Tristan Ridley

@triddles
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810 Posts
Socialist, urbanist, atheist, lots of ist and a vegetarian too.
I'm an old cynic who's not willing to drink any coolaid. My heroes are MLK Jr and Tommy Douglas, but cancel culture is real and horrible too. Maybe it's my autism but I just can't tolerate any group that villifies dissent.
I'm also a programmer of remarkable speed if not talent, and know enough science to actually understand the research (and get in trouble for doing so).
Tristan Ridley3d ago
Arthur Gron3d ago
At today's bike protest. #onpoli #topoli #Toronto #bike
Tristan RidleyMay 30
RE 🇨🇦May 30

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116662837867368431

Long thread, but well worth the read

#canada #cdnpoli

Show threadTristan RidleyMay 30
@jerome
I think there could be valid GO locations along the Kitchener line. Each of the highways leading in to Toronto should have a big park and ride, where it first enters the suburbs, so people from truly rural places have alternatives to driving in to the city.
Inside the city, every parking lot is an ignored potential location for affordable housing, never mind the extremely valuable land at train stations that could be unlimited density.
Show threadTristan RidleyMay 29
@jerome commuter parking makes so much sense at train stations in low density, car-dependent areas, like a rural station serving multiple rural towns/villages.
None of those areas are in Toronto.
Tristan RidleyMay 26

@anxietynectarr
This space is more self-defined than anywhere else, I think.
Your feed is people you picked, tags you picked.
You make the rules for replies to your post.

If you want it to be a chill and cozy place, I think it can be pretty close to that.

Show threadTristan RidleyMay 26

@AlexanderKingsbury
Well, then perhaps the issue is that you have a particular definition of a flexible idea, and not so much the failings of everyone else.

Personally, I find the discussion of "what exactly is capitalism?" a useful introduction to these kinds of ideas with new people. And I don't much mind a million subtly different definitions as long as we all pull in the same general direction.

Thank you for sating my curiosity.

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@AlexanderKingsbury
It can be honestly tricky to explain well. Easy to say what it's not (like markets or money or business or just corporations) but I need to use a variety of phrases to get through to most people.

It's specifically the system where the economy is controlled by capital, where money earns money. Agreed? Or do you still see ignorance?

Tristan RidleyMay 26
Church of JeffMay 26
#QasimRashid #TaxTheRich #EconomicJustice #SocialMediaPost #WealthInequality #Labor #NoBillionaires #EatTheRich #GuillotinesWork #AreYouMadeOfCake
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@AlexanderKingsbury
I'm morbidly curious, whether you've had bad luck or perhaps the issue is you disagree with people and therefore see them as foolish and wrong. I find both plausible, as a stranger to you.
What are you claiming people miss?
Tristan RidleyMay 13
#toronto using a #bikelane as convenient vehicle storage. Not like that has killed anyone recently, right?