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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 4h

I presume one of the problems is that it’s probably significantly cheaper now to produce/film a scene showing motorized vehicles rather than dealing with procuring horses and all the associated services and trained staff they require

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

my spicier takes are that - semiotically an ai photo of french fries should be read the same as a 2000s restaurant putting clip art of a french waiter with a bottle of wine on the menu - today's 10 year olds will be very nostalgic, in 20 years, for this style of ai slop pictures

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Well, thank you, but I don't think it's anywhere near publication quality. There's a whole host of technical and artistic issues. My point is more, when small restaurants turn to ai tools, it's not coming out of nowhere, there are big logistical challenges and costs to getting good food photography

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Lighting and composition is always a challenge for the camera side of any professional photography, but the particular thing about food photography is that the food needs to cooperate too, with styling, plating, and non-food props. Compare a decent amateur shot to a team of pros on the same dish

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Yes, photographing chicken wings is seriously difficult to do well

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I’d love it if Toronto council and staff considered mobility here as a whole system.

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think CycleTO is currently deciding whether an appeal to the SCC would make sense

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Morally, yes, it's a pretty bad thing to do. But legally, provinces and the federal government can generally set the terms on which there is liability for their actions

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’m not a lawyer but I understand that part of it, unfortunately, to be on pretty firm ground (and iirc wasn’t challenged)

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Looks like the monkey’s paw really curled on this one

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The legislstion provides a liability shield

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm saying the opposite--I think polling error is more likely to be correlated (e.g. a shy tory effect)

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You’re treating the polling error as independent? Chow is clearly the front runner, but I worry that your model is overstating the chances

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I just want to see more fight. I don't think I'm alone in this. There's a positive vision of the city that's worth really fighting for

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The nice thing is that it very much wouldn't need to be an "all at once" project. Start working north from Eglinton, the farther the project gets the better, yes, but even a couple hundred metres would be far better than the [adjective censored] status quo

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

More people need to be talking about decking over the Allen

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Political parties are basically companies. Board of directors, bylaws, president, treasurer, staff reporting up through through a "CEO", etc. They are legal entities that (sort of) anyone can create. This is more normal globally than the american situation with two mushy, sticky, and squishy parties

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yeah, this is not a government that has significant political room to play. I think on Alto the faster (from an overall perspective) they can move, the less risk the project will face. Long delays just feel so very risky, but if the actual work on sections starts... bsky.app/profile/cana...

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don't think it's the end but I think it's exceedingly unlikely that Tor>Ott gets reprioritized to be built first. Most likely a minority prov gov't with <30% vote share just won't or can't do anything to stop a very popular initiative that's firmly in federal jurisdiction

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Jonathan English @englishrail.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is the first of a three part series I’m doing for Infrastory on the infrastructure of the Great Lakes. infrastory.substack.com/p/the-great-...

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm rating this statement between a C+ and B-. Pros: Short and to the point, left-justified. Clear about endorsements. Cons: Missing paragraphs and formatting (bullet points). But more importantly it's implying the key message between the lines.

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Every year, during the air show on Labour Day weekend, drivers decide they can park on the grass in the waterfront parks and use the Martin Goodman Trail as a road. Despite regular complaints from Walk Toronto and locals, the City has not stopped this. Video from this year. #walkTO

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Leaving any of this to the second week in October is leaving it pretty late.

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Observing The City @observingthecity.ca · 05/10/2026

I believe I have made the first tool that gives poll-by-poll visualizations for all the 2022 Toronto city council races. I'm really excited about this one, because it's something that I have always wanted to exist.

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Every river in North America, every day for two years. The combined flow to the sea sinks as low as 53,000 m³/s in winter and swells past 290,000 by late June, more than quadrupling each spring. Data: GloFAS, @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social #rivers #dataviz #hydrology

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 05/10/2026

It's okay to learn from everything, and train on everything. That's everyone's birthright, and we shouldn't apologize for it. Prohibitions on copying were a late invention, and a narrowly tailored one. They do not express a general ethical law that all information ought to be priced and paid for.

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My prediction: one member will be elected from each riding to sit in the Assembly

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Lots of Bradford signs in Ward 8, don't think I've seen a single Chow sign up there. Does she have a larger organizing presence in other wards?

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I know it takes all types, but I'm surprised at just how many people living here experience Toronto, at least conceptually, through a vehicular point of view.

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This proposed thing just seems like it’s going to increase the systemic fragility of government services in a state that really can’t afford to be any more fragile than it already is

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thank you. But I do think it is important what metaphors and comparisons we use and holding an elected office is not a job, as we commonly mean. It’s not something one applies to, is hired to, or has a boss. It’s something far more ancient and weird

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s important to be clear that a mayor is not a councillor‘s boss and both are independent political actors who get one vote at council. I don’t like Bradford but I don’t think that running for an elected position is in itself something that should be negatively framed, it’s on voters’ judgement

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Edward Xie @edwardxie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In ERs, we see the impact of unsafe roads regularly. Cities with good bike infrastructure have fewer deaths and greater safety for all, regardless of whether they’re walking, cycling or driving. Ontario gov should reconsider how to spend $48 mil Improve lives - not put them at risk #bikeTO #onpoli

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Why hundreds of doctors are fighting Ford’s removal of Toronto bike lanes

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And Canada doesn't really have the lack of resource constraints that our southern neighbour does which means that we have historically had the interest in efficiency to build this way, and I think that will be there for the foreseeable future as well

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It just comes down to that it's a question of geometry making it impossible to build single family homes to meet housing needs, and impactable and time consuming to travel around in single occupant cars

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

are politicians going to be responsive to that? Now, maybe not, but there's a natural constituency that's getting larger and larger and I think it's relatively easy to politically activate.

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's not even that. It's that 60%+ of new housing built in Toronto doesn't have a parking space. As the population expands, more and more people won't *be able to* have a car. This is the structural change, and

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Going to be fascinating this coming spring to look at the new census releases as they come out

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The glass-half-full is that there are strong reasons to think that there are structural factors that will limit that going forward, but...

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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

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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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

From @graphicmatt.com newsletter, on the transformation of mode count at Mill & Cherry: "Those two August counts are pretty darn remarkable, and do a good job of validating the work that went into building the West Don Lands into a walkable urban neighbourhood." #walkTO

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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Kind of amazing how underappreciated “make the buses go faster” would save service hours, free up bus availability, and actually sell more fares, all of which are positives on a transit agency’s balance sheet

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Really feels some days like the point of consultations that the city/province runs are to create a heads-I-win/tails-you-lose situation

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safestreetsto.bsky.social @safestreetsto.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today @STRCycling has released new provincial polling data showing how Ontario feels about Cycling. #OBS2026 #OnPoli #CycleOn #ToPoli #BikeTo sharetheroad.ca/news/64-of-o...

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

And also, if 12,000 flyers to residents for consultation resulted in 80 responses, I have very little sympathy for residents, and more importantly, a Councillor, complaining after the fact about the project.

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