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Mark Dowling

@markdowling.bsky.social
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Toronto, ON. Originally from Cork with stops in Glasgow and Limerick. IT Manager. Dad to a boy living with autism. Interested in urban development, mass transit, science fiction, politics.

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Denis Agar (he/him) @denisagar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is such good framing! I would love to see what it looks like to build a greenfield neighbourhood that breaks even for the city.
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New Edmonton neighbourhoods will cost $1.4 billion more than they will bring in - Edmonton | Globalnews.ca
A new City of Edmonton report says the long-term costs to build and maintain three new neighbourhoods will exceed the revenue they will bring in.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10h
We've reached the open use of anti trans slurs phase by Trump. Dems haven't done shit to call out Pete Hegseth and Nancy Mace doing it so now it's become normalized.
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NPR @npr.org · 10h
Activists have spent the last 70 days camped around and inside a cottonwood tree right along the border, the last of a grove estimated to be up to 250 years old. (via @kjzz.org) n.pr/4hKJ79B
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At least 10 arrested at Arizona-Mexico border as 250-year-old cottonwood tree cut down for wall
Activists have spent the last 70 days camped around and inside a cottonwood tree right along the border in the tiny town of Lochiel. The tree was the last of an old grove estimated to be up to 250 years old.
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Mr. Chimpanzy @cyanescens.bsky.social · 12h
Yeah, asked Claude to plan a multi-day backpacking route last spring and got a route back that included several miles of hallucinated trails so would not advise using for this purpose
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 13h
Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointee in New York, rebukes ICE for arresting two people erroneously — including a U.S. citizen — and later claiming "mistaken identity." "ICE agents falsified official records," he says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 13h
Found the perfect screengrab to use the next time someone tries to tell me I’m missing out on important discourse by not using Elon Musk’s mircoblog site
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13h
Holy shit.
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 13h
ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons buff.ly/YJ1mAiP
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ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
OpenAI's chatbot isn't just imitating the magazine's style. It's also falsely attributing AI-generated images to real artists.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 16h
H.E. Tomoko Akane President of the International Criminal Court outlined the effects of US sanctions on her and her colleagues to a meeting of judges and practitioners at the Four Courts, Dublin today in the presence of the Chief Justice of Ireland Donal O'Donnell.
Round Hall, Four Courts, audience.
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Mick Steward @micksteward.bsky.social · 22h
Andrew Pierce did the thing
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Mark Dowling @markdowling.bsky.social · 23h
I mean that’s probably a component of what motivates the Brexiteers to withdraw from it - it is a tie but also a prerequisite to wider European cooperation
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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 05/10/2026
Gift link for Shawn's excellent column, which as he points out draws on and advances @rorywh.bsky.social's reporting on "agitslop" in the Toronto election. www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Bolsonaro Jr winning the Brazil election, or at least being in the drivers seat for the runoff, reminds me that the GOP can still prevail in the midterms even if it looks like they can’t possibly win
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New: As gay bars across the country say that Meta is flagging and deactivating their accounts without warning, I spoke to an Austin queer bar that says Meta nearly destroyed their ability to advertise events: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
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How Meta's new content moderation upended a Texas gay bar
At least one LGBTQ establishment in Texas says the social media giant has incorrectly disabled its social media account, potentially hurting business.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"It's important for you all to stay on the same team as Ken Paxton," says the woman who filed for divorce and ended their marriage
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Mark Dowling @markdowling.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
They are appointed by and employed by the Executive rather than part of the Judiciary, so despite their nominal title, I would agree.
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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
All those finely honed legal minds in that courthouse, all just following orders..
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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“His persona as a tough-on-crime, penny-pinching populist feels entirely disconnected from the eager urban planner who entered office at 32 full of ideas about expanding bike lanes, raising property taxes on the rich and cutting funding to the police.”
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Mark Dowling @markdowling.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Now put the same investigative effort into people who hack hospitals
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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Alberta separatists:
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Elizabeth DeLoria, Pope of Chili-Town @yourdadloves.me · 03/10/2026
A two panel meme of the Simpsons. The top panel has kirk van houten gesturing to a race care bed. The text reads "im an AI guy. How many local models do YOU run?" The bottom panel is homer with a pope hat photoshopped onto his head. The bottom text reads "I run the catholic church."
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 03/10/2026
✅ Generating power ✅ Protecting against drought ✅ Delivering clean water It's not too good to be true! It's the kind of conservation engineering that California is pioneering! I'm working on legislation to promote these cutting-edge designs nationwide. www.kqed.org/science/2002...
