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In anticipation of the blessed return of @heavyweight.bsky.social Jonathan Goldstein submits to @thenarwhal.ca's Moose Questionnaire thenarwhal.ca/moose-questi...

This is an important profile of Ana Bailão, when she was running for Toronto mayor. Now she is Build Canada Homes’ new CEO. Her enthusiasm for housing affordability is high, her fandom mixed, and her record on delivery is mediocre at best. By @jasonmcbride.bsky.social from @thelocal.to, from 2023:

This is a helpful explainer about the groyper stuff.

My feed is almost entirely people condemning violence and telling others not to celebrate this.

"Zohran is going to win. Enacting his agenda will be hard, but the specter of local billionaires wracking their brains to concoct charges against him that might resonate with normal voters...is pretty amusing to watch." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-york-s...

CONGESTION PRICING IN #NYC IS WORKING. Since Jan 2025: ⚠️ 17.6 million fewer vehicles entered Manhattan ⚠️ Crashes are down 14% ⚠️ Traffic injuries down 15% ✅ Subway ridership up 9% ✅ Bus ridership up 13% The $9 fee goes to funding mass transit capital improvements. www.reuters.com/world/us/new...

Hello Bluesky! We are Canadian Journalists for Justice in Palestine, a coalition of journalists across Canada who call for an end to Israel targeting and killing journalists in Palestine. Check out our statement on why we started CJJP👇 #cdnmedia #cdnpoli

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Regarding the tragic death of Adam Raine, there are already narratives forming that blame vague "dangers of AI" or a broader moral panic. But this is not a story about the faceless perils of superintelligence. It's about a $500 billion tech company's core software product encouraging child suicide.

He's literally become Don Quixote.

Hey, you survived another week. Buy yourself a few books.

Every day I read something that a) makes me fee old as shit, and b) makes me want to retire from humanity.

There are literally better things for Doug Ford to be doing. He could be pretending hospital wait times are bike lanes and have them removed

Dennis Cooper's in Toronto for the first time in decades, showing his latest film with Zac Farley, ROOM TEMPERATURE, at the Paradise on Sept 24. @derekmccormack.bsky.social will be interviewing them both after the screening! paradiseonbloor.com/movies/room-...

"Last year there were ten murders in the NYC subway system, with well over a billion total rides taken. During the same time period, there were 253 traffic fatalities in New York City. One person dead every day and a half. Cars? Those things are fucking dangerous."

If it’s fucking raining and everyone says it’s fucking raining and the meteorologists say it’s fucking raining and you’re out there in the rain getting fucking wet and someone tells you it’s not raining, that doesn’t make them a “wet weather skeptic” it makes them a fucking idiot

Great news of a complete Terence Davies retrospective at MOMI Sept. 12-21; one of the few absolute and comprehensive filmmakers, he was treated like dirt by a U.K. film establishment that fostered bland consensus and so made far too few films, which remain underappreciated.

#Ontario to Ford: DROP DEAD www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

are you tired of being brainwashed by the mainstream media?

YOU, MAYBE: I love getting letters in the mail! ME, MOST CERTAINLY: I will write a personalized letter to anyone who donates to the Sameer Project! email me a screenshot of your donation along with your address: kalila.holt@gmail chuffed.org/project/1132...

you'd either have to have no soul or no brain to characterize the Giller Prize's *hypothetical* demise as a "casualty" in the context of an ongoing genocide archive.is/6OtzL

It's very fun to toggle between David Brooks insisting that liberals have rigid litmus tests for art and that's what killed the big ambitious novel, and every conservative commentator screaming at the top of their lungs that they refuse to see the Superman movie because of WOKE.

“California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.” www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

Honey's 4evah

I see the ambitious councillor from, checks notes, the Toronto Beaches has been in Calgary wearing a cowboy hat and taking photos at the Stampede.

#Baltimore Mayor #BrandonScott invested in 42 summer youth camps, 29 literacy programs, extended the rec center hours to 11 p.m, planned block parties, opened the pools for safe fun, & opened several schools up for summer classes. Crime is down 62%. 🔥🔥 www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Been thinking more and more about how the internet warped everyone's brains into thinking everything someone does is "performative" and meant for public scrutiny. You know we all used to just... read books and watch films etc. we liked and no one else even knew? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

But Ross Douthat can bring white supremacists on his podcast each week

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

A very sweet & funny piece by the great @nickhunebrown.bsky.social. We also just had our first backyard bunny sighting last week

I definitely wouldn't have two Arcade Fire albums on my list & would go with Destroyer's Rubies over Kaputt, but this is otherwise a very solid line-up www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/a...

A few of my fave novels in this fun, thoughtful list: Blood & Guts in High School, Castle Faggot, Reader's Block

Mamdani surges past Cuomo in final Emerson poll, pulling nearly even in the first round and winning final round 52/48. Crucially, the poll shows Mamdani with a 41/31 lead among those who have already cast their ballots.

My top movies of the 21st century: Blissfully Yours Blissfully Yours Blissfully Yours Blissfully Yours Blissfully Yours Blissfully Yours Blissfully Yours Blissfully Yours Blissfully Yours My Winnipeg

Fear of the New York City subway is a mark of low moral character. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

Lovely interview with Matthew Rankin, whose Universal Language remains my fave movie of the year. Love a guy who reads Jane Bowles while recovering from burnout thecreativeindependent.com/people/filmm...

Heads up, Toronto—Sandy Hudson (@sandela.bsky.social) is going to be at the Hot Docs Cinema on June 22, talking about her new book, Defund: Black Lives, Policing and Safety For All, a book that couldn't be more timely and necessary. Tix going fast: hotdocs.ca/whats-on/fil...

It is pathetic how easily network news executives let right wingers manipulate them. Terry Moran rightly calls Stephen Miller a hater driven by bile, and ABC News accepts the idea that this is “unhinged” behavior. Critiquing people abusing their power is the JOB of journalism.

it’s such a weird conceit of American journalism to enforce the batshit idea that people will only trust us to tell the truth if we ostentatiously lie about our (supposed lack of) personal opinions

I feel like Musk could really blow MAGA's collective minds just by continuing to tweet out facts the rest of us have known for years but never penetrated their media bubble.

OWNING MY ENEMIES BY REVEALING THEY ARE PEDOPHILES AND I HELPED MAKE THEM PRESIDENT ANYWAY

“No sunnier human in the world, obvious to us and to people who’ve only just or never met him. No dark side. Psychology had helped erase that, I think, or buffed it smooth.” Ed White's husband, Michael Carroll, on their their life together www.washingtonblade.com/2025/06/05/e...

The way nobody can drive well anymore because of GPS — not just atrophied turn-by-turn navigation, but the way ppl no longer know the layouts of their town or the names of roads or what to do when the map doesn’t match the terrain — that’s what genAI is doing to communication skills and literacy

RIP, Ed White, the most legendary of legends. @derekmccormack.bsky.social & I were blessed to hang out w him several times in Toronto and NYC, & he was a perpetual delight—hilarious, flirty, a bottomless source of gossip—and of course a brilliant, singular writer. What a body of work, what a life.

First Nations promise "a long and very unnecessary fight" over Ontario government's attempt to accelerate Ring of Fire development and limit endangered species protections under Bill 5. VIA @fatimabsyed.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/ontario-bill...

Nazis really loved drugs too