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@urbantruth.bsky.social and the Fight to Fix Misinformation About Bike Lanes, Traffic, and City Living.
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What if they're lying and it's all just a (not genius) PR move? Thr media is falling for it hook line and sinker.

TTC ridership is down — and customer satisfaction is too, a new report suggests | CBC News A new report being presented to TTC commissioners Wednesday paints a less-than-glowing picture of customer satisfaction on the TTC.

tl;dr the TTC sucks by any measure against the world's functional transit systems www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Jury Finds Live Nation Acted as an Illegal Monopoly Penalties against the music industry giant will be decided at a later date

If not broken up, what's the point of all of this? Fingers crossed.

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The Wetland Project has been my favorite alternate-reality radio experience since it began. Since it only happens once a year, you can’t become accustomed to it. Close your eyes and be washed over by the sonic reality of an isolated bog on Saturna Island!

Danielle Smith is a reprehensible human being.

How Paris redesigned itself to be a city of bikes—not cars Over the last 12 years, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo fundamentally reshaped the City of Lights. As she leaves office, this is the story of how she reclaimed the city’s public spaces from cars, covered the...

www.fastcompany.com/91509506/how... ‘Last year, voters approved a plan to close another 500 streets to traffic. Thousands of parking spots have been swapped for trees. More than 900 miles of bike lanes’ #environment #climate #nature

Iran war latest: Trump issues expletive-laden threat to Iran demanding Strait of Hormuz be opened In a post on social media, the US president says in Iran “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one” if the key shipping lane is not reopened.

When the US Gover meant treats life like a video game and uses language like this it's hard to know what to say

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He made it about banking, not me.

Your governor there explicitly mentions signing a check.

What's a check? (U.S. Banking is so retrograde in many ways)

Squish (hope all goes well)

🥹🥲 Japan www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

There is a correlation between this and an increasing acceptance of rudeness in society: our "leaders" (Trump, Thug Ford) and social media are leading people into the gutter. Social media hasn't helped either.

Some Toronto police will soon carry rifles in public - Toronto Life The move comes in response to an alleged rise in “terrorism, extremism and hate-motivated incidents”

Aren't we glad we're hosting FIFA instead of tackling the affordability issues people worry about? torontolife.com/city/some-to...

About time. Also: Zuckerberg has Kash Patel face

Thanks! The person who first explained that to me was the late Professor John Doheny of the UBC Department of English, around 1975 or so.

That’s not even remotely a comparable thing.

P.P.Arnold - Angel Of The Morning YouTube video by 45RPMbyMikeEvans

RIP Chip Taylor, author of such stone-cold classic songs as Wild Thing, Angel of the Morning, Any Way That You Want Me, I Can't Let Go and Try (Just A Little Bit Harder). Also the brother of Jon Voight, which I'm contractually obliged to mention.

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It's blatant democracy. Anyone can run, not just privileged elites.

‘A new world is being born’: author Rebecca Solnit on the ‘slow revolution’ the far right cannot tolerate It’s easy to focus on authoritarians and their petty victories. But zoom out and the picture is more encouraging, says the woman who popularised the term ‘mansplaining’, whether it’s in feminism, or the environment, or civil rights

‘A new world is being born’: author Rebecca Solnit on the ‘slow revolution’ the far right cannot tolerate

North of North is above average CBC fare.

I don't often find Josh Matlow to be useful, but this is well stated.

It's not interference, it's democracy,

OpenAI Is Shutting Down Sora, Its A.I. Video Generator The start-up said it would discontinue Sora just three months after signing a multiyear deal to bring Disney characters to the service.

OpenAI is shutting down Sora, its A.I. video generator, just three months after signing a multiyear deal to bring Disney characters to the service.

Olivia Chow biked to her inauguration with a crowd.

Children at an Edinburgh hospital painted pebbles for the penguins at Edinburgh Zoo and will be able to watch them choose and present them to their mates via livestream.

#SundayMorning

I have stage four cancer – there will be no cure, but death isn’t necessarily imminent: this is how it feels to live in the long middle When you are cured, the world cheers; when you are dying, it mourns. But when you are simply maintaining, the world is at a loss

I have stage four cancer – there will be no cure, but death isn’t necessarily imminent: this is how it feels to live in the long middle, when you are simply maintaining, by Janis Chen www.theguardian.com/society/2026... via @theguardian.com

The Guinness Inspector Teaching America How to Pour the Perfect Pint — The Wall Street Journal Ryan Wagner makes sure bartenders meet exacting standards for foam and temperature as stout sales boom.

Not all heroes wear capes #guinness #beer apple.news/A6A_lBcB9Sk-...