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When you exploit systems they end.
When you exploit systems they end.
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I just want Acrobat that works.
I don’t want a tutorial on new features I don’t want every time I open a file.
I don’t want AI summaries.
I don’t want comments to be moved around and hidden because you think that after 20 years it is now better.
Stop changing software for the worse.
I don’t want a tutorial on new features I don’t want every time I open a file.
I don’t want AI summaries.
I don’t want comments to be moved around and hidden because you think that after 20 years it is now better.
Stop changing software for the worse.
November 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I just want Acrobat that works.
I don’t want a tutorial on new features I don’t want every time I open a file.
I don’t want AI summaries.
I don’t want comments to be moved around and hidden because you think that after 20 years it is now better.
Stop changing software for the worse.
I don’t want a tutorial on new features I don’t want every time I open a file.
I don’t want AI summaries.
I don’t want comments to be moved around and hidden because you think that after 20 years it is now better.
Stop changing software for the worse.
This is the exact experience of writing a zoning by-law or official plan amendment
Sometimes I write a (fandom-related) wall of text that is very creatively stimulating to type out, but which I question whether it has relevance beyond my personal interests ;p
And then sometimes I see new interactions or comments on it weeks afterward, and I want you to know that gives me life
And then sometimes I see new interactions or comments on it weeks afterward, and I want you to know that gives me life
November 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
This is the exact experience of writing a zoning by-law or official plan amendment
Believe it or not you can fit every person on the planet into this matrix.
But for Planners especially it is a crucial and irreversible decision for which faction you’ll join
But for Planners especially it is a crucial and irreversible decision for which faction you’ll join
November 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Believe it or not you can fit every person on the planet into this matrix.
But for Planners especially it is a crucial and irreversible decision for which faction you’ll join
But for Planners especially it is a crucial and irreversible decision for which faction you’ll join
“Hope you enjoy the holidays!”
Ah yes, the holidays!
Toyotathon, Happy Honda Days, December To Remember, and Red Tag Sales Event
We truly are blessed
Ah yes, the holidays!
Toyotathon, Happy Honda Days, December To Remember, and Red Tag Sales Event
We truly are blessed
November 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
“Hope you enjoy the holidays!”
Ah yes, the holidays!
Toyotathon, Happy Honda Days, December To Remember, and Red Tag Sales Event
We truly are blessed
Ah yes, the holidays!
Toyotathon, Happy Honda Days, December To Remember, and Red Tag Sales Event
We truly are blessed
I’ve been dismantling computers for 25 years. And it is always kind of hilarious
Steps 1-20: Everything clicks together like LEGO 👍
Step 21: “ok now drizzle the forbidden peanut butter on your $500 CPU ahahaha”
Steps 1-20: Everything clicks together like LEGO 👍
Step 21: “ok now drizzle the forbidden peanut butter on your $500 CPU ahahaha”
November 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I’ve been dismantling computers for 25 years. And it is always kind of hilarious
Steps 1-20: Everything clicks together like LEGO 👍
Step 21: “ok now drizzle the forbidden peanut butter on your $500 CPU ahahaha”
Steps 1-20: Everything clicks together like LEGO 👍
Step 21: “ok now drizzle the forbidden peanut butter on your $500 CPU ahahaha”
If Heaven and Hell decide that they both are satisfied
Illuminate the "no"s on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you when your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark
(He’s definitely doing the YUNGBLUD/Halsey version)
Illuminate the "no"s on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you when your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark
(He’s definitely doing the YUNGBLUD/Halsey version)
November 23, 2025 at 3:51 AM
If Heaven and Hell decide that they both are satisfied
Illuminate the "no"s on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you when your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark
(He’s definitely doing the YUNGBLUD/Halsey version)
Illuminate the "no"s on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you when your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark
(He’s definitely doing the YUNGBLUD/Halsey version)
At least it’s not buildings.
Developer: here. It building cost $500m, 10 years of life, very difficult approvals.
Architecture critics: from my tour I suspect the proponent has spent less than a single day on earth, let alone have they ever entered a single building ever. Beavers have done better
Developer: here. It building cost $500m, 10 years of life, very difficult approvals.
Architecture critics: from my tour I suspect the proponent has spent less than a single day on earth, let alone have they ever entered a single building ever. Beavers have done better
November 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
At least it’s not buildings.
Developer: here. It building cost $500m, 10 years of life, very difficult approvals.
Architecture critics: from my tour I suspect the proponent has spent less than a single day on earth, let alone have they ever entered a single building ever. Beavers have done better
Developer: here. It building cost $500m, 10 years of life, very difficult approvals.
