There are bigger issues in this election than bike lanes. They're my lane (🤓) though so I want to highlight something
In spite of Bill 60, Olivia Chow and her committee appointees have used the powers they still have to continue protecting cyclists. 20km new bike lanes planned. More kilometres of bike lanes promoted to curb-separated and grade-separated cycle tracks. I hope she gets to continue that work after today
Remember to vote!
Looking to take your mind off the election for a bit after voting tomorrow? My friend Jade is performing a tribute show of Amy Winehouse for the 20th anniversary of the release of Back to Black (one day early for those counting). There's room to spare after RSVPs
Jade has a voice like a 40s era bright-as-hell brass section, I'm obsessed 🤩
Three Dollar Bill
1592 Queen St W
7PM, one hour performance with an intermission
$15 cover at the door
This petition only needs ✨20✨ more signatures to be certified and presented to parliament! 😲
Call on the federal government to ⚔️enforce⚔️ the requirement under the Canada Health Act for provinces to provide health care ✨free✨ to the patient
If you have already signed, is there anybody off fedi who might sign it? We're so close! 🤏🏻✨
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7686
Edit: 502 signatures! We did it! Wow, nicely done 🙏🏻✨
Cops are mad they're outnumbered 10:1
The weekend is over, the demolition of our bike lanes is set to resume. Officer 8778 says, "[he doesn't] like it but they're coming out." Are the pigs right?
Monday, October 19 from 6AM to 4PM we're back to slow it down and make sure it's a thankless job. Bring a friend, bring a sign, bring your voice.
I hear Tim Horton's has retired their Harry Potter promotion. After two months of it this feels less like a retraction and more like a retirement. The novelty wore off
Tonight I was overtaken by an ebike rider, an EMMO motorcycle-style. Moments later I heard what turned out to be the sound of him colliding with a minivan making a left turn
He was awake and talking when they took him away in the ambulance, but he was very visibly injured. I hope he'll recover well 🥺
Be careful out there, please
The next round of protests are this morning, so I can join in 😈✨
Thanks @nev for highlighting the [Cycle Toronto call](https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0NRTqShJ5M674cCgXJmY9bE5qdnFZjzyHkHZZbJY15NAokGn8aS8tN9yvDx8fsv8dl&id=CycleToronto) in [hir blog post about yesterday's protest](https://nevillepark.ca/2026/10/15/protesting-the-bloor-bike-lane-removal-day-2/)
See you there bright and early 🌞✨
The demo crews have started carting away our safety. So has our fight!
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The history of Toronto's future as a winter bike paradise is being written, or its eternal life as a car swamp. We decide, not the worst people in the 905 and their bully in the legislature
Tom Riley Park Green P @ 6PM
Only with your closer friends might you expect to contradict something they said, immediately after they said it, without it turning hostile. With a stranger or loose acquaintance, there is rarely enough shared context for them to lean on to grant you the benefit of the doubt
Easily avoid creating unnecessary hostility by taking the time to summarise the points you want to respond to, in your own post, and then respond to that summary
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One of the hardest lessons to learn: the replies on someone else's post is not an appropriate place to try to debate that post. That instinct is prevalent and on for-profit social media the resulting conflict is monetised and exploited
That immediate contradiction is most likely going to be interpreted as an attack, subconsciously. If you intend that attack, you're probably contradicting your server's CoC (and theirs). If you don't, then please reevaluate your response
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Thanksgiving. My boyfriend got disinvited from dinner. My step sister asked to misgender me to my nephew, to appease his homophobic father and her in-laws in advance. My dad handled it well in supporting me, but stopped short of shutting her down or disinviting her. I decided to sit out that dinner
That behind me, a Monday long weekend means Sunday night karaoke! I was thrilled to go and I'm feeling really grateful to have made so many friends there 🥹✨ Everywhere, really
Honestly one of my favourite photos of Marty 🤭✨
Willow doesn't understand why I'm not drawing her next
It. Heckin. Wimdy.
I need a weather report for how shitty the centralised social media apps are being. What's the probability I can open and view that Reel my friend sent me today? How about TikTok? Let's launch some satellites¹ into orbit about it
¹ Tech C-levels and board members
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/highway-400-expansion-king-township-9.7369539
Whenever a public transit project is announced, the price tag is always one of the first things mentioned. Meanwhile a road-widening project that will predominantly assist the wealthy getting to their cottages is just "part of $31 billion the province is spending on building, repairing and expanding highways, roads and bridges"
Is an extra lane of cottage-goers equal in importance to repairing bridges? Absurd to lump those together
Shout to Urbane Cyclist, there for me in a tough spot again. Somebody stole my seat post and saddle overnight and they had a replacement in stock, and they were able to install it all for me in the time it took to get non-dairy ice cream at Honey's.
Fun fact: if you have the Captain's Chair on a Tern GSD, and you're the right height, you can sit back on the cushion and peddle your bike and you only /look/ ridiculous, it feels fine!
Yesterday was a trip! Boyfriend planned me a scavenger hunt that took us around the city to revisit some of our previous dates 🥰 He included puzzles for me that were outside his comfort zone, too. We ended up rolling about 25km together, too, which I loved 😁🚴🏼♀️🛼✨ (why is there no inline skate emoji?)