City: We unanimously declare a climate emergency! We must make change no matter what the cost, humanity's survival depends on it! Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane to get more people cycling. City: No, we'll lose parking spots.

Going through Strangers Things (never really got past the first season, 10 years ago) and really struggling not causing permanent eye damage from constant eye rolling.

These won't work. But we'll be gaslit into thinking they do. Also: why not 40 km/hr at all times?

I hope I die in a way that makes people go "what the?" hundreds of years from now

Deer My Friends Today was very busy day for me at Queen Spark because we past our new bill The Throwing Renters Out Act but their were some people their makeen a lot of ruckiss so I told them to get jobs like when before I was Premair and I worked very hard running my dads company. Premair

Randomly, the two times I've ever been in Madrid were both on Black Friday, on consecutive years before and after they did the big pedestrian friendly redesign of Gran Via. Packed both years but was a huge difference in how pleasant it was to be there.

Holy fuck. @criterion.bsky.social is having a popup downtown at Tiff and I had some gift cards so I picked up a 4k of Eyes Wide Shut. This looks insane. I saw this opening night in (good lord) 1999 - see ticket stub. I can't explain what this feels like seeing it again with such clarity.

Idiots collectively thought: 1, today was a good day to drive downtown 2, yellow line dividing street doesn’t exist

Just pure civil disobedience in the local community garden

So this is a thing they can do? Regulate the resale price and they just don't?

Toronto deliberately killed apartment construction in the early 1970s, after a generation-long building boom. Almost all of that housing was built by “the market.”

I kinda can't believe this is still a thing.

China is going dominate the 21st century on a level the 20th century can't comprehend

"drugs are killing our kids" The auto industry better start thinking hard about the 1000+ kids killed in the USA each year by drivers www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Oh good! Doug and his brother privatized pickup for the west side of Toronto 15-20 years ago to save money and increase services (it did neither), now he’s doing it province wide

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

In the global electrification race China is marching ahead. The US and Europe risk falling behind clinging on to yesterday's technologies.

Cool. So now all of Ontario has to pay for drivers breaking the law (instead of the drivers paying this stuff through the camera tickets)

Probably should have known there was a clothing factory not too far from me

The vehicle arms race: xkcd.com/3167 (I'm lucky to live in an area that is fairly bike-friendly, with drivers who understand how to behave around cyclists.)

@jeremyhopkin.bsky.social Found these at a local thrift store. Whipper Billy Watson! Wrestler of East York that started in the mid-30s and was even NWA champ at one point. Pretty neat!

Time to build a pipeline East-West pipeline, Canada! No time for the future, we gotta stay firmly in the 19th century (except cities - those are 1960s forever)

There ARE a lot of planners in Toronto who would like nothing better than to loosen up the city, do creative wonderful things, but are restrained and directed by city councillors.

When my cartoons become reality. #chicago

Cars might work fine in California or Florida, but they’re not practical here in Canada. We have winter.

Probably really bad that these new units can't be altered (to my knowledge, at least), so they're going to be shoebox built for speculators forever. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Remember: You're basically renting from the bank and praying the home accumulates enough in value to justify the interest payments

We will do anything other than proper density

GO from Kitchener is batting 1000 on total shit No trains at peak time Buses are standing room (while traveling on a 400 series highway) Air isn’t working on the one I’m on One train would fix this, but Doug is pissing away our money on ego protects

Taking the train from Toronto to Kitchener and I’m once again reminded how much potential would be unlocked with fast and frequent intercity transit

"Speeding is illegal — if drivers were fined multiple times, it’s because they broke the law multiple times. When students are caught cheating on exams, the punishments get stricter — we don’t get rid of exams." www.thestar.com/opinion/lett...

Has this firefighters’ union done a comparative study to explain why almost every one of the world’s richest nations allows single stair access? Or are they just making stuff up? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo! I know how hard you worked for this.

Rogers can't even stream the team they own in the dome they own while I pay for the service We should totally give them more things to buy and own and operate

I can answer this. I interviewed Peterson's tailor a few years ago, although the interview was never published because I fell behind on work. Here is the story of this suit. 🧵

you see this happen a lot in "streetwear." people who co-opt a streetwear aesthetic frozen in time while making cities more hostile to the people who gave that aesthetic meaning — less affordable housing, more crackdown on noise, more policing, etc.

I remember watching the Jays play the world series with my Grandparents in the 90s. Sure we had ads, but that's just part of free tv. Now I have to pay $30+ a month to watch and I still have to watch ads. Plus my grandparents have been dead for years! Everything is worse, now.

This hair spray is so good it has almost the same exact review from 4 different people! You know it has to be the best

Vader knows what's up.

Can this guy just move to Florida? He obviously just wants to live in a place full of fear, driving, and suburban isolation

Fantastic!

Best project the city has done in a very long time. Makes me frustrated to know we can do great work, we just choose the mediocre

the car ticklers are not working

"common sense"

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

My cousin bought a truck today "What?! I wasn't about to buy a bike" I guess those are the only options people see. A totally oversized vehicle that impractical, or a bicycle

I had to pass an ethics test for my professional designation- and I don’t have a percent of the power to shape the lives of people as those elected

I bet that if the Leafs playing for the cup the city wouldn’t be as energized as they are toward the Jays. I think that’s because at some point almost everyone in Toronto has been at the Skydome for a game. Only a few people I know have been to a Leafs game.

"Simply put, the Geometry Problem is that cars are much bigger than humans. ... these physical differences mean that when we optimize places for cars, they end up not working well (or working at all) for any other mode. They become *car-only* places." Great post, lays it out very clearly.