Sam Ellens 🇨🇦
@samellens.bsky.social
For: Public transit, walkable/bikeable communities, more housing. And dogs.
I learned that bikes are mobility devices during my recovery from a severe femur break.
Post Production Industry veteran
Downtown TO
I learned that bikes are mobility devices during my recovery from a severe femur break.
Post Production Industry veteran
Downtown TO
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Happy New Year from the King St transit priority corridor, 8 years later.
January 1, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Happy New Year from the King St transit priority corridor, 8 years later.
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"Local safe streets advocate not sure what to complain about after finding a cleared sidewalk and unplowed road on morning run."
December 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
"Local safe streets advocate not sure what to complain about after finding a cleared sidewalk and unplowed road on morning run."
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Mr. Beast, all my friends and I were saying how good at boxing you’d be
December 21, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Mr. Beast, all my friends and I were saying how good at boxing you’d be
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"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
December 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
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This is a key lens to look at how the province treats Toronto. It's a place for people outside of Toronto to get into and out of, not live. And that guides many decisions.
Viewed this way, it's really a strange and political home rule system.
Viewed this way, it's really a strange and political home rule system.
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.
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 5:34 PM
This is a key lens to look at how the province treats Toronto. It's a place for people outside of Toronto to get into and out of, not live. And that guides many decisions.
Viewed this way, it's really a strange and political home rule system.
Viewed this way, it's really a strange and political home rule system.
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I can’t get over the fact that Toronto + Ontario shut down transit on one of the busiest weekends of the year. It’s contempt for the people who live here.
A> when subway is closed you really see how much work it does. Sardine buses. Imagine everyone in cars.
B> it’s bananas the TTC scheduled TWO separate downtown subway closures the 2nd weekend before Xmas. Busiest time. If not emergency why not wait till January doldrums? Punishing organization.
B> it’s bananas the TTC scheduled TWO separate downtown subway closures the 2nd weekend before Xmas. Busiest time. If not emergency why not wait till January doldrums? Punishing organization.
December 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I can’t get over the fact that Toronto + Ontario shut down transit on one of the busiest weekends of the year. It’s contempt for the people who live here.
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WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN
December 6, 2025 at 4:16 AM
WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN
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this is a major blow from trump
November 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
this is a major blow from trump
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November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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you don't have to put on blackface to get social media attention. you can simply develop mild depression, join a menswear forum, spend the next 15 years arguing about pants, and then weaponize the knowledge against your enemies on social media.
November 4, 2025 at 12:42 AM
you don't have to put on blackface to get social media attention. you can simply develop mild depression, join a menswear forum, spend the next 15 years arguing about pants, and then weaponize the knowledge against your enemies on social media.
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Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:
"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."
"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."
"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."
"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."
Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?
It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.
www.construction-physics.com
October 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:
"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."
"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."
"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."
"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."
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Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane
October 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane
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Always wonderful to bump into my old friend Daniel Radcliffe!
September 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Always wonderful to bump into my old friend Daniel Radcliffe!
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It is true that more people are living with chronic diseases now. My husband has familial high blood pressure, and has been taking medication to control it and cycling 100 miles a week for the last 40 years instead of dying suddenly at fifty.
September 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
It is true that more people are living with chronic diseases now. My husband has familial high blood pressure, and has been taking medication to control it and cycling 100 miles a week for the last 40 years instead of dying suddenly at fifty.
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Torontonians deserve a transit system that’s safe, reliable & affordable. Right now, the TTC is evaluating a proposal for fare capping- meaning that after a certain number of rides per month, you get to ride for free. It would finally replace the outdated monthly pass system…
August 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Torontonians deserve a transit system that’s safe, reliable & affordable. Right now, the TTC is evaluating a proposal for fare capping- meaning that after a certain number of rides per month, you get to ride for free. It would finally replace the outdated monthly pass system…
Goddamn this one is rough too 😂
I think you're smart enough to feel inadequate but dumb enough to tell yourself it's just impostor syndrome talking
August 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Goddamn this one is rough too 😂
This might just be the most savage burn I have ever seen
what about your personal history as an author makes you think that getting published is evidence of quality?
August 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
This might just be the most savage burn I have ever seen
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once again, it is a core belief of people on the american right that it should be illegal for you not to like them or want to be around them or work with them
Gina Carano and Disney have settled their legal dispute
Disney is now looking forward 'to identifying opportunities to work together with Ms. Carano in the near future'
Disney is now looking forward 'to identifying opportunities to work together with Ms. Carano in the near future'
August 7, 2025 at 11:53 PM
once again, it is a core belief of people on the american right that it should be illegal for you not to like them or want to be around them or work with them
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Brazilian Supreme Federal Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes has ordered the house arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro.
August 4, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Brazilian Supreme Federal Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes has ordered the house arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro.