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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 1d

Trading places with Elon would be like waking up as a cockroach and the worst part is that you would have traded away your knowledge of Kafka and the literary grounding to make sense of said experience.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 2d

John Fetterman’s memoir comes out on Tuesday, so if the phone calls don’t work you can always tell him how you feel while he’s on book tour.

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 4d

While researching my current column, I had trouble finding something PM Carney said in a speech in either Factiva or Google, so I tried asking ChatGPT-5 to search for it. This was its internal response.

It hallucinates in basic searches. It can't write truth. It can't copyedit. What is it good for?

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 5d

How much shit will Ontario continue to eat?

Melissa Bowman @dtkmelissa.bsky.social · 5d

"Despite Ford stating speed cameras are ineffective, regional data shows that since launching its program in February (following a pilot program that had been in place since 2021), average speeds in school zones have decreased by 15 km/h."

Waterloo Region forges ahead with speed cameras despite looming ban

The Region of Waterloo will go ahead with turning on six speed cameras despite Doug Ford’s scathing condemnation

buff.ly

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 7d

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

esti @estibass.com · Jun 25

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

Zohran standing amidst a crowd in winter clothing

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Flannery Dean @flannerydean.bsky.social · 6d

The most maligned, ignored cohort is actually the foundation for the movement everyone is acting like they can’t find

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 7d

WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.

Gen Z women aren't playing around.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7d

stay tuned

Subjecy: Barstool leaving NYC?

Hi Dave-

Now than Zohran Mamdani is the mayor-elect, will Barstool be leaving New York? And if so, when?

Thank you,

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Marisa Kabas
Independent journalist
The Handbasket

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 7d

Tonight just keeps getting better

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 7d

turning on the CNN coverage of the NY election with a wide, placid smile on my face

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Jason McBride @jasonmcbride.bsky.social · 8d

One of the absolute best things you can do this month is take the @nplusonemag.com Bookmatch quiz. Such a joy from beginning to end & you'll end up with a list of fascinating books most of which will be entirely new to you secure.givelively.org/donate/n1-fo...

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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 10d

silver lining for the Blue Jays: 14 more seasons of Vlad Jr

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 10d

Ernie Clement becomes the first player in MLB history with 30 hits in a single postseason

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Jason McBride @jasonmcbride.bsky.social · 10d

This is the best baseball game I’ve ever seen

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Jason McBride @jasonmcbride.bsky.social · 13d

This is the best baseball game I’ve ever seen

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17d

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

I tweet: "people who see 50% of their monthly paycheck go to rent don't care if a candidate eats with their hands. they want to hear what your candidate is going to do about housing."

John Galt 2025 replies: "Move if the cost of living is too high."

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Jason McBride @jasonmcbride.bsky.social · 17d

Lots to love in One Battle After Another but tops for me was seeing Junglepussy back on the big screen (just wish she was in the movie longer)

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19d

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI

Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

www.npr.org

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 21d

People act like all the men are gone. The men are attending protests. The men are putting together scooters for their kids. The men are getting a set of turntables for the first time. The men are buying Nikes. The men are getting super into noir. They're not Nazis and they're fine. Keep your freaks.

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Jason McBride @jasonmcbride.bsky.social · 23d

It’s been quite an evolution!

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Jason McBride @jasonmcbride.bsky.social · 23d

Love all the restaurant & bar activity on Geary, but was just wishing there was more happening beyond new places to eat & drink. And lo, I just learned that @cavershambooks.bsky.social has relocated to the neighbourhood! Welcome!

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 26d

1. We earlier reported that the volume of protests in 2025 has been far greater than during 2017, that the movement remains overwhelmingly (and even historically) nonviolent, and that protests have been geographically far-reaching. But just how far-reaching have they been?

American Spring? How nonviolent protest in the US is accelerating

Contrary to conventional wisdom, anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed 2017 in size, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful.

wagingnonviolence.org

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Jason McBride @jasonmcbride.bsky.social · 26d

Absolutely thrilled that @maggiehelwig.bsky.social won the Toronto Book Award for her incredible ENCAMPMENT but bitterly ironic that it was the night before the St. Stephen's encampment is scheduled to be cleared again. If you can be there this morning to support the residents, please go

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Maggie Helwig @maggiehelwig.bsky.social · 27d

We have just been informed that the encampment at St Stephen's will be cleared TOMORROW (Thursday). If you can be here in support of the residents, please come. We anticipate that things will start around 9 am and probably go on for some time.

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mlongfield.bsky.social @mlongfield.bsky.social · 29d

Bike Share is a real Toronto success story, and Toronto Parking have been a good steward since it was saved from bankruptcy. All that's missing is a plan to double the current number of trips and catch and pass Montreal in the next 5 years. In the @thestar.com :

www.thestar.com/news/gta/how...

Toronto Star: “What we need to do is convince them that it is a safe option in the right place at the right time,” he said. “And because you get to choose how you use the bike and where you use the bike, you can make it safe.”

Longfield, who has opposed Ford’s bike lane legislation in the courts and extensively in the media, sees bike share’s rise going hand-in-hand with the expansion of the city’s bike lane network.

“You can see objectively with the number of trips that have been going up with Bike Share, month over month, year after year, that it really does speak to more people cycling as more stations have grown along the cycling network plan expansion,” Longfield said.

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · Oct 11

I am once again asking Canadian journalists to ask the most basic-ass question of "on whose land will these be built?" How is it that every other major industry must consider Indigenous rights but with tech it's like "meh".
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ANALYSIS | Why OpenAI wants to help Canada build homegrown artificial intelligence | CBC News

OpenAI wants to help Canada build a sovereign digital infrastructure for artificial intelligence, putting the country in a tough spot as it tries to distance itself from overreliance on U.S. tech comp...

www.cbc.ca

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · Oct 9

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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