#smoke no filter

Mutant rudbeckia 🫪

This is fine.....

I am an urban nerd with a pollinator garden. Let me tell you, there's no better workout than de-turfing 100sqft of lawn grass with a dull shovel and a wheelbarrow. This is year 3. The milkweed has taken over, with Joe pye bee balm, hyssop, and goldenrod.

"A punk venue with a decades-long history and a market of people who actually want to be there. Cheap land made it possible. The system, doing what it does, is now making it impossible." venat.substack.com/p/the-purpos...

Arborists say Manitoba maple and Siberian elm are garbage trees but they're still a source of shade, food, shelter and fun for many urban critters. I'm not a NIMBY but I'll cut any developer that takes my trees and doesn't replace em.

So, I actually love College Park and wish Toronto had more urban non sports / nature oriented places to just kind of hang out and chill.

So we have gone straight from winter to summer, apparently!

Car-dependent suburban sprawl is the most publicly expensive approach to population growth in human history. #UrbanTruth

Join a union. ✊🏼 Punch back. 👊🏼

@techconnectify.bsky.social sitting here in surprising sunny weather listening to all the ambient car noise, I wonder if you've considered doing a video about decibel meters / sound pressure level monitors. I doubt my app is terribly accurate but if not, why not? Are there consumer DB meters?

Question for... a friend.... Is it ever ok to maybe sort of punch a Nazi? 😅👋🏼

I'm kind of not cool with half my tax bill going to this www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The cats totally would have helped...

NIMBY tears

Hey does anybody know how to pull TTC bus data so I can confirm my suspicion that my local bus is way more unreliable since it started terminating at Mt Dennis station?

Oh hey, it's the anniversary of the Reichstag fire. Seems like there's a lesson in there somewhere.... IYKYK

Yep. Ontario, you next

It's so....fast 🥲🚉

Maybe with line 5 now we can start to better spread the density instead of Tall'n Sprawl ™️🚉 policycommons.net/artifacts/19... spacing.ca/magazine/201...

OH GAWD IT'S A LOWRISE APARTMENT BUILDING AND THERE'S A HOUSE RIGHT NEXT DOOR!!! Would they think of the children.... #Yimby #Toronto

So what should I set as my destination when I ride the Eglinton LRT for funsies this Sunday? Prefer west end. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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I think today will be a WFH day.... 😅🏔️☃️

#snowday It's still snowing.

@mark-carney.bsky.social thoughts? Maybe it's time we protested this.

It's time....

Stellar piece by JMM who I think probably knows more about city planning and governance than a chunk of the working planners and politicians out there.

Obligatory we got buried in snow post This is midday. It is still snowing

Maybe a whole crap load of progressive organizations should take a deep breath, form alliances, and ...actually found an anti fascist union? 💪🏼✊🏼🔥🖤❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩷🤍

This is basically exactly how @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy Cory Doctorow said it would work in his really excellent novel Attack Surface. craphound.com/category/att...

Yay public libraries! (Cat not included) @holz-bau.bsky.social

Maybe not abolitionist entirely, but absolutely not in its current form. We need to blow it up. Radical rethink of what is inherently classist and racist.

Happy xmas, stay heavy.

Housing crisis? What housing crisis, my home is fine!

Why does a multimodal hub like Dundas West still look like the burbs? Lookin at you Gord Perks.... That giraffe condo was proposed at the same height as crossways but was "too dense for the site" 😂🫠🤪

Squeeeeeeee!!!

How many is too many and why isn't it 0?

#joinaunion ✊🏼

My family just went car free, obv easier in Toronto (old York) but it is possible!! www.cbc.ca/news/climate...

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A warning not just in the UK but for political engagement and discourse more generally. How do policy makers, politicians, and the public even begin to know how to navigate this new normal? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Who else really misses the "old internet"?

@toronto.ca @mayoroliviachow.ca @ttcalerts.bsky.social why on earth would we ...shut down surface transit.... In the event of a jays win? People have jobs and lives to get on with. Diversions in the Skydome area sure, but this is a bad move, guys. So not World Class . ...

...which makes me wonder why Canada would want to be more like the US ....

If you are going to a No Kings protest this weekend, be sure to review our Surveillance Self Defense guide for attending a protest and bring Rayhunter along for the ride! ssd.eff.org/module/atte.... eff.org/rayhunter.

Good news.....? www.torontotoday.ca

#Fall in #Toronto ❤️🔥🔥

One takeaway for Canadians watching what’s happening in the United States right now is that we need to put more pressure on governments / parties to strengthen democratic institutions and the fourth estate You can also defend democracy by supporting the work of journalists and civil society groups