Jordyn Marcellus
@jordynmarcellus.ca
javascript bard here for a good time. looking to build a better future using web technology. idiosyncratic and iconoclastic.
Alberta-born, Toronto-based.
Alberta-born, Toronto-based.
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Jane Jacobs’s house, now with Audi SUV
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Jane Jacobs’s house, now with Audi SUV
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The shamelessness of aping my own documentation and art (their creation on the left, my photo on the right) to exaggerate the impacts of retail… Sad. Derivative. Misleading.
November 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The shamelessness of aping my own documentation and art (their creation on the left, my photo on the right) to exaggerate the impacts of retail… Sad. Derivative. Misleading.
these dorks: oh my god look at all these people congregating around the 7-11 near some people's homes!!!
me: oh cool you're saying neighbourhood retail would create third spaces for people to hang out in???
me: oh cool you're saying neighbourhood retail would create third spaces for people to hang out in???
The folks at IntegrityTO have finally weighed in on neighbourhood retail with AI generated scenes of creepy faceless loiterers congregating outside a 7-11…
Mind you the recommendation (that didn’t make it past committee) was for *corner lots*. They can’t even prompt right.
Mind you the recommendation (that didn’t make it past committee) was for *corner lots*. They can’t even prompt right.
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
these dorks: oh my god look at all these people congregating around the 7-11 near some people's homes!!!
me: oh cool you're saying neighbourhood retail would create third spaces for people to hang out in???
me: oh cool you're saying neighbourhood retail would create third spaces for people to hang out in???
people in this city are depraved man
November 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
people in this city are depraved man
y'all one of the anti-mamdani billionaires (John Catsimatidis) was also funding the b.c. ostrich nonsense.
we live in an incredible era (derogatory)
we live in an incredible era (derogatory)
um
‘Something is rotten,’ says U.S. billionaire who funded B.C. ostrich farm protests
November 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
y'all one of the anti-mamdani billionaires (John Catsimatidis) was also funding the b.c. ostrich nonsense.
we live in an incredible era (derogatory)
we live in an incredible era (derogatory)
UCP has such loser stink one of the three people elected by the UCP-aligned municipal election party (edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...) just dipped from the party lmao
Newly elected City Councillor Reed Clarke just announced that he has left the Better Edmonton Party and will sit at council as an Independent Councillor.
November 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
UCP has such loser stink one of the three people elected by the UCP-aligned municipal election party (edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...) just dipped from the party lmao
Toronto's tall building guidelines, adopted in 2013, are directly responsible for all those horrible shoeboxes we all hate www.toronto.ca/city-governm...
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Toronto's tall building guidelines, adopted in 2013, are directly responsible for all those horrible shoeboxes we all hate www.toronto.ca/city-governm...
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the CFIA sniper gets the call. "the supreme court declined to hear the appeal"
they lay down in the bush, rifle trained at an ostrich's head. it was finally time.
they lay down in the bush, rifle trained at an ostrich's head. it was finally time.
November 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
the CFIA sniper gets the call. "the supreme court declined to hear the appeal"
they lay down in the bush, rifle trained at an ostrich's head. it was finally time.
they lay down in the bush, rifle trained at an ostrich's head. it was finally time.
jane jacobs gentrified the the annex (a formerly wealthy neighbourhood filtered into a "student ghetto") through encouraging rooming houses to be bought and renoed back to single family homes then proceeded to fight dense redevelopment in other parts of toronto.
house prices are 1.5miillion++
house prices are 1.5miillion++
White people of substantial memes pointing the “gentrifier” finger hoping no one notices whose pointing the finger is like 95% of left NIMBYism
November 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
jane jacobs gentrified the the annex (a formerly wealthy neighbourhood filtered into a "student ghetto") through encouraging rooming houses to be bought and renoed back to single family homes then proceeded to fight dense redevelopment in other parts of toronto.
house prices are 1.5miillion++
house prices are 1.5miillion++
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Raven on the Colonial Fleet, 2010 (feathered headdress, painted corset, dance robe, sequinned robe & boots) by Skeena Reece. Part of ‘We Who Have Known Tides’ @vanartgallery.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Raven on the Colonial Fleet, 2010 (feathered headdress, painted corset, dance robe, sequinned robe & boots) by Skeena Reece. Part of ‘We Who Have Known Tides’ @vanartgallery.bsky.social
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Spoke with @pleasuremotors.bsky.social about his new book, the endlessly quotable How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists (@coachhousebooks.bsky.social), lopsided markets for creativity, the scourge of "innovation," and Yakety Yak:
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
On the awkward, thorny relationship between art and money, with author David Berry
In his new book, the cultural critic looks at how the dynamics play out in everything from music to painting
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Spoke with @pleasuremotors.bsky.social about his new book, the endlessly quotable How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists (@coachhousebooks.bsky.social), lopsided markets for creativity, the scourge of "innovation," and Yakety Yak:
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
the CFIA sniper gets the call. "the supreme court declined to hear the appeal"
they lay down in the bush, rifle trained at an ostrich's head. it was finally time.
they lay down in the bush, rifle trained at an ostrich's head. it was finally time.
