Trying to see something. If you’re a man, and you can understand why a woman would be upset about deepfake porn being sold of her non-consensually, can you RT? Restore my faith in humanity 🙏🏻

Interpreted as performance art, what John Tory is doing right now is actually a daring and incisive commentary on the complex, craven and contradictory nature of municipal politics. He is truly a special, world class artist.

Important thread

Extreme Programming provides an undo button, a game-changer for a single team - Kent Beck 🌻 . But multiple teams need ways to manage inter-dependencies. I particularly like that he indicates the importance of Slack tidyfirst.substack.com/p/scaling-extr…

Rights have to be fought for, and they can be reversed by those who oppose them (see: Roe vs Wade in the US). If someone tells you they're a homophobe, you better listen.

NEW: NDP Leader Marit Stiles has asked Ontario’s Integrity Commissioner to investigate whether Premier Doug Ford’s daughter’s stag-and-doe or wedding, which developers and lobbyists were invited to and attended, violated MPPs’ ethics law. Here’s a letter she released.

This aft, I'm proposing we fix Ontario's health care staffing crisis by turning the lights back on in public ORs and filling every available shift. To shorten wait times and get people the care they need faster. It’ll cost less and deliver more. I'll keep you posted. #onpoli

One by one, the Ford Conservatives stood up in the Legislature and voted against this simple solution to their health care staffing crisis. We will keep proposing fixes to the real problems that people are facing right now. Because Ontarians are counting on us. #onpoli

It’s REALLY important for everyone to understand the truth that designing your city for cars fails for everyone, including drivers. Designing a city with CHOICES in how to get around works better for everyone, including drivers. Think we could we get to 1 million views of this?

My friend Rachel Phoenix is in #Crestline, buried under nine feet of snow, behind a ten foot ice wall. Here's her post about what's going on, and her worries about other members of her community: rachelmanija.dreamwidth.org/2625438.html

On voit l’utilité des oreilles.

New discussion: the Craic Version 3.3 released thesession.org/discussions/48…

Jordan Neely was a person. Our society left him stranded, and, because of his desperation and our warped priorities, his existence filled people not with sympathy but with fear. Then he was killed, and that is a tragedy, because he was a person. armoxon.substack.com/p/jordan-neely…

Smoked. 📷: Gary Hershorn

Happening now at the corner of Euclid and Barton! #OpenTuning2023

And #irishmusic starting at 2:00 on Vermont

Celtic sounds are bursting out from 16 Vermont! #OpenTuning2023

Sound up for some beautiful Celtic sounds! #OpenTuning2023