Apparently when the subway is used for filming, they briefly change the Next Train displays to be good! Wow... imagine a world where they looked like this all the time...
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Apparently when the subway is used for filming, they briefly change the Next Train displays to be good! Wow... imagine a world where they looked like this all the time...
Did you get a camera ticket? Almost two million Waterloo Region speeders did not www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...
Ugh, I bought a $300 toy (Flipper Zero) online, but Canada Post says they delivered it (no they didn't) and now both them and the seller (Joom) are giving me the runaround ("check with your neighbours... harder") Sucks to feel like $300 is evaporating!!
I took a cross-Canada road trip, and pulled up to the Royal Tyrell dino museum... on a Monday. Well, I got to look at the nice statues outside!
The Super Mario 64 source code lists names for Mario's footstep sounds. The list starts off normal but becomes poetic with names like "Footsteps in the Fallen Leaves" and "More Than Anyone Else in the World". It turns out the names are actually taken from a 1994 dating simulator.
The existence of the Northfield Death Lanes makes the bridge unnecessary!
This feels suspiciously like "parent knows but is letting child choose when to open up" territory here
Don't forget the one (1) beautiful spring day, too
Aside from all of the obvious downsides, the worst part of frakking is that it basically confirms there are NOT mole people
Toronto should charge a lot for parking. Instead it punishes new arrivals and gives a gift to wealthy existing house owners.
New housing is forced to absorb all sorts of dubious costs in order to avoid any “impacts” on the “community.” Meanwhile, the existing residents, who pay low taxes on their paid off multimillion dollar houses, get freebies. Let’s not call this progressive, please.
Parking spaces facing my kid's daycare building are closed as part of a provincial order in response to the accident last week. Thanks for the dedicated parking spot for my bike, Premier Ford!
If you need a wizard school series that is Canadian and lovely, check out Ryan's Stealing From Wizards series! 4th book out this fall.
@kirkhamilton.com FYI, the Triple Click episode is missing the "skip to One More Thing" timestamp. There is a timestamp sized silence on my copy, downloaded early this morning.
Back when I was in college and wrote for the school newspaper I wrote a whole thing about the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which eliminated media ownership restrictions, and how that was going to fuck us over forever and people were like "Dan, I dunno this is an art school," well eat shit fuckos.
ah, well
I’ve mentioned it before but it’s happened again: a very large percentage of our child-related travel is medium-distance trips that don’t line up well with transit (so it’s barely faster than walking) but biking is literally as fast as driving. Bike-friendly cities are family-friendly cities!
And Aussie meat pies! For when you briefly miss Anglo-Saxon cuisine.
smh, the vibrations are going to destroy that heritage building
Finch LRT taking an early lead bsky.app/profile/augu...
Perfect transportation corridor: walking, biking, trains
Oh of course it's the former Minister of Photo Ops who is a rampant coward on road safety
My favourite “trillogy”: Sunshine, little miss sunshine, sunshine cleaning. I even keep them together on my video shelf. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind is a spin off and not part of the original trilogy.
A peek behind the curtain of the TTC Next Stop screens
Waterloo Park really fixed up Silver Lake nice. The misting fountain is fun
The fountain at Kitchener City Hall is just so good now. A million times better than the old one
Visiting KW this weekend would be SO MUCH BETTER if I could take the train back on Sunday!!!
Visiting KW this weekend, and caught the open house for Ravenwood Tabletop, who have SWANK bookable rooms for running your tabletop RPG campaigns
It's kinda crazy that basically all four of these are about to open within the next 6 months.
And the Mr. Hockey Bridge is turning the lights on and painting lanes, though it seems like the customs facilities might hold it up until 2026. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Eglinton is, uh... "maybe October"? Stop me if you've heard this one before. www.thetrillium.ca/municipaliti...
Finch West LRT operations are now in the TTC's hands, a critical step for performance testing toronto.citynews.ca/2025/09/08/f...
Ottawa O-Train East in 2025 is "achievable"! www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
The Ontario Megaproject Opening Day Challenge! Which opens first? Which opens last? * Ottawa O-Train East extension * Finch West LRT * Eglinton Crosstown LRT * Gordie Howe International Bridge
My blog post about @cycletoronto.bsky.social's "Rally and Ride for Eglinton" is now ready for your viewing pleasure. Let's keep up the pressure on the City to make sure the promised bike lanes get installed NOW! #BikeTO #TOpoli #VisionZero www.twowheeledpolitics.ca/2025/09/rall...
And you can see me (with two kids hiding in the bucket bike) rolling past at 0:44 bsky.app/profile/rzai...
