Reposted by Thomas somethingMark Shaw 🇨🇦✌️🇪🇺 @markshawtoronto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If Alberta gets the big train but Ontario/Quebec can’t do it because mother Gaia or whatever wants you to fly I’m going to be so pissed 2394
Reposted by Thomas somethingDavid Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"E-bike adopters reduced travel costs by 12% and increased physical activity by 14%." doi.org/10.1016/j.ur... 213842
Reposted by Thomas somethingAndrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Wait times are increasing with greater for-profit involvement. Between 2017 and 2025, median wait times for eight of 12 priority procedures have increased in Ontario For example: MRI scans: median wait times increased from 35 days in 2017 to 47 days in 2025—34% increase #onpoli 1104
Reposted by Thomas somethingderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Pope reminds me of a version of Catholicism I knew growing up as a young man attending anti-war and anti-death penalty protests, where I met elderly Catholics who shared their version of faith with me. I learned that Catholicism was about love and mercy for the weak, the condemned, and the poor. 1136528889
Reposted by Thomas somethingAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map. 9352073190
Reposted by Thomas somethingMatt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 22/09/2026Over the weekend, the Bradford campaign challenged the media to do this "scavenger hunt" to uncover supposed places where Olivia Chow frittered away the provincial New Deal money. Challenge accepted. From my newsletter this week, here’s what I found. 29246
Reposted by Thomas somethingshaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 20/09/2026the republicans are wide open on several fronts, historically unpopular president, unpopular war, record high gas. any dem throwing trans people under the bus at this moment is doing it because they want to. not like they need to, do they. even if it worked as a vote winner, which it doesn't 3371941953
Reposted by Thomas somethingNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The US already got a do over. A mulligan. A second chance. Much of the world, especially US allies, were ready to write off Trump’s first term as a fluke. The American people’s choice to put him back in power—as a convicted felon, after an openly bigoted, anti-democracy campaign—showed it was not. 12247251141
Reposted by Thomas somethingObserving The City @observingthecity.ca · 17/09/2026This streetcar waited 25 seconds for one truck to turn left. Wasn’t @mayoroliviachow.ca celebrating “transit signal priority” on Spadina 6 months ago? 1215
Reposted by Thomas somethingEmmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 16/09/2026There is zero evidence of a strategy, and lots of reasons to think we'll regret what Carney is trying to do here. 46518
Reposted by Thomas somethingTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026$500, some highlighters, and ten days to wrap it up. Treat candidates like we treat teachers. 332697387
Reposted by Thomas somethingMichael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Gotta hand it to the Liberal party. They outflanked the NDP to the left in 2015 and got a majority. Now they're in massive majority territory by eating the CPC's lunch. And in between they survived 2 elections by just being less off-putting than their rivals. It's not pretty, but they win. 4503
Reposted by Thomas somethingCycle Toronto @cycletoronto.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Ontario Society Of Professional Engineers (OSPE) continues to speak out against the province's reckless and arbitrary scheme to rip out 19 km of protected bike lanes. Now will engineering firms heed this message before bidding on Ontario's RFP?ospe.on.caOSPE Statement: Where Things Stand on Bill 212 and Toronto's Bike LanesExplore the OSPE Statement on Bill 212 and its impact on Toronto's bike lanes and transportation planning. 413650
Reposted by Thomas somethingAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/09/2026reporters werent “barred” from recording, the powerful people they are covering asked them not to record and they immediately complied and hid whats happening from their audience 14765801367
Reposted by Thomas somethingDale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Democrats keep trying to guilt-trip Canadians into backing down. Fuck off. Deal with your own mess. This is your problem to solve, not ours. www.cbc.ca/news/politic... 44455160
Reposted by Thomas somethingThomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026A Far-Right International Is Assaulting Democracy MAGA and the AfD are united in a struggle against democratic pluralism that transcends national borders. It is an alliance of extremists defined by aggrieved revanchism. Some thoughts from my new piece: 🧵steady.pageA Far-Right International Is Assaulting DemocracyMAGA and the AfD are united in a struggle against democratic pluralism that transcends national borders. It is an alliance of extremists defined by aggrieved revanchism 7612285
Reposted by Thomas somethingI Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026Also have to point out Musk said he was saving humanity he meant he was buying Twitter to promote race science to slow a popular movement for racial justice. 32780187
