Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 8hHaving long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me. 8748661232
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h“Every member of this ethnic group is a criminal who needs to be imprisoned by the state” is just pure uncut Nazi shit 924071985
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 9hThe news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening. 361560373
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦The Onion @theonion.com · 8hFrom The Archive: DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment theonion.comDOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of EntertainmentWASHINGTON—In an effort to provide some joy to the nation and boost overall well-being, Justice Department officials announced plans Monday to bring back firing squads as a means of entertainment. “Fo... 732252583
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8ha livestreamed execution is just a lynching 25688721800
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 13hAlberta’s UCP government — also known for randomly turning into a semi-separatist party — is crushing and stomping on what was easily the most exciting city in Canada for housing reform. 08113
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 19hLet me just say that the US does not have anything like the public pension problems France does. We are very much in the "tweak" zone to achieve long-term stability. They...yeah I dunno what they are gonna do. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/whats-the-...paulkrugman.substack.comWhat’s the Matter With France?Is Europe’s #2 economy too big to save? 4439
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦Semafor @semafor.com · 18hThe cost of hiring one very large crude carrier to move US oil to Asia topped $77 million, new data showed Wednesday, surging more than 700% from its 2025 average. www.semafor.com/article/10/0... 13924
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 23hCredit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...politico.comEU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressureThe Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat. 491102530
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦BC Policy Solutions @bcpolicy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026ICYMI: Senior economist @1alexhemingway.bsky.social ’s latest for @vancouversun.bsky.social. Give it a read here: vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...vancouversun.comOpinion: B.C.’s big cities must do better to fix the housing crisisCities too often use their powers to restrict housing or make it too expensive to build while forcing new housing onto noisy main roads 031
Tyler Sork 🇨🇦 @tylersork.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I’m incredibly frustrated by planners who seem to think that the form or type of housing is what determines if a neighborhood is ‘livable’. People are what make a neighborhood! The formal qualities of an area the vast majority of people can’t afford to live in aren’t very interesting.vancouversun.comOpinion: Density by decree: The future of Vancouver neighbourhoodsDecrees have done more harm than good. Multiplexes generate more opposition than homes and few approved Broadway plan projects have been built 000
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️ 9659953427
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I don’t think a 21X increase in the cost to get a tanker out of the Persian Gulf with lower total exports than before the war is an achievement. And I think it’s odd that so much of the press has been covering it as if we should see this as positive, with “Better Than You Think”-style “explainers.” 19643208
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Literally making people use the term on public radio 54711
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/10/2026One thing about Copenhagen is that there's tons of dense housing but you *never* find it fronting a busy road with cars racing past, which describes about 90% of the apartments in the US. They manage to make it feel tucked away, private, cozy. (These are all from Sluseholmen, my dream neighborhood.) 421424151
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦Séamas Aloysius @seamusaloysius.bsky.social · 06/10/2026William Fraser Garden "View of a Tree at Sunset" (1896) opaque watercolor on paper | 7 7/8 x 10 9/16 in. (20 x 26.8 cm) The Morgan Library & Museum #ArtSky #Garden 1215
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask? 8436861438
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Deepak Karra (deepak_karra on IG) captured this shot of a pink robin, native to the forests of South Australia & Tasmania. In technical terms, this is a bird shaped like an orb, or 'BORB'. 🐦🟣 Reminder that this little guy is a direct descendant of theropod dinosaurs like T. rex. (📷: Deepak Karra) 12819200
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦Patrick Déry @patrickdery.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Ce n'est pas normal qu'on soit en train de contempler la possibilité d'un gouvernement « majoritaire » avec 30 % du vote. Ce n'est pas normal qu'à peu près tous les commentateurs font comme si c'était normal. C'est anormal, peu importe le parti. Une « majorité », ce n'est pas 3 personnes sur 10. 1112121
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 06/10/2026Forming government with ~28% of the vote makes a mockery of any pretence to majority rule. 16011
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 06/10/2026I know the main headline here is PQ back in power and possibly a referendum to follow, but the 1a headline is absolutely that first past the post is not a great fit for politics in Quebec (and other provinces) at the moment. 812434
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦Electrek @electrek.co · 05/10/2026Gasoline-only vehicles made up 49% of global new-vehicle sales in the first half of 2026, the first time they have fallen below 50%, down from 73% in 2021. Full story: electrek.co... 24117
