infernalmachine🚊🚅🇨🇦
@infernalmachine0.bsky.social
Toronto #policywonk and urban nerd. Metalhead. Have been known to laugh so I don't cry.
Happy xmas, stay heavy.
December 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Happy xmas, stay heavy.
Housing crisis? What housing crisis, my home is fine!
Housing affordability is the number one priority and pain point for their residents and these mayors are advocating for higher home prices and rents
Embarrassing
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Embarrassing
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Metro Vancouver mayors urge B.C. to roll back housing density laws, but province ‘not going backwards’ | CBC News
A coalition of Metro Vancouver mayors is calling on the B.C. government to repeal housing legislation designed to increase supply through higher density, but the housing minister says there's no going...
www.cbc.ca
December 12, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Housing crisis? What housing crisis, my home is fine!
Why does a multimodal hub like Dundas West still look like the burbs?
Lookin at you Gord Perks.... That giraffe condo was proposed at the same height as crossways but was "too dense for the site" 😂🫠🤪
Lookin at you Gord Perks.... That giraffe condo was proposed at the same height as crossways but was "too dense for the site" 😂🫠🤪
December 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Why does a multimodal hub like Dundas West still look like the burbs?
Lookin at you Gord Perks.... That giraffe condo was proposed at the same height as crossways but was "too dense for the site" 😂🫠🤪
Lookin at you Gord Perks.... That giraffe condo was proposed at the same height as crossways but was "too dense for the site" 😂🫠🤪
Squeeeeeeee!!!
December 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Squeeeeeeee!!!
How many is too many and why isn't it 0?
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 1:12 AM
How many is too many and why isn't it 0?
A new Harvard study—the first large-scale comparison of Amazon, UPS & FedEx drivers—shows what worker power really means:
🔴 Amazon: ~$19/hr, no raises, high turnover.
🟢 UPS (union): ~$35/hr, steady wage growth, long careers.
Same job. Different power.
Full study → buff.ly/rpn6H5E
🔴 Amazon: ~$19/hr, no raises, high turnover.
🟢 UPS (union): ~$35/hr, steady wage growth, long careers.
Same job. Different power.
Full study → buff.ly/rpn6H5E
November 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
My family just went car free, obv easier in Toronto (old York) but it is possible!!
www.cbc.ca/news/climate...
www.cbc.ca/news/climate...
Why some Canadians love living without a car | CBC Climate Change News
In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we share the experiences of people across Canada who don't own a car; track China's progress on cutting emissions; and check out an efficient way to remo...
www.cbc.ca
November 14, 2025 at 9:51 PM
My family just went car free, obv easier in Toronto (old York) but it is possible!!
www.cbc.ca/news/climate...
www.cbc.ca/news/climate...
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Huge solidarity to @unifor.org local 88.
1,100 workers making EV delivery vans, laid off by GM.
Now they're saying, enough!
If GM comes for the machines, they'll occupy the plant.
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1,100 workers making EV delivery vans, laid off by GM.
Now they're saying, enough!
If GM comes for the machines, they'll occupy the plant.
1/
Union threatens to seize Cami auto plant if GM removes machinery
Mike Van Boekel, chairperson of Unifor Local 88, said they are also prepared to fight the company in court.
lfpress.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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A warning not just in the UK but for political engagement and discourse more generally.
How do policy makers, politicians, and the public even begin to know how to navigate this new normal?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
How do policy makers, politicians, and the public even begin to know how to navigate this new normal?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
AI-powered nimbyism could grind UK planning system to a halt, experts warn
Tools that help people scan applications and find grounds for objection have potential to hit government’s housebuilding plans
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
A warning not just in the UK but for political engagement and discourse more generally.
How do policy makers, politicians, and the public even begin to know how to navigate this new normal?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
How do policy makers, politicians, and the public even begin to know how to navigate this new normal?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Who else really misses the "old internet"?
"Why American-style polarisation is spreading across the West"
Two words: algorithms and incentives. Mostly incentives. Until we modify or eliminate incentives, all we can do is watch as the fabric of society is pulled apart, strand by strand. www.ft.com/content/5060...
Two words: algorithms and incentives. Mostly incentives. Until we modify or eliminate incentives, all we can do is watch as the fabric of society is pulled apart, strand by strand. www.ft.com/content/5060...
November 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Who else really misses the "old internet"?
@toronto.ca @mayoroliviachow.ca @ttcalerts.bsky.social why on earth would we ...shut down surface transit.... In the event of a jays win? People have jobs and lives to get on with. Diversions in the Skydome area sure, but this is a bad move, guys. So not World Class . ...
So weird, the city just seems to love doing peculiar anti-transit stuff. I’m sure roads aren’t gonna be closed to drivers!
October 31, 2025 at 3:54 PM
@toronto.ca @mayoroliviachow.ca @ttcalerts.bsky.social why on earth would we ...shut down surface transit.... In the event of a jays win? People have jobs and lives to get on with. Diversions in the Skydome area sure, but this is a bad move, guys. So not World Class . ...
