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@funkaoshi.com
Sure you're weedy, and kinda shy, but some girly out there must be needy for a weedy shy guy.
Toronto. He/Him. https://funkaoshi.com
Toronto. He/Him. https://funkaoshi.com
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ரமணன் சிவரஞ்சன்
@funkaoshi.com
· Feb 2
It’s our patriotic duty to drink rye whisky now.
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Lazy Sunday debuted 20 years ago tonight.
Lazy Sunday - SNL Digital Short
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
www.youtube.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Lazy Sunday debuted 20 years ago tonight.
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America Is an Unserious Country Filled With Unserious People. “We’ll tolerate this just like we tolerate everything else. Because this is who we are, collectively, as a country.” [thebulwark.com]
America Is an Unserious Country Filled With Unserious People
Stories about revealed preferences and who we really are.
www.thebulwark.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
America Is an Unserious Country Filled With Unserious People. “We’ll tolerate this just like we tolerate everything else. Because this is who we are, collectively, as a country.” [thebulwark.com]
Lady on the TTC having a pretty intense argument with herself feels like par for the course nowadays.
December 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Lady on the TTC having a pretty intense argument with herself feels like par for the course nowadays.
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Harbourfront is federal so my question is why is Harbourfront cooperating with the Ford gov't lying & destruction of public property?
News today about the Ontario Science Centre: Its "temporary location" will take over most, or possibly all, of Harbourfront Centre.
86,000 square feet is a larger fraction, if not all, of Harbourfront's buildings.
news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...
86,000 square feet is a larger fraction, if not all, of Harbourfront's buildings.
news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...
Ontario Newsroom
news.ontario.ca
December 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Harbourfront is federal so my question is why is Harbourfront cooperating with the Ford gov't lying & destruction of public property?
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and this is *while they knew they were being studied*.
More than half of Toronto drivers in a Universtiy of Toronto study didn't look for people walking or on bikes before turning right. Study used eye-tracking tech.
Increasingly deadly vehicles, dumb laws, and irresponsible driving equal people being injured and killed.
www.utoronto.ca/news/more-ha...
Increasingly deadly vehicles, dumb laws, and irresponsible driving equal people being injured and killed.
www.utoronto.ca/news/more-ha...
December 11, 2025 at 2:56 AM
and this is *while they knew they were being studied*.
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Currently playing @aftermath.site's "Uh Oh, You Have Billions Invested In Generative AI"
woe-industries.itch.io/you-have-bil...
woe-industries.itch.io/you-have-bil...
December 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Currently playing @aftermath.site's "Uh Oh, You Have Billions Invested In Generative AI"
woe-industries.itch.io/you-have-bil...
woe-industries.itch.io/you-have-bil...
WTF is the city even doing? I had no idea everything was setup to be better already!
And yet the city has installed transit signal priority *hardware* along the whole route, at great expense secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...
December 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
WTF is the city even doing? I had no idea everything was setup to be better already!
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This is a scandal. Designed for 33 min by Metrolinx, operated by TTC slower than a bus
Metrolinx had promised a 33-34 min travel time, with average speeds of 20-21 km/h.
It’s currently 46 mins scheduled (53 mins timed yesterday) with an average speed of 13.5 km/h.
The City of Toronto and TTC need to continue working with Metrolinx to meet that promise.
bsky.app/profile/more...
It’s currently 46 mins scheduled (53 mins timed yesterday) with an average speed of 13.5 km/h.
The City of Toronto and TTC need to continue working with Metrolinx to meet that promise.
bsky.app/profile/more...
December 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This is a scandal. Designed for 33 min by Metrolinx, operated by TTC slower than a bus
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Waiting for Finch West
Can a brand-new light rail line outrun the local bus it will soon replace? I went out to Finch Avenue West to see for myself.
Can a brand-new light rail line outrun the local bus it will soon replace? I went out to Finch Avenue West to see for myself.
Waiting for Finch West
Can a brand-new light rail line outrun the local bus it will soon replace? I went out to Finch Avenue West to see for myself.
seanmarshall.ca
December 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Waiting for Finch West
Can a brand-new light rail line outrun the local bus it will soon replace? I went out to Finch Avenue West to see for myself.
Can a brand-new light rail line outrun the local bus it will soon replace? I went out to Finch Avenue West to see for myself.
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For many TTC workers, the job of driving a bus or sweeping out a station has become more like social work, writes @curiouslana.bsky.social. “How much can the TTC be expected to fill the gaps of a rapidly dissolving social safety net?”
On the TTC, With Nowhere to Go | The Local
With rising homelessness, decreased mental health support, and fewer public spaces than ever, the TTC and its workers are being asked to fill gaps in a dissolving social safety net.
thelocal.to
December 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
For many TTC workers, the job of driving a bus or sweeping out a station has become more like social work, writes @curiouslana.bsky.social. “How much can the TTC be expected to fill the gaps of a rapidly dissolving social safety net?”
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The pedestrian bridge that connected Eaton Centre to Hudson’s Bay is open again. Gives an interesting view to the Ontario Line construction project.
December 3, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The pedestrian bridge that connected Eaton Centre to Hudson’s Bay is open again. Gives an interesting view to the Ontario Line construction project.
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“Let them eat cake.”
From the newspaper owned by the billionaire who also owns a large supermarket chain and grocery delivery service.
This is what it looks like when billionaires control the media.
This is what it looks like when billionaires control the media.
December 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
“Let them eat cake.”
