This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

האם יש מקום לשיח על פציעה מוסרית? לדעתי כן. כחלק מתהליכי ריפוי וצדק מאחה של החברה הישראלית והחברה הפלסטינית, שהם בתורם חייבים להיות חלק מהסכם שלום ופיוס. לאחר שהחייל הגיע על ברכיו והתחמן לסליחתו של הילד, לאחר שהילד קיבל פיצוי על מה שעבר, אפשר ואף רצוי לדבר גם על הפגיעה בחייל.

a supposedly fun thing i'll never do again

How bad are things in the US? Researcher returning to *Erdogan’s Turkey* to avoid “state imposed violence”, that’s how bad

Yup

Copy and paste to the US, Israel, and Ontario too imo

Find yourself a mayor who will collab with John Wilson 😍

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

As I was saying... www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

School districts acting as developers is a good thing, actually.

It's 1986. Scarborough Council can buy some land and guarantee a right-of-way for an LRT to North Scarborough. Instead they decide to abandon the plan because there will never be enough demand for RT in that part of town.

An education in the humanities paying off in unexpected ways

Congratulations to the new populist-socialist leader of the NDP, coming up from the ditches of *checks notes* UCC and three-generation political dynasty

Hey Canadians: You have thousands of experienced professionals in every field who have learned to do great things with much less resources than available in Canada, and are unencumbered by local overly-cautious institutional culture. They're called immigrants and you should let them run stuff.

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The UAA just announced that they will not rent projectors and screens for their upcoming annual conference. Not sure if early April Fools prank or just a general wish to watch the world burn

Ford is Trump is Ford.

Taking the TTC the other night, my slightly inebriated significant other asked "did you ever notice you can see all the way down the train?" Yes, my dear. I have noticed.

Paris now has a cycling network bigger than Amsterdam and “more daily trips in Paris are now made by bike than by car”. [economist.com]

What I imagine when you talk about a high-speed Alto

The amount of people in my comments here who can't see the barely-coded antisemitism in Joe Kent, who has given sympathetic interviews to Holocaust deniers, blaming Israel not just for the Iran War, but for the Iraq War and Syria, too, is really concerning!

It would be facile to draw easy comparisons to today's situations. But it would be dangerous to discard it as irrelevant. Fighting Zionism can lead you into the arms of antisemites. In the same way that championing Zionism can lead you to the arms of racists and even antisemites. 3/

Honestly if you're a legal citizen and not currently planning to Throw Some Shit Down you're not respecting your own charter rights

The resignation letter submitted by Bob Gale, who'd been appointed by the Ford government barely 3 months ago, reads like a transcript of the episode of Succession where Tom interviews his news anchor to determine if he's a fascist.

To be fair this still makes more sense than Neom

830 / 1000 I'm a political scientist now

I’ll vote for a mayoral candidate that will invest in anti aircraft missiles

Sometimes I really enjoy making lecture slides

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Poor F1 billionaires, this war just put half of their season on hold

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

'Terror Was Needed to Make Arabs Leave': What the Israeli Army Did in 1948, Revealed. Adam Raz for Haaretz archive.is/M12kJ

"the thing that a lot of people are not getting about this is, these two sides are each serving each other’s purpose. Each one wants to win and destroy the other side, but there is a conversation, a back and forth, a dialogue." I love Tony Kushner.

Yes but have you tried kindergarten teachers

This thread could be an assignment for either my municipal finance or housing courses: Answer yes/no and explain why

Alt headline: Corporation Resolves Performative Crisis with Performative Investment

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) Austin Powers (1997) Mulholland Drive (2001)

The best unsung brutalist heroes IMO are Israeli campus libraries

I can't be that upset at the reporter, they asked city staff and got misdirection and obfuscation, but this article on reserve funds will leave you worse off than if you'd never read it. So I guess I'll do a quick overview of what the reserves actually are. 🧵 1/ www.thestar.com/news/gta/is-...

This chart from @bcpolicy.bsky.social should be posted in the background of any productivity discussion (or any Rotman event for that matter)

The Ed Glaeser Doctrine

one more $100m budget boost will fix the police force, bro

OLP leadership race picking up…

Not forgiven, not forgotten (I still love the pre-crazy albums though)

American progressives, this is a good time to reconnect with your Israeli friends

Time to start teaching basic sapping in Canadian schools

Preparing my Michael Storper class for next week and realizing the GTA falls squarely in the worst part of this chart

Unpopular opinion: Green Line trains should be green

Let him cook, as the young ones say