It’s your city, from the sidewalk to the skyline. The David Dinkins Municipal Building’s rooftop is open & free to everyone, starting this June.

Leaked consultant's report at Queen's University points to a push to massively downsize the humanities and social sciences as well as the eradication of disciplinary based departments. I wouldn't be surprised if my university has the same consultants. www.queensjournal.ca/leaked-consu...

"Disenshittification Nation" Original post: mastodon.social/@elasticsoul...

Greens, in England

More public restrooms across our city? Relief for all New Yorkers.

On the $3/meal thing: I went through a weird period where I tried to be really frugal and would try to limit my grocery budget to $50/week. I am single and educated. It was really hard and ultimately something I gave up, because it made me miserable.

Selon une étude de Re/Max, 75 % des Québécois voient la maison unifamiliale en banlieue ou en campagne comme la résidence idéale. Or, ils ignorent que leur vision mène à la perte de terres agricoles et à l'étalement urbain.

Mesdames et messieurs, le SPVM. Des budgets records année après année, ça donne ça : tous les mangeurs de beignes à 10km à la ronde accourent pour se désennuyer de leur basic bullying, tellement excités qu'ils se rentrent dedans en char, s'autopoivrent et tirent tout croche. Cue la 🎵 de Benny Hill.

Trump's obsession with making Greenland part of the United States because it looks big on a map and is colored differently from the states is a classic case of Mercator Projection

Inclusionary zoning is a way of transfering the cost of social housing from the general public to new condo buyers. In some circumstances it might just be the cost of doing business. But it's not especially progressive.

La crise du logement représente une perte de 4,2 milliards pour le Québec www.lapresse.ca/affaires/mar... #assnat #polqc

La Masse Critique de novembre c'est demain, on vous attend en grand nombre au monument à Sir George-Étienne Cartier du Mont-Royal! The November Critical Mass happens tomorrow, we look forward to seeing many of you at the Mont Royal's Sir George-Étienne Cartier monument.

A large share of public transit accidents are actually car accidents.

Was it really worth doubling the cost to bury the buses 3 stories underground, where they might never end up going?

Trump also just posted these photos to Truth Social, including the one with Mamdani standing next to a portrait of FDR. Trump mentioned Mamdani asked if he could have his picture taken there. "It's an amazing portrait in the cabinet room," Trump said. "So he's a big fan of the New Deal, I guess..."

🧵 Thread with my favourite quotes from: 📝 Guest, O., Suarez, M., Müller, B., et al. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/🧵

I think it's actually more of: people move around and some cities are a lot more popular than others.

New: A judge in Washington has ruled images from Flock surveillance cameras are public records and that anyone can request them. Highlights the pervasiveness of this tech and just how much surveillance is being done. Very notable ruling www.404media.co/judge-rules-...

This account is very instructive of the fucked up incentives on Meta platforms, and how Facebook pushes this kind of content and literally pays for it. For the last ~8 months, it has been posting AI immigration slop

« la Section des crimes majeurs du SPVM. Considérée comme une unité d’élite dans l’univers policier […] Cette fois-ci, la « crème de la crème » va enquêter sur le profil des jeunes qui étaient présents lors de l’assassinat de Nooran »

#TransitionMontreal @transitionmontreal.bsky.social

I've done something that I don't do very often. I wrote a short, quick polemic post. It was prompted by a discussion in here. It's about why I'm still skeptical about ALTO's HSR project and why there is no way around transparency in public projects. open.substack.com/pub/marcochi...

Start downloading and now because your favorite old media is about to be turned into the equivalent of this

A quick explainer on Montreal’s election: The urbanist Projet Montréal party of outgoing mayor Valérie Plante has lost the election to the opposition Ensemble Montréal. Projet deserves a *lot* of credit for Montreal’s transformation in the past 10 or 15 years to be more bike/pedestrian-friendly.

I thought so! Bicycle riding and maintenance will keep you alive (and active) past the age of 100. Keep wheelin’ ! ⚙️

Essential research shows that particulate pollution—generated from motor fuels exhaust, tire wear, wildfires, factories, etc—is associated with dementia. More evidence that it is in the interest of public health to reduce pollution. (Gift link)

As a teen, I went to a left-wing musical at the Ukrainian Labour Temple in Thunder Bay - still remember the lyrics: "Freedom and Fascism, Freedom and Fascism, start with F, but one is a crime. You can never fool, you can never fool, all the people all of the time."

this piece by @workshops4gaza.bsky.social is worth reading. still profoundly disappointed with SIGCHI for having CHI in hawai`i in 2024, and a lot of this resonates across conferences and disciplines (especially the specious claims of being socially conscientious, or engaging w/indigenous knowledge)

“Sending money voluntarily does not solve the problem! Taxes should require those who have profited the most from investments in education, infrastructure, healthcare, etc. to reinvest back into the economy & ensure those services stay well funded.”

As the use of bicycles rises, and cities do more to make riding them pleasant, bikes are polarising people and setting off culture wars

Across the US & Canada, cities are replacing aging library complexes with combined apartment + library buildings. It's a promising way to fund new public facilities while adding housing. A new database & details of best practices @urbaninstitute.bsky.social: www.urban.org/urban-wire/a...

Glad to see this new piece on quantification, counter-data, "evidence," and what we call "authoritarian counting" out now in @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social with @itspangler.bsky.social, @emtl.bsky.social, and @marxist.af! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Notre candidat à la mairie, Craig Sauvé, promet la construction de deux-cent-cinquante toilettes publiques d'ici 2029. En prime, M. Sauvé vise le retapage d'une toilette sous la Place d'Armes inaugurée dans les années 1930 et fermée depuis 1979. www.lapresse.ca/actualites/e...

"La guerre à l’auto est une guerre imaginaire. Dans un revirement orwellien, l’automobiliste est devenu la victime." lactualite.com/societe/comm...

Si t'as une analyse à lire sur l'accélération de déliquescence du contenu produit par les IA génératives laissées à elles-mêmes qui monopolisent monstrueusement ressources cognitives et matérielles, il faut lire la grande chercheure @katecrawford.bsky.social. Brillant. www.e-flux.com/architecture...

I have found a lot of use for Melinda Cooper’s concept of the anti-social state: a government that exists only to extract wealth and inflict violence, and dismantles all its pro-social and life-enabling functions. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Notre gouvernement illettré www.ledevoir.com/opinion/edit...?

Improve walkability and transit is the conclusion www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/o...

Immortalizing my old pet budgie as a Beast Of Yore 🧡