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funkaoshi.myatproto.social
ரமணன் சிவரஞ்சன்
@funkaoshi.myatproto.social
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Sure you're weedy, and kinda shy, but some girly out there must be needy for a weedy shy guy.

Toronto. He/Him. https://funkaoshi.com
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ரமணன் சிவரஞ்சன் @funkaoshi.myatproto.social · Feb 2
It’s our patriotic duty to drink rye whisky now.
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balkissoon.bsky.social
Evan Solomon, the minister responsible for AI regulation and safety in Canada, declined an interview request.
January 10, 2026 at 12:51 AM
funkaoshi.myatproto.social
I love markdown.
anildash.com Anil Dash @anildash.com · 3d
Been working on this one for a while — it's a little bit of history of a key foundation of internet technology, and a little bit of an explainer about how people _actually_ invent things. This is the amazing (true!) story of how Markdown took over the world. www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/h...
How Markdown took over the world - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
January 9, 2026 at 11:48 PM
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phirephoenix.com
I’ve been working on this event series with Max and Jen for the past few months and I am so fucking psyched!!! You should come to the first event on Jan 28th featuring yours truly and @xor.blue!!! Did I mention how fucking psyched I am because I am!!!

luma.com/wayfinding1
January 9, 2026 at 6:01 PM
funkaoshi.myatproto.social
Holy shit it’s finally happening. I have come so close to cutting a hole in the fence: it’s been safe to cross for a long while now!
metroscapes.ca Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 5d
Big news, even if it's been in place for a year and is subject to a future closure. This will eliminate a 200 metre detour and better connect the Junction Triangle neighbourhood.
Notice from Metrolinx that the Paton Road Underpass is temporarily opening. Details of the Paton road Underpass opening. Start: January 15, 2026 Re-closure: Fall 2026, subject to change
January 9, 2026 at 10:57 PM
funkaoshi.myatproto.social
Kind of wild there were no consequences for any of this and Trump is back in charge. Probably a lesson there, somewhere.
Video: Day of Rage: How Trump Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol
A six-month Times investigation has synchronized and mapped out thousands of videos and police radio communications from the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, providing the most complete picture to date of what ha...
www.nytimes.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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kottke.org
Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE. “ICE acts more like the Gestapo than it does any kind of legitimate law enforcement agency.” [kottke.org]
Abolish ICE
Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE. Abolish IC
kottke.org
January 8, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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graphicmatt.com
An owner that denies problems. An operator that has no ability to fix problems. And a maintainer that just doesn’t respond to questions. Doesn’t seem like a great way to run a railroad. www.thestar.com/news/gta/why...
No transit agency involved with the Finch West LRT answered when asked whether inclement weather was the problem or if the issues were more structural. “All of Metrolinx’s projects are planned and constructed to run in adverse weather conditions, including snow,” a spokesperson for Metrolinx said, via the TTC. Metrolinx, the provincial transit agency, has overseen the construction of both the Finch West and the Eglinton Crosstown LRTs. “We have no insights into the mechanics of the switches,” said Stuart Green, spokesperson for the TTC, about the Finch problems. The TTC manages switches on both its streetcar and subway tracks. “Metrolinx built, owns and maintains the line,” Green added. “I can only offer what they have provided.” Although the TTC operates the trains on the Finch West line, it is maintained by Mosaic Transit Group, a private company contracted by Metrolinx. Mosaic did not respond to requests for comment.
January 7, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
Grok's issue is far, far worse than "put a bikini on her." There are huge groups of people on Telegram making it do far worse, then sharing how they did it. It truly is a nonconsensual sexual abuse material machine:

www.404media.co/inside-the-t...
Inside the Telegram Channel Jailbreaking Grok Over and Over Again
Putting people in bikinis is just the tip of the iceberg. On Telegram, users are finding ways to make Grok do far worse.
www.404media.co
January 7, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
The US has transformed from a (sorta) functioning democracy into a poster regime, a rogue troll state, fueled by internet clout. And the abduction of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro is likely just the beginning.
www.garbageday.email/p/the-rise-o...
Maduro’s arrest is connected to a new kind of politics I’ve spent the last year struggling to describe. A profoundly embarrassing collision of violent nationalism, illiterate social chatter, and memetic fascism that’s been spreading across the globe since the pandemic. We’ve seen hints for years now that the elites of the world are just as addicted to — and dependent on — the same social platforms that we are. Ignoring the near-constant public embarrassments of our shitposter ruling class that play out on platforms like X every day, our leaders are also digitally networking with each other behind closed doors. There’s Chatham House, the group chat that fried the minds of Silicon Valley’s most reactionary CEOs like Marc Andreessen, that’s been running since COVID started. Which is adjacent to the text message network of powerful men that convinced Elon Musk to buy Twitter in 2022. Last year, the Trump administration was caught planning out airstrikes in a Signal group. And days before the campaign in Venezuela, Republican operatives secretly teamed up with a far-right YouTuber to storm daycares in Minnesota. You take all of that and throw in last year’s Discord-based election in Nepal, the international white nationalist incel terror cells spreading across Telegram, and the fact Charlie Kirk’s killer allegedly carried out the attack for the members of his Discord channel and the picture couldn’t be clearer: Politics — and political violence — is now something performed, first and foremost, for an online audience. It almost doesn’t matter what happens irl if it makes noise online.
January 5, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
Matt Walsh tweeted last year: "We've spent the last 25 years bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why." Then he tweeted today: ""This is a war for oil!!!!!" First of all, the "war" lasted like 90 minutes. Second, going to war to secure vital resources for your own people is totally legitimate. Why should we allow some third world communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?" Laura Loomer tweeted last year: "I’m America First, I don’t support “Regime Change”. I went on @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about Chinese aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization." Then she tweeted yesterday: "Maduro has arrived at the DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported in an armored motorcade after being transported in a blindfold via helicopter & then by plane to New York after his compound in Caracas was raided by US Special Forces. Proud to be an American today! USA 🇺🇸" Catturd tweeted last year: "Name one U.S. inspired regime change that hasn’t ended in absolute disaster." Then he tweeted yesterday: "Venezuela is now more free than New York City." Will Chamberlain tweeted last year: "The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position" Then he tweeted yesterday: "I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than black-bagging the head of a foreign narco-trafficking organization that enriches itself by addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans"
January 5, 2026 at 6:50 AM
funkaoshi.myatproto.social
Trying to read Hamlet, since I missed reading it in high school, and I just saw Hamnet. I bought this copy a couple years ago, after watching Station 11, which also features a lot of Hamlet.

