John Simpson
@jsimpsondotca.bsky.social
Father, Husband, Wanderer and Wonderer.
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
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There is more to be 'commonly' aware of than any person can manage. Or have to. Your walk has been yours, mine has been mine. They may not have crossed let alone be the same. The common things we should have are patience, compassion and recognizing ourselves and each other as works-in-progress.
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who the fuck is upgrading to a new car every couple of years like a phone, does anyone have any sense of what a durable consumer good is anymore
December 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
who the fuck is upgrading to a new car every couple of years like a phone, does anyone have any sense of what a durable consumer good is anymore
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A city’s post in July on allowing corner stores and making parking optional had many comments saying council ignored the public. But then in November voters (re-)elected all candidates that supported it. One commenter ran for council to stop policies like it and lost by 27 points. So much for that.
December 27, 2025 at 4:15 AM
A city’s post in July on allowing corner stores and making parking optional had many comments saying council ignored the public. But then in November voters (re-)elected all candidates that supported it. One commenter ran for council to stop policies like it and lost by 27 points. So much for that.
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The solution is right above us. Solar panels on existing buildings, car parks, and along highways generate clean power without sacrificing farmland or wild spaces. Let's use our built world first. #Renewables #Innovation
December 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM
The solution is right above us. Solar panels on existing buildings, car parks, and along highways generate clean power without sacrificing farmland or wild spaces. Let's use our built world first. #Renewables #Innovation
Show your support for permanent legal protection for Ojibway National Urban Park! Add your voice to this petition: connectivity.wildlandsleague.org/ojibway-nati...
Ojibway National Urban Park - Nature Connectivity Project | Wildlands League
Dear Senators, Please pass Bill C-248, an act to amend the Canada National Parks Act (Ojibway National Urban Park of Canada). Thanks to you, Bill C-248 has passed second reading in the Senate ...
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December 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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When supermarkets give you the option to round up your shopping "for charity" they are using your donation as a tax write-off. Just donate directly instead.
December 21, 2025 at 8:55 AM
When supermarkets give you the option to round up your shopping "for charity" they are using your donation as a tax write-off. Just donate directly instead.
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Doug Ford weakened the recycling rules so producers could make more $.
Now our recycling system is collapsing.
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
Now our recycling system is collapsing.
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
‘They’re piling up everywhere’: Dealers sound the alarm as Ontario recyclers refuse to take tires
Tire dealers are complaining the wheels have fallen off Ontario’s tire recycling programs as scrap rubber piles up in sites around the province.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Doug Ford weakened the recycling rules so producers could make more $.
Now our recycling system is collapsing.
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
Now our recycling system is collapsing.
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
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Cars are useful but building the places we live and work for their maximal ease of use was a mistake
December 15, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Cars are useful but building the places we live and work for their maximal ease of use was a mistake
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I’m going to make an end-of-year update to my Canada intercity transportation map by the end of November. Let me know what bus and rail services I’m missing or changes I should be aware of.
It’s a big country and I’ll probably miss something.
seanmarshall.ca/transport-map/
It’s a big country and I’ll probably miss something.
seanmarshall.ca/transport-map/
Canada Intercity Transport Map
All of Canada’s transport links, in one map This map depicts all intercity and regional bus and rail connections in Canada. Information for each transit agency and intercity carrier is availa…
seanmarshall.ca
November 15, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I’m going to make an end-of-year update to my Canada intercity transportation map by the end of November. Let me know what bus and rail services I’m missing or changes I should be aware of.
It’s a big country and I’ll probably miss something.
seanmarshall.ca/transport-map/
It’s a big country and I’ll probably miss something.
seanmarshall.ca/transport-map/
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Not a single one of the big pro-Trump "Canadian MAGA" accounts is actually Canadian.
November 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Not a single one of the big pro-Trump "Canadian MAGA" accounts is actually Canadian.
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This guy disarming the terrorist at Bondi Beach, Australia, can only be described as hero.
December 14, 2025 at 9:32 AM
This guy disarming the terrorist at Bondi Beach, Australia, can only be described as hero.
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Why? WHY? Why is Ford's popularity still at 51%? What is wrong with people!
www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
www.thestar.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Why? WHY? Why is Ford's popularity still at 51%? What is wrong with people!
www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
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You know, I'm 70 years old, and I've been thru hell, climbed close to heaven, and touched back down here on Earth, which had everything necessary for humans to thrive. Greed has destroyed much. Maybe it's too late to save it. But we need to try.
December 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
You know, I'm 70 years old, and I've been thru hell, climbed close to heaven, and touched back down here on Earth, which had everything necessary for humans to thrive. Greed has destroyed much. Maybe it's too late to save it. But we need to try.
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Time and time again, families are the ones paying the price for Doug Ford's failures.
Every dollar that's handed to Conservative insiders is taken away from workers and public services.
Every dollar that's handed to Conservative insiders is taken away from workers and public services.
