This happened in a school zone that is marked as 40 km/h, and not enforced by a speed camera.

Been 10 months now. I've been picking away at this, very slowly. Researching, organizing, mapping, writing. I'm ready to start putting this together now.

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From backrooms to big decisions, @spaikin.bsky.social sits down with former Ontario premiers David Peterson, Bob Rae, Mike Harris, Ernie Eves, Dalton McGuinty, and Kathleen Wynne for candid conversations on The Premier Files. Begins Sept. 26 at 8pm on @wearetvo.bsky.social.

This is actually a really cool way to think about the ATmosphere. cc @rachelgilmore.bsky.social @adamadonaldson.bsky.social @vidman.bsky.social

Incoming new series. #metroscapes

Aside from the Canadian electronic I post, I have been listening to more European artists. I was attracted to this track given the track on the cover. Memories of Tokyo Xtreme Racer 2 on the Dreamcast. From Berlin.

Guelph had a huge deluge this morning. This was a result in my neighbourhood. Many people will see some sort of infrastructure problem to fix. I see an encroachment problem. This is a valley floor at a confluence between an artificial tributary and a managed river. Maybe roads don't belong here.

Peak Apartment Life Moment. I am working from home in the afternoon, but had a morning appointment. Just came home after drop-off and the apartment is quiet, but outside is a little bit of city buzz. Then I heard clanging. Maybe that's just the pipes creaking? No. It isn't. What is it then?!

Re-watching this video, I think I can say the Oakville Shoreline was my best walk of 2024.

The answer to this is successive legislative governments (not referring to the forming government political party, but to the collective legislative Canadian MPs and MPPs in committee/on the floor/through their offices) treating public service members as a commodity. #cdnpoli #onpoli

I am all for making VIA faster, but @markgerretsen.bsky.social has a point that it's a kind of service cut. Overall, it's a symptom of a broader problem: VIA is trying to be a national express service and a regional service at the same time. It shouldn't be.

This is a video of Toronto Paramedic Services' bus ambulance, but what I found most interesting was the number of comments of people seeing it. It's funny how such a quirky vehicle graces the memories of some serious incidents.

This is the only good content on the internet today.

Many in the comments section of this post agree this fictional display board (for a movie shoot) on a TTC platform is better than what's currently offered.

Normally this would shut a debate down, but Doug has ignored the police before: those stupid, unreadable (questionably partisan) blue licence plates.

The 1980s in Canada. What a wild time. This is an elevated McDonald's with a gas bar under it somewhere in Barrie.

On June 24, I began my Election Night speech by quoting Mandela: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” That's the spirit of this campaign, and our city. This is "Until It’s Done,” a new series about New Yorkers who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible.

Horrific.

After lacklustre election results, and a weak leadership vote, this was the right call. Good on Bonnie for recognizing the headwinds and stepping down. Looking forward to seeing if @beynate.bsky.social will throw his hat in the ring. #onpoli

It's been 6 years since I moved out of Toronto. I still miss it, but it also pushed me to expand my hobby to other cities.

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I'm a serial threader. So I'm just going to start a thread of really neat educational YouTube videos. First up: @veritasium.bsky.social did this great video that starts off with a significant escalator accident in Rome, and explains how these awesome machines work.

Genocidal war in the Middle East. Imperial war in Europe. Civil war in America. This timeline is too much.

Excellent column by @shawnmicallef.bsky.social here. Definitely part of his general war on Toronto, but the whole thing of opposing speed cameras while also trying to rip out bike lanes makes clear that Doug doesn't care about safe streets. Wanna run a kid down in front of a school? Vote for Doug!

I've long been an advocate for geological storage of Canada's nuclear waste, because the the waste exists today, and a permanent underground site for it is way better than the temporary on-site storage at the generation stations. But I also like this story covering the method to get it there.

I'm at a kids YouTuber live show. I'll need caffeine and Tylenol tomorrow.

With the 10 tornadoes added today from past months, the 2025 national tornado count goes to 66. Which is tied for 2017 at this point in the season for the *least* number of tornadoes since NTP began in 2017. And is almost half of what Canada experienced last year. Will be looking into the why...

No fear.

This. I have been saying this lately, they act like an airline.

Had a special moment at Guelph Lake today, as we got to watch a baby turtle make its journey to the water (and make sure the pack of seagulls nearby didn't snap it up).

Criminal Code, s. 430 (3) Every one who [wilfully destroys or damages property]...the value of which exceeds five thousand dollars (a) is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years;

> Blacksky is doing some truly revolutionary work within the ATmosphere, effectively building all of their infrastructure from scratch to provide something that's simultaneously compatible with Bluesky, while also completely independent from it.

It's sad we lost this.

Another good night to pay a visit to our Old Faithful. Our friend, Froggy. For all the children of Guelph, young and old.

Coming home from work, I saw a weird airplane on the approach into Waterloo Airport. Said to myself "That looks like a water bomber." Sure enough.

Looks pretty straightforward to me.

Really happy to see this completed and open. It will serve many Guelph kids for generations to come.

I co-authored a fare report for TTCriders in 2021 and it's crazy to see the TTC finally considering policy recommendations like fare capping seriously. Obviously it wasn't just the report, this has been decades of advocacy and internal conversations in the making. www.ttcriders.ca/farereportla...

Once again, eastern Ontario gets shunned by the rain.

Then the pitch to end-users is ending lockin to an app. If you dislike Bluesky, you can move off but keep your data. It's data portability via a personal cloud (the PDS).

This is totally the selling point. It's actually one of two: the other selling point is helping to solve the cold start problem. They're not Bluesky's users, they're members of the atmosphere.

Sometimes things line up perfectly! The moon sets on Aura.

Biidaasige Park, Toronto, Sept. 1, 2025

Stellar thread here.

Cuz Rogers never meets the public where they are. Corporate philosophy.

A note to all the new followers, I usually use alt text to my advantage.

A trail that needs trekking. 🥾 🥾 #hiking

Huge shoutout to Steve for kicking this off with the origin of the name!

This is a City and a downtown that have real potential to be energized.