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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hmm! The new condo in midtown Toronto appears to use a "scissor stair" in what is really a single stairwell.

A roundish building floor plan with a central elevator/stairwell core. It has a bank of 4 elevators to the left, and on the right is a single stairwell 2 intermingling staircases, accessed on either side of the central core.

Render of the currently under construction condo at One Deslile in Toronto. It is a rounded tower with varying geometry structure that mimics scales.

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Short of far-out sci-fi solutions like programmable matter, there is no way to solve the space problem in cities. Cars simply take up way too much space. There no reason why one or two people need a 2-4 ton living room to get across town.

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just caught up with the puppet episode of Strange New Worlds, and i have a bit of an issue with the transporter distance record Scotty is trying to break at the start of the episode. The record was something like 27,000km. Geostationary orbit (for an earth sized planet at least) is ~36,000km.

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Circa '04 I bought a combo VHS/DVD recorder with a built-in HD. At the store it was tucked out of the way on the lowest shelf, and the sales clerk practically begged me to instead just sign on for a cable company PVR. It was pretty obvious what was happening!

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William Peter MacMason @wpmacmason.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

the way he consistently talks about territorial acquisition for the US is frightening and an important way to categorize these times historically he's a real estate bro trying to impress the ghost of his dad and that is humanity's problem and that effin blows

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 18/08/2026

now if we had decided to elevate the whole line west of mount dennis, this train would be up and running *a lot* sooner, but protecting doug ford's backyard takes precedence. so it dives back underground pretty quickly, and unnecessarily

rendering of the line 5 extension's elevated scarlett station. the rail line then dives back underground west of the station

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Watching the Sean Connery movie Outland. Enjoying it so far. Gotta love SF movies from the era of everyone smoking everywhere. Sealed artificial atmosphere? Sure, light 'em up!

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𝕭illy Gui.¶ @guibilly.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Encore plus qu'une métaphore : le slogan de 2026.

Sunken Nazi warships resurface as water levels drop
(Des bâtiments de guerre nazis ressurgissent [ici du Danube] en raison de la chute du niveau des eaux dûe aux canicules.)

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

We live in the stupidest timeline. I want to break down just why this is so stupid and infuriating but it's just too much. youtu.be/sbDmcAqXjRo?...

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Ontario rethinks high-speed rail support after Billy Bishop rejection | Hanomansing Tonight

YouTube video by CBC News

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

You can dismiss any news that appears in the format "Elon Musk says [blank] will [blank] by the end of [blank]"

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Without saying your age, what's your favourite movie that came out when you were 18?

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Tim Byrne @tbyrne75.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

When people say "You've woke-ified history!" they usually mean "But all the *other* movies I saw that were set in that era didn't have this!"

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

This is Outrageous Okona erasure.

A story from CBR (Comic Book Resources) title: Star Trek Finally Introduced a Han Solo Copycat After 56 years. Picture: Harrison Ford as Han Solo

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

What the heck. Name your favorites from Star Trek (even though everyone else did this a month ago): Uniform: Lower Decks Spock: Nimoy Couple: Sisko/Yeats Character: Data Ship: Enterprise D Villain: Dukat Series: DS9 Captain: Sisko Movie: Voyage Home Theme: TNG Guest: Tony Todd (The Visitor)

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

"He's just like you. He puts his trousers on one leg at a time." Who does that? Who puts one entire leg on, before starting with the other leg? Who are you? A man who briefly forgot he had two legs?

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

This paragraph from Doctorow's thread feels like it was written specifically about the Workday HR/Payroll platform. I swear they must get paid by the click.

It's entirely possible to build webforms that are thoughtful, fast, respectful of our time, and well-processed. The problem is that fielding these forms requires that the form-giver undertake some intensive, moderately expensive work (once), while skipping this step merely requires that we all perform intensive, time-consuming work (over and over and over again)

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

So I understand that businesses & organizations are apt to use AI despite its flaws because its cheaper than using photographers, artists, etc... But in the pre-AI world, if a stock photo company offered pictures like this for free I don't think anyone would use them?

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Mike Henderson @mikeshenderson.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

“You know I’m something of a scientist myself.”

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

When people magnify the environmental impacts of renewables, the implication is that they must somehow be worse than the existing energy system In reality the existing energy system is not just more destructive than renewables - it's more destructive than anyone even realises

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Me whenever Kazuma Okamoto makes play or gets a hit.

Homer Simpson with a saxaphone in his mouth from the scene in the Simpsons where he sings "Sax-a-maphone" into the sax, but meme text added to the image reads "OK-A-MOTO. OK-A-MOTO"

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

My recommendation is to replace all white house reporters with big-ass Stone Cold Steve Austin looking dudes. Let's see if Mr. Frontotemporal dementia is still so mouthy.

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I've never gone viral but just observing The Discourse™ has given me this impulse.