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦Electrek @electrek.co · 06/10/2026Six Flags has installed one of the largest solar carports in the USelectrek.coSix Flags has installed one of the largest solar carports in the USSix Flags Magic Mountain is putting its parking lots to work with a new 12.37-megawatt (MW) solar installation – California’s largest solar carport. It’s expected to generate enough electricity each year to offset the annual power use of both the amusement park and neighboring Hurricane Harbor Los Angeles. more… 0407
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Artist: Roz Chast from The New Yorker 9864170
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026Tim Snyder: The term that I came up with… is superpower suicide. I just can’t see an example of a major country losing so much power so quickly as the United States under Trump. We’ve encouraged our enemies and we’ve made our allies not trust us. 25960342242
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026Tim Snyder on Trump's fixation with Putin: If you believe in countries, the United States is a much more powerful country than Russia. But if you just believe that it’s gangster on gangster, well then sure, Putin is a much better gangster than Trump. 221299407
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I mean, these are not the same. the visual resemblance to the Reichstag is hard to escape. 77717
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Northern Lake Lawren Harris 1923 016243
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦Demiurge of Doom @euthyphro.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Counter argument: One of the worst ways to spend your one wild and precious life is breaking bread with someone who insists your human rights ought to be up for debate. 2423
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 04/10/2026Doesn’t mean rent controls never have any place in housing policy at all, but they have many proven downsides and unless they’re accompanied by big increases in supply they risk making the overall housing situation worse. 517214
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 04/10/2026What’s the evidence on rent control? I charted the findings from 112 studies: Great for rent-controlled tenants ✅ But: Pushes up rents for other people ❌ Pushes down new housing construction ❌ Pushes down building quality ❌ 36607159
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 04/10/2026One consequences of the left's hostility to economics is that they rally behind solutions that will probably make things worse. Economics is not the enemy of the left, and hasn't been for nearly half a century 310016
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026“Surging flows through Hormuz via high risk ship-to-ship transfers are adding a 30-40 bucks / bbl surcharge to every incremental barrel, driving volume to the market but coming at quite the cost.” bobeunlimited.substack.com/p/expensive-...bobeunlimited.substack.comExpensive SupplySurging flows through Hormuz via high risk ship-to-ship transfers are adding a 30-40 bucks / bbl surcharge to every incremental barrel, driving volume to the market but coming at quite the cost. 1320556
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...blog.documentfoundation.orgYes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community BlogOne of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite us... 5356422138
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 04/10/2026Ninety years ago today, Oswald Mosley tried to march his Blackshirts through the Jewish East End. 🧵 He had thousands of uniformed fascists behind him and 6,000 police clearing the way. But the people of the East End got there first. 18892359
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦Saskia W. @saskiawezenaar.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026June Hunter is a Canadian photographer. She specializes in the local crow population. For over fifteen years, Hunter has been photographing the same groups of crows in her neighborhood almost daily. She knows many of the birds personally and follows them on her popular Urban Nature Blog. 14013
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Incredible how the editors at @nytimes.com still don't understand how embarrassing it is to do this, and how it undermines the credibility of the paper and its journalists. It's like a toddler covering their face to play hide and seek. We see you but it's not cute, you look like an asshole. 251328264
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦GRIDS Vancouver @grids.reillywood.com · 04/10/2026Victoria Drive, Vancouver: an old storefront that the city says can’t be used for commercial use anymore, and a garden store that is grandfathered in and would have to shut down permanently if the owners ever take a break 3436
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t. 17058751199
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦Rory Johnston @roryjohnston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026🚨 NEW POST 🚨 ⛽️ 𝗗𝗶𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗹 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗭𝗼𝗻𝗲 💀 Wars have hobbled many of the world’s largest diesel exporters, pushing the price of the industrial workhorse fuel into the stratosphere in search of elusive demand destruction as gov'ts scramble www.commoditycontext.com/p/diesel-dan...commoditycontext.comDiesel Danger ZoneWars have hobbled many of the world’s largest diesel exporters, pushing the price of the industrial workhorse fuel into the stratosphere in search of elusive demand destruction as governments scramble 35716
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦🖌 Myandra sez: 🖍 Impeach the MF'er soon. We're waiting. @myandra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Poor Agatha! 504374705
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 03/10/2026watch til the end and think about what this joke on this show at this time says about what social norms used to be when someone openly said nazi shit. 4478115
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I like how other Rs explain that it’s not a bribe, he’s talking about a legitimate policy proposal he hopes to enact with R support, and then Trump comes out and says It’s a bribe, I’m bribing you to vote for Republicans. 43823177
Reposted by Tyler Sork 🇨🇦Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Picard devops tip: No, you are not allowed to connect your brain to the computer. Learn to type like everyone else. 618535