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Jeff Kraemer

@jeffkraemer.bsky.social
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He/Him. UX designer, dog petter, Blue Jays appreciator. I care about the climate and democracy, and tend to boost info about both. Fan of hilarity.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 15h
"Ripping out these protected bike lanes against the will of Toronto city council is a colossal waste of $48 million. The province’s own experts know it will not ease traffic congestion, it will put people’s lives at risk…” One of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen any politician do to any city.
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Ontario will officially begin removing Toronto bike lanes on Tuesday | CBC News
Ontario will begin removing bike lanes from a stretch on Bloor Street W. in Etobicoke on Tuesday, the Ministry of Transportation says.
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Jen Evans @jennifervevans.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Over the moon for Anne Carson's Nobel. I have always loved her poem New Rule, from Men in the Off Hours (2000).It’s a powerful reminder of how exceptional she is at taking everyday language and turning it into deep, piercing emotional truth. griffinpoetryprize.com/poem/new-rul...
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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anne Carson, newly minted Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, once published the greatest ever author bio
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
the Nobel Prize citation for Anne Carson
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Jeff Kraemer @jeffkraemer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm so delighted by Anne Carson's Nobel Prize! Not just because she's Canadian (but not least). Mostly because her writing is so strange. Beautiful, yes, but above all, boldly searching and distinctive. CanLit nerds have treasured her for decades. Enjoy! apnews.com/article/nobe...
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Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature
Anne Carson, a Canadian poet and essayist, has won the Nobel Prize in literature. The Swedish Academy recognized her for her bold and inventive work that engages with classical traditions to create ne...
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Jeff Kraemer @jeffkraemer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“I hate to say it, but why would any nation, ever again, partner with the United States, if this is how they treat their closest neighbour and ally?” It isn't "negotiating"; it isn't "he just says things." It isn't a joke to us. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Spit on our sacrifice’: Canadian veterans fume after Trump and allies take jibes at military
Military families say Trump officials ‘owe us an apology’ after disparaging remarks by JD Vance, Pete Hegseth and others
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Phil @philmarfisi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A lot of Americans think we're just having an unnecessary trade dispute with a president occasionally making unfunny jokes, while the reality is there are elements in the US conservative movement actively trying to tear our country apart. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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The elephant in the room
Alberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Paris has been praised in recent years for their visionary, progressive city-building, but they don’t get enough credit for just being really pragmatic! Everything they’ve been doing is common sense. They’re moving a lot more people with less space while cleaning the air and cooling the city.
People riding bikes in a full separated bike-lane in Central Paris.Cars jamming a street in central Paris.
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
CONCEPT: a long, restful nap the length of 3-4 naps, ideally when the sun is down. it could be called something like meganightnap
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I managed to mostly not know any of this until today. This detail is new to me. The horror coursing through my body feels like poison. My God, men. Decide RIGHT FUCKING NOW what you'll do if a woman is sexually harassed or assaulted in your vicinity. Ask another man to do the same. TALK ABOUT IT.
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Toronto Blue Jays @bluejaysbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The cutest water dump yet 🥹🤍 #BlueJays50
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Ron Sexsmith @ronsexsmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In honour of the late George Gerswhin's birthday Ron sings "But Not For Me" RS youtu.be/7e7vmND-eHA?...
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RON SINGS "BUT NOT FOR ME" WRITTEN BY GEORGE AND IRA GERSWHIN
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/09/2026
Definitely. It's ridiculous to talk about climate change as a scientific/technological problem, in this day and age. It's a political one and a societal one, but the science of it was solved more than a century ago.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The fantasy that you can make an existential threat to the earth worse in the short term because maybe somehow magically in the long term it will solve it in some magical way already dismissed is part of artificial idiocy. We have the solutions. We just need to implement them.
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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is not deporting people. Literally. Legally. There is a deportation process and this isn't it. This is rendition. This is disappearing people.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Nuclear regulation developed for low-chance, high-risk scenarios. Similar to the risk of AI. A simple place to start is mandatory incident reporting. If something goes wrong, everyone gets to know. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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How Much Would You Pay to Prevent the AI Apocalypse?
And what economists say we should spend. Hint: we're nowhere close.
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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 19/09/2026
my election thoughts are always the same. vote, yes. but democracy is mostly between elections. live your politics in the freedoms that our democracy allows you everyday in your smallest units of life and relationships. there we have much to do and to celebrate. be interested in each other.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We are not screwed. We can still stop the worst impacts of climate change and build a better future – if we act soon and act at scale. drawdown.org/insights/wer...
