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Andrew Hunter
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Ex Focus Puller, full time dad.
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lanefab.com
If the worst single-family house in your n’hood costs over $1 million, then your n’hood should be zoned for apartment buildings.

(It’s pretty much that simple)
December 17, 2025 at 9:50 PM
rexbron.bsky.social
After helping some other users with Darktable's Negadoctor module, I thought a workflow demonstration video might be helpful for others.

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#Photography #AnalogPhotography #Film #FilmScanning #Darktable
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January 8, 2026 at 6:35 PM
rexbron.bsky.social
"The 900 megawatt line — enough to power the equivalent of 900,000 homes — should begin operating in 2037, Lecce said."

900 000 000 / 900 000 = 1000 watts

We need to retire this metric, even if it is a cozy round number. This isn't the 1950s, my kettle is 1500w.
January 8, 2026 at 10:52 AM
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edwardhopper.bsky.social
Girl at Sewing Machine - 1921
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104060
January 8, 2026 at 8:35 AM
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mmbb.bsky.social
friends, on this most tram of Tuesdays, let me take you on a little journey into a tale of two new tram systems here in Ontario, just 80km apart as the crow flies but a world apart in operations: the Kitchener-Waterloo ION tram, and the brand new Toronto Line 6 Finch West tram
an ION tram cruising through an intersection in downtown Kitchener A line 6 tram to Humber college at the underground finch west terminus
January 7, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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moreneighboursto.bsky.social
Still no word on what will happen with Toronto's Housing Accelerator Funding, but we've summarized the progress so far. Toronto has completed 20/29 milestones due by Dec 31, 2025, but only 13 on time. Another 2 milestones were completed ahead of schedule. www.moreneighbours.ca/news/reports...
January 7, 2026 at 1:39 PM
rexbron.bsky.social
It's not War it's a Special Military Operation
January 7, 2026 at 1:02 AM
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moreneighboursto.bsky.social
A remarkable transformation that will have big impacts into the future. Housing policy is climate policy.

Keep an eye out for our posts about MTSA (Major Transit Station Area) zoning implementation later this year to make this happen in Toronto.
jacobdawang.com Jacob Loo Dawang @jacobdawang.com · 4d
We are building near transit. In 2025, a record high of 30% of homes were permitted within 800m or a 15-minute walk of an LRT station.

