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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 13h

Remember to pace yourselves. If you spooky too much now, then you'll be spookied out thirty days from now.

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Pete @peeete.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This would be dope, actually.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Pete @peeete.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Surely we'd have a vibrant and healthy public realm if only the setbacks were just a liiiiitle larger.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026

awoke this morning with a Vision

that diagram showing the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Great column. It really is the most transparent level of gov't (police notwithstanding). Things are tight. I often get comments like "city hall is corrupt" - well, show me where? It has the most openness, the most public eyes on it. Other levels, far less transparency (looking at you, Ontario)

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Pete @peeete.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Anything to avoid building stuff.

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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

www.reddit.com/r/transit/s/... neat map of Ontario passenger train volumes in 1966

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The corollary to this is that progressive urbanism must also be at least a little bit libertarian to be liberatory; to get organic, informal networks you need to allow the uncontrolled and unpredictable, whether that's different and novel housing or jobs or amusement.

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Pete @peeete.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How is cfra still on the air.

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Kanchan @kayehm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I met a resident who lives across the street from the Parkside camera (RIP) & saw it happen multiple times. Saw the people & vehicles used. Had recordings. They didn't say anything to police because they "didn't want to be a narc" 🫠 There are def doorbell cameras that had plenty of evidence.

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gotu @gotu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Since the adoption of the City of Ottawa’s 10-year plan to end homelessness in 2014, the number of people living in shelters has risen from just over 6,700 that year to almost 9,500 in 2024, the report says." Suttcliffe was 6 years into a 10 year plan to end homelessness when he took over.

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC

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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

How many times am I allowed to repost something?

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 20/09/2026

virulently anti-Catholic lapsed Catholic here: It's of actual geopolitical significance that the Catholic Church is talking like this this time around with these pigs. It wasn't like that 90 years ago.

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"People should just follow the planning rules" folks, *the city cannot follow its own planning rules*, what hope do you think anyone else has

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TekknoNerd - Commissions open @tekknonerd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Voyager, walking on those tiny legs.

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Pete @peeete.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A tale of two candidates.

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Phil @philmarfisi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Mamdani's political comms acumen and strategic use of one of the world's greatest bully pulpits is important for his success, but the secret sauce boils down to the fact that he is a huge municipal governance nerd who is obsessed with making the day-to-day basic functions of a city work well.

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Jordan Moffatt @jordanmoffatt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Work or run a business from home in Ottawa? You have Rose Fletcher to thank. She fought to make it legal in the 1970s after a zoning bylaw banned it. Read the story in my latest newsletter post. threespeed.substack.com/p/the-woman-...

threespeed.substack.com

The woman who legalized working from home in Ottawa

Rose Fletcher fought City Hall for years before her WFH victory in late 1974

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Pete @peeete.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Begging everyone involved in municipal politics to figure a better way to communicate about property taxes. What does 1% even mean here? Surely not 1% of the assessed value, the detached residential mil rate is 0.58%

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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

*uncommonly loud clown nose honking noise*

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Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This story buries the lede, but if you pull out a calculator and do the math, AAA found that the average American spends $15,031 a year for a single car! www.cnbc.com/2026/09/14/c...

cnbc.com

Car ownership costs an average of $5,851 a year on top of auto loan payments, analysis finds

The cost of insurance, gas, and maintenance or repairs can add thousands of dollars a year to the price of owning a car.

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Pete @peeete.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's been a month now and there's been zero action on this!

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Phil @philmarfisi.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

@alexbozikovic.bsky.social has written what is now my favourite succinct analysis of why Alto is such a vital national project.

The value of cities is not merely that they concentrate people and transactions. It is that they create a shared
world: places where strangers encounter one another, where ideas circulate, and where commerce emerges from proximity and
exchange. Even now, the economic power of cities is inseparable from their social and cultural life. Yet this is poorly understood by many
governments.

Alto promises to remedy that, while
protecting Canada against a future in which high oil
prices and climate politics make roads and airports much less accessible. If done right - with well-located downtown terminal stations
- Alto would remake the cultural and economic
geography of Canada.

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Pete @peeete.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Gas(light) powered transit system

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

from the lowliest worm to the mightiest worm, the ground is home to a vast hierarchy of worms

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Pete @peeete.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

No transit priority proposal means he isn't actually serious about any of this.

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Pete @peeete.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We have to abolish BIAs. Unelected but tax funded, these special interest groups should not be allowed anywhere near our municipal politics.

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“We have built at least 10,000 units that nobody ever lived in, and somebody profited off.” This is not a student; it is Gord Perks, outgoing city councillor and until recently the head of Toronto’s planning and housing committee. music.youtube.com/watch?v=g2TZ...

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Gord Perks is worried about the future of Toronto Politics

YouTube video by Toronto the Politics the Show

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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still think about this post

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Bromptonymous 🇨🇦 @bromptonymous.ca · 09/09/2026

Victoria’s bike share is already exceeding Vancouver’s per capita in … checks notes … its first month. Protected bike lanes and reasonably dense development are the secret sauce to an effective bike transport system.

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Phil @philmarfisi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Whomst among us could have predicted that the housing market would begin adapting to demand for 2-3 BR units all on its own after demand for smaller units cratered www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

thestar.com

Toronto condo developer cuts 200 units from two-tower project: ‘People are looking for more livability’

The Gupta Group has dropped the number of units to 500 from 700 in a North York luxury project to make the homes more spacious as the condo crash drags on.

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Pete @peeete.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My neighbours suck, man. They hate me, people like me, and want us all to go away so they can pretend it's 1985 again.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 08/09/2026

I’ve thought about this a lot and the Segway, a rechargeable, electric device that was hyped to change the way that humans live it cities, did actually largely do that, just not in the form factor they had designed. They should have just made it look like a bike or a scooter.

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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.

A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

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Pete @peeete.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I am desperately curious to know why the Star puts out this same boilerplate report every week without fail. Do they do this for other topics? Does it drive a lot of clicks?

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Pete @peeete.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The mud puddle is just the perfect cherry on this stupid cake.

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Pete @peeete.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Cherries wish they had this range.

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“I too worry about the people on their e-bikes,” I think as I drive my car to the park 0.5 miles away on the other side of a 4-lane highway.

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