Tim Laengert

A pebble in the stream of consciousness. He/Him. Median before mean, last first.

[Tim Laengert @MumbledVanities]

@Open_TO Hi, thanks for the data. I'm using it for this: https://t.co/I7jTblaRtw

[Tim Laengert @MumbledVanities]

@BigMeanInternet 90% accuracy is useful in some cases if you can easily know which are correct. When you don't know which 10% are errors or in what way, that's a different story.

[The Grind @TheGrindTO]

NEW: Police Chief Plays Loose with the Truth on Radio Call-in Show

Toronto’s chief of police got grilled on excessive use of force at Palestine solidarity protests, and he defended the police breaking people’s bones and inflicting concussions. https://t.co/2rdYuFwmmT

[Evan Dyer @EvanDyerCBC]

Inexplicable discrepancies exist between Canadian government assurances that arms have stopped flowing to Israel, and both Israeli import data and publicly-available shipping records and tracking data. https://t.co/oCh5cm10W1

[Tim Laengert @MumbledVanities]

@lorrainelamchop Imagine hating people enough to endure cold rainy misery solely for the sake of inflicting cold rainy misery on others

[Tim Laengert @MumbledVanities]

@lorrainelamchop 14,000 bottles is about one per person for the whole weekend. Congratulations to the mayor on clearing the lowest possible bar.

One of the world's richest cities on one of the world's biggest freshwater lakes and we can't manage to provide publicly accessible drinking water.

[Lorraine Lam @lorrainelamchop]

it feels like 44C out here.
i’ve been out here 45 min and it’s so hot and lots of people are hiding in the shade but so many have asked for water.

there are no cooling centres. the city has no water out for people. the heat is dangerous.

[Lorraine Lam @lorrainelamchop]

going into a heatwave and the city’s plan to support unhoused people is the “heat relief network”, telling people to stay cool by going to malls, splash pads, pools…

this is absurd. bring back cooling centres. deploy water trucks.

[Jack Hauen @jackhauen]

Breaking: Private investigators have been poking around two Toronto supervised consumption sites of late. Staff worried they were hired by the Ford government to bolster its arguments against the sites.

They were right.

#onpoli #topoli

https://t.co/NstvzjDjmb

[Greg C @c_shadowspaces]

Toronto Public Health & Toronto Police in their infinite wisdom have decided paying 3 police $90 an hr plus a nurse to do basic outreach is a good use of public money. You can see the 3 police twiddling their thumbs & walking in circles. The red backpack belongs to a TPH nurse…

[Tim Laengert @MumbledVanities]

@Toronto_TODAY5 @AshleyFoxRPN @DanforthTweets We need more social housing and safe shelter spaces. But before deciding someone can't have autonomy I would ask: were there enough spaces? Did this person know about them? Could they get to them? If yes and they're still outside, I bet most, if asked, can give a good reason why.

[Tim Laengert @MumbledVanities]

@Toronto_TODAY5 @AshleyFoxRPN @DanforthTweets The idea that most people are refusing to go inside because they lack the mental capacity to do what's best for their own health is a harmful lie designed to make it the person's own fault while absolving three inept levels of government and an uncaring society.

[Tim Laengert @MumbledVanities]

@Toronto_TODAY5 @AshleyFoxRPN @DanforthTweets I know there are many times more people living outside than there are inside spaces.

What's your plan? Send the cops around when it's cold outside to scoop up hundreds of people? Or are they permanently incarcerated and confined to their little cots?

[Tim Laengert @MumbledVanities]

@Toronto_TODAY5 @AshleyFoxRPN @DanforthTweets Yes, a handful of small warming centres that open. The closest one is 4km away. There are a thousand rational reasons someone might not want to or be able to access one.
Maybe we should look at the reasons before forcefully institutionalizing people in spaces that don't exist.

[Tim Laengert @MumbledVanities]

@Toronto_TODAY5 @AshleyFoxRPN @DanforthTweets https://t.co/idtgb93lfI

This is not a fact. The city's own data shows they still turn away hundreds of people per night who *want* to enter shelters, and that doesn't include the people who have given up because they know they're full.

[Tim Laengert @MumbledVanities]

@reggcohn "By provoking a fierce counteroffensive, while leaving Gazans defenceless, he created the conditions for self-eradication"

"Self-eradication"? Do you hear yourself? This is genocide apologia.

[Nicholas Pope @pope_nicholas]

Just recently, the Federal Court compelled IRCC to disclose internal memos about the decision to give "exceptional" immigration measures to Ukrainians but not to "other countries experiencing war, civil unrest, or other life threatening emergencies" 1/5

https://t.co/LDsRQSxZXN

[Shelter and Housing Justice Network @SHJNetwork]

Why is Toronto Public Health partnering with the Toronto Police? This will have really harmful consequences. It will discourage people from accessing medical supports. It will destroy the trust that outreach workers have spent years building with unhoused people...

[Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention @LemkinInstitute]

The Lemkin Institute has had it with the cynical lies and propaganda from Israel and the USA. One can have different views about the definition of genocide, but one may not use definitional disputes to deny genocide. If a genocide may be occurring, every nation is compelled by customary law to try to stop it.

Let us be clear: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The US is complicit in genocide. These are not political statements. They are statements that are made from knowledge and experience. Nevertheless, you do not need a PhD , a law degree, or X-ray vision to see the genocidal dimensions of Israel’s carnage in Gaza. It is clear in the behavior of the state and its military, on full display in yesterday’s horrific bombardment of a Rafah camp.

But even if there were legitimate doubts about Israel’s genocide, there is no doubt that Israel is committing atrocity crimes of the most barbaric kind. Israel must be stopped. Israel must be stopped now.

We are disgusted by Western leaders, especially in the USA, Germany, and the UK. They have demonstrated not only that they don’t care one bit about genocide prevention and human rights, but also that they are willing to allow an ally to commit atrocity crimes while they offer material and diplomatic support. It is reprehensible and the individuals involved in this gaslighting campaign should be deeply ashamed. They should also be put on trial.

Humanity has a choice: Either we decide that our children can all be killed whenever a superior force alleges that “terrorists” are among us, or we decide that under no circumstances will we allow these superior forces to lay waste to our world any longer.

We each must choose and act accordingly. The watershed moment is now.

[Tim Laengert @MumbledVanities]

@Cain The same applies to regular text documents too of course -- a text-based pdf full of emails is much more useful than an image-based pdf.

Specifying "machine-readable" in almost any FOI request ends up being a must. But obviously that doesn't help if they choose to be difficult.