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And uhhh Kelsier is coming back, right? Right?? 🥺

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I expect the next book to go more into what the deepness actually is/was and maybe develop the magic tech a bit (there was that thing where Vin drew energy from the mist).

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Ok what I don’t understand is why Rashek would keep the OG hero of ages’ logbook around if he killed him and took his place. Seems like a huge risk to keep it around. I feel like there’s something else there.

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And the inquisitors have those metal spikes through them…

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I wonder if Vin can sense through copper clouds the same way the lord ruler can because she can also do feruchemy too? Like we don’t actually know her mom’s heritage. And there’s her mom’s earring too…

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So what like the inquisitors are actually running everything and just keeping the lord ruler complacent and ignorant or something? Or was the young version cuz of feruchemy

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The kandra took his bones….eehhhhh well maybe he physically died but what if he still exists. I have been tricked before by BS

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No way Kelsier is dead. I believe

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I thought Vin’s high lord prelan or whatever would have been more of a plot point. Well there’s still time.

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Kelsier is 1v1ing the inquisitor and the number 1 loverboy is here too. What a circus

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Oh no…Marsh…I liked him. Ok but what if he didn’t give up any info. Or like not any important info. Torture is not a reliable interrogation method anyway.

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yaning @yannning.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

So if I had to guess the Lord Ruler/Hero of Ages destroyed the previous shard or shard vessel and then took up the shard himself? And it’s some evil type of shard like odium.

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Hoid? And he’s…BALD? lol 💀

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yaning @yannning.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

no simmering in this one. we go straight to “I’m going to kill god” 😂

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yaning @yannning.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Ok I’m reading Mistborn

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yaning @yannning.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Saw some turtles, evidence of beavers, a huge variety of mushrooms …

A stump bearing beaver gnaw marks growing an array of mushrooms

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yaning @yannning.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Spent the weekend touching grass 🌲🛶 @ Algonquin Park

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I guess what I’m trying to say is, I don’t think the article is getting flack for publishing the detailed cost estimations, it’s getting flack for presenting that info in a misleading or disingenuous way. I think you can appreciate having the info without agreeing with the way it was presented

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A pro-ALTO framing could be, this shows that ridership demand is actually pretty elastic wrt service speed/reliability/quality, so a faster and more reliable rail service would perform better? Idk this is just how the article’s bias came off to me while reading.

Also later in the article it presents the projected revenue -> then says that via ridership is substantially down, I think obviously you’re supposed to infer that this projection is unrealistic or optimistic, right?

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Unfortunately many people don’t read beyond the headline, which frames that number as a cost overrun. Just look at the top comments on the article and see now negative the sentiment is, it’s pretty much all comments saying “we don’t need this” “it’s too expensive” etc.

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yaning @yannning.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Idk, they could have just as well written “internal documents show ALTO capital costs are within original estimates” but went for the sensational headline that makes it seem like there was a cost increase or hidden costs they aren’t telling the public about

Except from the article: “For "infrastructure capital," the estimated cost is $83.5-billion, which is within Alto's publicly cited range of $6o-billion to $90-billion.”

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Oh and we picked up a framed print of the 505 Dundas in the snow to round out our TTC related art. The photographer was Wayne Cheung.

Photo of the 505 Dundas streetcar in the snow and a poster of various TTC related thumbnails

yaning @yannning.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Checked out Line 5 fest today! At the Metrolinx booth for the ECWE I asked them what was next now that tunneling is complete— they were like “oh you know ball” and gave me a tunneling complete tshirt 🤣🤣🤣

Mini stage setup at Cedarvale with temporary bench seating. They should keep the seating!

Backpacks collected from the school supplies donation drive

Maps, stickers, and other line 5 related merch. And a ECWE tunneling complete tshirt.

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yaning @yannning.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Critical mass ride earlier today. Olivia Chow was there. Ended at Queens Park, which looked pretty nice at night.

