Rob Drimmie

two accounts, @planning.cityof.toronto.ca and @torontoarchives.cityof.toronto.ca

big fan of whichever city hall staff came up with using .cityof. for handles

The title reads: Calling LGBTQIA+ Newcomers in Ontario

Calling LGBTQIA+ Newcomers in Ontario: $50 Honorarium for a 90-minute virtual consultation
Uthando Collective is hosting a virtual community consultation for LGBTQIA+ newcomers. To sign up, go to: https://bit.ly/LGBTNewcomersForm

Transgender Day of Remembrance - Wikipedia

Today's the Transgender Day of Remembrance. The Wikipedia page is a quick read if you're looking for a place to learn a little bit about it.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transge...

Dutch liberal party overtakes far-right nationalists in snap parliamentary election.

The far-right Party for Freedom (PVV), whose leader Geert Wilders has argued against aid to Ukraine, lost nearly a third of its seats in parliament, exit polls show.

On a bright yellow and orange background, the title reads: Intersex Awareness Day in purple.

Today is Intersex Awareness Day! Intersex folks are people who have both male and female biology, or their biology is ambiguous in some way. Want to learn more about intersex people? Check out the website for InterACT, Advocates for Intersex Youth: https://interactadvocates.org/

Doug Ford is showing his true disdain for renters and is testing how much he can get away with.

We can’t let him.

Now is the time to get organized and fight back if you haven’t already!

YSW Tenant Union is hosting a mass zoom call Sunday Oct 26 8pm to fight back.

www.tenantunion.ca/allout

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

Nothing warms my heart as much as seeing someone doing this. The world is *full* of people doubling down on shit they don’t even believe out of a sense of pride, and seeing someone graciously acknowledge being wrong, in full public view, is quite inspiring.

City of Kitchener warns of phishing scam involving claims about the Christkindl Market The City of Kitchener has put out a warning to small businesses about an email phishing scam.

City of Kitchener warns of phishing scam involving claims about the Christkindl Market

There is a graphic with the lesbian flag colours in random doodles. In the middle, the text reads: International Lesbian Day.

Today is International Lesbian Day! We 🩷🧡❤️ our Lesbian Community.

What a lovely message from @bookshop.org. Glad to see them growing and growing. We CAN claim back what has been taken from us by these monstrous corporations, and it starts with things like this. Grab some books these next couple days!

Landback book list to get your truth & reconciliation reading on 🧡 #booksky #decolonize

And new paper out: Pleias 1.0: the First Family of Language Models Trained on Fully Open Data

How we train an open everything model on a new pretraining environment with releasable data (Common Corpus) with an open source framework (Nanotron from HuggingFace).

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Wrote this for all my Gen-X broken-brained ladies 💜

It is completely bonkers to me that these people think they're making an argument in favour of faster speed limits. Every reddit thread on the cameras I see I bite my tongue so hard because I would only respond with deep derision and that doesn't help. "I'm a bad driver so I need to go faster" ???

Quote graphic featuring the following quote from Prime Minister Carney’s statement on Canada’s recognition of Palestine: “Canada recognises the State of Palestine and offers our partnership in building the promise of a peaceful future for both the State of Palestine and the State of Israel.”

Today, Canada recognises the State of Palestine.
 
My statement: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

Canada beats New Zealand to advance to 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup Final Canada held off a furious late rally from New Zealand to beat the Black Ferns 34-19 to advance to the final of the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup.

Canada's Women's Rugby team going for the gold! Pretty amazing. #RWC2025. www.tsn.ca/rugby/articl...

A bear in the wild, smiling and posing coyly

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

Building ION to Cambridge, Costs and Benefits Things are heating up on ION stage 2, with more voices for LRT and with Regional Council hearing next week about the preliminary results of the Initial Business Case. In November, staff will share the...

Our first IONizeWR newsletter update is on the initial business case. We want to see LRT all the way to downtown Cambridge, and then keep building. Let's think bigger:

Why do you appreciate unions?

I’ll start:

Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits

Court rules in favour of Kitchener encampment residents, pausing plans to evict them The Region of Waterloo’s plans to evict residents at a Kitchener encampment have been put on hold after a judge ruled in favour of the residents.

Court rules in favour of Kitchener encampment residents, pausing plans to evict them

Yep, this one's the "just raised crossings" experiment.

Spectrum Waterloo Region is officially here on BlueSky! If you've never heard of us before, we are a 2SLGBTQIA+ community space in Waterloo Region, Ontario. We run over 40 different support and drop-in groups every month for members of the rainbow community here in the region.

I remember delivering The Record in the late 80s and early 90s and some days that thing was huge. The pamphlet my parents still get delivered (I have a digital subscription) is barely even the size of what an insert used to be.

University of Waterloo study finds female pilots outperform their male counterparts under pressure A new study from researchers at the University of Waterloo is challenging the gender biases in aviation.

University of Waterloo study finds female pilots outperform their male counterparts under pressure

This is ✨Senator Kim Pate✨

Canada's champion for Basic Income in Parliament

She just gave one of the most iconic speeches ever
- it's cheaper than poverty
- encourages work and entrepreneurs
- cuts crime and helps victims of abuse

We break it down🧵

Chappell Roan announces tour and will donate $1 per ticket to trans youth charities Chappell Roan has announced a US tour ahead of her new album, and $1 from the concerts' tickets will go to charities supporting trans youth.

Chappell Roan announces tour and pledges to donate $1 from each ticket to trans youth charities

It's an interesting story and all, but it seems a little out of scope for a Kitchener-focused feed.

And one of them brought corn home and it was - unsurprisingly - SO GOOD

imo, if someone believes some races or ethnicities are genetically inferior to others, that person has revealed a weakness of mind and character that casts extreme if not irrefutable doubt on their other ideas. why would i expect them to use more rigor on, eg, housing than they do on human nature?