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We’re going to miss the 1.5 °C climate target. Now what?
The United Nations Environment Program released a report earlier this month saying the world – which is already experiencing roughly 1.3˚C of warming – will miss the 1.5˚C climate change target set by...
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Jeff Kraemer @jeffkraemer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My friend Ian Daffern's brilliant documentary, Railfan, is looking for backers. It's about autistic kids who love trains, and their families. I've seen a rough cut, I'm proud to have backed it, and I'm eager to see the film on the big screen. Check it out. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/i...
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Railfan - Feature Documentary
Railfan is a documentary feature that follows a photographer taking portraits of autistic kids who love subways in NYC. We need YOUR help to finish a film that will create more empathy in the world, o...
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Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 13/09/2026
How it started. How its going.
Apple's 1984 ad from 1984. And screenshots of Apple Maps with Lake America and Gulf of America.
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Jeff Kraemer @jeffkraemer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"We have to find our places of deepest love and fight like hell.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 10/09/2026
Scientists say August was Earth's hottest month they've measured apnews.com/article/heat...
“It is now time to stop acting surprised that our warming planet keeps getting warmer. This is occurring exactly as forecast by scientists literally decades ago,” Texas A&M University climate scientist Andrew Dessler said in an email. “The interesting question is not whether we will keep breaking heat records (we will), but whether we’re going to do anything about it or just stand there while the climate train runs us over.”
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Jeff Kraemer @jeffkraemer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is enraging. What in the actual hell is the point of a (beloved by generations) science centre with no scientists to create exhibits and teach and inspire kids? www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/poli...
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Ontario Science Centre laying off entire science department
The Ontario Science Centre has laid off 30 workers including the entire science department, The Canadian Press has learned. Science centre CEO Paul Kortenaar told employees at a meeting Thursday that ...
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George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I think we're at the point where we can incredibly comfortably say that your attitude towards Reform, Restore, MAGA, the AfD etc is how you'd have responded to fascism in the 1930s
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
at this point: carbon removal is, at best, essentially a research project. renewable expansion is a policy project
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Jeff Kraemer @jeffkraemer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Setting aside the self-destructive idiocy of removing bike lanes, I'm just disgusted by the Ontario government meddling in a city's affairs. Why not tell us what flowers we can plant in front of city hall?
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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"Perhaps nothing says “2026” like a once-disgraced actor making a comeback in a film that asks questions like: What if a famously nasty, evil rich guy actually had a point? This is what we all have to look forward to with Ebenezer, a new take on A Christmas Carol ... from Ti West and starring Depp."
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
SHOUT-OUT to Political Cartoonist extraordinaire & Member of the Order of Canada Michael de Adder, who routinely does a far better job of holding this administration accountable than the corporate media. Thank you for your attention to his brilliant satirical wit! 🙏 (also: 🤣)
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Oldman Teeps @oldmanteeps.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Any tech company that changes “LAKE ONTARIO” to anything else, should be taxed into oblivion by the Canadian government. No exceptions.
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Nick Varga @karaoke-god.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Ashley @ashleysays.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Chefs kiss
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
RIP Emmett Till, abducted, beaten and lynched on this day in 1955, and his brutal death inspired many in the civil rights movement. Let us never forget, and let us also honor him by fighting for civil rights today for all.
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.
The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms. 

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
you can build a bunker for you and your retainers & you can hoard your power & fame, you can worship nothing but ambition or status and stand by while people you might be able to help--in big ways or small ways--go without. Or you can be Dolly. All these things are choices. She made good ones.
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Jeff Kraemer @jeffkraemer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Jen Gerson zeroes in on why Canadians are furious: "[The U.S.] are using ordinary trade irritants as an excuse to exercise mafioso-style dominance in the pursuit of our subjugation and maybe outright annexation. We know very well that this isn’t about trade." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Canadians do not seek a trade war – but nor will we be bullied by Donald Trump | Jen Gerson
A fundamental rupture in the values that have united North America is not a problem that can be wished away, says Canadian commentator Jen Gerson
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 25/08/2026
🐟 Warming rivers could trap 63% of fish A global analysis finds that under high emissions, about 63% of river fish face water too hot to cross, cutting them off from food and mates. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s41558-026-02731-9 #ClimateChange #Freshwater #Ecology 🧪
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Climate warming drives thermal shocks and accelerated freshwater habitat fragmentation - Nature Climate Change
Assessing 9,809 freshwater fish species globally, this study shows risk to a high proportion of species in the tropics, and severe extremes in non-tropical regions. Under high emissions, gradual warmi...
