This will not be news to regular readers, but it's worth noting whenever Toronto council debates housing (or transportation or neighbourhood amenities) that just three of the 25 wards absorbed three-quarters of the city's population growth between 2016 and 2021

whalesanctuaryproject.org/updates-on-t... Ontario has decided they do not have to do anything for the care of these animals. Now it's up to the Feds to decide if they want to step in. This is deplorable.

Does this means all those 50 Shades books will be pulled from the UK?

Even in THEIR OWN AD, Charlie at the end looks like he’s thinking, “This is sad and weird.” Promising people you can prevent feelings of loss is not only ridiculous; it’s perverse. Sad things and happy things need each other. This company is promising numbness.

Ok, I'm done. Just DONE. I don't have enough incredulous swear words in my vocabulary for this.

THEN WHY ARE WE DOING IT OMG

Ford 'making roads safe again' by eliminating all safe-road-making techniques. <SLAMS HEAD AGAINST WALL AND WALKS INTO THE SEA>

Not wanting to live near a convenience store is just a bonkers concept to me. This circle overlaps with the one that says '15 minute cities are oppression'. I assume that these folk will never patronize such a store & will get in their car to go buy milk.

Watching the Hinton Lectures on AI safety and my key takeaway for tonight is govt focusing on game theory and "innovating" until essentially paperclip theory becomes a reality. <walks into the sea>

That tracks. This is also an interesting thread as I've been thinking about how Predator: Badlands can easily be looked at through a queer lens.

They really missed an opportunity to create an hysterical scene of dogs and cats living together. <walks into the sea>

Bond films are trash. That some sort of argument arises every time a new one is considered is tired. I'm all in for a series of Lou films. Allison Janney as Action Spy ftw. Or more from the Atomic Blonde universe. Bring on the women.

www.joinheard.com/articles/wha... This is absolutely wild to me. A silver lining to the pandemic is the increase of access the therapy via remote sessions. & with sky high office rental rates, it also helps therapists.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Women's bodies will never not be a battleground. One thing salient in this piece is the sub-battle of women influencers peddling garbage. They're part of what I call White Women's Wellness.

Since I just learned that a beloved cafe in Little Italy is being renovicted (despite landlord saying they wouldn't & the cafe investing in reno's), it's especially important to remember to contact your local councillor & demand they allow small biz on residential streets. Do it now. #topoli

So Predator: Badlands is kinda fun. The charm and elegance of the practical effects of the original is lost, but it's a fun movie (and actually doesn't have to even be a Predator film). Also very interesting when see through a queer reading.

Is there a 'good news' aggregator/newsletter of some sort? The newsletters I get are page after page of examples of the world being awful. I love @404media.co, but man, everything I just read is SO BLEAK.

I'm SO VERY EXCITED FOR THIS. Killer of Killers was AWESOME.

WHAT. are they planning on making a 1:1 scale of it for their study wtf

www.thestar.com/opinion/star... Edward Keenan sums up what I was mulling earlier - the comparisons of Chow and Mamdani. (I read it via the TPL. Library cards are great things!)

@mollyroberts.bsky.social reporting on the RIDICULOUS federal sandwich case was brilliant, and reminded me a lot of @graphicmatt.com's city council mtg reporting. So charming and funny, and gets ppl really involved in politics.

I noticed a few things about Mamdani's victory speech (elected; yay!). These phrases really stuck out for me as a citizen of Toronto: NY citizens should not be "condemned to a future of less"; "No longer should politics be something that is done to us; now it is something we do"; and...

Got incessantly mocked in the park by a group of teen boys for taking pics of the gorgeous trees.

So is it every insurer doing this? Mine just went up $215. I had to drop a tier, and it's still more than what I was paying. Paying more for less is so much fun.

Ooof. Learning that AI users are totally fine with their neural networks firing less and being average is heartbreaking.

Oh no, this is awful. Teen Vogue turned into an amazing journalistic source for politics and then some, connecting dots between world events and feminism.

Considering the recent wave of nostalgic movie documentaries, it blows my mind that nobody has made one about the Sherman Oaks Galleria, aka The Mall In Every 80s Movie. Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Night of the Comet, Commando, Phantom of the Mall, Innerspace, Chopping Mall, Terminator 2 etc...

'Dogs and cats living together: MASS HYSTERIA'. Sigh. We just can't have nice things. It now feels like deliberate punishment.

WE ARE NOT A SERIOUS CITY OMG

WHAAAAAAT

Trying to leave High Park from the HP streetcar loop this past Sunday was an exercise in patience. We sat in the loop for almost 30 minutes, as more and more streetcars piled behind us. No info from the driver why we weren't leaving. I was ready to scream.

Did you stop to look up this weekend?

Wondering how David Harbour's day went.

Toronto has become so disgustingly good at 'if the "right" ppl (ppl who already have homes to go to & can close the door on things they don't like seeing) don't/won't use it, then we will make sure *nobody* will'. We are not a serious city. We are an embarrassing one. www.thestar.com/news/gta/the...

I caught this movie on TV as a kid and it scared the shit out of me and I think about it every few years

Does anyone know what Dr. Brooke Magnanti is doing lately? She appears to have disappeared from all social media.

www.blogto.com/city/2025/10... We Are Not A Serious City, evidence docket # 538,937,028,913

So will credit card companies now bar GPT for hosting erotic content they way they do for any other erotic content creators? No? Huh. Funny that.

Is the City of Toronto willfully ignorant or just doesn't care about the irony in Maggie Helwig winning the Toronto Book Award for 'Encampment' last night and the clearing of an actual encampment hours later? Shameful. @toronto.ca

As we go into No Kings weekend (and with the influx of new followers from x) seems like a good time to resurface this. It was written in 2020 then focused on George Floyd about the media's antagonistic relationship to protest

Green's amazing ai rant here basically happens in my head all day every day. I'm exhausted.

I don't even like baseball, yet this feels reaaallll good.

This is perfect

Watching a symposium via zoom and the auto closed captioning just labeled the Regenstrief Institute as the 'Radio Shack Institute'. Tell me again how putting billions into tech is a social benefit.

If you use ai slop in promotional ads for your services related to engaging with nature, you are a hypocrite and a fraud. The increase in ai slop use by ppl purporting to be nature protectors or educators is dismaying. Stop it.

My question here is why is Woody so small compared to Matthew? It's not just that he looks short, it's that they made him a smoll human.

I had to stop reading this halfway through bc I started spiraling around possibilities, namely that RFK's desire for wearables + Palantir/Oura/DOD + digital ID = every person in the US being required to wear a ring as ID and and and....

Just got a notice from my health insurer that they are increasing my monthly premiums *42.2%*, a "realistic and fair increase" because more people utilized their plans than the insurer expected. BONKERS.

I don't understand why car makers don't just start or pivot to making ebikes.

his absolute monstership aside, I'll never not be flabbergasted that no matter how many BILLIONS he has, he still looks like this. Hair like a wig from the Halloween store, face cream from Temu, and a tshirt from the 'designers' at Shein. The guy who built an empire on judging women's looks.