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Dan Seljak

@anotherglassbox.bsky.social
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Building hater/appreciator out of Toronto. He/they. Hates your neighbourhood’s character, yes, specifically yours.

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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 2h
I am thrilled to announce BradGPT.ca is now live. If you want to support this visionary leader but don’t trust the AI generated responses his team provides, BradGPT promises bespoke, handmade, and unique responses delivered right to your inbox.
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Handmade analogue social media responses for Toronto's favourite 2026 mayoral candidate.
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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 4h
Fascinating UofT School of Cities project on the correlation between neighbourhood characteristics and mayoral vote over the last few decades. Looking at the strongest positive correlations for Olivia Chow voting areas in 2023 sure tells a tale. schoolofcities.github.io/place-and-po...
A data visualization showing Pearson correlation coefficients between neighborhood characteristics from the 2021 census and voting for Olivia Chow in the 2023 election, with blue bars indicating positive correlations and red indicating negative correlations.
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 4h
The crazy thing about street photography as a hobby is that some mornings I will see things so serene and beautiful that they almost move me to tears and then I have to go sit in an office chair and build a database as if nothing happened
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 17h
Also of note—when building this thing I tried to engage the platform’s AI assistant and it flat out refused on a community safety and “manipulating public opinion” basis. Should give you some idea of what Bradford’s team IS NOT taking into consideration.
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 18h
I am excited to announce that I will be launching a new service that will generate handcrafted analogue pro-Bradford responses on request. You simply enter the URL of a post by Brad, Chow, or Alexander and your email. Then I will send you a JPG to post with a bespoke response.
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Stumbled on a nice moment on UofT campus this weekend.
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Because of the election, the elevated discourse has been bumming me out, so I've expanded my street photo practice (and dog walking) to include something to keep my hands off my phone between shots. Thanks to the r/detrashed community for the inspo.
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There is a lovely bake sale at 20 Spadina Road in support of United Way and Community Living just north of Bloor and Spadina today. The blueberry coffee cake was a 10/10 for me.
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’m sorry
To my followers, the greater glassboxhead community, and the people of Toronto: I want to sincerely apologize for my use of generative AI in the creation of my anti-generative AI Change.org petition. I thought you would all catch on immediately that the first three paragraphs or so were suspect and there’d be the catharsis of teachable moment about Change.org’s new generative AI tools.

Alas, no one caught it for months and I kinda forgot about it. Thank you to @leighbeadon who unintentionally discovered my stupid bit; I am finally released from the torment of holding this in. I hope we all learn something valuable from this
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Next week, we're returning to Etobicoke to close out Liminal Assembly's Loiterfest. Dinner at the base of an office tower. A walk past a dead mall. Karaoke at a prison-themed bar. It all kicks off Sept 30 at Kipling Station wygo.world/loiter-s-end...
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Loiter's End: A 427 Backrooms Celebration
A night of food and karaoke
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Massive turn out for Cross-Country Day of Action for Migrant Rights resulted in a very memorable moment for this wedding lol
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Come to SHOW OF DECLINE on Thursday, October 8 at Tapestry in Kensington Market. Get cultured, stupid! This one features @anotherglassbox.bsky.social, @meghanharrison.bsky.social and @zakjones.ca! Also open mic poetry with my band @antispectacular.bsky.social
Image of a strange sneering man wearing a puffy, crescent shaped cowl with fox ears in profile.