In fact, the entire cumulative distribution of homes is bowed out and to the left, meaning even more homes within a short bus or bike ride.
A line graph showing the cumulative distribution of homes added by their distance from the closest Light Rail Transit (LRT) stop in Edmonton from 2009 to 2025. X-axis: Distance from the closest LRT stop in kilometers, ranging from 0 to 8 km. A dashed vertical line marks the 800m (0.8 km) threshold. Y-axis: Cumulative proportion of units added, ranging from 0% to 100%. Data Lines: Multiple colored lines represent individual years from 2009 to 2025. Key Trend: The line for 2025 (pale yellow) is significantly higher and further to the left than all previous years. This indicates a record-high proportion of new homes being built closer to transit; specifically, approximately 30% of units in 2025 were added within 800m of an LRT stop, compared to a range of roughly 5% to 20% in prior years. Overall Distribution: While most years follow a similar diagonal trajectory, the 2025 data shows a distinct upward "bow," reaching nearly 75% of cumulative units within 3 km of a stop. The chart is attributed to Jacob Dawang using City of Edmonton Open Data and includes existing, under construction, and funded LRT stops.
January 5, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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mbonsma.bsky.social
Fewer cars = good number go up, bad number go down
Buses are going faster after congestion pricing. Change in bus speeds, 2024-2025 Local bus routes In zone +2.4% Rest of N.Y.C. +0.8% Express bus routes In zone +2.0% Rest of N.Y.C. -0.4% Speeds from January through November of each year. Source: M.T.A. bus speed data. In fact, overall visits to the business district aren’t down — they were up by about 2.4 percent over the previous year, according to the city’s Economic Development Corporation. And restaurant reservations on the platform OpenTable were up inside the zone as well, by the same amount as the increase citywide. Tom Harris, the president of the Times Square Alliance, which represents 2,600 businesses, said he had initially received complaints from some businesses. But he was pleasantly surprised that they soon stopped. “We’re thrilled we have not seen negative impacts to local businesses,” he said. “It seems like it has been absorbed.” Fewer injuries from crashes after congestion pricing. Change in number of people seriously injured in a crash, 2024-25 In zone -8.6% Rest of N.Y.C. -1.6% Number of people who were seriously injured in a crash from Jan. 1 through Nov. 30 of each year. Source: Sam Schwartz Transportation Research Program/Hunter College analysis of N.Y.P.D. crash data. “Nobody’s trying to run me over.” Alice Baruch Manhattan “Fewer cars honking, fewer cars running red lights, fewer cars blocking crosswalks.” Charlie Rokosny Brooklyn “The number of blocked crosswalks have gone down significantly!” Samir Lavingia Manhattan Vehicle noise complaints are way down after congestion pricing Change in vehicle noise complaints, 2024-25 In zone -17% Rest of Manhattan -1.4% From Jan. 5 to Nov. 30 in each year. Source: N.Y.C. 311 data. “Sometimes it’s almost — dare I say it? — quiet.” Daniel Scott Manhattan “Midtown is so much quieter now.” Melanie DuPuis Manhattan/Hudson Valley “It turns out that mostly when people say ‘New York is noisy’ they really mean ‘cars are noisy.’” Grant Louis Manhattan
January 5, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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January 3, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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theonion.com
Kid Figures He’ll Go Down Slide 35 More Times Then Call It A Day https://theonion.com/kid-figures-he-ll-go-down-slide-35-more-times-then-call-1819576035/
Kid Figures He’ll Go Down Slide 35 More Times Then Call It A Day
January 1, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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vikrambath.bsky.social
Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here
King of England on a checkerboard pattern tile floor
December 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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rmtransit.bsky.social
An absolutely masterful explanation of the odyssey that lead Toronto from being a transit leader to a city opening rail lines slower than buses, hard comparisons against asian cities that build subways for the same prices, and a possible path forward (also puns): substack.com/inbox/post/1...
December 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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tomflood.bsky.social
Woman who starts riding a bike not sure if she should be a poor unemployed loser who can't afford a car or an elite smug entitled asshole with a toy, asks neighbourhood Facebook group to help out.
woman standing with a bike in park Woman who starts riding a bike not sure if she should be a poor unemployed loser who can't afford a car or an elite smug entitled asshole with a toy, asks neighbourhood Facebook group to help out.
December 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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theonion.com
Drake Catches Himself Singing ‘Not Like Us’ In The Shower
Drake Catches Himself Singing ‘Not Like Us’ In The Shower
December 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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i am not a toy. i am not a christmas present. i am a 3,000 pound semi aquatic liability. please think hard before gifting a hippopotamus this christmas.
December 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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swanboatsteve.bsky.social
The TTC recently placed the last of its new streetcars in service, but the fleet utilization and service quality leave much to be desired. A reflection on what can be done with our 264 streetcars and the challenges for 2026. stevemunro.ca/2025/12/23/a...
December 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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moreneighboursto.bsky.social
MNTO member Hana Suckstorff has penned a reflective piece over a small apartment proposal that lost at CoA and is now being appealed at TLAB.

On the nature of "neighbourhood character", and what is lost when we apply it only to built-form.

hsuckstorff.substack.com/p/saving-the...
December 24, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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marklevinenyc.bsky.social
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…

* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M

So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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jrurbanenetwork.bsky.social
I need to update my map after the new lines opened last week. Chengdu has opened 722km of metro lines in 15 years.
December 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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lanefab.com
You know the Vancouver Special...
now meet the Vancouver Stair.

🧵
#NoAssemblyRequired
#SingleStair
December 16, 2025 at 11:59 PM
rexbron.bsky.social
The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.

(Progress on the Scarborough subway extension.)
a close up of a man 's face with the words " i will make 800 feet i swear to god i will "
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words " i will make 800 feet i swear to god i will "
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December 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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shawnmicallef.bsky.social
Just some pedestrians struck, one killed, standing on the sidewalk. Nothing to be done in Ontario.

www.thestar.com/news/gta/man...
Man dead, two other pedestrians injured after being struck following car crash in Richmond Hill
A 65-year-old man from Vaughan was pronounced dead at the scene, York police said Friday morning.
www.thestar.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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jensvb.bsky.social
Your regular reminder that the province intervened in municipal land use regulation because cities have and are very inclined to continue to strongly curb the right to build housing for people.
(And that the soft approach that leaves cities a lot of wiggle room has failed.)
lanefab.com Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · 22d
holy @!#

It looks like the final adopted update to Burnaby's R1 zoning is really bad.

The allowable footprint area for a house and LWH is now capped at either 30% or 40% of the lot.

This change appears to kill the current design for one of our projects, and the housing library designs.
December 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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pedalingprof.bsky.social
Saw both of these within less than a quarter mile of each other.

Cars just aren’t practical here. We have winter.
A driver has crashed across a median and knocked over a light pole. A driver has crashed across a bikeway and pedestrian path, careening off a wall to avoid driving into the Mississippi River.
December 19, 2025 at 2:01 AM