earnestsmithsky.bsky.social
@earnestsmithsky.bsky.social
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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.

And trans lives are grounded in reality.

We see y'all. No matter what.

www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.
December 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Perhaps a request from BlueSky members to [email protected] would help me out. Topic of the email would be "H. R. S. (Tim) Ellis". Power of BlueSky?
So, i've located tonnes of good documentation in a Canadian museum and they are not able to help me. Just collecting dust.
December 19, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Please Do Not Release Any More Epstein Files, They Are Not Important, by A Guy In The Epstein Files
Well that helps to explain this Brooks column from last month.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
December 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Which says nothing about Chow's skills as a politician. But structurally:
1. The 905 makes or breaks governments, particularly majorities.
2. 905 voters are motorists.
3. 1+2 = Toronto won't be allowed congestion pricing in this generation.
December 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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'AI is coming' I tell the museum stakeholders as I proudly cut the ribbon of our new Artificial Insemination exhibition
December 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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If you're a business, shop, website that promises "Absolutely No Use Of AI" I could become a very good customer
December 11, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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It’s wrong that the Finch & Eglinton LRTs don’t have signal priority. Billions of dollars were spent, only for “rapid transit” to go slower than the buses it replaced. Last Spring at Council, I moved for signal priority on these lines. The 2026 budget must fund this priority.
December 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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If someone could build some kind of feature that lets you unfollow all mutuals who follow a racist and sends them a little note that this was the reason, I would use it all the time. This kind of racist post should de-platform someone completely
December 7, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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An acute example of Cdn establishment hollowness. When asked why no Palestinian voices in a debate *about* Palestinians, Griffith said they're pvt & somebody else should do it. Yet he struts & clucks on stage that Munk is fearless in its free speech & open dialogue. Such dilettante wankery.
Nearly 200 protest outside Munk debate amid calls to arrest ex-Israeli officials over alleged war crimes | CBC News
As many as 200 people protested outside the Munk Debates in Toronto on Wednesday, where a panel of all-Israeli speakers discussed whether a two-state solution is in the best interest of Israel.
www.cbc.ca
December 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Tom Stoppard holds a special place in my heart and, I suspect, in the heart of everyone else who was ever told they thought too much to be an actor.

R&G may be the best play of the 20th century, but Arcadia is, for me personally, the best play of the last 400 years.
November 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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They misidentified the intern. The judge told them they had misidentified the intern. But instead of double checking, they took that as an affront to their authority. So they surrounded the judge's car and threatened to smash the windows to get to the intern.

They had misidentified the intern.
The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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8 years of "What is a woman?" and now it turns out that the comeback was "define a child"
November 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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more to the point: "this doesn't do anything" / "this is performative (derogatory)" is a criticism of land acknowledgements I find compelling from people actively engaged in reparations projects and pretty much no else
November 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Fall 2017: Then-NYT reporter literally warning Epstein that someone is "digging around again."
November 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Bad misread to describe the anger at Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats as exclusively “progressive.” I can attest to multiple moderate/centrist types who are livid—because they value rights, law, and democracy, unlike the Appeasement Eight in the Senate—and I’m reasonably confident it’s widespread.
November 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Be careful what you share, Ivanka.

Some of us actually read the rest of the story.👇
November 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Joyce Carol Oates should say he can't do backflips off the roof next
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.”

-Ta-Nehisi Coates
November 10, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Happy to see it come to a vote now rather than wait a year. I will say instead of ward by ward I'd prefer the motion to attach to the R and RM zones. Would bring us a step closer conceptually to Japanese zoning which I prefer.
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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why hasn't the mean mayor reached out to me, Canada's most special baby
 Canadian multimillionaire and Shark Tank guy Kevin O'Leary went on TV to say he's upset Zohran won't talk to him: "I and others who invest in real estate have tried to get a meeting to figure out what's rhetoric and what's policy. So far for me it's been crickets."
November 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM