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Rory

@badshirtmaui.bsky.social
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Former sound guy & college prof. Singer, songwriter and pedal assist cyclist. I like good people. Allergic to cats & dogs but not your pix of them.

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Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · 18h
The monthly Art Crawl in downtown Hamilton. The event that’s not really an event because no-one organizes it but everyone just kind of knows and shows up.
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Rogerman @rogerman99.bsky.social · 16h
Brad Brad + King Dug Ford = Ruin To paraphrase Lindsey Graham "If we elect Brad Brad, we will be destroyed, and we will deserve it." #onpoli
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💤Zarleck from Space, Esq. @zarleckazpa.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Doug Ford, wasting your money and making living in Ontario more dangerous. It's the conservative way.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Nailed it. 🔨
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Shirley Jennings 🇨🇦 📎 🌊 @canteach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I really wish I could edit the typos but I’m pretty sure everyone gets the message.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by 2 to 1. Paris, where they now outnumber motorists across the whole city, is catching up with Europe’s traditional bike capitals, Amsterdam & Copenhagen…In Copenhagen, bikes account for almost half of commuter trips to work/school.” @economist.com
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Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport
Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war
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Andrew Lewis FC @andrewlewisfc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Shopify Nosferatu for Brad!
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Local government spends millions on advertising telling taxpayers why they shouldn’t be bothered by 17-hour wait times in their local ER - if their local ER hasn’t already been shut down by local government’s cost cutting on healthcare.
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Ontario Health Ministry spent $13.3M on advertising last year
Newly released records bring advertising spending identified by The Trillium to more than $90M across five ministries
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Joshua Hind @joshuahind.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
First, as has been pointed out in replies, this measured, data-focused approach has been persistently used for over a decade, and yet, here we are. Second, every cyclist in Toronto knows Doug is doing this no matter what. Nothing short of a fantastical revolt from his base will stop him.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This by Courtney Maum is where I am too. I am grateful to her for the words...
For me, the subject of AI detection is an ouroboros. I’ll speak only for myself, here is my opinion. I didn’t ask for artificial intelligence. It’s not something I need, it is not something I desire. And yet, it barged its way into my life and stole all of my books. All of them. Stole them. Trained off of them. Did not compensate me for this theft. So now, AI can write a book like me, because it stole my own work and learned my breed of humor and satire. So if someone runs an AI text detector on my creative output, it will probably “test positive” why? Because AI is a contaminant that has embedded itself into my work by stealing it and using my own work to perpetuate itself. It will test for itself and find AI there because it AI is a virus that has contaminated the DNA of my current and future writing—a form of intellectual rape. A kind of colonization. A raging plague that some gatekeepers are opening the door for.

If you ask me what I’m currently working on, the answer is nothing book-length. I’m not going to publish a new book in this current landscape. That’s a stance of privilege, I recognize that. And I can’t hold this stance forever, I can hold it as long as I have savings from my last book.

