Ev Delen
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Ev Delen
@evdelen.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy
Human 🧍. Earthican 🇺🇳. Canadian 🇨🇦. Geek 🤓. Progressive ⤴️.

Currently a Data Scientist and Automation Specialist. Recovering Professional Political Operative […]

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@chris

The image is fake! (Although the sentiment is undoubtedly real)

It's a manipulation of one of these photos from August 2025:

https://www.euronews.com/2025/08/22/europe-kneels-before-trump-in-washington
January 20, 2026 at 2:34 PM
The BS, probably #AISlop generated, non-response-response from the Minister of Child Pornography Dissemination.

A positive, they aren't giving "Grok" agency by referring to it as a person.

That's the only positive though, the rest is just the same kind of […]

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January 12, 2026 at 5:52 PM
It's telling that the constituency office for the Minister in charge of Child Pornography Dissemination - that is to say, the minister who is explicitly refusing to even endorse investigating Xitter over their generation of CSAM - is sending 100% of calls to […]

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January 12, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Maybe all of this is one of Robin Hanson's Great Filters for the Fermi Paradox...

#showerthought
January 8, 2026 at 5:43 AM
Change My Mind:

Reece Martin of RMTransit is to Public Transit what RFK Jr. is to Public Health.

#rmtransit #topoli #toronto #onpoli #transit #publictransit #TTC
January 2, 2026 at 6:37 PM
This is a crime against humanity.

Yay or nay?
December 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The argument is demonstrably disingenuous:

If their argument is that they cannot stop because it is detrimental to security, why is he in the White House or the West Wing at all at this time […]

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December 16, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Another great day of providing the wheels for some meals.

I averaged 30.8 km/L / 3.25 L/100km / 72.4 mpg over a distance of 74.6 km.
December 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
@chad
Only too happy to chip in!
December 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Linked is a great write up by Andrea Houston summarizing a few of the scandals of the #dougford administration but there's one assertion (pictured) I have an issue with:

Doug Ford isn't copying #donaldtrump playbook.

#trump is copying the Ford playbook!

Rob Ford […]

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November 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Reminds me of #dougford telling students and recent graduates to "try harder" to find a job.

#onpoli #ontario

OP: https://newsie.social/@royaards/115287414343703412
September 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
A lot of meals got to where they needed to go thanks to these wheels today!

#mealsonwheels #volunteering #volunteer
September 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Bye Bye #useconomy! It was nice knowing you.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/emerging/china-tells-tech-firms-stop-buying-nvidias-ai-chips-ft-reports-2025-09-17/

When your number one customer stops buying from you the product for which 60% of your entire economy is […]

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September 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
@christyceeck.bsky.social

Wow, that kind of a response to a media inquiry means a nerve has been touched.

Also, the use of the past-tense in the second paragraph, is that a tell?

#topoli #tocouncil #toronto #onpoli #ontario #ontarioplace #ontarioplacescam #ontarioplacescandal #ontarioplace4all
August 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
There's yet another angle on the #dougford grift by privatizing recycling collection across #ontario: get municipalities to pay the private, for-profit "Producer Responsibility Organization" to pickup recycling from "noneligible" properties under the privatization […]

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August 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Ironic considering Galen Weston Jr. has been so critical of efforts to make #toronto a more walkable city with more community spaces.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-08-11/trump-tariffs-and-jabs-push-canadians-to-exit-florida-enclave

#topoli #Toronto […]

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August 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I would love to see a study on how the retail sector has been in Quebec in the last 15 months.

My guess, better overall for the economy and society in the form of:
- More face-to-face interactions
- More street retail foot traffic
- Higher average wages for store […]

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August 11, 2025 at 11:22 PM
August 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Can't wait to see this being exploited. While likely necessary, this also has a similar feel to the half-baked Recall.

https://apnews.com/article/bsod-black-screen-windows-error-page-9711e0e60d3b7e70d3285b7969506d86
June 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Or, #daniellesmith, rather than shipping off raw materials - the least valuable part of the production chain - we could refine the oil in Canada (along with the jobs) and then produce high-value materials rather than just burning the stuff.

But we never see that […]

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June 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Well, the Rubicon has been crossed.

The Posse Comitatus Act has been undoubtedly and irreversibly violated.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-marines-carry-out-first-known-detention-civilian-los-angeles-video-shows-2025-06-13/

(h/t @Nonilex)

#uspol #uspoli […]

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June 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Ah, perhaps #ratings and #airtime is why #dougford is going on a junket to the country that Economically Attacked #canada.

Doug Ford, who owns property in #Florida, could go to plenty of other places to drum up business for #ontario.

In fact there are >190 *other* […]

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June 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Channeling his inner #trump, #dougford is attempting to re-write history.

#canada didn't pick this fight!

They're called #trumptariffs for a reason!

What "deals" are he committing #ontario to with the country that economically attacked us?

As Neville Chamberlain […]

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June 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM