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grivettcarnac

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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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casseagull, to random
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This makes me so fucking mad because my local small grocery store, the only place nearby to get fruit and vegetables, closed in December over a liquor license dispute - their square footage wasn't large enough to be considered a grocery store!!!! - and now the government is rolling out liquor sales to corner stores. Come the fuck on. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/alcohol-sales-convenience-stores-ontario-1.7213546

grivettcarnac,
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@Auxonic @lanastewart @casseagull and all that 5% has gone into Kanata and Barrhaven

grivettcarnac, to random
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I walked down Scott St yesterday for a few kms and I can’t even remember how many people I saw driving and texting. Stopped at an intersection and using their phones. Using a phone and driving is more dangerous than drinking and driving but the big, bad repercussions do fuck all at deterring people because “repercussions” are political window dressing. Like, the chances of killing someone while you text and drive are pretty fucking high, but, well, shrug from all involved #cdnpoli #onpoli

grivettcarnac,
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@dairpo I’ve seen a few cops on bikes out here on the Britannia area MUPs that should spend a day riding Scott st. They’d make so much money. I just think if you drive and text, your car should be impounded for 30 days for a first “caught” offence

kdorse, to Ottawa
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I love Mayor Sutcliffe’s passion for opening roads for active use! Now imagine if he were consistent in this position.#ottawa #ottawalkers #ottbike

grivettcarnac,
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@kdorse the utter speed and urgency that goes into reopening the roads after the racers past is mind blowing. Absolutely no time wasted for this

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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Gunna give myself some props here. I attempted focaccia today, well yesterday then it was in the fridge till today. Learned a few things and will make more but it’s pretty tasty if I say so myself. First time in my life I’ve ever made bread… gunna just keep trying new things

grivettcarnac,
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@Dogsbody thank you! Tasted pretty good and proud of myself 😂

grivettcarnac, to Canada
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    grivettcarnac,
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    @dan613 I don’t disagree but the conservatives have spent the past 4 yrs specifically naming JT as the boogeyman and mastermind for every little thing, 24/7, 365. Most people want change according to polls, and PP is the only choice for most of those people. I dunno, but I think the momentum would shift if there were one or two other warm bodies as leaders of the other two parties

    grivettcarnac,
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    @human3500 no doubt. I’m feeling delusional at the moment so just let me have this one fleeting moment of mad prediction

    grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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    Chatted with a pharmacist this week about #covid boosters and they can only give them to folks over 65 and immunocompromised… unsure what kind of documentation that requires but province won’t pay for anything other… all the while movie industry folks I follow on social media show that everyone (actors don’t but everyone around them do) on movie sets still have to mask or they lose insurance coverage. So curious why #ottawa #cdnpoli #onpoli

    grivettcarnac,
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    @alex oh geez okay I’ve found all this so confusing. I’ll try another pharmacy maybe. Appreciate the info

    grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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    So the NCC doesn’t seem to have posted on their website that the bike weekend closures are NOT running this weekend, so FYI for those of you who do not follow them on Twitter or instagram 🙃 Met some folks at the park who were riding on the parkway after 8 AM with kids who had to get the fuck off quickly when people ended up driving behind them #ottawa #ottwalk #ottbike

    grivettcarnac,
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    @eljojo we were going to do it this morning because that’s what the website says 🙃 plus part of it is closed for the marathon tomorrow 🤷‍♂️

    grivettcarnac,
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    @dairpo it is peak “moving around outside a car is just recreation” 🙃😂

    Auxonic, to random French
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    Who’s responsible? The mayor of neoliberalism, Jim Fucking Watson, and the corrupt conglomerate led by SNC Lavalin.

