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Daniel Scarfone, Cigarette Wife @danielscarfone.bsky.social · 10h

How could he not win his bid to be mayor?

Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 11h

Recommendation for council to express its continued support for speed cameras CARRIES 24-1. Guess who.

Daniel Scarfone, Cigarette Wife @danielscarfone.bsky.social · 11h

Soon, every film and TV show is going to look like (and be as high-quality as) the buffer ads for online casinos.

It's probably for the best! If TV networks all died, that'd be fine.

If the, what, two big movie studios die, that'd be fine.

It's all fine!

Mark and Jez, the El Dude Brothers, pumping their arms and going "Ennnnnngh" at varied intensities.

Daniel Scarfone, Cigarette Wife @danielscarfone.bsky.social · 11h

Uh-oh! Any historians know what this means?!

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 11h

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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Daniel Scarfone, Cigarette Wife @danielscarfone.bsky.social · 11h

Roncesvalles.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 12h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Daniel Scarfone, Cigarette Wife @danielscarfone.bsky.social · 11h

Do I need a spooky name to be taken seriously here?
I love attention. I'll do it.

Daniel Scarfone, Cigarette Wife @danielscarfone.bsky.social · 11h

Sorry, but this debate is making me lose my mind.

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Daniel Scarfone, Cigarette Wife @danielscarfone.bsky.social · 11h

Who cares what people want?

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Daniel Scarfone, Cigarette Wife @danielscarfone.bsky.social · 11h

Honestly, idiotic culture.

We don't need slow zones. We need to be slow. All city streets should be 30/40km. All the time. If people don't abide, put in 10,000 red light cameras and speed cameras.

Make the fine a percentage of the driver's income.

ROAST THEM.

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Daniel Scarfone, Cigarette Wife @danielscarfone.bsky.social · 12h

Yes, make it more complicated.

Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 12h

Councillor Lily Cheng moves for a report on "time-of-day variable speed limits" in school zones. "I'm speaking to you today as a councillor, but also as a mom," she notes.

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Daniel Scarfone, Cigarette Wife @danielscarfone.bsky.social · 12h

Matrix Nunziata.

Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 12h

Colle also displays this photo of himself, Councillor Nunziata, former mayor Mel Lastman and Jack Layton, putting up one of the city's first red-light camera signs in the 90s.

Daniel Scarfone, Cigarette Wife @danielscarfone.bsky.social · 12h

Boy, I'd love to hear Bradford give a lecture on humility.

Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 12h

Bradford says council needs to have the "humility" to recognize that the current speed program isn't working. He wants to see "practical road design changes."

"These cameras are meant to protect pedestrians, but they can't do that if they are constantly lying on the ground."

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 16h

If anyone’s struggled to keep up with my threads on why the genAI bubble
Is a bubble, here’s a simplified pictorial explanation, the plug is OpenAI and the sockets are Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Nvidia, and AMD

A power strip with the plug end plugged in to one of the sockets

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Daniel Scarfone, Cigarette Wife @danielscarfone.bsky.social · 15h

The amount of childish excuses in response to this bafflingly logical statement shows you that Ontario drivers are an entitled class of goons.

I speed sometimes! Sometimes it's an accident, sometimes not! If I get caught, I pay a ticket because I WASN'T SUPPOSED TO DO IT.

Grow up!

Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 15h

"My message is simple: don't speed, and you won't have to pay any fines," says Mayor Olivia Chow on her support for the speed camera program.

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Daniel Scarfone, Cigarette Wife @danielscarfone.bsky.social · 16h

It's pure selfishness and entitlement. There's literally nothing else.

Also, this province has made the concept of "driving a car" into a religious experience for people.

Burnside thinks streets HE drives on should be exempt. "But safety is important in general!"

Selfish babies.

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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 16h

"Are flashing lights as effective as the cameras?" asks Councillor Lily Cheng.

"We had flashing lights before we had automated speed enforcement. And through the introduction of automated speed enforcement we've seen a much more significant safety improvement," say transportation staff.

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Daniel Scarfone, Cigarette Wife @danielscarfone.bsky.social · 16h

The contention that we only need to be safe in school zones is insane.

It's good we're AT LEAST doing that, but last I checked, adults can be killed by terrible drives/accidents too.

Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 17h

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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Daniel Scarfone, Cigarette Wife @danielscarfone.bsky.social · 17h

Unserious Cop Jon Burnside thinks speed limits should be determined by what he personally thinks is reasonable, and not what safety data has determined is better or best.

Joke.

Daniel Scarfone, Cigarette Wife @danielscarfone.bsky.social · 17h

The main reason I subscribe to Matt's writings.

Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 17h

As expected, all the various speed camera items on the agenda are joined together to create an omnibus item. A speeding omnibus, kind of like that bus in that famous movie, The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down.

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Daniel Scarfone, Cigarette Wife @danielscarfone.bsky.social · 1d

Goodnight, baseball!

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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 1d

Drinking Miller lite out of a wine glass who gives a shit anymore

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Daniel Scarfone, Cigarette Wife @danielscarfone.bsky.social · 1d

Schneider is just Dan O’Brien. He’s the best one.

Daniel Scarfone, Cigarette Wife @danielscarfone.bsky.social · 1d

I’m a born bandwagon boy. I love hoppin’ on and off. Sue my butt.

Baseball!

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Daniel Scarfone, Cigarette Wife @danielscarfone.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone see any coverage of this?

No idea if this is legit, but asking Waters/producers about it would be very, very funny.

The Frito Bandito @thefritobanditoo.bsky.social · 2d

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

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The Frito Bandito @thefritobanditoo.bsky.social · 2d

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

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Daniel Scarfone, Cigarette Wife @danielscarfone.bsky.social · 1d

These are the types of people who like AI.

jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 1d

NEW: People are generating Sora 2 videos of famed physicist Stephen Hawking being horribly brutalized in terrible ways -- no matter how bad you thought OpenAI's guardrails were, I guarantee they're worse

futurism.com/artificial-i...

People Are Making Sora 2 Videos of Stephen Hawking Being Horribly Brutalized

People are using OpenAI's Sora 2 to generate videos of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking being brutalized in ghoulish ways.

futurism.com

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