Sign in

Diego Rupolo

@diegorupolo.bsky.social
335 followers 858 following 492 posts

Student at the University of Toronto 🇨🇦 who has also studied at Universidad Torcuato di Tella 🇦🇷. Interests include urbanism; Latin American public policy, politics, and history; migration & diasporas; human geography; LGBT communities + their intersections.

PostsRepliesMedia
Diego Rupolo @diegorupolo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I posted about this one a while ago that was actually used in the death flights and was only relatively recently repatriated by the country from a Florida skydiving company.
000
Diego Rupolo @diegorupolo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Leaving work, I have a good view of the planes landing at Billy Bishop Airport and was kind of awestruck when I saw a Skyvan SC-7 flying by. Those were the same planes infamously used by Argentina's military dictatorship during the "death flights."
FlightRadar24 screenshot showing a Short SC-7 Skyvan 3M-400 aircraft, registration C-GUWW, on the ground in Pembroke, Ontario. The flight is shown en route from Pembroke (YTA) to Toronto (YTZ), with an estimated arrival time of 5:14 p.m.
110
Diego Rupolo @diegorupolo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Always happy when the City of Toronto actually decides to winterize a bathroom, but I see the timeline for this one in High Park was too ambitious, I guess?
Toronto Parks and Recreation construction sign for Lower Hillside Washroom Improvements, stating that construction begins in Summer 2025 and is expected to be completed in Winter 2025. A fenced-off washroom building with a red metal roof is visible behind the sign.
000
Diego Rupolo @diegorupolo.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Just learned that President Keiko Fujimori in Peru won election largely based on votes from abroad/cast outside of Peru. As someone fascinated by diasporic voting as a concept, this is something I am excited to learn more about.
010
Diego Rupolo @diegorupolo.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Now that I'm finished school and working again, it's so hard not to get into a banal routine of just living and not continuously learning and improving.
010
Reposted by Diego Rupolo
Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Things I never thought I would type: look at how they greeted the Algerian team arriving back at the DoubleTree in Lawrence, Kansas
11679931300
Diego Rupolo @diegorupolo.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
To anyone who thought expanding the World Cup was a bad idea, how does it feel to be so wrong?
010
Reposted by Diego Rupolo
Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Decades ago, I supported mandatory helmet laws for people riding bikes. Then I was convinced by evidence and the bigger picture that such laws are actually counter-productive in many ways. This NZ article explains some. I support helmets, but not mandatory helmet laws. Build safe infrastructure.
thespinoff.co.nz
David Seymour was right to question our compulsory helmet laws
There’s little evidence our mandatory cycle laws improve overall safety, and quite a bit of evidence suggesting they’re doing more harm than good.
2336492
Diego Rupolo @diegorupolo.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
About a month before the #WorldCup, it seems very possible that Toronto stadium will be as embarassing as people were scared it was going to be.
View of Toronto stadium construction through a black metal fence, with stacked steel beams, construction materials, and the stadium structure visible under a cloudy sky.View of Toronto stadium construction behind a tall metal security fence, with the stadium structure, cranes, and equipment visible beneath a bright blue sky with scattered clouds.
120
Diego Rupolo @diegorupolo.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Today is the last day to do the public survey on the yongeTOmorrow project. The survey only takes about 5 minutes and is looking for feedback on the plan to adjust the main avenue to be more pedestrian friendly: www.toronto.ca/community-pe...
toronto.ca
yongeTOmorrow
View information materials in Public Consultation tab below and complete the survey by May 5. Yonge Street is an iconic destination in the heart of Downtown Toronto. The City of Toronto is recommendin...
120
Reposted by Diego Rupolo
Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Almost a kilometre of new lakefill. This project will be a disaster for Toronto’s waterfront. The Port Authority has a plan. They are choosing to keep it secret and leak it piecemeal so we can’t get a handle on it. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
theglobeandmail.com
Runway at Billy Bishop could need up to 900 metres of new landmass for jets, agency says
Toronto Port Authority CEO says plan would see most of the new runway jut westward, instead of east into harbour
109950
Reposted by Diego Rupolo
august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 18/04/2026
increasingly convinced the average southern ontarian's morning routine involves drinking a cup of gasoline with a small plate of hot asphalt crumble
45110
Reposted by Diego Rupolo
Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 17/04/2026
Earlier this week, @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social flagged one of the most common (and dangerous) myths about U.S. immigration: the belief that anyone can become a citizen if they just "wait in line." For millions of our neighbors stuck in our broken immigration system, that line doesn't exist 🧵
15211
Diego Rupolo @diegorupolo.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Because I apparently forgot to post it here, I did a podcast talking about my cultural identity, Argentina, and the Latino community in Toronto: youtu.be/G2NHJt5PaHM?...
youtu.be
“Am I Latino?” - A Canadian’s Identity Crisis After Living in Argentina [EN]
YouTube video by More Than Tequila
000
Reposted by Diego Rupolo
Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Between Vance lecturing the Pope about theology and Poilievre telling Carney he's bad at economics, it's been a great week for confident men.
914729
Diego Rupolo @diegorupolo.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Some people have made AI their entire personality, and some people have made hating AI their entire personality, and guys, I'm exhausted.
100
Diego Rupolo @diegorupolo.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
If you're not writing with footnotes, you're doing it wrong.
000
Diego Rupolo @diegorupolo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This week I presented my poster presentation comparing Argentine memorial sites for Victoria College's Undergraduate Research Day. My presentation received honourable mentions in three award categories (always a bridesmaid, never a bride!) which was a cool surprise I didn't expect at all.
The author stands beside a large academic research poster in a formal hall with wood floors and oil portrait paintings on the wall. The poster is titled "Comparing the Memorial Sites of Argentina's Last Dic[tatorship]: A Conversation Between Preservation and Memorialization" by Diego Rupolo. It features sections on "Preservation of Place" and "Focus on Me[morialization]," with photographs of sites including ESMA in Buenos Aires, El Pozo in Rosario, and La Perla in Córdoba, alongside a map of Argentina and text discussing clandestine detention centers from the 1976–1983 dictatorship. The person is wearing a black button-up shirt, dark jeans, and black shoes, with purple-framed glasses.**Alt text:**

