Jason McBride

One of the absolute best things you can do this month is take the @nplusonemag.com Bookmatch quiz. Such a joy from beginning to end & you'll end up with a list of fascinating books most of which will be entirely new to you secure.givelively.org/donate/n1-fo...

silver lining for the Blue Jays: 14 more seasons of Vlad Jr

Ernie Clement becomes the first player in MLB history with 30 hits in a single postseason!

Ernie Clement becomes the first player in MLB history with 30 hits in a single postseason

This is the best baseball game I’ve ever seen

This is the best baseball game I’ve ever seen

I tweet: "people who see 50% of their monthly paycheck go to rent don't care if a candidate eats with their hands. they want to hear what your candidate is going to do about housing." John Galt 2025 replies: "Move if the cost of living is too high."

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

Lots to love in One Battle After Another but tops for me was seeing Junglepussy back on the big screen (just wish she was in the movie longer)

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

People act like all the men are gone. The men are attending protests. The men are putting together scooters for their kids. The men are getting a set of turntables for the first time. The men are buying Nikes. The men are getting super into noir. They're not Nazis and they're fine. Keep your freaks.

It’s been quite an evolution!

Love all the restaurant & bar activity on Geary, but was just wishing there was more happening beyond new places to eat & drink. And lo, I just learned that @cavershambooks.bsky.social has relocated to the neighbourhood! Welcome!

American Spring? How nonviolent protest in the US is accelerating Contrary to conventional wisdom, anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed 2017 in size, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful.

1. We earlier reported that the volume of protests in 2025 has been far greater than during 2017, that the movement remains overwhelmingly (and even historically) nonviolent, and that protests have been geographically far-reaching. But just how far-reaching have they been?

Absolutely thrilled that @maggiehelwig.bsky.social won the Toronto Book Award for her incredible ENCAMPMENT but bitterly ironic that it was the night before the St. Stephen's encampment is scheduled to be cleared again. If you can be there this morning to support the residents, please go

We have just been informed that the encampment at St Stephen's will be cleared TOMORROW (Thursday). If you can be here in support of the residents, please come. We anticipate that things will start around 9 am and probably go on for some time.

Toronto Star: “What we need to do is convince them that it is a safe option in the right place at the right time,” he said. “And because you get to choose how you use the bike and where you use the bike, you can make it safe.” Longfield, who has opposed Ford’s bike lane legislation in the courts and extensively in the media, sees bike share’s rise going hand-in-hand with the expansion of the city’s bike lane network. “You can see objectively with the number of trips that have been going up with Bike Share, month over month, year after year, that it really does speak to more people cycling as more stations have grown along the cycling network plan expansion,” Longfield said.

Bike Share is a real Toronto success story, and Toronto Parking have been a good steward since it was saved from bankruptcy. All that's missing is a plan to double the current number of trips and catch and pass Montreal in the next 5 years. In the @thestar.com :

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ANALYSIS | Why OpenAI wants to help Canada build homegrown artificial intelligence | CBC News OpenAI wants to help Canada build a sovereign digital infrastructure for artificial intelligence, putting the country in a tough spot as it tries to distance itself from overreliance on U.S. tech comp...

I am once again asking Canadian journalists to ask the most basic-ass question of "on whose land will these be built?" How is it that every other major industry must consider Indigenous rights but with tech it's like "meh".
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A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

Fun fact: the $1.7M in increased revenue generated by putting Bixi stands on Toronto island cancelled out a $1.7M loss in on-street parking revenues due to heavy snow in February
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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

“Aren’t we all just wrecks from the time we’re little kids & every passing day is just a fresh manifestation of how much we’ve been demolished?” www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...

How Mark Carney is complicating Canada’s climate progress | The Narwhal From cancelling the carbon tax to pausing the EV mandate, Mark Carney’s government is making sweeping changes to Canada’s environmental rules

From cancelling the carbon tax to pausing the electric vehicle mandate, Prime Minister Mark Carney is making sweeping changes to Canada’s environmental rules — and complicating Canada’s progress on climate change. thenarwhal.ca/mark-carney-...

They ruined Google search for nothing

#OtD 4 Oct 1939 four Italian immigrant anarchists were arrested in Canada for possession of "subversive" anti-fascist literature and threatened with deportation to fascist Italy: effectively a death sentence. But Emma Goldman helped them get acquitted stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1047...

18 Well-Read People on How, Exactly, They Find the Time We ask book critics, authors, Substackers, New York staffers, and more.

Learned so much from this, like Merve Emre’s now divorced & Boris Kachka ended up at The Atlantic www.thecut.com/article/how-...

The "Alberta advantage" is the lowest minimum wage in the country, the refusal of federal funds, opting out of an affordable daycare system, the stripping of all public services, anti-trans legislation, book bans, and millions of dollars of public funds given to private schools & cronies.

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥

We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪

Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇

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every day JB is out there showing none of this is hard, the democratic party is just that soft

Trump’s Rage at Zohran Just Backfired in a Surprisingly Revealing Way The Democrats who are breaking through are the ones who talk about Trump’s disastrous economic record while also leveling with the public about our slide into authoritarianism.

When Trump threatens to nix funding to NYC if Zohran Mamdani wins, it only helps Zohran. It inflates the Trump threat, positions Zohran as a fighter for NYC against Trump, and pushes Cuomo into the role of Trump stooge.

There's a lesson here for Dems.

New from me:
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‘Gaza Trump Riviera’, ‘MBS Ring’, ‘Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone’? It’s an oligarch’s blood-soaked fantasy, a Disney Land of genocide.

ATTN Canadian govt: The case against Kneecap in the UK has been thrown out, not just on a technicality but because the judge said the charge was "as unjustified as it was flawed." Now let them come play here and express their opinions to their fans as freely as our Constitution mandates.