I do. I absolutely do deserve that.
Cats, bikes, urban policy and evidence-based policy generally, environment, books, quilts, and lots of randomness. GenX. Canada. Let's try not to make things worse, shall we?
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I do. I absolutely do deserve that.
They really are weird
Make a 311 report! Although I've had mixed success with that for bike posts in BWV...
Everything should have pockets
Mirvish Village was what sprang to mind even before I clicked the link! I still have hopes for it, although I do understand developers/owners would prefer to have 1 lease for 2000 square feet rather than nine or ten 200-square-foot leases to manage. Still, overall risk might even out?
In Bill Bryson’s book on houses he notes that after the Romans left, the British gave up on the whole idea of comfort for about a thousand years.
It’s going to be a busy day starting right after I get out of bed, so I’m sensibly resisting getting out of bed. I’m getting really hungry though
Ah yes, the Air Show. In which my house is on the recovery path and gets buzzed by fighter jets at irregular intervals, like some sort of residential jump-scare
I've donated sporadically, but I just set up a recurring donation. Even if you're not interested in Canadian #DrugPolicy, you should donate if you believe in bodily autonomy, equity, anti-discrimination, and similarly good things. Go, DULF! drugdatadecoded.ca/the-most-urg... @drugdatadecoded.ca
I could see that working really well
I also hear that one might be able to do things while riding tipsy that one could not normally accomplish. To pick a completely random example: riding down a full flight of stairs
It's not wise, obviously, but at least you're likely to hurt only yourself on a bike and not random others. I assume at a certain level of drunkenness, riding becomes impossible anyway.... kinda self-correcting?
Interestingly, in Ontario you can't DUI on a bike. DUI is a Criminal Code offence specifically referring to motor vehicles. They could ding you for drunk-in-public, or negligence, or something though. Or just for running the red!
I totally want one. It would be promptly eaten by one of my cats, though (would the glowing bits still glow after having been through a cat? SCIENCE).
The camo plus high vis is hurting my brain
Using my mug warmer for the first time in months. I had to dust it #dlws
I had a colleague in grad school who used to ride up the Allen Expressway to get to York. If stopped, he spoke only French and shrugged gallicly. It was kind of awesome.
#PaperOfTheDay There were some false positives and false negatives with this nitazine-testing strip (this isn't unusual). Most notably, caffeine in samples caused false positives, which is annoying since it's so common harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Eliminating due process is NEVER a good sign. In Alberta, they're starting with drug users. Who's next? This needs to be stopped. drugdatadecoded.ca/alberta-gove... @drugdatadecoded.ca
Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.
Anything with chamomile or stevia is pretty much undrinkable.
NO SOCKS UNTIL OCTOBER
Tank dress alone: too cold, brr Tank dress plus light sweater: much too hot, yikes #dlws
Getting a column like this in the Driving section is important. We are doomed by drivers (and king driver Ford) who wish everyone to live in the hell caused by their insistence on driving.
Agreed 100%. Also, often it's REALLY EASY to explain things to children. Q: "Why are those two women kissing?" A: "Because they love each other."
Once I was at a conference and the fruit basket at the lunch buffet was 80% lemons. Whole lemons, mixed with a few oranges. It was really really odd.
fucked that "vibe coding" now means something besides getting sorta high and blasting music and boppin' along while writin' c++ or whatever
Hurricane season isn’t over yet!
Starting #caturday at the head
Plus Via limits and weighs your luggage now (why???)
Support your public library. Defend your public library. Slay the enemies of your public library.
It takes a village. And coffee, it takes lots of coffee. And tums. The chewy ones. And comfortable shoes. And a book just in case. And a coven of powerful witches who owe you a blood debt. That helps. And tacos, it also takes tacos.
“Local stores next to the protected bike-lane have seen a 49% increase in sales, compared to an average of 3% for Manhattan as a whole.” (Among MANY other public benefits.) Want To Make More Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane. #CityMakingMath via @fastcompany.com #BikeLanesMeanBusiness
As the parent of a toddler, the idea having food thrown at you is felony assault is tragicomic.
Don't be grumpy about people using parks. Make more parks! The current level of parks is clearly not keeping up with demand (and was largely established at a time when the population was much smaller). www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
The bourbon thing is interesting as Kentucky voted 64.5% for Trump last year, higher than 2016 and 2020. It's a very acute & clean feedback loop.
Reboot Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations” but with Alan Dershowitz and the whole show is just enjoying him never getting food because he’s a querulous, joyless douche and he’s constantly demanding that the Laotian street vendor or whoever denounce Hamas before he’ll try the khao jee
Up near Algonquin Park and we’ve been needing—not wanting, needing—pre-bedtime dips in the lake to cool down #dlws
The raspberries have been terrific this year too
Again, louder for those in the back: this is not deportation; this is human trafficking.
Clearly it's somehow the fault of bike lanes, right?
Louder for those in the back: don't put anything online you don't want hacked www.wired.com/story/google...
Ah that's lovely news. metro.co.uk/2025/08/06/m...
Yes, traffic cameras work, but it's a myth that people hate them! Survey after survey shows that most people support automatic enforcement (and often want more of it). This is a false controversy, fed by a minority of disgruntled drivers & journalists seeking narratives with conflict.
Uh oh. You may rip holes in the space-time continuum
I was going to say Zotero, but diigo.com is another option, possibly less complicated. They're not paying me to say so but I've used it for ages.
