could get cut off in October. 001
October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026and now Autumn has fallen #dlws 000
Reposted by October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin)Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Boris Komisar Groceteria, northwest corner of River and Dundas streets - Sept. 22, 1937. All structures visible in the photo would be torn down to make way for the Regent Park housing project of the late 1940s. #OnThisDay #1930s #torontohistory #grocerystore #jeremyhopkin 283
Reposted by October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin)Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Despite the horrors, there’s been some great science this week. New cat and two brains! 819120
Reposted by October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin)🎃I'll be Frankenstein with you 🧌🇨🇦 @syncros.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The Shuffle Demons launch the 11th annual Kensington Market Jazz Festival with a parade on Augusta St Friday. A grassroots, community-driven, artist-run, volunteer-fueled jazz festival. Easily accessed by the 77-B on the T-T-C. #TOphoto #toronto #spadinabus #x100vi 45110
October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This is much better to the sound track of “I wanna be adored”, but still an Amazing Armada of Joy! @cycletoronto.bsky.social Big Bike Ride yesterday, 28km of fun-raising around TO. 010
October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Horses on the rail line #beltline #toronto 020
October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026We’ve got til Tuesday at 8:05pm kids, get out and enjoy the summer. #dlws 011
October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Honestly this upgrade is so worth it #voomcart #canadian 021