Yeah, in the 90s I lived in a basement in Kensington Market and painted on the walls and had an old xerox machine that didn't really work and spent my time writing and making zines and surviving on contract jobs doing typesetting and proofreading. Unimaginable now.

Show Post

Yup. A lot of what made Toronto amazing in the 90s and early 2000s was low rents. People could afford to access spaces to do creative things in and they had the time to do creative things because they weren't burning out simply trying to earn enough to pay their basic living expenses.

Show Post

We're not legendary, but Spacing magazine was created in the living rooms of cheap shared apartments in downtown Toronto that don't really exist anymore, at least not in the concentration needed.

Show Post

The free speech absolutist who reinstated actual Nazis is now banning ads for being shrill. A man who posts white genocide conspiracies at 3am deciding what's too strident for his platform. Free speech always meant his speech, and everyone else pays rent on it.

Show Post

(THR) - TikTok has banned the entire Musk film account, citing political content that violates its policies. .. raises concerns about Big Tech suppression that the very film seeks to expose.” @thr.com www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

Show Post