Academic research poster titled "Comparing the Memorial Sites of Argentina's Last Dictatorship: A Conversation Between Preservation and Memorialization" by Diego Rupolo. The poster is divided into two main columns against a yellow central background. The left column, "Preservation of Place," profiles four former clandestine detention centers converted into memorial sites: ESMA (Navy School) in Buenos Aires, the Investigations Brigade in Tucumán, "El Pozo" Space for Memory in Rosario, and "La Perla" Space for Memory and Promotion of Human Rights in Córdoba — each with photographs of the buildings and bullet-point descriptions of their history and current status. The center section contains introductory text explaining the project's focus on ~762 clandestine detention centers from Argentina's 1976–1983 dictatorship, a comparative argument about spatial versus non-spatial memorialization, and a map of Argentina showing the geographic distribution of detention sites across five zones. The right column, "Focus on Memorialization," profiles three non-spatial memorial institutions: Parque de la Memoria in Buenos Aires, the Museum of Art and Memory in La Plata, and the International Museum for Democracy in Rosario — each with photographs and descriptions. A QR code in the bottom right links to additional content. Red arrows connect some site entries to their locations on the map.
120
Diego Rupolo @diegorupolo.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
My reflective personal essay on Mambo Italiano, the queer Italian-Canadian film, has now been published on the blog for the Queer Italian Canadian Artists Project I originally wrote it for: www.qic-artists.com/post/reflect...
qic-artists.com
Reflecting on Mambo Italiano, 22 Years Later
By Diego RupoloI must have been about 13 when my dad brought home Mambo Italiano from the Blockbuster Video, just another movie for us to watch as a family, gathered around the TV in the living room. ...
010
Diego Rupolo @diegorupolo.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Today is the 50th anniversary of Argentina's last dictatorship. I have three research projects I'm working on right now related to that era and yet almost missed that this huge milestone was coming up. It's amazing to see all the marches, demonstrations, and artwork coming out of Argentina today.
000
Diego Rupolo @diegorupolo.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Academic book releases can be so fun because they can be on niche topics you're very interested in like comparative gay print culture in Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. Was great to go to this book launch and see the release from a former TA of mine, Juan Carlos Mezo Gonzalez. Excited to read it.
A hand holds up a book titled Gay Print Culture: A Transnational History of North America by Juan Carlos Mezo González in front of a brutalist concrete and glass building. The book cover features a collage-style design with a young man in a casual shirt set against tropical foliage, overlaid with excerpts of printed text in pink and blue tones.An author wearing glasses and a dark blazer sits at a round light wood table, signing a copy of Gay Print Culture with a pen. On the table are a white water bottle, a second copy of the book facing upright, and a bouquet of knitted flowers wrapped in clear cellophane with a white ribbon bow.
271
Reposted by Diego Rupolo
Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 19/03/2026
This should be an incredible embarrassment to someone in charge in Toronto, and maybe part of the problem is the public doesn’t know who
2256
Diego Rupolo @diegorupolo.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I hate when I run for a streetcar and then it sits in the station for 10 minutes. And then my out-of-shape body has to sit there panting like an idiot.
000
Reposted by Diego Rupolo
Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Ideas and language that were absolutely fringe even five years ago are now things people say without even being totally clear what they mean. The memetic warfare stuff worked
218325
Reposted by Diego Rupolo
Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The number of people I’ve seen in comments on Instagram insisting that the Michigan synagogue attack was a “false flag” makes me just absolutely despair on about five different levels personally and professionally
1551753
Reposted by Diego Rupolo
Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Have a lover caress you the way the Canadian establishment caresses John Tory.
812216
Diego Rupolo @diegorupolo.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
It brings me such joy to shame loud people in libraries.
240
Diego Rupolo @diegorupolo.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
On the subway and there's someone clipping their nails and another person eating directly from a giant block of cheddar cheese. The TTC is a trip.
000
Reposted by Diego Rupolo
Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
inquirer.com
The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch
An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.
33680994395
Diego Rupolo @diegorupolo.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Broadcasters are *really* trying to rehabilitate Gretzky's image, but for what it's worth the Scotiabank Arena crowd here in Toronto has loudly booed each time he's been on screen at the watch party.
120
Diego Rupolo @diegorupolo.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Ski mountaineering is one of the stupidest sports I've ever seen. I absolutely love it.
000
Diego Rupolo @diegorupolo.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Concerts are a lot of waiting around.
