suraj goraya / ਸੂਰਜ
@surajgoraya.ca
making art & music as @interframe.bsky.social / doing research in human-computer interaction.
occasionally tweeting about Canadian public policy, labour and transit 🚉
@surajgoraya on Twitter
🌐 https://surajgoraya.ca
occasionally tweeting about Canadian public policy, labour and transit 🚉
@surajgoraya on Twitter
🌐 https://surajgoraya.ca
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This is a hill I will die on.
youtu.be/fDvxq7IF1W4
youtu.be/fDvxq7IF1W4
LED replacement bulbs for cars are bad and you shouldn't use them.
YouTube video by Technology Connextras
youtu.be
October 4, 2025 at 3:03 AM
This is a hill I will die on.
youtu.be/fDvxq7IF1W4
youtu.be/fDvxq7IF1W4
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Spy×Family season 3 streams a promotional video for the Loid Forger: Past Arc before its debut on Saturday!
Spy×Family Season 3 Streams Loid Forger: Past Arc's Promo Video
New arc begins on Saturday
www.animenewsnetwork.com
October 6, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Spy×Family season 3 streams a promotional video for the Loid Forger: Past Arc before its debut on Saturday!
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Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
October 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
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This, but just about every definition, is fascism. The only question now is whether everyone lets it continue. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Justin Ling: We need to stop being so naive about what America is becoming. Trump and his secretary of war just showed us why
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright observed some years ago that fascism is quite hard to define. It is not an ideology, she said. “I think it is a method,
www.thestar.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
This, but just about every definition, is fascism. The only question now is whether everyone lets it continue. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Give folks their flowers
No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier
"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier
"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
September 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Give folks their flowers
No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier
"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier
"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
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ICYMI: Several well-placed sources, leaked documents and recordings of internal town halls detail how a bitter, years-long falling out with a European partner has led Metrolinx to scale back its ambitious GO Expansion plan.
No paywall.
#onpoli
www.thetrillium.ca/news/the-tri...
No paywall.
#onpoli
www.thetrillium.ca/news/the-tri...
How Metrolinx’s plan to deliver European-style train service went off the rails
GO Expansion will still transform Greater Golden Horseshoe transit — but likely won’t be as ambitious as what was planned just three years ago
www.thetrillium.ca
June 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
ICYMI: Several well-placed sources, leaked documents and recordings of internal town halls detail how a bitter, years-long falling out with a European partner has led Metrolinx to scale back its ambitious GO Expansion plan.
No paywall.
#onpoli
www.thetrillium.ca/news/the-tri...
No paywall.
#onpoli
www.thetrillium.ca/news/the-tri...
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Home ownership is out of reach for many Canadians. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s housing plan may keep it that way.
Writer @davidmoscrop.com unpacks why Canada’s most urgent problem has no easy answer: thewalrus.ca/mark-carney-hous...
Writer @davidmoscrop.com unpacks why Canada’s most urgent problem has no easy answer: thewalrus.ca/mark-carney-hous...
May 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Home ownership is out of reach for many Canadians. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s housing plan may keep it that way.
Writer @davidmoscrop.com unpacks why Canada’s most urgent problem has no easy answer: thewalrus.ca/mark-carney-hous...
Writer @davidmoscrop.com unpacks why Canada’s most urgent problem has no easy answer: thewalrus.ca/mark-carney-hous...
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Metrolinx has decided that they know how to run a railway better than the Germans at DB who made up ONxpress. A huge loss of talent for transit in Toronto and Canada and easily as catastrophic a move from Metrolinx as the agencies performance on the Eglinton Crosstown.
As of yesterday contract with OOI (ONxpress) and CAD Rail terminated. Alstom seeking a 4-10 year extension now.
May 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Metrolinx has decided that they know how to run a railway better than the Germans at DB who made up ONxpress. A huge loss of talent for transit in Toronto and Canada and easily as catastrophic a move from Metrolinx as the agencies performance on the Eglinton Crosstown.
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On #manga and #scanlation, Mangadex, a popular manga hosting website, received a DMCA take down for hundreds of its library by Japanese manga publishers. Historically, Mangadex is the successor to Batoto (OG, not the current one). They both served as attempts for publishers and scans to coexists. /1
May 15, 2025 at 2:35 PM
On #manga and #scanlation, Mangadex, a popular manga hosting website, received a DMCA take down for hundreds of its library by Japanese manga publishers. Historically, Mangadex is the successor to Batoto (OG, not the current one). They both served as attempts for publishers and scans to coexists. /1
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Danielle Smith threatening Canada’s national unity over any attempt to regulate industrial carbon emissions, plastics or the “commercial free speech of energy companies”
May 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Danielle Smith threatening Canada’s national unity over any attempt to regulate industrial carbon emissions, plastics or the “commercial free speech of energy companies”
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Poilievre pulling a Trump & Musk & making clear he will cut funding to anything he considers “woke” in federal public service & university research - like anything to do with climate science.
As Danielle Smith made clear, Poilievre is “in sync” with Trump. We can never let him win. #TeamCarney
As Danielle Smith made clear, Poilievre is “in sync” with Trump. We can never let him win. #TeamCarney
This probably deserves some attention in English Canada.
March 31, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Poilievre pulling a Trump & Musk & making clear he will cut funding to anything he considers “woke” in federal public service & university research - like anything to do with climate science.
