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Grant McSheffrey

@mcsheffrey.bsky.social
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Urban planning, software, sports, random trivia, I love it all.

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Grant McSheffrey @mcsheffrey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’m generally fine with people using AI to help with writing things but I really wish they’d also use AI to edit their writing down to what’s necessary. People used to be limited by their own laziness but now I get hundreds of words to express a basic request.
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Grant McSheffrey @mcsheffrey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
But Sam, they have no construction workers. Nobody in Spain knows how to build anything. What option do they have?
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
From me, most before paywall, contrasting long Playboy interview w Donald Trump in 1990 w long Time magazine interview this week. TL;DR His crabbed world-view is the same. But his cognitive terrain is alarmingly shrunken This only makes him more dangerous. fallows.substack.com/p/midterm-co...
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Midterm Countdown, 33 Days to Go: Language from Our Leader.
It’s not just your imagination. Donald Trump’s active vocabulary, his train of thought, his ability to filter are all in rapid decline. We’re watching a leaky balloon as it deflates.
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Grant McSheffrey @mcsheffrey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Some of us appreciate the software engineering posts, even if we don’t engage with them.
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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NPR @npr.org · 10/09/2026
The tech billionaire's attorney has put documentarian Alex Gibney and his production company on legal notice, claiming the Oscar-winning director defamed Musk in his nearly four-hour documentary. n.pr/4duQBMi
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Elon Musk threatens to sue over Gibney documentary's "space lasers" claim
The tech billionaire's attorney has put documentarian Alex Gibney and his production company on legal notice, claiming the Oscar-winning director defamed Musk in his nearly four-hour documentary.
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Grant McSheffrey @mcsheffrey.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The drop was truly brutal but I have a hard time blaming him for the interception.
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Grant McSheffrey @mcsheffrey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I have actually used an attic like that as a lounge area but I mostly wonder if these fake pics even help. If I saw pictures showing a perfect yard and then show up to find a patch of gravel there’s zero chance I’m buying that place.
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It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
$50 million for rural roads (over 4 years) on top of existing funding levels. Where does this money come from? A reminder that LRT frequency was cut from 5 to 10 minutes to save $1.6 million/yr. 70,000 bus service hours were cut in New Ways to Bus to save $10 million/yr.
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Grant McSheffrey @mcsheffrey.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It’s like a bunch of atheists showing up outside Catholic churches to protest the ban on women being priests. This isn’t your thing, why are you here?
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Grant McSheffrey @mcsheffrey.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
For me it always comes down to “the person you’re describing sounds like a maniac, would you rather they’re riding a 15lb bike or piloting a 3000lb SUV?”
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Grant McSheffrey @mcsheffrey.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
“plants and vegetation in excess of 12-inches”…so trees are illegal?
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Grant McSheffrey @mcsheffrey.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I think the reference to “City” of London meant the square mile old city.
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It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
To appease wealthy residents, The City of Ottawa is spending millions of dollars trying to block the redevelopment of this golf course in Kanata. Compared even to one of the lowest income parts of the city, Kanata Lakes pays very little in property taxes. The city can't afford this.
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Grant McSheffrey @mcsheffrey.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It’s astounding the degree to which voters assume that “talks about” is equivalent to “is better at”.
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Grant McSheffrey @mcsheffrey.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The biggest “inaccuracy” in the movie is Odysseus feeling bad about what happened to Troy.
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Grant McSheffrey @mcsheffrey.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
They need to ration them out like an NBA coach trying to decide if they’re going to use a challenge on a questionable foul.
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Grant McSheffrey @mcsheffrey.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I wonder how much of this comes from internal software teams that have wanted to do it themselves for years finally getting the go ahead because saying "AI" was enough to sell it to execs.
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Grant McSheffrey @mcsheffrey.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I’d say the difference in this case was less the time that it occurred and more the location. It’s an unsurprising foul and a surprising penalty call at any time during the match.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
A single picture combines a screenshot of a Feb 3, 2025 tweet by Elon Musk stating "We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper" with a screenshot of a Feb 4, 2026 CNN headline stating that the cuts to USAID "could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030."
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Josh Halliday @joshhalliday.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
My colleague @hannahalothman.bsky.social is in Belfast tonight. This is what she’s seen. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Current Prime Minister Pashinyan, who is broadly pro-West, has declared victory. He defeated the pro-Putin candidate despite massive attempts by Russia to sway the vote. There is a non-zero chance that Russia will attempt to use coercion and military force. Russia has troops there.
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Grant McSheffrey @mcsheffrey.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
It’s so subtle and brilliantly conceived that it could never be proven…while also so completely obvious to everyone that no evidence is needed. Convenient.
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Grant McSheffrey @mcsheffrey.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
And the idea that it might be someone who is currently sick trying to protect others just doesn’t even occur to them.
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Grant McSheffrey @mcsheffrey.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Using a Taiwanese brand proves that you’re not a communist.
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Bill Hanstock @sundownmotel.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
AVERAGE WHITE MLB PLAYER: has 18 latino teammates he doesn’t speak to, believes the 2020 election was stolen and is in a group text with morgan wallen AVERAGE WHITE NBA PLAYER: wokest dude you’ve ever met, has gotten into several fistfights over a teammate being called a slur, knows every nas lyric
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Grant McSheffrey @mcsheffrey.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
As the last line of defence, I think that should be counted as a save.
