jenny (phire)
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I write code for a living and words for my sins. occasional blog posts at https://phirephoenix.com, weekly newsletter for organizing/activism in Toronto at @showuptoronto.ca.
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jenny (phire)
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Show Up TO
Show Up Toronto is a hub and weekly newsletter of community organizing, mutual aid, and advocacy events from around the city.
showuptoronto.ca
It's been almost three months since I launched Show Up Toronto and in that time I've posted 426 events from over 200 groups, which is pretty dang cool. The fact that there are consistently 100+ events a month representing the labour of thousands validates my optimism about the city. showuptoronto.ca
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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
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From this week's: "It is easy to lament our defeats... It is harder to remember, though no less true, that the world would be a much worse place today if not for the efforts of organizers across the ages who all faced more defeats than victories." 💙
November 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
From this week's: "It is easy to lament our defeats... It is harder to remember, though no less true, that the world would be a much worse place today if not for the efforts of organizers across the ages who all faced more defeats than victories." 💙
and they say the city never never gets anything done
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 9:08 PM
and they say the city never never gets anything done
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'banking apps reshuffle funds to prevent overdrafts before they happen.'
I think a lot about payments For Work and because for most of my life having multiple accounts didn't mean I had money in any/all of them.
So: who's doing the most interesting research on payments for 'underbanked' people?
I think a lot about payments For Work and because for most of my life having multiple accounts didn't mean I had money in any/all of them.
So: who's doing the most interesting research on payments for 'underbanked' people?
November 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
'banking apps reshuffle funds to prevent overdrafts before they happen.'
I think a lot about payments For Work and because for most of my life having multiple accounts didn't mean I had money in any/all of them.
So: who's doing the most interesting research on payments for 'underbanked' people?
I think a lot about payments For Work and because for most of my life having multiple accounts didn't mean I had money in any/all of them.
So: who's doing the most interesting research on payments for 'underbanked' people?
Today's @showuptoronto.ca newsletter includes some thoughts on Bill 60 and not losing heart in the face of defeat, as well as another incredible 60+ events for this upcoming week. Subscribe and tell your friends buttondown.com/showup/archi... #toronto
Show Up Toronto - November 25, 2025
Hi friends and neighbours, Yesterday protestors packed the public gallery at Queen's Park and created an organized disruption of the Bill 60 vote (including...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Today's @showuptoronto.ca newsletter includes some thoughts on Bill 60 and not losing heart in the face of defeat, as well as another incredible 60+ events for this upcoming week. Subscribe and tell your friends buttondown.com/showup/archi... #toronto
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Fun legal case for the NIMBY haters.
In Northcrest Neighbours v. City of Peterborough a group of neighbours tried to stop a 52 unit supportive housing project.
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In Northcrest Neighbours v. City of Peterborough a group of neighbours tried to stop a 52 unit supportive housing project.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Fun legal case for the NIMBY haters.
In Northcrest Neighbours v. City of Peterborough a group of neighbours tried to stop a 52 unit supportive housing project.
1/6
In Northcrest Neighbours v. City of Peterborough a group of neighbours tried to stop a 52 unit supportive housing project.
1/6
I read a lot of newsletters and whatever about the tech industry and finance and labour and it consistently annoys me that the majority of people writing about this loudly are dudes. recommend me your favourite tech/finance/work blogs and newsletters written by not dudes please!!
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I read a lot of newsletters and whatever about the tech industry and finance and labour and it consistently annoys me that the majority of people writing about this loudly are dudes. recommend me your favourite tech/finance/work blogs and newsletters written by not dudes please!!
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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
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Protesters chanted "people over profits" at Queen's Park Monday after Premier Doug Ford's government passed a bill critics say will favour landlords over tenants.
Ford shouted back: "Go find a job."
Ford shouted back: "Go find a job."
Protesters disrupt Ontario legislature over controversial landlord legislation
Protesters chanted "people over profits" in the Ontario legislature's public galleries Monday after Premier Doug Ford's government passed a bill critics say will favour landlords over tenants.
www.thestar.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Protesters chanted "people over profits" at Queen's Park Monday after Premier Doug Ford's government passed a bill critics say will favour landlords over tenants.
Ford shouted back: "Go find a job."
Ford shouted back: "Go find a job."
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The open secret that Thomas King is not Indigenous at all is finally verified, and honestly it's a relief. Having him just confess this instead of going out kicking and screaming like so many before him causes a LOT less harm to Indigenous communities.
It still sucks though.
It still sucks though.
November 24, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The open secret that Thomas King is not Indigenous at all is finally verified, and honestly it's a relief. Having him just confess this instead of going out kicking and screaming like so many before him causes a LOT less harm to Indigenous communities.
It still sucks though.
It still sucks though.
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Every week living in Ontario is like
- BREAKING: Doug Ford's government introduces bill that will let landlords evict you with no notice if you sneeze too loud
- 10 protests about bill
- Daily social media posts raising awareness
- News interviews scared allergy sufferers
- BREAKING: Bill passes
- BREAKING: Doug Ford's government introduces bill that will let landlords evict you with no notice if you sneeze too loud
- 10 protests about bill
- Daily social media posts raising awareness
- News interviews scared allergy sufferers
- BREAKING: Bill passes
November 24, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Every week living in Ontario is like
- BREAKING: Doug Ford's government introduces bill that will let landlords evict you with no notice if you sneeze too loud
- 10 protests about bill
- Daily social media posts raising awareness
- News interviews scared allergy sufferers
- BREAKING: Bill passes
- BREAKING: Doug Ford's government introduces bill that will let landlords evict you with no notice if you sneeze too loud
- 10 protests about bill
- Daily social media posts raising awareness
- News interviews scared allergy sufferers
- BREAKING: Bill passes
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Mark Carney's new housing agency Build Canada Homes is designed to create the appearance of action on housing affordability while carefully ensuring its output is aligned with the landlords and developers its CEO, Ana Bailão, so ably represents.
