@healeytypes

Satiably curious he/him @healey.bsky.social

Joined October 2012
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Playwrights who’ve made a living in American films playing fascist dumdums: Tracey Letts, Sam Shepard, Wallace Shawn.
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Yeah it’s too bad we didn’t litigate this before they went in, we could have saved ourselves a lot of time and money oh hang on we fucking did, for years
CityNews Toronto
@CityNewsTOOct 13
Nearly two-thirds, 62 per cent, of Torontonians say they support the province turning bike lanes back into motor vehicle lanes on major Toronto streets, according to a new poll. toronto.citynews.ca/2026/10/…

Nearly two-thirds of Torontonians support bike lane removals on major streets by the province: poll

Nearly two-thirds, 62 per cent, of Torontonians say they support the removal of bike lanes to turn them back into motor vehicle lanes on major Toronto streets by the province, according to a new...

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I’m a 63-year-old cyclist whose mind wanders constantly. You want me in a bike lane.
Toronto Life
@torontolifeOct 13
Cyclists have planned a two-wheeled protest along Bloor Street West today as construction crews move in to dismantle the bike lane torontolife.com/city/fords-b…

Doug Ford's bike lane removals begin this week despite significant public pushback - Toronto Life

But cyclists haven’t given up: they plan to take their fight to the Supreme Court

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Joanbeam3000@Joanbeam3000Oct 12
Replying to @rodmickleburgh
In a 2012 interview, Flora MacDonald reminisced about getting involved in the Vietnamese boat people project along with her great friend Marion Dewar (then Mayor of Ottawa). A very uplifting story. 🥹 Source: Diplomat Magazine diplomatonline.com/2012/10/f… #CdnPoli
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Rod Mickleburgh@rodmickleburghOct 11
Accepting tens of thousands of Vietnamese boat people was one of the best, most compassionate decisions this country ever made…they have enriched this country in so many ways…and the decision was made by the short-lived govt of Joe Clark #cdnpoli
Rod Mickleburgh@rodmickleburghOct 11
A noble Canadian RT theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…

Diplomat Ian Hamilton led operation to save desperate refugees afloat on the South China Sea

The immigration official, who was haunted by what he had witnessed, said the crisis was ‘probably the greatest human tragedy of our time’

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I agree with this. Also, MAiD is one of those completely unsolvable, and therefore endless, debates.
The Globe and Mail
@globeandmailOct 9
Opinion: Refusing MAID for mental disorders will come at a terrible cost theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…

Opinion: Refusing MAID for mental disorders will come at a terrible cost

The government’s intention to bar those requests sends a message to mentally ill Canadians that they don’t have autonomy over their own death while every other grievously ill person does

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First toque round of golf tomorrow morning
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None of this is true?
David@privatecitizennOct 9
I sold heat pumps for 25 years in Winnipeg. Its a $40 k adventure as you need 2000 cfm air (new ducting) 5 tons of hp and 50,000 btu back up furnace. Likely add $50k to upgrade from 2x4 construct to 2x6 if even possible
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This and the Nobel in the same week. Will Canada get tired of winning? cbc.ca/news/canada/planking-…

Alberta woman, 61, breaks her own world record by planking for 5 hours | CBC News

DonnaJean Wilde, a grandmother of 12, broke her own Guinness World Record for holding the longest female abdominal plank during the Huntsman World Senior Games in Utah this week.

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Toque and sunscreen
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Whereas tax law is utterly transparent
Andy Grewal
@ProfGrewalOct 8
I honestly just don’t get poetry. Why is this good?
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It’s a relief this kind of thing can’t be bookmarked and checked in a year can we please have the election tomorrow
Now Toronto
@nowtorontoOct 8
Mayoral candidate Olivia Chow is promising to build 10,000 new rental homes, including affordable units, next year. #Toronto nowtoronto.com/news/olivia-c…

Olivia Chow promises 10,000 new rental homes in Toronto next year| NOW Toronto

Olivia Chow is promising 10,000 new rental homes in Toronto in 2027 as she targets 65,000 new homes by 2030.

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troglodyte@saddy_issuesOct 8
when I was in college, my professor asked Anne Carson if she would give a lecture on her translation of Sappho to the entire freshman class, because they’d been assigned the book and she just replied “Everything I have to say is in the text” lmao congrats queen
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She’s a stone cold baller
Favfi@favouritefiOct 8
When Anne Carson received her honorary degree from UofT my queer lit prof was the one who handed it to her. He also handed her a box with photos of tattoos his students had gotten featuring quotes from her books. She apparently had no reaction.
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Gil Meslin@g_meslinOct 8
Toronto Star
@TorontoStarOct 8
The Ford government is set to remove Etobicoke bike lanes next week. thestar.com/ford-government-…

Ford government to remove Etobicoke bike lanes next week

Construction will occur between a nearly 1.2-kilometre stretch of Bloor Street West in Etobicoke.

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This is terrible comms can we hurry the election up any
Team Chow News & Alerts@TeamOliviaChowOct 7
Brad Bradford is standing by his endorsement from Scott Aitchison, the Poilievre Conservative MP who wants to keep handguns legal on our streets. Why would Bradford campaign for, and accept the endorsement of, someone who thinks it’s okay to have more hand guns on our streets?
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This is clarifying; now I know which life-destroying illnesses to aim for and which to avoid.
Yuan Yi Zhu
@yuanyi_zOct 7
Sean Fraser @SeanFraserMP has announced that Canada will scrap the expansion of MAiD for mental illness BUT will legalise “advance directives” for MAiD.
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James@exhaustdataOct 8
This one goes out to all of the tumblr kids reblogging that “I’ll take care of you / it’s rotten work / not to me, not if it’s you” exchange from her Euripides translation
The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrizeOct 8
BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
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Nice one Anne Carson
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