John Michael McGrath

OK old council heads will understand when I say: I don't even know what it's going to be like watching council livestreams and not hearing Nunziata's voice presiding.

Dilkens has conceded to Francis!

okay well we had to send the biped to bed without learning the election results, something that upset them greatly either they're 100% my child or they just didn't want to go to bed and were grasping for any excuse that was handy por que no le dos, etc etc

The Biped has us watching THE ROOKIE which is no hardship for parents who were fans of Nathan Fillion before being parents, but an ep we watched yesterday contained this nugget which I feel honors Ontario's municipal election day. Polls close at 8PM!

King & Bay Henge.

The chorus of my adolescence.

The UCP might make Edmonton pay up to $170M to rip out its own bike lanes. I've heard reports that the UCP has been asking for costs of full network removals. City numbers put that at $150-170M This is the same gov't that just spent $130M on a glorified opinion poll.

NEW! For TVO @therundowntvo.bsky.social I look at how Ontarians spent election night a century ago - by heading downtown and catching the results either at city hall or at parties organized by the major newspapers with movies, music, and more! #onpoli #TOpoli www.tvo.org/article/insi...

No concessions until the midterms!

this might rank as one of the most important outcomes of the night if it happens. would give dems the ability to begin to make north carolina a democracy

Walter Koenig and Yasmine Bleeth from a 1996 full motion video PC, Saturn and 3D0 game Maximum Surge

#StarTrek #WalterKoenig

I like to call it "tripwire zoning." The point isn't that anyone thinks (eg) infill townhouses pose real harms that need regulatory control, the point is to impose a process to extract rents. www.tvo.org/article/citi...

*calibrating to harm nerds* We are farther away from Tuvix's life and death than Tuvix was from the premiere of the original series.

It's election day in Ontario, don't forget to get out to vote

Bluesky definitely the platform for Bester appreciators

The bears said the economics would require an absolutely obscene amount of revenue to work, and Anthropic apparently responded, “Yes. Correct.” 💀

Digging into #IJWeek today alongside colleagues from across the globe. Great to be here and thanks to @gijn.org for putting this online conference together.

Can confirm all of the admissions from my onetime editor herein.

I cannot believe that Eric Bauza has passed away, at age 46. We’d just talked about his life and his voices and his son. A shattering loss

when people say the two parties are the same, one thing they aren’t just different but extremely meaningfully different on is Dems rank and file and the elite level very quickly shouted down or ignored the BlueAnon weirdos saying 2024 was stolen; the Republicans and Trump just put theirs in power

Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal-Quebec City high-speed rail, except it's the Maginot Line

This is a good primer on Israel's political situation going into tomorrow's election. But I'd like to go deeper on something he only touches on, which is that part of the reason for Israel's electoral doldrums (and resulting geopolitical chaos) is its broken political system bsky.app/profile/avis...

The New Racism is just as serious in its potential impact as the old, but it is far, far, far, FAR more stupid. 'The calibre of racist has gone sharply downhill' sounds like it should be the start of a joke, but it is also: just demonstrably true!

Paging Gen-X / elder Millennial Vancouverites, not sure exactly what he needs but Elon is a reporter I trust very much:

*reads protest signs* hey I don't know anything about politics, is that good?

I'm sorry but banning non-English speakers because machine translation is unclean is more fascist than anything in the AI space except maybe Palantir's XAI enterprise account

Fifteen years ago, the Liberal party of Canada was dead. It's now coming up on 11 years in government and polling at 48%. And that, kids, is why you should avoid making predictions about politics.

You can also do stuff like force messaging votes to make your opposition look bad, but Canadian governments hate their legislatures so much they won't even do that.

Dallas Brodie, who mocked the recall petition against her for only getting 3,663 signatures this summer, earned 805 votes in last night's election — placing last with less than 5% of her own riding, with her party getting 1.5% province-wide. thewalrus.ca/bc-snap-elec...

Putting an affordable housing building next to a bus and streetcar (in its own dedicated right-of-way) route, and adjacent to one of the city's biggest parks. A slam dunk idea, right? Think again!

Proposing an apartment across the street from another apartment. A slam dunk idea, right? Think again!