Idea Extra Issue: Herb Lubalin, 1969 Special Issue devoted to Herb Lubalin. 120 pages of Lubalin’s work from 1956 – 1969 #herblubalin designreviewed.com/artefacts/id...

Toronto Council meets today! It's been a while, so the agenda is JAM-PACKED. There are now 194 items on the agenda. We're staring into the abyss. Let's jump in together. I'll have live coverage starting at 9:30 a.m. If you want, you can also watch the meeting here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVZI...

When you're too drunk to stay at the club but your jam hits as you're walking out the door

"Parkdale has been called a suburb, a slum, a ghetto, a village. Each label has carried consequences... justified a different kind of intervention. From regulation to clearance to revitalization, every era produced a group powerful enough to define what Parkdale was and to act on that definition."

Does mark DeRosa know they lost

Map of The Most Commonly Spoken Languages In Toronto Other Than English Credit: Alex McPhee (@awmcphee.ca) Full list of languages here: brilliantmaps.com/toronto-l...

i feel like if i was tasked with not starting a war and bringing back US manufacturing jobs, i could have done a better job than this

Looking for development activity data in Toronto? The Development Pipeline Dashboard is an interactive tool that lets people explore development activity across the city. The dashboard highlights the number of projects, residential units, residential and non‑residential space.

It’s been a half-century since the OPEC oil crisis. Good thing the west has spent that time engineering smaller cars, developing renewables and working aggressively to reduce reliance on fossil fuels www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Enjoying a now-totally-legal 😀 espresso at Finch Store w/ Mayor Chow, Councillor Bravo & one of the main community voices who helped make the neighbourhood retail initiative happen @anotherglassbox.bsky.social Thx to Yana & entrepreneurs like her who bring life + community to local neighbourhoods!

The only one who could ever reach me / Was the son of a…

I do appreciate that this administration is too incompetent to manufacture even the thinnest pretext for this, so we don't have to relive that 2002-2003 run when opposing an obviously idiotic war basically made you feel like the one sane person in a Twilight Zone episode.

Pete walkers handlebars looking better than ever

Where do parents find the time to parent? Less sleep, work and screens. Amazing chart feat. in @alphaville.ft.com Further Reading. homeeconomics.substack.com/p/where-do-p...

Exploring overlays on DEM data in Blender. Versions show forest and water, satellite imagery, Greenbelt plan areas, and colour-coded watersheds. Testing different palettes. Long way to go, but sharing progress—feedback welcome. #map #mapping #gis #blender #Toronto #Ontario #DEM #3D

I completed the Applied Data Science with Python specialization from the U of M, which included 5 courses: Introduction to Data Science Applied Plotting, Charting & Data Representation Applied Machine Learning Applied Text Mining Applied Social Network Analysis #datascience #ai #python

The Planning Research and Analytics team in @planning.cityof.toronto.ca has published a Development Pipeline dashboard. It shows development activity over the past 5 years. Have a look here: lnkd.in/g8pBE-Ej #Toronto #DevelopmentPipeline #RE #BI #Tableau #dashboards

Add Palmerston to the list of places that need a good Le Corbusiering. Next to the Annex, Cabbagetown and mid-etobicoke. The more righteous and self-proclaimed-special, the more hot towers go in.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit. It's all white supremacy and greed.

Playing with elevation data in #Blender. This is the #Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) boundary which includes all of the watersheds that converge in Toronto. Going to try draping some orthophotos and land cover data over this. Other ideas? #Maps #Mapping #GIS #3D #dataviz

The Eglinton cover section, meanwhile, features Cheryl Thompson and @johnlorinc.bsky.social on the Golden Mile, a map of Eglinton density by @tdubolyou.bsky.social (slice below), and pieces by @theurbangeog.bsky.social, Todd Harrison, and more ranging from east to west.

New issue! Issue 73 explores Eglinton Avenue, Toronto's "prime rib" from east to west, as it awaits its new transit line spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

If you spend any amount of time using microsoft copilot you will understand why hes worried.

Love good charts & maps? 👀 #DataViz Weekly is back with new data viz picks worth a look: > Time with others @flowingdata.com > NYC parking lots housing potential @tdubolyou.bsky.social > China's rise in trade @ourworldindata.org > AI questions beyond tech earnings @bloomberg.com See it on our blog.

How many housing units could fit on the surface lots of NYC? I mapped them and estimated based recent construction. tdubolyou.github.io/nyc-lots/ #NYC #map #mapping #sveltejs #D3 #maplibre #dataviz

I voted for Tobi over Thiel but I dont think he’ll win

Black Americans navigated Jim Crow through guides like the Green Books by sharing their experiences. Know a Green Book establishment? Share your memories, and upload photos or documents. Your contribution makes the archive complete. greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky

The tragedy of this province is that we have all the things conceivably needed to be one of the greatest places to live on earth, but our governing class is relentlessly obsessed with mediocrity.

It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.

I want to stress again that California is not in a situation where it's gaining tech jobs at a slower rate than the rest of the country (like 2021/2022), but is outright losing tech jobs as the rest of the US gains Cali is down 75k tech jobs from peak & nearly 20k from pre-COVID

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

How many housing units could fit on the surface lots of NYC? I mapped them and estimated based recent construction. tdubolyou.github.io/nyc-lots/ #NYC #map #mapping #sveltejs #D3 #maplibre #dataviz

Fun little exploratory project. I mapped transit oriented surface parking lots in NYC and applied recent development densities to estimate housing potential. Link at the end. #NYC #Planning #Dataviz #mapping #maps #map #housing

Imagining that the climate battle is about *information* -- that those who have good information will act; that those who aren't acting must be lacking information -- has been utterly disastrous for decades now, but advocates & pols can't seem to break out of it.

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

I’m not sure he understands it’s quite helpful for the LPC when American Fascists mimic the rhetoric of our Conservative Party.

Increasingly find myself listening to @drfeifei.bsky.social as a source of credible (understatement!) and insightful info about AI. This episode of @lennysan.bsky.social’s podcast is a great example. open.spotify.com/episode/35Aa...

It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend

When the province took over the Toronto District School Board, it also took over the subsidiary that manages the TDSB’s $20 billion worth of land. As @wendyglauser.bsky.social‬ writes, critics fear repercussions not just for schools, but also for whole neighbourhoods. thelocal.to/tdsb-takeove...

Like this motherfucker was cooking with this one

A good enough reason to spend lots of time doing art is just that it’s fun to do art

My first Starter Pack! The Canadian urbanism and planning community on here is growing. Give these folks a follow. Some well known faces … and some you should get to know! (please re-post!) go.bsky.app/AEYL7FZ

Heading into a glorious time for local fruit in #Toronto. Peaches, pears and plums all looking good. www.mapto.ca/maps/the-fru... #topoli #ediblecity #map #mapping #gis #dataviz

The news on 9/11…

It’s open! Feels like there should have been a party. Did I miss the party?

New from me at TVO, on Toronto's disappointing sixplex vote and the prospects for the feds and Mayor Chow to get it back on track. Spoiler: she'd still need to use strong-mayor powers, but not in the way you might think. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

And wonder why their kids can't afford to live near them, and why the local school closed so their grandkids couldn't live nearby anyway, etc etc etc

Consumer spending and after-tax incomes both fell in May, adjusted for inflation. #NumbersDay Full data: www.bea.gov/news/2025/pe...