Reposted by Thomas somethingShane Gates 🇨🇦 @shanegates.ca · 12/09/2026Every year I fill out the Downtown Yonge BIA's survey about safety. Every year I try to fit in how cars are the biggest safety threat into questions that are clearly fishing for blame towards those experiencing homelessness. 0112
Reposted by Thomas somethingColleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 12/09/2026What an absolutely bananas way to describe that a segment of track was missing 18 screws. www.thestar.com/news/gta/new... 1247
Reposted by Thomas somethingZach Everson @zacheverson.com · 11/09/2026“To leave no loopholes Hitler exacted from all officers and men of the armed forces an oath of allegiance—not to Germany, not to the constitution, which he had violated by not calling for the election of Hindenburg’s successor, but to himself.” -Shirer, Rise & Fall of the Thrid Reich, p. 375 421564568
Reposted by Thomas somethingOh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This is why I always try say “car-free or car-light”. I’m lucky enough to live in a place where going fully car-free is reasonably practical, but most people aren’t. And having a lot more households go car-light — one car plus biking & transit — would be revolutionary. 7859
Reposted by Thomas somethingThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comThe political effects of X’s feed algorithm - NatureAmong users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared... 4239361777
Reposted by Thomas somethingChris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary' 9359961596
Reposted by Thomas somethingShawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Once again, Ontario's establishment, conservative or otherwise, does not care. 03114
Reposted by Thomas somethingtunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place. 427174333860
Reposted by Thomas somethingEli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This is ADL's solitary statement after Nazis won state elections in Germany for the first time since the Holocaust: 9445281058
Reposted by Thomas somethingLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 07/09/2026This is a wild thread Newly elected AfD state parliamentarians in Saxony-Anhalt include two people linked to a recent raid on a banned neo-Nazi group, guy who forged his high school diploma and a former stasi officer Like, are German political parties not familiar with oppo? x.com/Jakob_D04/st... 712262
Reposted by Thomas somethingThe Biking Lawyer LLP @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Glad Toronto Police spent the last 2 weeks blitzing vulnerable road users like e-bikers/e-scooters. Resources well spent. Meanwhile the real traffic issue on our roadways, dangerous drivers: Killed 2 pedestrians in 24 hours & another nearly killed Friday. When is this City going to get serious? 27222
Reposted by Thomas somethingbrianbswizzle.bsky.social @brianbswizzle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Streetcar ops taking over bus ops is basically an apocalypse level event in Toronto. TTC actually went, “what if we took North America's best bus network and made it more like the world's slowest streetcar network?” 2182
Reposted by Thomas somethingFastTrackTO @fast-track.to · 04/09/2026FastTrackTO has learned that the posted speed limits for buses on the brand new Scarborough Busway will be 30 km/h near stations and signals. 🐌 This is disappointing, and reduces travel time savings that the busway is meant to provide. Especially re: any express buses. 45613
Reposted by Thomas somethingThe Onion @theonion.com · 03/09/2026Google Maps Introduces Crawling Directions For Cyclists Hit By Truck theonion.com/google-maps-introduces… 352775459
Reposted by Thomas somethingHow-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 03/09/2026It’s official: Yesterday’s storm in the Toronto area was a 100-year storm. That means that in the past fifteen years, Toronto’s been hit with a 100-year storm four times. We must end the burning of natural gas, gasoline, and other fossil fuels. 16482176
Reposted by Thomas somethingOh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 02/09/2026At no point does the car in front of me actually stop either. The vast majority of drivers roll through stop signs, but it’s just been so normalized that people don’t notice or care. When cyclists do the same thing, it stands out to people. 71278
Reposted by Thomas somethingMatt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 02/09/2026Toronto is putting on a “Kids Vote Weekend” in October, where kids will go to polling locations and vote for one of five candidates running to be Tree of the Year. I will be cancelling all my coverage of the mayoral race and focusing exclusively on this contest. www.toronto.ca/city-governm... 69521
Reposted by Thomas somethingaugust 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 02/09/2026neither the ontario liberal party or the ndp have made a peep about bike lanes. you'd think they'd attack ford over GO train cuts though, given how unpopular train cuts are in the 905 ridings that he depends on for blue votes (newmarket, barrie, etc). ontario's political outlook is so cooked 513119
