I posted about this one a while ago that was actually used in the death flights and was only relatively recently repatriated by the country from a Florida skydiving company.

Diego Rupolo@diegorupolo.bsky.social · 2y ago

When I visited ESMA I was amazed and surprised to see it there (my photo below), not knowing it had only been there for about a year. Before that? It was found in Florida (!) where it was used for Skydiving (!!!)

Leaving work, I have a good view of the planes landing at Billy Bishop Airport and was kind of awestruck when I saw a Skyvan SC-7 flying by. Those were the same planes infamously used by Argentina's military dictatorship during the "death flights."

Always happy when the City of Toronto actually decides to winterize a bathroom, but I see the timeline for this one in High Park was too ambitious, I guess?

Just learned that President Keiko Fujimori in Peru won election largely based on votes from abroad/cast outside of Peru. As someone fascinated by diasporic voting as a concept, this is something I am excited to learn more about.

Now that I'm finished school and working again, it's so hard not to get into a banal routine of just living and not continuously learning and improving.

Things I never thought I would type: look at how they greeted the Algerian team arriving back at the DoubleTree in Lawrence, Kansas

To anyone who thought expanding the World Cup was a bad idea, how does it feel to be so wrong?

Decades ago, I supported mandatory helmet laws for people riding bikes. Then I was convinced by evidence and the bigger picture that such laws are actually counter-productive in many ways. This NZ article explains some. I support helmets, but not mandatory helmet laws. Build safe infrastructure.

David Seymour was right to question our compulsory helmet laws

There’s little evidence our mandatory cycle laws improve overall safety, and quite a bit of evidence suggesting they’re doing more harm than good.

thespinoff.co.nz

About a month before the #WorldCup, it seems very possible that Toronto stadium will be as embarassing as people were scared it was going to be.

Today is the last day to do the public survey on the yongeTOmorrow project. The survey only takes about 5 minutes and is looking for feedback on the plan to adjust the main avenue to be more pedestrian friendly: www.toronto.ca/community-pe...

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View information materials in Public Consultation tab below and complete the survey by May 5. Yonge Street is an iconic destination in the heart of Downtown Toronto. The City of Toronto is recommendin...

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Almost a kilometre of new lakefill. This project will be a disaster for Toronto’s waterfront. The Port Authority has a plan. They are choosing to keep it secret and leak it piecemeal so we can’t get a handle on it. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Runway at Billy Bishop could need up to 900 metres of new landmass for jets, agency says

Toronto Port Authority CEO says plan would see most of the new runway jut westward, instead of east into harbour

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increasingly convinced the average southern ontarian's morning routine involves drinking a cup of gasoline with a small plate of hot asphalt crumble

Rodney 🚧🚇@chanface.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I’m DEAD MPP Stephen Lecce: we’ve widened Hwy 400 to 10 lanes 😁😁 People: GET RID OF THE HOV LANES!!! MOAAARRRR 🤬🤬

Earlier this week, @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social flagged one of the most common (and dangerous) myths about U.S. immigration: the belief that anyone can become a citizen if they just "wait in line." For millions of our neighbors stuck in our broken immigration system, that line doesn't exist 🧵

Because I apparently forgot to post it here, I did a podcast talking about my cultural identity, Argentina, and the Latino community in Toronto: youtu.be/G2NHJt5PaHM?...

“Am I Latino?” - A Canadian’s Identity Crisis After Living in Argentina [EN]

YouTube video by More Than Tequila

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Between Vance lecturing the Pope about theology and Poilievre telling Carney he's bad at economics, it's been a great week for confident men.

Some people have made AI their entire personality, and some people have made hating AI their entire personality, and guys, I'm exhausted.

If you're not writing with footnotes, you're doing it wrong.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Why do we even bother with endnotes--this is my personal pet peeve as a historian, I need to read the spicy, sassy, whiny footnotes immediately

This week I presented my poster presentation comparing Argentine memorial sites for Victoria College's Undergraduate Research Day. My presentation received honourable mentions in three award categories (always a bridesmaid, never a bride!) which was a cool surprise I didn't expect at all.

My reflective personal essay on Mambo Italiano, the queer Italian-Canadian film, has now been published on the blog for the Queer Italian Canadian Artists Project I originally wrote it for: www.qic-artists.com/post/reflect...

Today is the 50th anniversary of Argentina's last dictatorship. I have three research projects I'm working on right now related to that era and yet almost missed that this huge milestone was coming up. It's amazing to see all the marches, demonstrations, and artwork coming out of Argentina today.

Academic book releases can be so fun because they can be on niche topics you're very interested in like comparative gay print culture in Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. Was great to go to this book launch and see the release from a former TA of mine, Juan Carlos Mezo Gonzalez. Excited to read it.

This should be an incredible embarrassment to someone in charge in Toronto, and maybe part of the problem is the public doesn’t know who

justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈@nottaylorx.bsky.social · 7mo ago

another day of getting where I need to go faster because of replacement buses 🫠 from Dufferin to Long Branch, 47 mins on the bus vs 56 mins scheduled by streetcar.

I hate when I run for a streetcar and then it sits in the station for 10 minutes. And then my out-of-shape body has to sit there panting like an idiot.

Ideas and language that were absolutely fringe even five years ago are now things people say without even being totally clear what they mean. The memetic warfare stuff worked

The number of people I’ve seen in comments on Instagram insisting that the Michigan synagogue attack was a “false flag” makes me just absolutely despair on about five different levels personally and professionally

Have a lover caress you the way the Canadian establishment caresses John Tory.

It brings me such joy to shame loud people in libraries.

On the subway and there's someone clipping their nails and another person eating directly from a giant block of cheddar cheese. The TTC is a trip.

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch

An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.

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Broadcasters are *really* trying to rehabilitate Gretzky's image, but for what it's worth the Scotiabank Arena crowd here in Toronto has loudly booed each time he's been on screen at the watch party.