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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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The last time I was in England for any length of time was almost 20 years ago (how am I even old enough for that to be the case???). I remember that I made tacos for the family I was staying with (I was obsessed even then) and finding the ingredients for it was quite hard - I had to make a lot of replacements. Now there are Mexican and Thai and even bubble tea places in tiny little seaside towns in the north east. It’s quite a change.

grivettcarnac, to Canada
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    casseagull,
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    @grivettcarnac I feel like people use the concept of “privilege” these days just to note that change is hard and to justify making no effort to change - and it is black and white thinking. Even moving a couple of your shops is still participating in the boycott - it doesn’t have to be all or nothing. Sounds just like the argument against bike lanes acting as though that means 1000% of your errands and such need to be done by bikes.

    casseagull, to random
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    Correction: half a century of auto- and commuter-based city planning resulted in downtown cores like Ottawa being single-industry focused non-bourhoods where the sidewalks are rolled up on weekends and evenings (most businesses even ignoring even the possible patronage of neighbouring communities) had a devastating impact that was exacerbated by the pandemic.

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    @johnefrancis I think when things are booming the business owners think it’s because they themselves are amazing and as long as they keep working hard things will continue to be amazing but when things are rough, it’s not their fault, it’s an outside party’s fault like the government or bike lanes because they are smart world saving small business owners.

    ShaunOttawa, to random
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    Wednesday: TB announces new RTO policy increasing on site presence.
    Thursday: Info comes out that the secretary of TB works remotely and regularly flies into Ottawa costing us tens of thousands of dollars.
    Friday: Secretary of TB resigns for "health reasons"
    That was quick.

    casseagull,
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    @ShaunOttawa yeah that sounds like the senior executive hypocrits. I worked for a DM who used the job to travel to and from his home in another city for free (he claimed he needed to travel for work and would get an airline pass through work and primarily use it to go home) and work there all summer. I’m sure he’s now an eager supporter of the clerk’s three day mandate.

    casseagull, to random
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    Get back to the office and beat those carbon emissions records, public servants. Beat them in the wrong direction, that is. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-carbon-emissions-ghg-inventory-1.7191765

    casseagull,
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    Get back to the office, public servants! Buy your Subway sandwiches to make up for the fact that we’ve avoided building vibrant neighborhoods.

    stephanie, to random French
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    Il faudrait vraiment que j'arrête de taper "dépité" au lieu de "député" 😆
    #traduction

    casseagull,
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    @stephanie do you do your work in word or something else? You can set autocorrect in Word to stop that. I always set one up to correct pubic to public 😅

    meganL, to random
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    I just read something the Chancellor's official acct wrote on LinkedIn and noticed the image description.

    At the time I founded @ucaccessnow, not a single one of UC Davis' many social media accounts was using alt text/image description or captions on videos.

    I started documenting that and showing it on Twitter, mentioning their official acct in an attempt to embarrass them into action.

    They started adding them (not always, but started for the first time).

    They never credit

    casseagull,
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    @meganL and the moderate ones always take credit and use it to bludgeon the more vocal and disruptive activists to try to get them to stop and “be civil” when it was the vocal and disruptive ones that made the difference. It’s the pattern everywhere - though I do think every movement needs a moderate face to play the system but that moderate face needs to know and appreciate its role as a foil to the vocal/disruptive action.

    grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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    casseagull,
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    @grivettcarnac @dairpo @Auxonic the other part of the boycott is that it’s not don’t go there entirely, it’s only buy loss-leaders (stuff they underprice to bring people in to gouge then everywhere else) and mac and cheese may fit that bill.

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    Anyway… you can force more people to come downtown but we still have eyes and it’s an ugly, dirty, full of speeding cars, treeless wasteland. Enjoy your Subway, peasants.

    casseagull,
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    @lanastewart I’m spending no money near work ever. Only the drug store gets my money and the grocery store if it opens. Mediocre lunch places? no way no how. Bulk frozen lunch prep 4-ever.

    ShaunOttawa, to random
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    An all staff meeting on a Friday? 🤨

    Of course the agenda is sparse on details.

    Hmmm...

    casseagull,
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    @ShaunOttawa deeply sus. I always expect them to announce some big change then so employees have to process it over the weekend on their personal time rather than at work where that should be done.

    casseagull, to random
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    One thing I kind of hate about travelling is riding functional transit systems, knowing that my own city hates me and people without cars so much we’ll never have this. In London, buses, the underground and overground, river ferries and bike share are all part of the system and all run regularly and on time and to convenient places. Imagine.

    casseagull, to random
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    Cities building bike infrastructure be like

    casseagull,
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    @ShaunOttawa yeah it’s weird. This is apparently in scope and yet connecting bike lanes 100m away from a project is out of scope. Okayyyyyy

    casseagull, to random
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    We’re in London and my brain is so confused about travelling but being in a country where my first language is the common tongue here. I still feel a bit guilty and awkward b out of habit when speaking with people like I’m making them speak English and their native tongue is something else. Silly.

    johnefrancis, to Ottawa
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    You must be this sober to ride the rental e-scooters in

    You're not the hic boss of me!
    SPLASH

    casseagull,
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    @johnefrancis you’re not actually allowed to ride a scooter along any of them (they’re banned on NCC pathways) so a driver hitting you is most likely.

    casseagull, to random
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    Meanwhile sobriety tests or speed limiters to drive your two tonne murder machine? Nah, have at it. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/e-scooters-ottawa-new-rules-1.7181991

    casseagull,
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    How many complaints does the city have about improperly parked cars? So, so many, and it’s so so so so so much more antisocial? Let’s ban e-scooters.

    casseagull,
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    @dan613 @mariellequinton you can, though part of the catch is that scooters are currently a pilot in Ontario as a whole (and banned in Toronto!) and the province may decide to ban them province-wide. https://www.ontario.ca/page/electric-kick-style-scooters-e-scooters

    grivettcarnac, to ontario
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    casseagull,
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    @grivettcarnac the “keep what’s yours” slogan is very much the message. Get yours, fuck everyone else.

    casseagull, to random
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    England you crack me up. So polite, so through, so precise.

    stephanie, to random
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    Tomorrow, I'm supposed to get my first paycheck from my new assignment.

    ... right now, Phoenix doesn't show how much I'll be getting. Just "N/A".

    .... I'm scared lol

    casseagull,
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    @stephanie I don’t know much why they bother with bilingual names for things since most Anglos don’t actually care and we can successfully butcher things in all languages as we take on the new words. It’s what we do.

    casseagull, to random
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    Honestly, truth. Our realtor when we were buying suuuuuuucked and he got money for doing functionally nothing - we did our own research, did all the market trend analysis to put in our bid and he remembered nothing about our preferences. https://www.businessinsider.com/new-rule-of-home-buying-fire-your-real-estate-agent-2024-4

    casseagull,
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    It was also clear from the bidding part that our agent was probably colluding with the seller's agent, ensuring that the selling price was exactly - exactly - the maximum price we gave him.

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