    grivettcarnac,
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    @Auxonic hmmm if they pay me I can tell them what’s causing the leaks. Probably water 😂

    grivettcarnac, to random
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    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,
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    @robattrell nice! Got it for Christmas and slowly finding the time to read sections of it. Tempted to roll through it in one go but there’s a lot to sit with

    grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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    We’ve put roughly 4,800 kms on two e-bikes in just over a year. ~2,800 on the Yuba (no riding Dec-March) since end of April last year and 2,000 kms on our Load4 75 Reise & Muller since the end of August, 2023. We’ve had lots of bus trips and I’m averaging only 9 kms of walking a day. Living without a car can be very fucking frustrating and limiting in a city like but I wouldn’t trade it for anything

    grivettcarnac,
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    @energisch_ @sortius I can understand this! The kid is only 4 so the e-cargo bikes are pretty amazing still for long 40+ km days of which there are many now that it’s spring/summer. It makes the adventures a lot less sweaty 😂

    grivettcarnac,
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    @sortius I’d easily trade one cargo bike and maybe even a pinky finger for a good tram system! I follow someone on instagram who lives in Melbourne and is constantly showing the public transit system there and decent bike networks! We went from downtown living to not quite the suburbs (Ottawa is a bit fucked as a city) and these bikes have given us just amazing quality of life

    grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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    Love how colors change and deepen or soften based on distance. As the front of this storm lined up with us, it was so dark

    grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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    So we have via rail tickets booked for August and naturally I loaded the tickets in Apple Wallet… then a few days later I got an email saying the schedule was going to change and now I’ve gotten 2 new sets of tickets and I’m sick of adding and deleting tickets 🥸 I should be able to just use the same set of tickets regardless of what schedule changes but I’m annoyed at this process. If the time changes by 5 minutes and I need a whole new set of tickets? Gesus…

    grivettcarnac,
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    @WTL oh interesting I like this. My assumption is that the bar code on the OG ticket “should” work but I don’t really know. Will try this tonight tho ✌️

    grivettcarnac, (edited ) to Ottawa
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    Just another useless fucking statistic that the city of #ottawa gives no shits about #onpoli #ontario

    (Edit: Also wasn’t Strandherd the stroad the city just finished widening?)

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/pedestrian-struck-in-barrhaven-dead-1.7213863

    grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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    I do not love that a lot of the same driving mentality permeates how people move around on crowded MUPs in If you were in the group of bros loudly ringing your bells in unison to get people walking to move right off the path so you all could blast through the middle so fast I could almost feel you on my left shoulder, well I’ll tell you to fuck off in person when you’re stopped next time too. Slow the hell down and wait a singular minute once in a while

    grivettcarnac,
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    It’s fairly intuitive that when you’re approaching people walking from behind, and people are also walking towards you on the other side, you can adjust your speed before hand, gauge when people walk past each other, let people know in some fashion, but I guess intuitive is very fucking subjective. I get it, shits very crowded even on week days. But you’re not special. If you have an emergency than call a fucking ambulance, otherwise I’m gunna yell at you #ottawa #ottbike #biketooter

    grivettcarnac,
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    @stevenbodzin I mean, I doubt it’s just an Ottawa thing but this is where I live? 🤷‍♂️

    grivettcarnac,
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    @human3500 @WTL ya I’m pretty situational when notifying folks. Sometimes shit works and other times big headphones mean I just have to be slow and give space 🤷‍♂️

    grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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    I love watching, making photos and cheering people on while racing. I don’t really know what is going on with my body/nervous system that has gotten worse in the past few years but I couldn’t fathom doing this anymore. In 2012, I did the Mt St Louis Tough Mudder, 17 kms, 9 times bottom to top of that fucking mountain with all the obstacles and I was probably 315 lbs. Bodies are amazing and frustrating

    grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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    Hey or folks around that are interested in the idea of a but have never seen one up close or ridden one. I’m not an organizer but found this on instagram and will probably try and make it out for the show and tell with our two e-cargo bikes. More people need to see them everyday in all the places, in all the situations, for all the reasons people need to move around and live. Please share and come out!

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