People say the city is getting 'too busy' and 'there's too many people' -- but there are FEWER people in most of the neighbourhoods where people are complaining. My guess is that there are more cars per capita though.

This is the crux. There is an entire cohort of municipal politician in Canada who actively don't like that they live in cities (reflective of a lot of voters).

With current pledges, the world's on track for 2.6°C of warming in 2100 compared to preindustrial levels. 10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C 20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.

wtf is going on man. Major evidence has been dropped that implicates The president of the United States in a child rape scheme and cover up and both msnbc and cnn and interviewing some clown directors about films coming out this weekend. The information ecosystem in this country is broke man.

A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.

Pro-tip: If you're intimidated by 6-storey buildings don't live in a major global metropolis.

Just remember I kind of predicted this. Well I didn't, game theory did.

Have we consider ZERO-step verification?

I'm old, but I'm not THAT old, c'mon! "For me, it’s important to dress classic. And I like to dress like that because I love history, especially the 20th century,” he said." From an article about a teenager in Paris who went viral for a stylish outfit. www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/e...

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

Mamdani’s win is a warning for media: Better get some leftist contributors or you simply won’t be able to cover/understand what is happening around America.

I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”

Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.

This seems fun. Does Toronto do a 'Hallowheelin' event? I feel like @bikepartytoronto.bsky.social would know.

Dick Cheney was a far-right warmonger during his time in power but he died a centrist. That's how far things have slid to the right in the last 20 years and many people haven't even noticed.

They're shutting down any media that tells it like it is.

🎓 From classrooms to social feeds, Big Oil is writing the script. 🕵️‍♀️ New blog: Exposing Big Oil’s Playbook — Tactic 3 & 4 💰 Find out how fossil fuel companies infiltrate education and fund fake “grassroots” movements. 🔗 Read and take action: bit.ly/4qDlIKI #ClimateCrisis #Media #cdnpoli

Dance lessons return to Portland ICE protests as city awaits ruling on troop deployment: Get caught up https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2025/10/dance-lessons-return-to-portland-ice-protests-as-city-awaits-ruling-on-troop-deployment-get-caught-up.html 

bring back shame

Highway 413? That’s not federally significant! It’s a gift to Doug Ford’s donors.

Skydome forever and always.

This is great. Public transit is public space and public space should be more playful.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

“The Ford Govt in Ontario has passed a controversial omnibus bill banning municipalities from installing speed cameras. Ford says it will make the province more efficient & reduce red tape. It won’t do either, and he knows it. It might get him “speeder votes” though. This will kill more people.

Yes, EV batteries have serious negative environmental impacts. But gasoline production is just as bad, or potentially worse. If you're actually worried about the environmental impacts of EVS, get a bicycle not an internal combustion vehicle.

We have reached the point where the *American Bar Association* cannot find attorneys willing to represent them in litigation against the Trump administration. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Well, isn’t this frustrating. The city published it was open to alternative solutions to allow single stair buildings. Someone has tried to put a design forward… and let’s just say it’s not going great.

How long until you ask chatGPT what you should do this weekend and it gives you a list of things to buy from Walmart?

The 2020s have not been a great decade for people who care about other humans. Hang in there folks!

Someone show him: "Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God" and then get him to pass a wealth tax.

Muppets are inherently anti-fascist.

We can't save the planet by individually forgoing beef and transatlantic flights. But we can persuade people that we believe our own rhetoric about a severe, urgent, existential crisis, and that we are prepared to act and to sacrifice; or that we don't and we aren't.

Hospitals & police chiefs agree: speed cameras save lives. So why is Ford banning them? Ford is putting kids & pedestrians at risk just to let reckless drivers off the hook. Tell Ford to keep speed cameras & enforce speed limits. Sign here: www.progresstoronto.ca/petition-pro... #topoli #onpoli

well fuck

Step into the heart of fall and reconnect with nature. Join us for a guided walk to slow down, take in the colours, and celebrate the Humber. Limited transportation spots available. 👉Details & tickets: act.environmentaldefence.ca/page/178963/...

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them. They should feel bad.

Remember how great social media was when it was newish and how crap it got as they tried to extract more and more profits. Now think about how crap AI is when it is newish and how extraordinarily shit it will become as they start extracting profits.

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

If more people are going to live on Avenues (great!), part of the consequence is that Toronto will need to make Avenues more pleasant places to live: wider sidewalks and bike lanes, narrower car lanes, and much slower speed limits set for safety and to reduce noise pollution.

Driver's don't obey traffic regulations because we don't enforce them.

Watching antisocial driver behavior in the school drop-off line makes it really clear that the pandemic destroyed whatever few shreds remained of the social compact, just pathological selfishness on display every day

Claude AI’s logo is unironically Kurt Vonnegut’s butthole drawing

“The Big Four accountancy and consultancy firm will repay the final instalment of its government contract after conceding that some footnotes and references it contained were incorrect, Australia’s Department of Employment and Workplace Relations said on Monday.”

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. trib.al/9Sxu9IN

NEW: Vehicles registered to Doug Ford's cabinet ministers have been caught by automated speed cameras more than 20 times. In one case, they were driving 70 in a 40 zone. On average, they were 17 over the limit. #OnPoli globalnews.ca/news/1146373...

I kind of want to buy a photo radar and set up a community speed camera where we shame speeders. If illegally cutting them down gets them removed, why not just improvise traffic enforcement?

Ford says: "I’m tough on crime and a prudent fiscal manager.” Reality: 🚨273,000 traffic offenses withdrawn because of staff shortage in Ontario courts 💰$9.3 million tax dollars given to Ford's friend to train staff at the friend's nightclub #ONpoli www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

How can these people be SO RICH and SO POWERFUL and still manage to be absolute losers. I can't believe its even possible. Elon, Bezos, Trump, Hegseth, all of them. Just pathetic, grade-A losers despite every possible social benefit.

Does anyone care is almost never the right question. People care. The issue is that people don't know what to do.