Dylan
@dylan89.bsky.social
City politics. Theatre. F1
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Had a literal literary dream last night that the TPL was gifted the Saks location DT to build a massive branch. This works too!
The Toronto Public Library has purchased the old WE Charity headquarters at Queen & Parliament to convert into a new branch: blogs.tpl.ca/news-release...
December 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Had a literal literary dream last night that the TPL was gifted the Saks location DT to build a massive branch. This works too!
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🚍‼️ The new #TTC #RapidTO bus lanes on #Dufferin are great! Next, they should be:
-⬆️ extended north from Bloor to Eglinton
-🚌 paired w/ frequent & reliable service
-↔️ added to Finch, Lawrence, Jane & Steeles
✍🏾 Sign @ttcriders.bsky.social petition to expand & improve them: www.TTCriders.ca/Lanes
-⬆️ extended north from Bloor to Eglinton
-🚌 paired w/ frequent & reliable service
-↔️ added to Finch, Lawrence, Jane & Steeles
✍🏾 Sign @ttcriders.bsky.social petition to expand & improve them: www.TTCriders.ca/Lanes
November 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
🚍‼️ The new #TTC #RapidTO bus lanes on #Dufferin are great! Next, they should be:
-⬆️ extended north from Bloor to Eglinton
-🚌 paired w/ frequent & reliable service
-↔️ added to Finch, Lawrence, Jane & Steeles
✍🏾 Sign @ttcriders.bsky.social petition to expand & improve them: www.TTCriders.ca/Lanes
-⬆️ extended north from Bloor to Eglinton
-🚌 paired w/ frequent & reliable service
-↔️ added to Finch, Lawrence, Jane & Steeles
✍🏾 Sign @ttcriders.bsky.social petition to expand & improve them: www.TTCriders.ca/Lanes
The Overlea Blvd Costco is sitting right next to an Ontario Line stop. We better see that parking lot disappear quickly.
This breaks some people’s brains.
In most cities, Costco stores fuel sprawl & car dependency.
In Vancouver, our full-sized downtown Costco has residential towers above & a skytrain station next door. LOTS of customers don’t drive to it.
We live a block from it. We call it “the convenience store.”
In most cities, Costco stores fuel sprawl & car dependency.
In Vancouver, our full-sized downtown Costco has residential towers above & a skytrain station next door. LOTS of customers don’t drive to it.
We live a block from it. We call it “the convenience store.”
November 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The Overlea Blvd Costco is sitting right next to an Ontario Line stop. We better see that parking lot disappear quickly.
Seems like the simplest solution would be to remove street parking...
November 29, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Seems like the simplest solution would be to remove street parking...
Hell, people look at me weird when I talk about the protest evolution in Beyoncé's music
folks who don’t engage with reactionary art are denying themselves whole worlds of thought and entertainment
November 28, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Hell, people look at me weird when I talk about the protest evolution in Beyoncé's music
The only #TTC screen to help people before you enter the subway is telling you about a planned outage while noting that Line 1 and 2 don't have normal service.
Line 1 is because of a planned outage 13 hours from now.
Line 2 had an unplanned stoppage.
Line 1 is because of a planned outage 13 hours from now.
Line 2 had an unplanned stoppage.
November 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The only #TTC screen to help people before you enter the subway is telling you about a planned outage while noting that Line 1 and 2 don't have normal service.
Line 1 is because of a planned outage 13 hours from now.
Line 2 had an unplanned stoppage.
Line 1 is because of a planned outage 13 hours from now.
Line 2 had an unplanned stoppage.
What a treat. Thank you for lighting your gorgeous sets.
TODAY! #WakeUpDeadMan! THEATERS! 600 US screens, 500 more internationally, hopefully more to come in the next week. See my pinned post for a theater finder. I’m so proud of this movie and everyone’s work on it, I hope you enjoy it!
November 27, 2025 at 3:26 AM
What a treat. Thank you for lighting your gorgeous sets.
Global $500M+ opening weekend. Feels like that one little Zootopia show at Animal Kingdom won't be the only thing we see pop up. Can believe someone in finance telling Imagineers to start building.
Walt Disney Animation’s Zootopia 2 — the sequel to the $1 billion 2016 film — is tracking to bite off at least $125 million in its five-day debut at the Thanksgiving box office, according to tracking.
