All those years of sarcasm, shitposts, jokes, photos of your pets, and memes will be the reason you won’t gain entry into Nazi USA. 🤭

How many bombs did he drop on Russia? Because he said he would end the war against Ukraine.

Thank you for sharing. It’s painful to realize in hindsight that those websites were peak internet.

They lack polish, but they were all a labour of love. No enshittification, no selling things, no corporate influence, no shit posting.

Everything had a purpose, every post took effort, and it was all about sharing experiences or knowledge.

I really miss that internet.

EDIT: correcting gibberish 🤭

Oh, it will happen.

And when will he force every home and business to have a portrait of himself on the walls? Because, that will probably happen, too.

A from HHS on Tuesday said the hotline will “focus on serving all help seekers” and “no longer silo LGB+ youth services.” Notably, the statement omitted the markers referring to transgender and queer individuals.

Can’t even acknowledge their existence? Nazi scum.

If all the people on that bridge were in cars, it would be bumper to bumper traffic.

It goes to show you that if you want to move people, build more things like that.

The HWY7 stretch in Vaughan would be amazing if they cleaned those lanes. It’s SO fast to go from one end to the other (except those super long intersection wait times). When there’s car traffic, you’re flying by hundreds of cars at a time, though. LOL

Steeles… that’s a sketchy one. No better alternatives, unfortunately.

GTA… Steeles Ave. at Markham/Scarborough, and HWY 7 in Vaughan. Thankfully, I’m only on those routes a few times a year. If I had to commute by bike in that, I’d take a car.

They are all over here, specifically at crossings that join MUPs (Multi Use Paths).

But they have made some areas more dangerous because of drivers who don’t stop behind the line. A pedestrian walking slowly might not be hit, but a cyclist going bike speed is at far greater risk of “not being seeing”.

be PREDICTABLE

This is why I strongly support banning on-street parking. Cars that randomly park on the side of the road, big, small, tall, some too far out, some blocking signs, some creating blind spots… they just create unpredictability and randomness for other road users.

Amazing how headlines will say LUIGI THE KILLER, but when it’s about a white, Christian, domestic terrorist carrying out political assassinations, he’s just a SUSPECTED SHOOTER.

🤷‍♂️

… someone stopped in the roundabout to let a car in.

I wish more people realized how dangerous some nice acts can be.

I’ve been in plenty of situations where someone might wave me on in situations where it really isn’t appropriate or safe, so I have to basically yell at them to continue.

The last thing I want is for a driver with good intentions to be rear ended, and me getting hit. Three people’s day would be ruined, at the very least.

I turned around and gave him the “what the fuck” hands and gestured at the stop sign, and this mother fucker looked at me like I fucked up.

Not long ago, I was going through an intersection on a green… from one bike lane, continuing into the other on the other side of the intersection.

While I had a green, a driver making a left nearly ran into me, honked and did the same “what the fuck are you doing” to me.

It’s pretty amazing that we don’t hear of crashes every minute of the day, because some people quite literally have no idea what the hell they are doing.

Yes, maybe they didn’t know cross rides were a thing, were fatigued and forgot, etc.

This is why people get killed, unfortunately. We had a teenager, riding through a cross ride, and was killed by a driver who didn’t stop behind the line late last year. I visited the spot, and even with a goddamn shrine set up under the stop sign, drivers were still not stopping. I was disappointed, and furious by this lack of care.

I value my bikes far too much, but in my head, I would love to! LOL

My ride yesterday was about 5 hours, across 7 municipalities, and over 130km.

I can say with confidence that there were at least a dozen close calls at intersections and cross rides, specifically because drivers aren’t paying attention.

I had one lady “stop”, and then crawl into the crossing, while looking only to her left (I was coming from her right). I had to stop and ring my bell before she even realized that I was there.

Many, MANY people making turns without checking for pedestrians and cyclists crossing.

And not stopping behind the line happened more times than I can count.

I’ve witnessed a few times people actually driving onto bike paths! Not just bike lanes, but fucking paths, like ones that go through parks and forests! Just clueless about what they’re doing.

Maybe they didn’t know.

Didn’t know what? The traffic rules?

Our local police do squat about traffic violations, unfortunately, unless they are present when the infraction occurs. I’ve got a video of this entire thing, she was in the cross ride for at least 17 seconds. And I’m sure she was on her phone for more than just this encounter.

This kind of lack of awareness is why we have so many pedestrian and cyclist deaths in places designed to be “safe” for cyclists and pedestrians!

Is a cross ride like a crosswalk but for bikes or something?

Yes, you can ride through with your bike. Notice the two green lights above her, those are bike symbols, indicating that I have the right of way to cross. She needed to STOP behind the line, and also not be on her phone (illegal).

You don’t even have to be old. Death or serious illness/injury can affect us at any age, and it would suck if your family lost access to all the self-hosted photos and videos, for example.

“Make it usable” is a great idea.

Sounds good, but if I search “microwave repair” or “improve vo2max” , it comes up with zero results.

That’s the sort of stuff we’d lose if creators don’t move away from YouTube. 😟