Al (they/them)🍉

Trying to figure out how to be housed again. Recent encampment resident and couch surfer. If you see someone shoplifting, no you didn’t. We keep us safe.

[Al (they/them)🍉 @TO_nuisance]

I am proud to be queer, not bc rainbows are pretty and there’s cool gay merch now, but bc of our history of resistance; of being anti-cop, of our refusal to fuck off and die when everyone wanted us gone. I’m proud of the community we formed to keep ourselves alive

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

A woman is most likely to be abused or killed by her partner when she’s pregnant or trying to flee:

This bill will legalize men murdering their pregnant partners.

All they need to do is say they were trying to stop an abortion.

Femicide written into law.

[Gru @Gruesomebrat]

Would it somehow be better, or at least less bad, if it were a Canadian corporate investment bank, buying up the Toronto Islands?

Maybe we ought to focus on the politician that is circumventing government checks and balances, instead of the recipients of his corruption?

[Rosé Bautista @DesmondCole]

they were probably shocked this didn't work

[Al (they/them)🍉 @TO_nuisance]

Hey NPO workers—our goal should ALWAYS be to make our jobs obsolete. Systemic, meaningful change will make our jobs unneeded, and that should be our GOAL

[Al (they/them)🍉 @TO_nuisance]

Hey NPO workers—our goal should ALWAYS be to make our jobs obsolete. Systemic, meaningful change will make our jobs unneeded, and that should be our GOAL

[CathyCrowe @cathycrowe.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @cathyacrowe]

While #toronto city council debates the expanded a/c program for vulnerable people (it’s a no-brainer) it remains shocking to me there will only be one 24/7 cooling centre for unhoused. And I doubt this house has enough ‘beds’ to sleep the capacity that is needed.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Toru Miyazaki gave 11 cats with advanced kidney disease an experimental injection. 15 others didn’t get it. A year later, 9 of the 11 treated cats were alive. Only 3 of the 15 untreated cats survived. He just filed for approval, and the drug fixes a defect only cats have.

Most cats die from one thing: their kidneys fail. By age 10, 4 in 10 cats already have chronic kidney disease, and by age 15, the rate doubles to 8 in 10. Once diagnosed, a cat has about 2 years left.

The reason kidney disease hits cats so hard is a broken protein in their blood. All mammals carry a protein that helps the kidneys clean out waste. In humans and dogs, the protein floats freely and goes to work when the kidneys are in trouble. In cats, it stays stuck to another protein and can’t get loose. So the waste piles up, and the kidneys eventually give out.

Miyazaki originally found the protein in 1999, back when he was at the University of Tokyo. He figured out the cat-specific glitch in 2015. The paper he published in the Veterinary Journal in February laid out the trial. The injection is a working version of the missing protein. His company, the Institute for AIM Medicine, filed the approval paperwork with Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture on April 24, 2026. If the review clears, the drug goes on sale in spring 2027.

The 30-year lifespan figure in the tweet is Miyazaki’s own projection of what cats could reach without kidney disease. The trial only ran a year, and the average cat today lives 15. Most die from the same disease this injection treats.

The research almost died in 2020. After running out of funding during COVID, Miyazaki went public. Cat owners across Japan responded by sending in 300 million yen, around 2 million dollars total. He resigned from the University of Tokyo and worked on the drug full time. The treatment in front of regulators today exists because cat lovers refused to let the research die.

[Matt Elliott @GraphicMatt]

On to member motions now. A motion from Councillor Paul AInslie to ask the province to allow homeless people to collect the shelter portion of the ODSP benefit CARRIES 22-1. https://t.co/KqzUzyDoSo

[Marigold @kittygang_4ever]

I need everyone in Toronto to agree to NOT SHOP ON MONDAY. Stand up for worker’s rights. The more they come after worker’s rights for the people in retail, the more emboldened they will be to go after yours.

Do not shop on Monday. I’m begging.

[Lorraine Lam @lorrainelamchop]

just also gonna add that i didn’t see Moise or any other city councillor speak up when Chrissy froze to death this winter across the park he wants to close at night.

what then, you say, about violence and safety?

[Al (they/them)🍉 @TO_nuisance]

Imagine politicizing stuff. As a politician.

[Matt Elliott @GraphicMatt]

"All of us need to resist the politicization of this," says Bradford on the issues at 500 Dawes. Yeah, imagine politicizing stuff.

[Edward Row 𓃡 @edwardrow]

allegory for earth day in here somewhere - melting ice blocks with fresh water in a parking lot of a country warming at twice the global average

[Diana Chan McNally @DianaCMcNally]

80% of people in an Ontario jail haven't been convicted of a crime.

“This lays waste to the principle of the presumption of innocence. It also lays waste to the argument we have a catch and release system and that our bail is too lenient.”

https://t.co/RFGoLUKDM4

[Al (they/them)🍉 @TO_nuisance]

@MadelynCarys @DianaCMcNally @Gruesomebrat @fordnation For the last godforsaken time: supervised consumption sites don’t provide drugs

[darius. @_dariussimpson]

“we’re not angry enough” is off. it’s more that we aren’t organized enough. what is anger with nowhere to go? nothing to do? we won’t spontaneously combust our way out of what’s to come. what’s already here. take the fact of yesterday on the chin. build today, for tomorrow.

[Galen Naidoo Harris @GalenNHarris]

Kathleen Wynne did this a decade ago. The Ford Government paused it. You've been paying more for your tickets since 2018 because of Doug Ford.

[Doug Johnson Hatlem @djjohnso]

Toronto News: a person was found dead and frozen stuck to ground near 519 Church today

I know the man who discovered body well

There are already games being played to keep this from being major media, but it’s likely that @oliviachow’s horrid homeless policy played big role

[Vicky Sanderson @vickysanderson]

@SHJNetwork @Gruesomebrat HOW on earth do we get TO residents to give a sh$t about neighbours sleeping outside, or to gain any understanding of how degrading and harmful that is for them when Councillors like @LilyChengTO ignore the homeless people living just metres from her Willowdale office?

[Jessa 🎙️🔻 @Jessa_McLean]

As Olivia Chow cheers them on, Toronto Police continue their crackdown on protests.

Arresting legal observers for criminal harassment after they asked for their badge number.

Charges dropped - but the point was made.

They can do whatever they want.

Hear it firsthand 👇