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grivettcarnac

@grivettcarnac@mstdn.social

The name is Gabe, we live car-free with 🚌s & 🚶🏻& 🚴‍♂️ in #ottawa - dad, & photographer @ #gabesimages. Life is political, and sometimes I say fuck 🤷‍♂️

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grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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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 The festival weekends at Dows Lake are the best weekends in this city in the entire year and props to the Feds
https://obj.ca/feds-provide-130k-canadian-tulip-festival/?no_cache=1715612135

grivettcarnac,
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@dan613 not trains per se but multiple 6 & 8 seat golf carts moving folks around. Could easily have a fleet moving folks from Lansdowne to Dows Lake and from Lansdowne to the Byward Market

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The kid and I spent every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday last year during the festival. We watched the movies, we walked on the QED, drank lemonade and just enjoyed the space without having to listen to or be around people driving. And then this all goes away without a thought. The 6-8 seater golf carts go away, all the people walking and biking have to be squeezed back onto the worst section of MUP in the city

grivettcarnac, to Autism
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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, to Ottawa
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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

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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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

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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Wild to be able to watch individual storms move along the river. Definite benefit of living high up

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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I love playing around with how to make images of the river and the color tones that are popping right now at sunset

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

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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The chicken and egg game of all this is pretty fucking tiresome… don’t raise fees because it’s an affordability crisis, but let’s continue sprawl of single family homes that cities can’t afford to maintain the infrastructure for. All the games to protect profit margin because we don’t “really” believe housing is a basic right for people. Profit is for sure tho at least for some

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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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

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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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

grivettcarnac, to Canada
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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

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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Good luck Barrhaven

grivettcarnac, to Montreal
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We’re going to 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 😂

grivettcarnac, to Alberta
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The absolute fuckery of carbon capture both in what is basically wealth transfer from 🇨🇦s to an oil and gas company and… 9 million tonnes of CO2 supposedly sequestered since 2015? Over 100 million tonnes of carbon produced by 🇨🇦 oil and gas in 2022 alone? Get the fuck out of here with this tech and “subsidy” bullshit https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/shell-greenpeace-quest-1.7196792

grivettcarnac, to climate
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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

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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When other 🇨🇦 cities do things like this, it just leaves showing its whole ass on how little it cares about people who live here https://globalnews.ca/news/10485183/edmonton-outdoor-pools-opening-date/

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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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 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/highway-417-ottawa-arnprior-kinburn-1.7203959

grivettcarnac, (edited ) to Ottawa
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Well update on the government side of the job hunt… did a horrid 3-hr exam on Monday in which the person who wrote the job description did not talk to the person who wrote the exam. So that was a fucking amazing stressful waste of time (probably).

Next Monday I get another 2-day exam at 8;30AM and… a 2-hr exam at 9 AM from a difference department the same day. So will get the 2-hr exam out of the way and do the 2-day exam after 😩

grivettcarnac,
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@Auxonic 🙏 waiting for a reference check for a whole other started last year and excited for the two next week but the stress is high at the moment

grivettcarnac, to climate
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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, to Ottawa
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The Yuba’s version of an oil change. Degreasing, soap, wash, scraping, more soap, wiping etc etc. gunna take it in for a one-year check up, make sure the brakes still have life and such. I’m slowly getting better at working on and taking off more parts, but don’t want to go too far

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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So @geekingirl is on a 🇨🇦 stamp and a prepaid postcard, front left, on the Nahanni River

📸: Colin Field
You can grab some here! https://store.canadapost-postescanada.ca/store-boutique/en/411247144/p/from-far-and-wide-part-4-souvenir-sheet-official-first-day-cover

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

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