grivettcarnac

grivettcarnac, 23 days ago to random

I’m reading Elamin’s “Son of Elsewhere.” I’ve been pretty sparing with what bound books I spend time reading. I’ve loved Elamin for a long time and his book is wild. The journey of his writing is beautiful.

“If you look like me, here is something you understand internally, before you’re ever told: in America, when presidents need to look like they’re doing something, they take it out on Brown and Black bodies … We are the canvas of brutality.”

grivettcarnac, 23 days ago to Ottawa

Showing up at Britannia Beach in #ottawa at 9 AM with cigarettes, open beer and metal detectors is a vibe for sure #maylongweekend

grivettcarnac, 23 days ago to Ottawa

I love playing around with how to make images of the #ottawa river and the color tones that are popping right now at sunset #gabesimages #Photography #photographer

grivettcarnac, 23 days ago to Ottawa

A lotta spray and pray for these types of images given how packed (which is awesome) all the paths are around #ottawa and have to pay attention a LOT but it feels fun and free so gunna try a bunch of these over the summer #ottbike #gabesimages #biketooter

grivettcarnac, 24 days ago to Ottawa

Wild how it took so long to do something so simple. Not that I long to visit the byward Market but Majors Hill or Rideau Falls were rarely on the list of destinations if this was the direction of travel. But this makes basic access possible especially with the bridge open and the new NCC lookout on the +50% complete?? status #ottawa #ottbike #biketooter

grivettcarnac, 24 days ago to Montreal

We’re going to #montreal in August to watch the Red Bull Cliff Diving event, as we have a friend whose daughter has been competing (and winning) for 3ish years in the sport. It’s also for my 40th birthday 👀 Anyway the part I’m most excited about is taking the train 😂 #ottawa #viarail #publictransit

grivettcarnac, 25 days ago to climate

I try to find and follow urban design, electrification, active transit experts who aren’t white dudes mostly on instagram, and I found one in Australia who I really liked until their litmus “test” for electric cars was “does a wine bottle fit in the front cup holders” 🙃🙃 Like of all the metrics to test this is the one you focus on… because you think it’s funny? People sometimes #publictransit #climatechange #EV

grivettcarnac, 25 days ago to Canada

Fuck no. There should be well-paid career trajectories for this type of work and it should be incorporated into a Climate Corp structure . It’s highly skilled work, dangerous and there’s huge value in expertise retention. It’s great that university students feel drawn to this but 12 hr days for up to 14 days in a row is brutal, regardless of what Alpha Male chumps whine about #cdnpoli #canada #alberta #climatechange

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whatonearth/wildfire-fighters-alberta-pay-1.7206766

grivettcarnac, 26 days ago to ontario

I don’t know if we’re prepared for how many people do not and will not give a fuck about serious transmissible infectious disease outbreaks and future pandemics. Considering #covid is already over according to every government and no one is seriously grappling with what happened over the past four years, I’m not hopeful on a large scale #cdnpoli #onpoli #ontario

https://apple.news/AUeBgc2hJSsO0j0QsJdT1sg

grivettcarnac, 26 days ago to Canada

I think a lot about how in 2024 if “democracy” is supposed to continue/succeed in its current shitty structure, majority governments are going to have to be a thing of the past. “Compromise” mostly doesn’t exist anymore. Nothing “really” has been done for good on aggregate with majority governments in a while. All that exists as a bulwark is the court system unless the general public grows a spine but that isn’t a reliable counter measure #onpoli #cdnpoli #canada #ottawa

grivettcarnac, 26 days ago to Ottawa

The kid ate shit twice on a bike ride of less than 2 km because this city gives zero shits about wildly large curb cuts (and everything else). The fact that Britannia intersection by Beachconers is as horrid as it is being, I’d argue one of the most busy intersection for folks not in a car is proof enough. And the entrance to the kids school is soooooo bad and busted up that its almost impossible to enter on a bike and the kid ate it right in front of his own school #ottawa #ottbike #biketooter

grivettcarnac, 27 days ago to Ottawa

Wild to be able to watch individual storms move along the #ottawa river. Definite benefit of living high up #ontario #storm #Photography #gabesimages