Architecture critics: from my tour I suspect the proponent has spent less than a single day on earth, let alone have they ever entered a single building ever. Beavers have done better
Be cool if bikeshare could add a ring or rack on the end. Some of the locations there’s nowhere great to lock up a non-BS bike.
Given these stations are regularly serviced, easy to cut off bikes that have been there a while.
Given these stations are regularly serviced, easy to cut off bikes that have been there a while.
November 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Be cool if bikeshare could add a ring or rack on the end. Some of the locations there’s nowhere great to lock up a non-BS bike.
Given these stations are regularly serviced, easy to cut off bikes that have been there a while.
Given these stations are regularly serviced, easy to cut off bikes that have been there a while.
LTT is such a scam.
“Let’s tax volume, what a great idea”
“Let’s tax volume, what a great idea”
November 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
LTT is such a scam.
“Let’s tax volume, what a great idea”
“Let’s tax volume, what a great idea”
Explanation for literally every horrible thing that has happened recently that has turned out to be legal:
“Well you see there’s this rule from 1802 that no one ever relied on due to gentlemanliness and decorum but we never deleted out of a sense of pride. It turns out bad people liked it”
“Well you see there’s this rule from 1802 that no one ever relied on due to gentlemanliness and decorum but we never deleted out of a sense of pride. It turns out bad people liked it”
November 19, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Explanation for literally every horrible thing that has happened recently that has turned out to be legal:
“Well you see there’s this rule from 1802 that no one ever relied on due to gentlemanliness and decorum but we never deleted out of a sense of pride. It turns out bad people liked it”
“Well you see there’s this rule from 1802 that no one ever relied on due to gentlemanliness and decorum but we never deleted out of a sense of pride. It turns out bad people liked it”
Seeing that the “consumer preference” argument in favour of suburbs is trending again - thanks to Will Stancil 🚬😩
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Seeing that the “consumer preference” argument in favour of suburbs is trending again - thanks to Will Stancil 🚬😩
One of my best slideshow memes
November 19, 2025 at 2:35 AM
One of my best slideshow memes
Chat, what does “doing our best” mean in this context?
Odd turn of phrase.
Odd turn of phrase.
MBS claims the murder of Khashoggi was "a huge mistake and we're our doing our best that this doesn't happen again."
November 19, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Chat, what does “doing our best” mean in this context?
Odd turn of phrase.
Odd turn of phrase.
I think we need to revisit the fact that Council spent over a decade calling the $1m houses “middle class housing for normal people” and the $500k apartments “luxury housing for elites”
And then heaped extraordinary costs and obligations onto the latter in order to subsidize the former.
And then heaped extraordinary costs and obligations onto the latter in order to subsidize the former.
November 19, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I think we need to revisit the fact that Council spent over a decade calling the $1m houses “middle class housing for normal people” and the $500k apartments “luxury housing for elites”
And then heaped extraordinary costs and obligations onto the latter in order to subsidize the former.
And then heaped extraordinary costs and obligations onto the latter in order to subsidize the former.
Why is the TTC platforming e-bike disinformation?
Train announcement, “a reminder the TTC bans e-bikes between Nov 15 and April 15 due to battery fire concerns”
Like what??
Train announcement, “a reminder the TTC bans e-bikes between Nov 15 and April 15 due to battery fire concerns”
Like what??
November 18, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Why is the TTC platforming e-bike disinformation?
Train announcement, “a reminder the TTC bans e-bikes between Nov 15 and April 15 due to battery fire concerns”
Like what??
Train announcement, “a reminder the TTC bans e-bikes between Nov 15 and April 15 due to battery fire concerns”
Like what??
Make New Toronto the biggest Toronto you cowards
The real galaxy brain Canada is to make London Ontario the biggest London, but Canadians are afraid to dream big
Tired: Maximum Canada
Wired: Maximum Waterloo Region
Wired: Maximum Waterloo Region
November 18, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Make New Toronto the biggest Toronto you cowards
And you may ask yourself, “well how did I get here?”
The dolphins are getting Alzheimer’s from algae blooms
caused by warming waters and toxic runoff
and you could see the bloodstains in Sudan
from space.
The cobalt is mined by children
and the music is made by robots
and the grownups are wondering
where the fireflies went.
caused by warming waters and toxic runoff
and you could see the bloodstains in Sudan
from space.
The cobalt is mined by children
and the music is made by robots
and the grownups are wondering
where the fireflies went.
November 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
And you may ask yourself, “well how did I get here?”
A real travesty and loss for the community.
The core’s last great locals-only kick’n’stab.
Been going there since I could grow a beard
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toron...
The core’s last great locals-only kick’n’stab.
Been going there since I could grow a beard
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toron...
Imperial Pub closes after 81 years in downtown Toronto
Closure comes as Toronto Metropolitan University plans to build new student-housing and education complexes
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
A real travesty and loss for the community.
