Koji
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Lib, laugh, love - the sequel
Progress, positivity, point plotting, piano performance, political parties, panel programmes, particular Pennsylvanian pop princess, public ptransit
Progress, positivity, point plotting, piano performance, political parties, panel programmes, particular Pennsylvanian pop princess, public ptransit
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The estimated budget for the Waterfront East "LRT" (streetcar with tiny tunnelled section) is $2 billion?!?! Subway prices for 4km of streetcar. Glad we'll spend next year's municipal election talking about a made up crime surge.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...
www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...
November 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The estimated budget for the Waterfront East "LRT" (streetcar with tiny tunnelled section) is $2 billion?!?! Subway prices for 4km of streetcar. Glad we'll spend next year's municipal election talking about a made up crime surge.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...
www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...
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this is a twofer because both Dr Gay Hitler and George Washington Hitler are incredible names.
Lots of those Hitlers stretch back to the early 1800s. Also, one of those Hitlers gave us an incredible rap name www.circlevilleherald.com/news/hitlers...
November 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
this is a twofer because both Dr Gay Hitler and George Washington Hitler are incredible names.
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We gotta have a clear term for people so cynical they become gullible.
November 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
We gotta have a clear term for people so cynical they become gullible.
Fantastic way to depict the relative shares of all energy uses
Electrification could now reach 75% of all energy demand, as the road-transport and heating sectors rapidly electrify 🔥🚗
These two sectors account for 50% of global energy use and are now ready to switch from fossil molecules to clean electrons.
https://loom.ly/BwyhReA
These two sectors account for 50% of global energy use and are now ready to switch from fossil molecules to clean electrons.
https://loom.ly/BwyhReA
November 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Fantastic way to depict the relative shares of all energy uses
Australia seems like it would have enough solar potential to generate everything for itself + export to places like Japan (converted to hydrogen, presumably)
MILESTONE | In October 2025, renewables generated more electricity than fossil fuels in #Australia for the first time on record⚡
Share of fossil fuels fell to LESS THAN HALF of 🇦🇺's power generation as renewables took the lead.
https://loom.ly/TwPNYos
Share of fossil fuels fell to LESS THAN HALF of 🇦🇺's power generation as renewables took the lead.
https://loom.ly/TwPNYos
November 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Australia seems like it would have enough solar potential to generate everything for itself + export to places like Japan (converted to hydrogen, presumably)
I haven’t read the post specifically but I have been thinking about this list. I find 1-4 to be more universal than 5-8
But I think if 6 were rephrased as “what is natural is intrinsically more trustworthy than what is synthetic” it would reflect a very common populist sentiment
But I think if 6 were rephrased as “what is natural is intrinsically more trustworthy than what is synthetic” it would reflect a very common populist sentiment
Hammered out some thoughts on why I was motivated to post a lot about data centers: the popular conversation about them has been disproportionately informed by very low-trust intuitions I think are bad andymasley.substack.com/p/data-cente...
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I haven’t read the post specifically but I have been thinking about this list. I find 1-4 to be more universal than 5-8
But I think if 6 were rephrased as “what is natural is intrinsically more trustworthy than what is synthetic” it would reflect a very common populist sentiment
But I think if 6 were rephrased as “what is natural is intrinsically more trustworthy than what is synthetic” it would reflect a very common populist sentiment
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A friend is coming from Europe to Toronto in a few weeks (not peak anything) & trying to book a hotel. Found a middle-market hotel downtown for $395. That is bonkers. More expensive than London or Paris in the summer. Toronto needs a whole bunch of new hotels. Maybe dead condo mkt can pivot.
September 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
A friend is coming from Europe to Toronto in a few weeks (not peak anything) & trying to book a hotel. Found a middle-market hotel downtown for $395. That is bonkers. More expensive than London or Paris in the summer. Toronto needs a whole bunch of new hotels. Maybe dead condo mkt can pivot.
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In 2018, then-Mayor Ada Colau called Barcelona’s new 30% inclusionary housing requirement for projects over 600m^2 a “paradigm shift,” making housing “a right and not a commodity.” It was supposed to produce 330 affordable units a year. The reality: just 31 affordable apartments in all these years.
Cuando se ha aprobó esta medida dije repetidamente que iba a ser un fracaso y que no construirían nada de vivienda asequible. Se ha probado en mil sitios y no funciona.
Acerté. www.lavanguardia.com/local/barcel...
Acerté. www.lavanguardia.com/local/barcel...
La reserva del 30% solo ha generado 31 nuevas viviendas protegidas en siete años en Barcelona
Otros 123 pisos disponen de licencia ya aprobada, mientras los gremios afectados reclaman un marco legal estable para poder despertar al sector de su letargo
www.lavanguardia.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
In 2018, then-Mayor Ada Colau called Barcelona’s new 30% inclusionary housing requirement for projects over 600m^2 a “paradigm shift,” making housing “a right and not a commodity.” It was supposed to produce 330 affordable units a year. The reality: just 31 affordable apartments in all these years.
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In a now deleted post, China’s consul general in Osaka said he’s left with no choice but to cut off the “filthy head” of Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi because of her pledge to use Japan’s military to defend Taiwan if the Chinese invade the island. japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/politics/pol...
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
In a now deleted post, China’s consul general in Osaka said he’s left with no choice but to cut off the “filthy head” of Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi because of her pledge to use Japan’s military to defend Taiwan if the Chinese invade the island. japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/politics/pol...
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“China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels. This trend will continue simply because renewables are cheap.”
Gift link: China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
Gift link: China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:55 AM
“China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels. This trend will continue simply because renewables are cheap.”
