Max Anderson
@maxanderson.bsky.social
professional computer janitor, amateur stats dork, Toronto enthusiast, alleged virulent anti-car zealot, 219 poster. a long time ago I worked at thoughtworks.
https://thebethunecave.ghost.io/
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The most frustrating part of current CanPol discourse is the habit of characterizing every bad Carney decision as evidence he's a 'secret Conservative', like we've collectively decided that the LPC is a historically SocDem party and memory-holed the actual party history. Paul Martin is still alive!
November 27, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The most frustrating part of current CanPol discourse is the habit of characterizing every bad Carney decision as evidence he's a 'secret Conservative', like we've collectively decided that the LPC is a historically SocDem party and memory-holed the actual party history. Paul Martin is still alive!
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Our glorious Laurentien lead
Their heretical ordinary lead
Their heretical ordinary lead
November 27, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Our glorious Laurentien lead
Their heretical ordinary lead
Their heretical ordinary lead
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[exhausted 42 year old teacher] why are all these ninth graders obsessed with gay bob dylan
November 26, 2025 at 3:49 AM
[exhausted 42 year old teacher] why are all these ninth graders obsessed with gay bob dylan
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not unique to wikipedia but i love that every list of "wrestling controversies" is like
- double murder suicide
- they booked the world title bad
- industrial accident murder
- they booked the world title bad
- organized crime murder
- organized crime murder
- double murder suicide
- they booked the world title bad
- industrial accident murder
- they booked the world title bad
- organized crime murder
- organized crime murder
August 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
not unique to wikipedia but i love that every list of "wrestling controversies" is like
- double murder suicide
- they booked the world title bad
- industrial accident murder
- they booked the world title bad
- organized crime murder
- organized crime murder
- double murder suicide
- they booked the world title bad
- industrial accident murder
- they booked the world title bad
- organized crime murder
- organized crime murder
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I hope that young Albertans coming into voting age never forget that Danielle Smith targeted their schools, their friends, and the health & wellbeing of vulnerable teens just to score a 2% favorability swing among the most openly disgusting losers you've ever met
November 18, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I hope that young Albertans coming into voting age never forget that Danielle Smith targeted their schools, their friends, and the health & wellbeing of vulnerable teens just to score a 2% favorability swing among the most openly disgusting losers you've ever met
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The real galaxy brain Canada is to make London Ontario the biggest London, but Canadians are afraid to dream big
Tired: Maximum Canada
Wired: Maximum Waterloo Region
Wired: Maximum Waterloo Region
Carney needs to get on with the important business of funding ION light rail expansion
November 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The real galaxy brain Canada is to make London Ontario the biggest London, but Canadians are afraid to dream big
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The government on the brink of collapse as half of parliament yells out an annoyed "C'mon Gord" reads like a broad parody of Canada
November 18, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The government on the brink of collapse as half of parliament yells out an annoyed "C'mon Gord" reads like a broad parody of Canada
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everyone gets so mad at the mods here for doing basic mod shit. sometimes you gotta make a little murder joke and eat a three day ban for it. that’s life baby, there’s beauty in that.
November 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
everyone gets so mad at the mods here for doing basic mod shit. sometimes you gotta make a little murder joke and eat a three day ban for it. that’s life baby, there’s beauty in that.
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3/46 linux is communism because both communism and linux have a bunch of factions who love to inflight over arbitrary bullshit with people who agree with them on 99.99% of issues
November 14, 2025 at 9:14 AM
3/46 linux is communism because both communism and linux have a bunch of factions who love to inflight over arbitrary bullshit with people who agree with them on 99.99% of issues
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Thanks to everyone who participated but it turns out that none of you were able to imagine the greatest horror: a successful small business with beef patties.
Councillor Shan moves to exclude three streets in his ward. He worries the retail spaces created won't just be small shops selling ice cream to locals, but things like "beef patties that are so popular that people from the 905 will come to get it." That'll just add to traffic problems, he says.
November 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Thanks to everyone who participated but it turns out that none of you were able to imagine the greatest horror: a successful small business with beef patties.
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I think the ostrich situation is best understood as: The Canadian cranks don't have Trudeau to fixate on, and nothing else at the federal level has gained traction, so they just need some kind of esoteric outrage that keeps the machine running.
It's basically a mid-season filler episode.
It's basically a mid-season filler episode.
November 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I think the ostrich situation is best understood as: The Canadian cranks don't have Trudeau to fixate on, and nothing else at the federal level has gained traction, so they just need some kind of esoteric outrage that keeps the machine running.
It's basically a mid-season filler episode.
It's basically a mid-season filler episode.