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A much-touted 4K remaster of Mad Men recently premiered on HBO Max and they forgot to apply digital effects to scenes in some of the episodes so you can see crew in the background, etc. [fxrant.blogspot.com]
The “Mad Men” in 4K on HBO Max Debacle
Reader warning: there’s gonna be a lot of pretend puke photos in this post. If you’ve fired up HBO Max recently, you’ve probably seen that o…
fxrant.blogspot.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
A much-touted 4K remaster of Mad Men recently premiered on HBO Max and they forgot to apply digital effects to scenes in some of the episodes so you can see crew in the background, etc. [fxrant.blogspot.com]
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An Astonishing Graph. For most of human history, around 50% of children used to die before they reached the end of puberty. In 2020, that number is 4.3%. (It’s 0.3% in countries like Japan & Norway.) [kottke.org]
An Astonishing Graph
For most of human history, around 50% of children used to die before they reached the end of puberty. In 2020, that number is 4.3%. It’s 0.3% in countries like Japan & Norway.
This dramatic decline has resulted from b
kottke.org
December 2, 2025 at 11:16 PM
An Astonishing Graph. For most of human history, around 50% of children used to die before they reached the end of puberty. In 2020, that number is 4.3%. (It’s 0.3% in countries like Japan & Norway.) [kottke.org]
Curious how Canada is doing, since girls have been getting the HPV vaccine now for years as well.
“Australia is on course to meet a target of eliminating cervical cancer by 2035, which, if achieved, will make it the first country to do so.” This is due in large part to their HPV vaccination campaign. [www1.racgp.org.au]
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Curious how Canada is doing, since girls have been getting the HPV vaccine now for years as well.
I visited the Tate Modern
November 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I visited the Tate Modern
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Pedestrian struck by motorist on Parkside a block from the speed camera that vigilantes kept tearing down that caused ford to remove them from all Ontario. Drive as you wish Ontario. Nobody matters. This is what you voted for.
November 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Pedestrian struck by motorist on Parkside a block from the speed camera that vigilantes kept tearing down that caused ford to remove them from all Ontario. Drive as you wish Ontario. Nobody matters. This is what you voted for.
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Listen, if “big and obnoxious” was all it took to get the job done, then Doug Ford would be the best Premier in Ontario’s history.
November 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Listen, if “big and obnoxious” was all it took to get the job done, then Doug Ford would be the best Premier in Ontario’s history.
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Every 19th/20th century industry you can think of is getting subsidies.
November 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Every 19th/20th century industry you can think of is getting subsidies.
And I am in England. It’s been a little while. I don’t have a 9AM meeting, so don’t know why I picked this weirdly early red eye. 4 hours away from a pint?
November 26, 2025 at 7:36 AM
And I am in England. It’s been a little while. I don’t have a 9AM meeting, so don’t know why I picked this weirdly early red eye. 4 hours away from a pint?
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The new location update on X revealed what we've all kinda known all along: Republicans have been astroturfing themselves.
www.garbageday.email/p/republican...
www.garbageday.email/p/republican...
November 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The new location update on X revealed what we've all kinda known all along: Republicans have been astroturfing themselves.
www.garbageday.email/p/republican...
www.garbageday.email/p/republican...
Congrats to Alex. I'm a big fan of the channel. I watched his videos to set up my own ProxMox instance at home. It's informative stuff whether you're interested in Tailscale or not.
How did Tailscale's YouTube channel grow from 1,500 to 50K subscribers?
Host Alex Kretzschmar talks about the 2.5-year journey, and where things are headed, in a blog post and a (rare!) on-camera interview.
Video 🎥 : www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrUK...
Blog ✏️ : tailscale.com/blog/50k-you...
Host Alex Kretzschmar talks about the 2.5-year journey, and where things are headed, in a blog post and a (rare!) on-camera interview.
Video 🎥 : www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrUK...
Blog ✏️ : tailscale.com/blog/50k-you...
Celebrating 50,000 subscribers to Tailscale's YouTube channel
Celebrating 50K subscribers, and sharing a bit of our journey to getting there.
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Congrats to Alex. I'm a big fan of the channel. I watched his videos to set up my own ProxMox instance at home. It's informative stuff whether you're interested in Tailscale or not.
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So much land. So much valuable land now in the hands of a government that has been trying to sell off the greenbelt, provincial parks and Ontario place.
It is not conspiratorial. It's recent history.
It is not conspiratorial. It's recent history.
The government says Bill 33 has received Royal Assent and is now law.
It will make it easier for the education minister to take over school boards in the province by appointing a supervisor and sidelining trustees. #onpoli globalnews.ca/news/1153148...
It will make it easier for the education minister to take over school boards in the province by appointing a supervisor and sidelining trustees. #onpoli globalnews.ca/news/1153148...
Protests erupt at Queen’s Park as government passes school board takeover bill | Globalnews.ca
On Wednesday, Bill 33 passed its third reading at Queen's Park after a shortened debate and bypassing committee, with Royal Assent set to follow.
globalnews.ca
November 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
So much land. So much valuable land now in the hands of a government that has been trying to sell off the greenbelt, provincial parks and Ontario place.
It is not conspiratorial. It's recent history.
It is not conspiratorial. It's recent history.
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Feds now claim a "system crash" that happened immediately after ICE was sued is the reason why 10 days of footage from inside the Broadview Detention Center has been lost.
Unreal hearing on this earlier:
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
Unreal hearing on this earlier:
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued
The government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."
www.404media.co
November 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Feds now claim a "system crash" that happened immediately after ICE was sued is the reason why 10 days of footage from inside the Broadview Detention Center has been lost.
Unreal hearing on this earlier:
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
Unreal hearing on this earlier:
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
Spooky Ruben playing at Lee’s Palace 30 years ago. Amazing.
Spookey Ruben - Lee's Palace, Toronto Nov 4 1995 Wendy McDonald *These Days Are Old* Bed / Breakfast
YouTube video by heldopen
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Spooky Ruben playing at Lee’s Palace 30 years ago. Amazing.