Public posts from @phire@phire.place
This week's Show Up Toronto is a little late, due to life, but we've got a fun little write-up of the Billy Bishop saga and a ton of organizing and mobilizing events around the city as per usual! Thanks to @ ruhee for the photo!! https:// buttondown.com/showup/archive/ show-up-toronto-july-30-2026/ # toronto
I know bosses are bosses everywhere but there's something particularly silly about wikipedia specifically being like "nah" when offered the opportunity to take the side of collective action https:// cwa-union.org/news/releases/wi ki-workers-united-uscwa-will-file-nlrb-election-after-wikimedia-foundation-declines
hey # TOPoli pals, I found out a local vintage store I like is blaming a massive revenue drop and the subsequent closure of their bathurst location to the bus lanes getting rid of parking spots. before I write them off forever, has there been any actual study of the local retail impact?
This week's @ showuptoronto is about, what else, our apocalyptic sky, and the policy decisions that have led us there. Plus, 50+ events in the city in the next week to get involved! Subscribe & tell your friends https:// buttondown.com/showup/archive/ show-up-toronto-july-16-2026/ # toronto
I’m sure there have already been a million jokes about how toronto’s sky is the colour of diffusion, tuned to a shitty generated ghibli knock-off, but here’s one more
Firefox on iOS feels increasingly unstable, is that just me? Should I try Vivaldi?
my phone is in grayscale most of the time but sometimes I turn it off to take a photo or something and forget to turn it back on and it’s truly humiliating how much more stuck on it and drawn to it I am immediately, half a million years of evolution and I still just want the pretty shiny treasure
This week's @ showuptoronto newsletter is out! A recap of the very funny Sneaky Dee’s denouement, but more importantly, 50+ events for mobilizing and organizing this week, including a bunch of data centre (derogatory) oriented meetups. Tell your friends, subscribe, etc https:// buttondown.com/showup/archive/ show-up-toronto-july-9-2026/ # toronto
This seems relevant to and promising for many moots https://www. wired.com/story/this-buried-ap ple-feature-turns-an-iphone-into-the-perfect-kids-dumb-phone/
This week's @ showuptoronto newsletter is about heat waves and climate policy and necropolitics, and as always, highlights excellent organizing events happening across the city. Get involved to take care of each other https:// buttondown.com/showup/archive/ show-up-toronto-july-2-2026/ # toronto
RE: https:// det.social/@lostgen/1168205465 68940358 for the love of god
This week’s @ showuptoronto is in your inboxes and it’s a guest email by our volunteer muhannad! Yay muhannad!! Plus, the usual slate of events https:// buttondown.com/showup/archive/ show-up-toronto-june-25-2026/
I feel simultaneously delighted by the goose memes and also like I’m having a stroke, which I guess is not dissimilar how this timeline makes me feel in general (though usually with less delight)
This week's @ showuptoronto newsletter includes me getting annoyed about the attempt to manufacture consent around Billy Bishop and by extension everything the Carney government has done so far, a call to action for Ford Fest, and 88 (!!) events for the next 8 days https:// buttondown.com/showup/archive/ show-up-toronto-june-18-2026/
This week's @ showuptoronto is in your inbox! A brief comment on FIFA and the groups in the city most impacted by it, plus 76 community organizing and mobilizing events for the next week https:// buttondown.com/showup/archive/ show-up-toronto-june-11-2026/
This week's @ showuptoronto email is slowly rolling into your inboxes, which is mostly about the travesty that is Bill C-22, what you can do about it, and other tech activism pathways. Also, as is common these days, 70+ events over the next week! https:// buttondown.com/showup/archive/ show-up-toronto-june-4-2026/
This week's @ showuptoronto newsletter just went out! Some thoughts on the social services strike (fuck yeah), not being overwhelmed by the scale of the fight, and picking a lane and (as always) showing up. Plus, 79 events in the next 8 days! https:// buttondown.com/showup/archive/ show-up-toronto-may-28-2026/
This week's @ showuptoronto newsletter features a cool prisoner support org that's looking for volunteers, and some thoughts on the current state of prisons in Ontario. Plus, 72 events over the next 8 days! Sign up, tell your friends. https:// buttondown.com/showup/archive/ show-up-toronto-may-21-2026/#toronto
Signal has threatened to pull out of Canada if C-22 is passed. This is a five alarm fire folks, call and email your MPs!! https://www. theglobeandmail.com/politics/a rticle-signal-warns-it-would-pull-out-of-canada-if-made-to-comply-with-lawful/
Toronto! I saw Take Rimbaud tonight and REALLY enjoyed it - it’s about queer longing and the role of art in revolution and hegemony and love, it’s funny and tender, it took big swings and not all of them land but a LOT did. It‘s on till the 23rd, go see it!! https:// buddiesinbadtimes.com/show/tak e-rimbaud/