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Raja Doake

@doorisajar.ca
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He / him. Expect a mix of energy sector, data science / machine learning, hobby interests, and probably some politics.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 08/09/2026
I have received news of a perfectly named cafe located on the waterfront of Nova Scotia's capital, if you know what I mean
"Broken Man cafe" sign on a big plate glass window, through which one can see cafe tables and chairs and backs of people's heads. In the distance, a sign indicates that this is Pier 22 on the Halifax waterfront
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Joeri Rogelj @joerirogelj.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A new UN report starts the societal conversation on the implications of a new reality: a world in which 1.5°C of global warming will soon be reached. 👇
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lizajae.bsky.social @lizajae.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Let's do this.
Large stone gates and arch to the Canadian National Exhibition, with Canadian flags flying and a clear blue sky.
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Raja Doake @doorisajar.ca · 22/08/2026
Not one, but two foreign adversaries actively trying to break up the country. thewalrus.ca/the-russian-...
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The Russian Money Behind Alberta’s Separatist Movement | The Walrus
The Kremlin has perfected covert influence. I’ve seen how poorly equipped Canada is to stop it
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Raja Doake @doorisajar.ca · 16/08/2026
Did not expect to break a sweat practicing the piano 😂 but weirdly I think it's a good sign
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Raja Doake @doorisajar.ca · 15/08/2026
The way Emily Wilson wrote about Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is the way the New York Times should write about the Trump regime send tweet
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Raja Doake @doorisajar.ca · 14/08/2026
This pulls together a bunch of long term trends into a coherent whole in a way I don't see articulated often, and never this clearly. Substack, unfortunately, but not paywalled. kyla.substack.com/p/how-to-get...
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How to Get Rich in America
on wealth vs labor and ownership vs effort
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lizajae.bsky.social @lizajae.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The laser bear system is not quite working out...
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Raja Doake @doorisajar.ca · 01/08/2026
I'm currently playing Hades 2, but TBH this seems a lot more interesting. www.mothership.blog/i-came-to-he...
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I came to Hell Clock for the vibes, then learned a history lesson
I knew nothing about the Canudos Massacre, then Pajeú’s struggle pulled me in — and sent me down a research rabbithole
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Raja Doake @doorisajar.ca · 31/07/2026
Toronto is at the same latitude as Florence.
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Richie Assaly @rdassaly.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Toronto's best Nepali food is at Lali Gurans, a mom-and-pop restaurant and community hub in Parkdale. I went behind the scenes for the @westendphoenix.bsky.social
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Today’s Special: Samay Baji — West End Phoenix
Parkdale’s Lali Gurans serves up hard-to-find Nepali and Newari favourites with a side of pop from the house band.
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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Toronto Climate week starts Monday and the climate community has LOTS of work to do. The state of Canadian climate policy in Canada is worse than you think. 🧵
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Ted Han★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 24/04/2026
An infuriating read.
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Raja Doake @doorisajar.ca · 16/04/2026
There was so much of it, and it was so good! aftermath.site/left-4-dead-...
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Left 4 Dead’s Graffiti Is So Memorable Because It Was Made By People—A Whole Lot Of People
"We covered several walls of the office in butcher paper and laid out dozens of markers, pencils and pens, and we invited literally anyone who happened to be walking past to contribute"
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Raja Doake @doorisajar.ca · 29/03/2026
What, and I say this with all sincerity, the fuck arstechnica.com/science/2026...
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Causality optional? Testing the "indefinite causal order" superposition
A quantum experiment shows that we can formally test if the order of events matters.
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Raja Doake @doorisajar.ca · 22/03/2026
"... choosing to live gently, attentively and on one’s own terms is an act of quiet defiance." www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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I have stage four cancer – there will be no cure, but death isn’t necessarily imminent: this is how it feels to live in the long middle
When you are cured, the world cheers; when you are dying, it mourns. But when you are simply maintaining, the world is at a loss
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Raja Doake @doorisajar.ca · 22/03/2026
I finished this collection recently, and it's genuinely lovely/weird. Enjoyed it a lot!
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Raja Doake @doorisajar.ca · 20/03/2026
Whoa... maybe Sunday...
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 18/03/2026
who could have predicted this
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Raja Doake @doorisajar.ca · 08/03/2026
"...parallels between American efforts to embolden and empower Alberta separatism and the Russian plot to lever a separatist movement in the Donbas into an invasion of Ukraine." The question is what we can do about it. thewalrus.ca/canada-is-al...
