Pauline L
LightNews LightNews
banner
daphne7411.bsky.social
Pauline L
@daphne7411.bsky.social
130 followers 440 following 120 posts
Geography, housing, is it condos or rental? Opinions strictly my own. Duranie. Urbanist.
Posts Replies Media Videos
Reposted by Pauline L
kenwhite.bsky.social
Curtis Yarvin is beloved of people of mediocre mind and weak character. They want to go Nazi, but they don’t have the cobbles to do it without a gloss of mediocre pseudo-intellectual gibberish supporting it.
/1
leahmcelrath.bsky.social Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d
Curtis Yarvin has written a very long screed in defense of his post in which he said, “Hitler spoke the truth.”

A sampling of select portions is below and includes, in reference to Jewish people, the words:

“The only way to tell is the name and the nose.”
Curtis Yarvin @curtis_yarvin X.com I get a lot of questions about this tweet. Hitler was right that Anglo-American elites in the 1st half of the 20C were irrevocably hostile to German sovereignty, and defeat, diplomatic, political, military or economic, would lead to Weimar at best, Moscow at worst Curtis Yarvin @curtis_yarvin • 5d Germany got Hitler because there were too many subjects about which only Hitler spoke the truth. This made a lot of Germans regard Hit!... 6:30 AM • 1/6/26 • 18K Views Curtis Yarvin @curt.. • 56m Hitler genuinely believed he was fighting a race war against an international Jewish conspiracy. Not a trace of evidence of any insincerity. When he bombed London his plan was to wake up Kipling's Saxons from their Jewish hypnosis. Of course he had never been to London Curtis Yarvin @curt... • 52m The live players whose actions match the models of "realist" statesmen are Hitler's enemies. If FDR or Stalin ever did anything that did not point in the direction of total world domination, I am unaware of it. Sure, their plans did not always work out. The first time Curtis Yarvin @curt... • 48m g When we look at the Jews in FDR's circle, they are perfectly assimilated as WASPs and mostly of German aristocratic descent. The only way to tell is the name and the nose. ••• The Jews around Stalin are 100% Bolshevik and 100% terrified of him. They might as well be Latvians Curtis Yarvin @curt...• 45m While there is never 0 ethnic solidarity, elite Western Jews consider ethnocentrism (for themselves) shameful and barbaric, and/or make elaborate excuses for it / jokes about it. Not that they're not excited about black ethnocentrism or terrified of white ethnocentrism. They are Curtis Yarvin @curti... •21m g ... It's not even untrue that on average, Jews are a little less American than WASPs, and maybe even neurologically divergent from the Albion's Seed populations, not just in IQ but also in personality traits. Genes are real. But my brother in Christ, these are very subtle effects Curtis Yarvin @curti... • 16m It wasn't Jews who first decided that there was some magic way to make all Somalis, Samoans, Sikhs and Senegalese into Americans. Oh no. This is a 19th-century mainline Protestant missionary trope. Core Boston mindset. "Imagine"
January 6, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Reposted by Pauline L
gilduran.com
Corrupt tech billionaires are buying power to tilt the world in their favor.

Even the co-founder of Y Combinator is saying it. ⬇️

The radical death cult rising from Silicon Valley venture capital is metastasizing rapidly.

It's an existential threat to democracy and humanity.
Paul Graham, Y Combinator co-founder, posts: The rational fear of those who dislike economic inequality is that the rich will convert their economic power into political power: that they'll tilt elections, or pay bribes for pardons, or buy up the news media to promote their views. I used to be able to claim that tech billionaires didn't actually do this — that they just wanted to refine their gadgets. But unfortunately in the current administration we've seen all three.
January 2, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Reposted by Pauline L
fivebooks.com
"We used to dial, now we speed dial. We used to walk, now we speed walk. We used to date, now we speed date."
fivebooks.com/best-books/s...
Slow Living
The best books on Slow Living, as recommended by journalist and author Carl Honoré
fivebooks.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Reposted by Pauline L
joshuahind.bsky.social
For those who see Brad Bradford’s TTC refund policy and think, “That might be a good idea.”, consider that this one delivery truck has been holding up a streetcar for at least 5 minutes. Bradford would punish the TTC and do nothing to the driver.
December 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Reposted by Pauline L
lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
he also kind of gets everyone's asses again in this follow up with the washington post
I mean, we don't know if Karoline Leavitt still has that groomer today now that the photos are published. Well, what can I say? That's the makeup that she puts on, those are the injections she gave herself. If they show up in a photo, what do you want me to say? I don't know if it says something about the world we live in, the age of Photoshop, the age of AI filters on your Instagram, but the fact that the internet is freaking out because they're seeing real photos and not retouched ones says something to me. Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that's on the cutting room floor? I don't think there's anything I missed that I wish I'd gotten. I'll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, "Should I smile or not smile?" and I said, "How would you want to be portrayed?" We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, "You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people." And I looked at him and I said, "You know, you do, too."
December 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Reposted by Pauline L
thestar.com
#Breaking: Frank Gehry, the Toronto-born architect known for his bold and dynamic structures, dies at 96
Frank Gehry dies at 96
His notable projects include the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and a new extension to the Art Gallery of Ontario.
www.thestar.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Reposted by Pauline L
kenwhite.bsky.social
Of all the things destructive to the constitutional order of the United States, one of the worst is wealthy sociopaths feeling entitled to be free of criticism, and the willingness of sleazy lawyers to take their money to enforce that feeling of entitlement.
mollyjongfast.bsky.social Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · Dec 2
Over on x, David sacks is melting down about The New York Times reporting on his many conflicts of interest
December 2, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Reposted by Pauline L
internethippo.bsky.social
Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 AM
daphne7411.bsky.social
Buy vs rent: The latter gains momentum - some insight from the Zonda Urban Q3 release torontosun.com/life/homes/r...
Buy vs rent: The latter gains momentum
Purpose-built rentals now make an astounding 70 per cent of all housing starts, according to CMHC.
torontosun.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Reposted by Pauline L
mattjelly.bsky.social
I saw the 75 James condos (LiUNA/Fengate/Hi Rise Group) are now listing units in Phase II at the "high 200k's". Out of pure morbid curiosity I checked and wow what a drop.
A screenshot from the website of the 75 James South Condos in Hamilton from 1.5 years ago advertising prices "from the $400,000s" A screenshot from the website of the 75 James South Condos in Hamilton from 1 year ago advertising prices "from the high $300,000s" A screenshot from the website of the 75 James South Condos in Hamilton from today advertising prices "from the high $200,000s"
November 2, 2025 at 10:19 PM
daphne7411.bsky.social
In an effort of fearful jinx I will seeing the new Depeche Mode documentary this evening, and awaiting a roar from nearby Yonge-Dundas intersection...
October 31, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Reposted by Pauline L
pbump.com
I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...
October 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Reposted by Pauline L
oliver-moore.bsky.social
Remarkable case of false balance. Trump is disappearing people, blowing up boats, musing about third term. Mamdani wants rent freeze and free buses. “Extremes“
October 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Reposted by Pauline L
brucearthur.bsky.social
This seems .... amazing, and something that should interest Canada
October 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Reposted by Pauline L
kristoncapps.bsky.social
Across all the major outlets — NYT, WSJ, WaPo, LAT, CNN, ABC, CBS, Fox News, NBC, CNBC, NPR, Bloomberg — the only outlet without a No Kings story on its home page is CBS News.

