they do the best blinks
aka Stewart Russell: hairy old Scottish nerdy git living in Toronto
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they do the best blinks
so it was a straight cover, then
wait, there was subtlety in "Leave It"? The best thing about 90125 is that it's not as bad as Big Generator. tiny me loved 90125, though: so much so I plotted out the cover art on my home computer
Usually the hat's enough, but high-vis is next level wizarding
Aww, he was a good un.
I read that too quickly as "the late Gerry Love" and I was like no no no don't no not that no, cannot ... I am glad that GL is alive and well
Happy birthday a day late to Gerry Love, who should have been knighted by now for this song youtu.be/jdeqYx-9-AQ?...
it can only be Arms of Love — www.youtube.com/watch?v=00fy...
rabbit rabbit
Very tiny ant mimic spider on our house wall, I hope not too late for #InverteFest
Not sure I can embed the video I took of them, but here is a link scruss.com/blog/2025/04...
Most Old Scottish Guy Saturday night shop ever: meat, bleach, oatcakes.
aren't they lovely wee things? I was impressed by the white suckers in my local stream, but ...
I just remembered bombed-out places, still there in Glasgow in the 1970s. This would also have been the era of the frankly scary "junk playground". Builds character, if the tetanus don't get you
Thousands of climbing catfish filmed scaling waterfalls — www.science.org/content/arti... #squee
I'd have expected it to see the whole of the moon
are there any free or cheap shows (art, music, whatever) happening in Toronto in the next few months that might broadly be thought of as popular culture? asking for my students
particularly funny it's from the defunct Del Monte. A local restaurant has these (or very similar) for serving, and they're surprisingly not-terrible
plus noise of dog-claws on carpet
I saw a couple of those today too! The males have an incredible iridescent stripe on the leading edge of their wings. It's very thin, but it glints beautifully
I can hear this picture
At least he hasn't fucked off with the money and built a house with it ... yet. (That was a Canadian 3D printer Kickstarter guy)
He had so much money he didn't need to care
fuck, first jet fighter of the airshow #toronto #dammit #noise
enhance!
Anyone ever had a carton of milk with a puck of (I assume/hope) cream at the bottom? I've got one here that feels like it has a glass or more left, but it won't pour out. Milk tasted fine, and it is in code.
Metrolinx, Dark Lord Preventer of GTA Mobility, has claimed Don Mills & Eglinton again, this time for his evil "Ontario Line" scheme Science Centre station (now generic 'Don Mills') on the nearby Crosstown remains closed, as he wills it.
"raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock", as the saying goes
Originally an XTC track, and a minor hit in the UK.
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
tag yourself i'm Einstürzende Töfü
last + first on next line makes some classics: Screaming Soul, Pants Ethereal, Psychotic Sugar, Fudge Howlin', Fetalettes, Polluted UK, Kittens, Las Android, Legendary Playboys, Limited Hawk, Whistlin' Beast, High Spit, MC Hideous, Basement Feline, Maggot Peppermint, Robot Eyeball, ...
My mum used to make that
Hey, I'm originally Scottish Presbyterian, and I'm offended. Don't you know we're the most corrupt and sleazy bastards ever to walk this earth?
I miss the Tamil gangs having shoot-outs on the 401 where hundreds of shots were fired but nobody was hurt.
having rushed to complete my passport application, the first time any passport office in the GTA can look at it is ... September 25th. (Not that I need this in a hurry, but sooner would've been better)
These look like an improvement on the originals (which I can't eat anyway). Never liked the goo in the middle, though
As with my late dad: it was the only words they had for the situation. I took it as a mix of loving concern plus a little bit of pride in us that we could afford things he couldn't have, at the same age
Humbucker and a Bigsby. Nice mix.
Operation North Pole?
I wasn't expecting a cat (it had been raining heavily) and I thought the yells were a bird in a tree. Then I got a soft headbutt to the shin, and looked down
Ooh, he looks really like his dad (trumpeter Ross MacManus) in this. Also, EC's early sound is ska-adjacent, which might explain his early signing to Two Tone
Got yelled at by a (loud) new friend
Must be a borrow. Scarborough people have complained for years
yr esteemed author in full-on rain dork mode
We don't? We quite often get one circling over Scarborough for hours
He's such a clueless git, an utter failson
I was always immune to the Dutch and Danish colleagues who'd try to hit me with salt liquorice.
That vaguely reminds me that there was some medical precautions that Bassett's took on their production line. Must ask my brother But now, a Scottish liquorice thing: sugarolly water ...
Chewing licorice root is right out, then
"liquorice toxicity often requires hospitalization" ... yer wot?
It is, but I'm in the wild east. The Tamil studio that used to process my film has gone: they never held back on the colour so prints came out psychedelic. I'm sure I can find something closer
moar fun with Canadian passport application PDF: "... use Adobe Reader 10 or higher to open it". Urgh. (I've given up on the online application idea)
Once tried to book a car there ...
