JD Vance wearing a white button-up shirt. It looks like it's a size too small for him.

"pope should stay out of politics." brother you need to stay out of a size medium

AOC talking to RFK Jr. Her facial and hand gesture has the spiritual energy of that Italian hand gesture where you pinch your fingers and wave your hand (the "ma che vuo" gesture).

how it feels to say "sprezzatura"

Firepit and rest stop in the upper East Don Valley, 2024

Shack along the Rouge River, 2021

The famed communal firepit on the lower Don, 2014

Lattice work bridges on the East Don, 2026

A cheer to local Trail Fairies.

As someone who has trekked the breath & length of Don Valley & other ravine systems of TO. I'm always in awe of the messy guerrilla urbanism that makes these inaccessible places more accessible.

Carving 3rd spaces in the urban jungle

#LoveTheRavines #RavineRambles

he/him, aroace

fuck if i know

Hey #topoli - why do we charge 116$ to find out the timings for a streetlight? This should be available for free from @torontoopendata.cityof.toronto.ca

Dear god, it’s flowing into the drainage ditches. This is so much worse than anything coming into the water system of the major refineries. Frightening.

MM40.19 - Towards a Vision for a Design Standard for Future Toronto Subway Stations - by Councillor Lily Cheng, seconded by Councillor Jamaal Myers Notice of Motion Consideration Type: ACTION Wards: All Attention *Notice of this Motion has been given. *This Motion is subject to referral to the Executive Committee. A two-thirds vote is required to waive referral. Recommendations Councillor Lily Cheng, seconded by Councillor Jamaal Myers, recommends that: 1. City Council request the Toronto Transit Commission board to work with the City and Metrolinx to examine the feasibility of: a. creating a design standard for all new transit stations that includes platform screen edge doors, public washrooms, bike parking and bike share, and well-lit two-storey high ceilings above subway platforms, and maximizing the creation of real estate assets for commercial and community use; b. including passenger pick-up and drop-off and commuter parking lots with electric vehicle charging solutions in the design plans for all new subway stations outside Downtown Toronto; and c. installing platform edge doors on all new stations along the Yonge North Subway Extension and Scarborough Subway Extension, and request the Chief Executive Officer of the Toronto Transit Commission provide updates to the Toronto Transit Commission Board through the Toronto Transit Commission’s regular Transit Expansion Updates, and the City Manager provide those updates to City Council.

i appreciate a new standard that requires platform edge doors, washrooms, bikeshare and bike parking, but i'm leaning to call this the "make subways unnecessarily expensive" motion.

2-storey high ceilings above platforms? commuter lots with EV charging at all new stations outside downtown?

BLUESKY IS A WEBSITE THAT TURNS (post by jay.bsky.team claiming that bluesky is made with AI) INTO (picture of bluesky not working)

proceeding with citizen-led infill development of that walmart parking lot posthaste (i am setting up a tent city in it)

oh so you're talking about made up fantasy bullshit laws. gotcha

Muslim guy on the bus, in full Islamic dress, watching hockey on his phone. #MyCanada

When advocates for parking talk about the wAR oN CaRs in a #BetterByWard because someone dares to propose we close a street, they’re missing the point: it’s about opening the street to people, creating better #PlacesForPeople, thriving vibrancy and forging community. The exact opposite of closed.

was here. actually at the end of my line with this

Went to the Yonge TOmorrow public meeting tonight about plans for downtown Yonge. Much frustration that the planned pedestrian zone south of Dundas has been abandoned. Thread🧵

Several years ago, I was coming out of a local bagel shop. Dude looks at my e-bike, rolls down his window, and says "That's cheating."

I looked at him and said "Dude, you drove an F350 to a bagel shop. I don't think you get to judge cheating."

i think we have to ask ourselves what exactly toronto benefits from having a bunch of driverless cars roaming on our already-congested streets.

as if single occupancy cars were not enough of an issue, let's throw zero occupancy cars that regularly block transit and emergency services into the mix

i mean. the kkk did target the irish, and irish people have been falsely convicted and killed for being irish. it's a tale as old as time sadly

very true. especially in the summer with a solid tan, i've been mistaken for persian. good ol' ambiguously brown

as the child of a portuguese immigrant, this shit does run deep. irish and italian people weren't considered "white" for the longest time, since white is a sliding scale of what people are considered the in group and the out group

Owning a car is a privilege. The freedom to move however we choose should be a right for anyone in the USA. I use my bike to get around, and removing bike lanes and other bike infrastructure will create more traffic and less freedom for all. @governor.pa.gov Keep funding bike infrastructure!

i think we should limit parking and then give alternatives that don't take up so much space (bikes, bike share, car share, surface rail and metros, properly traffic calmed walkable neighbourhoods)

cc @graphicmatt.com, love your city hall watcher. hate that it's on substack though

have heard great things about it, will have to look into moving over

metrolinx is a horrible organization that wishes to build everything through P3s, so ford's buddies can profit off of delayed projects. metrolinx hasn't proven me wrong and i refuse to give them the benefit of the doubt after their bullshit

Metrolinx ‘blocked’ key tasks, then fired partners for missing deadlines: report Internal emails and minutes hint at what a source called 'pure chaos' behind the scenes

sounds like they're incompetent from what i've seen. the alternative is actively sabotaging it

it won't even be some day for the lines that they were supposed to be expanding. meanwhile ford is buying a private jet with our tax money

burn it all down

the goat lily cheng diverting her attention from parking and asphalt for one second. god gave her asphalt hyperfixation cause she'd be too powerful otherwise

Councillor @LilyCheng is asking that TTC/Metrolinx work together to update the designs of all new subway stations to include platform doors, bathrooms, bike parking and bike share! It also requests doors on Yonge North and Scarborough extensions that are in progress...

My queen Lily Cheng.

This is why we stan her!!!

secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

i wish all the farmer reps coming out to say no to high speed rail realize they're saying yes to more car-dependent urban sprawl, new highways, and greenfield airports that eat even more farmland *and* cause ridiculous amounts of pollution and ecological damage.

y'know, the primary threat to farms.