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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 5h
So much respect for this, and the framing. ABC, the right wing version of Progress Toronto, has used health care workers/hospitals as reason to rip them out. This puts a lie to that (and on University ambulances can bypass cars in the wide bikelanes if needed). So many lies.
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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 5h
Thank Randy Mastro and that judge on Staten Island for overturning the pied-a-terre tax yesterday. If you live in New York, some of this asshole's $3 billion could have gone to you. If you feel like that money has been stolen from you, you're not wrong.
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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 6h
Person listening to music without headphones AT THE LIBRARY
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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 7h
I don’t want to hear any Ralph Nader discourse that isn’t this
Tweet from Jan 13 2020

Prompt tweet from Aidan Moher (@adribbleofink)
Tell me a story about yourself the sounds like a lie but is absolutely true.

QT from Alexander from Space (@Space_Alexander)
I got my wisdom teeth out and the next day I drove to Ralph Nader's house and he and his sister gave me an entire thing of ice cream.
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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 16h
Love an awkward handshake between two best friends who hate each other’s guts
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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 20h
A lot of people are QTing this with “Clayface (2026)”, and I have to say, I agree. Exact same mouth.
Wallace from Wallace and Gromit
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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 23h
jkjk they just took the lead against the Jim Crow team off a JT Realmuto triple, go Phils wooder ice wooder ice jawn jawn jawn 🥨🥨
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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 29/09/2026
If Randy Mastro fell into a giant pit, it would be the single best thing that could happen to New York City.
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Adam @adamshap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NYC’s congestion pricing program cut ambulance travel times by over a minute
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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 29/09/2026
Very tragic and sad news... www.amny.com/news/brookly... Buy I disagree with the article characterizing this as a "freak accident". We spend billions every year to keep conductors on Subway trains to be an extra set of eyes to prevent tragedies exactly like this. What happened??
amny.com
Brooklyn commuter dragged to his death by A train after his bag gets caught in doors | amNewYork
Police are investigating a horrific death at a Brooklyn subway station on Monday evening in which a man was fatally dragged by a moving train in an apparent
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Ollie @olliemunster.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I can't believe Man City are going to jail. Wow.
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I wrote about Premier Doug Ford's apparent indifference to human life for @thestar.com: www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
thestar.com
Graeme Bayliss: His cyclist friend was killed. Why did Doug Ford’s response include ‘lmao’?
No one is expecting the premier to mash out the Bixby letter on his iPhone. Yet we might expect more than this.
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User with this avatar just got blocked @avijustgotblocked.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
An account with this avatar was just blocked.
Avatar of an account that was just blocked.
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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 28/09/2026
I cannot stress enough how much more Bad For The Jews this paranoia is than any of the things this part of the Jewish community purports to be afraid of. I think Rush even put out a whole trilogy of songs about this, and they all had way better guitar parts than Geddy’s Instagram post.
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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 28/09/2026
I’m still choosing to blame Jeff Hoffman for this
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 28/09/2026
something to understand about the Jewish community in Toronto (and surely elsewhere) is how many have been propagandized into believing left-ish politicians are literally backing hordes of pro-Palestinian antisemites to terrorize Jews everywhere in our homes, schools, synagogues, etc
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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 28/09/2026
Geddy Lee endorsing Brad Bradford for mayor of TorontoWesley Snipes crying gun meme
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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 28/09/2026
The four brightest spots of the 2026 Jays (Cease, Okamoto, Miles, Bateman) didn't play in the 2025 World Series, and I have to believe that's not a coincidence
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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 28/09/2026
Rochester, New York: The Heart of Dixie
Old record:
the Dixieland Ramblers at the Pittsford Inn
(Photo of six guys in tuxedos playing in a band: double bass, clarinet, drums, trumpet, trombone, upright piano)Back cover of the record (sorry, too many characters to put all the text in the alt field, it was $6 at Westsider Records in Manhattan)
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Hannah Posts @hannahposts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sorry, I'm confused. This picture of Texas Indian-Americans hootin and hollering at a foot ball game is supposed to be evidence of non-assimilation of immigrants into American culture?
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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 28/09/2026
Can @ugarles.bsky.social confirm if this is a banger or not?
Overpriced and scratched up “Rare 1977 Pittsburgh Pirates 45 Vinyl
Record” on Facebook Marketplace ($100, down from $400)

Yellow label with a pirate’s face in the middle. He has a tricorn hat with a skull and crossbones, and the spindle hole is where his left eye should be.