For every other outlet, it's near the top. Even Fox News is running with "Nationwide unrest looms as thousands mobilize"
October 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Reposted by Pauline L
shawnmicallef.bsky.social
"Safe Parkside" filed a Freedom of Information request to get top speeds from the ill-fated & much abused Parkside camera. The speed limit is 40km/h.

Killers, all of them, with the ear & heart of Premier Doug Ford.
Speeds from 154 to 119
October 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM
daphne7411.bsky.social
Another condo site (not surprising in this case) up for sale in Whitby, former Rossmont Green www.realtor.ca/real-estate/...
www.realtor.ca
October 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Reposted by Pauline L
tromano.bsky.social
Never forget that Stephen Miller lost his high school election to the Cobrasnake. 2000s hipster LES folks know exactly how hilarious this is. pitchfork.com/news/71675-t...
The Cobrasnake Beat Trump Advisor Stephen Miller in a High School Election
“Our high school was very diverse, which I loved, but it always seemed to bother Stephen and make him mad.” - Mark Hunter, aka the Cobrasnake
pitchfork.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Reposted by Pauline L
mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social
Local man intimately familiar with losing tells others to stop doing that.
'No more losing,' Poilievre tells Carney in scathing letter ahead of PM's face-to-face with Trump | CBC News
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has penned a scathing letter to the prime minister ahead of his meeting with the U.S. president on Tuesday, saying Mark Carney has been a disappointment on the tra...
www.cbc.ca
October 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Reposted by Pauline L
nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years.

Pinochet was ousted with a referendum.

And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists.

Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.
September 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Reposted by Pauline L
rivertam.bsky.social
Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.
September 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Reposted by Pauline L
kevinmkruse.bsky.social
The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.
September 17, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Reposted by Pauline L
osullyville.bsky.social
I really think we need to have some mechanism in place for being able to say, in print and in the media, that a problem with a public figure is that they are insane. Not in a hyperbolic way. RFK Jr is a maniac.
clayranck.bsky.social Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · Aug 27
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them?

This is an insane person.
Acyn @Acyn X.com RFK JR: I'm looking at kids as I walk through the airports today...and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, inflammation-you can tell from their faces, movements, and lack of social connection TEXAS "MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN" LEGISLATION ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. Health & Human Services Secretary 0:12 From CSPAN C-SPANG* 15:04 • 8/27/25
August 28, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Reposted by Pauline L
shawnmicallef.bsky.social
This is happening in Toronto. Crime of many kinds is down but if you live in a place where CP24 is on constantly, you'd never know. So there's fear of the city in the suburbs, falsely, and you see certain politicians harping on this. More as next year's election approaches.
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Aug 11
the issue is that producing stark declines in crime and public disorder is generally not reported on, but that any instance of violence is given sensational coverage, so that the perception is of growing crime even when american cities are safer than ever
August 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
daphne7411.bsky.social
We talk data availability & transparency but how are we counting housing data? Spoke to the Globe for Zonda Urban. Even fewer Toronto condos being built than federal figures indicate, industry data show www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Even fewer Toronto condos being built than federal figures indicate, industry data show
CMHC, housing groups differ in how they count the beginning of home construction, leading to different pictures of the slowdown’s severity
www.theglobeandmail.com
August 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM