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johneneuman @johneneuman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

TIL these work on people, and how fast I am (not fast) 📍Howland Ave

A yellow sign on a wooden pole with a digital display reading "Your speed 6" on the edge of a sidewalk on a tree-shaded side street. Houses and front yards on the right, and the street and parked cars in the distance on the left. The sidewalk and scene trail off into the the distance.

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karanormal activity 💜 @deadontheoutside.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

tech bro is short for technically broken

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johneneuman @johneneuman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Once I asked a VP if I could eat a yogurt during a performance review, and the review went really well; I still think about this all the time

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

An infuriating part of the trans panic is "what if straight men are pretending to be trans women to harass other women?" and it's like if you care about violence against women maybe care about the global pandemic of real violence rather than maybe this might happen violence?

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johneneuman @johneneuman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Melissa Auf Der Maur "My '90s Rock Photographs" was super enjoyable. Really well curated and worth seeing! 📍Art Gallery of Ontario

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404 Media @404media.co · 18/09/2026

It’s easy to see why the AI companies wanted to hide this from the public. The statements are some of the most damning indictments of the ways LLMs were trained, how they work, and the immediate threat they pose to human labor. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Most people don't know that the best way to make a service more efficient is to bring in a layer of upper management devoted solely to extracting a profit from it. It takes a doctorate in economics to figure that one out.

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Government to open up Canada's 4 largest airports to private investment, Carney says | CBC News

Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government will open up Canada's four largest airports to private investment, but that Ottawa will maintain ultimate ownership.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 13/09/2026

So they realized they're in the gutter, no revenue in sight, operating at a tremendous loss, and suddenly decided to slow down "to save the humanity."

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johneneuman @johneneuman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Took a little sojourn to the bluffs! 📍Bluffers Park

View of the Scarborough Bluffs across a small turquoise bay, a foot path and a small grassy field. A pair of people sit on the edge of the bay in the foreground, and a boat sits in the bay.

View of a goldenrod plant. Scarborough Bluffs are visible in the background across a rocky outcropping and the edge of the lake.

View of the Scarborough Bluffs across a small turquoise bay. A boat sits in the bay, and a beach is visible on the far side.

Stone steps leading down to a small rocky beach and a grassy, treed lookout point in the distance across the curved water's edge.

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The Local Magazine @thelocal.to · 11/09/2026

This fall, as candidates fan out across Parkdale-High Park, Diana Chan McNally has the tricky task of convincing voters in Runnymede, High Park, and Swansea that she’ll be able to represent them as well as she’s represented people without homes for more than a decade. thelocal.to/diana-chan-m...

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Toronto’s Most Well-Known Defender of Homeless Encampments Runs for Council | The Local

As a teenager, Diana Chan McNally was briefly homeless. She’s since worked in drop-in centres and become a prominent advocate for homeless people. In the race for Parkdale-High Park, she’s going to ne...

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.

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johneneuman @johneneuman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Just one bird at the place 📍Lake Devo, Gould and Victoria

A single black pigeon in a small pool of water in an empty concrete pond on a sunny day. A few large boulders are visible at the back edge of the pond. A tree branch in the foreground casts some shade, and some multi story buildings close out the background

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johneneuman @johneneuman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Aw gee, without fail, the air show really lets you know its back, doesn't it

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Cycle Toronto @cycletoronto.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Ford walked away from an offer to restore travel lanes and keep bike lanes. The RFP makes clear that the province is still targeting EVERY SINGLE METRE of Bloor, Yonge, and University. This wasn't just a ploy to remove bike lanes in Etobicoke. It's an attempt to gut Toronto's entire cycling network.

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johneneuman @johneneuman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Really slept on this bad boy for a while, what a beaut 📚 📍Toronto Public Library - S. Walter Stewart Branch

Front view of Toronto Public Library - S. Walter Stewart Branch, a squat, round brick building with large windows, viewed from across the street

A bright library entryway foyer. A set of 4 stairs leads up to the interior entrance. Large floor to ceiling windows on the right, and a large interior window reveals the library on the left. Pride flags and the Canadian flag hang in the window.

