Michael Druker 🇨🇦
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Michael Druker 🇨🇦
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· Nov 18
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Use it in tandem with the Following feed. 5/7
Use it in tandem with the Following feed. 5/7
If a city makes adjoining property owners responsible for clearing sidewalks, the public is still often going to blame the city when the property owners do a bad job
January 28, 2026 at 4:15 PM
If a city makes adjoining property owners responsible for clearing sidewalks, the public is still often going to blame the city when the property owners do a bad job
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Kyiv metro area. Just in case you've forgotten what's still happening, every day.
"She was crying and screaming, 'Mom!'"
Radio Liberty war correspondent Marian Kushnir rescued a 4-yr-old girl from a burning residential building hit by a Russian drone in Bilohorodka, Kyiv region
The girl’s mom was killed.
Radio Liberty war correspondent Marian Kushnir rescued a 4-yr-old girl from a burning residential building hit by a Russian drone in Bilohorodka, Kyiv region
The girl’s mom was killed.
January 28, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Kyiv metro area. Just in case you've forgotten what's still happening, every day.
Throw the entire CPC out, there's enough other parties who don't have a fifth column composing a large part of their base
New Angus Reid poll: 16% of Conservative Party of Canada supporters give Trump an "A" for his first first year back in office.
January 28, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Throw the entire CPC out, there's enough other parties who don't have a fifth column composing a large part of their base
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The Working Centre is keeping its soup kitchen open overnight so up to 100 people have a place to stay. Please throw some $$ at them and/or volunteer:
www.theworkingcentre.org
www.theworkingcentre.org
Local governments don’t have the funds to care for hundreds of people living out on the streets in bitterly cold weather, Luisa D’Amato writes
www.therecord.com/opinion/colu...
www.therecord.com/opinion/colu...
A warm place for homeless people to shelter from bitterly cold nights
Local governments don’t have the funds to care for hundreds of people living out on the streets in bitterly cold weather, Luisa D’Amato writes
www.therecord.com
January 28, 2026 at 1:42 PM
The Working Centre is keeping its soup kitchen open overnight so up to 100 people have a place to stay. Please throw some $$ at them and/or volunteer:
www.theworkingcentre.org
www.theworkingcentre.org
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tired: flatten the curve
wired: make that ish go vertical baby. up and to the right. we're #1
wired: make that ish go vertical baby. up and to the right. we're #1
Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases
January 28, 2026 at 1:05 PM
tired: flatten the curve
wired: make that ish go vertical baby. up and to the right. we're #1
wired: make that ish go vertical baby. up and to the right. we're #1
Good morning to everyone who is going to read one of the interesting links/threads they marked as saved but haven't gotten around to yet
January 28, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Good morning to everyone who is going to read one of the interesting links/threads they marked as saved but haven't gotten around to yet
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saw people talking about which generation has the most annoying linguistic innovations and I think that’s thinking inside the box. imagine how annoying we could get with cross-generational synergy. If You Don’t Buy This Magazine, We’ll Unalive This Heckin’ Pupper
January 28, 2026 at 5:31 AM
saw people talking about which generation has the most annoying linguistic innovations and I think that’s thinking inside the box. imagine how annoying we could get with cross-generational synergy. If You Don’t Buy This Magazine, We’ll Unalive This Heckin’ Pupper
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If Bilbo had Chat GPT
January 27, 2026 at 4:24 PM
If Bilbo had Chat GPT
I do not want to accept cookies. I do not want a discount for subscribing to your marketing. I do not want to spin to win. Just let me see the damn site.
January 28, 2026 at 6:14 AM
I do not want to accept cookies. I do not want a discount for subscribing to your marketing. I do not want to spin to win. Just let me see the damn site.
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Once you start noticing it you can't stop: when the real Trump falters and is incapable of defending his administration (more and more frequent) the actual Trump is "subbed out" of news coverage for an invented, imaginary, often explicitly hypothetical version of Trump who is reasonable and cogent
A few hours ago the msm unquestioningly repeated the White House spin that Trump had changed his “tone.”