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yaning @yannning.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Ok to the TTC’s credit they fixed this by Wednesday morning so it only caused two days of delays. I really wish they would communicate more proactively and not just after the fact. Will we ever stop playing slow zone whack a mole?

yaning @yannning.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This new slow zone was so painful this morning, causing not just this slowdown but train traffic all the way up to Eglinton. I’m sure it’s going to cause unsafe levels of crowding on Tues/Wed/Thurs during AM rush hour. Doubt the TTC is going to proactively try to redirect traffic tho :///

Southbound Rosedale to Bloor Yonge slow zone with reduced speed of 15km/hr

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yaning @yannning.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We did a wool dying workshop at black creek pioneer village, run by the Toronto Art Club. We used alum mordant, dyes from avocados, onion skins, cabbage, and turmeric, plus iron and copper solutions as modifiers. Was really surprised at how bright of a green colour I got from cabbage + turmeric!

Dye materials being simmered. Avocados, onion skins, turmeric, and red cabbage

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yaning @yannning.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The current bikeshare availability near me….😭

Observing The City @observingthecity.ca · 11/08/2026

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The TTC has provided a table on "Reduced Speed Zones" on their website for the past few years. It just has a static map and is hard to interpret the real impact on riders. I have created a tool that pulls this data daily and will provide real info on how this delays riders.

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yaning @yannning.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This slow zone has a speed of …. 0km/hr!? Man we got stop and go orders on the subway now 🤦😩😭

Southbound Wellesley to College reduced speed zone with a reduced speed of 0 km/hr

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 06/08/2026

Driving a car is incredibly dangerous, it should be one of the most regulated experiences on earth, and it is very upsetting to watch people who correctly don’t trust the cops turn against automated enforcement because the alternative is relying on a cop’s judgement to enforce the laws.

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Conrad Speckert @conradspeckert.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Regulators should be doing everything they can to unlock the feasibility of new four- to six-storey housing with elevators and modern safety systems (fire alarms, sprinklers, etc.) to increase the overall quality and safety of our housing stock. spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

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Bridging the gap between houses and high-rises - Spacing Toronto

Many of us want more sustainable, safe, affordable and accessible homes. Despite zoning and land use changes to allow multiplexes and small apartment buildings in more places, the reality is that such...

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Adam Pritchett @ajpritchett.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

An old knitting project hopping out of hibernation, they had a ribbeting time down by the riverbank 🐸

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Why is the line shut down between 9 stations due to a security incident at SB College? Makes no sense. Announcements are inaudible and unhelpful. My train is literally in this zone right now (NB Bloor) and is still in service. 🤷

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I do really like when movies mix languages like this, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Decision to Leave, and Call Me By Your Name spring to mind

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There’s not a ton of dialogue or exposition in the film so I do think small things like what language characters speak to each other matters a lot. Eg I may be wrong but Ms Suen starts off w/Cantonese when talking to Ms Chan for the first time and by the time she leaves, she’s using Shanghainese?

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I didn’t even notice until like halfway through the movie that the landlady and others speak Shanghainese. I’ll have to go back and pay some attention to the scenes, though I can only tell with like 80% confidence which one it is 😅 I think I can get tripped up by characters speaking with accents

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More Neighbours Toronto @moreneighboursto.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I watched In The Mood For Love and I feel a bit despondent at how much I have completely lost the ability to understand Shanghainese, which I could do when I was younger because half my family comes from a city that speaks a very similar dialect.

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Can building homes cut emissions? Making Room Vol. 8 features environmental scientist Scott Baker, presenting data on how housing density shapes transportation emissions.

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yaning @yannning.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It’s a big if, but I think we should focus on how we can ensure the datacentres will do that, instead of blanket rejecting them

yaning @yannning.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I think it depends a lot on how flexible the datacentre loads can be. Since the main issue with renewables is intermittency, if large industrial loads can be flexible enough to consume energy only when the power is clean/cheap/abundant and stop when it’s not, they can incentivize clean generation

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yaning @yannning.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It looks like between Oct 2025 - Jun 2026 there has been a pretty significant improvement to MDBF for ebuses, 25,554km -> 38,229km. Do you know what might be causing that?

TTC CEO’s report June 2026 bus reliability stats

TTC CEO’s report Oct 2025 bus reliability stats

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yaning @yannning.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Yes! This is backed up by the numbers too, TPL has the highest circulation numbers in North America. bsky.app/profile/yann...