Jennifer Bethune
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@ttcalerts.bsky.social @ttchelps.bsky.social can someone explain how the ttc apps get their info? This stop has been completely and consistently wrong for more than a month and the LED sign inside the stop is wrong too.
December 2, 2025 at 12:51 PM
@ttcalerts.bsky.social @ttchelps.bsky.social can someone explain how the ttc apps get their info? This stop has been completely and consistently wrong for more than a month and the LED sign inside the stop is wrong too.
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baseball is the most beautiful sport
This photo of rookie Yesavage casually walking off the mound as future Hall of Famer and helmet-less Ohtani is still in motion striking out is everything. #WantItAll
October 30, 2025 at 3:08 AM
baseball is the most beautiful sport
Welcome to the new academic year. McSweeny’s killing it as usual!
"How old were you when you learned about death? What was your initial reaction?"
Faculty Meeting Icebreakers
Write down the most common intrusive thought that keeps you up at night, but don’t include your name. Then choose a table leader to read each thoug...
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August 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Welcome to the new academic year. McSweeny’s killing it as usual!
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"ChatGPT is unlikely to destabilize the job market, as it is overqualified for most positions while at the same time lacking any marketable skills."
ChatGPT Now Has PhD-Level Intelligence, and the Poor Personal Choices to Prove It
“If you look at the trajectory of improvement, systems like GPT-3 were maybe toddler-level intelligence… and then systems like GPT-4 are more like ...
buff.ly
July 3, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Nothing says "Canadian Unity" like a Smokey Sunrise as western wildfire smoke covers Toronto and the rest of eastern Canada in early June while our leaders stump for more oil production in an effort to make it year round.
That feeling in your eyes is the itch of climate change.
That feeling in your eyes is the itch of climate change.
June 3, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Nothing says "Canadian Unity" like a Smokey Sunrise as western wildfire smoke covers Toronto and the rest of eastern Canada in early June while our leaders stump for more oil production in an effort to make it year round.
That feeling in your eyes is the itch of climate change.
That feeling in your eyes is the itch of climate change.
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a testament to Canadian news media is that CBC reporter/anchor Chris Ensing was not made to trim his beard before the election night broadcast
April 29, 2025 at 2:00 AM
a testament to Canadian news media is that CBC reporter/anchor Chris Ensing was not made to trim his beard before the election night broadcast
Great thread to help remember that voters’ priorities don’t always line up and aren’t always consistent with the parties they support!
I'm a Anglican White man from Ontario with a further education, aged 75.
Healthcare is my top issue.
I prioritise jobs over the environment, I support more energy sector help, I oppose more free trade, and I support current immigration levels.
I voted Liberal in 2021.
Healthcare is my top issue.
I prioritise jobs over the environment, I support more energy sector help, I oppose more free trade, and I support current immigration levels.
I voted Liberal in 2021.
April 28, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Great thread to help remember that voters’ priorities don’t always line up and aren’t always consistent with the parties they support!
#ttc line 2 planned closure from ossington to Jane, so of course all the nearby #bikeshare stations are empty. Why not coordinate to have these full?
April 12, 2025 at 11:26 PM
#ttc line 2 planned closure from ossington to Jane, so of course all the nearby #bikeshare stations are empty. Why not coordinate to have these full?
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With quotes from me on how the federal government can and should improve university funding. thetyee.ca/News/2025/04...
Amidst a US Brain Drain, the Parties Pledge Little for Universities | The Tyee
We could be attracting American talent, prof says. Instead, institutions face cuts.
thetyee.ca
April 11, 2025 at 11:50 AM
With quotes from me on how the federal government can and should improve university funding. thetyee.ca/News/2025/04...
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Canada sits at a hinge point of history, and we will need to reimagine the country to deal with our new reality, and it is bewildering that every party, and every leader, is pitching tax cuts. Our would-be leaders need to rise higher to meet the moment. www.thestar.com/politics/pol...
Bruce Arthur: Canada’s next leader needs a bold vision to reimagine the country itself — but no one is meeting the moment
We must reinvest in this country in a way we haven’t had to in generations, and we need leaders who truly grasp the magnitude of the task, Bruce Arthur writes.
www.thestar.com
March 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Canada sits at a hinge point of history, and we will need to reimagine the country to deal with our new reality, and it is bewildering that every party, and every leader, is pitching tax cuts. Our would-be leaders need to rise higher to meet the moment. www.thestar.com/politics/pol...
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YES. Canada's immediate future is likely going to be defined by a need to greatly bolster our military and intelligence apparatus, support workers affected by the American tariff war, deal with the effects of climate change, build housing at scale, and much more.
I agree with Emmett. One party is promsing a 1 point cut to the lowest income tax rate; the other 2.25 points. Neither has proposed a credible way to pay for it.
We need to see credible plans for big economic challenges and big defence/security threats.
Hope that will be coming soon.
We need to see credible plans for big economic challenges and big defence/security threats.
Hope that will be coming soon.
At a time when Canada needs MASSIVE investment to transition away from the US, to build new facilities and transpo towards our ports, to rebuild our military, to build HOMES, to rebuild science and post-sec ed... to see the two main parties jump on *tax cuts* for their campaigns is depressing.
