Jamie
@twodimes.bsky.social
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Jamie
@twodimes.bsky.social
· Sep 28
Break up Google. Tax billionaires. Investigate corruption. Double spending on schools, parks, and neighbourhood infrastructure.
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Just one of the many benefits of the radar replacements that have happened over the last few years. Some technical information is available here.
About Canadian weather radar - Canada.ca
Using Environment and Climate Change Canada's radar data can be quite beneficial when making weather sensitive decisions.
www.canada.ca
November 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Just one of the many benefits of the radar replacements that have happened over the last few years. Some technical information is available here.
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WE NEED YOU TO SPEAK UP AT COMMITTEE.
Come out to our public speaking training workshop on Dec 2 to learn how to craft your personal message ahead of committee.
www.cycleto.ca/deputation_workshop_with_scarborough_cycles
Come out to our public speaking training workshop on Dec 2 to learn how to craft your personal message ahead of committee.
www.cycleto.ca/deputation_workshop_with_scarborough_cycles
November 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
WE NEED YOU TO SPEAK UP AT COMMITTEE.
Come out to our public speaking training workshop on Dec 2 to learn how to craft your personal message ahead of committee.
www.cycleto.ca/deputation_workshop_with_scarborough_cycles
Come out to our public speaking training workshop on Dec 2 to learn how to craft your personal message ahead of committee.
www.cycleto.ca/deputation_workshop_with_scarborough_cycles
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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
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The Doctor is right and correct
Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.
'F*** Off And Let People Be': David Tennant Doubles Down On Support For Trans People
"People are trying to create division... and it's so f***ing unnecessary."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The Doctor is right and correct
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Excellent deep dive of progress and future plans on the GO Kitchener Line:
We’re thrilled that there’s now some weekend trains from Kitchener, but what’s the hold up for the all-day frequent GO trains? We dive in here:
Waiting for the train: Why Kitchener still lacks all-day GO service
It’s a question every Waterloo Region commuter has asked while stuck on a packed GO bus or waiting in the cold at Kitchener GO: “why don’t we have reliable two-way, all-day GO train service to Toronto...
tritag.ca
November 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Excellent deep dive of progress and future plans on the GO Kitchener Line:
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I mean, as fighting words as it gets here from a GOP official against the White House.
November 29, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I mean, as fighting words as it gets here from a GOP official against the White House.
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Another Indiana Republican Senator makes it clear he’s still opposing the GOP push to re-gerrymander the state. dailyjournal.net/2025/11/26/s...
November 29, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Another Indiana Republican Senator makes it clear he’s still opposing the GOP push to re-gerrymander the state. dailyjournal.net/2025/11/26/s...
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Good work by @althiaraj.bsky.social on the inside story of Guilbeault's resignation, from his being frozen out by PMO, given false assurances, and being made to wear the government walking back on pledges he made to Elizabeth May to secure her support. No kidding it was untenable for him to stay.
Althia Raj: Mark Carney lost the minister who was the green conscience of his government. Here’s how it happened
The inside story of Steven Guilbeault's resignation from cabinet over Ottawa's energy deal with Alberta.
www.thestar.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Good work by @althiaraj.bsky.social on the inside story of Guilbeault's resignation, from his being frozen out by PMO, given false assurances, and being made to wear the government walking back on pledges he made to Elizabeth May to secure her support. No kidding it was untenable for him to stay.
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Thread on what I've seen as a journalist for @thetyee.ca this week at DULF's constitutional challenge. They're arguing closing their compassion club put marginalized people at risk of overdose and death.
Explainer article coming early next week.
Explainer article coming early next week.
Been covering DULF's constitutional challenge for @thetyee.ca this week. Crown prosecutors have tried to poke lots of small holes in what founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum were doing. Nyx and Kalicum have largely defended themselves saying they were doing the best they knew how at the time.
November 29, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Thread on what I've seen as a journalist for @thetyee.ca this week at DULF's constitutional challenge. They're arguing closing their compassion club put marginalized people at risk of overdose and death.
Explainer article coming early next week.
Explainer article coming early next week.
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This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec.
You can find my full statement below.
You can find my full statement below.
November 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec.
You can find my full statement below.
You can find my full statement below.
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Why? Why do we do this to ourselves? This just feels like a waste of everybody's time. Why on earth do we think we need neighbours to weigh in on this?! Just build it already. www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...