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It’s a telling mark of Toronto’s puritanism that the bogeyman is people standing around having a quiet drink *outside*
Meanwhile the parade of cars driving along the residential street goes unremarked
Meanwhile the parade of cars driving along the residential street goes unremarked
The folks at IntegrityTO have finally weighed in on neighbourhood retail with AI generated scenes of creepy faceless loiterers congregating outside a 7-11…
Mind you the recommendation (that didn’t make it past committee) was for *corner lots*. They can’t even prompt right.
Mind you the recommendation (that didn’t make it past committee) was for *corner lots*. They can’t even prompt right.
November 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
It’s a telling mark of Toronto’s puritanism that the bogeyman is people standing around having a quiet drink *outside*
Meanwhile the parade of cars driving along the residential street goes unremarked
Meanwhile the parade of cars driving along the residential street goes unremarked
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Never forget that a Democratic US Attorney’s decision to prosecute Aaron Swartz for downloading JSTOR PDFs contributed to his suicide but AI firms’ decision to download everything ever will be a justification for hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer bailouts and legal exemptions.
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Never forget that a Democratic US Attorney’s decision to prosecute Aaron Swartz for downloading JSTOR PDFs contributed to his suicide but AI firms’ decision to download everything ever will be a justification for hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer bailouts and legal exemptions.
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When Bashir told Garak about the boy who cried wolf.
August 30, 2024 at 7:10 PM
When Bashir told Garak about the boy who cried wolf.
There are few more wonderful sentences than "bollards are coming soon"
Lots of this will be popping up this week. Bollards are coming soon.
These are painted curb radii reductions, holding space until we can build them in concrete.
They slow down turning vehicles.
learn more here
www.toronto.ca/services-pay...
And before anyone asks "why pink"... (continued..)
These are painted curb radii reductions, holding space until we can build them in concrete.
They slow down turning vehicles.
learn more here
www.toronto.ca/services-pay...
And before anyone asks "why pink"... (continued..)
November 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
There are few more wonderful sentences than "bollards are coming soon"
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This is so fucking lame. We don’t need bsky to tell us to stop your messing around,
better think of your future,
time you straighten right out,
creating problems online.
better think of your future,
time you straighten right out,
creating problems online.
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
This is so fucking lame. We don’t need bsky to tell us to stop your messing around,
better think of your future,
time you straighten right out,
creating problems online.
better think of your future,
time you straighten right out,
creating problems online.
Greater support for the death penalty than the stocks is one of the most deranged public sentiment things I've seen in a while.
Few Britons support the return of corporal punishment, but there is a narrow lead for bringing back capital punishment
The stocks
Support: 21%
Oppose: 72%
Flogging
Support: 17%
Oppose: 76%
Death penalty
Support: 50%
Oppose: 45%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
The stocks
Support: 21%
Oppose: 72%
Flogging
Support: 17%
Oppose: 76%
Death penalty
Support: 50%
Oppose: 45%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Greater support for the death penalty than the stocks is one of the most deranged public sentiment things I've seen in a while.
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each of them represents one of the five elements: Fire, Metal, Air, Water, and Anti-Trust.
Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, will turn to veterans of City Hall, nonprofit executives and a former chair of the Federal Trade Commission — all of them women — to lead his official transition effort, he said on Wednesday. nyti.ms/4nHdyOP
November 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
each of them represents one of the five elements: Fire, Metal, Air, Water, and Anti-Trust.
I knew they shouldn't have let @danryckert.com talk to Kojima
November 5, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I knew they shouldn't have let @danryckert.com talk to Kojima
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I am skeptical that anyone has ever had a more objectively correct pet peeve than this.
November 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I am skeptical that anyone has ever had a more objectively correct pet peeve than this.
dear @mark-carney.bsky.social, tax credits are not capital expenditures, come on bud. SR&EDs aren't even a tax credit that incentivizes capital expenditures, it covers operational costs associated with R&D!
November 4, 2025 at 9:34 PM
dear @mark-carney.bsky.social, tax credits are not capital expenditures, come on bud. SR&EDs aren't even a tax credit that incentivizes capital expenditures, it covers operational costs associated with R&D!
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This is worse than the worst thing ever attributed to any “Bernie Bro”. The Democratic leader literally refusing to say WHETHER HE VOTED FOR THE DEMOCRAT.
this shit right here is wrecker shit, as much as wrecker shit as any online leftist has done, if not more so. no wonder so many people are repulsed by anyone (rightly) saying 'vote blue no matter who', the most powerful elected Dem in the nation won't do it! it undermines the whole coalition! jfc
November 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This is worse than the worst thing ever attributed to any “Bernie Bro”. The Democratic leader literally refusing to say WHETHER HE VOTED FOR THE DEMOCRAT.