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@infernalmachine0.bsky.social
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Toronto #policywonk and urban nerd. Metalhead. Have been known to laugh so I don't cry.

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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Well if this isn't late stage capitalism in a nutshell.... www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
cbc.ca
Fruit of the Loom, Hanes investigated over potential toxic chemicals in children's underwear | CBC News
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched an investigation on Tuesday into whether Fruit of the Loom and Hanes use toxic chemicals in producing ‌children's underwear.
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Shower thought: We need to bring back old skool message boards like from Internet 1.0.... I met some lifelong friends via message board circa 2001-07.
A generic message board in a 2004 style
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
In the subject of trains.... Union station is so much better now post major renovation. The GO train to Niagara however took THREE HOURS.... If Ontario wants the region to become a huge new tourist draw, this needs to be fixed, ASAP.
Niagara River whirlpool area
Niagara River and gorgeUnion station train concourse
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Toronto Wildlife-- raven eats rat. Cars drive around the grisly spectacle for fear of angering the raven gods. Epic. #citywildlife
Large raven on a roadway eating bits of a rat
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Mikey Says Hey! @erlking.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is very, very important to sign, but PLEASE note: they email you after you've signed it, and you need to click the link in the email to verify your signature for it to be recorded!
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
So very quotable, and so very required reading to everyone that would like to put their finger on why exactly AI pisses them off so much.... @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy #ai #enshittification
Book "the reverse Centaur's guide to AI"
An excerpt from The Reverse Centaur's Guide to AI book that starts "the funny math gets dangerous"
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Screw you squirrels .... 2 down, 22 lights to wire wrap....
Patio lights with metal wire wrapped around the lightbulb cords
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Let the #hotpepper harvest begin....
A long thunder mountain hot pepper in a dehydrator tray next to a pair of garden snips
Several hot pepper plants in planters in a Toronto driveway
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Ok, who else gets super excited when they come home to a new Spacing in their mail? #TO #urban #nerd
A copy of issue #75 of spacing magazine
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
My Joe pye is like 9 feet tall now. Pollinator garden!!!
Native flowers in a front yard
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
#smoke no filter
Toronto with a pinkish sky from wildfire smoke
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Mutant rudbeckia 🫪
Black eyed Susan with a really thick triple stem and weird deformed triple flower head
Black eyed Susan with a really thick triple stem and weird deformed triple flower head
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
This is fine.....
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I am an urban nerd with a pollinator garden. Let me tell you, there's no better workout than de-turfing 100sqft of lawn grass with a dull shovel and a wheelbarrow. This is year 3. The milkweed has taken over, with Joe pye bee balm, hyssop, and goldenrod.
A pollinator garden in front of a small house in Toronto Milkweed up close with pink compound florets.
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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"A punk venue with a decades-long history and a market of people who actually want to be there. Cheap land made it possible. The system, doing what it does, is now making it impossible." venat.substack.com/p/the-purpos...
venat.substack.com
The Purpose of the System is to Destroy Sneaky Dee’s
Toronto's Anti-Punk Land Use Planning System
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Arborists say Manitoba maple and Siberian elm are garbage trees but they're still a source of shade, food, shelter and fun for many urban critters. I'm not a NIMBY but I'll cut any developer that takes my trees and doesn't replace em.
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
So, I actually love College Park and wish Toronto had more urban non sports / nature oriented places to just kind of hang out and chill.
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
So we have gone straight from winter to summer, apparently!
Close up of a crabapple tree in flower
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Car-dependent suburban sprawl is the most publicly expensive approach to population growth in human history. #UrbanTruth
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Join a union. ✊🏼 Punch back. 👊🏼
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
@techconnectify.bsky.social sitting here in surprising sunny weather listening to all the ambient car noise, I wonder if you've considered doing a video about decibel meters / sound pressure level monitors. I doubt my app is terribly accurate but if not, why not? Are there consumer DB meters?