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Canada Is Already at War with the US—We Just Don’t Know It Yet | The Walrus
Conflicts don’t always start with an invasion
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Laura K Field @lkatfield.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This is so lucid and helpful from @thomaszimmer.bsky.social. The situation is awful and could get a lot worse obviously but also: the country is vast, the authoritarianism is unpopular, and nothing will be settled anytime soon. So power on.
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Raja Doake @doorisajar.ca · 19/01/2026
I usually avoid these, but I thought this might be funny. "Pick up the nearest book. Open to page 42 and post your second sentence. Add #page42 and include this rule as a reply. Don't look for your favorite book. Find the nearest book."
Page 42 of a book. The second sentence is: Unfortunately, because of the chaos in the last hours of the Unity, these pods were scattered at random on Planet's surface.The original game manual for the Mac version of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, a classic turn-based strategy video game.
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Raja Doake @doorisajar.ca · 14/01/2026
Quietly continuing in the background, just like it always does when Palestine fades from the front page headlines... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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‘The settlers brought the violence’: the ethnic cleansing of a West Bank village
Ras ‘Ein al ‘Auja is a small community of about 135 families – and the only one remaining in this part of the Jordan valley
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Raja Doake @doorisajar.ca · 27/12/2025
The beginning of the avalanche... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds
Low-quality AI-generated content is now saturating social media – and generating about $117m a year, data shows
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Raja Doake @doorisajar.ca · 21/12/2025
Happy solstice! ☀️
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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
A great example of Canada’s climate innovation ecosystem in action! Homegrown tech, early support from SDTC (may it rest in peace), federal and provincial support to demonstrate, growth capital from Canada Growth Fund to scale 🍁💪🍁
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Toronto Boris @torontoboris.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
A rather somber piece of cartography. A map with details of every soldier from the city of Toronto and fell in WW2. Really brings into perspective the sacrifice paid citizenry of Toronto for the greater good. Also a morbid reminder of how compact the city was back then. #maps #RememberanceDay
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Toronto Second World War casualty map - Google My Maps
Toronto Second World War casualty map
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West End Phoenix @westendphoenix.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The fruit tastes better, the prices are lower, so why aren't you supporting your local independent grocer. CHAIN REACTION, our series on indie grocers and how they're working to level the playing field between themselves and big grocery. www.westendphoenix.com/stories/chai...
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Chain Reaction — West End Phoenix
These stories and infographics are part of a larger story from the October issue, focused on independent grocers and how they're working to level the playing field between themselves and the Loblaws o...
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Raja Doake @doorisajar.ca · 16/10/2025
Still one of the all time greats. www.designroom.site/shadow-of-th...
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Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history
Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Ico’s masterpiece by looking back with 11 people who worked on it (and three who didn’t).
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Raja Doake @doorisajar.ca · 10/10/2025
Pretty cool! Looking forward to visiting the new park. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront
A project to restore coastal wetland leads to astonishing discoveries of a host of life: seeds and plant scraps, as well as water fleas, worms, larvae and plankton
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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 05/10/2025
In some ways the debate around sampling seems archaic in a world of generative AI, but it also was an indicator of all that was to come b/c the argument always get framed in terms of “fairness” but legislated in favor of the powerful.
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Raja Doake @doorisajar.ca · 05/10/2025
I remember Diana Buttu's writing from 20 years ago - a Palestinian Canadian who tried to help. She articulates exactly how today, the same problems are more acute, and the interlocutors suffer from the same myopia. Plus ça change... www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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A ‘magic pill’ made Israeli violence invisible. We need to stop swallowing it | Diana Buttu
For years, I pressed Palestinian interests in peace talks. The response to Trump’s plan proves the international community hasn’t learned from catastrophe
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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I don't think there's a sad enough trombone sound for this www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Ontario will miss 2030 emission reduction goal by even wider gap than it admits: auditor | CBC News
Ontario's environment ministry says it will miss its 2030 greenhouse gas emissions reduction target, but the auditor general says province will in fact likely miss that target by an even wider margin.
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called? ME: Slay the Spire. CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer? ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours. CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them? ME: Now hold on a second,
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Raja Doake @doorisajar.ca · 23/09/2025
There should be zero duty to serve data centre loads. For once, make corporations pay for some of their their so-called "externalities." heatmap.news/energy/elect...