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I do overall prefer the modern Blue Jays logo to the original, but the way they have up-sized the maple leaf is terribly gauche.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Knock-off Enterprise on the cover of Galaxy 666 by Pel Torro. Tower Books, 1968... Evidently not concerned about Desilu's lawyers

Cover to Galaxy 666 by Pel Torro. It features a spaceship that is clearly a slightly modified USS Enterprise from the original start trek. The main bridge is replaced by a red sphere. There is a crossbeam connecting the two nacelles. The title of the book is just above the ship in yellow lettering.

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Thanks to @jnoodles24.bsky.social for the link to Aad Moerman's model of the Starfleet repair tug from Armada II. I only deal in TinkerCAD as far as 3D so there's a few caveats here [1/?]

The Starfleet repair tug from Armada II, rendered in TinkerCAD. It is a small Starfleet style vessel with a spade shaped saucer, a vertical boxy secondary hull, and disproportionately long warp nacelles, underslung on long struts that let them even below the secondary hull.

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 17/04/2026

i think we have to ask ourselves what exactly toronto benefits from having a bunch of driverless cars roaming on our already-congested streets. as if single occupancy cars were not enough of an issue, let's throw zero occupancy cars that regularly block transit and emergency services into the mix

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

"If you were in charge of Star Trek, what would you do?" Set the show on a massive inter-galactic exploration vessel that has already been outside the Milky Way and out of touch with Starfleet for years when the show starts. Sort pack up the lore and background it in favour of new encounters.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

In a shocking twist, impunity has emboldened a narcissist to descend into full megalomania

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/03/2026

Pretty wild how so many governments around the world staring down another fossil fuel crisis are like "Sorry this is no time to reduce fossil fuel use, don't you know we're in a CRISIS"

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Just catching some of the Jays opener and is it just me or does Daulton Varsho look like Tim Robinson?

On the left, Toronto Blue Jay Daulton Varsho. On the right, Comedian Tim Robinson.

They look quite similar.

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

This is a niche but solid '90s joke.

Reddit post "Nicole deBoer Before Ezri"

Picture of Nicole deBoer as "Laura" from Kids in the Hall, standing next to Bruce McCullough as his long haired teenager character.

Comment: Do you think this character is "Better Than Ezri?"

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

A thing that’s fun to think about is that when it happens it will be a GLOBAL celebration. Like there will be video from around the world of people dancing and laughing and singing

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

"Ah captain, you and your Federation have made some bad choices in impossible situations. You are not so unlike me, a man who has exploited and killed many people because you made me feel bad. And yes, I may have taken a sadistic joy in it all, but that doesn't make you better than me…"

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

This Vulcan weapons dealer from DS9 is Santiago's mom on Brooklyn Nine Nine.

The Vulcan weapons dealer Sakonna played by actress Bertila Damas in the DS9 episode "The Maquis"

Bertila Damas as Any Santiago's mom on Brooklyn Nine. She is standing in front of Jimmy Smits, who plays Santiago's father.

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

If you see this, post a robot 🤖

The cover of City by Clifford Simak. Ace paperback edition from 1954, cover art by Ed Valigursky. A robot adjusts an instrument panel, a city in ruins is behind the robot.

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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

A very long and important THREAD - The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974. And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself. Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Borrowed a Fourth Doctor comic from Hoopla and boy do I ever hate this technique of photoshopping in the faces of main characters rather than just drawing them. Sticks out like a sore thumb!

A panel from a Doctor Who comic. The 4th Doctor & Sarah Jane sit in a crowd. Their faces are composited in from photos or stills from the show, but everyone else in the crowd is hand drawn.

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

These poster restoration videos are so satisfying... And I don't think I've ever seen this Vallejo Empire Strikes Back peice before?! youtube.com/shorts/zxxPL...

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Luke's Red Lightsaber

YouTube video by Fourth Cone Restoration

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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 28/02/2026

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Very cool that people can just own a part of the planet and pass it on to their ancestors in perpetuity no matter what else changes in the world. Cool. Cool cool cool. Probably no need to ever examine that? Right? www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

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Farmers in Mirabel vying to stop a high-speed rail in its tracks

Tractors lined up on a road in Mirabel, Que., as farmers geared up to fight a high-speed rail project. This is along the same roads where they battled expropriation of their lands to make way for an a...

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Sebastian Gorka at the 2019 CPAC convention: “they want to take away your hamburgers. This is what Stalin dreamt about but never achieved.”

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

New Climate Town y'all. Wanna learn about the series of increasingly idiotic moves that led to our roads being overrun by over-sized wankpanzers? youtu.be/JPm4de6-eTg?...

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How Boomers Ruined Cars

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Travis Charest @travischarest.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

#78 Metamorpho - Ink and gouache on 13 x 19 bristol #metamorpho

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