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Here’s What California Is Learning From Solar Panels Built Over Irrigation Canals | KQED
California solar panels tower over canals in Turlock, proving to save water, produce clean energy and improve local water quality.
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don't really have a lot of strong opinions on AI because if I'm totally honest I don't really understand the science behind it but I think it's pretty funny that the AI consciousness crowd is melting down over the Pope saying basically "nope, that's a computer"
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rattatatouille @rattatatouille.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I guess we have found the 21st century equivalent to "how many divisions does the pope have?"
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 02/10/2026
oh so it's defund the police now?
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Oliver Moore @oliver-moore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Cool when a police press release about a fatal hit and run pre-emptively offers up a handy defence to the driver www.tps.ca/media-centre...
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Mark Dowling @markdowling.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
👇 “The death penalty has never made a society safer. Never. Because it does not deter. That is false. This has been demonstrated, observed, measured," said Macron www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
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Fighting relentlessly against the death penalty
EDITORIAL. In countries that abolished capital punishment long ago, including France, the debate over reintroducing the death penalty for certain crimes regularly crops back up, driven by emotions tha...
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending
a graph of roadway and mass transit lights
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“I’m not finished hurting people”
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Mark Dowling @markdowling.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Before www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...
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The women behind Gay Byrne’s success: who they were and what they did
There were several strong women in Byrne’s corner, supporting his broadcasting, shaping its choices
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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 02/10/2026
I strongly encourage Republicans to run on this message!
Screen shot of a Fox News clip with Trump economic adviser Kevin Hassett saying: "The higher mortgage rates are actually a good sign for the economy because corporations are borrowing money to build things like data centers instead of lending to homeowners."
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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’ve recently seen this form of sportswashing pitched as “investment”. If this is where you have to raise your funding, and the price paid for it, that funding model is screwed.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/10/2026
I don’t think John “torture memos” Yoo should be allowed to opine on ethics on national television or really anywhere
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Mike Finger @mikefinger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just asked Victor Wembanyama if he’d ever consider promoting a sports betting company. “Absolutely not. I will never do that. Honestly, I think it's very sad to see some players promote it. .. Everybody does whatever they want, but without me.”
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Nashville Banner @nashvillebanner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Christa Pike, who was supposed to be the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years, is still alive after the state tried and failed to execute her on Wednesday. TDOC officials refused to comment after the state’s second failed execution this year. nashvillebanner.com/2026/09/30/c...
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Christa Pike survives botched lethal injection attempt - Nashville Banner
Tennessee attempted to execute Christa Pike for a 1995 murder, but the lethal injection failed. Pike survives and was moved to a medical facility.
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Oliver Moore @oliver-moore.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Which Toronto mayoral candidate will call for a line-by-line value for money audit of the police budget? www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yeah it’s a real mystery
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Jason Salmon @jsalmoncomedy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If he doesn’t understand the difference between the Atlanta Hawks & the Iowa Hawkeyes women’s team This would definitely help explain why people like him think there’s so many men playing in women’s sports 
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I don't think agents replying to your emails or booking a restaurant for you is worth this stuff, sorry
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yeah. That’s exactly what happened.
After the hearing, Schmitt insisted he'd gotten nothing wrong, but he seemed less sure Smith had committed perjury.
"I don't know if Jack Smith's lying or not. It was the only game - Atlanta was the only NBA game or men's college basketball game that night at 7:30,
Schmitt told HuffPost.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 29/09/2026
You know it's a bug fuck up when the Times can't cover up your obvious bullshit with "some say" or "many dispute."
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just tried it myself & the same thing happened. Google’s top result says that Mamdani wrote, “The Talmud teaches that the best of Gentiles should be killed, Jesus is boiling in excrement, and that non-Jewish souls are inferior and impure.” That is not what he wrote, on Twitter or anywhere else.
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Mark Dowling @markdowling.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Cartwright, when you were told “not to shut down any more airports”, that did include military ones”
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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It will be exceedingly funny to watch Zuck, AI Sam, and Dario start doing this
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One, this hilariously outs who all got the talking points in advance and how blatantly they parrot those. Two, Schmitt really thought today he'd launch himself to the VP nomination and with that a decent shot at the presidency down the line. Instead this is the only thing he'll be remembered for.
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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Okay the screenshots other people shared did not properly prepare me for what happens when you tell America.gov to "play Minecraft." Here's the full response I got. (1/2)
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Mark Dowling @markdowling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Running government like a business” if that business was being run by private equity #topoli
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Cassian Andor's 'Cunty' Style in Andor
ALT: Cassian Andor's 'Cunty' Style in Andor
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