Michael J. Warren
@ear2ear.bsky.social
Toronto-based Artist Manager at Unique Applause for Tanika Charles, Ammoye & Maya Killtron.
Line 1 down. Shuttle buses “on the way”. A couple hundred of us mill around St. Clair station waiting for any sort of direction. The Better Way.
December 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Line 1 down. Shuttle buses “on the way”. A couple hundred of us mill around St. Clair station waiting for any sort of direction. The Better Way.
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‘A 2,200 mile EV test drive from Texas to Oregon’ (Link)
‘A 2,200 mile EV test drive from Texas to Oregon’
Matt Haughey wanted just the right Volkswagen ID Buzz, and (despite living in Oregon) he found it in Texas: The dealer quoted me $2,200 to...
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December 22, 2025 at 4:31 AM
‘A 2,200 mile EV test drive from Texas to Oregon’ (Link)
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There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.
December 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.
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Important thread on the reality that "Debate me!" is always cringe and useless but it can also be downright dangerous.
I’m laid up with the flu, but I had to peek my head out and say that this is *so* much worse than it seems.
And it’s already pretty fucking bad!
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And it’s already pretty fucking bad!
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"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Important thread on the reality that "Debate me!" is always cringe and useless but it can also be downright dangerous.
Hell of a Raptors-Knicks first quarter
December 10, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Hell of a Raptors-Knicks first quarter
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Alan Dye leaving Apple might be a bigger deal than any of the Tim Cook
rumours. Dye’s direction has been mixed at best.
rumours. Dye’s direction has been mixed at best.
December 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Alan Dye leaving Apple might be a bigger deal than any of the Tim Cook
rumours. Dye’s direction has been mixed at best.
rumours. Dye’s direction has been mixed at best.
Amazing! This location plus the new one coming at Gerard and Sackville will make for two great branches. Love this for the neighborhood.
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 3:39 PM
Amazing! This location plus the new one coming at Gerard and Sackville will make for two great branches. Love this for the neighborhood.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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EVERY house we looked at in altadena had a high fire risk, so we looked and bought in Pasadena even though there was less inventory. EVERY house i looked at in Altadena burned in Eaton, four weeks after we closed. Eaton missed our house by five blocks.
the risk rating worked. shame it’s gone.
the risk rating worked. shame it’s gone.
Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
EVERY house we looked at in altadena had a high fire risk, so we looked and bought in Pasadena even though there was less inventory. EVERY house i looked at in Altadena burned in Eaton, four weeks after we closed. Eaton missed our house by five blocks.
the risk rating worked. shame it’s gone.
the risk rating worked. shame it’s gone.
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this is just gutter racism
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
this is just gutter racism
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Doug Ford has blood on his hands after only 13 days
Pedestrian struck by motorist on Parkside a block from the speed camera that vigilantes kept tearing down that caused ford to remove them from all Ontario. Drive as you wish Ontario. Nobody matters. This is what you voted for.
November 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Doug Ford has blood on his hands after only 13 days
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Company given $2M from Skills Development Fund run by Ford family dentist: sources
Company given $2M from Skills Development Fund run by Ford family dentist: sources
The company’s CEO also worked closely with the wife of the minister in charge of the grant program at the time
dlvr.it
November 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Company given $2M from Skills Development Fund run by Ford family dentist: sources
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"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
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Dan Levy openly says that Schitt's Creek would not have survived anywhere except the CBC because it was weird and took a season or so to find its feet... Just for reference if you wanna know the ROI on this approach to supporting creative things.
Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Dan Levy openly says that Schitt's Creek would not have survived anywhere except the CBC because it was weird and took a season or so to find its feet... Just for reference if you wanna know the ROI on this approach to supporting creative things.
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We warned you that self-driving cars would just create self-driving traffic jams, and here they are.
The car industry has no solution to the shortage of space in cities. Public transit, cycling, and walking are all part of the answer, but cars are not.
The car industry has no solution to the shortage of space in cities. Public transit, cycling, and walking are all part of the answer, but cars are not.
