Taking my time to really listen and learn from the very valid concerns of the MAHA movement:
Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙@mementomorty.bsky.social · 9h agowe should hear MAHA out about this they might be onto something
Glyn Bowerman
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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
Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙@mementomorty.bsky.social · 9h ago
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.
I, a thinking man, am going to see a film about a man who fought in a great war, fought with monsters, flirted with magic, tries to process his own internal guilt and failed responsibilities, and is trying to get back to the life he once led. Watching another Spider-Man, nerds, thwip thwip!
You love to see it. A world cup without European teams or North American viewers is going to be... not the world cup.
Philippe Auclair@philippeauclair.bsky.social · 6d agoCONCACAF (41 federations) join Uefa to reject Gianni Infantino's proposal.
Gord Perks ends his speech with a three-word piece of advice that, in his view, distills everything there is to know: "Capitalism is trash."
The thing to remember when people bring up “1930s Germany,” is the violence committed was encouraged and/or carried out by the State. That has happened in Toronto to its most vulnerable population, but hardly a word was said, and anyone who cried foul was written off as a hyperbolic bleeding heart.
The fact Doug Ford is willing to sabotage High Speed Rail because the Feds won’t give him his island airport proves he never cared about transportation, connectivity, or economic development. So what does he really want, and on whose behalf?
Yesterday Brad Bradford called two separate opponents “unfit for office.” It’s like the mayoral campaign version of people parroting the Succession “serious people” line.
The only taxidermied blue whale in the world, 1865 CE, now housed at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. The public was allowed to enter the whale up until a couple was found having sex inside it. Now the whale’s jaws are opened only for special occasions, such as Swedish election days.
Also a Brad Bradford endorser: Lisa Raitt. Who, before she was a longtime Harper Conservative, was [drumroll please] the CEO of the Toronto Port Authority who tried and failed to push for Island airport expansion. HMM…
Imbroglior@dkfoster.bsky.social · last wk.Case Ootes. Endorser of the Brad Bradford for Mayor campaign.
In a life milestone, I’m scheduled for my first colonoscopy. My roommate asked if they check the prostate too. I don’t know. They didn’t say. But, like, if you’re going to Muskoka, you might as well stop at Webber’s, right?
You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS
In a bit of a metaphor, Chris Alexander is unable to locate his house in the model of Toronto. (It's apparently just past the display's northern threshold.)
Councillor Gord Perks says it's fair to discuss whether sites should include housing or other uses like parks or commercial. "Where people go wrong — horribly, horribly, immorally wrong — is when they start demanding consultation about what kinds of people live where," he says.
Following these two when Twitter was good was like a free J-School.
Matt Elliott@graphicmatt.com · last wk.Councillor Gord Perks rises to note "two of the original members of the Scoobies -- the internet and Twitter people who held Mayor Rob Ford to account — are here in the chamber with us!" It's Jonathan Goldsbie and Neville Park! They seem thrilled by the announcement.
I think it shows just how unanimously Toronto rejects island airport expansion that, aside from two Stephen Holyday motions and Brad Bradford trying to hijack the moment to campaign for mayor, the Doug Ford Fuck Off Of Our Waterfront suite of motions practically sailed through council.
Mayor Olivia Chow's motion to demand Doug Ford give the city back the land the province took for island airport expansion CARRIES 25-1.
Brad Bradford knows supporting Billy Bishop expansion just to be the anti-Chow is a political loser, so he’s currently, clumsily, trying to blame the fact the expansion idea got as far as it did on… Chow 🤷🏻♂️
"Why are you asking to use Toronto taxpayer resources to do the research and analysis of the NDP opposition party at Queen's Park?" wonders Holyday. "That's a weird question," says Matlow, who is famously a Liberal. "Come on over, Josh! The water's fine!" jokes Perks, an NDPer.