Not Smooth Steve 🍁
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Check out my YouTube channel with the same handle.
Likes many things. Dislikes some things. I don't promise to follow you back but I do promise to consider it.
Likes many things. Dislikes some things. I don't promise to follow you back but I do promise to consider it.
The revenue service demonstration test may have wrapped up yesterday, but these problems (along with bunching and gapping) remain.
For anyone wondering how the Eglinton Crosstown LRT revenue service demonstration is going, many of the drivers are still finding it challenging to stop in the right place and to set the destination shown on the vehicle (and on the displays above the platforms).
December 2, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The revenue service demonstration test may have wrapped up yesterday, but these problems (along with bunching and gapping) remain.
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Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
Given the cursed history of this project, will anyone be surprised if this announcement jinxed the test?
December 2, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Given the cursed history of this project, will anyone be surprised if this announcement jinxed the test?
Pro and Con are opposites, so if you're not a Protestant, you're a Contestant.
December 2, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Pro and Con are opposites, so if you're not a Protestant, you're a Contestant.
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who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there
December 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there
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This makes baby Jesus cry.
British public’s verdict is in: Die Hard is not a Christmas movie
British public’s verdict is in: Die Hard is not a Christmas movie
Survey also reveals Britons’ favourite festive film, views on tear-jerkers and family cinema trips
When Macaulay Culkin recently said he didn’t consider Die Hard to be a Christmas film – wading into one of pop culture’s most heated holiday debates – he was booed by a live audience.
But it looks like the British people are behind the actor, with a survey revealing that Home Alone is the UK’s favourite festive film, while Die Hard has officially been voted not a Christmas movie. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:39 PM
This makes baby Jesus cry.
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last day of testing SO FAR
December 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
last day of testing SO FAR
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I tell Trump my peace terms, Trump tells Witkoff what they are and then Witkoff tells me Trump's terms that I told him then I say they aren't enough so we both blame Ukraine for me not accepting my own terms and I keep attacking them.
Rinse. Repeat.
Rinse. Repeat.
December 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I tell Trump my peace terms, Trump tells Witkoff what they are and then Witkoff tells me Trump's terms that I told him then I say they aren't enough so we both blame Ukraine for me not accepting my own terms and I keep attacking them.
Rinse. Repeat.
Rinse. Repeat.
This TTC subway train looks like a Scarborough RT train.
December 1, 2025 at 1:50 AM
This TTC subway train looks like a Scarborough RT train.
Have some holiday cheer - my video of the CPKC Holiday Train passing through Leaside this evening.
As this train raises donations for food banks, I will be donating all earnings from this video as of Christmas Day to a local food bank.
youtu.be/YqrxmFPCyqo
As this train raises donations for food banks, I will be donating all earnings from this video as of Christmas Day to a local food bank.
youtu.be/YqrxmFPCyqo
2025 CPKC Holiday Train in Leaside
YouTube video by notsmoothsteve
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Have some holiday cheer - my video of the CPKC Holiday Train passing through Leaside this evening.
As this train raises donations for food banks, I will be donating all earnings from this video as of Christmas Day to a local food bank.
youtu.be/YqrxmFPCyqo
As this train raises donations for food banks, I will be donating all earnings from this video as of Christmas Day to a local food bank.
youtu.be/YqrxmFPCyqo
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Local area rage farmer experiences massive crop losses due to face-eating leopards.
Danielle Smith gets booed at UCP convention after mentioning working with Canada
November 29, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Local area rage farmer experiences massive crop losses due to face-eating leopards.
Airbus A320 = Icarus
November 29, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Airbus A320 = Icarus
It appears it's 6200 with the flat spot(s) because it's now paired with 6243 and still going thump thump thump
Eglinton Crosstown LRT update:
Positive: stickers have been added on the platforms telling people to move to the end where trains stop
Negative: gapping/bunching continues, 6200+6249 still has at least one flatspotted wheel, drivers are still having trouble stopping in the right place
Positive: stickers have been added on the platforms telling people to move to the end where trains stop
Negative: gapping/bunching continues, 6200+6249 still has at least one flatspotted wheel, drivers are still having trouble stopping in the right place
November 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
It appears it's 6200 with the flat spot(s) because it's now paired with 6243 and still going thump thump thump
If you're buying computer memory or anything that contains some of it, I hope you already bought it a couple of months ago.