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
We warned you that self-driving cars would just create self-driving traffic jams, and here they are.
The car industry has no solution to the shortage of space in cities. Public transit, cycling, and walking are all part of the answer, but cars are not.
The car industry has no solution to the shortage of space in cities. Public transit, cycling, and walking are all part of the answer, but cars are not.
I’ve had 25 medical appointments over the last six months and I’m mostly totally fine, just over 40. While I have no shortage of issues with the current state of our country and province, I do appreciate this sort of (near) free preventative care is (mostly) accessible.
November 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I’ve had 25 medical appointments over the last six months and I’m mostly totally fine, just over 40. While I have no shortage of issues with the current state of our country and province, I do appreciate this sort of (near) free preventative care is (mostly) accessible.
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Great post on how our unsafe trucks (they’d never be allowed in Europe) kill so many pedestrians, and how our governments and companies do almost nothing about it despite endless safety theatre.
open.substack.com/pub/lloydalt...
open.substack.com/pub/lloydalt...
A crossing guard dies in Hamilton, Ontario, due to regulatory failure and bad design
Meanwhile, in London, the government says, "safe vehicles save lives."
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Great post on how our unsafe trucks (they’d never be allowed in Europe) kill so many pedestrians, and how our governments and companies do almost nothing about it despite endless safety theatre.
open.substack.com/pub/lloydalt...
open.substack.com/pub/lloydalt...
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For the Star, I make the case for the condo/apartment as aspirational -- that the Canadian dream can also be an apartment in a dense neighbourhood and not, as is so often the case in this country, be taken to only ever mean a detached house. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Navneet Alang: Condos get a bad rap. Here’s why they should be part of the Canadian dream
My parents bought their first home for 11,000 pounds (approximately $20,000) in 1974. It was an ordinary small row house on a dour street in East London. Now, more than
www.thestar.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
For the Star, I make the case for the condo/apartment as aspirational -- that the Canadian dream can also be an apartment in a dense neighbourhood and not, as is so often the case in this country, be taken to only ever mean a detached house. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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Toronto deliberately killed apartment construction in the early 1970s, after a generation-long building boom.
Almost all of that housing was built by “the market.”
Almost all of that housing was built by “the market.”
Charting number of rental units in apartment buildings in Toronto by year of construction
(This is a quick update to a similar chart I made ~2.5 years ago)
#toronto #housing #dataviz #NationalHousingDay
(This is a quick update to a similar chart I made ~2.5 years ago)
#toronto #housing #dataviz #NationalHousingDay
November 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Toronto deliberately killed apartment construction in the early 1970s, after a generation-long building boom.
Almost all of that housing was built by “the market.”
Almost all of that housing was built by “the market.”
A net win for audiences/voters, and only a loss for scalpers and L*ve N*tion. Sounds like something we could do here if there was enough political will.
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Responses to the UK government’s planned ticket touting ban
The UK government has announced plans to introduce new laws banning for-profit ticket touting and capping the commissions that can be charged on face value resale. Numerous politicians, artists, manag...
completemusicupdate.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
A net win for audiences/voters, and only a loss for scalpers and L*ve N*tion. Sounds like something we could do here if there was enough political will.
completemusicupdate.com/responses-to...
completemusicupdate.com/responses-to...
“There is hardly a family on this island that does not have a personal experience of migration.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Romy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Romy...
Catherine Connolly sworn in as Irish president | BBC News
YouTube video by BBC News
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November 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
“There is hardly a family on this island that does not have a personal experience of migration.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Romy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Romy...
A seemingly simple TTC journey from Regent to Parkdale has now involved two short turns and streetcar changes.
November 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
A seemingly simple TTC journey from Regent to Parkdale has now involved two short turns and streetcar changes.
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The Jays lose the World Series in one of the greatest baseball games ever played
November 2, 2025 at 4:18 AM
The Jays lose the World Series in one of the greatest baseball games ever played
I too am stressed by the baseball.
November 2, 2025 at 3:43 AM
I too am stressed by the baseball.