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Tom Weatherburn

@tdubolyou.bsky.social
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Data + Graphics Planning Research, City of Toronto mapto.ca; tomweatherburn.com

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
People talk about how AI is increasing productivity, but when I google search for "Piketty Laser Eyes" it still doesn't automatically generate a picture of Thomas Piketty with laser eyes.
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Camogli. These things slide out & make ped areas. Deliveries when needed. Local police don’t extort $100s of $1000s todo this.
Pedestrian area Pedestrian area
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Tom Weatherburn @tdubolyou.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Anthropic, Trump officials working toward deal to restore Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Anthropic took new AI models offline after the U.S. government ordered it to suspend export to destinations worldwide and all foreign nationals
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
MYTHOS is so powerful that it must be protected by strict guardrails that prevent anyone from ever learning whether or not it's actually powerful at all
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Tom Weatherburn @tdubolyou.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
In 2018 we built the Fruit Trees of Toronto map. Its been the most popular page on @maptodotca.bsky.social. I rebuilt it from scratch: svelteJS, maplibre, protomaps and 2026 data. Explore by species, location and ripening month. www.mapto.ca/maps/2026/6/... #maps #toronto #opendata
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Tom Weatherburn @tdubolyou.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
corporateknights.com/buildings/on...
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Ontario’s Bill 98 strikes a final blow to Toronto’s green building policies | Corporate Knights
The new legislation removes requirements for EV charging and erases sustainable design from planning mandates
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Tom Weatherburn @tdubolyou.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
“Design as civic infrastructure” is a concept that resonates deeply. Great ep of the Design Better Podcast substack.com/@aarronwalte...
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Jessie McGuire: National Design Award-winning studio leader on design as a civic tool
Episode 178 of the Design Better Podcast
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Tom Weatherburn @tdubolyou.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Another fun one for @spacing.bsky.social I used @torontoopendata.cityof.toronto.ca, scraped school facilities data and looked online at larger facilities to create a map of pitches across the city. This is for a special issue of Spacing Magazine on Toronto Soccer. #maps #mapping #gis #toronto
A map of soccer pitches in Toronto
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Tom Weatherburn @tdubolyou.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
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Small Lots and the Case for Single Stair Reform
A step towards more family friendly housing
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Design Reviewed @designreviewed.com · 27/03/2026
Idea Extra Issue: Herb Lubalin, 1969 Special Issue devoted to Herb Lubalin. 120 pages of Lubalin’s work from 1956 – 1969 #herblubalin designreviewed.com/artefacts/id...
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Tom Weatherburn @tdubolyou.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
www.torontotoday.ca/local/city-p...
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Contentious Palmerston redevelopment gets green light after redesign
The proposed redevelopment at 501 Palmerston Blvd. has faced significant opposition from neighbours — over size, parking and building character concerns
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
When you're too drunk to stay at the club but your jam hits as you're walking out the door
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More Neighbours Toronto @moreneighboursto.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
"Parkdale has been called a suburb, a slum, a ghetto, a village. Each label has carried consequences... justified a different kind of intervention. From regulation to clearance to revitalization, every era produced a group powerful enough to define what Parkdale was and to act on that definition."
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Who Decides What a Neighborhood Is? | The Story of Parkdale
YouTube video by Praeteritum
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Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Map of The Most Commonly Spoken Languages In Toronto Other Than English Credit: Alex McPhee (@awmcphee.ca) Full list of languages here: brilliantmaps.com/toronto-l...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
i feel like if i was tasked with not starting a war and bringing back US manufacturing jobs, i could have done a better job than this
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Toronto City Planning and Development Review @planning.cityof.toronto.ca · 13/03/2026
Looking for development activity data in Toronto? The Development Pipeline Dashboard is an interactive tool that lets people explore development activity across the city. The dashboard highlights the number of projects, residential units, residential and non‑residential space.
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Oliver Moore @oliver-moore.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
It’s been a half-century since the OPEC oil crisis. Good thing the west has spent that time engineering smaller cars, developing renewables and working aggressively to reduce reliance on fossil fuels www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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The Long-Feared Persian Gulf Oil Squeeze Is Upon Us
Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has ground to a virtual halt, unleashing the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.
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Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Enjoying a now-totally-legal 😀 espresso at Finch Store w/ Mayor Chow, Councillor Bravo & one of the main community voices who helped make the neighbourhood retail initiative happen @anotherglassbox.bsky.social Thx to Yana & entrepreneurs like her who bring life + community to local neighbourhoods!
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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The only one who could ever reach me / Was the son of a…
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
I do appreciate that this administration is too incompetent to manufacture even the thinnest pretext for this, so we don't have to relive that 2002-2003 run when opposing an obviously idiotic war basically made you feel like the one sane person in a Twilight Zone episode.
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Tom Weatherburn @tdubolyou.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Pete walkers handlebars looking better than ever
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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Where do parents find the time to parent? Less sleep, work and screens. Amazing chart feat. in @alphaville.ft.com Further Reading. homeeconomics.substack.com/p/where-do-p...
Difference in time use between working parents of small children vs working non parents. Areas above zero are activities parents do more of; areas below are what they give up. 

Compiled by analyzing the Census Bureau’s American Time Use Survey.

