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|| mostly IRL || can’t help your career, but you’ll never be my stepping stone

[HS @HelenSpitzer]

This is the last day of our Facebook aquaintance:
I will meet you later
in somebody's café.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

“It feels as if the walls are closing in and you cannot catch your breath.”

Yousef Hammash, who is a film-maker and works for the Norwegian Refugee Council, sends his eyewitness report from inside Gaza.

A warning - this film contains extremely distressing images.

[HS @HelenSpitzer]

♥️Today's rebroadcast on @SparkCBC "Can we design cities to foster well-being?" is perfect listening: Create/celebrate liveable cities –– save the existing 800+ mature trees https://t.co/tljF7qsrk6 #saveontarioplace #actualwellness #trees #shinrinyoku #forestbathing #stopthespa

[Jay Pitter @Jay_Pitter]

A lesson I’ve learned from the Ontario Place fiasco is that we must steward,
use, monitor & celebrate our public spaces with greater vigilance. We must love on public spaces to the point of obsession so corrupt governments & corporations will think twice before coming for them.

[HS @HelenSpitzer]

@bettinamak I love Paige Wassell on this problem https://t.co/Dq4zHxnyYh

[Patrick Moss 🇨🇦 @VoyceReason]

We've had Airbnb for 15 years in Canada. If you want to understand the housing crisis, start here 👇

[HS @HelenSpitzer]

@mbonsma you're being gaslit

[dash @thedigitaldash_]

me patiently waiting for airbnb’s downfall so i can be a homeowner

[nam kiwanuka @namshine]

This is incredible. The power of one person.

[HS @HelenSpitzer]

@ErrolNazareth I remember this!

[HS @HelenSpitzer]

@MsPinto123 @TorontoTeacherX It’s weird that a teacher doesn’t understand civics.

[HS @HelenSpitzer]

@TorontoTeacherX Buh bye

[HS @HelenSpitzer]

@WordsandGuitar I am looking for such a room right now

[HS @HelenSpitzer]

I love the work Lorraine does + have followed her for years ✌️ She should be RUNNING the strategy for unhoused people in this city.

[nam kiwanuka @namshine]

.⁦@lorrainelamchop⁩ “Everybody that I’m working with, they’re just trying to survive.”:

“The number of tents and structures across the city has doubled since last year, as shelter closures loom and funding for some housing subsidies has dried up.”
https://t.co/sFYNYuuasc

[HS @HelenSpitzer]

All kids have the right to their own emotions, feelings, expression of identity (when it harms absolutely noone) –– and privacy

[Farrah Khan @farrahsafiakhan]

LGBTQ children have the human right not to be outed without their consent. Government and schools must prioritize the right to autonomy and well-being of children, including their right to choose if, when & how they disclose their 2SLGBTQIA identity.

[HS @HelenSpitzer]

@emilynussbaum ... other slices of perfection:
Bronski Beat's "Smalltown Boy"
Nina. Simone's "Sinnerman" (the claps!!)
"Echo Beach" by Martha & the Muffins
Costello's "I Don't Want to Go to Chelsea"
sooo many by Spoon "Everything Hits at Once"
& an odd outlier "Girl Like You" by Edwyn Collins

[HS @HelenSpitzer]

@emilynussbaum ALSO: David Bowie's Rock n Roll Suicide. When I learned to play this I noticed it doesn't go back or repeat, but keeps pressing on forward (including the bass and the horns) and concludes in a kind of euphoria –– and a totally new chord progression that comes out of nowhere.

[HS @HelenSpitzer]

@doree truly great. (You may have to know someone who works in it?) WNYC *used to be there https://t.co/22kRCZu1Wx