Glyn Bowerman
@glynbowerman.bsky.social
Toronto-based journalist, podcaster, and editor. Cities, Raptors, Leeds United, and two black cats named Hall & Oates. I make an urban affairs podcast called Spacing Radio: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/spacing-radio/id1124077274
To my haters: I’ve had Hoobastank stuck in my head all morning. So you can recall all your curses, hexes, and jinxes: someone already got to me.
If there’s a reasonable debate to be had over whether you, a politician, are dead or brain dead, I think maybe you should retire regardless? Mitch McConnell is giving the Skeksis Emperor, right before he crumbles to dust.
Even if you support mandatory addiction treatment and believe it works, a) there isn't enough space right now for all the people who *want* treatment, and b) eventually they leave treatment and if they're going straight back into homelessness, what then?
I never remember that every job requiring coordination between people takes twice as long in August. Everyone’s gone.
When discussing publicly-funded housing, it’s fair to ask where the money will come from. But we don’t spend enough time talking about the cost of the housing crisis. If the human cost of a homelessness epidemic isn’t persuasive, we have mounds of data there’s a substantial literal cost, too!
I cannot imagine a more disgusting appropriation of Spider-Man on both moral and aesthetic grounds. This is fascist AI-slop, the thirstiest cultural ambulance-chasing they could commit, and I hate them even more for it.
Jim Henson didn’t muppeteer a tiny green frog that was singing and playing the banjo, with rubber gloves while totally submerged underwater in a airtight aluminum tank just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”.
Gwen C. Katz@gwenckatz.bsky.social · last mo.The Wachowski sisters didn't use 120 cameras to film one shot just so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
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WAITRESS: This is a Diet Pepsi town. You want Diet Coke, it’s two towns over. *Locals rise menacingly from nearby tables*
Removing zoning restrictions on housing is the lowest-hanging fruit, in that the only barrier is public sentiment. If govts are pressured to scrap them, that’s that. But then we have to consider what gets built, who can afford it, how they’re treated, and how long they can afford to stay.
Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.
There's a more eloquent article by Jamie Sharpless making this very point in the new issue of @spacing.bsky.social
André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 4d agoRising cost of low-end rental units driving increase in homelessness, report shows. Findings challenge assumption that other factors, such as mental health or substance use, are the reason rates have surged, by @alannasmith.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... @theglobeandmail.com
“The research also found that, while rental housing supply has grown across Canada in recent years, the benefits have not trickled down to those in most need. Rather, the new housing supply has been added to the higher end of the rental market.”
Rising cost of low-end rental units driving increase in homelessness, report shows
Findings challenge assumption that other factors, such as mental health or substance use, are the reason rates have surged in Canada
theglobeandmail.com
Taking my time to really listen and learn from the very valid concerns of the MAHA movement:
Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙@mementomorty.bsky.social · 4d agowe should hear MAHA out about this they might be onto something
Proponents of island airport say the Feds only halted it for “electoral reasons.” Which is probably true. But it’s a tacit admission that so many Torontonians hate the idea its political suicide to support it… not a “fringe” movement. So, which is it? It can’t be both.
This Film often has the piss taken out of it for being a rather sedentary piece about 2 people just talking a lot — BUT — it has one of the most brilliantly prescient monologues in the history of Movies imho. MY DINNER WITH ANDRE (1981) Have a listen.
That one friend in the group who just never had social media? Not like they had it and swore of it and lectured people about the evils of one platform on another platform owned by the same ghouls. The one who saw it 20 years ago, and just said “I’m good?” That’s a cool cat.
@shireenahmed.bsky.social hi Shireen, looking to get in touch with you about a Spacing project. Can you point me in the right direction?
When committing the indefensible, simply persecute dissent.
Train your workplace Spotify algorithm by feeding it intermittent but frequent Billy Joel. That way it can self-actualize.
I honestly thought the Spider-Man well was tapped dry at this point. I expected a stinker. It’s honestly a good flick.