Or have no idea what the prices were back then because ignorance is bliss.
(This is AI's fault for sending demand for RAM soaring.)
Or have no idea what the prices were back then because ignorance is bliss.
(This is AI's fault for sending demand for RAM soaring.)
November 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
If you're buying computer memory or anything that contains some of it, I hope you already bought it a couple of months ago.
Or have no idea what the prices were back then because ignorance is bliss.
(This is AI's fault for sending demand for RAM soaring.)
Or have no idea what the prices were back then because ignorance is bliss.
(This is AI's fault for sending demand for RAM soaring.)
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When your ambassador is SO deranged that Time Magazine says, "Yeah, that quote sounds real".
November 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
When your ambassador is SO deranged that Time Magazine says, "Yeah, that quote sounds real".
Has the TTC pulled its eBuses from service? In my travels along Eglinton Avenue East this morning, I don't believe I've seen a single one, and my first bus of the day (a route which normally runs mostly or entirely eBuses at that time) was 100% diesels.
November 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Has the TTC pulled its eBuses from service? In my travels along Eglinton Avenue East this morning, I don't believe I've seen a single one, and my first bus of the day (a route which normally runs mostly or entirely eBuses at that time) was 100% diesels.
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An author-signed book is one of the most affordable gifts you can give a friend or loved one.
The American Museum of Natural History shop stocks a dozen of my books, pre-signed by me. You’ll pay near-list price or a Black-Friday price, but proceeds go to the Museum.
shop.amnh.org/catalogsearc...
The American Museum of Natural History shop stocks a dozen of my books, pre-signed by me. You’ll pay near-list price or a Black-Friday price, but proceeds go to the Museum.
shop.amnh.org/catalogsearc...
November 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
An author-signed book is one of the most affordable gifts you can give a friend or loved one.
The American Museum of Natural History shop stocks a dozen of my books, pre-signed by me. You’ll pay near-list price or a Black-Friday price, but proceeds go to the Museum.
shop.amnh.org/catalogsearc...
The American Museum of Natural History shop stocks a dozen of my books, pre-signed by me. You’ll pay near-list price or a Black-Friday price, but proceeds go to the Museum.
shop.amnh.org/catalogsearc...
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Fun little evening side quest: the subway and streetcar network in April 1954, but in contemporary style.
November 28, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Fun little evening side quest: the subway and streetcar network in April 1954, but in contemporary style.
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so our government made a big deal about banning speed cameras but one city left theirs running to see what difference the ban would make and you are not going to believe this
November 28, 2025 at 12:56 AM
so our government made a big deal about banning speed cameras but one city left theirs running to see what difference the ban would make and you are not going to believe this
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everyone: we just want streets to be safe to walk near, especially around schools
ontario: best we can do is street signs so big they fully obscure schoolchildren
ontario: best we can do is street signs so big they fully obscure schoolchildren
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
everyone: we just want streets to be safe to walk near, especially around schools
ontario: best we can do is street signs so big they fully obscure schoolchildren
ontario: best we can do is street signs so big they fully obscure schoolchildren
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And after Doug does that, he'll knock down the east wing of Queens Park to make room to build a Stag n Doe ballroom.
November 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
And after Doug does that, he'll knock down the east wing of Queens Park to make room to build a Stag n Doe ballroom.
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OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates
A burning platform
on.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8
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A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"
It's about ducking time!
Also on the chopping block from Toronto's parks bylaw: the longstanding rule against using “profane language” in parks. Also you will now be allowed to be boisterous, but not riotous.
November 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
It's about ducking time!
Modest Mussorgsky > Immodest Mussorgsky
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Modest Mussorgsky > Immodest Mussorgsky