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Jennifer Smith 🇨🇦 🎬 @jenfilmsmith.bsky.social · 4h

He doesn't care. He and his suburban Etobicoke buddies in their monster SUVs hate cyclists, and since he doesn't need a single vote from the City of Toronto to keep winning elections, he'll just keep spouting dangerous, fact-free nonsense so long as it pleases his base.

Jennifer Smith 🇨🇦 🎬 @jenfilmsmith.bsky.social · 4h

We have 'sharrows' on our street, and they really are worse than useless. There's also a marked parking lane down one side which gets used more by cyclists than for parking. Which would be great, except that you have to veer into the 'sharrow' every time you run across a parked car.

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Jennifer Smith 🇨🇦 🎬 @jenfilmsmith.bsky.social · 7h

I was in vocals.

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Jennifer Smith 🇨🇦 🎬 @jenfilmsmith.bsky.social · 8h

Wow, me too! Small world! Although I only went to grade 12 (went to OCA). I mostly hung out with the computer nerds like Jeff Skoll, but was also into movies and music (Mr Grant!)

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Jennifer Smith 🇨🇦 🎬 @jenfilmsmith.bsky.social · 9h

Went there too, although it was a little further afield. And Bakka. Did you go to York Mills Collegiate?

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Jennifer Smith 🇨🇦 🎬 @jenfilmsmith.bsky.social · 12h

Ha ha - same! Every weekend during high school, I'd take the subway from York Mills to Bloor and then walk down to the Eaton's Centre, hitting Peter Dunn's, Queen of Hearts, that croissant shop, and finally Sam's along the way.

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 1d

When Hollywood Does Canada: The Devil's Brigade
A fun movie that most historians and veterans feel isn't historically accurate.
The worst thing it did was completely ignoring the most-decorated member of the Devil's Brigade, Tommy Prince.

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Jennifer Smith 🇨🇦 🎬 @jenfilmsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Now if only they would do Ticket to Heaven. Or Beautiful Dreamers. Or The Quarrel...

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Jennifer Smith 🇨🇦 🎬 @jenfilmsmith.bsky.social · 1d

One of my all time favorites. Like too many Canadian films, it was impossible to find online until fairly recently.

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Edgar Wright @edgarwright.bsky.social · 1d

ONE MONTH AWAY! Play the game or the game plays you. Watch the New Trailer for The #RunningManMovie – can't wait for you to see my new movie, large and loud! Only in theatres November 14.

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 1d

Simple way to avoid car companies bricking your vehicle by installing a forced software update: make sure your vehicle is a bicycle.

Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

The future is great, huh?

"A software update to Jeep 4xE models caused major malfunctions over the weekend – leaving many owners stranded and some in danger after their power failed."

www.thestack.technology/jeep-softwar...

Jeep software update bricks vehicles

“Please exercise extreme caution”

www.thestack.technology

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

This Is Fascism

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 4d

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

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Jennifer Smith 🇨🇦 🎬 @jenfilmsmith.bsky.social · 4d

Not quite sure who I want to win tonight's ALDS game since they are both border towns and therefore honorary Canadians. But whatever. BRING IT! @bluejays.com #wantitall

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5d

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Jennifer Smith 🇨🇦 🎬 @jenfilmsmith.bsky.social · 4d

Pretty much my reaction when anyone at the office suggests I use ChatGPT or some AI image generator. Good for him.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

Jennifer Smith 🇨🇦 🎬 @jenfilmsmith.bsky.social · 5d

Remarkable!

Lisa Noble @nobleknits2.bsky.social · 5d

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

@laurelfynes.bsky.social

Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront

A project to restore coastal wetland leads to astonishing discoveries of a host of life: seeds and plant scraps, as well as water fleas, worms, larvae and plankton

www.theguardian.com

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Carlos the Canuck @keithcleveland.bsky.social · 5d

Keifer Sutherland is a grandson of Tommy Douglas, literally the greatest Canadian. It was thanks to Tommy that we have universal healthcare in Canada. This is the story Tommy would tell which resonates today just as it did 80 years ago.
@charlieangus104.bsky.social

youtu.be/GqgOvzUeiAA?...

The Story of Mouseland: As told by Tommy Douglas in 1944

YouTube video by DCFTOMMY1971

youtu.be

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Jennifer Smith 🇨🇦 🎬 @jenfilmsmith.bsky.social · 6d

Just had a by-election in Milton. Turnout was a pathetic 17%. One person pointed out that there were only 3 polling locations, none of them convenient for someone who doesn't drive. Made me think yeah, this might be how we keep electing people who drive everywhere and don't give a s**t abt transit.

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Jennifer Smith 🇨🇦 🎬 @jenfilmsmith.bsky.social · 6d

I just love how Hazel is such a trooper, putting up with getting soaked

Jennifer Smith 🇨🇦 🎬 @jenfilmsmith.bsky.social · 7d

Same.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7d

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7d

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 7d

Always follow the money

Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 7d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 7d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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