LUMBER & LIGHTNING
Harry O’Toole

BUCS-77
1:10

℗1977
POOKA Records

Union and Confederacy Music Inc ASCAP
Recorded at JEREE Studio
Distributed by POOKA Records Pgh Pa
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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 28/09/2026
I say this as someone who enjoys a lot of older country music, it's been like this for a long time. Sure, the genre has gotten chuddier in the past 20-30 years, but Loretta Lynn actively campaigned for George Wallace.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Germany needs to just fucking ban these Nazis already and throw them all in prison
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
People love threatening to murder people for legally riding bikes. Of course drivers regularly hit cyclists riding in painted bike lanes or shoulders. It's almost like motorists don't need any excuse to inflict violence upon bicyclists.
A Facebook comment that includes a comic of a car mowing down a group of cyclist with the text, "Cyclists! Move over and it won't happen!"
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.
Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.
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Sky Kalkman @skykalkman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I want Senate polling crosstabs for the people who have forgotten how red lights work.
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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 27/09/2026
Treating this as a prompt to share cool below-the-radar stuff I’ve been into lately youtu.be/vKopD_3eoNo?...
youtu.be
Bayon - Bayon (Prog Rock) (Folk) (Germany) (1977) (Full Album)
YouTube video by foreal
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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 27/09/2026
Poptimism has evolved to its final form, accusing people who don’t like pop music of being bad people, and as a snob I’m going to take that as a total vindication
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Really helpful. There are ballot questions that would speed up outdoor dining applications and bus/bike projects, undoing old 2010s bikelash-era laws that were designed to slow down street safety initiatives.
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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 27/09/2026
I only knew about this song before last week because it’s Kazuma Okamoto’s walkup music, despite the fact that he chose Ontario instead.
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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 27/09/2026
But have you considered all of the loose pets on the bus in Hamburg?
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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 26/09/2026
Officially in favor of the Phillies completing their collapse, and it’s 100% because they won’t move tonight’s game for the weather, and therefore won’t refund my ticket.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:
theguardian.com
Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people
Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’
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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 26/09/2026
Fine, I will fuck President Rahm Emanuel, are you happy now @nytimes.com?
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Loomin' Onion™ @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The thing is he's right that you shouldn't, but it's a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy because the reason you shouldn't is the prevalence of giant pieces of shit like him looking for any excuse to look down on someone.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
lol holy shit I wouldn't talk about literally anything else if I was the guy running against him. —"What do you think about trans kids in sp-" —"Did you hear my opponent had his patient, who was 8 months pregnant, arrested in front of her son because she didn't pay a $50 medical bill?"
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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 25/09/2026
She’s gonna show us all of her blood
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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 25/09/2026
They invented a celebrity boyfriend even more made up than “Benson Boone”
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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 24/09/2026
The Sun Belt steals yet another proud Nutmeg State team. RIP Whalers, RIP Bridgeport Bluefish, RIP Sun
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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 24/09/2026
Not even close to the worst thing Israel has done, but the damage that country has done to the reputation of Jewish comedy is good for a few trips to The Hague
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Also “If he’s going to start providing childcare for municipal workers, he should provide parking for teachers,” is an A+ car brain quote. Care and feeding for children is just as important as car storage? Okay.
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Jonathan Goldsbie @goldsbie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Bradford complains that, on a weekly basis, he sees someone smoking crack on the 505 streetcar, which is perplexing given how much his rhetoric around the city's finances suggests there's at least one famed crack-smoker he holds in high esteem.
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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 22/09/2026
[extremely ominously] boy he sure was charming with Nardwuar
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Carney is truly the Reagan of Canada. A calming, paternalistic figure in a period of apocalyptic uncertainty who galvanizes the economy with short-sighted right wing fiscal policies. And like Reagan, every disaster that Canada encounters in the future will be traceable to his administration.
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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 22/09/2026
If you miss the Vanderbilt Open Street on Friday nights and Sundays, you can thank Lynda Balsama for that here
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grapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
we have to be able to tell people who talk like this that we don't care how they feel
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season of the simp @yakuzajohn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
the rhetoric that some people feel comfortable using to oppose things they don’t like - bus lanes, homeless shelters, etc. - is so fucking out of touch and horrifying and society shouldn’t let them say it without social sanction (or in this case, with explicit social sanction from NYP)
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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 22/09/2026
So close to giving Don Mattingly some company in the club of ringless Yankee greats 🙏
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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 22/09/2026
readthecatch.ca/what-we-lost...
readthecatch.ca
What We Lost with Canadaland's Decline
Reflecting on what a loss Canadian news truly suffered
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