November 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Why? Why do we do this to ourselves? This just feels like a waste of everybody's time. Why on earth do we think we need neighbours to weigh in on this?! Just build it already. www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...
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if I had to choose between "being able to comfortably support myself and my family through my writing" and "actually making a difference with my writing" I would be deeply conflicted. thankfully, neither of those things is actually on the table so this is more of a goku vs superman kind of situation
July 26, 2025 at 2:55 AM
if I had to choose between "being able to comfortably support myself and my family through my writing" and "actually making a difference with my writing" I would be deeply conflicted. thankfully, neither of those things is actually on the table so this is more of a goku vs superman kind of situation
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Blasting past rush hour traffic on the completed portion of Dufferin RapidTO (up to Dundas)
November 27, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Blasting past rush hour traffic on the completed portion of Dufferin RapidTO (up to Dundas)
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This fluttery finned fish, possibly from the family Oreosomatidae, was spotted during #AsgardArchaea at around 1000 m. Read more about this expedition led by @archaeal.bsky.social from @texasscience.bsky.social here: https://schmidtocean.org/cruise/searching-for-the-asgard/
November 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
This fluttery finned fish, possibly from the family Oreosomatidae, was spotted during #AsgardArchaea at around 1000 m. Read more about this expedition led by @archaeal.bsky.social from @texasscience.bsky.social here: https://schmidtocean.org/cruise/searching-for-the-asgard/
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haven't read this yet but i like to say they are "structurally indifferent to truth" so i think I'll like it
In "Rethinking Error," historian Johan Fredrikzon goes to the very heart of a large language model's incapacity to "know": a problem the industry likes to call hallucinations, but which Fredrikzon calls "epistemological indifference."
Link: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
Link: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
Rethinking Error: “Hallucinations” and Epistemological Indifference | Critical AI | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
November 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
haven't read this yet but i like to say they are "structurally indifferent to truth" so i think I'll like it
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
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Doug Ford has scrapped legislation that required large buildings in Toronto to install green roofs. I wanted to see how this bylaw has transformed the tip tops of the city since it was introduced in 2009. Here's one example. For @nationalobserver.com
Toronto’s rooftop farms show what’s at stake after Ford scraps green roof rule
Rooftop farms reveal the cooling, flood-reducing and food-growing power green roofs brought to Toronto.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Doug Ford has scrapped legislation that required large buildings in Toronto to install green roofs. I wanted to see how this bylaw has transformed the tip tops of the city since it was introduced in 2009. Here's one example. For @nationalobserver.com
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People really need to learn the value of saying “I was wrong”
November 25, 2025 at 6:42 AM
People really need to learn the value of saying “I was wrong”
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In retrospect, my surprise at the depth and pervasiveness of the moral cowardice of many people in positions of power was utterly naive.
I should have expected it because I’d seen signs of it in most organizations I’d worked for.
I should have expected it because I’d seen signs of it in most organizations I’d worked for.
November 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
In retrospect, my surprise at the depth and pervasiveness of the moral cowardice of many people in positions of power was utterly naive.
I should have expected it because I’d seen signs of it in most organizations I’d worked for.
I should have expected it because I’d seen signs of it in most organizations I’d worked for.
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Thinking about pitching a series of Reith Lectures on the Streisand Effect.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Thinking about pitching a series of Reith Lectures on the Streisand Effect.
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Chef Jade Berg's cooking is rooted in three principles: simple, local, and wild.
His foraging-based approach, featured in “Send Kelp”, underscores how coastal ingredients like kelp are moving from overlooked to essential.
Stream for free: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOSU...
His foraging-based approach, featured in “Send Kelp”, underscores how coastal ingredients like kelp are moving from overlooked to essential.
Stream for free: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOSU...
November 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Chef Jade Berg's cooking is rooted in three principles: simple, local, and wild.
His foraging-based approach, featured in “Send Kelp”, underscores how coastal ingredients like kelp are moving from overlooked to essential.
Stream for free: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOSU...
His foraging-based approach, featured in “Send Kelp”, underscores how coastal ingredients like kelp are moving from overlooked to essential.
Stream for free: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOSU...
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Sen. Mark Kelly has released a statement.
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Sen. Mark Kelly has released a statement.
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
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November 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Help us keep media literacy in focus with shows like @bigiftruetvo.bsky.social —support TVO this Giving Tuesday.
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Donate today to double your impact: givingtuesday.tvo.me