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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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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.

    stephanie, to random
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    Renters cannot become senators, wtf

    casseagull,
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    @stephanie Not entirely, though senators do have to have property worth at least $4000 in the province for which they are senator (except in Quebec where they only have to be resident). The threshold is low but still not attainable for lots because how the HECK do you have a $4K property?

    casseagull, to random
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    This is all so asinine: these companies should not be putting together a recycling program for the bags, they should be encouraging their reuse through a bin at the store where people who've forgotten their bags (which happens!) or bring some but not enough can just go grab one when they need one, rather than buying a new one. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/reusable-bags-grocers-walmart-1.7178439

    casseagull,
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    They should also not be delivering people's groceries in these. The grocery deliveries should just go in one of the mountains and mountains of cardboard boxes that every retailer has on hand. This is not hard.

    casseagull,
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    Sobey's/Voila does use paper bags, which I actually love because I can use them for other things - they make very festive wrapping paper, for instance, and I've recently made pots for my seedlings out of paper bags and other paper packing material that will all go in the compost when I am done with it.

    casseagull, to random
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    Terribly unsurprised that Pitchfork gave the new Taylor Swift a 6.6. It's undercooked and the lyrics are just... kind of bad. https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/taylor-swift-the-tortured-poets-department-the-anthology/

    casseagull, to random
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    Ugh, no, disgusting. https://ottawacitizen.com/sports/hockey/pwhl/peeking-at-the-right-time-pwhl-ottawa-gathering-momentum-down-the-stretch-run/wcm/852523f1-a10b-4529-845e-fb3480219f46

    casseagull,
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    @chrisbegley I know they would but it sucks that the arena is out in buttfuck nowhere and totally inaccessible for so many.

    It's the amalgamated shithole's doing.

    casseagull, to random
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    The people who react to this and are like "no, that's not me I just like loud cars!" um sorry, that is you. You are self-centred and don't care about other people's well-being so yes, you are exhibiting signs of psychopathy and sadism, sorry.

    And it's not a creative art form and self-expression. It's psychopathy and sadism. I don't know how to tell you that you live in a society.
    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/loud-car-study-psychology-1.7177688

    casseagull,
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    Performance Unlimited is altering cars in illegal ways and should be fined into oblivion.

    jleiper, to random
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    Fantastic first PWHL game experience for Natalie and I! Really fun hockey, a treat lopsided win, and just so much more relaxed getting to TD Place by bus than the CTC drive. A little too cool tonight for Nat to cycle. 5/5.

    video/mp4

    casseagull,
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    @jleiper I was there too and really enjoyed it. Front row, centre ice a couple of sections to the right of you.

    casseagull,
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    @jleiper I walked out of there musing about exactly the same thing.

    casseagull,
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    @jleiper Signed up for next year's waitlist and looked at the price ranges - really not bad. https://ottawa.thepwhl.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2023/12/OTT-Full-Subscribers.pdf

    casseagull, to random
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    Oh gross I forgot about the sports-nationalism link 🤮

    casseagull,
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    We are very close. I love sports.

    casseagull,
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    @shawnhooper both. I think I was the only person in the stadium not standing for the anthem who was physically able to stand. 🙃

    casseagull,
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    Actually just a Zamboni fan. Woo!

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