Gift link: China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
Gift link: China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
The new Eaton Centre’s street activation is looking to be much better than Nordstrom’s. Now it’s just the parkade that looks like a fortress
November 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The new Eaton Centre’s street activation is looking to be much better than Nordstrom’s. Now it’s just the parkade that looks like a fortress
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This is a manifestation of one way that social media is corrosive of liberalism is that it directly attacks a really important part of liberalism, which is going “that seems like a mistake, but crucially, it’s not my mistake”.
there's an entire sub culture of middle age men who are so impervious to other views that at no point have they ever read any of the many comments pointing out that an obsessive interest in student politics is deeply fucking creepy? anyway, this is worse.
The hatred the youth parliament gets is just so out of proportion. Can these people hear themselves. It’s creepy.
November 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
This is a manifestation of one way that social media is corrosive of liberalism is that it directly attacks a really important part of liberalism, which is going “that seems like a mistake, but crucially, it’s not my mistake”.
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Puffer jacket snoopy season is upon us
November 8, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Puffer jacket snoopy season is upon us
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None of this is going to happen and the halal carts in nyc are already there and amazing, but this is the id of MAGA politics, "we can won so we can force everyone to do what we want" projected onto people who don't think that and wouldn't try. bsky.app/profile/stac...
November 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
None of this is going to happen and the halal carts in nyc are already there and amazing, but this is the id of MAGA politics, "we can won so we can force everyone to do what we want" projected onto people who don't think that and wouldn't try. bsky.app/profile/stac...
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Want to be in politics in the future? Take an acting class. Improv skills will help you a lot. You will need to be on camera a lot more than any previous generation of politician and performing on camera is (mostly) a learned skill that you can get better at with deliberate practice.
November 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Want to be in politics in the future? Take an acting class. Improv skills will help you a lot. You will need to be on camera a lot more than any previous generation of politician and performing on camera is (mostly) a learned skill that you can get better at with deliberate practice.
And second-order elections in action: the more obscure the post up for election in the state, the greater the differential turnout between opposition and government
Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...
November 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
And second-order elections in action: the more obscure the post up for election in the state, the greater the differential turnout between opposition and government
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Woke 2.0 is gonna be so much meaner (and better)
Virginia state Senator Louise Lucas (a Democrat who is the chamber's president pro tempore) just tweeted this:
November 5, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Woke 2.0 is gonna be so much meaner (and better)
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I don't like her (and indeed I never voted for Abe, though I think I recognize now that he ran the country better than his opponents would have), but a lot of foreign commentary has gone off the rails
October 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I don't like her (and indeed I never voted for Abe, though I think I recognize now that he ran the country better than his opponents would have), but a lot of foreign commentary has gone off the rails
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Schneider means cutter, which is a pitch
Springer means jumper, which isn’t a pitch but could be
Scherzer means joker, which isn’t a pitch and couldn’t be
Springer means jumper, which isn’t a pitch but could be
Scherzer means joker, which isn’t a pitch and couldn’t be
November 1, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Schneider means cutter, which is a pitch
Springer means jumper, which isn’t a pitch but could be
Scherzer means joker, which isn’t a pitch and couldn’t be
Springer means jumper, which isn’t a pitch but could be
Scherzer means joker, which isn’t a pitch and couldn’t be
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the enduring appeal of populism--left or right--is the fantasy that what's wrong with our society is a result of a small group of wicked people, far away and very different from you, and if we simply punish and/or expropriate them enough, all will be fixed
www.liberalcurrents.com/its-not-the-...
www.liberalcurrents.com/its-not-the-...
October 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
the enduring appeal of populism--left or right--is the fantasy that what's wrong with our society is a result of a small group of wicked people, far away and very different from you, and if we simply punish and/or expropriate them enough, all will be fixed
www.liberalcurrents.com/its-not-the-...
www.liberalcurrents.com/its-not-the-...
I am going to become the Joker
The planned St. Clair-Old Weston Station has been significantly changed
According to documents from the City of Toronto and Metrolinx, this station will now only be a stop on the UP Express Line.
Previously, it was planned as a stop on both UP Express and the GO Transit Kitchener Line.
According to documents from the City of Toronto and Metrolinx, this station will now only be a stop on the UP Express Line.
Previously, it was planned as a stop on both UP Express and the GO Transit Kitchener Line.
October 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I am going to become the Joker
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RFK jr in many ways can be read as all the reactionary impulses that have haunted American liberalism for the last 50 years coming home to roost.
Health quackery, deranged biopolitics, opposition to green infrastructure etc.
The degenerated husk of a longtime Mill Valley local.
Health quackery, deranged biopolitics, opposition to green infrastructure etc.
The degenerated husk of a longtime Mill Valley local.
RFK Jr. directs CDC to study alleged harms of offshore wind farms, Bloomberg News reports reut.rs/4hxHgEh
RFK Jr. directs CDC to study alleged harms of offshore wind farms, Bloomberg News reports
U.S. health secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff to probe the potential harms of offshore wind farms, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
reut.rs
October 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
RFK jr in many ways can be read as all the reactionary impulses that have haunted American liberalism for the last 50 years coming home to roost.
Health quackery, deranged biopolitics, opposition to green infrastructure etc.
The degenerated husk of a longtime Mill Valley local.
Health quackery, deranged biopolitics, opposition to green infrastructure etc.
The degenerated husk of a longtime Mill Valley local.
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CARNEY: "In fact, we have free trade agreements with 15 jurisdictions around the world, two-thirds of global trade. Now, some of those free trade agreements operate a little more predictably than others. No prize for guessing which ones."
October 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
CARNEY: "In fact, we have free trade agreements with 15 jurisdictions around the world, two-thirds of global trade. Now, some of those free trade agreements operate a little more predictably than others. No prize for guessing which ones."