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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 6h

When the condemned tells jokes about the hanging, it's gallows humor. When the executioner does, it's part of the humiliation of execution.

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

background on cold pizza: www.nytimes.com/1998/07/23/w... (article also includes the phrase "The tempest in the tomato sauce")

Cold pizza has become a hot topic in the race that will decide who becomes the next Prime Minister of Japan.

It started when John F. Neuffer, a political analyst often quoted by the foreign news media here, described the front-runner, Foreign Minister Keizo Obuchi, as having ''all the pizazz of a cold pizza.'' Since then pizza jokes have abounded and pizza has had top billing in the Japanese press.

The Foreign Ministry, however, fails to see the humor.

''Unfortunately, Mr. Neuffer's 'cold pizza' is now too famous,'' said Mikie Kiyoi, director of the ministry's international press division. ''Of course, anyone can say what they want, but to have one country's prime ministerial candidate described as such is, well, sad.''

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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The TTC is finally considering increasing streetcar stop spacing, active gap supervision on subway, and introducing mid-route timing points on surface network. Please consider filling this out to help bring TTC operations into the 21st century.

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Finally sitting down and wrapping my head around this

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Andrew. @g026r.leftblank.org · 20/09/2026

Canadian federalism is the provinces blaming Ottawa for things the provinces are responsible for and trusting that the voters won't know that

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 17/09/2026

Yes. People who work running media businesses report that micropayments just never make business sense. Subscriptions are so much more lucrative that it pretty much always makes more sense to chase a much smaller number of subscribers than micropayments. bsky.app/profile/josh...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you respond "paywall" to someone posting an article link, I'm going to block you in a heartbeat.

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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 16/09/2026

hey I heard you like sankey diagrams that show huge populations making terrible decisions

A very complicated Sankey diagram showing the usage of electricity in the United States. Or the left are sources of energy and on the right are consumers, so, for example, nuclear is on the left and residential is on the right. Petroleum dominates.

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Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

IMHO the two ways that life in developed democracies has gotten worse is 1. People are spending less of their time on things they find meaningful due to compulsive Phone use 2. Housing costs too much in high opportunity areas Other issues are real and significant but also red herrings tbh

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This story is perfectly engineered to be hilarious to me, former political party staff What if we had our party leader standing for election in Spadina-Harbourfront do a video in Tagalog

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

One thing I always say about polls about young people is that people overread exit polls about them as being fixed for two reasons. 1. There is always a new cohort of young people at each election 2. Young people are especially prone to being politically volatile

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I think it's cool that all political parties like to go "I DON'T TRUST THE PUBLIC FACTS" when it's convenient to their narrative. We have reams of data from government and private sources, along with endless anecdotes of people negotiating down their rent over the last two years. but whatever man

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/09/2026

The reason we don't conclude that, despite the copious evidence and our alleged intelligence, is that we are burdened with a set of instincts developed in evolutionary prehistory, which tend to override our higher thought. A super-intelligent AI would not be similarly burdened!

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The essence of Chud Thought™️ is taking an extremely complex problem and reducing the dimensionality down to the level where there are bad guys who are responsible for the problem and good guys who are victimized by it despite being totally innocent.

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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

(Again, catching up on months of travel posting) Korean food is amazing but also I already have it most weeks in Toronto "I don't want to overdo the carbs so I'll get the sausage" Turns out the sausage is also just filled with carbs

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Fucccck they got him with the Gun That Makes You Italian

Zohran Mamdani making a face that makes him kinda look like Robert De Niro

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

One incrementalist reform that I think would be good here is federal police licensure.

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 01/09/2026

Vending machines that fill old newstand slots are coming to the NYC subway. Seems like a very good thing for riders. www.fastcompany.com/91597330/nyc...

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These automated vending machines are moving into NYC's subway newsstands

They're a more financially sustainable way to dispense the grab-and-go items commuters rely on.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

logging on to the earnest high-info neurotics website every day during the everything going wrong decade: 'you know, the vibes here could be better'

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My contribution to Iceland discourse is that it's nice that the warm colours are the governing parties and the cool colours are the opposition

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Got flamed on Reddit for suggesting that the "4th largest city in US+Canada" referred only to the municipality. I realize the CMA is underbounded, but even using 8.3m (GTHA), not sure if you can get to #4. Obvs depends on how you count eg. Washington-Baltimore and Bay Area

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"we want cheap goods" "we want good paying manufacturing jobs" okay so which one

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Do we just no longer do the rule where it's "de" when the adjective comes before the noun?