Analysis and chart by Aziz Sunderji, https://homeeconomics.substack.com/p/where-do-parents-find-the-time
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Tom Weatherburn @tdubolyou.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Exploring overlays on DEM data in Blender. Versions show forest and water, satellite imagery, Greenbelt plan areas, and colour-coded watersheds. Testing different palettes. Long way to go, but sharing progress—feedback welcome. #map #mapping #gis #blender #Toronto #Ontario #DEM #3D
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Tom Weatherburn @tdubolyou.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I completed the Applied Data Science with Python specialization from the U of M, which included 5 courses: Introduction to Data Science Applied Plotting, Charting & Data Representation Applied Machine Learning Applied Text Mining Applied Social Network Analysis #datascience #ai #python
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Tom Weatherburn @tdubolyou.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The Planning Research and Analytics team in @planning.cityof.toronto.ca has published a Development Pipeline dashboard. It shows development activity over the past 5 years. Have a look here: lnkd.in/g8pBE-Ej #Toronto #DevelopmentPipeline #RE #BI #Tableau #dashboards
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Add Palmerston to the list of places that need a good Le Corbusiering. Next to the Annex, Cabbagetown and mid-etobicoke. The more righteous and self-proclaimed-special, the more hot towers go in.
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 27/01/2026
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit. It's all white supremacy and greed.
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Tom Weatherburn @tdubolyou.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Playing with elevation data in #Blender. This is the #Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) boundary which includes all of the watersheds that converge in Toronto. Going to try draping some orthophotos and land cover data over this. Other ideas? #Maps #Mapping #GIS #3D #dataviz
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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The Eglinton cover section, meanwhile, features Cheryl Thompson and @johnlorinc.bsky.social on the Golden Mile, a map of Eglinton density by @tdubolyou.bsky.social (slice below), and pieces by @theurbangeog.bsky.social, Todd Harrison, and more ranging from east to west.
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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
New issue! Issue 73 explores Eglinton Avenue, Toronto's "prime rib" from east to west, as it awaits its new transit line spacing.ca/toronto/2026...
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NEW ISSUE: Crossing Town - Spacing Toronto
We still don’t know when the Eglinton Crosstown LRT will open. It could be any day – the testing is all done. Or it could be many weeks away, given its history – there are still processes to go throug...
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Tom Weatherburn @tdubolyou.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
If you spend any amount of time using microsoft copilot you will understand why hes worried.
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AnyChart @anychart.com · 22/12/2025
Love good charts & maps? 👀 #DataViz Weekly is back with new data viz picks worth a look: > Time with others @flowingdata.com > NYC parking lots housing potential @tdubolyou.bsky.social > China's rise in trade @ourworldindata.org > AI questions beyond tech earnings @bloomberg.com See it on our blog.
Demonstrating New Data Visualization Examples Worth Checking Out, Reviewed in DataViz Weekly This Time
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Tom Weatherburn @tdubolyou.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
How many housing units could fit on the surface lots of NYC? I mapped them and estimated based recent construction. tdubolyou.github.io/nyc-lots/ #NYC #map #mapping #sveltejs #D3 #maplibre #dataviz
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Tom Weatherburn @tdubolyou.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I voted for Tobi over Thiel but I dont think he’ll win
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Black Americans navigated Jim Crow through guides like the Green Books by sharing their experiences. Know a Green Book establishment? Share your memories, and upload photos or documents. Your contribution makes the archive complete. greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky
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Phil @philmarfisi.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
The tragedy of this province is that we have all the things conceivably needed to be one of the greatest places to live on earth, but our governing class is relentlessly obsessed with mediocrity.
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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I want to stress again that California is not in a situation where it's gaining tech jobs at a slower rate than the rest of the country (like 2021/2022), but is outright losing tech jobs as the rest of the US gains Cali is down 75k tech jobs from peak & nearly 20k from pre-COVID
A stacked bar graph showing California tech sector jobs growth
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 09/12/2025
Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
screenshot of my post
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Tom Weatherburn @tdubolyou.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
How many housing units could fit on the surface lots of NYC? I mapped them and estimated based recent construction. tdubolyou.github.io/nyc-lots/ #NYC #map #mapping #sveltejs #D3 #maplibre #dataviz
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Tom Weatherburn @tdubolyou.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Fun little exploratory project. I mapped transit oriented surface parking lots in NYC and applied recent development densities to estimate housing potential. Link at the end. #NYC #Planning #Dataviz #mapping #maps #map #housing
Map of NYC surface parking lots
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/11/2025
Imagining that the climate battle is about *information* -- that those who have good information will act; that those who aren't acting must be lacking information -- has been utterly disastrous for decades now, but advocates & pols can't seem to break out of it.
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Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
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Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
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Tom Weatherburn @tdubolyou.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I’m not sure he understands it’s quite helpful for the LPC when American Fascists mimic the rhetoric of our Conservative Party.
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Tom Weatherburn @tdubolyou.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Increasingly find myself listening to @drfeifei.bsky.social as a source of credible (understatement!) and insightful info about AI. This episode of @lennysan.bsky.social’s podcast is a great example. open.spotify.com/episode/35Aa...
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The Godmother of AI on jobs, robots & why world models are next | Dr. Fei-Fei Li
Spotify video
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend
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The Local Magazine @thelocal.to · 23/09/2025
When the province took over the Toronto District School Board, it also took over the subsidiary that manages the TDSB’s $20 billion worth of land. As @wendyglauser.bsky.social‬ writes, critics fear repercussions not just for schools, but also for whole neighbourhoods. thelocal.to/tdsb-takeove...
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What Happens to TDSB’s $20 Billion Worth of Land Under Provincial Supervision? | The Local
The TDSB is one of Toronto’s largest landowners. When the province took over the board, it also took over its subsidiary that manages its properties—and it’s not saying what’s next.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Like this motherfucker was cooking with this one
Mr Rogers doing a bad job drawing a house but saying it doesn’t matter
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
A good enough reason to spend lots of time doing art is just that it’s fun to do art
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