The people want Eglinton bike lanes!! Ride starts soon! @cycletoronto.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/cycl...
tbh, I think now is a perfectly good time
In Ontario criminal vigilantism is acceptable, effective & can influence government policy. When Doug Ford gives his tacit approval of criminal vigilantism, indicating it can influence his government's public policy, it's a frightening moment for Ontario. My column on what we should think about.
I suspect that, among the top 1% highest value transactions, cars are indeed the overwhelming majority mode, and that tends to blind retailers to the actual trend of the other 99%
Hardly anybody cares to hear a rational explanation for the reason the limit is what it is, but there's tons of very loud people *certain* that enforcing it is wrong wrong wrong. If a machine can accurately enforce the rule for under $108k/yr (average Ontario police salary), then a machine should.
Also on the topic of speed cameras, literally yesterday I got my first speed camera ticket. 52 in a 40 zone. The road dipped into a gully, but there is a ped crossing at the bottom. It stings! But guess what! I'll drive slower next time I'm there!
Austria, 1914: "Yield Serbia! Let the troops come into your cities and show how assassinations can be reduced!
In Ontario, criminal vigilantism works and will influence gov't policy. Keep that in mind.
Staff kept punting the Eglinton Complete Street project for YEARS, saying it made more sense to wait until the "Eglinton LRT was complete" to avoid any potential conflicts. A serious government Gets Shit Done, instead of spending money on not even doing what they are planning to do.
[youth pastor voice] you know who else “pressed the save button” while on a kind of post?
I never knew the Beatles had a cameo in Dredd
The sidewalk was decently wide, so I don't feel particularly at fault. She's probably dealt with people making close passes once too many.
Me riding my eBike from where I had it locked (on the sidewalk) to the next curb cut to get on the road (half a block away) Old lady yelling: "Why don't you get on the road where you belong!!!! 😡😤😡"
Remember the Ottawa O-Train Trillium line commissioning? When we had near-daily updates of what work was going on? Ah the good old days...
What an indictment of Ontario and Canada that we can't open this stupid transit line. Dismal prospects for getting through this extremely tough era we're entering. A stupid transit line, and we can't open it. People went to the moon, once.
With the expanded Avenues policy working its way through the pipeline, I wonder what kind of guidance they will be offering on Avenues that are currently back-lotted residential. This is a question they don't have to deal with quite yet, as the downtown wards don't have any.
But the City of Toronto is reversing course and plans to delay the Eglinton Complete Street from Keele to Mount Pleasant until later. That means resurfacing the road now, then ripping it up again to install bike lanes. 2/
When I saw this a few weeks ago, a speed hump on a one-way street, by a fresh crosswalk, instead of a path-prioritizing speed table flush with the path, I really wondered what is going on with the city that they could have the perfect chance and spot to do the right thing and... didn't.
Tell Metrolinx and the Minister of Transportation that the people of Kitchener are still calling on the province to fulfill its promise of all-day, two-way GO train service along the Toronto-Guelph-Kitchener corridor! gpo.ca/action_campa...
Hmm, what's the likelihood of getting the voice actors for Marcus and Dom to read some quotes from Brokeback Mountain...
Yeah but it would have taken 15 if they included elevators
Men don't Bro that hard together without being at least *some kind* of in love.
I've heard an argument against the possibility of Star Trek-like interstellar travel and plentiful intelligent alien species, is that if it were so, then they would be visiting Earth all the time for our Total Solar Eclipses. A truly astronomical oddity of coincidence we enjoy.
It's been a while since I last promoted my cycling starter packs, but here's the first one covering cyclists (and urbanist friends) in the Toronto area. #BikeTO #TOpoli #BikeSky bsky.app/starter-pack...
Really confused for a second about what was controversial about something weighing just over 3kg...
"but three guys with boom boxes competing for attention, a guy next to us with a full case of beer handing the cans out to strangers and a guy doing kickflips on a skateboard right next to the track." London: "a fun for all good time!" NYC: "look at this breakdown of society!"
No one else cares about wplace, but I had to add commentary on the state of Toronto after over a decade of austerity budgets.
FWWM also relies on a bunch of season 2 Red Room familiarity; i mostly just "huhhhh?????" through it! Tonally, it is the _most_ Lynchian thing after Eraserhead
Woah, I love this building It's actually a square floor plate, but they've ringed it with curved balconies to give it a cylindrical look. No weird curved interiors. The peaked corners are a really great touch.
