Peter Dazeley/Getty Images When you feel overwhelmed, you may react in ways that not only don’t help the situation, but that even make it worse. Maybe you’re oblivious to these patterns, or you know w
In 2013, I applied for a travel visa to the United States. Along with the visa, America, with her boundless generosity, also granted me a new name. ✍︎ FNU? Was this a typo? Did someone’s cat enter my
Really appreciating @bychrischeung's feature in @TheTyee on the daily lives of bottle binners in the city, and the discrimination they face while trying to earn an income. This is the result of extensive work and thinking.
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— Jackie Wong (@_jackiewong)
May 18, 2023
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It’s an interactive graphic from The New York Times , published as part of an article entitled “ Who’s Running for President in 2024? ” (updated April 25,
A tale of Montreal and Toronto, and their different paths on regional #governance. https://t.co/Q2Orv6LpKW
@IRPP @joshuamedicoff
#Montreal #Toronto
— Park People / Ami·es des parcs (@Park_People)
May 17, 2023
Tweeted by @Park_People
My @TorontoStar column: With fears of wild tailgate parties, increased DUIs and other social ills, council’s debate on allowing people to drink in parks got very silly last week.
Toronto’s next mayor needs to be ready to cut through the silliness.
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— Matt Elliott…
As a designer, I appreciate (finally) reading a take on this that’s more interested in the stumbling aesthetic choices than their supposed deep political meaning. https://t.co/zCGxJALJim
— Joshua Hind (@joshuahind)
May 14, 2023
Tweeted by @joshuahind
"This is a situation we should employ @CycleToronto to do public education. We should talk to Uber & say what are you doing to ensure the people are riding safely? These are all steps we should take before sending police after vulnerable working people.”
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— The Biking…
There’s a new coffee shop on Spadina “sandwiched” between Paramount and Wide Open: Cubano Kings opened May 8 with delicious cafécito and a celebratory guava pastry from Felix, pictured here. Welcome to the neighbourhood! https://t.co/J1mIrXqHts https://t.co/sYAwPyNE9z
— Garment District…
Introduction: In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid took the unusual step of hiring a market research firm. Their…
“The good thing about Iceland,” I was once told by the exceptional pianist Víkingur Ólafsson, “is that anything is possible.”
Incredible peace about the strong classical music scene in Iceland, featuring many of our most beloved artists.
https://t.co/CLuwMxY7LS
— Iceland Music (@IcelandMusic)
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Because my brain was infested with worms at a very early age, I value continuity of username across platforms more than my own sanity. I have used the same
Credit... Rebecca Clarke By the Book The artist, whose exhibition “Timelapse” is at the Guggenheim, would invite Stein to dinner with Cervantes and Murasaki Shikibu: “Stein might instigate a … debate
To catch a fake The first step is to slow down. We are inundated with media all day, and only need as little as 13 milliseconds to process each image. That may be enough to register what it is, but no
Photo by Paula Mariel Salischiker One of the more baffling events of the first quarter of 2023 was the mass protest in Oxford (England, not Mississippi) against
.@DianneSaxe proposes targeting working cyclists/e-bikers w identifiers & police enforcement. Pedestrian safety is critical but this is an inefficient & potentially harmful response to safety concerns. We need safe infra, education & corp responsibility:
https://t.co/8ekmqEZifQ
— The Biking…
Gil Scott Heron argued that the Revolution Will Not Be Televised . Yet recently in the UK that statement is being challenged by disruptive environmental protesters unexpectedly gatecrashing live sport
For a decade and a half , Twitter held true utility for the contemporary reader. At its best, the site offered brisk access to the news and the figures…
Fiction “Death of an Author” is a murder mystery coaxed from artificial-intelligence tools like ChatGPT. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone c
Reboot turns three today. This makes it a toddler in human-years, a young adult in dog-years, and either way the longest project I’ve ever nurtured. That’s longer than I spent at Stanford and longer t
Credit... Photograph by Jamie Chung. Concept by Pablo Delcan. Whether the platform is dying or not, it’s time to reckon with how exactly it broke our brains.
A longer version of this essay originally appeared in the Winter 2023 issue of Liberties . Reprinted with permission. I have been a college teacher for some of…
Chinatowns everywhere are under threat of disappearing—and along with them, the rich history of communities who fought for a place to belong.
@TVOdocs Original 'Big Fight in Little Chinatown' premieres May 9 on TVO, YouTube and the TVO Today mobile app. https://t.co/nEcW8Yy0eR
— TVO (@tvo)
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I profiled @AFSulli's and his superb new novel "The Marigold" for the @TorontoStar because a) this is what I do, and b) you should read the novel https://t.co/esj1rbXt9r
— James Grainger (@JamesNGrainger) Apr 19, 2023
Tweeted by @JamesNGrainger
Let’s say you’re locked in a heated geopolitical spat with a few of your online friends in a small chatroom, and you happen to be privy to some classified documents that could back up your argument. W
Songbook Double Seduction in Bull Durham Features — Aug 26, 2022 Share F or a brief period in the eighties and nineties, Ron Shelton was the king, if not the inventor, of the sports rom-com. Lost-caus
We're asked to subscribe to a lot these days. Music, tv, car features... It's all a bit much. But this, this is something I could get behind! A beer a week for life for $350. https://t.co/WJKxDjWiQn
— 🌎 Ben Holt (@beanjammin) Apr 8, 2023
Tweeted by @beanjammin
Iowa’s Caitlin Clark celebrates after an NCAA Women’s Final Four semifinals basketball game against South Carolina on Friday, March 31, 2023, in Dallas. (AP Photo / Darron Cummings) In a less-sexist v
Digital Game Culture in Korea: The Social at Play by @cheeflo is now available for Pre-order, with ebook coming soon. Check it out! 30% off Code: 8S23COM Make this your 'airport book' in time for conference season 📷 https://t.co/s7IescbAUN https://t.co/P1s3dkZVtu
— Dr. Florence Chee (she/her)…
Mengxin Li / The Verge Part of / You, me, and UI Living with colorblindness feels like you’re constantly being pranked by the world in subtle, irritating ways. The other day, I was booking a flight on
Learn how Fission models its work and communication style on the distributed systems we help build and support. The Case for Fewer Meetings A study by the
Image: Mengxin Li / The Verge A couple years ago, Adele had a complaint about Spotify. Her complaint was not about the miserly rates at which it compensates musicians, the monopolistic stranglehold it
“G ettttttt outta my pub!” Nia Archives has gone full Peggy Mitchell. Standing behind the bar of her east London local, The Eleanor Arms, she’s channelling Albert Square’s formidable landlady as she p
Published 3 January Share page About sharing Related Topics Sound of 2023 Image caption, Nia Archives is at the forefront of the revival in jungle music By Mark Savage BBC Music Correspondent Last yea
Sometimes malls are fun. Sometimes, they die. These days, our longtime social media hangout Twitter moulders somewhere between: Longtime anchor tenants have…
Lauren Schneider didn’t know what IRL fatigue meant until this past April, when her company held its first offsite meeting since the start of the pandemic. Being together for nearly a week with the re
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It’s five months since Elon Musk overpaid for a relatively small microblogging platform called Twitter. The platform had punched above its weight in pure user numbers thanks to an unrivaled ability to
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