hey kid want to see a series of dead bodies,

toronto's diversity is more unique in the *number* of sizeable different ethnic communities. that's what diversity means. in NA this is only surpassed by NYC, maybe paralleled by LA, but not any other US city. it punches above in diversity among the majority-minority cities in NA for its size

Show Up Toronto turns 1 this week!! I'm so proud of this little project and thrilled to welcome some new volunteers who will help it grow even bigger. Take a look at this week's newsletter for some fun event stats, a reader survey, and a mindboggling 68 events!! buttondown.com/showup/archi...

Toronto needs to be significantly better at owning the fact that it’s the most successful pluralist mega-city experiment in human history.

Entire tech sector is converging on Hitler but let me give you a level headed explanation on why you shouldn’t inherently question their capex across the country, those light industrial developments are my emotional support growth stock

‘dynamic pricing’ is one of those things that at the base level i don’t even understand how it can be legal

Comic is by Lynda Barry. Here's a version of it with alt text. (Thank you @alex-awoos.bsky.social!)

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A lot of public discourse is about whether trans people have the "right" to enter this or that space. But I think at its core this a question of liberty, not claim rights. We should all have the freedom to change our sex, in the same way we have the freedom to change our religion or our sexuality.

it seems unfair when i have been at my most idle when my body most desperately needs exercise and movement THAT is when i least feel able to act on it. yes, i am dying but the idea of going for a run feels like a punishment

please i’m begging you shut up about the guy with brain worms who obviously thrives on negative attention

the daycare workers at our daycare are unionized and have successfully bargained for themselves more time off which will be a slight inconvenience for me personally but i am very happy for them

You are a skilful and trusted vizier. You will advise me wisely on how best to rule the kingdom. You will not scheme or plot. You will not inveigle my other courtiers into turning against me. You will not lie to me about scheming or plotting. If you scheme or plot against me, you have to tell me,

Hey so if you’re a man with an XX partner or child that you care about, I need you to read this thread because shit is not going to change unless cis men start not being okay with this stuff.

you do not in fact have to hand it to mass murderers for being good achieving their goals

"We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." is just an all timer. i think we will win and also we maybe, finally, might get some good fucking discussion about boundaries, standards and consequences as essential parts of social life

I've decided to start writing a newsletter. Its name is Infrastory, which I've long thought captures what I focus on. It's a portmanteau of infrastructure and history, but it's also about telling the story beneath ("infra") the surface. You can find & subscribe at infrastory.substack.com

I just discovered that substack silently errors out of the “subscribe to this newsletter“ flow if you’re on a mobile browser and don’t continue within the app. i only figured this out by accident haha what an evil dark ui pattern! stop using substack!!! they’re already turning away your readers

What the hell www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

being trans compels you to be alive, and to live life to the fullest, says local party girl who goes raving at every opportunity

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a very online phenomena i can’t stand is when people become negatively polarized against a Big Account and then obsessively post about how much they hate them and every slight provocation they witness i see it happen to Kate Wagner and Will Stancil and it’s gross and baffling

Cherie I swear to god this cracked something open inside my brain that I had not even put a name to like obsequiousness is actually a huge danger sign to women, to queer/trans folks, BIPOC folks, disabled folks, etc because it is so out of alignment with our general daily experience of society

hot take: women are less likely to use AI because we’re quick to clock flattery as a tool of manipulation

Job hunting in a hostile environment. ✨

At this point I think we do have to hand it to psychoanalysis for discovering the concept of projection which is apparently central to a lot of our lives

publicising your interim victories IS important during a prolonged period of resistance, because authoritarians want you to give up hope. so they need you to believe they are ten times more cunning, capable, disciplined, smarter than you, but they simply aren't, and it helps to say so & show it.

Surveillance pricing—charging different people different prices based on their data—is now on the radar of Canada’s political leaders. Their question is simple: Should the practice be banned? For David Moscrop it’s “insane” we even have to debate it. https://ow.ly/xAo550YT4mi

The conservative justices on the Supreme Court arguing that you can separate race and partisanship got me thinking about these maps. starkeycomics.com/2021/06/11/h...

Every sad little centrist democract in the country needs to pay attention to how often the "I was elected as a democratic socialist, and I will govern as a democratic socialist" line gets used by Mamdani's comms people.

Rather than paying doctors for the time they spend renewing prescriptions, the province has moved that cost onto us directly. I live in Ottawa where I'm a 1h45 minute *one way* bus ride to my Dr's office. I now need to make that trip every 3 months or else pay $25 every time I need my Rx renewed.

Rosedale / Parkdale / King West

Listen to @mattgalloway.bsky.social 's long interview w former Toronto police det Idsinga on force's racism, anti-semitism & corruption + terrible leadership. This kind of honesty from a cop is rare & we need more of it. Police brass are accusing him of harming trust, but he says they already did.

Is taxing the rich a climate solution? Yes, according to tech entrepreneur Avi Bryant. He's a member of the Patriotic Millionaires, a group pushing Canada for a higher tax on wealthy people like him because, "Society is better off if everyone has their basic needs met." thenarwhal.ca/canada-wealt...

I take off my blindfold. Before me is a gory tableau of death and destruction, bodies strewn across the landscape. The piñata is unscathed.

The South has been an authoritarian enclave for most of American history. Madison and Hamilton, despite very different ideological outlooks knew that 1.) slavery could stop the constitution from being ratified, and 2.) the "compromise" over slavery made the Constitution unstable. 2/x

I view American history as a tug of war between these forces, and recently we've seen an upsurge in support for Southern style authoritarianism, but it is not new. In fact, the South has been an authoritarian enclave far longer than it has been a democracy. Authoritarianism ain't foreign. 7/x

Americans have a caricatured view of democracy of something that has just always existed, and this is an unfortunate oversight. American history has always been a conflict between democracy and authoritarianism. Hopefully we emerge more democratic on the other side. 9/9

the saaspocalypse is a kind of hysteria; i find everyone these days is so much more susceptible to hysteria. it's like, a kind of rolling moral panic short circuiting your critical thinking skills

“This is not a country that is founded on justice; it is, however, founded on order, which is a cudgel the powerful continue to use against the powerless” My latest column wonders where the hell all these corrupt provincial governments came from: www.hilltimes.com/2026/04/29/w...

something sort of insane is that we have non-trivial evidence that posting is the top of all possible hierarchies of needs. some of the richest men in the world who could be on their mega-yachts choose to not only post, but orient their lives around posting related things

why breed dogs with jaws large enough to tear through Flesh, when you could breed dogs with minds large enougj to tear through Fallacy.....

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We're the Ones in Motion - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2kS2NPb

Fun fact: The Elvis impersonator who was arrested for sending ricin to Obama often recommended my work on Facebook. Fortunately (for me!), he was innocent. A different Elvis impersonator sent the ricin to frame the innocent Elvis impersonator b/c the latter falsely claimed to be a member of Mensa.

As I’ve noted, what AI promises to democratize is seeing like a state; using the eye of the master to remake oneself in the image and powers of the master. For anyone to exert surveillance and social control over anyone else (and the more compute you have, the better)—and to sell this as freedom.

this city needs a queer nightclub within striking distance of transit

[trans woman sex worker posting an explicit photo] like what you see? 😘 new video on all the usual places 😇💞 [guy who doesn't know that he is going to transition within three years] you are so Beautiful. i am in awe of your courage and bravery every day that you can be your true self thank you xoxo