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@slj.bsky.social
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uoft 😊 environmentalism and city building (he/him) 🇨🇦 🌎 Canadian Globalist Dark Prince of Bluesky

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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
My favourite contributions to the genre are these homages with a tone that oscillates from silly to deadly serious
Corporate Memphis Saturn Devouring His Sun by Mimi ClaireCorporate Memphis Burning Monk by Justin Kang
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
At least I’m not in Thunder Bay
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Enemy (2013) / Reality (2026)
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
He might have just done it
Victor Marx in the leadVictor Marx on how many people he has killed: “I don’t think that’s important.”
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I’m glad someone had the wherewithal to not put a conspicuous American flag like the rest of them
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Warming is still going to get really bad, but any amount of clean energy raises the depths of badness possible. 2. Humans cause climate change. This has been known in theory since the 1850s and has been proven.
Pew research polling showing most Republicans do not believe in human caused climate change.
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Two unpopular truths in America re climate change: 1. The worst impacts possible by 2100 have been avoided, this fact is trivial. Even 100GW of electricity produced by clean energy rather than fossil fuels could have achieved this, let alone the 2T+ the world has.
Pew research polling showing most Americans believe the world will not do enough to avoid the worst impacts from climate change.
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
This man needs a prescription but you can’t deny the creative spirit.
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
There are puddles and then there are natural springs
Puddle coming from deep underground
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Give it up for day 20
An investment portfolio entirely in the redGive it up for day 20 (Mr Krabs)
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
That green tree in the background is a beautiful cherry blossom
Cherry blossom close up
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Today I voted in the NDP leadership election, I ranked two candidates: 1. @votetanille.bsky.social 2. @heathermcpherson.bsky.social
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Failed to load blob is gonna stick with me for a while
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
“Muddy York” is one of Toronto’s oldest nicknames and we are earning it this season, but it doesn’t have to be this way. Puddling is political!
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Rest in peace Beaches Cineplex
Sun sets on Cineplex Beaches
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Check up on your Toronto friends today to make sure they don’t get transported to Silent Hill
Foggy streetsFoggy street
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Come to Toronto we won’t dissapoint
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Can we stop exclusively building wide commercial arterials and allow mixed use everywhere?
SpadinaQueens QuayOokwemin Minising
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Can we daylight more lost streams?
Taddle Creek ParkCheonggyecheon, Seoul
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Can we liven up the Union Station depression ghosts?
Depressing ghost art at Union Station TorontoDepressing ghost art at Union Station TorontoDepressing ghost art at Union Station TorontoDepressing ghost art at Union Station Toronto
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Today is Toronto Budget Day. Reminder that the city is not strapped for cash. I have my problems with the politics and priorities in the values of the budget, but this is something bigger: *any* political agenda will be failed by a poorly designed budget, besides the agenda of anti-governance
To start with, councillors should ask to see the 2025 budget alongside the city's actual results for 2023 and its projections for the 2024 results that will come out later this year. That is information well-run businesses and not-for-profits provide, and it is information that is readily available for other governments, notably the Ontario government. We should be seeing historical and projected key numbers - revenues, expenses and resulting bottom line - on a consistent basis.
Toronto's budget does not show these numbers. Most notably, past and projected surpluses get no mention at all. Too few people know what is clear from Toronto's financial statements: It has consistently recorded more revenue than it has spent. In 2023, the city ran a surplus of $1.25-billion. Add that to its past surpluses, and its accumulated surplus - its net worth, reflecting its capacity to deliver services - totalled $33.7-billion. The minority who follow these numbers would bet that, when the books are closed for last year, the city will report another healthy surplus. The absence of these numbers from the budget supports a narrative that Toronto's finances are dire, and that its residents and ratepayers must either face reduced services or pay a whopping additional tax bill.
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Flavour text from this program
She’s 16. It’s not like she’s four.
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Relative population change around Palmerston Blvd. Green = lost population vs 1971
Lots of green tracts around Palmerston
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Steve Paikin and Rosie DiManno are in the Epstein Files
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Renee Macklin Good’s only published poem On Learning To Dissect Fetal Pigs is great. Written six years ago, it can be read as a commentary on the circumstances of her death. That is the ideal of poetic talent. Not to mention how her faith comes through so genuinely. I would love to see her work.
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Proposed by me Congestion Pricing Maps of Toronto, 2026
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
2 minutes ago
The New York Times
In Catia la Mar, a city just west of the Caracas airport, the air strikes hit a three-story civilian apartment complex, knocking out an exterior wall and killing at least one older woman, the victim's family said.
The woman, Rosa González, died in the strike and a second person was seriously wounded, the family said. One woman in the building said she was hit and nearly lost her eye. Another person, a 70-year-old man named Jorge who declined to give his last name, said he "lost everything" when the bomb exploded.Opinion
Editorial Board
Justice in Venezuela
The next challenge is setting the country up for long-term success.
28 minutes ago
Venezuelans living in Chile celebrate Saturday in Santiago after U.S. forces captured Nicolás Maduro. (Javier
Torres/AFP via Getty Images)
Millions of people around the world, most of all in Venezuela, are celebrating the downfall of the dictator Nicolás Maduro. President Donald Trump's decision to capture him on Saturday is one of the boldest moves a president has made in years, and the operation was an unquestionable tactical success. The next step is ensuring that this triumph sets Venezuela up for stability rather than chaos.
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Holiday concerned about the growth of coral, warns against reef of shadows
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Holiday concerned about growth of trees, warns against forest of shadows
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
These are great
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Would you call him a performative male
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
The bicycle is in the top 5 of the worlds greatest inventions
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
They should meet up
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The boom boom aesthetic and supervillain vibes
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
In awe of his instincts
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
IKTR!
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
This is how the wildfire smoke had me feeling
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Some of you may disagree but this is the best possible political position
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
SOTY. I had to listen to it a few times but it’s SOTY. Max Potential by NBT
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Great name for politics
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Why memorize facts, write code, research anything - when a model can do it in seconds?
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
I love democracy, I love voting, and I love East York!
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Can we put them in a room together to sort each other out
Order of Nine Angles

The Order of Nine Angels (ONA or O9A) is a Satanic left-hand path and terrorist network that originated in the United Kingdom, but has since branched out into other parts of the world. Claiming to have been established in the 1960s, it rose to public recognition in the early
1980s, attracting attention for its neo-Nazi ideology and activism. Describing its approach as "Traditional Satanism", it also exhibits Hermetic and modern Pagan elements in its beliefs.Zizians

The Zizians are a group of rationalists allegedly involved in six violent deaths in the United States, three in 2022 and three in 2025. 111[21|31 Federal prosecutors say the Zizians are associated with persons of interest in the murders of four people: David Maland in Vermont (a U.S. Border Patrol agent), Curtis Lind in California (a landlord), and Richard and Rita Zajko in Pennsylvania (the parents of one of the group members). 4) In addition, Ophelia Bauckholt (a German citizen) and Emma Borhanian, both associates of the Zizians, were killed during altercations with Maland and Lind. [5]
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
streetcars that move unabated
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
There’s Lower
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sam 🏡🍊 @slj.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Donald Trump voters: why not neither?
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