Mark Carney’s new housing agency is built to protect the bubble
Rather than propose a vision for a Canadian economy built on something other than housing speculation, Mark Carney has opted to prop up real estate interests. Build Canada Homes is designed to create ...
canadiandimension.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Mark Carney's new housing agency Build Canada Homes is designed to create the appearance of action on housing affordability while carefully ensuring its output is aligned with the landlords and developers its CEO, Ana Bailão, so ably represents.
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Brexit was a huge win for #IDUPlaybook
The "architect of Brexit" is one of Harper's vice chairs at IDU.
The other vice chair, Mike Roman, has been indicted for fixing elections for Trump.
The "architect of Brexit" is one of Harper's vice chairs at IDU.
The other vice chair, Mike Roman, has been indicted for fixing elections for Trump.
Between Brexit and his Covid response, Boris Johnson truly fucked the UK
November 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Brexit was a huge win for #IDUPlaybook
The "architect of Brexit" is one of Harper's vice chairs at IDU.
The other vice chair, Mike Roman, has been indicted for fixing elections for Trump.
The "architect of Brexit" is one of Harper's vice chairs at IDU.
The other vice chair, Mike Roman, has been indicted for fixing elections for Trump.
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The thing about Trump saying it’s fine for Mamdani to call him a fascist is that he genuinely thinks all of this is kayfabe, just as he could insult Rubio or Cruz but still work with them. It’s not possible for him to imagine other people being sincere about anything.
November 23, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The thing about Trump saying it’s fine for Mamdani to call him a fascist is that he genuinely thinks all of this is kayfabe, just as he could insult Rubio or Cruz but still work with them. It’s not possible for him to imagine other people being sincere about anything.
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I only just saw this thanks to @ed3d.net and I don’t have time to do a full fisking before my daughter’s bedtime but a few hundred words in and it’s utter nonsense.
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme
On November 20, 2025, trading algorithms identified what may become the largest accounting fraud in technology history—not in months or years, but in 18 hours.
substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I only just saw this thanks to @ed3d.net and I don’t have time to do a full fisking before my daughter’s bedtime but a few hundred words in and it’s utter nonsense.
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
these organizers have more guts than every single billionaire combined
Day laborer organizers protest Home Depot, pressuring it to "scrape ICE out of their stores."
Day laborer organizers protest Home Depot, pressuring it to "scrape ICE out of their stores."
Over one hundred community members gathered at the Home Depot in Monrovia Saturday to pressure the company to stop the immigration raids taking place at its locations.
www.latimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:02 AM
these organizers have more guts than every single billionaire combined
well this makes me feel a little bit better
I’d like to thank the designers of this season of Learned League for finally getting me to drop out.
November 23, 2025 at 4:31 AM
well this makes me feel a little bit better
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Every parent whose career has to do with online safety also bans Roblox.
Every game designer parent I know bans Roblox for their kids
November 22, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Every parent whose career has to do with online safety also bans Roblox.
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"If you don't nurture the soft parts of yourself that made you show up in the first place, you will become hard, you will stop feeling things." - @mskellymhayes.bsky.social on the importance of taking time for your grief amidst the work.
November 21, 2025 at 6:07 AM
"If you don't nurture the soft parts of yourself that made you show up in the first place, you will become hard, you will stop feeling things." - @mskellymhayes.bsky.social on the importance of taking time for your grief amidst the work.
tbh having gone to business school is why I do not believe ethics classes in computer science programs will accomplish,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,anything
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 23, 2025 at 12:21 AM
tbh having gone to business school is why I do not believe ethics classes in computer science programs will accomplish,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,anything
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With ICE and border patrol goons spreading out across the country, I put together a resource guide for buying, printing, and distributing whistles, based on my own experience. Now is the time to whistle up, hope this helps. dansinker.com/posts/202…
November 21, 2025 at 9:35 PM
With ICE and border patrol goons spreading out across the country, I put together a resource guide for buying, printing, and distributing whistles, based on my own experience. Now is the time to whistle up, hope this helps. dansinker.com/posts/202…
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Charting number of rental units in apartment buildings in Toronto by year of construction
(This is a quick update to a similar chart I made ~2.5 years ago)
#toronto #housing #dataviz #NationalHousingDay
(This is a quick update to a similar chart I made ~2.5 years ago)
#toronto #housing #dataviz #NationalHousingDay
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Charting number of rental units in apartment buildings in Toronto by year of construction
(This is a quick update to a similar chart I made ~2.5 years ago)
#toronto #housing #dataviz #NationalHousingDay
(This is a quick update to a similar chart I made ~2.5 years ago)
#toronto #housing #dataviz #NationalHousingDay
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Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
the fact that part 1 was free and part 2 is paid is so fucking funny, genuinely mad respect lmfao
why did i log back in. WHY DID I LOG BACK IN. www.telos.news/p/part-2-she...
November 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
the fact that part 1 was free and part 2 is paid is so fucking funny, genuinely mad respect lmfao