100
Reposted by Diego Rupolo
Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
2026 basically
A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".
3024089910874
Reposted by Diego Rupolo
Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Are we in hell?
5347957
Reposted by Diego Rupolo
Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!
Photo of 7 year old Diana Crespo sitting with her parents at a table in a restaurant. Her dad is giving a thumbs up.
94117906198
Diego Rupolo @diegorupolo.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
This is a shame. The CIA world factbook was weirdly good.
000
Diego Rupolo @diegorupolo.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Streetcars and LRT do not work in Toronto. I'm tired of hearing from progressive urban planning advocates that they *could work* if we *did them the right way.* At this point, it has been literal decades of them not working. I don't care about your mythical ideal.
100
Reposted by Diego Rupolo
Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
NEW: A federal judge in Minnesota orders Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons to appear IN PERSON this Friday and explain why he shouldn't be held in contempt. "The court's patience is at an end," writes Bush-appointed Judge Patrick J Schiltz, who clerked for Scalia. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Part 1 of 2 screenshots reads: "The court's patience is at an end. Accordingly, the Court will order Todd Lyons, the Acting Director of ICE, to appear personally before the Court and show cause why he should not be held in contempt of Court. The Court acknowledges that ordering the..."Part 2 of 2 screenshot reads "...head of a federal agency to personally appear is an extraordinary step, but the extent of ICE's violation of court orders is likewise extraordinary, and lesser measures have been tried an failed."
522902739
Reposted by Diego Rupolo
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
More than a little late, but a great development that will hopefully find echoes in other local PDs
431453328
Diego Rupolo @diegorupolo.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Ok, I need to hear from the people. Has anyone gone for a sleep study and *not* been recommended a CPAP machine?
100
Reposted by Diego Rupolo
Baptiste Lerak @baptistelerak.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I have seen the same song and dance play out so many times in the last decade and half: the author's objection, always, is that society is rotten, and their "solution", always, is total societal reorganization, with even herculean political endeavors being presented as less than the bare minimum.
131732
Reposted by Diego Rupolo
Baptiste Lerak @baptistelerak.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I think this opinion piece is quite emblematic of what we around these parts have come to call "Woke 1", i.e social justice practiced primarily as an extension of left-wing academic discourse, with all the issues and limitations that implies. It's a relic of bygone age, unfit for the present moment
1558277
Reposted by Diego Rupolo
🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 24/01/2026
If the US were a geopolitical rival the headlines would be like: US Secret Police Execute Second Dissident In the Streets As Militarized Occupation Enters Sixth Week
4458002154
Reposted by Diego Rupolo
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
There has been an increasing sense in Minneapolis that we are on our own, that our elected representatives are unwilling and/or unable to take action to get these murderous Nazi thugs out of our community. I really hope that changes today. The time for pleading TV hits ended weeks ago.
495143183684
Diego Rupolo @diegorupolo.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Started watching The Pitt and it's such a good show but I couldn't even tell you why. I've never even loved hospital dramas and it's just watching organized chaos for several hours, but somehow it's so compelling? It's rare that I'm almost incapable of articulating why I like something.
000
Reposted by Diego Rupolo
Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
We have a consultation problem. I write about a Toronto rec centre that will have taken 14 years to plan, cost at least three times the original budget - and be a bad building. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
theglobeandmail.com
What is the cost of consultation?
Toronto recreation centre that started as $40-million project in 2016 has ballooned to nearly $113-million before construction even starts
418446
Reposted by Diego Rupolo
Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
9534967214279
Reposted by Diego Rupolo
Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
If we had a halfway decent opposition party in Canada, they’d endorse the words Carney used today, and then hammer him relentlessly on implementation or lack thereof.
16482106
Diego Rupolo @diegorupolo.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Just saw a headline that processed deli meat is definitely a carcinogen and it reminded me I had a soppressata in the fridge. You can pry it from my cold, dead hands.
020
Reposted by Diego Rupolo
Mark Rice @markricehistory.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Today is a good day to remember Charly García's poignant song, "Los dinosaurios." Things are bad. The dinosaurs out there damage, disappear, and destroy. But, remember that the dinosaurs are also going to dissapear. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAuq...
youtube.com
Charly García - Los Dinosaurios (Audio)
YouTube video by CharlyGarciaVEVO
061