grivettcarnac, 28 days ago to Ottawa

I followed Diane Deans pretty closely from 2019-2023 and say what you will about her but she gave no fucks about Jim Watson. And today not a single councillor who blindly followed Jim’s shadow had a damn thing to say about her. Just deep seated, pathetic cynicism #ottawa #ottpoli #onpoli

grivettcarnac, 28 days ago to Ottawa

“… how that policy fits in their low-rise community.” Hahaha you live close to Algonquin college and a 2-story building just busts the great character of your community huh? #ottawa #onpoli https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/proposed-rooming-house-discord-near-algonquin-college-a-sign-of-things-to-come-1.7204363

grivettcarnac, 29 days ago to Ottawa

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 #ottawa #ottbike #biketooter #onpoli

grivettcarnac, 28 days ago to ontario

The solution is to raise speed limits on highways, because data is stupid and definitely should NOT be used to help inform policy ever #ontario #onpoli https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/opp-number-fatalities-last-year-deadly-year-1.7204528

grivettcarnac, 29 days ago to climate

This is not cheering for the pay workers get at Chinese EV manufacturing companies or the supply chains etc but the fact that North American car companies have made zero moves to make simple, low cost EVs is pathetic. “Flood the market” blah blah blah. There’s no free market anyway just protectionism, government subsidies and the gatekeeping to keep EVs at $50,000 a piece. Say nothing of the #climatechange song and dance about getting folks into EVs #canada #cdnpoli #ev

grivettcarnac, 29 days ago to Ottawa

It is beyond wild to me that the city cut annual funding to the Tulip Festival. Ya’ll are baffled on how to connect Dows Lake and the Byward Market?? Seriously?? The NCC couldn’t even close all of the QED, but no shade to them when they are responsible for any livability in #ottawa The festival weekends at Dows Lake are the best weekends in this city in the entire year and props to the Feds #onpoli #cdnpoli
https://obj.ca/feds-provide-130k-canadian-tulip-festival/?no_cache=1715612135

grivettcarnac, 29 days ago to Ottawa

Oh good, it’s not even mid-May and that haze at sunset is already here in #ottawa Burn, fucking burn baby #ontario

grivettcarnac, 29 days ago to Ottawa

I despise this whole section of highway all the way to North Bay. Good fucking thing raising speed limits will produce better outcomes in head on collisions… JK I know the speed limits aren’t being raised here and they are also not enforced. I’d be happy to never have to use this highway ever again #ottawa https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/highway-417-ottawa-arnprior-kinburn-1.7203959

grivettcarnac, 29 days ago to Autism

Our 4-yr old dropping tonight that some of his friends at school have autism wasn’t near the top of my list of things he would randomly drop. It’s clear his teachers have approached this with a lot of care and empathy and he’s really intrigued and excited that he has friends whose brains, well may or may not work the same as his and that he’s lucky to have friends with autism… I was probably 25 the first time I heard the term at all #autism #ottawa #kids

grivettcarnac, 30 days ago to Ottawa

Commanda Bridge to Alexandra Bridge to the Corktown Bridge is the best parkway to QED connection on weekends. Esp with the new separated lane by the Senate building now, it’s the lowest stress route we’ve taken in a long time #ottawa #ottbike #biketooter

grivettcarnac, 1 month ago to Canada

I was going to gripe a bit about the cool temps and rain but with thousands of people already evacuating (or on stand by like Fort McMurray again) I probably won’t. It’s not even mid-May… #canada #cdnpoli #wildfire

grivettcarnac, 1 month ago to Ottawa

This business felt a bit stretchy on the parkway today but… it’s at least something that’s not flexi-posts?!! Also the whole idea that the parkway couldn’t be single lane is bullshit. The problem at island park is one of public transit, not a lack of lanes for car traffic #ottawa #ottbike #biketooter

grivettcarnac, 1 month ago to Ottawa

My world for a uni-directional eastbound lane on the parkway and a permanent westbound lane for active use so this could be a permanent loop #ottawa #ottbike #biketooter