Idea Extra Issue: Herb Lubalin, 1969
Special Issue devoted to Herb Lubalin. 120 pages of Lubalin’s work from 1956 – 1969 #herblubalin
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City Council - March 25, 2026 YouTube video by Toronto City Council

Toronto Council meets today! It's been a while, so the agenda is JAM-PACKED. There are now 194 items on the agenda.

We're staring into the abyss. Let's jump in together. I'll have live coverage starting at 9:30 a.m. If you want, you can also watch the meeting here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVZI...

Contentious Palmerston redevelopment gets green light after redesign The proposed redevelopment at 501 Palmerston Blvd. has faced significant opposition from neighbours — over size, parking and building character concerns

www.torontotoday.ca/local/city-p...

When you're too drunk to stay at the club but your jam hits as you're walking out the door

Who Decides What a Neighborhood Is? | The Story of Parkdale YouTube video by Praeteritum

"Parkdale has been called a suburb, a slum, a ghetto, a village. Each label has carried consequences... justified a different kind of intervention. From regulation to clearance to revitalization, every era produced a group powerful enough to define what Parkdale was and to act on that definition."

Does mark DeRosa know they lost

Map of The Most Commonly Spoken Languages In Toronto Other Than English

Credit: Alex McPhee (@awmcphee.ca)

Full list of languages here: brilliantmaps.com/toronto-l...

Inferiority complex because none of their Plan As worked out

i feel like if i was tasked with not starting a war and bringing back US manufacturing jobs, i could have done a better job than this

Looking for development activity data in Toronto?

The Development Pipeline Dashboard is an interactive tool that lets people explore development activity across the city.

The dashboard highlights the number of projects, residential units, residential and non‑residential space.

The Long-Feared Persian Gulf Oil Squeeze Is Upon Us Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has ground to a virtual halt, unleashing the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.

It’s been a half-century since the OPEC oil crisis. Good thing the west has spent that time engineering smaller cars, developing renewables and working aggressively to reduce reliance on fossil fuels
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Enjoying a now-totally-legal 😀 espresso at Finch Store w/ Mayor Chow, Councillor Bravo & one of the main community voices who helped make the neighbourhood retail initiative happen @anotherglassbox.bsky.social Thx to Yana & entrepreneurs like her who bring life + community to local neighbourhoods!

The only one who could ever reach me /

Was the son of a…

hopefully some other ME desks expanding this week

I do appreciate that this administration is too incompetent to manufacture even the thinnest pretext for this, so we don't have to relive that 2002-2003 run when opposing an obviously idiotic war basically made you feel like the one sane person in a Twilight Zone episode.

Pete walkers handlebars looking better than ever

Damn lies

What to do when law enforcement despises the carless

Difference in time use between working parents of small children vs working non parents. Areas above zero are activities parents do more of; areas below are what they give up. Compiled by analyzing the Census Bureau’s American Time Use Survey. Analysis and chart by Aziz Sunderji, https://homeeconomics.substack.com/p/where-do-parents-find-the-time

Where do parents find the time to parent? Less sleep, work and screens.

Amazing chart feat. in @alphaville.ft.com Further Reading.

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Exploring overlays on DEM data in Blender. Versions show forest and water, satellite imagery, Greenbelt plan areas, and colour-coded watersheds. Testing different palettes. Long way to go, but sharing progress—feedback welcome.
#map #mapping #gis #blender #Toronto #Ontario #DEM #3D

This was a good course, with lots of helpful examples and very actionable teachings. Ive started to use #Cursor for programming and #DataScience and its very helpful to have all the course transcripts and lab notebooks to use as context when developing models with help from #LLM s

I completed the Applied Data Science with Python specialization from the U of M, which included 5 courses:

Introduction to Data Science
Applied Plotting, Charting & Data Representation
Applied Machine Learning
Applied Text Mining
Applied Social Network Analysis

#datascience #ai #python

I built the first few (internal) versions of this dashboard and it was subsequently simplified to meet the City's accessibility requirements for public facing digital content.

The data are available here: lnkd.in/gn3q5epw

The Planning Research and Analytics team in @planning.cityof.toronto.ca has published a Development Pipeline dashboard. It shows development activity over the past 5 years.

Have a look here: lnkd.in/g8pBE-Ej

#Toronto #DevelopmentPipeline #RE #BI #Tableau #dashboards

Add Palmerston to the list of places that need a good Le Corbusiering. Next to the Annex, Cabbagetown and mid-etobicoke. The more righteous and self-proclaimed-special, the more hot towers go in.

😍😍😍

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit.

It's all white supremacy and greed.

Cowards