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And of course we took the #TTC to Union station in Toronto.
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Yikes. @shawnmicallef.bsky.social shares rumour the TTC’s terrible ex-CEO Rick Leary could be the new CEO of Metrolinx.
He’ll do whatever Queen’s Park tells him to do, including starve the agency. So much for expanded regional transit and on-time performance?
#TTC #Metrolinx #TOPoli #Transit #PublicTransit
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Bluesky Social · Shawn Micallef (@shawnmicallef.bsky.social)Heard a rumour (*rumour*) Ontario thinking of Leary for metrolinx head.
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Recent data doodle - arc diagram of morning peak trip flows on TTC Line 2
Trying to find the right meme for when you get home late on the subway and forget there was an early subway closure.
So you end up in a shuttle bus
I hate the shuttle bus 
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@AlolanVulpix If you're complaining about the #TTC & voted for #PCPO you can STFU bc this is what you voted for, dumbass. #NeverVoteConservative
Yesterday I saw someone reading “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler on the subway.
Talking to strangers on public transit isn’t something people generally do in Toronto, but I hope she loves that book! It’s fantastic and such a topical read for the 2020s.
And if she happens to be on Mastodon, I’ll talk to her about it here.
#Bookstodon #ReadersOfMastodon #ReadingCommunity #Toronto #OctaviaButler #Ontario #TTC
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It’s snowing so hard at the moment that 55 bus stops and a large portion of the subway are shut down because there’s too much snow and the buses and trains can’t make their way through it.
"You're in the middle of a snowstorm and/or freezing rain storm, but fuck transit riders, walk another block you loser."
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Tao Te Ching
Stephen Mitchell #translation
Ch. 26
The heavy is the root of the light.
The unmoved is the source of all movement.
Thus the Master travels all day
without leaving home.
However splendid the views,
she stays serenely in herself.
Why should the lord of the country
flit about like a fool?
If you let yourself be blown to and fro,
you lose touch with your root.
If you let restlessness move you,
you lose touch with who you are.
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Tao Te Ching
Stephen Mitchell #translation
Ch. 23
Express yourself completely,
then keep quiet.
Be like the forces of nature:
when it blows, there is only wind;
when it rains, there is only rain;
when the clouds pass, the sun shines through.
If you open yourself to the Tao,
you are at one with the Tao
and you can embody it completely.
If you open yourself to insight,
you are at one with insight
and you can use it completely.
If you open yourself to loss,
you are at one with loss
and you can accept it completely.
Open yourself to the Tao,
then trust your natural responses;
and everything will fall into place.
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Tao Te Ching
Stephen Mitchell #translation
Ch. 22
If you want to become whole,
let yourself be partial.
If you want to become straight,
let yourself be crooked.
If you want to become full,
let yourself be empty.
If you want to be reborn,
let yourself die.
If you want to be given everything,
give everything up.
The Master, by residing in the Tao,
sets an example for all beings.
Because he doesn’t display himself,
people can see his light.
Because he has nothing to prove,
people can trust his words.
Because he doesn’t know who he is,
people recognize themselves in him.
Because he has no goad in mind,
everything he does succeeds.
When the ancient Masters said,
“If you want to be given everything,
give everything up,”
they weren’t using empty phrases.
Only in being lived by the Tao
can you be truly yourself.
#Tao #TTC #TaoTeChing #Dao #Chinese #Philosophy #Books
#Emptiness #Zen #Taoist
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Tao Te Ching
Stephen Mitchell #translation
Ch. 21
The Master keeps her mind
always at one with the Tao;
that is what gives her her radiance.
The Tao is ungraspable.
How can her mind be at one with it?
Because she doesn’t cling to ideas.
The Tao is dark and unfathomable.
How can it make her radiant?
Because she lets it.
Since before time and space were,
the Tao is.
It is beyond is and is not.
How do I know this is true?
I look inside myself and see.
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Tao Te Ching
Stephen Mitchell #translation
Ch. 20
Stop thinking, and end your problems.
What difference between yes and no?
What difference between success and failure?
Must you value what others value,
avoid what others avoid?
How ridiculous!
Other people are excited,
as though they were at a parade.
I alone don’t care,
I alone am expressionless,
like an infant before it can smile.
Other people have what they need;
I alone possess nothing.
I alone drift about,
like someone without a home.
I am like an idiot, my mind is so empty.
Other people are bright;
I alone am dark.
Other people are sharper;
I alone am dull.
Other people have a purpose;
I alone don’t know.
I drift like a wave on the ocean,
I blow as aimless as the wind.
I am different from ordinary people.
I drink from the Great Mother’s breasts.
#TTC #TaoTeChing #Tao #Dao #Taoist #Chinese #Philosophy
#LyingFlat #TangPing #Taoist
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Tao Te Ching
Stephen Mitchell #translation
Ch. 19
Throw away holiness
and wisdom, and people will be a hundred times happier.
Throw away morality and justice,
and people will do the right thing.
Throw away industry and profit,
and there won’t be any thieves.
If these three aren’t enough,
just stay at the center of the circle and let all things take their course.
#TTC #Tao #Taoism #Dao #Zen #philosophy #history #anticapitalist
