Obsessed with this lady every time she comes up on my feed. The raw unyielding power of hyper-fixation on display.

Excellent news. www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...

We need to get a lot more comfortable using the word “traitor.”

Proposal: Canada’s next project of national interest is developing a true football song.

The latest issue of my newsletter is up. I spend some time reflecting on Anton Jager's "Hyperpolitics," and the strange sociology of court politics vis-a-vis the last days of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia.

Village on the St. Lawrence Nora Collyer 1937

Looking forward to reading this.

The numbers must be as bad in Canada. I think about this daily. I think it’s a double whammy of insane real estate plus the attention economy gobbling up anyone’s desire to leave home.

£11990 is approx $16k USD or $23k CAD. The cheapest EV you can buy in Canada is approx $40k before rebates.

Remember, guys, he literally stared into the sun with his bare eyeballs. I think we’re being told we have to figure our own problems out.

Good job, SCC. 🇨🇦

Perennial dread: did I *actually* rode the ticket on Eventbrite, or is everything online just a smooth, liminal fever dream?

What is happening to this country? (/positive)

What stands out to me here is that if you take a “clean power” view, then renewables, nuclear, and hydro start to look tantalizingly close to the total FF growth stack in absolute terms. We are already seeing a solar flywheel develop, but what kind of cascading growth is yet possible?

When the Philippines shortened work weeks and started rationing fuel for just about everything, I’m curious how many solar CEOs in China and Vietnam were sending emails. Probably the most primed market in all of East Asia

I remember touring a VR company that had really cool tech and… was using it to do real estate viewings. Vancouver’s meteoric real estate rise created a phenomenally large and long chain of middle men all getting their pound of flesh. As builders struggle, every bell and whistler will disappear.

John Held II (American, 1889–1958) "Manhattan Skyline", 1934. Watercolor over Pencil on off-white Paper, 25-1/4 × 19-3/8 inches. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

I have a lot of thoughts about this I need to put down someday, but I will say this: Ontological chauvinism has a funny way of biting you in the ass.

Easier to romanticize than camper vans in a parking lot, it’s interesting to see canal boats all at once as a tenacious refusal at displacement, and the newest manifestation of gentrification.

I’m in London for the next two weeks on vacation and and want to share all my favourite little bits of urbanism I see.

Why Canadian populists haven’t seized on this is beyond me — instant vote-getter.

It’s nice to finally be on vacation.

Borrowing from @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social: I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.

How did this get messaged so incredibly badly

So, a month ago I started a new twice a month newsletter — I totally forgot to put it on here, but if you’re interested and wanna see them come up in your feed, you can either sign up via email, or just follow the account below. 👇🏼

It’s so crazy that global demand for EV’s was so strong it kept up with 20% growth even with US demand declining.

NEW: Barely half a year after the provincial government ordered Toronto to stop issuing speeding tickets from the cameras it had set up across the city, staff say the number of drivers blasting past the limit has increased more than 350%. #Topoli #OnPoli globalnews.ca/news/1193652...

I have a suspicion Smith actually wants some of this dampening of business activity so that she can redirect and say that Ottawa caused this and that’s why (a) she needs to be around to keep fighting them, and (b) get more concessions for Ottawa on a range of issues. Profoundly cynical.

It will be a tragic own goal if Vancouver gives Granville Street back to cars after the World Cup. It has created a valuable new centre of gravity in the downtown. The city is much better for it. @brenttoderian.bsky.social

Never trust anyone who talks about lanes.

A few comments to expand on my comments in this story because there are two conflated & overlapping policy stories here (Thanks @jmcelroy.bsky.social for your solid reporting and for pointing that out!) 🧵 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Something progressives have never quite understood is that tone and affect go a long way to convincing people something is reasonable - even when it's cataclysmically stupid. Jacob Rees-Mogg is living proof that you can be a vapid, ghoulish moron and seem "reasonable" because you speak calmly.

I’ve charted American hegemony during the Iranian campaign

How are we going to be a country if we don't own anything?

I hope non-First Nation Albertans understand what the First Nations in the province did for them here.

Why, Canada, why?

Liberal Americans cheering for the British monarch to dunk on their sitting President was just never, ever going to be on my bingo card. (Like, I'm here for it, but it's wild).

Chris Hayes makes the comparison of addictive tech to post-industrial revolution London: it wasn't until things got truly inhuman there that the push to reshape the city occurred. It took time, but it worked. Quick 🧵

Was talking to the owner of my favourite coffee shop, who's been struggling with all of the construction around her shop. She said that all the local businesses are struggling with construction workers' trucks eating up the nearby parking. Got me thinking if construction sites have to do TDM.

It’s fairly telling of the order of things that Canada almost immediately defaulted to the government taking a financial hit to provide gas price relief, without paying for it through a windfall tax even being floated as a serious possibility.

Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!" The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]

Got a “way to go” for how fast I ran to make the King streetcar. Am I a Torontonian yet?

After “Hell yeah,” my second thought after Orban losing was something like this. 👇🏼

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

As a long-time sci fi lover, I was very pleased to learn about this Canadian review for the genre: aescifi.ca

As I watch the continuing degradation of Canadians' understanding of how our own country works and the ever-more insidious creep of American culture wars into Canada, I couldn't agree more. Taxes, Can-Con, and, importantly, funding for the arts, are all crucial parts of our sovereignty.

Not seeing significant changes in traffic out of the Strait yet.

Ken Sim is such a deeply unserious person. Another year of tax freezes? Hope you like your community centre fees going up!