Mike Doherty 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈

@mikedoherty.ca

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Photograph of a letter from a company called "Fibre Connect" notifying a homeowner that they'll be installing fiber optic internet cables in the neighbourhood
A Charlie Brown cartoon: First panel: Freida is jumping rope, with Charlie Brown and Linus in the background. She says "Lookit, Charlie Brown!" Second panel: Charlie Brown and Linus are not paying attention. Again, Freida says "Look at me jump rope! Lookit... Lookit... Lookit" Third panel: Charlie Brown shouts "I'M LOOKITING" at Freida as she jump ropes away. Fourth panel: Linus, bemused, wonders: "'Lookiting'?"
A close-up photograph of a blueberry pie, with one slice removed, showing the black-purple juices flowing
A photograph of a black Audi SUV, parked in a residential garage. A charging cable trails across the ground to the charging port.
A photograph of a "Grizzl-E" level 2 electric vehicle charger installed on the unfinished interior of a residential garage.
Screenshot of an email which reads: Good day! I hope you are well. I am Krizzimae, Research Analyst from Insights Driven Research, a global expert network. We are currently conducting a research study on composite (synthetic, oil-free, non-ceramic) bushings with silicone or epoxy insulators used on power transformers, with the main objective of gathering insights on usage, maintenance, and the potential application of silicone spray coatings for thermal monitoring.
Screenshot of Google Maps transit directions with a transfer that says to wait up to one thousand four hundred and fifty eight minutes.
The 301 Ion tram in Waterloo Region is shown with a light dusting of snow on the ground. The photo was taken in the early evening of January 14.
The show cloth for Mrs. Doubtfire at the Princess of Wales theatre in Toronto
A long exposure night scene: looking up at Peggy's Point lighthouse lit up in bright white, red light at the top warning mariners of the dangerous rocky point. In the background, the Milky Way spread across the night sky.
The text oligarchs want government cash but not obligations, wealth without duty or any of the basic burdens of citizenship. The rewards of success without the risks of failure, and indeed, they want to be rewarded even when they fail. They have betrayed the society that enriched them, and have put us at serious risk of authoritarianism, ethnic cleansing, lawlessness, and stagnation. They have betrayed the values that made that society great, values which they apparently only ever held superficially because they believed it would make them appear respectable. They can no longer be trusted. When the wheel turns once again, the matter of their treachery must be revisited, and a new arrangement just be reconstructed from the wreckage of the old one.
A Keychron K5 Max, viewed from above. Or is a 100% layout, with light grey keys, except the Escape and Enter keys, which are orange. The keycaps are lit from below by RGB LEDs.
An Instagram ad for a backhoe in which a woman in a red suit rides the backhoe's shovel, yelling into a bullhorn. Text indicates the backhoe is 30% off on Temu.
The Eiffel tower, against a blue sky with clouds
A Paris grocery store with a cargo bicycle in front for their delivery service.
A photo of tree-lined bike lane in Paris, taken while riding a bike share rental
A huge stone viaduct, seen from a moving train
An animation of a bus pulling up behind a car stopped in the bus-only lane. The bus emits a flash of light, and the car disintegrates, allowing the bus to proceed.
A homemade bialy on a cutting board. A bialy is like a bagel, but the hole doesn't go all the way through. Instead, the depression is filled with sauteed onions and other toppings. This bialy also has sesame seeds all over the top.
Two kouign-amman -- golden sugary pastries -- on a wire cooking rack on a wooden cutting board
A diagram illustrating three streets with different levels of traffic, and where people living on those streets have friends and gathering places. The less traffic, the more friendships and meetings in the neighbourhood.
"By taking a responsible approach when preparing the annual operating budget, Kitchener's been able to consistently deliver property tax increases that have been below the rate of inflation over the past 5 years (cumulative tax rate increases vs CPI shown in the graph illustrated here" (the mentioned graph is the next image on this post)
A stacked line graph showing the hour-by-hour origin of electricity in Ontario. A horizontal purple line represents the stable baseload generation from nuclear, providing about half the power over the past 24h.
A black laptop computer with stickers saying "there is no cloud, it's just someone else's computer"; "YIMBY"; "Site Reliability Engineering"; "Wikipedia"; "tell your dog i said hi"; "this machine kills fascists"; "🚲 > 🚗"; "birds aren't real"; "illegal spying is illegal"; "#resist"; and several more that combine the gay pride rainbow with iconography related to Dungeons & Dragons, equality, and political resistance.
An angular grey F-35 military stealth aircraft releases a flare, lighting up the plane's underside with a warm glow as it flies away. The little door where the flare is released is still open. The plane's wings are shrouded lightly with vapour clouds.
A dozen public transit supporters pose with Kitchener Center MP Mike Morris (Green), who is displaying his signature on the transit pledge. A sign in the background reads "fund the GRT".