Mark Jackson-Brown

Mark Jackson-Brown

@markster3000.bsky.social

Car-free parent in Scarborough! Transit lover, eBike rider. He/him

848 Followers 227 Following 1,469 Posts Joined May 2023
5 hours ago

I'm sure it'll be fine. They'll be home by Christmas!

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1 day ago

Thank you so much!

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2 days ago

I am a cis gender Windows user.
I've given thought about it, but I've never had any problems with my current setup, and the idea of switching to the other side, while it might unlock some nice features, seems *fucking exhausting* to me.

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2 days ago

I'll allow him to play us like SimCity 3000, if only because if he were playing us like SimCity 2000, we would absolutely be about to get destroyed by this guy

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2 days ago
NY Daily News 1975 front page:
FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD

General mood

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3 days ago

Everyone loves Five Coats Season

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4 days ago

Ooh, I don't get KWLT in my BlueSky timeline enough

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6 days ago

1010 & TVO framed Tory misconduct as an affair. FTR he had a secret romance with a junior staffer who reported to him. He helped get her a job at Rogers-owned MLSE in a role dealing with him & his office on issues involving public funds. He then voted at city council on an issue she handled at MLSE

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5 days ago

There really isn't one that would be less confusing! Old PC games could use πŸ’Ύ, but cartridges have nothing at all.
πŸ’Ώs have been a standard format for games for 30 years, I think it's fine to just use it for them all.

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5 days ago

Using the πŸ’Ώ emoji for an N64 game is kinda hilarious (but obviously, consistency is key)

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6 days ago
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Best Director goes to Weir
Most Director goes to the Wachowskis
Heck Yeah-est Director goes to Wright
and of course,
Star Trekest Director to Meyer

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6 days ago
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The most wild revelation I've had in light of BC's decision to move to permanent Daylight Saving Time...
Is that Saskatchewan, famed "doesn't do Daylight Saving Time" province, is actually already on permanent DST

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6 days ago

My first time out to "Little Jamacia" (specifically Eglinton/Dufferin), and... uh... this is a lot more Mexican than I was expecting.

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1 week ago
100% expect many many roads to become dead ends, streams, walking paths, snowmobile trails and paths to be severed forever. Water tables will change and dry up. Massive number of farms, houses and businesses will be expropriated starting as soon as the Fall making them homeless. Traffic snarls will be everywhere as cars are diverted to the few crossing points. Your taxes will pay for any new roads that might happen. Insurance rates and deaths will rise from being diverted farther from emergency services. Those are a few of the absolute outcomes, much they have left unsaid so the consultation period can end without opposition. Bells Corners, a suburb of Ottawa

Obviously it's just a copy-paste from a larger anti-Alto group, but applying this doom saying to Bells Corners (an Ottawa suburb) is hilarious. If it came through here, it would use an existing right-of-way, and all of them (including the defunct ones) are already grade-separated

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1 week ago

Oops I replied to an anti-HSR Alto post in my hometown Facebook group.
Pray for me.

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1 week ago
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My hot take is that the battles over TDSB control are basically downstream from the fact that Toronto City Council forced rust belt budget problems on the TDSB by pricing out families with children through their policies.
thelocal.to/ontario-scho...

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1 week ago

1) Grew up on a farm, (too young for the war), the eldest so he was chief farm-hand; then moved to the big city and worked building tractors
2) Contentious Objector during WW2, but drove an Ambulance through the Battle of Britain. Eventually became a teacher. Eventually mostly taught in prisons

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1 week ago

How do we get a taboo going around "a car's stinky exhaust reflects negatively against the driver"

"Jeez, your car stinks! What is wrong with you!? How do you show yourself in public with that thing??"

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1 week ago

Beautiful bike riding today, but somehow the exhaust fumes were extra stinky πŸ˜–

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1 week ago

A lot of guest-calibre people are on it as just attendees! It's crazy! (And many organize the shadow cruise events)
I haven't gone on it since 2017/18; nerd boat was fun.

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1 week ago
Preview
The Finch Store battled the city for years after a complaint about its espresso machine. Finally it has a licence to serve β€œIt’s something I consider as a miracle,” said business owner Yana Miriev said about receiving the licence under the new bylaw.

It's newspaper official people. Reminder: Finch is throwing a party on Saturday to celebrate.
www.thestar.com/business/the...

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1 week ago

The Eglinton Crosstown was built at a speed of 14.4 cm/h

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1 week ago

Contrary to popular belief, TikTok did not invent watching a movie in 37 parts

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1 week ago

Huzzah!

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1 week ago

My condolences.
Always "fun" to go into the next planning meeting and going "here's the list of the next 10 projects. Pick 3"

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1 week ago

Isn't one of your kids a newborn? That would also explain it!

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2 weeks ago

"jeez our city's community rinks/arenas are oversubscribed! We better hike development charges again to build another mega sportsplex at the edge of the city!"

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2 weeks ago

POV: your pull request is about to get dunked on

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