Vero B (Veroluna)

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Maker of music and food. Genealogy nerd. Semi-bilingual canadienne-française. Undiagnosed but very weird. Eco social democrat. Pro-humanity, anti-dystopia. 313.2 ppm. https://veroluna.bandcamp.com/

Blinded by the LED lights on oncoming cars, motorcycles and bicycles? Transport #Canada has a survey you can fill out --whether you're a driver, cyclist, motorcyclist or pedestrian. Your chance to say what you think about these very bright, modern car headlights.
- The survey didn't address the lights on bicycles, but yes, they can be blinding to car drivers too.
Turns out there's a petition too. Link in next comment below.

#cars #bicycles #headlights #safety
https://tc.canada.ca/en/corporate-services/consultations/canadian-experience-vehicle-headlights-glare-night

Canadian experience with vehicle headlights and glare at night

Transport Canada wants to learn how headlight glare affects road users and what vehicle or lighting features may influence how people experience it at night.

Transport Canada
I'm tired of evil.
I'm tired of stupid.
I'm tired of incompetence.
I'm tired of self-righteous unrepentant, proud racism and sexism.
It's all exhausting.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Publishers say they’re blocking the Internet Archive because of AI scraping. But shutting out a nonprofit library won’t stop AI—it will damage the public’s best record of the web. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/blocking-internet-archive-wont-stop-ai-it-will-erase-webs-historical-record
Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record

Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—the world’s largest digital library—has preserved newspapers since it went online in the mid-1990s....

Electronic Frontier Foundation
‘Another internet is possible’: Norway rails against ‘enshittification’

Absurdist video urges policymakers and users to resist deliberate deterioration of platforms and devices

The Guardian

“I don’t think I could have pictured how many people would be using this park in the way they are since restoring this stream. It’s just unbelievable.”

https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/03/16/When-We-Revive-Buried-Urban-Creeks/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

When We Revive Buried Urban Creeks, What Can Happen? | The Tyee

Spurred by advocates, Vancouver has ‘daylighted’ some paved-over waterways. Ducks, and people, are flocking.

The Tyee

Although our wealth concentration is not yet at the level of the U.S., we must take what is happening south of the border as a dire warning of the consequences of failing to rein in extreme inequality. Three experts write. #canpoli #uspoli

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/03/16/Top-One-Per-Cent-Threaten-Canada/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

How the Top One Per Cent Threaten Canada’s Future | The Tyee

Wealth is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few. To preserve democracy, we must act.

The Tyee
Canada’s Richest 1% Nearly As Wealthy As Poorest 80%
https://www.readthemaple.com/canadas-richest-1-nearly-as-wealthy-as-poorest-80/
Canada’s Richest 1% Nearly As Wealthy As Poorest 80%

Three recent reports provide the gory details about massive and growing wealth inequality in Canada

The Maple
Afghan asylum-seeker dies after less than 24 hours in ICE custody

An Afghan immigrant who worked with the U.S. military in Afghanistan died less than 24 hours after being detained in Texas by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a U.S. advocacy group and a family friend said Sunday

NBC News

@argals reminds me of:

“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transport. It is where the rich walk and where they use bikes. We should create cities where rich and poor meet as equals: in parks, on the sidewalks, on public transport.”
― Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Lykke: Secrets of the World’s Happiest People

Any journalists want to write an article about all the environmental costs of the more than 10,000 Starlinks that are now in orbit? All I'm seeing are breathless articles mindlessly worshiping That Awful Billionaire for crossing the 10,000 satellite mark.

Every single one of those will come down in an uncontrolled reentry. That's a lot of metal in the atmosphere, and a lot of dice-rolling to see if any more pieces will make it to the ground.

SpaceX is truly awful.