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Question for... a friend.... Is it ever ok to maybe sort of punch a Nazi? 😅👋🏼
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I'm kind of not cool with half my tax bill going to this www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
Cops with patrol rifles to be deployed to key locations in Toronto as police create new unit, task force | CBC News
Toronto police say they are creating a counter-terrorism unit and a specialized task force that will see officers with semi-automatic rifles stationed at key locations in the city.
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
The cats totally would have helped...
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
NIMBY tears
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Hey does anybody know how to pull TTC bus data so I can confirm my suspicion that my local bus is way more unreliable since it started terminating at Mt Dennis station?
TTC map of downtown Toronto including buses and streetcars
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Oh hey, it's the anniversary of the Reichstag fire. Seems like there's a lesson in there somewhere.... IYKYK
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Yep. Ontario, you next
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
It's so....fast 🥲🚉
Eglinton lrt at mt Dennis stationMt Dennis station
Escalator at Fairbank station
Line 5
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Maybe with line 5 now we can start to better spread the density instead of Tall'n Sprawl ™️🚉 policycommons.net/artifacts/19... spacing.ca/magazine/201...
policycommons.net
Ontario 360 Legacy: Policy Solutions for a Prosperous Ontario | Policy Commons
This is a document published by Ontario 360 in February 2025 about Competitiveness, Economic Development, Economic Policy, Fiscal Policy, Housing, Labour Market, and Social Policy.
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
OH GAWD IT'S A LOWRISE APARTMENT BUILDING AND THERE'S A HOUSE RIGHT NEXT DOOR!!! Would they think of the children.... #Yimby #Toronto
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
So what should I set as my destination when I ride the Eglinton LRT for funsies this Sunday? Prefer west end. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
Eglinton Crosstown LRT finally set to open Sunday — 15 years after construction began | CBC News
The Eglinton Crosstown LRT will open on Sunday — 15 years after construction on the rail line first began, the TTC's CEO confirmed in a board meeting Tuesday morning.
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
🥲🚉
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I think today will be a WFH day.... 😅🏔️☃️
About 50cm of snow piled outside of a Toronto front door
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
#snowday It's still snowing.
A deck with snow more than halfway up the railing
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
@mark-carney.bsky.social thoughts? Maybe it's time we protested this.
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
It's time....
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Stellar piece by JMM who I think probably knows more about city planning and governance than a chunk of the working planners and politicians out there.
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Obligatory we got buried in snow post This is midday. It is still snowing
An urban deck and chairs coated in about 10 inches of snow
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Maybe a whole crap load of progressive organizations should take a deep breath, form alliances, and ...actually found an anti fascist union? 💪🏼✊🏼🔥🖤❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩷🤍
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
This is basically exactly how @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy Cory Doctorow said it would work in his really excellent novel Attack Surface. craphound.com/category/att...
craphound.com
Attack Surface | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Yay public libraries! (Cat not included) @holz-bau.bsky.social
Pic of a cat sniffing a library copy of the book building for people
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Maybe not abolitionist entirely, but absolutely not in its current form. We need to blow it up. Radical rethink of what is inherently classist and racist.
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Happy xmas, stay heavy.
Heavy metal Santa throwing horns
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Housing crisis? What housing crisis, my home is fine!
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Why does a multimodal hub like Dundas West still look like the burbs? Lookin at you Gord Perks.... That giraffe condo was proposed at the same height as crossways but was "too dense for the site" 😂🫠🤪
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Squeeeeeeee!!!
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
How many is too many and why isn't it 0?
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
#joinaunion ✊🏼
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
My family just went car free, obv easier in Toronto (old York) but it is possible!! www.cbc.ca/news/climate...
cbc.ca
Why some Canadians love living without a car | CBC Climate Change News
In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we share the experiences of people across Canada who don't own a car; track China's progress on cutting emissions; and check out an efficient way to remo...
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