November 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
the CFIA sniper gets the call. "the supreme court declined to hear the appeal"
they lay down in the bush, rifle trained at an ostrich's head. it was finally time.
they lay down in the bush, rifle trained at an ostrich's head. it was finally time.
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Just shut this whole company down, man.
Image 1: www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
Image 2: www.404media.co/openais-sora...
Image 1: www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
Image 2: www.404media.co/openais-sora...
November 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Just shut this whole company down, man.
Image 1: www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
Image 2: www.404media.co/openais-sora...
Image 1: www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
Image 2: www.404media.co/openais-sora...
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today in yikes www.404media.co/openais-sora...
OpenAI’s Sora 2 Floods Social Media With Videos of Women Being Strangled
X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.
www.404media.co
November 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
today in yikes www.404media.co/openais-sora...
the "all stick, no carrot" world of work
$TGT Target Mandates Worker Smiles, Friendliness to Boost Sales
Groundbreaking initiative. @JeffMacke
Groundbreaking initiative. @JeffMacke
November 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
the "all stick, no carrot" world of work
authentication failed on work vpn... 😀
refresh connection, logged in successfully... 😐
refresh connection, logged in successfully... 😐
November 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
authentication failed on work vpn... 😀
refresh connection, logged in successfully... 😐
refresh connection, logged in successfully... 😐
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On a side note--I have been reading @404media.co more and more and they do some really fantastic reporting on issues that I find really important (AI in particular). Just became a subscriber. Check them out if you have time:
www.404media.co
www.404media.co
404 Media
404 Media is an independent media company founded by technology journalists Jason Koebler, Emanuel Maiberg, Samantha Cole, and Joseph Cox.
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
On a side note--I have been reading @404media.co more and more and they do some really fantastic reporting on issues that I find really important (AI in particular). Just became a subscriber. Check them out if you have time:
www.404media.co
www.404media.co
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I wrote about the Blue Jays, and how I'm grateful to have been open to the possibility of something hurting this much, because it means I was ready for the joy, too. ruheedewji.com/2025/11/06/f...
Fanfare for these uncommon men
It's a game of inches, and of lifetimes
ruheedewji.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I wrote about the Blue Jays, and how I'm grateful to have been open to the possibility of something hurting this much, because it means I was ready for the joy, too. ruheedewji.com/2025/11/06/f...
remembering my philosophy of psychology class where the prof made the argument that "huh evo psych sure seems to want to legitimize rape and masculine gender hegemony using non-replicable theories"
THIS IS WHY WE ALL HATE EVOPSYCH. Can we please fucking discredit this pseudo-naturalist bullshit at last?
November 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
remembering my philosophy of psychology class where the prof made the argument that "huh evo psych sure seems to want to legitimize rape and masculine gender hegemony using non-replicable theories"
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“If the water isn't able to be treated and reused in the mines and for development, why is it good enough for us to drink?” said Billy-Joe Tuccaro, chief of the Mikisew Cree First Nation. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/06/n...
Alberta chiefs say oilsands causing cancer surge, call for halt to tailings plan
Indigenous leaders in Alberta say unchecked oilsands development is devastating their land and could be linked to rising cancer rates in their communities.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
“If the water isn't able to be treated and reused in the mines and for development, why is it good enough for us to drink?” said Billy-Joe Tuccaro, chief of the Mikisew Cree First Nation. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/06/n...
no, but men sure did!!!
November 6, 2025 at 12:48 PM
no, but men sure did!!!
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Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state.
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state.
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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the only people actually committed to abundance in spirit imo!
the future is red abundance, i guess?
sort of funny how people don't get how utterly ruthless the campaign was focused on the everyday affordability angle, even from people aligned with Mamdani!
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
the only people actually committed to abundance in spirit imo!
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it's funny because it's true
November 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
it's funny because it's true
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You have to survive. There are graves to piss on that haven't been dug yet.
November 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
You have to survive. There are graves to piss on that haven't been dug yet.