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I was foolishly invited to a swanky business awards dinner Tuesday night where I mingled with the Great and the Good and found myself chatting with a proud Trump voter. Look at me, all patient and understanding of the other side! Here’s a little thread of my adventure in reasoning 👇🏼

“Years do odd things to identity.” A poem by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Another fun fact: Olivia Chow now has the record for the MOST VOTES (2026) earned by a winning Mayoral candidates in Toronto megacity history, and the LEAST VOTES (2023) earned by a winning candidate.

Meet the guy Republicans are hoping to gerrymander into Congress by diluting the voting power of Black people in Memphis.

Contrary to popular belief, good straight men exist 😃❤️

"You can't block someone just for being annoying!" Those are actually the most important people to block

*Goose meme* Who’s the Hitler, Rod? Who’s the Hitler!?!?

The Starlight Children's Foundation is accepting donations on Eric Bauza's behalf, who was fundraising for the charity before he passed. It would be wonderful if you could donate or spread the word donate.starlight.org/fundraiser/7...

Out of respect for Andy Weir, I will not click on this and will immediately forget I ever saw this cursed headline 👎🏼

‘capitalists prefer fascism’ yes. we know. but thanks for the handy graph ig.

Sad that people can’t disagree with this obviously incorrect declaration without dumping on the nevertheless sexy Noah Wyle ⭐️

Bluesky has four kinds of users

bluesky has four kinds of users x

I don't write fast & it's a challenge to respond to late-results in time for a print deadline (old school!) & (hopefully) have some value vs hot take. Anyway, here's mine w @thekeenanwire.bsky.social & @balkissoon.bsky.social. This victory gives Chow a ton of political capital. Time to spend it.

New from me at TVO, on Chow's big big win, what's next, and why YIMBYs should have the courage of their convictions. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

Prince released ‘1999’ 44 years ago on October 27, 1982 | Listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/Prince1999

Happy 20th Anniversary to Amy Winehouse’s second & final studio album ‘Back to Black’ originally released October 27, 2006 | Listen to the album + read our tribute by @paisleysparks44.bsky.social here: album.ink/AWinehouseBTB

Congratulations to everyone elected last night, including @mayoroliviachow.ca. I was especially happy to see strong housing leaders @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social and @beynate.bsky.social win. With the campaign over, here are 10 ideas I’d love to see Toronto pursue: (1/12)

Just sad. It's like they're not even trying anymore.

“Greetings, my friend. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.” ~ The Amazing Criswell, PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE (1958) Great thread 👇🏼

I smelled a rat last week when suddenly all the polls were showing Bradford in the lead but even the conservatives I was talking with were all “that guy? yeah, no thanks” 🤷‍♂️

Elon Musk has spent more money on politics in the last 2 years than George Soros has spent in his entire lifetime.

“AI’s answer helped me create the rule that if an item was useful but didn’t need to be accessed regularly, the closet was probably a good home for it.” oh my god

it feels like its kinda being ignored but outside a couple outliers the only thing republicans are running on in the midterms is that theyre white and democrats arent

finally remembered to import all my Goodreads stuff over to Storygraph so I could get off the Amazon-owned thing, if we were friends on Goodreads or if you just want to be reading buddies here I am: app.thestorygraph.com/profile/duck...

happy bday writer Sylvia Plath, b.1932, Boston, died too young by suicide age 30. “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.” “let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”

Look, I know all the reasons we got here, but we really need to start seriously thinking about what we do in a world where The Markets punish whole countries for voting for decency, compassion, and fairness. We must stop pretending the capitalist machine is an objective, value neutral force.

and this is what a functioning state does. you try to do a coup or you try to steal an election and there are fucking consequences. you don't get to retire to your ranch and paint or go on to run again.

No woke? Go broke!

I can pull a bigger crowd than that on a fucking street, can I have 40 mins on the BBC?

When will a mediocre straight white guy ever be able to get ahead, asks Conor Friedersdorf?

The citizen who yelled "Shove that ballroom up your fat ass" is, in this hard time, a patriot. Honestly, what is left to say about this level of misrule? What careful critique hasn't been already offered? What reasoned response to this full-on run at fascism and kleptocracy remained unspoken?

Congrats to @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social, a strong advocate for what’s right and a deeply needed voice on Toronto council ⭐️