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Grant McSheffrey @mcsheffrey.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
There’s a Yale history course on the Civil War available free online for anyone who wants to know more about how this happened. oyc.yale.edu/history/hist...
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The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 | Open Yale Courses
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
NEW from me: The US is building a record amount of power infrastructure, especially solar & batteries, and has broken out of a 15-year period of grid stagnation Yet this hasn’t been enough, and America has a widening electricity shortage that’s driving up prices 🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/americas-e...
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America's Electricity Gap
US Power Investment is at Record Highs, Driven by a Solar & Battery Boom. It's Still Not Enough to Meet Demand Growth.
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
This is a must read! The story can be a movie plot that debunks the awful cliche that soldiers are all the same, forced by a faceless state to kill each other for nothing. We see here that the moral chasm between invader and invaded remains even when fate forces them to get to know each other.
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‘You’re not one of us, are you?’: How a Ukrainian soldier survived two weeks in a Russian dugout
When Vadym Lietunov spotted a fortified position after his own had been blown up, he didn’t realise it belonged to the enemy
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Matt Gurney @mattgurney.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
BREAKING (Rare use of that from me that isn't ironic.) So, Jen Gerson has got a story to tell, and it's genuinely shocking. I've known the outline of this for a few weeks now, but still. Reading it all woven together blew me away. What a major, major fuck up.
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SCOOP: Jen Gerson: Elections Alberta's massive failure could have put people in danger. I tried to warn them.
The most unhinged people in the province may now have access to the personal information of everybody who lives here, and there's nothing we can do about it
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 10/04/2026
American aid has dried up. Europe's aid is being held up by a Putin stooge. Canada has the power to finance Ukraine's self-defense: so let's do it. www.thestar.com/opinion/star... (Posting again because the link didn't unfurl properly the first time.)
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Justin Ling: Canada can rescue Ukraine with seized Russian cash. What are we waiting for?
It would be an easier job than you might think. In fact, what really baffles the experts is why Canada hasn’t acted already.
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Grant McSheffrey @mcsheffrey.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Most of the « expats » in UAE are labourers and professionals from south Asian countries.
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Grant McSheffrey @mcsheffrey.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
« Much of America’s productivity revival in the 1990s came not from Silicon Valley itself but from retail, where computers transformed logistics and inventory management. » www.economist.com/finance-and-...
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The AI productivity boom is not here (yet)
Artificial intelligence is improving fast. Its effect on output, not so much
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Grant McSheffrey @mcsheffrey.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
They’re also accidentally making the point that Indian immigrants in Canada (and especially their kids) assimilate really fast and are genuinely upset by Canada losing a hockey game.
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Grant McSheffrey @mcsheffrey.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I really want Canada to win but your Littlest Hobo reference made me smile so you get my like.
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Grant McSheffrey @mcsheffrey.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
With the Patriots luck so far this season both NFC teams should be bubble wrapping their players as soon as they show any sign of a possible win.
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Grant McSheffrey @mcsheffrey.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I’m sure yelling "I’ve got a gun!" every time you see a cop would lead to lots of fun situations.
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
It is to Canada's shame we have not spoken out or supported a Canadian judge being sanctioned by the US Her life is frozen. She cannot use credit cards, travel, move money, or access email. This is not sustainable www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
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‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life
Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary
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Grant McSheffrey @mcsheffrey.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Gentrifiction is an appropriate typo.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 19/12/2025
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
reddit post from a presumably young person who watched sex and the city and couldn’t get over how much people smoked indoors. “wouldn’t everything smell bad?” they asked
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Lucy van Oldenbarneveld @lucyvanolden.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Councillor Tim Tierney is wrong about ‘Chronic No-Voters’ in his Ottawa Citizen Op/Ed on Saturday. His opinion would be easier to take seriously if the comments weren’t coming from someone with a 15-year track record of being a reliable yes-man for every budget. 1/21
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker. Just to level set
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Grant McSheffrey @mcsheffrey.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Let me guess, the last guy did own a car and forced Seattle residents to pay for « free » roads and other goodies.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Red and Blue Composition, by Ad Reinhardt, 1941 (flipped), 📸 by Andrew Mordzynski
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Grant McSheffrey @mcsheffrey.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
But also, "I think I’ll eventually choose to get married" is not the same thing as "I want to get married".
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Grant McSheffrey @mcsheffrey.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I’ve got a crazy idea. How about instead of letting in a bunch of rich illegal immigrants who buy up all the houses you instead let in poor immigrants who work disproportionately in the construction industry and make home building much cheaper than it would otherwise be? Is that even possible?
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Grant McSheffrey @mcsheffrey.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
He’s been "implicated" in plenty of wrongdoing. He hasn’t yet been convicted of his most recently implicated wrongdoing.
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Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
🗺️ The true size of the world's countries. 👉 The widely used Mercator projection distorts their size.
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Grant McSheffrey @mcsheffrey.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
In Kevin O’Leary’s case, he was dumb to go on air and prove that he knows nothing. smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost...
Kevin O’Leary with negative $2800 in Jeopardy!
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