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Electricity Markets Aren’t Working Anymore
Why regional transmission organizations as we know them might not survive the data center boom.
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Raja Doake @doorisajar.ca · 23/09/2025
clair obscur is the best atlus rpg since digital devil saga 1 dont @ me
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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Hey Torontonians! Learn abt the future of climate politics at book launch event for Existential Politics, Oct 9 at @utoronto.ca. Features a fierce all-woman panel including @cat-abreu.bsky.social, Fate Saghir & CBC's Jill English. Event is FREE. Registration here: cpe.utoronto.ca/event/book-l...
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Book Launch: Existential Politics by Jessica F. Green
Join University of Toronto’s Lawson Climate Institute as we celebrate the launch of Existential Politics by Professor Jessica F. Green with a panel discussion, networking reception, and meet-and-greet...
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City of Toronto @toronto.ca · 18/08/2025
You 🫵 can help us increase our tree canopy by 40% by 2050 🌳 By planting a tree, you can 🍃improve air quality 🍃minimize noise & dust 🍃reduce storm water run off 🍃 strengthen our city’s climate resilience We’ll leaf it to you to learn more by visiting www.yourleaf.org 📲
Someone smiles and crouches down to adjust mulch around a young tree.
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Raja Doake @doorisajar.ca · 10/08/2025
"You have to build a case, an AI executive said... , comparing raising concerns over AGI to the way that the US built its case for the invasion of Iraq. But that case was built on faulty evidence, an audience member objected." 😩 www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-disagre...
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AI disagreements
Inside a closed-door AI doomer conference with rationalists, tech executives, and the acolytes of Silicon Valley's "new religion"
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Raja Doake @doorisajar.ca · 09/08/2025
This is the main thing that concerns me about having moved back to Canada - we may not have gone far enough.
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Raja Doake @doorisajar.ca · 09/08/2025
Alpha Centauri still stands alone among 4X games, I think. The factions have philosophies, not flavour. And they all have to grapple with ethical questions other 4X games ignore, because the ecosystem is a character - not just a substrate for the mechanics. www.filfre.net/2025/06/alph...
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» Alpha Centauri The Digital Antiquarian
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Raja Doake @doorisajar.ca · 09/08/2025
OMFG OMFG A SEQUEL TO DIE?!? www.rascal.news/exclusive-di...
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EXCLUSIVE: DIE returns to the table with Loaded comic run and RPG quickstart
Another roll of the bones.
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Project Drawdown @projectdrawdown.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Decarb work in #banking continues behind the scenes 💸🤫 "Financing provided to oil, gas and coal projects by Wall Street’s top six banks fell 25% to $73 billion this year through Aug. 1 from the same period in 2024" @bloomberglp.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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Raja Doake @doorisajar.ca · 06/08/2025
A lot will be determined by how successful these efforts are. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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The Trump Administration’s Campaign to Undermine the Next Election
The executive branch is interfering in U.S. elections in unprecedented ways.
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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Good morning with good news: Solar and wind globally generated a record 471 TWh in May 2025 or 19.3% of the world's electricity! Global S&W Generation in May 2025 471 TWh 2024 400 TWh 2023 360 TWh 2022 311 TWh 2021 267 TWh 2020 214 TWh 2019 188 TWh It skyrocketed 154% since 2019. Wow! #energysky
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Raja Doake @doorisajar.ca · 07/07/2025
I was an avid Reading Rainbow watcher. LeVar Burton introduced me to science fiction generally, and TNG specifically: m.imdb.com/title/tt0683...
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"Reading Rainbow" The Bionic Bunny Show (TV Episode 1988) ⭐ 9.1 | Animation, Comedy, Drama
28m | TV-Y
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Raja Doake @doorisajar.ca · 20/06/2025
This tension runs throughout so many tabletop roleplaying games. And unsurprisingly, one game that handles it well is... LANCER (whose co-creator I'm quoting here). It has the benefit of a narrative justification for imposing structure on combat: when you get in the robot, you use different rules.
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Raja Doake @doorisajar.ca · 19/06/2025
Every tenth matters. Don't give up.
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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
All of this 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We are no longer free. But we can win our freedom back
To meet this moment in US history, we need to revisit the rich – and successful – tradition of nonviolent protest
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