‘Zootopia 2’ Tracking to Feast on Huge $125M-Plus Opening at Thanksgiving Box Office
Walt Disney Animation’s Zootopia 2 — the sequel to the $1 billion 2016 film — is tracking to bite off at least $125 million in its five-day debut at the Thanksgiving box office, according to tracking.
bit.ly
November 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Global $500M+ opening weekend. Feels like that one little Zootopia show at Animal Kingdom won't be the only thing we see pop up. Can believe someone in finance telling Imagineers to start building.
Couple of seats left at Scotiabank Toronto. Ready for that packed theatre experience!
TODAY! #WakeUpDeadMan! THEATERS! 600 US screens, 500 more internationally, hopefully more to come in the next week. See my pinned post for a theater finder. I’m so proud of this movie and everyone’s work on it, I hope you enjoy it!
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Couple of seats left at Scotiabank Toronto. Ready for that packed theatre experience!
Today I had to Google "what to wear to a physio appointment" as I spiraled.
November 24, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Today I had to Google "what to wear to a physio appointment" as I spiraled.
We will look back on the period as we do with cigarettes.
40 Canadian senators are asking the federal government to ban advertising for sports betting sites
Please? 🥺🙏
Please? 🥺🙏
Senators call on prime minister to ban advertising for sports betting | CBC News
Two senators are calling on the federal government to ban advertising for sports betting in Canada. A letter to the prime minister from Charlottetown Sen. Percy Downe and Waterloo Sen. Marty Deacon as...
www.cbc.ca
November 23, 2025 at 11:14 PM
We will look back on the period as we do with cigarettes.
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So you made a robot stand up and talk... now what? In this over 4-hour journey, Kevin follows the promise of Disney's Living Character Initiative, an effort to populate Disney theme parks with free-roaming, interactive beings. It was touted as the future. How's it going? Watch here: bit.ly/49C6vng
November 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
So you made a robot stand up and talk... now what? In this over 4-hour journey, Kevin follows the promise of Disney's Living Character Initiative, an effort to populate Disney theme parks with free-roaming, interactive beings. It was touted as the future. How's it going? Watch here: bit.ly/49C6vng
Finally getting somewhere with TTC on these digital notices in station lobbies. Why are they showing that Line 1 and 2 are currently not operating at full service?
Whenever there is planned work at night, it knocks this system askew. We need different ways to communicate current vs. planned work
Whenever there is planned work at night, it knocks this system askew. We need different ways to communicate current vs. planned work
November 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Finally getting somewhere with TTC on these digital notices in station lobbies. Why are they showing that Line 1 and 2 are currently not operating at full service?
Whenever there is planned work at night, it knocks this system askew. We need different ways to communicate current vs. planned work
Whenever there is planned work at night, it knocks this system askew. We need different ways to communicate current vs. planned work
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Update on my single exit stair ASP: we have an approval!
Thanks to sixplex and single stair supporters Mayor Olivia Chow, Cllr Jamaal Myers, @joshmatlow.bsky.social and others who get why single exit stairs are key to creating livable, accessible, small scale housing. 1/6
Thanks to sixplex and single stair supporters Mayor Olivia Chow, Cllr Jamaal Myers, @joshmatlow.bsky.social and others who get why single exit stairs are key to creating livable, accessible, small scale housing. 1/6
After TO Council passed a motion indicating the City was open to Alternative Solution Proposals for a single stair in apts up to 4 storeys, I applied for a single stair in a 3 storey Part 9 6plex.
I’m told it’s the first one, so it’s a test case. Here’s how it’s going.
#singlestair #sixplex
I’m told it’s the first one, so it’s a test case. Here’s how it’s going.
#singlestair #sixplex
November 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Update on my single exit stair ASP: we have an approval!
Thanks to sixplex and single stair supporters Mayor Olivia Chow, Cllr Jamaal Myers, @joshmatlow.bsky.social and others who get why single exit stairs are key to creating livable, accessible, small scale housing. 1/6
Thanks to sixplex and single stair supporters Mayor Olivia Chow, Cllr Jamaal Myers, @joshmatlow.bsky.social and others who get why single exit stairs are key to creating livable, accessible, small scale housing. 1/6
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Vote for people who'll spend more on housing and social programs.
