Robert_Majamaa 🇫🇮🇨🇦

Project Manager (DPC) Now planning to make life a lot darker

[Pulp Librarian @PulpLibrarian]

Return To The planet Of The Apes (1975). One of the more frightening kids cartoons of the 1970s and a bit slow paced and stilted. But that artwork!

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Happy Juneteenth!

Time for the annual schoolhouse rock style history lesson about slavery and the origins of Juneteenth from @theroots

[Jen Horsburgh @jenatlionra]

I just wanted to update my resume. Instead, I accidentally proved how a multi-billion-dollar AI tool hallucinates a glass ceiling for women.

I changed a single variable: My name.

Here is what happened when "Jennifer" became "Jeff."

[🇨🇦 Merlin 🇨🇦 @MerlinofCanada]

While @ABDanielleSmith strives to make biking less safe for Albertans the folks in Tofino have turned it into a tourist draw. Biking is huge here and safe as they upgrade bike pathways. #Tofino2026

[Ken Boessenkool @KenBoessenkool]

This is the most important, most brilliant, and most well written thing you could read today.

If you’re an Albertan, or a Canadian, and read nothing else, fine. Just read this.

Goodness me. Every word. https://t.co/TliiUbwj6H

[Robert_Majamaa 🇫🇮🇨🇦 @robert_majamaa]

@Robert_Johnston @MondoABx Goaltending?

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

“The Highway Lobby spends millions to make sure we spend billions.” — Union of Concerned Scientists.

Their profit, your cost.

Pleased to support @UCSUSA in sharing/boosting their important new article below, with our newest Urban Truth Collective poster. #UrbanTruth

[Robert_Majamaa 🇫🇮🇨🇦 @robert_majamaa]

@calgaryherald Barricaded bike lanes on 26th? Awesome. Now the kids can ride to Luke’s for ice cream.

[Robert_Majamaa 🇫🇮🇨🇦 @robert_majamaa]

@JeromyYYC When the UCP transportation minister’s campaign is funded by oil companies and automobile dealers you will understand why they are pro getting more people into cars.

[Iván Fernández Amil @ivanfamil]

¿Sabías que el coche no conquistó las ciudades por ser mejor, sino porque tres gigantes empresariales destruyeron el transporte público en Estados Unidos? Compraron redes enteras de tranvías, las desmantelaron y nos obligaron a usar gasolina. Tira del hilo 🧵👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

[adidas @adidas]

In this Backyard, it’s “win or go home,” and this crew hasn’t left since the 90's.

Where there’s a pitch, there’s a legend.

#YouGotThis

[DEVO’s Gerald V. Casale @Gvc3Casale]

56th Anniversary: May 4th 1970👇

Recently discovered film footage that aired only once — in 1970, in Europe — and has never been seen on American TV:

[julia @eathedocument]

i absolutely hate today being remembered as the “star wars day” instead of the anniversary of the kent state shooting. four innocent students massacred with no accountability, no justice was ever served. the more you learn about it the worse it gets.

[Darin Givens @atlurbanist]

This is such a silly argument. "Public transit funding is a wasteful subsidy, but freeways bring joy and prosperity to all."

Every time I thing we've moved past this car-brained thinking in our culture, someone shocks me by bringing it back. This classic cartoon nails it.

[Matt Gurney @mattgurney]

BREAKING

(Rare use of that from me that isn't ironic.)

So, @jengerson has got a story to tell, and it's genuinely shocking. I've known the outline of this for a few weeks now, but still. Reading it all woven together blew me away. What a major, major fuck up.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Oslo had 41 road deaths in 1975. By 2019, that number was one: a single driver who hit a fence.

Oslo effectively ended road deaths by redesigning its downtown for people instead of cars.

They removed 700 street parking spaces and replaced them with 37 miles of protected bike lanes and pocket parks.

They lowered speed limits inside and outside the city. Many streets to car traffic entirely.

They created "heart zones" around every elementary school where cars can't pick up or drop off kids.

Did it kill the city? Nope.

Retail sales at shops went up. Kids started walking and biking to school unsupervised.

Air quality improved measurably and traffic congestion got better because fewer people wanted to drive through a pedestrianized downtown.

Every piece of Oslo's strategy is available to any American city that wants it. The problem is solved, now we just need to implement it.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Those “pretty” landscape lights are disorienting birds and killing fireflies.

Most light pollution doesn’t come from one big floodlight. It comes from a dozen little lights pointed up at trees, walls, and house siding.

Every solar accent, every “moonlighting” effect, every upward-pointing spotlight scatters into the sky.

It pulls songbirds off course during migration, confuses nocturnal pollinators, and drowns out firefly mating signals.

The fix is ridiculously easy:

Tilt every single light downward. Aim it at the ground, the path, or the wall it’s supposed to light up. Same brightness and beauty for you, up to 80% less sky glow.

Can’t tilt it? Replace it next time it burns out with “shielded,” “downlight,” or Dark Sky compliant fixtures.

You don’t have to give up outdoor lighting.
You just have to stop pointing it at the stars.

Small change. Huge win for nocturnal wildlife.

Will you check your yard lights tonight?

[Joel Willans @VFinnishProbs]

Finland is the only country I know that has a word for spring changing its mind.

Takatalvi, literally back-winter, is when spring decides it's not ready and dumps 10cm of snow on you...in April.

[Yellowbelly Wheelman @Lincs_Wheelman]

@but_cyclists

[Water Not Coal @WaterNotCoalAB]

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