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“We definitely want to change that” says CEO of company whose single largest surge in users was people fleeing nazis by switching off of the American History 𝕏 app.
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
That’s right.
Keegan Matheson@keeganmatheson.bsky.social · 2d agoJeff Hoffman on what he’ll remember most from his time with the #BlueJays: “Once you play in a place like this… you don’t want to leave. They definitely have a great thing going here. I think all organizations should strive to be like Toronto.”
Council should invite him up in the next term. Lots of shared learnings to explore.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2d agoWe can't solve a housing crisis without building more housing. Today we broke ground on the Casanova Residence, which will soon be nearly 100 affordable and supportive homes with on-site services for New Yorkers. Every new home is a step toward a City that everyone can afford.
The August long weekend is interesting because there’s no celebratory guidance. Make of it as you will. Enjoy that the government gave you a day off.
Saskatoon metal scene knows what’s up 🫡🫡🫡🫡 Check the band names
It’s weird that as an adult you can only have sleepovers if like you own a cottage or are hooking up with someone. What happened to staying up all night playing this with a couch of homies?
Have you considered increasing their budgets? Toronto cops allowed unrestricted traffic violence until we increased their budgets
Miles Grant@milesgrant.bsky.social · 5d agoCops have stopped enforcing road safety laws nationwide & no electeds are *acknowledging* it, never mind trying to solve it
My answer when my wife asks if I’ll be getting to painting the other half of her office anytime soon
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoCNN: Are you definitely going to run for reelection? FETTERMAN: I've already essentially announced that
25 years ago Nintendo accidentally made the perfect controller. Much to their chagrin every console since has been forced to support it. No other controller since can compare so they haven’t even tried to compete H/t @nintendooamerica.bsky.social
Every time I go to a resort I’m told by guests that there’s some American states where you have to use a travel agent (according to the Americans) And you find out they paid 3-4x what you did - and in USD on top of that
Matt Elliott@graphicmatt.com · 6d agoPerruzza laments that kids today are always using their phones to pay for things, even movie tickets and popcorn. He says he misses when people could use travel agents to book trips. "We have all fallen victim to the CARDS and the DIGITAL DEVICES," he says, waving his phone around.
“Living in the area” is like an ideal thing for a member of Council? Is that why we elect them? Tires and knowledge of the area? Isn’t that why they get so involved in development files? How is living in the area a conflict?
Matt Elliott@graphicmatt.com · last wk.Time to declare conflicts of interest: - Saxe on a Whitney Ave application, because she's being sued by the applicant - Chow on Chinatown planning report and another nearby dev application, because she lives in the area
Notwithstanding everything else but selling FIFA to the guy who very vocally lobbied to inappropriately overturn a red card is probably bad for the sport.
Interesting to hear a US politician claim they’re comfortable with up to 1,115 9/11s
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Rep. Ogles: "Look, I don't want to play down the effects of the virus, but at the end of the day it had a roughly 1 percent mortality rate. We coulda gotten through this."
The issue with The Villages plan was it was too dense and not dense enough and it wasn’t 150% affordable but also didn’t provide opportunities for mom & pop landlords and it wasn’t close enough to transit but not far enough from neighbourhoods and too many young people liked it and old people di-…
Oh The Urbanity!@ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · last wk.Credit to @lucymaloney.bsky.social for being the only Vancouver city councillor (!?!?) to vote in favour of the Villages Plan to legalize medium-sized apartments in a large number of neighbourhoods across the city. Otherwise a major disappointment for the city.
“I know not what with PS6 will be played, but PS7 will be played with sticks and stones” - prescient Albert Einstein
The Duality of Dan🪣@nemox2001.bsky.social · last wk.I've got it on good authority that after eliminating physical discs and buttons for the PS6, the PS7 will just be you buying a license to imagine playing the game
When the police demonstrate they don’t care to follow the law they are telling other drivers they don’t have to either After taking these pictures the driver decided to follow me in his car and demand to know why I took pictures My brother in trillium, you’re driving on the sidewalk in public
G | Builds Stuff, Goes Places 🦀@whereisgraeme.bsky.social · 2w agoThe “enforcement” is busy parking their SUV on a very expensive public promenade so they can stare at the lake.
Tobi seems intent on revealing his true colours over the pettiest of political items These billionaires have no resiliency. They want to burn democracy if they find something inconvenient in the slightest.
???? fka IBI has been awful to deal with after being acquired-mergered into Arcadis WSP is WSP So … I guess they’re banking on becoming the only big firm in town?
Teen Vogue would’ve solved The Mystery of the Missing Senator in like 2 hours with forensic Snapchat analysis provided by his niece
Toronto’s newest postcard view. The next phase of Biidaasige Park is open.
You know how cooked the economy would have to be for witches to risk it?
Patrick Condon is deeply unserious and consistently acts outside of the expertise and purview of a landscape architect He attempts again and again to set himself up as an urban planner while trumpeting views that fail to consider the public interest Why media thinks him a voice to platform idk
Jens von Bergmann@jensvb.bsky.social · 2w agoYou almost have to feel sorry for him. Numbers totally detached from reality trying to anchor an unhinged arguments put on UBC letterhead in a desperate attempt to establish authority.
YIMBYs: I live in a shoebox on an arterial road and cannot afford children. NIMBYs: Living near apartment buildings in my $3M home makes me inexplicably sad and also furious. Local government: How sad? How furious?
It is clear that they view Canada’s natural resources as an opportunity for exploitation. The threats to our sovereignty etc have made this clear. The new “forest management” line is being used to manufacture the consent for clear cutting of our important and magnificent boreal forests. Hands off.
My favourite part of Formula 1: The Movie (2025) is when Brad Pitt says “it’s not nap time, it’s FORMULA ONE time”
Taco Bell acted in the public interest, so of course is having to take all the PR heat due to both their supplier and their government refusing to act in that same interest
Jack@jackeber.bsky.social · 2w agoWhy is Taco Bell getting blamed for something supplied to them by another company? We don’t usually blame grocery store when something on their shelves gets recalled.
What happened to consumer preference and free market economics? I don’t want to buy milk from a country without functioning food safety systems I don’t want to buy a car that pollutes cities while making them deadlier I don’t need to buy watery beer and TEMU whiskey, domestic is fine