This current literary climate isn’t acceptable. It is not acceptable to have a thing thrust upon us that takes absolutely everything, and then be forced to prove that we are not the thieves.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Just don’t go!! Global Affairs #Canada says the number of arrest and detention cases involving Canadians citizens has jumped 60%. The department’s annual report on consular cases, published today, tracks an increase in arrests between /1 thread www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
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Canada records 60 per cent spike in arrests, detentions of Canadians in United States
Global Affairs Canada says the number of arrest and detention cases involving Canadians citizens has jumped 60 per cent.
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Robert Benzie @robertbenzie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: It’s been three years since the RCMP launched a criminal investigation into Premier Doug Ford’s Greenbelt land swap. A former Ontario attorney general says the Mounties should properly update the public on the status of the probe. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
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Three years later, RCMP says investigation into Doug Ford’s Greenbelt scandal is still ‘ongoing’
It has been more than 1,100 days since the Mounties launched their probe into Ford's $8.28-billion land swap on Oct. 10, 2023.
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Joshua Hind @joshuahind.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Bradford supported these lanes as a Councillor, but never mind that. This isn't leadership, it's pandering to the petty complaints of ONE portion of the electorate to the exclusion of all others. In other words, it's Toronto politics as usual. So much for "Real Change".
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There is no compelling answer that a city councillor can provide, really. It's a problem all over North America. Choosing a right-wing reactionary won't solve anything.
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Woke up, read about the guy who suggested another country should blow up a couple of major cities in his country to make people feel better about paying through the nose for gasoline, then went back to bed for the foreseeable future.
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Toronto Boris @torontoboris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As far as Ive seen none of them are making cars... not in north America anyways. Its all SUVs and pick-ups. Ford even bastardized the Mustang name into an unholy EV SUV abomination... Thousands curses upon Fords grave for that one.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
READ: “If bike lanes were actually removed today, the premier would lose his scapegoat. How would he then explain worsening motor traffic congestion – an outcome that’s virtually assured given a growing population and his measures to induce driving by making it cheaper…” Via @spacing.bsky.social
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OP-ED: It’s not just about bike lanes - Spacing Toronto
Whether it’s buck-a-beer, easier access to alcohol, or tunnelling under Highway 401, Doug Ford has proven himself to be a master of distraction, diverting attention from his government’s failures and ...
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Jay Gamble @drjaydrno.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Don Dani: “This is exactly what we want, so long as that money goes to Mraiche.”
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MJ Nabuurs @mjnabuurs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
@mark-carney.bsky.social These are a public danger, especially to women and young girls. There is no need for most people to have them.
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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Mayor of Calgary: "If you think trading what could be at times an overbearing Ottawa with an incredibly overbearing Washington is going to be any net upgrade, I think you're absolutely out to lunch."
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And it won't even be customers spending money for the most part! Business owners whine about losing parking because they're the ones parking on the street!
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Damn, and you MAGA fools wonder why everyone laughs at you. Because you let these dipshits post ignorant, pathetic bullshit like this.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 04/10/2026
Trump becomes only object on Earth exempt from Canadian urge to apologize
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Trump becomes only object on Earth exempt from Canadian urge to apologize
"Canadians will say they’re sorry, in that particular Canadian pronunciation, to literally anything, but they won’t say it to Donald Trump."
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Climate action is not about saving the planet. The planet will survive. It's about saving PEOPLE from climatological, hydrological, biological and geomorphological collapse.
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UNCRC.bsky.social @dalriad60.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
All hat and no fkg cattle it appears prairiesexposed.substack.com/p/the-man-wh...
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The Man Who Wants to Separate Alberta From Canada Is Now Facing a Financial Reckoning of His Own
There is something almost breathtakingly cynical about the political career Jeffrey Rath has constructed.
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Jennifer Em @jenniferem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This!!
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
How dumb do you have to be to think this guy is smart? How immoral do u have to be to think this guy is moral? How selfish do u have to be to think this guy is selfless? How corrupt do u have to be to think this guy is law-abiding? How traitorous do u have to be to think this guy is patriotic?
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There's an easy solution for Canadians. Stop going to Florida. I did. www.cbc.ca/news/world/f...
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Florida weighs ditching property taxes and sticking Canadians with the bill | CBC News
Florida voters are weighing whether to scrap residential property taxes and the state's governor has a solution to that potentially huge revenue loss: tax Canadians more.
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I am once again at Biidaasige. $1.5 billion in investment that’s going to unlock something like $10 billion in development. An engineering project that allowed landscape architects to lead. We are very fortunate.
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John Roscoe @johnroscoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Be My Guest (a play in one act) [curtain up] ENTER RIGHT, PREMIER SMITH: I demand Ottawa get out of our way! ENTER LEFT, PM CARNEY: Ok, done. PREMIER SMITH: Great! Hey [whistles], investors! [silence] PREMIER SMITH: Uh... investors? [silence] PREMIER SMITH: Oh shi- [exit trapdoor] [curtain down]
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Warren Kinsella has left the Brad Bradford campaign. I think Bradford is bad news for Toronto, and I have no relevant opinion of Kinsella, even though I know a lot of people here really don't like him. I will say that I've been on a couple of TV shows with Kinsella... 1/2
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
what is it and what does it do? that’s the question i’ve been trying to get a clear answer to and it has eluded me or there is no consensus
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
metrics
our streets are so dangerous that we measure success by the number of deaths and injuries.
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John Roscoe @johnroscoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We might never know exactly how much Doug Ford signing this contract in the first place is going to cost us, but it's likely several Pj. Electing grifty blowhards with poor impulse control is *really* expensive; maybe let's stop doing that, hey neighbour?
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Ontario ministers defend secret payout to Elon Musk's SpaceX over nixed Starlink deal | CBC News
Ontario ministers defended keeping secret the province's payout to Elon Musk's SpaceX over a cancelled Starlink contract, as critics accused the government of obfuscation during the recent release of ...
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Geddy Lee, I'm so disappointed. (He's posing with right wing mayoral candidate Brad Bradford)
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Tao of Stieb @taoofstieb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Seeing such joy in Yankee Stadium, it just cuts through my soul like a dull, rusty knife.
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Neil Before Zod @waytowichneil.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It is about time that the Canadian government ends subsidies for foreign owned news organizations in Canada and exclusion from the Canadian Journalism Labour Tax Credit, Canadian Periodical Fund, Digital News Subscription Tax Credit, and the Canada Media Fund. Keep Canadian media Canadian.
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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
RE: Bike lanes save lives and promote health. Removing bike lanes will lead to injury and death. #signed by 600 healthcare workers and counting via #doctorsforsafecycling h/t @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social @ffsafestreets.bsky.social @cycletoronto.bsky.social @safestreetsto.bsky.social #BikeTO
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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
While hospitals layoff nurses and support staff, public education crumbles to dust, Brampton still has only one emergency room, and the north goes up in flames, this is Doug’s bright idea. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
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Doug Ford says Ontario taxpayers will invest in proposed pipeline from Alberta to Sarnia
A Liberal MPP on Tuesday compared the project to the Ontario premier's proposal for a tunnel under Highway 401.
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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you’re going to let an AI agent run amok then do so only if you airgap the machine and control every bit of information you feed to it. Or simply don’t run an AI agent. The technology is based on theft on a massive scale. It doesn’t matter how shiny it is. It’s bad to the core.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's no real point in arguing with his mouth noises, particularly not when preaching to the Bluesky choir, but this is *noteworthy* nonsense. If the revenue were real (it's not), then it would be revenue *of the United States government,* equally available to a Democratic Congress to spend.
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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Years of expensive construction, which will muck up car traffic, to make everything worse
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Kristin Louise Raught Photography 🌀 @kristinlraught.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tonight’s moonrise behind the Seattle Space Needle. It was a perfectly clear night for some beautiful moon photography!

Huge orange moon rising behind the Seattle Space Needle above the city skyline at night.
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Mike Wilner @wilnerness.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Scherzer, postgame, on being a #Bluejays: "I never realized it's the entire country of Canada, 40 million people. That'd be the biggest market of any team in the league. There's so many fans on the road and everybody's so passionate about baseball. ... That speaks my language. I love it."
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You take our bike lanes, we take the road. Toronto showed up Friday night. 📸 @geoffreybercarich via Instagram
Cyclists taking the lane stretching kms of a city street
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