Deeply funny to learn that a portion of my name is apparently a British insult. Must be new otherwise my parents in 90s England would probably not have chosen it. ¯\(ツ)/¯
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Sorry @tobi, every piece of City comms for the next four years is gonna be these two smiling guys announcing woke lunch programs.
Hey @BradMBradford, @tobi, claims if you were elected, a photo like this wouldn’t be posted by City comms. Could you please elaborate on why he’d think that? Would you pass a motion to ban City accounts from posting any photo of two men in it?
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As a person with a disability myself and married to a woman in a wheelchair I’m tired of all these fuckers that go “what about the disabled”. Pedestrianise more streets and bring better accessible tube stations and we’re golden.
Fuck the cars.
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The utopian stupidity of pretending that driving everywhere is great, when it is deeply inefficient and outdated, especially in cities
Only one day and @MayorofLondon's pedestrianised Oxford Street reveals the utopian stupidity of pretending that walking everywhere is great. Oxford Street was designed for pedestrians and vehicles, not bougie luxury joggers.
The black cab lobby in London is something. How they have managed to convince people they are public transit (when they're inefficient, routinely make a fuss if try to pay by car, and fuck over people with service animals) is wild.
Too many people in London are car-addicted and they just froth when we want to do anything that makes great urban spaces.
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Replying to @cristo_radio @SadiqKhan
Just to be super clear, you’re saying a street full of cars is better for the blind?
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There is no area, of any city which isn’t made infinitely better by well-thought through pedestrianisation.
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If you want to see what a city with 14 million inhabitants looks like without any restrictions on cars go to Cairo or Mumbai enjoy the chaos and breathe in that smog you and your children.
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Expanded view of planned development extending from Downtown Toronto along TTC subway and LRT stations.
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I fear next week's Twitter cabbie meltdown over Oxford Street's pedestrianisation will be apocalyptic. In 3 months' time, no one will care and will wonder why it wasn't done years ago
Remember the outrage when they removed cars from Trafalgar Square? Aldwych? Now, no one cares
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The only bad thing about the Deansgate Square development is that the same thing isn’t happening in every single other city in the UK
Town over the last 10 years.
A change for the better or are we thinking it should have been left as it was?
Manchester
📸 | @Renaker_
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🇨🇦 In Toronto, Canada, international neighbours can be a lift ride apart: Spain, France and Germany occupy floors 12, 22 and 25 of the same Bloor Street tower. That’s three consulates sharing one very international address.
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King’s College London leads a new £50m MRC Centre of Research Excellence, bringing together scientists and clinicians from King’s, @ucl and the @OfficialUoM to understand how the human brain develops.
kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-leads-5…
#BrainDevelopment #Neuroscience #ChildHealth
We could cut half the bus network and still have the same amount of coverage and service because there is *so much* duplication that it slows down the entire thing.
Replying to @UkPolitoons @MayorofLondon
Annual bus subsidy in London has ballooned from about £700m to £1.2bn this year and £1.7bn in 2029. Totally unsustainable, a network heading for bankruptcy.
The extra 10p won't fill much of the gap because the deficit per journey is about 65p (£1.2bn against 1.8bn journeys).
I wrote a whole blog post about this in May, not that anyone read it.
divyeshmistry.substack.com/p…
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you are absolutely sick in the head for thinking a couple deserved to be BEHEADED for having sex, even if it was in a religious space. Demented and deranged
For those of you who are still being mislead by the fake news of the execution in Saudi.
Here is what really happened. Now judge it yourself.
Nazrul Islam and Sithi Akter, two Bangladeshi nationals employed as cleaning workers for the Bin Laden Group in Mecca, became romantically involved while commuting to work. Nazrul lived in a residential villa in Hayyal Iskan, while Sithi resided in Batha Kuraysh.
In May 2023, the two engaged in illicit relations in a secluded stairwell room between Gates 85 and 87 of Masjidul Haram. Nazrul had asked an Indian acquaintance to stand guard downstairs, but the friend secretly recorded the encounter on video.
Later, when the Indian national attempted to make advances toward Sithi and was rejected, he leaked the video online.
The video quickly went viral, prompting immediate intervention by Saudi authorities, who successfully apprehended all three individuals.
The Indian national received a 20-year prison sentence for recording and distributing the footage.
Nazrul Islam and Sithi Akter were detained immediately following their arrest in May 2023.
Nazrul had originally arrived in Saudi Arabia from Bangladesh between November 10 and 13, 2022. Following his arrest in May 2023, he remained incarcerated throughout a lengthy three-and-a-half to four-year judicial process leading up to October 2026.
Throughout this period, official protocol dictated that the Saudi government notify the employer (sponsor) rather than foreign government authorities.
Various rumors circulated online falsely claiming that the individuals were pilgrims performing Umrah or that the charges stemmed merely from public displays of affection.
While the defendants were unmarried, the severity of the legal outcome was not solely based on the act of zina (adultery). Because the offense took place within the sacred precincts of Masjidul Haram, the court determined that they had severely violated the sanctity and honor of Islam's holiest mosque.
Consequently, senior judges of the Supreme Court handed down the death penalty as an exemplary punishment aligned with Quranic principles and the Sunnah.
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Saudi confirmed Oct 14 2026 execution of Nazrul Islam and Siti Akhtar for indecent act in Mecca mosque. Official statements lack post's details of video by Indian, gates 85-87 or May 2023. Consulate: Aug 2023 detention. Narrative is unverified viral claim.
spa.gov.sa/N2701392
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i’ve always found the relentless demonization of kathleen wynne deeply revealing. like at a certain point, the sheer intensity of the vitriol directed at her says far more about how we treat openly gay women in power than it does about her actual record in office
like the comments under this post are vile
I’m proud to have the endorsement of Kathleen Wynne, the 25th Premier of Ontario.
As Kathleen says, we come from different political traditions but we share a value system. We both believe that government exists to lift people up and to help them do the things they cannot do themselves.
This election is a choice between moving forward together to make our city more caring, or going backwards with cuts to the services families depend on. Kathleen is a leader that has always stood up for families, and I am committed to building a city that works for everyone.




