View looking up towards a round, wooden ceiling surrounded by windows

View of library shelves full of books, in a curved arrangement, trailing off into the background of the photo

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The backlash to data centers, Flock, Meta glasses, and AI, is loud, animated, bipartisan, and wielding real power. It's the most popular and united political movement in the nation right now, and it's still growing. So of course Silicon Valley is in complete denial.

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With the backlash to data centers, Flock and AI glasses, a mass opposition to big tech is underway. Silicon Valley is in denial.

The backlash against data centers is difficult to understand if your salary depends on your not understanding it.

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Hello, it is me, Kira. :) @kirabira.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

She also really debunks the common justifications about religion, region, and age. Your grandparents and parents have shitty values because they have shitty values, not because of anything else. They could do better. Anyone can use their eyes to see the world and have the correct read.

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Em, midly @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

It’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 30/07/2026

Let’s be clear here, when scientists say mistakes were made at the start of the pandemic, we DO NOT mean that we did too much. We mean not socially distancing quickly enough, not making tests widely available, and not acknowledging COVID is airborne and distributing N95 masks to everyone.

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Lidia Ferrari @lidiaferrari.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The entire population of the City of Toronto is a fringe group to this government.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

For many years, people didn’t randomly film others in public—not because we didn’t have the technology, but because the social contract said you didn’t do that. That’s why Meta is going full court press on their PR and celebrity endorsements. They remember how people ran google glass outta town.

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G | Builds Stuff, Goes Places 🦀 @whereisgraeme.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The police have set themselves up as an unfalsifiable “solution” Perception of too much crime? + police Perception of lower crime? It’s working, + police Corrupt police? Need + police Bad economy/housing leading to more homeless? Need + police 🙅‍♂️ Not a police fan? Union takes ads against you

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johneneuman @johneneuman.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The way this survey crams economic development, job creation and passenger improvements into an ambiguous yes-or-no question that also implies support for new aircraft types (jets) and changes to runways (for jets). As if all these things depend on introducing jets. Smh

Text asking if you support changes to Billy Bishop airport, including infrastructure, runways, aircraft types and economic development, connectivity, and passenger flow

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The thing about someone ‘improperly receiving benefits’ is I don’t care. Oh no did someone get food or health care? Good!

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johneneuman @johneneuman.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Finally got to ride the Line 5 Eglinton Crosstown. I was super impressed by how fast it is! Mt Dennis to Yonge in 15 mins?! Wowza! Then I took this one bad photo

A bright, white subway station concourse tunnel, with escalators in the foreground. A black wayfinding sign hanging from the ceiling shows a train symbol, an orange circle with the number 5 and an arrow

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Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."

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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Loving the smell of all this global stability and national unity this morning!!!!!

Screenshot of a Toronto Star post that says “Canada will not hit carbon emission reduction targets set under the Trudeau government, Prime Minister Mark Carney said in a video posted to YouTube.

He argued that downgrading the country’s climate-change ambitions is necessary for global stability and national unity.” With a picture of today’s very bad air quality map replacing the picture of Carney that originally accompanied it.

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johneneuman @johneneuman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

First blade runner day of the summer is here, and I am terrified

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

We are experiencing the world's worst air quality, and we're getting absolutely no response from leadership other than announcements about building more pipelines. Do not normalize this.

A screengrab of the weather app showing a Yellow Heat Warning for Ottawa and the headline that Ontario faces world's worst air quality

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 15/07/2026

Today would be a great day to announce less pipelines and more wind & solar, Prime Minister. Signed, Wheezing in Toronto

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laura - buy my game!! @freezydorito.lol · 12/07/2026

it’s been 21 years since we embarked on this journey of making everything data driven (urchin rebranded to google analytics) and the only data we haven’t been able to collect is how much everything now sucks since this bullshit started

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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 12/07/2026

Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.