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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The pace and scope of the clean energy transition is uneven, but the overall direction of travel is no longer debatable
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Jeff Kraemer @jeffkraemer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I was thinking just this morning about how happy I'd be to contribute to this cause: www.thebeaverton.com/2026/08/cana...
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Canadians chip in to buy Jamil Jivani a one-way ticket to United States
OTTAWA - Following public comments in which Conservative MP Jamil Jivani blamed Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney for failed trade talks with U.S. President Donald Trump, Canadians across the countr...
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Jeff Kraemer @jeffkraemer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
@aradwanski.bsky.social puts his finger on why I felt relieved when the Canada/U.S. trade deal fell apart. Better to have no deal at all with an administration that acts this way. A deal would mean concessions, which would lead to more bullying. www.thestar.com/business/opi...
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Adam Radwanski: Donald Trump’s negotiators saved Canada from making a big mistake
The worst thing about the agreement, as it was taking shape this week, wasn’t the concessions themselves — it was what the willingness to make them would signal to Trump and the people around him, wri...
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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
trying to add "no bilingual packaging" to a trade deal with Canada at the 11th hour is hilarious, it's like trying to add "and ban handguns" to the US side of the agreement
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Matt Blair @mjmbca.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I’m going to flip the usual complaint on its head and say that if you’re an American who’s been making an effort to understand the Canadian perspective, thank you. I know it’s not often easy. There’s going to be a lot of emotion in your feed this weekend. Good luck and thanks.
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Jeff Kraemer @jeffkraemer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This article gets it right: the instability is the point. Both sides are blaming the other for the last-minute collapse. Who do you believe? Put another way: why *would* you believe the U.S. negotiators, given their bullying style? Elbows up. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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A deal with Trump isn’t the end of instability. It’s just the start of it
Canada’s leaders need to stop expecting that a deal with Trump will lead to a new status quo, rather than never-ending turmoil for as long as he’s in office.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"Mark Carney and the Canadian government can sign any number of trade agreements, but you can't change what's in the heart of Canadians right now." Canadian consumers are refusing anything to do with the U.S.A.⁣ ⁣ newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
hey people sorry if some of you breeze past this part but it’s Friday. We do AI discourse on Wednesday and Thursday. Friday is for stuff that rocks and is actually fun. It’s in the TOS & the packet you got at orientation. get it together please
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Don’t forget this. “Foreign actors are attempting to undermine Canadian interests by interfering in Alberta's separatist debate…” “Actors from Russia and the US are attempting to promote separatist ideas in what researchers behind the report described as a threat to Canada's democratic integrity.”
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US and Russia fuelling separatist debate in Canada, new report says
Researchers warn that foreign actors are meddling in the Alberta separatist movement in ways that threaten Canada’s "democratic integrity".
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Bike-lanes don’t cause traffic congestion. Car dependency, land-use sprawl, too many cars driving too much taking up too much space, highly subsidized driving costs, and not enough choices in how to get around, ALL cause traffic congestion. Think about it. THAT’S common sense.
Highway filled with car congestionWide, busy road at night filled with cars.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15/08/2026
First I was banned from X/Twitter. Then Facebook banned my newsletter. Then X/Twitter banned me permanently. Now YouTube disables my channel the week of my book launch. Was it something I said? 👉 www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
Stack of books. The nerd Reich, Gil Duran.
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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 14/08/2026
OK so next step is to get a new government that is going to tackle the important issues of Ontario like healthcare and education and getting infrastructure actually built instead of this anti-bike slopulism
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 09/08/2026
Yes, Cdns are paying attention. How can we not, under smoke-filled skies? But worry isn’t enough. If we don’t know what to do, more disasters just leave us feeling even more helpless. To catalyse action, we need to know: 1. what’s happening, 2. why it’s happening, AND 3. what we can do about it.
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Canadians' climate change concerns rebound amid wildfire season | CBC News
The percentage of Canadians who see addressing climate change as a top priority spiked this summer after years of it taking a back seat to other issues, recent polling has found.
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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Avicii: Ohhhhh Sometimes I Get a Good Feeling Yeah BlueSky Reply Guy: Well, not all of us can have a good feeling under capitalism
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