Teddy Weinstein
@teddyweinstein.bsky.social
Lawyer and part-time illithid.
Season 1 of The Witcher (Netflix)
I like The Lord of the Rings a lot but we need more bite sized swords and sorcery fantasy TV/movies. Willow is the platonic ideal of lightweight high fantasy, and Dungeons and Dragons (2023) is its spiritual successor. But overall the field seems very thin 🫤
October 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Season 1 of The Witcher (Netflix)
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The Dufferin & Bathurst bus priority lanes are the only way to break the transit death spiral in Toronto. They must happen & the mayor needs to make sure they’re a raging success. Mission critical as future fixes rely on their success. My column this week. Pls read n share.
Shawn Micallef: How this transit plan could finally make ‘Sufferin’ Dufferin’ a thing of the past
There are 'RapidTO' plans to create transit priority lanes on Dufferin as well as Bathurst streets.
www.thestar.com
May 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The Dufferin & Bathurst bus priority lanes are the only way to break the transit death spiral in Toronto. They must happen & the mayor needs to make sure they’re a raging success. Mission critical as future fixes rely on their success. My column this week. Pls read n share.
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Cars, trucks & SUVs have become driver weapons. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes in the way streets & vehicles are designed. We should admit that we are very much OK w a certain amount of death & life-changing injuries in order to not inconvenience driving. My column this week. Pls read n share.
Shawn Micallef: Vehicles have become weapons by design — and public space is in their crosshairs
A culture like ours weaponizes vehicles — from the way they are designed to the way the roads they run on are designed.
www.thestar.com
May 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Cars, trucks & SUVs have become driver weapons. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes in the way streets & vehicles are designed. We should admit that we are very much OK w a certain amount of death & life-changing injuries in order to not inconvenience driving. My column this week. Pls read n share.
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As a Jewish person it is so uniquely painful to exist in a world where Jews are the ones making lists of people for the government to target.
Jewish groups targeted Columbia grad Mahmoud Khalil — then ICE arrested him
Pro-Israel Jewish groups targeted Mahmoud Khalil, a recent graduate of Columbia University, days before ICE agents arrested him.
forward.com
March 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
As a Jewish person it is so uniquely painful to exist in a world where Jews are the ones making lists of people for the government to target.
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my “if i could get away with it, i would be a sexual predator” t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt
Ex-Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel spouts transphobic talking points to Bill Maher.
"Look, in seventh grade, if I had known that I could have said the word ‘They’ and got in the girls bathroom, I would have done it."
"Look, in seventh grade, if I had known that I could have said the word ‘They’ and got in the girls bathroom, I would have done it."
Ex-Chicago mayor rips current city leaders for focus on bathroom and locker room instead of crime, education
During HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher," former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel blasted city leadership for failing the city on safety and educational standards.
www.foxnews.com
March 1, 2025 at 11:07 PM
my “if i could get away with it, i would be a sexual predator” t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt
Canadians know
on one hand i’m like, “what is j. crew thinking, a denim suit?!?” on the other hand i’m like, “you know…i might wear this”
February 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Canadians know
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how faculty and students were treated during resistance of the genocide on Palestine was an indicator of how university admins would act now
February 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
how faculty and students were treated during resistance of the genocide on Palestine was an indicator of how university admins would act now
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Want to know why Doug Ford might win a third majority in a row?
The answer may be simpler than you think.
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/electoral-...
The answer may be simpler than you think.
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/electoral-...
Electoral politics explained: "Are they for me? Are they like me?"
If you've ever wondered 'How the hell can anyone support that clown?' Well, there's an answer to that question.
www.davidmoscrop.com
February 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Want to know why Doug Ford might win a third majority in a row?
The answer may be simpler than you think.
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/electoral-...
The answer may be simpler than you think.
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/electoral-...
This is how I learn that I'm an AI.
Just saw a post where someone said that use of em dashes (—) was a giveaway that you're using AI for writing. Uh, no. It could just mean you like to use em dashes.
February 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This is how I learn that I'm an AI.
Just incredible stuff
February 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Just incredible stuff
Anyone who has ridden the College streetcar between Bathurst and Queen's Park knows this agony.
I type sitting on a college street car now at 5 light cycles to get thru because city will not give priority to the 100+ people jammed on this w me. Wait now we’re at 6 cycles.
January 28, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Anyone who has ridden the College streetcar between Bathurst and Queen's Park knows this agony.
