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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦

@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 · 09/10/2026
Toronto - Prince Arthur apartment by Uno Prii, same vintage 🤓
A midcentury modernist high-rise apartment with swooping balconies by architect uno prii
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
😅
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
SouthPark clip of the Jeff Foxworthy character at a podium yelling they took our jobs!
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
...
An early 1909s image of an outhouse in poor repair with the caption save our historic outhouse superimposed
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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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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 · 11/07/2026
Laughs in Toronto..... Our Federal govt just dedicated billions to reduce our impact charges (called development charges) Reducing the charge for a 2bed apartment from ~$80,000 to ~$32,000.
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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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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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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
Hahahaha Toronto's cops do that too! Often they would park several layers deep.
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
But we also have dank urban nerd memes
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Meanwhile..... 🤦🏼‍♀️🫠
A map of Toronto / GTA showing population declining in old suburbs of Toronto, increasing right downtown and increasing in the new suburbs mostly north of 407
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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
As a Reddit user once put it, "It's two zoning plates that collided, forcing up a crust of supertalls along the Yonge fault."
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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 · 30/01/2026
College lane today (it's the snowbank)
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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 · 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 · 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 · 25/12/2025
Happy xmas, stay heavy.
Heavy metal Santa throwing horns
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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 · 14/11/2025
Because then this happens:
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
#toronto
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
#Fall in #Toronto ❤️🔥🔥
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Happy Labour Day. Join a union. ✊🏼
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
I'm going to be giving away a metric crapton of pepper sauce and pepper flakes this Fall I think. This is a Dracula pepper plant.
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
This is fine.......🔥😶‍🌫️💨🔥 *Huffs puffer*
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Oh no.... Not one of those Evil Sixplexes™!!!
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Mini vacation Day 0.5
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
A trim little trio of Toronto Special Triplexes .... #YIMBY #multiplex #TOpoli #urban
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
This fabulous fiveplex is disguised as a stately old house... As are many of the large homes along Keele north of Bloor. #multiplex #YIMBY #topoli #urbanplanning
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
April Fools Day just doesn't work anymore... #aprilfools
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Let's stay in the good part of this pie, please. #never51 #elbowsup
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I wonder what good ol' George would say if he were still around today ... #politcs #wtf
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infernalmachine🏳️‍🌈🚊🚅🇨🇦 @infernalmachine0.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Tell me this image from a CBC article doesn't perfectly sum up late stage capitalism. #climatechange
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