The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

ICE attempted and failed to disappear a food delivery guy. It needed to be scored.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

Once again I beg you to consider my proposal that a rotating committee of librarians and stage managers be put in charge of the US.

Dear My Phone, My Computer, My Apps, My Electronic Devices, and so forth: Please stop asking me if I want to enable AI. Or use your janky AI tool. Or load my documents or pictures with a bunch of useless, off-putting, earth-killing AI junk. I don't want it. I SAID I don't want it. Stop offering.

tiny glassware makes me so happy

This generic acetaminophen had an Amtrak ACS-64, four Amfleet 1 cars, a Conrail EMD GP15-1, and some Conrail rolling stock in it. The problem is more serious than I thought.

This *is* what is happening. Private polling to drive targeted voter loyalty to -- and engagement with -- the PCs is what's behind policies like these.

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If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

Getting ready for fall aka the annual switch over from iced to hot coffee

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

We have spent more than a decade uploading our politics and civil society to a cloud owned by oligopolistic tech firms. As the Trump administration moves to take over those companies, it is a direct threat to democracies everywhere. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

timeline cleanse: franky watches the garbage truck pick up the trash this morning

Hankyoreh now has an official English translation of this editorial: english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

This is Finny. He doesn’t go chasing waterfalls. He carefully studies their timing and arrives in advance. 14/10 very impressive (TT: jordancain70)

I arrived shortly after this. Counter protest basically turned into a street party that sequestered the original protestors into a very small area of the park…down the hill, the protest might as well have not been happening at all. Felt like a fever dream.

We were there. Some of the many signs that were carried by the counter protestors (the ones on the left side middle row were ours, taken after we left).

Gotta hand it to the authorities. At first I was mad when they scrubbed the Banksy, but they have unintentionally made one of the most powerful artworks of all time.

In Ontario criminal vigilantism is acceptable, effective & can influence government policy. When Doug Ford gives his tacit approval of criminal vigilantism, indicating it can influence his government's public policy, it's a frightening moment for Ontario. My column on what we should think about.

Gosh it sure is amazing how the perpetrator(s) of a crime repeated 7 times in 10 months (on video) in the same location haven't been caught they must be criminal masterminds to outsmart the police over & over there couldn't possibly be any other explanation for lack of investigation progress #TOpoli

Doctor I trust more than RFK Jr

Bluesky needs this Twitter classic from @ellearmageddon.bsky.social.

ICYMI: my office is hiring! We are really looking for a candidate with a background or interest in housing policy and urban planning.

Ahhh yes the sound of the end of summer in Toronto 😣

Knowing the difference between a purview, a bailiwick, a wheelhouse and a forte isn't my thing i'm good at.

realistic Star Trek

Deeply embarrassed that this is my MP. Glad I didn't vote for him.

🚨 If you were on the BC Ferries 10:15am sailing August 9 Duke Point to Tsawwassen please check your vehicles, trailers or boats for Luigi, a black and white tuxedo #cat wearing a blue harness. Luigi slipped out of a small window opening of his owner's vehicle and disappeared on the lower car deck.

"Democratic rights" Democratically elected members of Toronto City Council and two Mayors approved all the bike lanes. And Etobicoke-Lakeshore residents turfed their PC MPP pushing for their removal. The majority of Torontonians support bike lanes: www.cycleto.ca/bike_lane_re...

"The government needed to demonstrate that the real chance of harm to cyclists was going to result in improved traffic flow. It failed to do so." Excellent analysis here. I'm hoping this becomes known as the "induced demand" clause in the Charter

Really cannot overstate the extent to which the court was impatient with the total lack of evidence presented by the government.

HUGE legal victory: @cycletoronto.bsky.social has won its Charter challenge of the Ford government's legislation requiring removal of Toronto bike lanes! Justice Schabas ruled that the law puts cyclists at increased risk of harm and death which engages the right to life and security of the person.

Star Trek game where you manage a shop/business on the Deep Space Nine promenade and try to maintain a customer base in the midst of wars, body swaps, lockdowns, religious festivals, murders, smuggling, gay lunches, explosions, invasions, portals to the mirror universe...

(goose meme) WHY ARE THEY RIDING ON THE SIDEWALK CHRIS?

The longest-ballot folks balloted so hard they end up creating the shortest ballot. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Fabulous evening of Xanadu at Hot Docs tonight 💫🛼🌈

it was a perfect summer day in Toronto. the sun was out; the subway station garbage bags danced upside-down in the wind

This is a really good investigation. White supremacists are clandestinely training in parks and gyms without detection. Excellent journalism here.

"AI Free" needs to become almost like a brand, a logo, a recognisable high watermark seal of quality. Companies should be clambering over one another to attain this prestigious accreditation. Companies that have gone all-in on AI will have to bear the cost of having it removed, like asbestos.

the guys who get flattered by an LLM into thinking they're geniuses on the cusp of a breakthrough are the same dudes who fall in love with strippers

I found a fun new way to expose AI bots.

Happy pride weekend Toronto!

Trump ends trade talks with Canada, resumes trade talks with Canada, ends trade talks with Canada, demands to know which European country is Canada

My favorite sign at the march

OK Toronto bike community, time to rebrand. I bet we could get Doug to support a citywide network of protected beer lanes. toronto.citynews.ca/2025/06/27/p... #onpoli #topoli #bikeTO

11/10 social media work by the Durham Bulls

Santa Cruz has message / art expertise <3

Depressing time to be a law professor whose entire job hinges on law existing and being meaningful in some way

I wrote a piece about the connection between AI slop and fascism.