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Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It’s kinda crazy that the populist right has been ascendant basically everywhere regardless of social or economic policies and attitudes but everyone is so confident that it’s their pet factional beef that caused it

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It actually is because of my pet beef though (democratization of the media environment was bad)

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Fyi, a long-term Quebec polling average from @realliv04.bsky.social from the other site (x.com/RealLiv04/st...) There's often a ton of last-minute movement, and this time I suspect it will be particularly seismic

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

One of my crank beliefs I cannot prove is that despite all of the obviously regressive past and present of the planning profession the left broadly speaking defends this stuff because it's the last area of public policy where everyone can be a cosplay Leninist central planner.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"We need housing for teachers." "We need housing for artists." "We need housing for firefighters." This command and control shit drives me crazy. Just build enough housing for people.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The peak of San Francisco's artistic/literary ferment occurred at a time when anyone could move to the city and find relatively cheap lodging. You can't get back there, or even close, by building some designated housing for artists and then subjecting applicants to some sort of art contest.

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Hijacker: Everyone stop talking. I am armed and I am taking control of this plane. Guy from the Netherlands: Wow, in Netherlands we just purchase a plane if we want one. But typically we will bike somewhere Guy who has been to Japan once: In Japan planes are rarely hijacked. It's a cultural taboo

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Pseudotsuga @pseudotsuga86.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

QC's bilingualism rate is by far the highest in Canada. It's not that they "refuse to learn our language" it's that they'd rather conduct business in their own and be able to access the Canadian federal government and Canadian society the same as Anglos. Dumb culture wars aside I think this is fair

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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

okay but this guy is actually the Gigachad meme

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The wild thing about this is that, at root, this is every opinion in the UK. Me, my friends and family are real people and we should be treated with kindness and respect. Everyone else is a grifting fake taking money out of my pocket and using up resources that should be mine.

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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This is unpopular but I will say I have never really seen a good counterarg!

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Good example of the dynamic on here, which is not that the site has "pro-AI" and "anti-AI" factions, but that even acknowledging the existence of a massive field of ubiquitous new technologies is verboten except via hysterical, belligerent ignorance. It's a pure cultural norm untethered to reality.

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Probably my most authoritarian view is that we do not punish dangerous drivers nearly enough. I don’t see how driving at 140MPH in a built up area is meaningfully different from walking out into the street, pulling out a gun, shutting your eyes and opening fire.

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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Every country should have an Electrification Czar except that person should be called the Chargé d’Affaires d’Affaires de Charger.

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Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We have data on this. The blue is all the non-ag human use:

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

e.g. Las Vegas is a huge and fast-growing metro area in one of the driest parts of the southwest and is now a net CONTRIBUTOR to Colorado River flows because they took water conservation extremely seriously. People don't actually use that much water! It's the farms!

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

STOP GROWING FUCKING LETTUCE IN THE DESERT THIS IS ACTUALLY A VERY EASY PROBLEM TO SOLVE

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Damien Moule @damienmoule.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Downtown races between big names are fun but for donating your time and money please please please remember to allocate some of it to defending Myers and Morley and supporting Jennifer Alexander and Kevin Rupasinghe in defeating bad incumbents. These are the races with big swings in outcome.

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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Nobody wants to be at a Nazi bar but sometimes it feels like we are at a Khmer Rouge brunch

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The Recurring Speed Camera Discourse is a bit exasperating really because, look, we all know what's actually happening is people just want to be able to commit the pertinent crimes and don't like being punished for it, but people come up with obvious post-hoc pseudo-woke rationalisations for this.

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Among other things, this is antipolitics: our problems aren't actually hard, the only reason things are bad is because the Secret Bad People decide for no reason to make them bad

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

👇Great post this. Learning the recorder is a classic example of the importance of knowledge-rich learning that may seem pointless: it’s an easy, cheap way to provide children with the building blocks that allow them to learn to play many instruments quicker later.

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

One of the sad things about the death of writing is that we are going to be taking life advice primarily from visually attractive people now who don’t know shit. ideally you want the world filtered through awkward homunculi filled with rage who know the plural of homunculus

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