Michael Druker 🇨🇦

I would like more people to care about whether things are actually true, even — especially — when it concerns arguments for your side

New from me at TVO, on Chow's big big win, what's next, and why YIMBYs should have the courage of their convictions. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

“The Trains will be run on Montreal Time, which is 8½ Minutes faster than Brockville Time.”

I am so excited to see Sam win a Kitchener City Council seat!

Hot damn. Wanted this result so much

Standing for public office takes courage. Congratulations to everyone across Ontario who put their name forward, and to all those elected today.

In local Kitchener news, congratulations to @samnabi.bsky.social in ward 10. If these results hold, that’s a victory by 12 votes!

I've trained my dog to salivate at the sound of a bell thanks to my invention, the edible bell

thinking about stealing fire from the gods. a hot take

Voted! Feeling very civic

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

> viral post with “study says: [thing you agree with]”, links to blog post > blog post is AI slop summarizing something else, links to source article > source article is fluffy PR, links to survey > survey link has various reports but not this one 🫠

Lab leaks wouldn’t be a problem if people hired better plumbers

Please vote today if you haven’t yet! Links to election info and our own candidate questionnaire in our last news roundup:

🗳️ Today is Election Day in Kitchener! Voting locations are open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Cast your ballot and help shape the future of our community. Find your voting location, voter information and election results at KitchenerVotes.ca Make your mark. Local matters.

University hiring for someone to research why rail projects take so long to build, call that a ten-year track position

Very helpful single-purpose website when you need to look up what an HTTP code means

Look at this lil guy I found in the garden

Ontario folks, take a break from cynicism and doomscrolling — and make a plan for voting tomorrow for local government and school boards!

This really is so weird and bad. Say I make a post and someone replies to argue with me. They can then block everyone who provides counterpoints to them and no one will see those replies in the thread. Like, there's an argument for the thread author having that power, but this just seems wrong

In Iran, even the metro stations are a symphony of arches and brick! Jahad Metro Plaza in Tehran, by KA Architecture Studio

On a related note, King Street in Kitchener should be closed to cars all the time, not just when there are street festivals; it makes no sense as a thoroughfare for anything but bikes and pedestrians.

Thought it might help to stop and glare from the sidewalk at some drivers who were looking down at their phones. It didn’t — they didn’t notice, of course

Ontario friends, you need to vote on Monday if you haven't yet. If you're in Waterloo Region, you can find a lot of handy links in here:

Block released a fully bidirectional speech model that can run on your laptop block.xyz/dessa

Belle Shore Apartment Hotel.

Hello to my new followers! I regret to inform you that my regular posts are less positive and more esoteric than what probably brought you here. Don’t forget that it is OK to unfollow too

riding bikes every day until i can’t for some reason, day 2251 #Cycling #BikeTO #Photography

I can create a building out of gingerbread. That was possible before my lifetime, but: - I can research buildings and find plans on the internet - I can 3D model the building and print construction templates - I can text photos to @joelleondanis.bsky.social for construction/material help

There used to be a bunch of days every summer when everyone was told to stay inside because of smog. Then Ontario closed its coal plants and that stopped happening!

LED lighting is cheap and good now, and better than incandescent was

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

Ontario friends, you need to vote on Monday if you haven't yet. If you're in Waterloo Region, you can find a lot of handy links in here:

Imagine driving on this obviously residential street in such a way that you turn left and hit a woman walking with five children Imagine being a person responsible for law enforcement and making excuses for that driver to the media

i believe this post is sane now

I thought the story about a 1,711-pound pumpkin that was disqualified from the "biggest pumpkin" contest at Port Elgin's Pumpkinfest couldn't get any better. But now it's going to be fed to polar bears. www.timminstoday.com/local-news/m...

Went to local subreddit, encountered racist garbage within one minute. It’s bad out there

This needs to be a Doug Ford scandal