It' Show of Decline! 
An interview with Dan Seljak.
Readings by Meghan Harrison and Zak Jones.
Open Mic Poewtry with a Live band Anti-Spectacular.
Thursday Oct. 8
Doors Open 7pm 
Show Starts 8pm
Tapestry 224 Augusta Ave.
$10 PWYC
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Magnum, T.I.(M.) @hydrationchimp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
it’s time to give Ms Rachel a gundam
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We’re stuck waiting at the vet so I did a photoshoot with (slightly stressed) Penny.
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Alexander posting a video full of spelling errors, Bradford posting a thread of single images that tells you to swipe like a carousel, and Bradford posting his takeaway from the debate is that he should smile more…she’s gonna be mayor for life man.
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Five years ago I smashed my head into a broken garage door that had partially closed behind me. Got a persistent post concussion syndrome diagnosis, did lots of rehab, got a dog on recommendation of my neurosurgeon, got a migraine disorder that hospitalizes me about once/year…
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Some Toronto Trivia: where did I go bowling last night? @jasonparis.bsky.social: not u
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Sunday the 13th at 11 AM. You. Me. A dozen or so other people. And a big highway. wygo.world/etobicoke-th...
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The poor dog sitter, who by all appearances has a great bond w my dog, wanted to say bye to Penny but unfortunately I am simply too loved and she was utterly snubbed at pick up time.
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Apologies for the heavy breathing but I straight up chased and caught up with this boat when I realised what it was… if you look/listen closely, you can join Joël for the @tosoarch.bsky.social boat tour today.
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Can any of my eagle-eyed urbanist followers identify this charming European pedestrian market? If only we could have this sort of thing in Toronto.
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Next Sunday I will be hosting a tour around a unique part of Etobicoke as part of Liminal Assembly’s Loiterfest. Would love to see you there. wygo.world/etobicoke-th...
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The Malls: Highway 427's Backrooms
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Here is the mayor hanging out with cool robots while I seethe with jealousy from the crowd.
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Doubling down with a photo that shows you were well aware it was a memorial. Very good. The issue is the phrase “drug user liberation”. Supposedly normalizes drug use in the context of, again, a memorial that very explicitly broadcasts grief in the wake of deadly overdoses.
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Also the snide remark about “narcan as a fashion accessory”? Good. I hope people are getting social capital off it. It’s not exactly empty virtue signalling to wear a big red flag that says, “I have the means and training to save a stranger’s life, feel free to ask me to do so.”
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is a memorial, “I miss you still”, that was installed at the end of a funeral procession. The “weird art” is a telephone that encourages people to dial in the number of dead people so you can process your grief by speaking to “the wind”. Many types of memorials have them.
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
He’s taking the criticism well…
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🎶 as we go on, we remember, all the good times, we had together 🎶 - Vitamin C
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Apparently the fastest way to get change municipally is to have the conservative provincial government intervene. So I built a plugin that cc’s all of them, just to keep them in the loop whenever I email my local representatives.
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Playing with some layouts for a fundraising zine concept…
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
To the influencer shooting a doc on TO's "decline": I am sorry you came to our city with your mind already made up. I was also on the TTC a lot this weekend. Much was at Line Fe5t, where TTC employees volunteered to boost small biz in a community impacted by the province's delayed transit project.
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Last night, under the Sturgeon Moon, Downsview Park staff took a group of us for their inaugural night walk. An incredible place by day already, but quite magical at night. That last shot is in the woods, so very dark, but you can see how bright the moon was.
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Been shopping an idea around to some friends and was getting positive feedback but have come to realise I’ve just been pitching “Rotary Club for Online Urbanists”
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Art Spin has done an incredible job with Where Walls Meet Sky, programming the ruins of St Anne’s Church. And Flour Power is cooking pita in a brick oven partially made from the church itself. Just a single room but worth seeing imo. www.artspin.ca/where-walls-...
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Imbroglior @dkfoster.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Fantastic piece from Dan. "... for me at least, you don’t fight to win. You fight to fight."
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Stacy King @stacyking.com · 22/08/2026
Reposting in case anyone else may find this a useful read after a bruising week.
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
If you drop by Martin today, I left the guest book and some fineliners I borrowed from my ex employer the day they went bankrupt on the shelf just to the right of the cashier 😇
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Gabe Blanc @gabeblanc.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Today, I am suspending my campaign for City Council in Ward 11 University—Rosedale and withdrawing my name from the ballot. I am proud to endorse @mikelayton.bsky.social in his bid to become our next city councillor. 1/10
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Not sure if anyone has a burning desire to read my 700-word treatise on keeping moving even when things don't go the way you'd hoped on a Friday evening, but I felt like I had to get some of these thoughts out: danseljak.substack.com/p/a-prisoner...
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A prisoner of hope
Some reflections on the suprising end to the Finch Store saga
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Breaking: local urbanism micro-influencer Dan Seljak, despite many encouraging “likes” on his joke posts about running for council, was never going to and has not registered.
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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 20/08/2026
found another new type of guy
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
To those who have ever accused me of being a paid shill: the only payment I ever got from Finch were the almond croissants they refused to let me pay for. Swung by during my lunch break today and they gave me one last one for the road. I am now scandal free.
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I just got off the phone with the owner of Finch…despite the fact we saved the store from zoning challenges, the landlord is doubling the rent… so they’re throwing in the towel. Last day of business is today. Their sister store, Martin, will close at the end of the weekend.
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I’ve been making a bullshit green smoothie for breakfast every day with spinach, hemp hearts, chia seeds and various other garbage and I regret to inform you all I feel much better in the mornings now than when I drink a giant sugary iced coffee.
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Despite the news about Fancy Induced Burger moving, @diannesaxe.bsky.social , @gabeblanc.bsky.social, @dianayoon.bsky.social and @mikelayton.bsky.social were not here as I collected my burger and syringe filled with “maple cheese”. And they expect me to believe they’ll represent me at City Hall?
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Hour three at the animal hospital (turned out to be a UTI, all will be well) and Penny is keeping the staff well entertained.
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Jazz, mahjong and mild summer air…perfect block party. Everyone say, thank you It’s Ok.
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Went to this alone on an impulse and ran into 6 or 7 people from volunteering or social media—ended up sitting with an old friend who’d made the same decision. For anyone feeling lonely in this city: it is awkward at first but if u just keep showing up, community finds u.
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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I usually leave podcast picks to #Humpday but worth listening to @chrischiasson.bsky.social on @torontothepolitics.bsky.social with @thegreenlineto.bsky.social 's Aia Jaber and @anotherglassbox.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqef... Cc: @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social #BikeTO
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Bike Lanes, Brad Bradford, and FIFA Post-Mortem (with MPP Stephanie Smyth, Dan Seljak and Aia Jaber)
YouTube video by Toronto the Politics the Show
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