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Nik

@nrcole.bsky.social
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Books, bikes, beers. In an emotionally abusive relationship with the City of Toronto.

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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Me moving to Ward 8: Cool, I get to vote against Mike Colle. Me after reading platforms for Ward 8 candidates:
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Nope Nope Nope: John Oliver's Strong Refusal
ALT: Nope Nope Nope: John Oliver's Strong Refusal
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dianne Saxe represents everything wrong with old guard Toronto progressivism. Inherently reactionary with a superficial gloss. I hope Danforth kicks her out.
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gotta be this.
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Trump wondering if he can get Mark Carney to 70% approval.
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
We are going to win.
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Seeing these posts and looking at my sweet perfect angel 9 month old.
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Ralph Wiggum: *Chuckles* I'm in danger.
ALT: Ralph Wiggum: *Chuckles* I'm in danger.
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Why I'm moving to Eglinton and not St. Clair.
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Eric Wright @ericnwright.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Repost if you think the Church Street pedestrianization project should be made permanent and year-round. An absolute new gem of a space in the heart of Toronto’s LGBT community.
A streetscape wit people walking and socializing surrounded by dense skyscrapers.
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Where was this petulant foot dragging against provincial fiat on bike lanes, speed cameras, the airport, and Ontario Place? I know the context is very different for all of these, but what merits fighting back to them really tells you something.
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"everyone on the internet says I'm wrong" "and did that cause you to look inward?" "it did not"
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
@ifbookspod.bsky.social plz
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
This sucked and I hated it. It should be so very, very easy to not put this shit in your game! Don't do it!
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
"YoU'Re bUYiNg vOTes!" says the guy who couldn't get me to vote for him if he handed over his entire campaign budget.
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Canada too hell yes let's go
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Just put down Divinity and spent an hour zoning out and mashing p-switches because @jakesteinberg.substack.com and @marioprime.bsky.social said Mario Kart World is good, actually.
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a man wearing a honda shirt says " would you say i 'm a level 7 susceptive "
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
@dark1x.bsky.social Grabbed Divinity OS2 and I'm once again being radicalized by an isometric game on the Switch 2 screen. Feels worse than Hades II did. You're constantly looking at the surroundings here and it's a blurry mess. I need to figure out where to go to yell at Nintendo about overdrive.
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Ontarians certain that wallet inspector returning with wallet any minute now.
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Oh, you'd like to make housing more affordable by building more of it? That pales in comparison to my plan: building absolutely nothing until we decommodify housing by overthrowing capitalism.
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I'm not a fan of any of the No votes here, but this kind of thing always feels like such loser behaviour from a bunch of do-nothings who know they've done nothing but are nonetheless desperate to put the blame elsewhere.
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Local official delighted to inform populace that they can both have their cake AND eat it.
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
@dark1x.bsky.social Goddamnit. it wasn't bothering me too much until now, but Hades II has made me into a rabid Switch 2 motion blur guy. Assuming as you've speculated that this is a tradeoff for battery life, who in their right mind would sign off on making a game this beautiful look so hideous.
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Missed you Matt
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
@edzitron.com wake up we need you www.theverge.com/news/792650/...
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AMD teams up with OpenAI to challenge Nvidia’s AI chip dominance
AMD expects to make “tens of billions of dollars.”
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
More smart policy slaughtered on the altar by the high priest of reactionary suburban grievance. Speed cameras literally save lives.
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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
There’s a very clear signal here that Toronto police do not care about this camera or this crime. If this guy was vandalizing police cars, he would’ve been caught in a week www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Parkside Drive speed camera vandalized for 7th time in 10 months | CBC News
The Parkside Drive speed camera has once again been cut down by vandals — the seventh time in 10 months.
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Made the mistake of looking on Facebook and saw many locals saying 3-4 units would be "appropriate" which is... literally less than the absolute minimum allowed anywhere in Toronto.
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I'm still kind of in disbelief at how big a change this is, but it's worth noting that thanks to the city the MTSA boundaries are often comically small. Many of the Fairbank edges are <500m away from the station!
Fairbank MTSA from OPA 570
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
It only occurred to me this morning that Doug's bike lane vendetta makes even less sense after Friday's news on MTSAs. You're going to add a hundred thousand residents onto an already overloaded subway corridor and kill active transportation?
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Also @plannersean.bsky.social posted a good thread on the old place, which blocks you if you no longer have an account there because reasons. But there are ways: nitter.space/PlannerSean/...
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
@moreneighboursto.bsky.social has the juicy summary on yesterday's surprise announcement that that the province has amended and approved Toronto's MTSAs.
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Am I reading this right?
Get in loser

We're upzoning Rosedale
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
A few more developments like this in my neighbourhood and then maybe they'll finally upgrade the world's smallest, most decrepit No Frills.
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
New renderings are out for 9 Shortt Street, a City-owned parking lot set to be repurposed as a mixed-income, transit-oriented community with 467 purpose-built rentals (including 140 affordable) near Dufferin & Eglinton where the Fairbank Eglinton Crosstown LRT station will be. (1/3)
Rendering: green glass and steel midrise on left, blue podium in centre, red tower abovered tower on left, green midrise on rightpedestrian street between buildings with artpeople in pedestrian way
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
@ifbookspod.bsky.social a parenting reel grabbed my attention briefly before this popped up and I nearly threw my phone across the room like a live grenade.
Middle-Aged man with green glasses and a beige shirt and hat and the text the road to character by David Brooks below him on screen
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
It really is as simple as that.
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Bradford's pathetic right-wing heel turn reaches its peak with votes against seven widely-supported shelters, including three where the only other no was Stephen Holyday. They belong together.
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Even if this is somehow true (and I imagine Vancouver would like a word) it is true in spite of rather than because of the sum total actions of Toronto's elected government.
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I have my reservations about Robertson but I'm liking the language here. Watching the 6plex debate there were clearly some councillors taking federal gov ambiguity as an excuse to vote no. It's time to drop the hammer.
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Phil @philmarfisi.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
The federal government needs to make an example out of Toronto. Freeze every cent of HAF funding until they allow sixplexes and kill poison pills like this. One of their key platform planks was scaling modular housing. How do they expect to accomplish this with intransigent cities?
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Toronto caps number of bedrooms allowed in multiplex buildings
Critics say the real problem is not extra bedrooms but NIMBY politics that seek to fearmonger against renters
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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
oh man so glad we cancelled that digital sales tax
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Observing The City @observingthecity.ca · 14/06/2025
RT to scare councillors Holyday and Crisanti.
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Kandavel is doing Patrick Condon bullshit.
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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 12/06/2025
"My biggest concern is the impact this will have on land property values, particularly how this will negatively impact working-class and middle-class families," Councillor Parthi Kandavel says of the sixplex policy. He says allowing more units on a piece of land will just increase the land price.
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Big day! I live in a family-sized unit in a triplex and it is unambiguously great. There should be thousands more like it so that more people who don't have well over a million dollars for a semi can start families in the city.
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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Bike Lanes Toronto city council why would Doug Ford do this? Meme
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
I joke, but maybe this is a skeleton key. Like what if we got the dummies to let us build 200,000 units of socially owned SROs because getting people off the street = national cohesion or whatever.
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Nik @nrcole.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
I see that once again pickled-brain billionaires are hallucinating voters to win* arguments on the internet.
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