March 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
YES. Canada's immediate future is likely going to be defined by a need to greatly bolster our military and intelligence apparatus, support workers affected by the American tariff war, deal with the effects of climate change, build housing at scale, and much more.
Really hope the federal gvmt and the provinces don’t sleep on this opportunity to invest in our future. This is about the only moment where post-secondary related election promises would actually land!
Spurred by “alarming political interference in academic research by the Trump administration,” Brussels’s Vrije Universiteit (VUB), or Free University, allocated $2.7 million in funding last week for at least 12 new postdoctoral roles open to “censored Americans.”
Europe races to lure U.S. scientists as Trump puts pressure on universities
Some European universities are offering funding for American scientists considering a relocation and promising a safe haven free from academic censorship.
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March 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Really hope the federal gvmt and the provinces don’t sleep on this opportunity to invest in our future. This is about the only moment where post-secondary related election promises would actually land!
@ttcalerts.bsky.social 20 minute delay travelling northbound from eg west to Lawrence west, and no mention on the website?
March 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
@ttcalerts.bsky.social 20 minute delay travelling northbound from eg west to Lawrence west, and no mention on the website?
I could literally scroll my thumb one inch to find out the nicest day this week. The AI-everywhere integration thing is really banking on some extreme laziness.
March 18, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I could literally scroll my thumb one inch to find out the nicest day this week. The AI-everywhere integration thing is really banking on some extreme laziness.
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Easy to lose this in the noise of the day, but the prime minister of Canada just said the US president, leader of the global hegemon, wants to soften us up economically so he can annex us.
That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.
That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.
March 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Easy to lose this in the noise of the day, but the prime minister of Canada just said the US president, leader of the global hegemon, wants to soften us up economically so he can annex us.
That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.
That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.
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these people are hopeless. i hope they all get tea partied next year
Democratic lawmakers are expected to communicate their opposition to Donald Trump during the president’s joint address to Congress on Tuesday night by color-coordinating.
Democrats Plan to Protest Trump’s Speech by Wearing Pink
Democratic lawmakers are expected to communicate their opposition to Donald Trump during the president’s joint address to Congress on Tuesday night by color-coordinating.
www.thecut.com
March 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
these people are hopeless. i hope they all get tea partied next year
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The market for “someone is wrong on the internet and this shall not stand” posts is somewhat diminished these days, but damn it it’s not satisfying.
February 27, 2025 at 2:07 AM
The market for “someone is wrong on the internet and this shall not stand” posts is somewhat diminished these days, but damn it it’s not satisfying.
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February 21, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Snow stopped several days ago, but twice today I was stuck on a streetcar due to a parked car blocking the tracks. How is this still happening? Why isn’t the fine in the $1000s?
February 20, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Snow stopped several days ago, but twice today I was stuck on a streetcar due to a parked car blocking the tracks. How is this still happening? Why isn’t the fine in the $1000s?
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One thing that will stop Trump tariffs & his bonkers talk of annexing 🇨🇦 is if regular Americans tell him loudly they don’t agree & want it to stop. This is a way to reach many of them & make it 💯 clear that their nice Canadian neighbours are angry. #TeamCanada
“Booing is your patriotic duty right now. It’s not very Canadian, and that’s the point. We’ve let this whole polite northerner shtick exist for too long…You know what rude people get? Service. They squeak, but they also get the oil.” #TeamCanada www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/artic...
Booing the American anthem is our patriotic duty right now
We are helping the average American understand that nobody likes them any more
www.theglobeandmail.com
February 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
One thing that will stop Trump tariffs & his bonkers talk of annexing 🇨🇦 is if regular Americans tell him loudly they don’t agree & want it to stop. This is a way to reach many of them & make it 💯 clear that their nice Canadian neighbours are angry. #TeamCanada
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If Canadian universities had a bit of vision, they would be launching a Manhattan project to poach every US-based top researcher. And the federal government would be drastically expanding tri-council funding and creating an expedited review process for those holding NSF and similar grants.
January 28, 2025 at 3:14 AM
If Canadian universities had a bit of vision, they would be launching a Manhattan project to poach every US-based top researcher. And the federal government would be drastically expanding tri-council funding and creating an expedited review process for those holding NSF and similar grants.
Really hoping he is utterly humiliated by voters.
Poilievre uses the Holocaust Memorial event in Auschwitz to criticize the liberal government and to politic against "woke ideology."
Calls for deportations for temp residents who commit violent hate crimes (already the law).
globalnews.ca/video/109795...
Calls for deportations for temp residents who commit violent hate crimes (already the law).
globalnews.ca/video/109795...
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January 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Really hoping he is utterly humiliated by voters.
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100%. This is also true for Siri and Alexa etc. I ended a first date over this take (many years ago)!
Getting ahead of the AI pronoun discourse to firmly stand on the side of "it". It is not a he or a she or they. It is not only un-human but inhuman, anti-human. Do not honor it with personhood
January 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
100%. This is also true for Siri and Alexa etc. I ended a first date over this take (many years ago)!