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No. Arguably the real problem is that most cities don't have enough public garbage cans. But their absence doesn't mean the nearest private can becomes a public receptacle. Also, it's just weird to imply that the alternatives to dumping are littering or not picking up www.thestar.com/life/can-you...

women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.

"zoning isn't a constraint in Toronto, the business cycle is" in a catastrophic housing market a project near my house happens to be inside the recently-designated major transit station area and when the new policy came into effect this summer the developer re-applied for 22 more storeys zoning!

driving all day for a family thing BUT we managed to squeeze in a brisk and efficient costco run before returning the rental car so I'm declaring middle-aged-normie-dad TOTAL VICTORY

A flying car collision (due to recklessness!) is a key plot point in Dan Simmons' HYPERION

Timeline cleanse: Mimics invade Winners, eat Biped

DOG SHOOTS MAN www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...

We're now at the RE-PARDONS stage of this presidency www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

don't mind me just remembering all the times I was denied "sugary cereals" because they were "bad for me"

New from me at TVO, on this week's council vote on corner stores. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

hm, uh, folks like me with "Mc" as a part of their surname are allowed to have some opinions about whether the UK was better in the 1970s right?

like one out of three elder millennials lost their virginity to portishead. what the fuck are you talking about.

There's a tendency among a certain type of poster to assume everything they hate about politics and the state can be blamed on avarice, and I'm here to tell you it's actually worse than that.

Marchetti's constant undefeated phys.org/news/2025-11...

RFK Jr, probably: "two for one? what a deal!" phys.org/news/2025-11...

The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.

hahahahaha

This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

The moral failing in attempting to prove Hitler was the victim of a genetic something-something is the same as the moral failing in claiming Trump is mentally ill. Their acts are those of conscious adults who’ve justified them in writing — they’re very fundamentally victimizers, not victims

Excellent. www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalisms-...

I biked almost all of last winter BUT this week saw the first real snow in Toronto, a Canadian city that has a learning disability when it comes to snow so I've been using the TTC, but it's supposed to be relatively clear tomorrow and I'll be back on my bike

Raja the elephant, welcome to @thewaroncars.bsky.social

Couldn't help but notice that the only thing that seemed to displace sports betting ads during the World Series was debt counselling services. Anyway, I'm sure this is all perfectly sustainable. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Mike here committing the unpardonable sin of taking the words "housing is a human right" seriously when the people who use those words don't actually mean it to be taken seriously.

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

oh how I enjoyed this one www.youtube.com/shorts/LWTaG...

you should quit social media if you can. if you can't, you should use apps that give you and old-school reverse chronological feed of posts from people you follow. yes, like bluesky. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/you-should...

"The environmental review process is still in the early stages, and may be done by 2027." For a bike path. That voters approved in 2016. This is malicious bureaucratic delay and agency capture by carbrains. This *never happens for highway or road-widening projects.* www.sfgate.com/la/article/l...

smash cut to Derek Guy's cellphone vibrating on his desk

Joyce Carol Oates sitting across a desk from Kendrick Lamar: "So I'm putting a team together..." Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.

New from me at TVO: Ontario's highest court has issued a decision that could impact how municipalities build for cyclist safety — just not the decision you're thinking of. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

Women were excluded from clinical trails until 1993 in the U.S. and 1997 in Canada. @namshine.bsky.social talks with @docmcohen.medsky.social (@queensuhealth.bsky.social) about excluding women has shaped medicine and harmed women’s health, on (MIS)Treated: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...

Noah Smith is paid in the high six-figures to write a blog read by Americans who believe themselves to be intelligent. Yet, he is both unable to read a sign and also for some reason chose to have a 90 minute layover for a flight that takes 90 minutes. onemileatatime.com/news/economi...

Few months ago my father, aunt and uncle went to Norwich, England and gave a little talk about my grandmother who served as a Red Cross nurse during World War II, including excerpts from her wartime letters to her family back home. The video is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMOI...

If for some reason you aren't sick of my face and voice, I showed up on someone else's show tonight

Apparently this was NOT exclusive to the Ottawa region when I was growing up but some people don't believe me when I try and describe it. youtu.be/P1xfPFicUTw?...

Doug Ford and the PCs continue to lead in Ontario, holding majority-level support. But beneath the surface, there are signs of voter fatigue and questions about progress on key issues. Read the full findings: abacusdata.ca/ontario-pcs...

oof, not like I was expecting to get a lot for my used radpower bike but

You know what maybe we deserve a male loneliness epidemic

because some researchers want to use nutrition science to overthrow capitalism and others want to actually improve human health outcomes

Excited to see AI's results in the Canadian government!

Listening to a podcast. Heard again that this is the largest federal deficit ever run outside of the pandemic. Still nope. bsky.app/profile/aaro...

nothing but respect for my poe dameron

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

Canada has lost its status as a measles-free country: www.canada.ca/en/public-he... How did measles get to Canada and how do we move forward? @jeyantvo.bsky.social asked Nathan VanderKlippe (@theglobeandmail.com) and @msmacrophage.bsky.social (@mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social)

Ms Rachel says The New York Times asked her if she’s funded by Hamas