Strong 'do not eat' vibe
Warden Woods, though small, is impressive too. Between Warden and Vic Park, it's the only place in the city I've seen a Pileated Woodpecker
we have a family of what you thought you read hanging out here
Envious: Catherine is staying in a house which has a family of skinks living in the porch ... And I am not
With our huge Persian community, we get good ones, roasted locally in Toronto
very low altitude aircraft, basically
You've had real Iranian ones, haven't you?
Born in the late 1960s, I just caught the tail end of the relentless UK promotion of hovercraft. Turns out, apart from a very few specific applications, they're not great all-terrain vehicles, they're loud, use lots of fuel and can be quite fragile.
All of my local ones claim to be able to do this, except I've never seen any staff who might be entrusted with it
Relieved. You don't want to mess with that stuff. At least you don't have a made-of-radioactive-alloy Bomarc missile ... although with lee cyborg, "not yet" is the likely option
Supernova? Nah, just a pilfered Lithium Thionyl Chloride battery going up off the Crab nebula
wanna renew a Canadian passport online? * the window for applications opens at 7 am Eastern. They're currently full by 7:40. Sorry, westerners. * You have to get a physical photo plus a digital photo. At a photo place. Not on your phone, nope nope nope
and here's the official guide "Radium Luminous Devices: Tips for your Safety" - api.cnsc-ccsn.gc.ca/dms/digital-...
so pretty!
Don't forget the acres of plastic tat that they try to foist on you
tried; can't work out the spacing or direction, unless it's mostly composed of K, G, S and W
let me get my decoder coin, then ...
my basement brings it all year round
If I were better at copying Morse, I'm sure that border's trying to tell me something
I'm gonna need a good car wash after today!🪶
Martha Wells Humblebundle in support of World Central Kitchen. Highly recommend. www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
It's just at the Lansdowne / St Clair streetcar turn. I thought I saw it when walking to HackLab
So we fell for a mark-to-market scam. Ontario's the rube here
The one on Bloor moved, right? I took my niece to it when she was exactly the right age. She was that mix of delighted and horrified from which lasting memories are made
They'll probably sneak parking into their "extras"
Ah; just checked Via rail schedule - last train out of Toronto is 18:38. Likely too limiting for you. It's a shame, as it's a pretty town and the station is right in the middle. Sorry. The VIA trains are pretty inflexible
outside Toronto, you're not going to get bearable pub near station and nearish hotel. Some of the other cities have transit that's still "get you to/from work" and nothing else. Wild suggestion: Port Hope. Pretty. 1 hr east by train. Walkable. Has decent food and pubs. Very slightly radioactive
I see your cultural translation, and raise you: chip off the old block
Chances of many, many Irn Bru bottle caps buried alongside. I remember this was a big deal when it opened, and there was outcry that the city "wasted" money on it
I liked his cameos in Robyn's book
@robcruickshank.bsky.social re-confirmed: Nova Era sugar doughnuts really are the gold standard. It's the proper yeast dough that makes them perfect
FICTION: The Newhamstead Goblin – “In the daytime it’s alright. You don’t see it, not a sign. Maybe the odd footprint. Maybe a big pile of shit. Maybe an upturned car. You ignore it, though. Well, you have to, don’t you? You just get on with your life.” precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/08/21/f...
[Bolex H-16 energy intensifies]
If you’re interested in capture, I worked with @vassb.bsky.social, @friendscndm.bsky.social, and Jim Balsillie’s team at Centre for Digital Rights on the art direction, edit, and site for Regulatory Capture Lab. It focused on American Big Tech’s capture of the feds, but it’s a great primer.
... I found it
I will add it to the (small) pile when it surfaces again
Also, when you know that the chair of the CIRB is the former chief counsel for Air Canada, the Section 107 is in the bag. The chair should have recused, at the very least.
the only one I can find plugs into ancient iPods. I thought I'd added a couple of Si4713 FM Stereo Transmitters to my last Universal Solder order, but no, dangit
The chair of the CIRB, who decided that Air Canada flight attendants were striking illegally, was senior counsel at Air Canada for seven years … 🤔 (via mefi) www.cirb-ccri.gc.ca/en/about-us/... #AirCanada
Nah, not when I've got Canadian-strength antihistamines (unavailable in the USA).
as a fellow Stu, he seems quite a cheery one. I usually operate at the fury of a million suns level
Waded through a dog strangling vine thicket to retrieve next door kids' footballs, and now my arms are coming out in hives. fuck my allergic life.
Food reviewers NinaUnrated and Patrick Blackwood were involved in a crash while filming.
bloody cyclists!
PP has the "eyes too close together" problem
