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Mayor Olivia Chow says she’ll bring a motion to the infrastructure committee for a “stronger” speed camera program. Includes tweaks like larger signs and more notice, plus sending MPPs and residents info about road deaths and injuries in their area from speeding.

i'm morbidly curious to know how many of our neighbours were killed by drivers while police were busy giving thousands of tickets to cyclists but i'm afraid to look

For 150 years, Africville, sitting right next to Halifax, was a thriving Black Canadian community. Halifax refused to provide city services, and eventually forced residents to move as they bulldozed their homes. This is the story of that community. 🧵1/12

ALSO PS YOU CANT PUT SPEEDBUMPS ON ARTERIAL ROADS LIKE MAITLAND AND WOODROFFE AND BASELINE AND GREENBANK

CHOTINER: So. Good to see you again. CHOTINER'S CHILDHOOD BULLY: Is it? CHOTINER: No. CHOTINER'S CHILDHOOD BULLY: So how's this work? You ask a bunch of dumb questions and try'n make me look stupid? CHOTINER: Basically. CHOTINER'S CHILDHOOD BULLY: Okay, let's DO this, Chotinerd.

Sometimes you read an article that makes you feel like... idk... 15 years ago, some of us got on an express train and saw what was on the tracks ahead. And now we're on a call to the people on the slower train, now approaching, and they cannot comprehend the landscapes we describe as familiar.

I want to talk more about this, and how it makes me feel. Later. But maybe, the simplest answer, is that comics will break your heart.

this is truly a loss for marvel, avengers academy was one of (if not the) best comic runs in their current library and i genuinely mean that. the entire team were an absolute joy to see grow. there hasnt been a more important time in generations for comics to deliver this kind of story and i 1/2

For my Burns Notice newsletter, I wrote about what it was like being a trans person and see the entire right wing try to incite pogrom on us over the last several weeks. burns-notice.ghost.io/what-am-i-su...

This report on Chinese students in Canada fearing transnational reprisal for their activism here was so interesting, @thelocal.to does absolutely fantastic reporting thelocal.to/chinese-inte...

anyway here’s @vivmccall.bsky.social with some extremely good and extremely fucking sobering reporting on the recent surge in random hate crimes directed at trans women in Seattle. Please be careful, everyone. www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...

My book came out yesterday!! Here are some links to buy it: lnk.to/ScarletMorning ☠️🩸

Consume Me is finally out! This game blew me away when I looked at it for IGF. It deals with the real pressures of growing up as a teenage girl while telling that story through a whirlwind of delightful QWOP-like minigames. It’s charming and fun and smart and I hope everyone checks it out.

Today is the feast day of St Robert of Knaresborough, who died today (September 24th) in 1218. He's my favourite saint, and I visit the cave where he lived whenever I can. Here's a thread of some poems I wrote about / for him.

see how settled science suddenly gets turned into something unclear as soon as conservatives make it a political issue? this has happened on dozens of issues.

Not sure how much I need the song this time around - I‘m not in a headspace anymore where I feel the need to desperately promise that I’ll keep going. Instead I’ll take a moment to feel grateful to all my friends in my life, new and old, who have helped sustain me to this time. youtu.be/2Se76S0XH-I

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so the Economist article isn't attributed an author. but someone in the replies of this 🧵 tipped me off that it was Jəsse Singal. & it turns out that it was, which in retrospect isn't surprising (as he's one of the ppl who would never answer this question):

this is the solution to the male loneliness epidemic I am 100% serious

Happy Rosh Hashanah y'all.

A snapshot of Silicon Valley in 2025 is Mark Zuckerberg, now a MAGA-friendly mixed martial arts fan who doesn’t worry much about hate speech on his platforms and complains that corporate America isn’t masculine enough.

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Toronto, the city of small old buildings in front of new tall buildings.

I did a deep-dive into Ben Mulroney's extracurricular activities: At the same time as Mulroney is filling-in as host of The West Block, he is also working for two registered lobby groups and as an adviser to several companies – some of whose CEOs he's interviewed on Global News 640 Toronto radio

And Toronto friends, you can get them here! east-toronto-judaica.company.site/products/Pre...

Was interesting reading Black Flame and Lote back to back, both books about being liberated/destroyed by an obsession with suppressed flourishings of queerness in the interwar period, but operating in very different genres.

I’m sure these kids you sic’d dogs on will grow up to feel super grateful for a society that treated them with dignity and respect

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

✨ "Ya'aleh Zikhroneinu," our essay collection for the High Holidays, is now live! Download and print it out to read over the chagim here: bit.ly/hl-reader-5786 ✨

holy shit holy shit holy shit

the trans music archive has announced a residency for 2 trans bands/artists at their recording studio in NY, plus a $1000 stipend www.transmusicarchive.org/residency

If you're in NYC or looking for a hybrid service on Zoom, my shul West End Synagogue still has seats (and virtual seats) available. Come be in community as we enter 5786 together. Shana Tovah y'all ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwBY...

I feel like there’s something especially gross about co-opting the first day of Rosh Hashanah for this.

Bibi was able to take the tactical defeat of 10/7, which, for a brief moment, engendered an almost unprecedented international support for Israel, and turn it into the most consequential strategic defeat (by his own standards) in Israel's history.

Canada officially recognizes the state of Palestine

It always makes me happy when I see turtles sunning themselves on the bayou! And then I think of the scoundrel Mario, who would see the same thing and say, "I think I'll jump on those and kill them!"

cyberpunk. is. a. warning. not. a. manual. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

As we head into Rosh Hashanah, a very important point of order from Canadian Senate Hansard (1984) :p

Honestly, dinosaurs are some of Earth's best world building. Ancient giant monsters that roamed the planet millions of years ago and their bones are scattered across the world? That's some top tier Lore

a chilling warning to america from 2004 !

You know what really takes balls? Getting an orchiectomy.

NEW: This is a story I worked really hard on. I spoke to four American trans people about why they're claiming asylum in Canada or the Netherlands. It's an eye-opening window into just how unsafe people now feel here — and what drove them to that point. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

I long for the day when this podcast is no longer relevant. But if you're still trying to understand sex testing and gender in sports, I made this for you. There are transcripts on the site if you don't like listening to stuff.

Tomorrow is a fantastic day to start something new.

Huh almost like it’s replacing a state with a patriarchal system of favors and debts closely held by the head of family

the sheer fucking gall of Dem politicians who now – in September 2025, as the Trump admin is taking away trans ppl's healthcare & passports & baselessly labeling us as "terrorists" – express their "concerns" about trans ppl & sports. they are trying to eradicate us! maybe be "concerned" about that!

I still really distinctly remember the first time I played Proteus. It’s such a lovely and profound experience.

#OtD 20 Sep 1893 Yiddish anarchist newspaper Fraye Arbiter Shtime (Free Voice of Labor) sponsored its first NYC Yom Kippur concert, ball and buffet. A mass, 24-hour anti-religious event, thousands attended and several were arrested by police stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9329...

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