December 11, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Time and time again, families are the ones paying the price for Doug Ford's failures.
Every dollar that's handed to Conservative insiders is taken away from workers and public services.
Every dollar that's handed to Conservative insiders is taken away from workers and public services.
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The stuff AI "can do" is already being done more affordably and more reliably by literally any other tech *right now*. AI vendors are only "affordable" by virtue of being held up by VC firms with a shitton of money to burn because they're staffed by either actual psychopaths or chronic bag holders.
December 7, 2025 at 6:59 AM
The stuff AI "can do" is already being done more affordably and more reliably by literally any other tech *right now*. AI vendors are only "affordable" by virtue of being held up by VC firms with a shitton of money to burn because they're staffed by either actual psychopaths or chronic bag holders.
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Drink all of this in and remember.
The CEOs of both Ford and Stellantis, who are there to celebrate the rollback of vehicle emissions standards (which will drive climate change), are standing right behind Trump as he makes these racist comments.
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 4, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Drink all of this in and remember.
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If you run a business and get AI to design your logo, you are advertising to the World that you would prefer to have a shitty logo in order to save a few hundred quid and would be likely to cut corners elsewhere in your operation.
December 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
If you run a business and get AI to design your logo, you are advertising to the World that you would prefer to have a shitty logo in order to save a few hundred quid and would be likely to cut corners elsewhere in your operation.
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Not trying to burst any bubbles; but Spotify is over.
They are airing ICE recruitment ads, the CEO has been investing in military/AI tech, they barely pay their artists; sometimes a percentage of a cent per stream, they promote “fake/AI artist” playlists, and there’s major concerns about data use.
They are airing ICE recruitment ads, the CEO has been investing in military/AI tech, they barely pay their artists; sometimes a percentage of a cent per stream, they promote “fake/AI artist” playlists, and there’s major concerns about data use.
December 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Not trying to burst any bubbles; but Spotify is over.
They are airing ICE recruitment ads, the CEO has been investing in military/AI tech, they barely pay their artists; sometimes a percentage of a cent per stream, they promote “fake/AI artist” playlists, and there’s major concerns about data use.
They are airing ICE recruitment ads, the CEO has been investing in military/AI tech, they barely pay their artists; sometimes a percentage of a cent per stream, they promote “fake/AI artist” playlists, and there’s major concerns about data use.
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Bike parking right next to the supermarket entrance and cycle lane. Not hidden, not second-class, but prioritised. Want more people to shop by bike? Then make it an easy and accessible option. Convenience drives behavior.
December 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Bike parking right next to the supermarket entrance and cycle lane. Not hidden, not second-class, but prioritised. Want more people to shop by bike? Then make it an easy and accessible option. Convenience drives behavior.
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Listen, if you tell me that “taxation is theft” I’m going to need you to quit driving on highways or walking on sidewalks or attending a public school or using police or fire services or city snow removal.
I would mention libraries, but…
I would mention libraries, but…
December 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Listen, if you tell me that “taxation is theft” I’m going to need you to quit driving on highways or walking on sidewalks or attending a public school or using police or fire services or city snow removal.
I would mention libraries, but…
I would mention libraries, but…
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NEW FROM ME: Canadian medical schools sell 1,000 residency spots annually to foreign governments like Saudi Arabia, while qualified Canadians train abroad. Our public institutions prioritize cash over domestic access. It's time to end the sell-out.
jonliedtke.ca/2025/12/01/f...
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First Class Treatment: Canadian Institutions Rent Our Future for Foreign Cash - KVETCH & PLOTZ
Canadian medical schools prioritize Saudi Arabian cash over domestic access, selling 1,000 residency spots annually to foreign governments while thousands of qualified Canadians each year are forced t...
jonliedtke.ca
December 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
NEW FROM ME: Canadian medical schools sell 1,000 residency spots annually to foreign governments like Saudi Arabia, while qualified Canadians train abroad. Our public institutions prioritize cash over domestic access. It's time to end the sell-out.
jonliedtke.ca/2025/12/01/f...
jonliedtke.ca/2025/12/01/f...
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Ontario’s Conservatives are misleading you about Bill 46 and what it means for loyalty points.
With one quiet regulatory change, the Ford govt could let corporations make your points expire. I wouldn’t trust this govt to run a lemonade stand, let alone protect consumers. #onpoli
With one quiet regulatory change, the Ford govt could let corporations make your points expire. I wouldn’t trust this govt to run a lemonade stand, let alone protect consumers. #onpoli
December 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Ontario’s Conservatives are misleading you about Bill 46 and what it means for loyalty points.
With one quiet regulatory change, the Ford govt could let corporations make your points expire. I wouldn’t trust this govt to run a lemonade stand, let alone protect consumers. #onpoli
With one quiet regulatory change, the Ford govt could let corporations make your points expire. I wouldn’t trust this govt to run a lemonade stand, let alone protect consumers. #onpoli