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johneneuman @johneneuman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Reading so much lately (love it), but this has only resulted in my book buying far out surpassing my book reading EVEN MORE than usual ahhh

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Katherine Copsey @katcopseygreens.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Gather round for the story of the Very Hungry Data Centre... 🧵 (1/4) #datacentre #ai

A parody of the Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. Text reads "The Very Hungry Data Centre" and the image shows a large black-and-brown shape, like a rounded rectangle with the top divided into three 'towers', with a smiling face reminiscent of the Very Hungry Caterpillar in the middle - red with yellow and green eyes.

Text reads "One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and - pop! - out of nowhere came a very hungry data centre."

Image shows the VHDC on brown ground with the orange sun rising.

Text reads "On Monday he drank a quarter of the city's annual drinking water."
Image shows a blue shape, with a circle cut out of the middle, reminiscent of the foods with circles cut out in the Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Text reads "On Tuesday he ate so much that he doubled demand on the country's power-grid.
So he opened a new gas plant, just for him."
Image shows two yellow spiky shapes representing electricity, also with circles cut out of them.

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Believe Women is an epistemological stance. It doesn't mean you assume that every single woman is telling the truth and women never lie. It means you understand that in the system that we exist in, there's much more risk and pain for women coming forward about abuse than there is anything to gain.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

i truly don’t think you can understand the intimate technical details of how things work at prisons without becoming an abolitionist. so many of the rules that govern these people’s everyday lives are just fucking mean man like there’s so obviously no rehabilitative reasoning to any of them

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Canada Day extreme weather brought to you by climate change, which Carney announced yesterday we can’t afford to properly fight 🤗

CBC headline reads: Canada Day activities in Ottawa cancelled due to
'extreme weather,' including fireworks

Torrential rain falls on the capital

By: Gabrielle Huston

Published July 1 at 3:21pmET

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Truthout @truthout.org · 26/06/2026

“’Centrism’ is just performative compromise devoid of critical thinking, policy, or ideology,” D’Arrigo wrote. “It’s a political vehicle that gives permission to do nothing in service of protecting a status quo that benefits large corporate donors and special interest groups who fund both parties.”

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

This is exactly right. There's a good chunk of research that says prejudice tends to inflate the perceived size of target groups. Scientists don't necessarily agree on why, but there are theories. I believe it's a combination of normal cognitive errors and deliberate manufacturing/manipulation.

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Jon Sternfeld @jonsternfeld.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Is this the SINGLE WORST presidential response in history? I know he holds the top 100, but this feels like the gold to me.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

A lot of the “kids online safety” proponents actually are anti-LGBTQ extremists and fundamentalists who want kids to have less freedom and don’t care if that actually makes them tremendously less safe too

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johneneuman @johneneuman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Little lunchtime walkabout 📍Nordheimer Ravine, Spadina Road Bridge

View from below of a concrete bridge over a ravine. There is graffiti at the base of the bridge supports. A sloping brick embankment and a small staircase are visible in the foreground.

A street art painting depicting a blue skinned woman with an owl on her chest. Cursive text above the image reads "April Showers"

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Mikie Sherrill’s state police destroyed the mutual aid tent for families of the detained that had been in operation at Delaney Hall for more than a year, providing clothes, food, even stuffies for the kids. They just trashed it. I’m pretty speechless at the kind of person you have to be to do this

A photo from the inside of the mutual aid tent to benefit the families of detainees at Delaney Hall. Boxes of donations, clothes and materials are strewn all over the floor, documents and boxes open and thrown everywhere. NJ state police are evil.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

What a coincidence! I just interviewed this Fisher Price Farmer Says See 'n' Say, and it told me some incredibly interesting things about farm life. Let me know when you'd like to publish this!

https://www.amazon.com/Fisher-Price-Classic-Farmer-Says/dp/B00IVJK8Y0/ref=asc_df_B00IVJK8Y0?tag=bingshoppinga-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=79989681302448&hvnetw=o&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=96016&hvtargid=pla-4583589160763749&psc=1&msclkid=ab98be1bf39019dc3b61d4076c4f54b2

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