As Danielle Smith made clear, Poilievre is “in sync” with Trump. We can never let him win. #TeamCarney
As Danielle Smith made clear, Poilievre is “in sync” with Trump. We can never let him win. #TeamCarney
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this poliwhirl tcg art is beautiful
March 26, 2025 at 12:21 PM
this poliwhirl tcg art is beautiful
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drawing people i see in the city (26/?)
March 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
drawing people i see in the city (26/?)
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Retail workers are once again fighting to protect their stat holidays as the business lobby pressures Toronto councillors to expand holiday shopping rules, threatening workers’ guaranteed time off.
Story by Nathan Bawaan for the @thestar.com
www.thestar.com/business/tor...
Story by Nathan Bawaan for the @thestar.com
www.thestar.com/business/tor...
Toronto’s ‘ludicrous’ shopping laws in the spotlight as city studies possible stat holiday openings
A battle is brewing between retail workers and business groups over whether Toronto stores and malls should be able to open on six statutory holidays.
www.thestar.com
March 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Retail workers are once again fighting to protect their stat holidays as the business lobby pressures Toronto councillors to expand holiday shopping rules, threatening workers’ guaranteed time off.
Story by Nathan Bawaan for the @thestar.com
www.thestar.com/business/tor...
Story by Nathan Bawaan for the @thestar.com
www.thestar.com/business/tor...
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Report: CANADA! CANADA! CANADA! CANADA! CANADA! CANADA!
February 21, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Report: CANADA! CANADA! CANADA! CANADA! CANADA! CANADA!
While I think it makes sense to get help from French HSR companies.
For the future, we should be building up VIA Rail's planning and operation capabilities for HSR. Most countries with HSR have a nationalized operators or nationalized planning and design capabilities. Lets future proof ourselves.
For the future, we should be building up VIA Rail's planning and operation capabilities for HSR. Most countries with HSR have a nationalized operators or nationalized planning and design capabilities. Lets future proof ourselves.
Feds just announced #alto. High speed rail from Toronto to Quebec City, with stops in Peterborough, Ottawa, Montreal, and Trois-Rivières. This will be a game changer if/when it is built.
altotrain.ca/en/
altotrain.ca/en/
Alto - Home -
HFR is a world-class transportation infrastructure that puts people first, and redefines the way we live, work and play. This modern rail network will extend over 1,000 km from Toronto to Québec City.
altotrain.ca
February 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
While I think it makes sense to get help from French HSR companies.
For the future, we should be building up VIA Rail's planning and operation capabilities for HSR. Most countries with HSR have a nationalized operators or nationalized planning and design capabilities. Lets future proof ourselves.
For the future, we should be building up VIA Rail's planning and operation capabilities for HSR. Most countries with HSR have a nationalized operators or nationalized planning and design capabilities. Lets future proof ourselves.
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Silicon Valley be all like "You didn't want to buy our monkey jpgs and conduct meetings with VR headsets, I guess we have no choice but to start WW3"
February 9, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Silicon Valley be all like "You didn't want to buy our monkey jpgs and conduct meetings with VR headsets, I guess we have no choice but to start WW3"
I think one of the funniest irony’s about the whole “Build Canada” initiative is that they couldn’t even be bothered to pick up the .ca domain for it, opting for the .com.
Like come on, couldn’t even be bothered to show up with a Canadian domain for a Canadian project?
Like come on, couldn’t even be bothered to show up with a Canadian domain for a Canadian project?
What is it about getting rich off of one very specific thing that makes wealthy white tech bros think they're qualified to Do Politics and Policy
(Just kidding, we know what it is. It's them wanting to make even MORE money but knowing that would require tax rules and other regulations to change)
(Just kidding, we know what it is. It's them wanting to make even MORE money but knowing that would require tax rules and other regulations to change)
February 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I think one of the funniest irony’s about the whole “Build Canada” initiative is that they couldn’t even be bothered to pick up the .ca domain for it, opting for the .com.
Like come on, couldn’t even be bothered to show up with a Canadian domain for a Canadian project?
Like come on, couldn’t even be bothered to show up with a Canadian domain for a Canadian project?
Canada now, and forever. // Vive Le Canada.
Canada is a country worth fighting for against anyone who’d roll up and sock us in the kisser, goddamn them.
I will still stand up for my country and our right to decide for ourselves how we want to live.
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/confession...
I will still stand up for my country and our right to decide for ourselves how we want to live.
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/confession...
Confessions of a Reluctant Nationalist
I'd throw a punch to fight for Canada's sovereignty while reserving and exercising my right to criticize this country. That's a fine form of patriotism.
www.davidmoscrop.com
February 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Canada now, and forever. // Vive Le Canada.
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Fighting for a just Canada, which so many of us have been doing for so long, assumes there's a Canada to fight for in the first place.
I'm in for a fight against the Trump regime, because we get to decide how we want to live together.
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/confession...
I'm in for a fight against the Trump regime, because we get to decide how we want to live together.
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/confession...
Confessions of a Reluctant Nationalist
I'd throw a punch to fight for Canada's sovereignty while reserving and exercising my right to criticize this country. That's a fine form of patriotism.
www.davidmoscrop.com
February 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Fighting for a just Canada, which so many of us have been doing for so long, assumes there's a Canada to fight for in the first place.
I'm in for a fight against the Trump regime, because we get to decide how we want to live together.
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/confession...
I'm in for a fight against the Trump regime, because we get to decide how we want to live together.
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/confession...