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donoteat @donoteat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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lotta people out here bragging about "training models" but why do that when you can model trains

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yesterday there was a big event called the "Ontario Intercity Travel Summit" at the Ted Rogers School of Management in Toronto, with VIPs from the governments of Ontario and Canada, Air Canada, VIA, Metrolinx, Alto, etc. I have seen zero media coverage of this event. transportfutures.ca/ONintercity/

A kind of overwrought (though possibly not AI-generated) image from the Transport Futures project website—they were the organizer of the Ontario Intercity Travel Summit. The image features a bunch of icons representing different travel modes and considerations (air, rail, busses, trucks, bicycles, parking, fuel, etc.) in circles connected with lines, all overlaid on a background of an elevated expressway passing through a big city with lots of tall buildings and the sun rising or setting behind. Superimposed over everything are the words "advancing mobility pricing, infrastructure and multimodal solutions together." It's a lot, y'all.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Zanzibar fire this summer means we've probably seen the last of those on Yonge Street.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You could sit in on keyboards with Angine de Poitrine.

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This reminds me that I need to check whether there's still a by-law on the books making it illegal to drive cows down Yonge Street.

It's funny, because Ontario has only one Lord Mayor, and you might not guess where.

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If the answer is yes, who gets to be the mohel?

Sydney has a Lord Mayor? Does the position come with any extra privileges or powers compared with the mayor, of, say, Dubbo?

All they need is a charismatic but highly eccentric British army officer to... No, wait, I'm getting an update from my producer...

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The Basques are gonna come for your ass, at the very least.

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There are a number of people I followed at that time whose tweets I enjoyed and learned a lot from, who have since more or less vanished (often for good reasons), and that makes me a bit sad.

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"Organized" is being generous to some of those parties.

Oops! Sorry. I think the sleeves are too long though.

Apologies. Not all Gen Xers were obsessed with the filmography of John Cusack in the 1980s-90s, but I sure was and GPB felt like it was aimed directly at my predilections.

You look very professional in this photo, but @vsmcgrath.bsky.social is right. You need a new suit.

Man, why is Toronto politics such a...? Well, you know.

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If you're going to have a death penalty, it should be done with a bullet to the back of the head, and the judge who delivered the death sentence should be the one who has to pull the trigger.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In a word: intertextuality! To the extent that John Cusack is playing the character of Martin Blank in the movie, he's also playing off the whole range of his earlier roles from the 80s and early 90s, with many, many inside jokes and references. It's a huge nostalgia trip for Gen-Xers.

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I think it should be illegal to build new single-family dwellings a short walk from a subway in any city that has one of those. Multi-family or GTFO.

Brent E. Huffman @brenthuffman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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Please join me on Friday November 6th @buffett.northwestern.edu when I talk about my work in #Yemen documenting courageous women working to save threatened cultural heritage during the war. I will show a clip from the work-in-progress documentary: events.humanitix.com/the-yemeni-w...

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TIL Michael Pollan is Tracy Pollan's brother! Never made that connection before.

Kelly B @kellyblack.ca · 29/09/2026

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Here’s the thing about white supremacy in BC today: The Premier and opposition party have spent the last year saying “First Nations are coming for your homes. Private property is sacrosanct.” These politicians deny such statements are stoking racist backlash. But they are

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I also still have yet to take the Canadian to Vancouver, though I guess I'd better get to it soon if I want to ride on the original 1954 Budd equipment.

I never rode the Scarborough RT. I thought I still had time, then I didn't. So it goes.

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Did they have disapproving Goth bouncers?

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Oh, right, I forgot that it was going to work that way. Then you have to take a cab into Timmins proper, I guess.

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It wasn't so bad. There was a small museum in the heritage railway station there. I enjoyed my layover. Cell reception, however, was terrible.

What, ringing in the New Year in swinging Cochrane, Ontario, doesn't appeal to you?

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I was on the last northbound and the last southbound trains on September 28, 2012. To do that I had to get off the northbound train in South River, as that was the farthest I could get before I would miss the connection to the last southbound.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ONTC has committed to have a first run of the train for the public before the end of 2026, but that could end up meaning literally on New Year's Eve.

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I gasped! The Mighty Sparrow has left us. One of the most important and popular Calypsonians to ever do it! Songs filled political fire, irreverence, humor, naughty (very, very naughty) banter, and beats that make you wind your waist! Rest in Power, Sparrow. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/a...

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The Mighty Sparrow, Trinidadian Titan of Calypso, Is Dead at 91

He was sometimes described as the last of the true calypso singers. But in fact he simultaneously preserved calypso tradition and invented it anew.

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Can you cite specific examples where this has happened? Or are we talking about perceptions? Speaking here specifically of listed properties, not designated ones, which is a whole different scenario.

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I am aware. I'm not a P.Eng but my dad is.

Or, and just hear me out on this one...

George Clinton, funk legend and leader of Parliament-Funkadelic.