Vote for tax cuts and exclusionary zoning, and you're asking for encampments in poorly maintained parks.
Vote for tax cuts and exclusionary zoning, and you're asking for encampments in poorly maintained parks.
"The longer visible signs of social decay are allowed to fester, the more inclined those with means will be to simply check out ... leaving those without the ability to relocate to deal with playgrounds littered with drug paraphernalia." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: We have normalized delinquent, disorderly behaviour in our cities for too long
There is nothing normal about an encampment forcing toddlers in the daycare next door to stay inside
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Vote for people who'll spend more on housing and social programs.
Vote for tax cuts and exclusionary zoning, and you're asking for encampments in poorly maintained parks.
Vote for tax cuts and exclusionary zoning, and you're asking for encampments in poorly maintained parks.
Punted myself over to X. Saw a certain Toronto fintech dude hiding behind progressive housing while being awful on almost every other issue. See his sharing of the awful encampment article from the Globe. Pure idiocy. Follows the Saxe model of "housing for all, but only the people we say."
November 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Punted myself over to X. Saw a certain Toronto fintech dude hiding behind progressive housing while being awful on almost every other issue. See his sharing of the awful encampment article from the Globe. Pure idiocy. Follows the Saxe model of "housing for all, but only the people we say."
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@escrimshaw.bsky.social outlines a plan that could have lessons in it for the Alberta NDP too. Being outraged isn't going to oust corrupt conservative govt. Offering something better - concrete - is key. #ableg #onpoli
The OLP Needs To Offer More Than Opposition
open.substack.com/pub/scrimsha...
The OLP Needs To Offer More Than Opposition
open.substack.com/pub/scrimsha...
The OLP Needs To Offer More Than Opposition
Opposing Ford’s Managed Decline Isn’t Enough
open.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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These Line 6 ads are awful. This isn't the time for teaser campaigns.
November 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
These Line 6 ads are awful. This isn't the time for teaser campaigns.
Y'all need to pay more attention to THE EXPANSE
This is an...interesting...economic theory:
"...the only way...to prevent America from going bankrupt is AI and robotics...
Robots like Optimus will make working "optional" in the future...
We'll have...universal high income," Musk said.
www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-sa...
"...the only way...to prevent America from going bankrupt is AI and robotics...
Robots like Optimus will make working "optional" in the future...
We'll have...universal high income," Musk said.
www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-sa...
Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved
Elon Musk has spent the last few weeks outlining a future with Optimus — one that will "eliminate" poverty, work, and require a universal income.
www.businessinsider.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Y'all need to pay more attention to THE EXPANSE
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Premier Wab Kinew defended his government’s plan to open a supervised consumption site in downtown Winnipeg, saying a public health emergency demands it and doing nothing is not an option.
Alternative to supervised consumption site is ‘bus shelter, in the bathroom at Tim Hortons’: premier
Kinew defends facility; mayor stresses public consultation for location paramount
www.winnipegfreepress.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Premier Wab Kinew defended his government’s plan to open a supervised consumption site in downtown Winnipeg, saying a public health emergency demands it and doing nothing is not an option.
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I’m no political strategist, but I think one of member of the Ontario NDP (and even the Liberals) should make a point every day of being ejected from the legislature for calling the Ford government corrupt.
November 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I’m no political strategist, but I think one of member of the Ontario NDP (and even the Liberals) should make a point every day of being ejected from the legislature for calling the Ford government corrupt.
Whenever I get mad at a political decision I log 200 hours in Cities Skylines building giant cities that are fully pedestrianized. I've made it to 900k before the transit system collapses. Can't wait for the next decision and my attempt 😂
we’re about to find out if loving SimCity makes you a better mayor
Mamdani was asked in 2002 by NY Mag what he wanted for Christmas and said SimCity 3000
Mamdani was asked in 2002 by NY Mag what he wanted for Christmas and said SimCity 3000
November 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Whenever I get mad at a political decision I log 200 hours in Cities Skylines building giant cities that are fully pedestrianized. I've made it to 900k before the transit system collapses. Can't wait for the next decision and my attempt 😂
Watched my 200th film of the year this evening! Been saving SORCERER for a milestone, and it did not disappoint!
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Watched my 200th film of the year this evening! Been saving SORCERER for a milestone, and it did not disappoint!