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G | Builds Stuff, Goes Places 🦀 @whereisgraeme.bsky.social · 1d

When you put $1b+ into flood protection you can get a pretty cool park

The dog parks are also closest to the ROW and future WELRT land reserve to enable the daily lives of future residents

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G | Builds Stuff, Goes Places 🦀 @whereisgraeme.bsky.social · 1d

Well Patrick Condon says your condo price should actually be higher than the townhouse price, because of some weird theory about land prices

Not sure who to believe /s

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G | Builds Stuff, Goes Places 🦀 @whereisgraeme.bsky.social · 1d

Cats sleep knowing they’ll never understand what rent is or why the humans have to pay it on their behalf

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G | Builds Stuff, Goes Places 🦀 @whereisgraeme.bsky.social · 1d

Wacky Racers is another great one if he likes this kind of slapstick

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G | Builds Stuff, Goes Places 🦀 @whereisgraeme.bsky.social · 1d

Why I love InDesign’s pre-flight check.

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G | Builds Stuff, Goes Places 🦀 @whereisgraeme.bsky.social · 1d

“Witchcraft” is somehow both an appropriate joke answer and semi-accurate answer - to both questions.

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G | Builds Stuff, Goes Places 🦀 @whereisgraeme.bsky.social · 1d

In grade 7 I read a book about this

It was the diary of the girl in hiding

It wrecked me

And then I read Miep Gies book and knew that at least some people knew good from bad

Wish there were more of them right now

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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G | Builds Stuff, Goes Places 🦀 @whereisgraeme.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact, because it’s in the photos: the path goes from asphalt to stone dust as you descend the flood protection

Where the path changes is the line for catastrophic 100yr flooding :)

The gravel pathways downgrade from there are all designed to be flooded

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G | Builds Stuff, Goes Places 🦀 @whereisgraeme.bsky.social · 1d

He’s mad because he could never pull a blue-haired, 5 ring baddie.

A constant complaint of almost every republican is they lack the ability to date Goth chicks, so must use the power of govt to eradicate them

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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G | Builds Stuff, Goes Places 🦀 @whereisgraeme.bsky.social · 2d

They forgot they live in a city

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G | Builds Stuff, Goes Places 🦀 @whereisgraeme.bsky.social · 3d

One thing I appreciate about a Councillor Holyday is he never shies away from a prop

Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 3d

"I had a little bit of fun — I doctored up a picture of a camera near my house. It's a WASP!" says Holyday, displaying a photoshop he made of a speed camera with a yellow-and-black vinyl wrap.

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G | Builds Stuff, Goes Places 🦀 @whereisgraeme.bsky.social · 3d

It is also so engrained that people completely flip out at you and threaten violence if you drive the speed limit

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G | Builds Stuff, Goes Places 🦀 @whereisgraeme.bsky.social · 3d

Today I learned that police are also all civil engineers and make decisions based on their deep knowledge of Right of Way widths.

Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 3d

Burnside's point is that maybe the 40 km/h speed limit on Avenue Rd and other streets is too low. Getting a ticket for "going 50 or 51 on Avenue Road that's six lanes wide, seems to be the kind of thing that would get under people's craws," he says.

Gray points out there are schools on Avenue Road.

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G | Builds Stuff, Goes Places 🦀 @whereisgraeme.bsky.social · 3d

Toronto

I’m from Toronto.

G | Builds Stuff, Goes Places 🦀 @whereisgraeme.bsky.social · 3d

It’s this awkward thing. You very rarely need legal advice when you are planning on following the law.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Johnson on Trump: "He is getting some legal analysis and advice that others are looking into this and questioning whether all furloughed federal employees should receive backpay."

G | Builds Stuff, Goes Places 🦀 @whereisgraeme.bsky.social · 3d

Ahhh… Council day :)

G | Builds Stuff, Goes Places 🦀 @whereisgraeme.bsky.social · 3d

I absolutely LOVED Sleeping Dogs. Incredible story, great combat

You could hold the handbrake and gun the accelerator to rotate vehicles really quickly

I wish Square Enix would do more of that style game

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G | Builds Stuff, Goes Places 🦀 @whereisgraeme.bsky.social · 3d

In the first sentence I thought this was about work from home

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G | Builds Stuff, Goes Places 🦀 @whereisgraeme.bsky.social · 3d

Paved Paradise: Our PlanTO
Official Plan for the City of Toronto

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G | Builds Stuff, Goes Places 🦀 @whereisgraeme.bsky.social · 3d

Toronto should endeavour to be a city. That would be cool. Currently we’re a random selection of unique neighbourhoods within a park.

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G | Builds Stuff, Goes Places 🦀 @whereisgraeme.bsky.social · 4d

“Rip-off” degrees like…English?

That’s the milk of their eloquence? More like skim.

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G | Builds Stuff, Goes Places 🦀 @whereisgraeme.bsky.social · 4d

Occasionally fly commercial, some trips are more comfortable leaving the private plane at home /s

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G | Builds Stuff, Goes Places 🦀 @whereisgraeme.bsky.social · 4d

Imagine booing the anthem of the country that is quite literally your only hope.

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G | Builds Stuff, Goes Places 🦀 @whereisgraeme.bsky.social · 4d

Cardboard cutouts of the Yankees could defend better.

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G | Builds Stuff, Goes Places 🦀 @whereisgraeme.bsky.social · 4d

Every architecture firm ever:

We decided to be cute with our naming so we are called h53’df!~(L Atelier, it is pronounced “Zerene” with a silent Qyh

There is a pronunciation guide on our website which was designed by someone who never learned UX/UI but did do a lot of LSD.

We design city halls.

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