sam 🏡🍊

@slj

uoft 😊 environmentalism and city building (he/him) 🇨🇦 🌎 Canadian Globalist Dark Prince of Bluesky

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sam 🏡🍊@slj· 22d

My favourite contributions to the genre are these homages with a tone that oscillates from silly to deadly serious

Corporate Memphis Saturn Devouring His Sun by Mimi Claire

Corporate Memphis Burning Monk by Justin Kang

sam 🏡🍊@slj· Jul 16

At least I’m not in Thunder Bay

sam 🏡🍊@slj· Jul 16

Enemy (2013) / Reality (2026)

sam 🏡🍊@slj· Jul 3

sam 🏡🍊@slj· Jul 2

He might have just done it

Victor Marx on how many people he has killed: “I don’t think that’s important.”

sam 🏡🍊@slj· Jun 17

I’m glad someone had the wherewithal to not put a conspicuous American flag like the rest of them

sam 🏡🍊@slj· May 29

Warming is still going to get really bad, but any amount of clean energy raises the depths of badness possible. 2. Humans cause climate change. This has been known in theory since the 1850s and has been proven.

Pew research polling showing most Republicans do not believe in human caused climate change.

sam 🏡🍊@slj· May 29

Two unpopular truths in America re climate change: 1. The worst impacts possible by 2100 have been avoided, this fact is trivial. Even 100GW of electricity produced by clean energy rather than fossil fuels could have achieved this, let alone the 2T+ the world has.

Pew research polling showing most Americans believe the world will not do enough to avoid the worst impacts from climate change.

sam 🏡🍊@slj· May 8

This man needs a prescription but you can’t deny the creative spirit.

sam 🏡🍊@slj· Mar 22

There are puddles and then there are natural springs

sam 🏡🍊@slj· Mar 20

Give it up for day 20

An investment portfolio entirely in the red

sam 🏡🍊@slj· Mar 10

That green tree in the background is a beautiful cherry blossom

sam 🏡🍊@slj· Mar 9

Today I voted in the NDP leadership election, I ranked two candidates: 1. @votetanille.bsky.social 2. @heathermcpherson.bsky.social

sam 🏡🍊@slj· Feb 21

Failed to load blob is gonna stick with me for a while

sam 🏡🍊@slj· Feb 19

“Muddy York” is one of Toronto’s oldest nicknames and we are earning it this season, but it doesn’t have to be this way. Puddling is political!

sam 🏡🍊@slj· Feb 18

Rest in peace Beaches Cineplex

sam 🏡🍊@slj· Feb 17

Check up on your Toronto friends today to make sure they don’t get transported to Silent Hill

sam 🏡🍊@slj· Feb 14

Come to Toronto we won’t dissapoint

sam 🏡🍊@slj· Feb 13

Can we stop exclusively building wide commercial arterials and allow mixed use everywhere?

sam 🏡🍊@slj· Feb 13

Can we daylight more lost streams?

sam 🏡🍊@slj· Feb 13

Can we liven up the Union Station depression ghosts?

Depressing ghost art at Union Station Toronto

sam 🏡🍊@slj· Feb 10

Today is Toronto Budget Day. Reminder that the city is not strapped for cash. I have my problems with the politics and priorities in the values of the budget, but this is something bigger: *any* political agenda will be failed by a poorly designed budget, besides the agenda of anti-governance

To start with, councillors should ask to see the 2025 budget alongside the city's actual results for 2023 and its projections for the 2024 results that will come out later this year. That is information well-run businesses and not-for-profits provide, and it is information that is readily available for other governments, notably the Ontario government. We should be seeing historical and projected key numbers - revenues, expenses and resulting bottom line - on a consistent basis.
Toronto's budget does not show these numbers. Most notably, past and projected surpluses get no mention at all. Too few people know what is clear from Toronto's financial statements: It has consistently recorded more revenue than it has spent. In 2023, the city ran a surplus of $1.25-billion. Add that to its past surpluses, and its accumulated surplus - its net worth, reflecting its capacity to deliver services - totalled $33.7-billion. The minority who follow these numbers would bet that, when the books are closed for last year, the city will report another healthy surplus. The absence of these numbers from the budget supports a narrative that Toronto's finances are dire, and that its residents and ratepayers must either face reduced services or pay a whopping additional tax bill.

sam 🏡🍊@slj· Feb 5

Flavour text from this program

sam 🏡🍊@slj· Feb 2

Relative population change around Palmerston Blvd. Green = lost population vs 1971

sam 🏡🍊@slj· Feb 2

Steve Paikin and Rosie DiManno are in the Epstein Files

sam 🏡🍊@slj· Jan 12

Renee Macklin Good’s only published poem On Learning To Dissect Fetal Pigs is great. Written six years ago, it can be read as a commentary on the circumstances of her death. That is the ideal of poetic talent. Not to mention how her faith comes through so genuinely. I would love to see her work.

sam 🏡🍊@slj· Jan 6

Proposed by me Congestion Pricing Maps of Toronto, 2026

sam 🏡🍊@slj· Jan 3

2 minutes ago
The New York Times
In Catia la Mar, a city just west of the Caracas airport, the air strikes hit a three-story civilian apartment complex, knocking out an exterior wall and killing at least one older woman, the victim's family said.
The woman, Rosa González, died in the strike and a second person was seriously wounded, the family said. One woman in the building said she was hit and nearly lost her eye. Another person, a 70-year-old man named Jorge who declined to give his last name, said he "lost everything" when the bomb exploded.

Opinion
Editorial Board
Justice in Venezuela
The next challenge is setting the country up for long-term success.
28 minutes ago
Venezuelans living in Chile celebrate Saturday in Santiago after U.S. forces captured Nicolás Maduro. (Javier
Torres/AFP via Getty Images)
Millions of people around the world, most of all in Venezuela, are celebrating the downfall of the dictator Nicolás Maduro. President Donald Trump's decision to capture him on Saturday is one of the boldest moves a president has made in years, and the operation was an unquestionable tactical success. The next step is ensuring that this triumph sets Venezuela up for stability rather than chaos.

sam 🏡🍊@slj· Dec 18

sam 🏡🍊@slj· Dec 17

Holiday concerned about the growth of coral, warns against reef of shadows