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What you grow rice in your backyard?

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This is why HS2 is needed. It bypasses the corridor of hell at Milton Keynes and provides a redundant route, reducing the potential disruption when something inevitably fails on that line.

Because photo editor is a dead job now and the intern doesn’t care. It’s the same when I see a North American outlet using a European charging image or vice versa.

Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 18/09/2026

What blows my mind isn’t the price. It’s that the third decimal place needs to be presented as a fraction for the bunnies to understand it. You’re literally representing a fraction of a fraction.

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What sort of distinction do you see?

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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 18/09/2026

If y’all didn’t see this coming… The left aren’t better than the right when provided with enough zeros on a paycheck.

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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 18/09/2026

The clause has been used something like 26 times at the provincial level already. It’s an awkward piece of legislation that acts to blunt the constitution but it’s not a democracy ending tool. It has 5 year limits built in and a successive government can easily reverse actions made with it.

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Polievre is not a fascist. He may be a populist, he may be smarmy and unlikeable to many. But he is not a fascist. Even Maxine Bernier doesn’t meet the bar for fascism. On that basis I think that Canada is a fair distance further from fascism in general. With or without 45-47.

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And Bloor is pronounce blaw except on the subway where the train pronounces it as both blaw and bluer in the same message. Next stop Blaw yonge, bluer young station.

Well if you’re heading that way come over the road for trivia tonight at Pegasus.

I have a Google Maps (actually collated by my partner) of some of the best and most interesting food places that I can share.

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Well I live here right now so feel free to ask away. Poutine, yes but the great thing about the city is it has so much great food from all sorts of cuisines. It’s expensive but not LA expensive. As others have said the drivers suck.

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That plug socket looks pretty shocked by it too.

Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 12/09/2026

Like Polestar? Who actually did. Already. And are now banned?

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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 11/09/2026

Or when you pass through Oshawa three times in a single trip to Montreal. Pretty sure planes try to not go backwards.

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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 06/09/2026

When you are losing a contract to a competitor you don’t care. You let people leave because it become the other teams problem. The people still exist but they either don’t want to work for the company again or they got another job. So when Metrolinx extended the contract at short notice…

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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 31/08/2026

But they have someone with years of McKinsey experience at the top. How does that not translate into perfect execution. /s

Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 31/08/2026

Would that not be Bangers and Meth?

Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 27/08/2026

What will we do when we rename Lake Michigan to Lake Epstein?

Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 27/08/2026

It was shown on maps as Lake Ontario before America existed. So no. And no. And Lake Epstein is where Lake Michigan used to be.

Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 27/08/2026

No because y’all don’t own enough of the gas to do that. Not that it stopped Trump with the 25% of Lake Ontario on the US side.

Multiple ones my keyboard doesn’t have on the Polish license!

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You really do give a crap about dark patterns.

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Just multiple blows my mind. Getting my Canadian one cancelled my UK one.

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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 18/08/2026

I first read this as “Hope Carney makes Trump Gay”. Which would have similar effect. And given his predilection for Village People songs would potentially be believable.

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We don’t need Ontario’s transit to be the best or the cheapest. It just needs to be better and cheaper right now.

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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 18/08/2026

The CDPQ has found a viable formula with the REM that should be possible in Ontario if it weren’t so stubborn about learning from other places and stopped hiring the dregs of global transit executives to run Metrolinx.

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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 18/08/2026

Quebec should be building all of Ontario’s transit for them.

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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 11/08/2026

So what? Canada has at least 400kW of charging. What you mean from a single charger? Not in total for the country? Whoa!