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Glyn Bowerman

@glynbowerman.bsky.social

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Toronto-based journalist, podcaster, and editor. Cities, Raptors, Leeds United, and two black cats named Hall & Oates. I make an urban affairs podcast called Spacing Radio: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/spacing-radio/id1124077274

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 3d

Feels like a good time to reshare this oral history of the SkyDome. It’s probably the thing I’m proudest about. I’d love if you read and share: amp.tvo.org/article/it-w...

“It works, Toronto!”: An oral history of the SkyDome | TVO Today

A World Series win. The first Raptors home game. The city’s landmark stadium has played host to memorable events in the last 30 years — but getting it built was a story in itself.

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Maattu Blairada Nikto @mjmbca.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not a great look for any government that they can say “We’re going to stop enforcing this law” and people will ask “Why, which cabinet ministers keep breaking it?”

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 3d

It doesn’t play. Just takes me to some dumb ad. I tried like ten times.

Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 3d

Who’s got a dodgy link to the Jays game. I can’t find one.

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 3d

Feels like a good time to reshare this oral history of the SkyDome. It’s probably the thing I’m proudest about. I’d love if you read and share: amp.tvo.org/article/it-w...

“It works, Toronto!”: An oral history of the SkyDome | TVO Today

A World Series win. The first Raptors home game. The city’s landmark stadium has played host to memorable events in the last 30 years — but getting it built was a story in itself.

amp.tvo.org

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 3d

Jays pitcher Little and Leafs forward Matthews is a great reminder to journalists and editors to never assume the spelling of a name, even if it sounds familiar.

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 4d

Everybody get to the Bronx, they got a surplus of GRAPEFRUITS!

Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 4d

(I’m here as an ambassador from Raptors fandom.)

Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 4d

This bandwagon rolled by and I jumped on it and it’s honestly a pretty cool wagon.

Vladdy Jr on a tv in a bar wearing the Blue Jays home run jacket.

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 4d

My weirdest, most pretentious flex is my phone autocorrects “back” to “Bach.” I guess I talk enough about baroque composers I broke my phone.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 4d

You.
Are.
Allowed.
To.
Insult.
The.
Police.

It’s a core First Amendment principle. This is utterly lawless behavior, for which there will be no (short-term) consequences.

That he does it so casually, as they are walking away, in front of cameras.

Rightly confident in his impunity.

“[t]he freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state.”

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 4d

Can we just admit we don’t care about our privacy, even when we should, and get rid of those website pop ups? Does anyone ever not just click “accept” so they can get on with what they came for?

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 4d

The lyrics are insane. You should go all in and straight up sing it to yourself.

Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 4d

Bless you 🙏🏼

Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 4d

I almost posted something I should really pitch as a short piece and deleted it. You all proud of me?

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 5d

No, I appreciate it. I shouldn’t have spoken so declaratively when I didn’t read a lot of Punisher for all the reasons Scott said. I was an X-Men/Batman guy. And even my knowledge of those isn’t exhaustive.

Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 5d

I stand corrected!

Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 5d

I liked what they did with him on Netflix, putting him against the military, private militias, and the US government. But it was definitely a departure from the comics.

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 6d

With Brad Bradford officially declaring his intention to run for mayor (after using his council position to unofficially campaign for the past two years), it’s important to remember even he doesn’t believe what he’s saying (his voting record shows), so we shouldn’t either. Pure, cynical opportunism.

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 7d

I’ve started Silksong. I love dipping back into that world, it’s just immersive. I’m already in love with it.

Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 8d

This is all very cool. I had no idea.

Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 11d

It absolutely is

Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 11d

Naturally 😸

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Nemanja Protic @nemanjabb.bsky.social · 11d

So much of what’s wrong at the present moment can be explained by the below-outlined dynamic.

Climate change; “creeping” authoritarianism; COVID as a slow-moving, disabling event; road deaths — all of these are ignored because they, somehow, by their “slow” movement, fail to shock the conscience.

Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 12d

In a statement, Vaughan Mayor Steven Del Duca pivoted from speed cameras to violent crime, suggesting we should spend more time focussing on the latter. That’s illuminating. Vehicles obviously present the bigger statistical threat, especially to children. But we accept those injuries and deaths.

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 11d

Slow vs fast, and passive vs active. The result in both is still death, but we’re not concerned with the slow and passive.

Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 11d

Ah, I asked, and I received: bsky.app/profile/mlon...

mlongfield.bsky.social @mlongfield.bsky.social · 11d

In Toronto, road violence takes more lives than gun violence.

Slide deck: Road violence takes more lives than gun violence.

30 traffic fatalities to date in Toronto v 17 fatal shootings.

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