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Ryan Stauffer @ryanswx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Haha, this fucking sucks.

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Alice Atkin @westcoastalice.bsky.social · 21h

Goodnight, Toronto! 💙💖

Several tall buildings during twilight, silhouetted against a pink and blue sky.

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kotsy @itsonlykotsy.bsky.social · 21h

Erasing A Landmark. What started as a soap factory in the 50s transformed into BMW's main Toronto dealership after stripping the building down to it's structural frame and rebuilt as a 6 story modernist glass-clad showroom. It's now being demolished as part of a flood protection plan for the area.

Arial view of the BMW Toronto building next to the Don Valley Parkway.

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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 06/10/2026

Fun fact: From a sufficient elevation on a clear day, it's possible to see across Lake Ontario and make out the shapes of the hotels in Niagara Falls. And sometimes when weather conditions are just right, the plume from the falls looks kinda like the city just got nuked.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

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Alice Atkin @westcoastalice.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm a neuroscientist, so, all of them (except Total Recall, that shit's real. I do that all the time)

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 04/10/2026

This is the animating principle of my YIMBYism.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Anand is the best (and I'm doing an event with him at, yes, @cityartssf.bsky.social Thursday, for his new book Man in the Mirror). Couldn't agree more that cities are refuges or places of last resort for people kicked out of rural/suburban/pseudo-idyllic America.

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites

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King Darius looking down at Daniel in the pit:
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Man, what are the Lions doing?

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yesterday the cafe I work at packed up its CafeTO patio. Immediately, someone parked where the patio used to be and the spot was basically occupied all day m. It made me think of the bike lane removal thing. All those “freed up” lanes will just be parking. It won’t ease car congestion at all.

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Tiny Beaches @tinybeaches.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"If you were to completely cancel and refund all of the money spent on bike lanes, even in the last 10 years in the city of Calgary, you wouldn't even barely be able to afford just one single interchange that's built in the suburbs," -Mayor Farkas @jeromyyyc.bsky.social #yycbike #Calgary

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Councillor wants Calgary to pause new bike lanes ahead of upcoming provincial legislation | CBC News

With the province expected to take more authority over municipal bike lanes in the months ahead, one Calgary councillor wants the city to pause any new bike lane projects in the meantime.

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Sarah Goodyear @sgoodyear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Gorgeous video that sums up so much truth about how we live today...and how we could live differently.

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Alice Atkin @westcoastalice.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

kinda neat when someone you've met personally wins one of these things

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Alice Atkin @westcoastalice.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

truthfully? the Lion King 😅 those grinning, slobbering hyenas? Mufasa dying? the elephant graveyard? the first half of that movie is pretty upsetting, if you're 5

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Alice Atkin @westcoastalice.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I love that she cares but my Aunt has never actually learned what it is I do, which is why the most recent job ad she shared with me was for an electrical engineer (??) in Antarctica (????)

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 01/10/2026

Records come and records go. But this is one for the ages. The preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly is now at a record 3.23°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. This crushes the previous daily record set in 1982 by over 1.14°C. The Climate 8-ball is looking up.

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026

Carney begins his announcement of a new oil pipeline by acknowledging the climate-linked wildfire that came close to levelling the town where he's announcing the new oil pipeline. A flat circle.

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Alice Atkin @westcoastalice.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

hopefully my reading in October will be more cheerful 😅

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Alice Atkin @westcoastalice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Every book I read in September: ☢️💧🔥🌵 🔪😈👩‍🍼

A collage of eight books. Top row, from left to right: 'A Canticle for Leibowitz' by Walter M. Miller Jr.; 'The Water Knife' by Paolo Bacigalupi; 'The Heat Will Kill You First' by Jeff Goodell; 'Gold Fame Citrus' by Claire Vaye Watkins.

Bottom row: 'No One Left But You' by Tash McAdam; 'The Harrowing of Hell' by Evan Dahm; 'The Red Tent' by Anita Diamant.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 25/09/2026

I didn’t attend climate week but: 1—US is falling way behind on electrification 2—even if US electrified, electricity generation isn’t decarbonizing fast enough 3—public incentives & land use policy are still vastly weighted toward inefficient cars & trucks 4—transit ridership remains in crisis

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026

It’s really stunning how the USA has so swiftly shifted from being one of the most techno-optimistic and tech-industry-loving countries on earth, to a country where most people seem to assume - not incorrectly, at least in many cases - that tech is out to get them.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'this AI agent can do all your tasks for you' so now i gotta sit here and write a list of all my tasks for a robot to fuck up. why. why wouldn't i just keep to the current system where i fuck up my own tasks

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Alice Atkin @westcoastalice.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I cited Coast to Coast AM one time when teaching my Consciousness course, as a potential source of reports on abnormal experiences of consciousness, and it felt so much like inviting my students to open Pandora's Box that I never did it again 😅

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Alice Atkin @westcoastalice.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My mother sent me a Translink bus mug 😁

A white mug with an image of a blue bus on it, as well as a bus stop sign and cartoons trees and bushes. The mug is being held up in front of a white wall by a white hand (mine) wearing a rainbow-coloured bracelet.

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 27/09/2026

This tool from @observingthecity.ca is fantastic. It shows the traffic mode share by intersection using City data. Many downtown areas are dominated by pedestrians (in green). Yet *we still give most of the space to cars on almost every street.* www.observingthecity.ca/intersection...

Map of downtown area of Toronto. Pie charts show the mode share at every intersection.

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026

Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this

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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻

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Hannah Alexander Artwork @hannahartwork.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Kiki's Delivery Service, No. 1 in Koriko since 1989 ✉️ 🎁 🍞

An art nouveau style posters featuring Kiki flying on a broomstick with Jiji. The background shows various scenes of bread and pastries, plus the town of Koriko.

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

new favourite Smaug dropped

the 1968 "pleasure in reading" edition of the hobbit featuring an adorable bright pink Smaug torching the inhabitants of lake town

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Toronto City Hall, 1965. A bold symbol of the city’s transformation into a global, forward-looking place – with public space at the centre. It also single-handedly transformed the architectural culture of Toronto (and the careers of numerous architects who would go on to shape the city).

A black-and-white photo of Toronto, City Hall and the reflecting pool in front of it, framed by concrete arches. The image was taken at night in 1968.

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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Multiple warnings to Quebec from the federal government about American efforts to influence the upcoming election in support of the separatist PQ.

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Alice Atkin @westcoastalice.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

as a person who fully loathes mornings and has tried very hard to engineer them out of my life altogether, this is great for me personally. probably bad for society though

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We'll see how many of these changes last a full year, after all of the complaints about it being dark until 10 AM in the middle of winter.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

It’s going to be really funny when this is all over and all these companies are like oh, that hate campaign we ran against you for years? Yeah, we were just kidding

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I've spent a lot of years studying a lot of collapses, and the truth of the matter is that they're always mundane: mild climatic shifts that reduce crop yields, a dumbass in power who makes some terrible decisions, neglecting things that obviously matter but the will to fix them can't be summoned.

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28 Days Lehner 🪦 @danlehner.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

friend told me a story about her dad’s college music class where they wrote different examples of classical compositions John Williams ripped off and John Williams showed up for a masterclass one day, saw it, went over to the blackboard and started adding more examples

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Me: I’d like a slice of pizza Server: that comes with three sides Me: I know what shape it is

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