Reposted by Thomas somethingShawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Per the gov't news release on bike lane removal, interesting to see the head of the Residential and Civil Construction Alliance of Ontario endorse this. Address: Vaughan. Writes op eds in the Sun urging road building like highway 413. Do all their members support this position? Might be good to ask. 4528
Reposted by Thomas somethingChad Leddy @chadleddy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Intermittent platform edge fences, at an estimated cost of $2 million per station, have begun to be installed on the TTC - A poor substitute for full platform edge doors, and more or less a waste of money, but hopefully the start of a longer process to finally procure affordable platform edge doors. 042
Reposted by Thomas somethingNathan Ruser @nrg8000.bsky.social · 12/06/2026While the Burmese Junta claimed to have demolished KK Park, a major scam centre in Myawaddy, numerous Starlink Terminals are still visible on the roofs of still-standing buildings in recent satellite imagery. Entirely new scam compounds are under construction nearby. 325446
Reposted by Thomas somethingTechnology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I remember learning in kindergarten that HOMES was a useful acronym for remembering the five great lakes. A bit on the nose to change it to SHAME, isn't it? 401626265
Reposted by Thomas somethingMapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026We're not changing the name of Lake Ontario. Name it whatever you want at your leisure: gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario (tag us so we can see your work 🙂) 984101592400
Reposted by Thomas somethingOh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 27/08/2026People recognize that restricting AirBnB, putting more housing on the (long-term) rental market, brings down rents. But if you suggest *building* more market-rate housing, critics question whether the market could ever bring down rents. 811319
Reposted by Thomas somethingJohn Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Most of the good stuff we can get out of the EU is stuff we don't need European permission for (ie adopting their standards, lowering our trade barriers.) 149625
Reposted by Thomas somethingPhilippe J. Fournier @338canada.bsky.social · 23/08/2026🍁New poll from the Angus Reid Institute shows majority of Canadians in all regions and age groups siding with Mark Carney's decision to pull out of negotiations. 63797266
Reposted by Thomas somethingaugust 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 23/08/2026I can't tell for sure how the "transit signal priority" works currently, but it appears to still be a static reordering of phases, with some green extensions? slow operation resulted in several missed green lights. despite some travel time improvements, this is still pretty disappointing 3251
Reposted by Thomas somethingThe Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 22/08/2026Art Of The Deal author fails to secure deal with friendliest nation on planetthebeaverton.comArt Of The Deal author fails to secure deal with friendliest nation on planetWASHINGTON D.C. - President Trump, a man who was elected based on his self-proclaimed "deal-making genius", has failed to secure a trade deal with Canada, a nation most known for maple syrup and neigh... 652890888
Reposted by Thomas somethingDan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I just got off the phone with the owner of Finch…despite the fact we saved the store from zoning challenges, the landlord is doubling the rent… so they’re throwing in the towel. Last day of business is today. Their sister store, Martin, will close at the end of the weekend. 94711
Reposted by Thomas somethingColleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I guess there's weird behind-the-scenes stuff that I don't know about. But what I do know from volunteering with pedestrian Church St is that it wouldn't have happened without Moise. City staff against it and throwing up new obstacles regularly. Rare to see a councillor persist against that. 0193
Reposted by Thomas somethingMathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 20/08/2026Huh! Opening SIX MONTHS earlier than projected and not using a public-private partnership. I wonder if those things are related! 1389
Reposted by Thomas somethingAlex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Just spent a week in Norway where drivers are basically 100% polite and compliant with traffic regulations. Back in North America, this is the norm. The level of chaos and sometimes aggression - from cars, from drivers - is striking. 1211816
Reposted by Thomas somethingAlex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Gentle density reform in Toronto has been a waste of time. After 4.5 years, 1,200 net new homes. That’s 266 homes/year, equal to one highrise apartment building. And that’s not counting multiplexes being “deconverted” to houses. malcolmkennedy.com/to-multiplex...malcolmkennedy.comToronto Multiplex Tracker — Map of Gentle Density PermitsAn interactive map of every new multiplex in Toronto: duplexes through six-plexes, laneway and garden suites, and secondary suites. Built from City of Toronto building permits and refreshed every day. 69021
