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Imbroglior @dkfoster.bsky.social · Aug 3
"This gloom, this surrender to the dark waters which lap us about, is a modern invention... we do not believe enough. Our fathers at any rate had something to demolish." Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
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Imbroglior @dkfoster.bsky.social · 8h
For sure. And i don't think they've done anything o Parkside. Which has been a source of local aggravation, I think.
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Imbroglior @dkfoster.bsky.social · 8h
Also, Brad Bradford just gets under my skin. Dude should have the humility to remember he placed 8th in the 2023 by-election.
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Imbroglior @dkfoster.bsky.social · 8h
And, it's a little bitnof bullshit to say speed cameras aren't working when the studies like Sick Kids suggest otherwise.
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Imbroglior @dkfoster.bsky.social · 8h
Is 'a' solution for sure. But not always practical.
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Karen Geier @karengeier.com · 8h
What if a mohel beats the shit out of RFK jr
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The Onion @theonion.com · 9h
Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis
Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis
CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 8h
Every time he does this a calculator somewhere in the country spontaneously bursts into flames
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
Trump: "We're gonna be reducing the cost of medicines by 100%, 200%, 300%, 500% and even more than that."
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 8h
Minneapolis, 1903
The first automobile theft in the city has been reported. That shows that people are beginning to have confidence in the ability of the machines to travel into the next state without breaking down. --Minneapolis Daily Times, 31 Mar 1903
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Imbroglior @dkfoster.bsky.social · 8h
But that's only if I hit somebody. And what are the chances of that?
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Can I Pet Your Dog? @kristineff.bsky.social · 8h
Yeah the “humility” comment was so off base. Like, I know he was using it to make people who aren’t paying attention think that the city was making bad choices based on ego (?)
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Can I Pet Your Dog? @kristineff.bsky.social · 8h
Sure, what difference could 10km/hr possibly make, Burnside???
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Karen Geier @karengeier.com · 8h
This is LITERALLY NOTHING. It’s the cost of 3.5 police officers
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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 14h
Adding crisis workers on the TTC will cost $540K this year for a test pilot, then $1.8 million for full implementation next year.
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Negro Frolics @desmondcole.bsky.social · 9h
this is just a pilot project, but it's also an acknowledgement from Toronto city council that we need alternatives to policing

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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 9h
Council votes 23-1 to APPROVE deploying crisis service workers on the TTC subway system. They'll be stationed at Spadina Station, Union Station, and Bloor-Yonge, and respond to calls anywhere in the downtown U-shaped track area.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 8h
This administration is a dull-minded, paranoid, gullible old man surrounded by twenty cranks, thousand-year-reich zealots, and single-issue lunatics, all with phones, running around saying, "Show him this! He'll like this! Make sure he sees this!"
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11h
Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."
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Imbroglior @dkfoster.bsky.social · 8h
Cllr Bradford will respond to the question with a TikTok video.
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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 12h
Bravo asks Bradford if he knows how many special constables the TTC is adding this month. He doesn't know. It's 12, she says.

"So what data are you using to make this recommendation?" Bravo asks re: his motion.

"It's not my job to dictate the exact number of special constables," Bradford says.
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Imbroglior @dkfoster.bsky.social · 9h
Cllr Bradford's got a 2026 mayoral platform to fluff here.
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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 14h
Councillor Brad Bradford asks if these crisis teams would respond to assaults or reports of weapons on the TTC. Staff say these workers will only respond to non-violent calls. Bradford wants to know the percentage of calls that are non-violent. Staff say they'll get those numbers.
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Imbroglior @dkfoster.bsky.social · 9h
The amount of time the city council of the biggest city in the country had to spend debating an item based on the whimsical grievance of the premier of the country's largest province is fucking mind boggling.
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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 1d
And that's it for the speed camera debate. Will any of it move the premier? TBD.
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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 1d
Weird undercurrent in this debate where some councillors casually suggest most drivers just ignore all signage, so the signs warning of a speed camera ahead must be much bigger and much flashier than typical signage.
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Imbroglior @dkfoster.bsky.social · 9h
???????
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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 1d
Explaining her motion for variable speed limits in school zones, Cheng says, "I do also acknowledge if you get a ticket for going over 30 at 2 a.m., probably you're not going to be very happy about that, because most people don't want to drive 30 km/h at 2 a.m."
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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 1d
I think Doug Ford benefits a lot from his Queen's Park opposition always tending to assume that his populist instincts are correct, and so they water down their criticism with too much nuance and hedging. He doesn't always know what voters want — sometimes it's just personal grievance.
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Imbroglior @dkfoster.bsky.social · 9h
And this guy wants to be mayor.
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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 1d
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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Imbroglior @dkfoster.bsky.social · 9h
People like Cllr Burnside interact with the city from inside their automobiles.
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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 1d
"In some locations, we've made the speed limit ridiculously low," says Burnside, explaining why he wants a review. "Going 65 on Avenue Road? That's a problem. Going 51? I'm not so sure."
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Imbroglior @dkfoster.bsky.social · 9h
Cllr Holyday is a full-blown certified idiot.
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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 1d
"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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Imbroglior @dkfoster.bsky.social · 9h
It's not really about community safety, is it.
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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 1d
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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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 9h
it’s always really funny when a reporter accidentally discovers that most creative professionals are not as lazy and intellectually bankrupt as they are.
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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 23h
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
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