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Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole
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January 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole
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It's time to prepare for the newspocalypse. Have a plan and preserve your sanity.
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/preparing-...
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/preparing-...
Preparing for the Newspocalypse
Mind your sanity. Connect close to home. Set boundaries. Support the media you trust. Live your life. Don't feel guilty about it. There's no better advice than that.
www.davidmoscrop.com
January 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
It's time to prepare for the newspocalypse. Have a plan and preserve your sanity.
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/preparing-...
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/preparing-...
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This is why I’ve been telling people that we should emphasize human rights and the right to pursuing a meaningful life *first* and science *second*.
An honest question:
If we finally accept that no amount of evidence will ever sway the anti-trans side, that it is fundamentally a reactionary movement invested in punishment, suffering, and cruelty to trans people, how do we proceed?
The facts simply do not matter to them.
If we finally accept that no amount of evidence will ever sway the anti-trans side, that it is fundamentally a reactionary movement invested in punishment, suffering, and cruelty to trans people, how do we proceed?
The facts simply do not matter to them.
Using the Cass report as justification for banning puberty blockers is simply dishonest. Cass's actual findings, documented in the appendices, found PBs have been used safely for trans kids since 1988 with not a single case of harm documented in thousands of records. Cass did *not* recommend a ban.
December 16, 2024 at 5:33 PM
This is why I’ve been telling people that we should emphasize human rights and the right to pursuing a meaningful life *first* and science *second*.
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The warning about "decivilization" didn't come after any one of a number of school shootings. It didn't come after January 6. It was after a health insurance company CEO's shooting wasn't received with national mourning:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Decivilization May Already Be Under Way
The brazen murder of a CEO in Midtown Manhattan—and the cheering reaction to his execution—amounts to a blinking-and-blaring warning signal for a society that has become already too inured to bloodshe...
www.theatlantic.com
December 11, 2024 at 9:44 PM
The warning about "decivilization" didn't come after any one of a number of school shootings. It didn't come after January 6. It was after a health insurance company CEO's shooting wasn't received with national mourning:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Harsh but fair
joe manchin and krysten sinema and this iteration of the democratic party ran by consultants and the wealthy class have utterly doomed this country for at least a century
December 12, 2024 at 5:55 AM
Harsh but fair
Amazing that right after the surge of new users to Bluesky we saw regime collapse in South Korea and Syria within a few days of each other, and this website is absolutely rising to the challenge of providing informative useful coverage. Really highlights what we've been lacking on the other sites.
December 9, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Amazing that right after the surge of new users to Bluesky we saw regime collapse in South Korea and Syria within a few days of each other, and this website is absolutely rising to the challenge of providing informative useful coverage. Really highlights what we've been lacking on the other sites.
Every so often I learn a fact on here so wild that I have to drop everything and go verify it for myself immediately. This was one of those times.
sometimes I still think about the time Vogue put Asma Al-Assad on the cover
December 8, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Every so often I learn a fact on here so wild that I have to drop everything and go verify it for myself immediately. This was one of those times.
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Caryma Sa'd, the woman who spent the last week harassing me after she and her partner filmed me on a private night out, was previously found by the LSO to have "engaged in harassing, and/or discriminatory conduct."
In March.
This is a pattern, and it's SO creepy.
In March.
This is a pattern, and it's SO creepy.
5/ This is the letter from the Law Society of Ontario investigator.
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November 28, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Caryma Sa'd, the woman who spent the last week harassing me after she and her partner filmed me on a private night out, was previously found by the LSO to have "engaged in harassing, and/or discriminatory conduct."
In March.
This is a pattern, and it's SO creepy.
In March.
This is a pattern, and it's SO creepy.
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I think the carbon tax is a perfect example of how political compromise in the era of bad-faith politics doesn't work, so you might as well do the more-progressive, bold thing.
The Liberals put in place a price on carbon, which is really a Conservative, market-based response to climate change.
The Liberals put in place a price on carbon, which is really a Conservative, market-based response to climate change.
November 27, 2024 at 3:28 PM
I think the carbon tax is a perfect example of how political compromise in the era of bad-faith politics doesn't work, so you might as well do the more-progressive, bold thing.
The Liberals put in place a price on carbon, which is really a Conservative, market-based response to climate change.
The Liberals put in place a price on carbon, which is really a Conservative, market-based response to climate change.
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One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election.
Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control
Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control
The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.
November 23, 2024 at 1:29 AM
One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election.
Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control
Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control