The core’s last great locals-only kick’n’stab.
Been going there since I could grow a beard
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toron...
The core’s last great locals-only kick’n’stab.
Been going there since I could grow a beard
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toron...
Friend at another developer shared that they were all told on Friday that bonuses and annual reviews will be “delayed” until end of Q2 2026.
Interesting…
Trying to get 6 more months out of your team based on hopes and dreams?
Interesting…
Trying to get 6 more months out of your team based on hopes and dreams?
November 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Friend at another developer shared that they were all told on Friday that bonuses and annual reviews will be “delayed” until end of Q2 2026.
Interesting…
Trying to get 6 more months out of your team based on hopes and dreams?
Interesting…
Trying to get 6 more months out of your team based on hopes and dreams?
Assisting with an estate right now where it is costing the family THOUSANDS to clear the house of junk so we can sell it.
UV damaged and chipped Royal Dalton figurines aren’t worth what their grandma claimed.
Thankfully positioning it for multiplex so the family can find some yield.
UV damaged and chipped Royal Dalton figurines aren’t worth what their grandma claimed.
Thankfully positioning it for multiplex so the family can find some yield.
Pez dispensers. Holt Howard jelly jars. So many model trains. As the $90 trillion Great Wealth Transfer begins, millennials and Gen X aren’t just inheriting money — they’re inheriting their parents’ stuff.
Boomers Are Passing Down Fortunes — And Way, Way Too Much Stuff
As the $90 trillion Great Wealth Transfer begins, millennials and Gen X aren’t just inheriting money. They’re being buried under an avalanche of baseball cards, fine china and collections of all sorts.
bloom.bg
November 16, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Assisting with an estate right now where it is costing the family THOUSANDS to clear the house of junk so we can sell it.
UV damaged and chipped Royal Dalton figurines aren’t worth what their grandma claimed.
Thankfully positioning it for multiplex so the family can find some yield.
UV damaged and chipped Royal Dalton figurines aren’t worth what their grandma claimed.
Thankfully positioning it for multiplex so the family can find some yield.
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Despite planning dogma, “stable residential neighbourhoods” aren’t
Almost everywhere in the City of Toronto has fewer people that it did 50 years ago
November 15, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Despite planning dogma, “stable residential neighbourhoods” aren’t
It is wild that copyright infringement is now legal as long as it is done by an AI as a cheap simulacra
If a human does it, you still go to jail
If magic number oracle does it, it is innovation.
If a human does it, you still go to jail
If magic number oracle does it, it is innovation.
November 15, 2025 at 10:56 PM
It is wild that copyright infringement is now legal as long as it is done by an AI as a cheap simulacra
If a human does it, you still go to jail
If magic number oracle does it, it is innovation.
If a human does it, you still go to jail
If magic number oracle does it, it is innovation.
I very rarely go to Exhibition Place (going West of Bathurst? Ew)
But it is the PRIME example of why separated LRT is GOAT’d
The Ex grounds are either EMPTY but surrounded by traffic or FULL and surrounded by traffic
Only time I used to drive was for the ski show… /1
But it is the PRIME example of why separated LRT is GOAT’d
The Ex grounds are either EMPTY but surrounded by traffic or FULL and surrounded by traffic
Only time I used to drive was for the ski show… /1
Just passed thru Exhibition Place & it’s rammed. They’re parking people on the grass (🤦🏽). Royal winter fair. Soccer game at BMO. The notion that the Ex is used two weeks a year is false.
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I very rarely go to Exhibition Place (going West of Bathurst? Ew)
But it is the PRIME example of why separated LRT is GOAT’d
The Ex grounds are either EMPTY but surrounded by traffic or FULL and surrounded by traffic
Only time I used to drive was for the ski show… /1
But it is the PRIME example of why separated LRT is GOAT’d
The Ex grounds are either EMPTY but surrounded by traffic or FULL and surrounded by traffic
Only time I used to drive was for the ski show… /1
Why is Queen’s Park Station still like that. It’s been years and years.
I never see anyone working on it.
It seriously feels like it is being done by one guy’s uncle from Newmarket who doesn’t come in if the traffic’s bad or the fishin’s good.
I never see anyone working on it.
It seriously feels like it is being done by one guy’s uncle from Newmarket who doesn’t come in if the traffic’s bad or the fishin’s good.
November 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Why is Queen’s Park Station still like that. It’s been years and years.
I never see anyone working on it.
It seriously feels like it is being done by one guy’s uncle from Newmarket who doesn’t come in if the traffic’s bad or the fishin’s good.
I never see anyone working on it.
It seriously feels like it is being done by one guy’s uncle from Newmarket who doesn’t come in if the traffic’s bad or the fishin’s good.