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casseagull

@casseagull@mstdn.social

Come for the intermittent #BikeTooter and urbanism toots, suffer through my obsessions with music, food, and making things with my hands. Pogievangelist. From Vancouver, living in Ottawa. Twitter refugee from #OttBike and #OttPoli

Unless I say so in my post, I am almost certainly not asking for your unsolicited advice or for you to explain things to me, especially if we've literally never interacted before.

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casseagull, to random
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This is a great explainer about life in Palestine under Israeli occupation.

This is about more than just a ceasefire in Israel's war on Gaza; it's about supporting permanent Palestinian liberation and the end of apartheid and illegal occupation by Israel. https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2024/israel-occupation-illustrated-guide/

lanastewart, to random
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Oooh you doubled your secure bike parking to 62. Welcome to 1985 ESDC.

casseagull,
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@lanastewart What building are you in?

casseagull, to random
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If anyone is trying to find a good source for recycled paper/post-consumer based toilet paper, @lanastewart found that Home Hardware stocks 48 packs of Cascades sold in a big cardboard box and while they are individually wrapped, they are wrapped in paper, which is likely also post-consumer. No plastic involved that I can tell, though I will pick up my order in the next couple of days and find out for sure. https://www.homehardware.ca/en/48-rolls-420-sheets-2-ply-toilet-tissue/p/4662815

casseagull,
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My usual brand is the President's Choice green or whatever, but a) Loblaws and b) I resent that it's wrapped in plastic. I hope this is a viable replacement for it.

casseagull,
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Using virgin paper to make toilet paper is so frigging asinine to me. I just can't believe it's even legal to do. It's such a waste.

casseagull,
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For tissues, I mostly use handkerchiefs for regular daily purposes (I pick up pretty vintage ones when I go to vintage stores) but we also use Bonterra tissues. They're 100% post-consumer and totally plastic free. They sell them at Canadian Tire. https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/bonterra-facial-tissue-3-ply-150-sheets-3-pk-1531726p.html

casseagull, to random
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I wonder if there has been a time other than now when more of the NCC pathways along the Ottawa River (both sides) have had so many closures, other than during flooding and rehabilitation. It's kind of astounding how much of it is closed and detoured.

casseagull,
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I was actually impressed with the current detour around the closure just west of the War Museum - they put a whole new little connector path in and reopened a part of the Preston extension to connect with the path by the LRT.

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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Step-daughter of a friend of ours saw the 11-yr old kid get killed in Rockland, by someone driving a school bus, while they were riding their bike. What the fuck…

I’ve said it a bunch of times but I completely changed the route we take to the kids school which is only 1.2 kms away. We take a ~ 2 km route to avoid the utter mayhem that takes over people during drop offs and pick ups, esp school bus and transport vans

casseagull,
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@grivettcarnac Hey you love exercise, right? Because you ride a bike? You must LOVE the long way because exercise, right??? lol

stephanie, to random
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Antivaxers have invented... vaccines by demanding raw milk from infected cows... They invented the most dangerous type of vaccine... What, why.

casseagull,
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@stephanie I say give it to them.

casseagull, to random
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Jack Antonoff as a pop music producer: played out, who cares, all sounds the same.

Dan Nigro as a pop music producer: hot new shit, like crack, hook it directly to my veins.

casseagull,
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Also if you're a fan of great pop music and aren't listening to Chappel Roan yet, WHAT are you DOING???

casseagull, to random
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I'm sorry, this cracks me up so much. They are stealing cars, you think that they will be dissuaded by not having valid drivers licences? Are a lot of anti-social people dissuaded from driving when they have invalid licences?

casseagull,
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Killing people with your car: slap on the hand; keep your licence! Poor baby.

Stealing a person's car: the worst. No licence for you.

casseagull,
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Meanwhile in the same story, frigging stunt driving 50km/hr above the posted limit will only receive a year's suspension. Sure. Okay. Normal priorities.

casseagull, to random
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Aw man, Alice Murno? Couldn't you have taken the terrible Canadian authoress who won't shut up???

casseagull, to random
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A whole bunch of people in my organization have started using a huge font in their emails for accessibility reasons as if programs don't have built in font handling that make them more accessible for their users.

As someone with attention problems, I find it very hard to read for the opposite reason because it's too big and makes it hard to focus.

casseagull, to random
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Oh hello person with the covid cough at the office go the fuck home.

casseagull, to random
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I am also nearly at my wit's end with iOS autocorrect correcting fucking to ducking. Where does Apple even get off with this fucking puritanical bullshit, honestly.

Even setting up the autotext to correct fucking to fucking it still corrects it to ducking and I hate it so FUCKING much.

Fuck fuck fuck fuck.

casseagull, to random
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On the revert reds, TWICE this week I had revert reds happen to me (once I rolled off the dots too soon and the other I wasn't in the right place and forgot I wouldn't get my signal that way) and BOTH TIMES the motorists at the cross streets waved me to go through the intersection anyway. It was very nice.

I think that the first time (Kenilworth/Holland) the guy saw me swear up a storm when I saw it revert red lol

casseagull,
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@ksawatsky It's trying to solve traffic not going vroom vroom fast at every possible moment forever and ever and that is all.

It's not even about bikes and the dots - it's a mechanism that is set up for cars that bikes also use and basically meant to stop the light change when a car is only on the sensor to turn right. Bikes are just also part of the mechanism because it's easier and cheaper than doing it properly (streetside buttons)

casseagull, to random
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The thing that really gets me about Israel's war on Gaza is thinking about the absolutely tiny size of the Gaza Strip.

To put it into perspective, the Gaza Strip is 41km long. That is about the width of Ottawa from the river to the edge, so it's like Centretown is Gaza City and everyone going into Rafah is like we're all Beckett's Corner, across the river from Kemptville.

It's like if Gaza City was Orleans and all moved over to the distance to Rafah in Stittsville.

casseagull,
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And we're also talking about twice the population of Ottawa - Gaza's population is over 2 million and Ottawa's is 1 million.

casseagull,
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And really we're talking a much narrower width, since Gaza is about 12km across at its maximum. We're talking two million people in the space from Orleans to Stittsville and from the river to the airport, basically.

casseagull, to random
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I intentionally posted a couple of photos without alt text from the mastodon app on my phone, intending to delete and redraft a post from my computer so I could just type the alt text on a keyboard (I find the alt text adding process on the app tedious and hard to adjust) and the app reminded me that my photos had no alt text. I'd never noticed that before because I always add alt texts, I guess!

casseagull,
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Other than the semi-frustration of adding alt texts in the app, I like the standard mastodon app. It does the job. I wish it had access to settings like filters and such, but I don't mind dealing with that kind of stuff on an actual computer.

I think I might be An Old now because I have been increasingly finding typing on my phone to just be really tedious and really prefer a computer.

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