Reading without all the footnotes is hard.
January 5, 2026 at 5:03 AM
funkaoshi.myatproto.social
Vote for Pedro
January 3, 2026 at 1:32 AM
funkaoshi.myatproto.social
My wife trekked all the way up to Finch West to grab the new LRT. Except it’s not running because it’s too cold. I guess Metrolinx didn’t know about the winter?
Empty station entrance
January 1, 2026 at 5:21 PM
funkaoshi.myatproto.social
Got a mini flash for my Ricoh, since they don’t come with a built in flash anymore.
Smokey! My cat.
December 31, 2025 at 3:46 AM
funkaoshi.myatproto.social
Currently reading Drome. Absolutely incredible. A good reminder comics can be such an incredible art form.
December 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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phirephoenix.com
Read that as a one-two punch with this archived letter from June Jordan, blacklisted from media and cast out by her friends (including Audre Lorde) for her support for Palestine in the 80s, rebuking Adrienne Rich’s Zionism. May we all have such moral clarity. newyorkwarcrimes.com/june-jordan-...
On Israel and Lebanon: A Response to Adrienne Rich from One Black Woman
June Jordan writes against the Zionism of her peers
newyorkwarcrimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:21 AM
funkaoshi.myatproto.social
I'm so mad at myself for signing up for the cheap Toronto Star digital deal months ago. I should have known that cancelling would be a giant pain in the ass. And it is!
December 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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pketh.org
On my first day officially off, I'm finally enjoying my copy of Niche Design by itaydreyfus.com – a real labor of love zine interviewing designers with a unique point of view and style (I'm in there too!)
December 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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damienmoule.bsky.social
From the Metro Toronto Planning Board's 1959 draft Official Plan (voted down by Metro Council). You could not say something this obvious in Toronto's Official Plan anymore.
December 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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andy.baio.net
Lazy Sunday debuted 20 years ago tonight.
Lazy Sunday - SNL Digital Short
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
www.youtube.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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kottke.org
America Is an Unserious Country Filled With Unserious People. “We’ll tolerate this just like we tolerate everything else. Because this is who we are, collectively, as a country.” [thebulwark.com]
America Is an Unserious Country Filled With Unserious People
Stories about revealed preferences and who we really are.
www.thebulwark.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
funkaoshi.myatproto.social
Lady on the TTC having a pretty intense argument with herself feels like par for the course nowadays.
December 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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shawnmicallef.bsky.social
Harbourfront is federal so my question is why is Harbourfront cooperating with the Ford gov't lying & destruction of public property?
alexbozikovic.bsky.social Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · Dec 10
News today about the Ontario Science Centre: Its "temporary location" will take over most, or possibly all, of Harbourfront Centre.

86,000 square feet is a larger fraction, if not all, of Harbourfront's buildings.

news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...
Ontario Newsroom
news.ontario.ca
December 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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rich.lafferty.ca
and this is *while they knew they were being studied*.
brenttoderian.bsky.social Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Dec 10
More than half of Toronto drivers in a Universtiy of Toronto study didn't look for people walking or on bikes before turning right. Study used eye-tracking tech.

Increasingly deadly vehicles, dumb laws, and irresponsible driving equal people being injured and killed.
www.utoronto.ca/news/more-ha...
December 11, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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edzitron.com
Currently playing @aftermath.site's "Uh Oh, You Have Billions Invested In Generative AI"
woe-industries.itch.io/you-have-bil...
You're not a dumbass. You're not a dumbass fucking dork who wastes money on insane bullshit. MAKE ED ZITRON GO AWAY I DON'T LIKE WHERE MY MIND IS GOING
December 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM