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October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin)

@voilakevin.bsky.social
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bikes & cities, dogs & sunsets. Zygg ebikes, Monashee Bike Racks, Bikeep, Popwheels [past fdr: AutoShare, Modo car coop, Evergreen Canada] Youtube: "Star Wars 4 Daddies: Generation Space Time" #SW4D

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October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 11h
late bloomer
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The Chicago Bench Collective @chicagobenchcollective.org · 04/10/2026
Folks at this bus stop will now have a place to sit!
A wooden bench
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October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 21h
#brasil
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October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Am now riding the far turn of my 60 year Horse cycle. Whoa, let’s slow down and enjoy the next lap… #genx #horse #kick
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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Seafood at the Blues Brothers bridge
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October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
we know who the money wants to win #Brasil
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
An Englishman on a Bike Happy #BicycleBirthday, Sting! Born October 2, 1951
Photo of the singer Sting riding a bicycle with dropped handlebars.
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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Gesundheit!
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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 02/10/2026
Listen: 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.ca
Hidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC News
A 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...
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I 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.
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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 01/10/2026
Lighthouses of the BC South Coast. Cool. mapped.earth/lighthouses/...
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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
An orange and yellow sunset stretches over a large, placid body of water with grass, a wood fence and a picnic table in the foreground.
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October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Very last night of September. #dlws
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October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Why 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.)
A Yuba e-Komi front “bread” basket filled with groceries including milk and dog food
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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Look how fast Mayor Mamdani is getting essential things done. Why can’t Toronto do these things this fast? It obviously CAN be done. #TOpoli
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October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
OMG 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
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Cycle Toronto @cycletoronto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Doctors 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."
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Ontario health-care coalition denounces province's plan to remove bike lanes across Toronto | CBC News
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.
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October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
TTC platforms are a sauna today #dlws
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Timothy @landbeforetim.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026
Since 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.
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October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s great to have reporters in Bsky! All the best Isaac.
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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tobi 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
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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-...
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Condo 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’
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October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Without 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...
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Ram’s new 777-horsepower super truck can launch its three-tonne frame to 96 km/h in just 3.5 seconds
Priced at $147,990, the 2027 TRX SRT lands at Canadian dealerships this fall with a supercharged V8 and luxury cabin.
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October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The fine for this should be at least equivalent to Fare Evasion x everyone whose fare you are devaluing
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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 26/09/2026
You listening, Toronto?
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Henry VanderSpek - Photographer @culturesnapca.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An 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
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October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Kids you’re on your own for dinner, Dad’s out protesting
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October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Betty Ford vibes
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October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
AI 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.
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October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What 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...
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PM rejects ‘nonsense’ suggestion he delayed revealing OpenAI Medicare hack as Labor considers changing laws
Expert says Australia’s criminal laws should be clarified to determine how fault is applied to a corporation when its AI agent commits a crime
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Alex Freeman @northernnerd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#BikeSky #BikeTO
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The Hill Times @hilltimes.com · 24/09/2026
Ottawa 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...
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Marta O'Brien @archhistory.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
People 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!
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#TOphoto
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Cycle Toronto @cycletoronto.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Calling 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
Cycle Toronto's 2026 Municipal Election Candidate Questionnaire promo poster
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October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We did a thing in Vegas... 24 years ago
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Kanchan @kayehm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I 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.
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I 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.
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Rory White @rorywh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Bradford'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
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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...
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The dangerous wait for battery regulations
Many lithium-ion battery fires could be avoided with proper regulation
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October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
oh ya, not just Maple Syrup www.wsj.com/health/healt...
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Americans Are About to Lose Access to Cheap Gray-Market Prescriptions From Canada
Millions who use online pharmacies from Canada and other countries could get cut off in October.
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October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
and now Autumn has fallen #dlws
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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Boris 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
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Despite the horrors, there’s been some great science this week. New cat and two brains!
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🎃I'll be Frankenstein with you 🧌🇨🇦 @syncros.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The 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
richard underhill with the big sax action, Stich Wynston on loin drumpossibly the most kensington market photo of all time, the demons pass by one of the old nicknack stores on Augustashuffle demons crossing the street while playing spadina bus, theres a joke to be made here richard underhill sings to the crowd just behind, out of frame
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October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This 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.
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October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Horses on the rail line #beltline #toronto
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October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We’ve got til Tuesday at 8:05pm kids, get out and enjoy the summer. #dlws
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October’s Awesome (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Honestly this upgrade is so worth it #voomcart #canadian
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