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Greg Smith @onshi.bsky.social · 3h

I want Nardwuar

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Le Devoir @ledevoir.com · 8h

«Le Devoir» en Roumanie | De leur rive du Danube, les Roumains assistent, impuissants, à la guerre en Ukraine, qui résonne jusque chez eux.

Voir les bombes tomber de l’autre côté du Danube

www.ledevoir.com

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Greg Smith @onshi.bsky.social · 13h

Still with this disturbing “Fortress Am-Can” slogan

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 1d

Ford aims to end indefinite rental leases after discovering some Ontarians can still afford to live

QUEENS PARK - Premier Doug Ford's government has proposed legislation to potentially end indefinite rental leases and adjust tenancy agreements, after realizing that there were still people who could ...

www.thebeaverton.com

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Ron Deibert @rondeibert.bsky.social · 23h

The situation in the United States has become very dark, and will get a whole lot darker if trends continue.

The entire world, and Americans who get it, need to wake up, and work together to contain and reverse what is going on, before it's too late. Time is running out.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Stephen Miller on Fox threatens to arrest JB Pritzker for "seditious conspiracy" and says, "to all ICE officers: you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. And anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop or obstruct you is committing a felony."

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

WUT?!!

newrepublic.com/article/2005...

Does Anybody Care This Is the Worst Bribery Scandal Since Teapot Dome?

The UAE put $2 billion into World Liberty Financial, then got export restrictions lifted on AI chips. Nothing to see here, move along.

newrepublic.com

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Greg Smith @onshi.bsky.social · 1d

Which step on the road to civil war is this?:

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Stephen Miller on Fox threatens to arrest JB Pritzker for "seditious conspiracy" and says, "to all ICE officers: you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. And anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop or obstruct you is committing a felony."

Greg Smith @onshi.bsky.social · 1d

Someone at SportsNet is a big NIN fan, eh?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

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Greg Smith @onshi.bsky.social · 1d

Also “intact insurance” sounds like something MRAs would sell each other at the men-i-cure

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Greg Smith @onshi.bsky.social · 1d

I know exactly which one you mean!

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Greg Smith @onshi.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder if they know that their sign suggests their business name is pronounced “mean-eye-cure”?

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Greg Smith @onshi.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody here considered funding a rebuild entirely with bakshish…go figure!

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Greg Smith @onshi.bsky.social · 1d

Also, the idea that Trump can be persuaded or shamed or reasoned with is deeply flawed. The evidence is clear: he responds to flattery and bribery. Buying $75m of gold leaf for the boondoggle ballroom, on the other hand…

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Greg Smith @onshi.bsky.social · 1d

… or if you ever have been a renter, or ever may be a renter again… or have family who was, is, or will be… this is a major change to the social contract in Ontario that cannot be ignored.

Matt Jelly @mattjelly.bsky.social · 1d

If you're a renter in Ontario, you should know Doug Ford is trying to make it easier for your landlord to raise your rent or end your tenancy. #HamOnt #OnPoli

acorncanada.org/news/doug-fo...

Doug Ford Moves to End Rent Control

Doug Ford announced proposed changes to the LTB that would strip away key tenant protections, fast-track evictions, and open the door to ending rent control as we know it in Ontario.

acorncanada.org

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Greg Smith @onshi.bsky.social · 1d

The point of being right about [all this] is to motivate action, not to enjoy the Cassandra experience. Denial doesn’t actually help.

Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 1d

All I can think is that some people believe that being right about a doomsday scenario earlier than everyone else will make them the winner of doomsday or something.

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Greg Smith @onshi.bsky.social · 2d

Hahaha cool so I guess if I ever have to rent again I’m leaving Ontario

Jonathan Goldsbie @goldsbie.bsky.social · 2d

At a press conference this afternoon, Attorney General Doug Downey said they want to move away from requiring "evergreen leases, that just go on with no end in sight":

Reporter: With respect to what we were told this morning about the government consulting on “alternative options” essentially that could allow landlords to end leases — I think this is a question best for the Attorney General? Just wondering what you are looking at there.

Attorney General Doug Downey: Well, we've heard from stakeholders that these evergreen leases, that just go on with no end in sight, may not be the appropriate — other jurisdictions, when we did a scan across the country, do different things. But we weren't confident that we had the answer, and we only want to move with confidence. So we're going to go back out and talk to landlords and tenants and organizations and see if there's a better way for the people of Ontario to unlock that housing that isn't happening now.

Reporter: But that's housing that people are in. They're tenants, right? It's hard to see a world in which, if you're giving landlords more power to end leases, that they're not gonna want to get in a tenant that will pay more. So is this not inevitably gonna end up with higher rents, more people getting kicked out of their rentals?

Downey: We're gonna consult widely on it. What we do know is there are a lot of landlords that are not putting their units on the market. We need to get those units. I'm convinced if we get the right balance, we'll unlock tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of new units, and those will be places that people that currently don't have a place to be will be able to rent.

Reporter: So, sorry, you're saying that if landlords, there are some landlords that if there are more flexible types of agreements that they would be willing to rent currently unrented spaces?

Downey: I’ve been told that repeatedly, for years, that some landlords are not entering the market because they don't have confidence in it.

Greg Smith @onshi.bsky.social · 2d

Curious

Greg Smith @onshi.bsky.social · 2d

Immediately clocked this as a reference to the Lincoln Memorial… which I have some questions about

City of Toronto @toronto.ca · 2d

We have something HUGE to share!
A new park will be opening in November with a massive bronze bear statue next door, as part of a new mixed-use community development at Eglinton & Don Mills.
More: www.toronto.ca/city-governm...

Construction staff on a crane install a 9.5 metre by 9.39 metre, bronze bear sculpture sitting on a granite chair.

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Greg Smith @onshi.bsky.social · 3d

On Veep it would have to be some kind of mistake

Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 3d

the rapid destruction of the East Wing at the White House without congressional approval feels like something that would be deemed too extreme for an episode of Veep

Greg Smith @onshi.bsky.social · 3d

Related to this, I have noticed a significant increase in malapropisms and mixed metaphors / mangled idioms. It could just be the unscripted media (like YouTube) reveal lack of fluency with idioms thats always been there, but I also suspect there’s some COVID-brain at play.

The Girl With the Green Ribbon (aka Jenny Hamilton) @readingtheend.bsky.social · 3d

weird reading gripe: I'm noticing an uptick in similes and metaphors that don't quite work. it'll be like "bitter as seawater" or "in constant motion, like a cockroach." like, I get the vibe the author is going for but on a mechanical level it doesn't make any sense.

Greg Smith @onshi.bsky.social · 5d

!!!!!!

a blue jays mascot on a baseball field

ALT: a blue jays mascot on a baseball field

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 5d

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

AI’s Invasive Species

The slop is winning.

www.theatlantic.com

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 6d

It remains wild to me how adamant the public broadcaster seems to be that Canada Post be whittled down and ultimately privatized, with no seeming realization that same pressure will eventually come for the CBC too if it succeeds with the postal service.

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Greg Smith @onshi.bsky.social · 7d

It me, am that

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