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Accidents down 55% and injuries down 51% since nyc congestion pricing (!!!) www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/22/c...

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good morning

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Finally catching up on WOLF HALL season 2 and, man, Mark Rylance is so good

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Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

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frankly my money's on autism

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"Well kiddo, we fought the worst war in all of history to beat them and now some people want them back, or at least want to scare people with some of their signs" -Vicki and I explaining the delightful family-friendly musical THE SOUND OF MUSIC to the Biped

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Zoning in theory: we need land use regulation to keep homes away from sources of pollution. Zoning in practice: the only places you can build new housing are right next to the highways and high-traffic streets that are your city’s largest sources of pollution.

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An angle that hadn't occurred to me, here.

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The NDP and Liberal proposals show us how the parties might be able to cobble together an agreement to defeat a Ford government and also where fault lines exist that could blow any agreement apart, writes @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social #onpoli

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NOT NOW

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can't keep the Johns McGrath out of the building forever tune in to Metro Morning at 740 or so folks!

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Best Jersey ever. #Canpoli #Canada #Hockey

submitted 2 days ago • 79 comments

really looking forward to next week's slush-o-rama

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Join @tvodocs.bsky.social at @hotdocs.bsky.social on March 4 for a FREE 4K screening of #TVOOriginal “All Too Clear.” Filmmakers Zach Melnick & Yvonne Drebert spent 150+ days capturing how invasive quagga mussels are reshaping the Great Lakes. 🎟️Get tickets here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/tvo-presen...

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Elon’s busy schedule today is claiming astronauts were left in the ISS for political reasons, getting corrected by an ISS astronaut, throwing a fit where he calls the astronaut a slur, then complaining that we should deorbit the ISS

submitted 3 days ago • 346 comments

my colleagues at TVO create diverse video content youtu.be/GeonzeLt3EY?...

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With Q4 data now in, it's still insane the extent to which Ozempic/Wegovy are powering Danish GDP growth

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

happy 33rd anniversary to “homer at the bat.” taking the day off to visit a national landmark.

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submitted 3 days ago • 34 comments

Pallas not exactly showing a post-debate stampede to the opposition parties (results basically identical to their last pre-debate poll) www.guelphtoday.com/2025-provinc...

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I'm less struck by the caught off guard vibe than the WTF are you talking about jackass, the "cuts" are literally illegal. You're in Congress?

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Early voting has begun in Ontario. You can find early voting locations in your riding with your postal code here: voterinformationservice.elections.on.ca/en/election/...

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reading the Toronto Region Board of Trade's latest congestion plan and it remains hilarious that in this city, "politely ask the police to enforce the highway traffic act, literally one of their basic jobs" is seen as a major action item bot.com/Resources/Re...

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the line about how trump is just trolling or joking about the “king” thing is belied somewhat by the fact that his administration’s explicit position is he can do whatever he wants and that everyone in every branch of government needs to bow to his demands or be banished

submitted 4 days ago • 109 comments

Democracies At War, Reiter and Stam

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two hours ago she was literally bouncing off the walls

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Incredible stuff in here: They ID'ed him, in part, by going to court hearings and watching him post

submitted 4 days ago • 130 comments

said this over in the bad place but: as a resident of an actual honest-to-God monarchy this kind of servility is just the most shameful, embarrassing stuff to watch

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said this over in the bad place but: as a resident of an actual honest-to-God monarchy this kind of servility is just the most shameful, embarrassing stuff to watch

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New from me at TVO, including how Bonnie Crombie is ironically paying Kathleen Wynne a compliment.

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