Um, holy shit? This has gotta be up there in the most crass & worse things Trump has ever said
January 28, 2026 at 5:13 AM
Once you start noticing it you can't stop: when the real Trump falters and is incapable of defending his administration (more and more frequent) the actual Trump is "subbed out" of news coverage for an invented, imaginary, often explicitly hypothetical version of Trump who is reasonable and cogent
Poilievre showing he’s serious about taking a different tone with Trump
Just tuned into QP and, uh, this is actually what the contrast between Pierre Poilievre’s face and hand looks like
January 28, 2026 at 4:55 AM
Poilievre showing he’s serious about taking a different tone with Trump
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Ilhan Omar is an American hero. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
January 28, 2026 at 2:06 AM
Ilhan Omar is an American hero. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
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My baby called "memory" a "remembery" last night in case you needed to hear something cute tonight
January 28, 2026 at 3:14 AM
My baby called "memory" a "remembery" last night in case you needed to hear something cute tonight
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Legitimately a feat of carefully calculated writing to issue a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement of this length without mentioning either (1) the people who perpetrated the Holocaust or (2) the people against whom they perpetrated it
January 28, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Legitimately a feat of carefully calculated writing to issue a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement of this length without mentioning either (1) the people who perpetrated the Holocaust or (2) the people against whom they perpetrated it
Big economic opportunity to have GO trains take people to a KW office for a workday
Once in a while I commute to KW to work from the office there and yeah, literally, by the time I arrive it's lunch time. 🤷
January 28, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Big economic opportunity to have GO trains take people to a KW office for a workday
Now that we have some weekend trains from Kitchener to Toronto, someone in Toronto should pick up the shtick and ask each weekend why they can’t take the train to KW for the day
January 28, 2026 at 2:46 AM
Now that we have some weekend trains from Kitchener to Toronto, someone in Toronto should pick up the shtick and ask each weekend why they can’t take the train to KW for the day
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Making use of our great local transit system to get to and from meetings today. Public transit acts as a significant economic catalyst, often providing a higher return on investment than other infrastructure types. 🚈
January 27, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Making use of our great local transit system to get to and from meetings today. Public transit acts as a significant economic catalyst, often providing a higher return on investment than other infrastructure types. 🚈
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✅ @cern.bsky.social has been verified by @bsky.app.
January 28, 2026 at 12:02 AM
✅ @cern.bsky.social has been verified by @bsky.app.
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Democrats should demand every sitting Republican decry this attack and explicitly denounce it, and then censure all of them when they don’t do it. Act like normal decent humans defending your colleague.
video of the moment a man tried spraying something at ilhan omar at her town hall in minneapolis tonight
January 28, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Democrats should demand every sitting Republican decry this attack and explicitly denounce it, and then censure all of them when they don’t do it. Act like normal decent humans defending your colleague.
“Slop” is a great word:
-suggests something edible for its intended audience — of which the term is dismissive
-is a result of preparation technique and tools
-is subjective in interpretation
-suggests something edible for its intended audience — of which the term is dismissive
-is a result of preparation technique and tools
-is subjective in interpretation
January 28, 2026 at 12:57 AM
“Slop” is a great word:
-suggests something edible for its intended audience — of which the term is dismissive
-is a result of preparation technique and tools
-is subjective in interpretation
-suggests something edible for its intended audience — of which the term is dismissive
-is a result of preparation technique and tools
-is subjective in interpretation
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Russia keeps killing civilians day after day. This time, it was a regular passenger train in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, carrying people from the east to the west of the country.
Regional prosecutor’s office said fragments of five bodies have been recovered so far.
📷 prokuratura_kharkiv/Telegram
Regional prosecutor’s office said fragments of five bodies have been recovered so far.
📷 prokuratura_kharkiv/Telegram
January 27, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Russia keeps killing civilians day after day. This time, it was a regular passenger train in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, carrying people from the east to the west of the country.
Regional prosecutor’s office said fragments of five bodies have been recovered so far.
📷 prokuratura_kharkiv/Telegram
Regional prosecutor’s office said fragments of five bodies have been recovered so far.
📷 prokuratura_kharkiv/Telegram
I may need to listen to this one a second time to fully understand it, but it’s a very interesting re-evaluation of the conventional wisdom. The whole Housing Voice incentives series is gold
Today on UCLA Housing Voice, I talk with @kevinerdmann.bsky.social about about the mid-2000s housing market pre-crash, resulting changes in federal mortgage lending standards, and their catastrophic effects on homeownership, rental affordability, and production. www.lewis.ucla.edu/2026/01/21/1...
Episode 106: Mortgage Lending Standards with Kevin Erdmann (Incentives Series pt. 8) - UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
We built too much housing in the mid-2000s, right? Kevin Erdmann says no, explaining how this misunderstanding is at the root of unaffordability today.
www.lewis.ucla.edu
January 27, 2026 at 8:48 PM
I may need to listen to this one a second time to fully understand it, but it’s a very interesting re-evaluation of the conventional wisdom. The whole Housing Voice incentives series is gold
Cars fundamentally reshaped the way our landscapes look, often for the worse. Some places have let them have free rein, others have placed more constraints. Almost nowhere has gone entirely without motor vehicles by choice: they’re too damn useful.
Yes, this is a post about AI.
Yes, this is a post about AI.
January 27, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Cars fundamentally reshaped the way our landscapes look, often for the worse. Some places have let them have free rein, others have placed more constraints. Almost nowhere has gone entirely without motor vehicles by choice: they’re too damn useful.
Yes, this is a post about AI.
Yes, this is a post about AI.
Remember when it was progressive to think decades-long copyright terms were against the public interest
January 27, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Remember when it was progressive to think decades-long copyright terms were against the public interest