I think if men are struggling to get laid they should pick up a copy of Julia Childs “mastering the art of French cooking” and I’m not even a little bit joking
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and/or Hotel California. I dive for the off button if either comes on.
Fairlyn sure I bought @maryrobinettekowal.com's The Martian Contingency solely because I saw other people here say things about it that made me think oooh, that's a good one, must acquire (and the rest of the series)
Elephants are born weighing 250 lbs. They are the biggest babies on earth except for motorists when they see a bike lane
Of course you need it. I mean. Everyone needs a working cannon.
When I went to grad school, my train went over the 16 lanes of Highway 401, which were inevitably slowed or stopped. It was absolutely glorious to just glide on past.
It’s great though. Frankly most holidays should be postponed if the weather is crap.
Bearskin airlines in Ontario is similar. Awesome fun. The same person checks you in, takes your bag, puts it on the plane, then gets in and flies it. So nice to have it be a properly human experience.
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Well THAT is really fucking creepy and inappropriate. If you're going to track your kids, be honest about it AND let them track you too. It's only fair.
Same same. I'm quite enjoying being old and uncool.
It's not just his obsession with Toronto -- it's his enacted dislike for Toronto and determination to break it
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
mk9 peanuts
Paperback books are like velveteen rabbits — ours to be loved and squeezed and read and stuffed into shoulder bags and left in the sun and read and read again until there's nothing left but memories from something real
This is, to put it mildly, a VERY BAD IDEA pressprogress.ca/doug-ford-pl...
Definitely
Ha, that was my exact first thought also
We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.
Also, most office environments are ghastly. Fluorescent lighting, big open spaces with tons of visual and aural distractions, the horrible hotelling trend where you don't even have your own stuff... thetyee.ca/News/2025/07...
Paper of the day: The role of mundane resistance in the spectacular failure of the smart home. "recognising the potential for such uncoordinated everyday acts to, in aggregate, disassemble the grand plans of the tech industry, is of considerable value." Nice! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
What a ghastly example of #carbrain
Okay but the Tour de France was AWESOME this year and you should totally watch it. It doesn’t count as sportsball because no ball.
Notebooks and new apps ALWAYS work
Is there any question? Hidden library with a library 💯💯💯 The other ones all sound rather damp.
How many people opposing shelters in the name of children’s safety push for less cars, lower speed limits, road safety? How many kids were harmed by unhoused people last year compared to drivers?
"The restaurant was in a building with a cooperative (i.e., shared) kitchen used by a state-licensed vendor who produced edible THC products. The restaurant mistakenly used THC-infused oil from the cooperative kitchen to prepare dough." WHOOPS www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
Annnd the patriarchy asserts itself yet again. 1. Why am I not surprised? 2. Fuck this shit www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
This is why I always have a Sharpie handy when I'm shopping. Edit store labels as required. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
A colleague who used to work at a karaoke place swore by You’re So Vain
That is… that is a fair point, actually
MORE NEWS, I shout, bits of news dribbling down my shirt, both fists filled with quivering gobs of news
Also, lots of "54 summer beach reads!" lists where you get one sentence taken from the blurb on the back of the book or something. Not a lot of use anymore, I agree
"...the risk of being murdered underground is... orders of magnitude less than the risk of dying from a traffic accident elsewhere in the US. Cars are deadly, and any transportation policy that encourages their use over public transportation is pretty much by definition anti-safety."
Go me! I have dealt with and closed the excess tabs in my browser, as I try to do each Friday, and now just have the 22 open tabs I routinely work with.
This. Also, kids fall off regular bikes and scooters too, so how many of these falls might have happened anyway? It's irresponsible and incomplete use of data.
I had to ponder for several hours between guesses 2 and 3, which is appropriately slow I suppose Wordle 1,490 3/6* ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
It's fine! Lots of other authors and books out there. It's good we all don't like the same thing; imagine how dull that would be.
Colour me 100% unsurprised. What. a. clusterfuck.
All in for sleepy torpor atm
You need to give it a name now
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
ummmmmm YOU THINK???? globalnews.ca/news/1128916...
This is how I ended up reading Homer, Freud, and Jung before I was ten (dad was a psychiatrist)
No microwaves yet. If you wanted to heat something up, you put it in a pot and put it on the stove or in the oven.
Meanwhile we spend an exorbitant amount of time debating simple measures like busways, wider sidewalks + bike lanes -- which opponents claim are being "fast-tracked"! There is actually no longer a "tomorrow" for climate action. It has to be NOW. #onpoli www.thestar.com/news/gta/air...
She needs to double her consulting rates. Only $32/h for crisis plans and $40/h for PI work? It's nowhere close to enough. macleans.ca/society/conf...
A tale of two headlines. CityNews: active tense, there's a driver involved ("struck dead by driver") -- kudos for reporting this way. CP: passive ("being hit by vehicle"), vehicle apparently acting on its own. Driver escapes mention, let alone responsibility, yet again.
Oh interesting, my app is just using "fog".
I love it that men get to be pretty too now.
The “E-Bike Effect:” Those who bought e-bikes increased their average daily bicycle use from 2.1km (1.3 miles) to 9.2km (5.7 miles), a 340% increase. The e-bike share of all their transportation increased dramatically too; from 17% to 49%. E-bikes support fewer car trips. V @lloydalter.bsky.social
It is a shower-the-stickiness-off-before-bed kind of evening #dlws
