Great, the new iPhone update includes all the features my old Pixel had 3 years ago. I guess that’s why called the new interface Foggy Lens

Stairy-eyed in Hong Kong

Let’s take a ride on a highly anticipated transit project that opened this week - the Melbourne Metro Tunnel, of course

The many densities of Melbourne

lil vintage Melbourne streetcar for my transit girlies

Very weird time warp experience: leaving Toronto on the Sunday red-eye and arriving in Hong Kong on Tuesday Morning (but a pork bun for breakfast helped with the existential disorientation)

Definitely *the* moment that stayed with me, even more than the urban renewal-coded plot

Good read www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/m...

This is the future liberals want

needlessly ragebaiting headline. Most municipal bodies aren’t supposed to produce revenue. The agency at hand, though, manages multiple money losing assets, as was recently revealed

the people of Toronto would be happy not to foot the multimillion dollar bill for six group stage games

Adding Mike Bird's The Land Trap to my reading list after reading this thorough and fascinating summary. One paragraph about China got me thinking of another country with somewhat parallel property/productivity problems progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/book-revie...

This is pretty remarkable if true. Says a lot about both the dire condition of the housing market and the extensive involvement of the City

New evidence shows that living in affordable housing (in this case, LIHTC) is associated with small but significant increases in heath for both mothers and infants, compared to those not living in subsidized units.

As a Dodgers fan, I literally feel like Sarah Connor at the end of the first Terminator. That’s how good the Blue Jays were. Like we won but I’m so traumatized I’m going to lose custody of my son because I trained him to shoot weapons in Nicaragua and I’ll end up in a max cell at Pescadero

Found one of my favourite satirical skits on Youtube. It's from 1994 and still accurately represents Israeli society www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4uI...

What is it I hear, mamdani wore a tan suit??

Are midrise courtyard blocks the carcinization* of urban design? I recall working on a neighbourhood densification plan in Israel 2014, where the plan architect suggested them instead of high rises and was rejected outright by city planning * Evolutionary tendency to converge into crab-like forms

The Thin Blue Line is taking an interesting turn (squiggle?)

Side note: "AL/NL Champions" are such funny titles. Literally 2nd place trophies

This is the toxic, totalising logic of "there are no innocents there". When I think of the victims, I think: it could have been me, it could have been my family. If I were in the wrong place, if I was born on the wrong side, I would not have been spared. 3/3

TDSB truck fully blocking the footpath to school on a muddy mornin. It’s an epidemic.

Succession-level terrifying stuff happening in mainstream media www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

A lot of curious word choices in @theglobeandmail.com's real estate newsletter. "preconstruction market worked amazingly well" - for whom? Are we happy with the products delivered? The challenge today is with "the cost of the units" - who inflated their cost [chasing goose meme]?!

Creative Mixed Use!

What happens to $20 B worth of land under provincial supervision. The province didn't respond to my questions, the TDSB can't speak to media. My latest for @thelocal.to thelocal.to/tdsb-takeove...

Is this Wirecutter or the Onion

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Elizabeth Tsurkov, for me, is an example of a rare Jewish Israeli who decided to embrace the Middle East as her home, immersed itself in Arabic language and culture, struggled and put herself at risk for justice and liberty for people in Palestine, Syria and Iraq. She's a model of how things can be.

Found at 4yo’s school, should have taken them with me

Me reading the Airbnb cottage instructions

a very bleak development in terms of my view of the world in the last few years has been both ‘the Israeli govt is much worse than I thought and deserves an enormous amount of criticism’ and ‘yeah a lot of people geniunely are just low-grade antisemitic’ both apparently being true.

Wouldn’t it be funny if the people that keep redrawing the labyrinth are the same people that keep cutting down the parkside drive speed camera

The year is 2035. The world lies in ruins. I awake in my cave, my blistered hand reaches for the phone and open the NYT games app. A 13-hour brain break lies ahead of me

Did anyone else notice when our monopolistic overlords have switched from “we sell Canadian!” To “we offer one shelf of Canadian goods and they cost one dollar extra”?

8-year-old decided to teach the 4-year-old math: - Say you’re in a grocery store - You’re in a grocery store

Achievement unlocked: did a back of the envelope calculation on the back of a literal envelope

Living with an urban planner (Emily Bernstein in the New Yorker).

An ode to every single one of my recess periods between grade 7 and 9

B’Tselem, a large Israeli human rights organization, is out with a report today concluding that the Israeli govt is committing genocide in Gaza. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty came to the same conclusion, but B’Tselem is the first major Israeli group to say so: www.btselem.org/press_releas...

As an Israeli passport holder it pains me to say that sanctions on Israelis make a lot of sense at this moment

Several hundred demonstrators now in Tel Aviv at the anti genocide bloc, chanting against the staving out and the ongoing massacre of Palestinians in Gaza

Israel Minister Aimchai Eliyahu "All Gaza will be Jewish...the government is pushing for Gaza being wiped out. Thank god, we are wiping out this evil." Unless Netanyahu sacks him or reprimands him (he hasn't and won't), we should see it as an official statement of Israeli policy and objectives.

I'll soon be moving houses and the Dufferin bus could become my easiest downtown access route - *if* the city makes it a better option than driving. Make me part of that statistic please!

Nooo there goes all of my transit gatekeeping

Happy centennial to this pretty building

Publication alert! New book chapter on the privatization of urban planning, where we re-read the familiar narrative of neoliberalization as the modernist technocratic state being challenged by market-based & tech-based logics. It's a fun read I promise! www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...

Posted this on Twitter for impact but figure folks here would like to see it too: yesterday toured the new shelter that's in the news for making a certain demo of neighbours mad. Unsurprisingly, it's awesome. I'm gonna show you why.

The US is just the last in a long list of regimes that was toppled by the US and replaced by sheer chaos