Not Smooth Steve 🍁
@notsmoothsteve.bsky.social
Check out my YouTube channel with the same handle.
Likes many things. Dislikes some things. I don't promise to follow you back but I do promise to consider it.
Likes many things. Dislikes some things. I don't promise to follow you back but I do promise to consider it.
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And after Doug does that, he'll knock down the east wing of Queens Park to make room to build a Stag n Doe ballroom.
November 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
And after Doug does that, he'll knock down the east wing of Queens Park to make room to build a Stag n Doe ballroom.
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OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates
A burning platform
on.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8
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A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"
It's about ducking time!
Also on the chopping block from Toronto's parks bylaw: the longstanding rule against using “profane language” in parks. Also you will now be allowed to be boisterous, but not riotous.
November 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
It's about ducking time!
Modest Mussorgsky > Immodest Mussorgsky
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Modest Mussorgsky > Immodest Mussorgsky
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Two years ago I had lunch with the dean of a department at one of Toronto’s major universities and she told me she had instructed all her profs teaching first-year classes to do exactly this. It sounded sensible and I wonder if it’s now more widely applied
November 24, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Two years ago I had lunch with the dean of a department at one of Toronto’s major universities and she told me she had instructed all her profs teaching first-year classes to do exactly this. It sounded sensible and I wonder if it’s now more widely applied
Perfect fit!
November 24, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Perfect fit!
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do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge
#Finland will begin to #Russia - proof its rail network, integrate with EU train infrastructure.
The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).
www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).
www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
November 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge
Logistics > Illogistics
November 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Logistics > Illogistics
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Danielle Smith invokes notwithstanding clause to ban Canada’s Drag Race
Danielle Smith invokes notwithstanding clause to ban Canada’s Drag Race
EDMONTON - Following the invocation of the Notwithstanding Clause to shield the Alberta government from legal challenges arising from bills targeting the province’s 2SLGTBQIA+ community, Premier Danie...
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November 21, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Danielle Smith invokes notwithstanding clause to ban Canada’s Drag Race
Yesterday the signs above the platforms at Eglinton Crosstown LRT stops were giving 200+ minute times for the next train.
Today they're at 400+.
Not an improvement.
Today they're at 400+.
Not an improvement.
November 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Yesterday the signs above the platforms at Eglinton Crosstown LRT stops were giving 200+ minute times for the next train.
Today they're at 400+.
Not an improvement.
Today they're at 400+.
Not an improvement.
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Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
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Please enjoy my cartoon for Friday's Toronto Star
November 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Please enjoy my cartoon for Friday's Toronto Star
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My editorial cartoon in the Thursday Hamilton Spectator: www.thespec.com/opinion/edit...
November 20, 2025 at 12:59 PM
My editorial cartoon in the Thursday Hamilton Spectator: www.thespec.com/opinion/edit...
This just in: Metrolinx falls a year behind self-declared timeline, refuses to say when the thing they promised will actually happen. This is a recording.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Durham GO riders call for return of express train 4 years after service was paused | CBC News
Commuters in Durham Region are calling for the return of express trains on the Lakeshore East GO line, four years after the service was paused for construction.
www.cbc.ca
November 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This just in: Metrolinx falls a year behind self-declared timeline, refuses to say when the thing they promised will actually happen. This is a recording.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The existence of Matlock implies the existence of Matkey
November 19, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The existence of Matlock implies the existence of Matkey
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My @thestar.com column this week: A third-party review says Toronto’s streetcars are among the slowest in the world. But they don’t have to be.
Maintenace improvements, operational changes and a little political will could really speed things up.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Maintenace improvements, operational changes and a little political will could really speed things up.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Matt Elliott: Toronto’s streetcars are some of the slowest in the world. Here’s how the city could speed them up
The TTC likes to blame the sluggish pace of streetcars on things beyond its control, but the data tells a different story.
www.thestar.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
My @thestar.com column this week: A third-party review says Toronto’s streetcars are among the slowest in the world. But they don’t have to be.
Maintenace improvements, operational changes and a little political will could really speed things up.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Maintenace improvements, operational changes and a little political will could really speed things up.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Kevin O'Leary petitions Trump to have name added to Epstein Files
Kevin O'Leary petitions Trump to have name added to Epstein Files
TORONTO - With newly released files from notorious sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein implicating President Trump in a world of elite, amoral power players, Canadian businessman Kevin O'Leary has formally...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Kevin O'Leary petitions Trump to have name added to Epstein Files
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This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
Metrolinx CEO Michael Lindsay, speaking today about when the Eglinton Crosstown LRT may open: "There is absolutely still a chance of 2025 and the project being done."
Narrator: nobody believed him
Narrator: nobody believed him
November 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Metrolinx CEO Michael Lindsay, speaking today about when the Eglinton Crosstown LRT may open: "There is absolutely still a chance of 2025 and the project being done."
Narrator: nobody believed him
Narrator: nobody believed him
What is Arendsquare? Maybe local history buffs like @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social @torontoboris.bsky.social @bobgeorgiouto.bsky.social might know.
I recently got an email from a viewer asking if I knew why it has a sign in Finch station (photo from Nathan Ng's Station Fixation).
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I recently got an email from a viewer asking if I knew why it has a sign in Finch station (photo from Nathan Ng's Station Fixation).
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November 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
What is Arendsquare? Maybe local history buffs like @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social @torontoboris.bsky.social @bobgeorgiouto.bsky.social might know.
I recently got an email from a viewer asking if I knew why it has a sign in Finch station (photo from Nathan Ng's Station Fixation).
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I recently got an email from a viewer asking if I knew why it has a sign in Finch station (photo from Nathan Ng's Station Fixation).
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In the Star, @shawnmicallef.bsky.social writes about underused parking lots and cites a small one at Playter & Danforth. Not far away is larger lot east of Broadview Station that was supposed to be partly repurposed to expand the TTC loop. But the BIA intervened and the loop proposal died.
November 15, 2025 at 10:56 PM
In the Star, @shawnmicallef.bsky.social writes about underused parking lots and cites a small one at Playter & Danforth. Not far away is larger lot east of Broadview Station that was supposed to be partly repurposed to expand the TTC loop. But the BIA intervened and the loop proposal died.
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And the full video is available now! Please have a look.
New video alert! The trailer for my next video, about unbuilt expressways in Toronto, is available now, and the full video has its live premiere Friday evening at 7:30 EST (0h30 UTC). Please check out the trailer and come back for the full video!
youtu.be/PklfDLHxcWU
youtu.be/PklfDLHxcWU
Toronto's Unbuilt Expressways: Way or No Way?
YouTube video by notsmoothsteve
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 12:46 AM
And the full video is available now! Please have a look.
There is a fruit fly in my kitchen. I couldn't kill it because it was hovering over my glad of wine. Now I don't know where it is.
(Ontario VQA Pinot Noir, not Chardonnay. According to Alanis Morissette, Chardonnay pairs with black fly, not fruit fly.)
(Ontario VQA Pinot Noir, not Chardonnay. According to Alanis Morissette, Chardonnay pairs with black fly, not fruit fly.)
November 14, 2025 at 11:56 PM
There is a fruit fly in my kitchen. I couldn't kill it because it was hovering over my glad of wine. Now I don't know where it is.
(Ontario VQA Pinot Noir, not Chardonnay. According to Alanis Morissette, Chardonnay pairs with black fly, not fruit fly.)
(Ontario VQA Pinot Noir, not Chardonnay. According to Alanis Morissette, Chardonnay pairs with black fly, not fruit fly.)