...which makes me wonder why Canada would want to be more like the US ....
Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.
October 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
...which makes me wonder why Canada would want to be more like the US ....
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If you are going to a No Kings protest this weekend, be sure to review our Surveillance Self Defense guide for attending a protest and bring Rayhunter along for the ride! ssd.eff.org/module/atte.... eff.org/rayhunter.
Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular
Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of technical skill, to help search out cell-site simulators
www.eff.org
October 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM
If you are going to a No Kings protest this weekend, be sure to review our Surveillance Self Defense guide for attending a protest and bring Rayhunter along for the ride! ssd.eff.org/module/atte.... eff.org/rayhunter.
September 27, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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One takeaway for Canadians watching what’s happening in the United States right now is that we need to put more pressure on governments / parties to strengthen democratic institutions and the fourth estate
You can also defend democracy by supporting the work of journalists and civil society groups
You can also defend democracy by supporting the work of journalists and civil society groups
September 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
One takeaway for Canadians watching what’s happening in the United States right now is that we need to put more pressure on governments / parties to strengthen democratic institutions and the fourth estate
You can also defend democracy by supporting the work of journalists and civil society groups
You can also defend democracy by supporting the work of journalists and civil society groups
Ask 20th c historians if they could pinpoint the exact time that WW2 started, and you'll get many different answers because it's hard to recognize turning points when you're living them.
This is a turning point. Will historians say this is when the civil war started?
www.npr.org/2025/09/06/n...
This is a turning point. Will historians say this is when the civil war started?
www.npr.org/2025/09/06/n...
Trump threatens 'Apocalypse Now'-style action against Chicago to boost deportations
President Trump threatened the city with the deportation of undocumented immigrants, posting a reference to the film Apocalypse Now with the quote: "I love the smell of deportations in the morning."
www.npr.org
September 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Ask 20th c historians if they could pinpoint the exact time that WW2 started, and you'll get many different answers because it's hard to recognize turning points when you're living them.
This is a turning point. Will historians say this is when the civil war started?
www.npr.org/2025/09/06/n...
This is a turning point. Will historians say this is when the civil war started?
www.npr.org/2025/09/06/n...
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Hi. I know I've said this before, but it bears repeating: we have to be able to criticize Mark Carney without living in fear that doing so will help Poilievre or weaken Canada. He is our Prime Minister. Out of anyone, he deserves to be watched and critiqued. We should all be dying on this hill.
September 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Hi. I know I've said this before, but it bears repeating: we have to be able to criticize Mark Carney without living in fear that doing so will help Poilievre or weaken Canada. He is our Prime Minister. Out of anyone, he deserves to be watched and critiqued. We should all be dying on this hill.
Don't be a square, take the survey! Bring back real capitalism not this sham big business only chain store Amazon conglomerate oligopoly we misname capitalism.
Convenient reminder that Toronto's survey on Neighbourhood Retail is open until September 30. They are currently not proposing this, but you could ask them to? www.toronto.ca/city-governm...
September 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Don't be a square, take the survey! Bring back real capitalism not this sham big business only chain store Amazon conglomerate oligopoly we misname capitalism.
Happy Labour Day.
Join a union. ✊🏼
Join a union. ✊🏼
September 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Happy Labour Day.
Join a union. ✊🏼
Join a union. ✊🏼
I'm going to be giving away a metric crapton of pepper sauce and pepper flakes this Fall I think.
This is a Dracula pepper plant.
This is a Dracula pepper plant.
August 30, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I'm going to be giving away a metric crapton of pepper sauce and pepper flakes this Fall I think.
This is a Dracula pepper plant.
This is a Dracula pepper plant.
This kind of thing makes me happy. Toronto a city of -3m only did it a handful of years ago.
🎉 Congrats to the Chicago suburb of Oak Forest (27,478) for fully abolishing their parking mandates!
You love to see it 😎
You love to see it 😎
the City of Oak Forest city council repealed parking mandates citywide last night
it looks like a clean repeal, cc: @parkingreform.org
it looks like a clean repeal, cc: @parkingreform.org
August 28, 2025 at 12:54 AM
This kind of thing makes me happy. Toronto a city of -3m only did it a handful of years ago.
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I remember this one! It still aired in the late 80s
We got "Motormania" (1950) in there, but this was one of those midcentury cultural artifacts I wanted to get into the book but just couldn't. I'm obsessed with how people who had a living memory of life before cars (or at least with a lot fewer cars) thought of them as automobiles truly took over.
The animated short "What on Earth!" (1966) takes this premise to the extreme with aliens, observing us from space, concluding that automobiles are the dominant species on the planet. Produced by the National Film Board of Canada, it was nominated for an Academy Award.
August 14, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I remember this one! It still aired in the late 80s