I watched season 3 after having only watched season 1 and a couple episodes of season 2... wikipedia was my friend.
i.e. All those other projects assume Ontario exists outside the GTA
The Super-Mayor of Toronto (or rather the GTA) strikes again
It’s time to IONize Waterloo Region! Announcing our new campaign to build ION light rail the full length to Cambridge, and then to keep building. Check it out, and sign up for our newsletter for updates:
I never grew wisdom teeth!
*chanting* Den-im! Den-im!
Whew, i got through moments later! Also i meant to add this picture
CarShare car (@communauto.bsky.social) not unlocking 🙁 15 minutes and counting waiting on hold for customer service... First time in a long while something like this has happened to me. Annoying it's when I'm with the kid.
"Even if [sixplexes] were approved everywhere in Toronto they would result in the construction of only a few hundred more housing units." If so few would be built anyway (say 300 units, so 50 sixplexes across the city) I guess there's no need to keep them banned!
RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.
RIP Bike Share you had a good run
And here I was, worried about two opposite phase 120v lines /fin
Meanwhile, 90 years ago in merry old England... My grandfather's coworkers were testing if lines were live by straight up touching them. One guy's thumb had a callous so thick, he had to lick his thumb first to get enough feeling of the zap.
And I'm fretting over 240v, because I'm vaguely aware that with 120v you're probably not going to fuck yourself up (I've shocked myself a few times...) but with 240v enters the realm of you *can* fuck yourself up.
So my grandpa, in his 20s, in London, is working with guys running 240v lines into houses built in the 1700s.
Back to my grandpa. He was born in London, in 1914. Died in 2001. In the 1930s, he worked as a wireman, running electric lines to houses that still weren't hooked up to the grid. Because electricity was still kinda new. Cue me as a child wondering how their fridges worked before then.
I test the lines, and sure enough 240v. Then I test one vs ground and it's 120v. And the other is 120v. They're both hot! They're opposite phase! They're only 240v when connected together! I have learned about single phase residential wiring. Neat.
"Which is the hot???" I asked myself, as the wiring diagram wants the hot line behind a failsafe fuse. So I get ready to test the lines with my multimeter, and I proceed with extra caution because I know academically that 240v enters Serious Business territory.
The story itself is short. It came up because I was replacing some 40 year old baseboards with newfangled ones that are much smaller for the same heat output. I knew the baseboard was 240v, but was confused when both wires out of the wall were the same colour (orange).
Casually relaying a story from my grandfather to some of my friends... realizing I'm telling them about stuff that happened 90 years ago. Generational memory is long.
It'll almost certainly be done first, given the other has 20(?) more stores to go. It'll probably have a longer reign for "tallest occupied" than it will for "tallest structure to be occupied" ...any sort of Bankruptcy 2: Electric Boogaloo notwithstanding.
There is 0% chance of an inaccessible crosswalk. I would hazard to guess they will be making these raised crossings, with the cars coming up to crosswalk level.
I didn't realize that (1) there was already a taller tower under construction, and (2) that it's already at 85 storeys! I wonder how many weeks/months this one gets to hold the record. toronto.skyrisecities.com/news/2025/08...
Thankfully, my grandfather's house is getting upzoned. The Annex RA finally loses a battle. Functionally, in that neighbourhood houses get renovated to have habitable 3rd floors already. 4 storeys is barely a change. Allowing more units is great. bsky.app/profile/more...
Canada's tallest building, as seen from my grandfather's back yard yesterday.
It's Monday morning. All the Toronto resident association board members have returned back from the cottage and are opening the papers this morning to learn about MTSAs and are now furiously emailing each other.
It's the 10 year Hole-a-versary?!?! Happy 10 years @ryannorth.ca!!! I love that it was national news (by some definition...) www.cbc.ca/radio/dnto/d...
My 94 year old grandfather is ambidextrous. Because he was left-handed until he was "fixed"
The final paragraph/footnote 👌
The Waterloo LRT has many intersections that use a *trailing* left-turn phase.
What's awesome, is that last year World of Goo actually got a sequel. A real blast from the past, and you wouldn't guess it was 15 years between installments. It features some great meta-commentary on indie game sequel churn (i.e. compared to Plants vs Zombies) worldofgoo2.com
I actually first installed Steam right out of the gate, with the CounterStrike 1.6 beta. The CounterStrike patch delivery service for the first year or so. I remember them closing off Steam signups for a while while they worked out some kinks.
Jeez I forget that it was 5 years between Half-Life 2 and Steam really taking off as an online store.
The Rosedale bus crosses the Glen Road bridge with valley mist lit by the setting sun.
