Live every day like it's World Bike Day.

Frankly, I'm relieved to see the Legislature rise because it means a reprieve from the "Marit yells at Doug" videos which the ONDP love, despite them having no effect on polling. Stiles cannot oppose her way to government. She must effectively communicate a goddamned alternative vision. And soon!

#OTD June 3 1769, navigator Captain James Cook, naturalist Joseph Banks, astronomer Charles Green and naturalist Daniel Solander recorded the transit of Venus from Tahiti calculations based on parallax estimated the sun-earth distance to within less than 1% of the true value #space

#OTD June 3 1971, Bill Davis makes a statement #StopSpadina #ONpoli #TOhistory en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_R...

#OTD June 3 2011, Brigette DePape makes a statement www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

happy World Bicycle Day #cycling #BikeTO #WorldBicycleDay

„Zweite Reihe von unten: C F H …J? Unterste Reihe: …? … T? …“

Welp there’s no unseeing this

so i borrowed "Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World" from the library, about 16th century Dutch explorer William Barents, and only realized when i started reading that the author is Andrea Pitzer whose podcast "Next Comes What" i listen to from time to time www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6jj...

Every time data centers are brought up, I'm reminded of a recent meeting I had with a person working in that sector who mentioned how important power demand modeling was, because they projected if the grid were to go down in Phoenix during peak summer, 30,000 people would die in the first 24 hours

It is worth noting that the takeover of 60 Minutes, and CBS News, is the culmination of the strategy that was baked into the launch of Substack. This is the thing we were trying to explain was bigger than just "there are nazis on there". www.anildash.com//2024/11/19/...

so i borrowed "Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World" from the library, about 16th century Dutch explorer William Barents, and only realized when i started reading that the author is Andrea Pitzer whose podcast "Next Comes What" i listen to from time to time www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6jj...

the replies, oh my god, the replies there is hope for us yet, hang on, people

i've changed my mind, there's a boat leaves for Vulgaria at six o'clock and you're gonna be on it Vulgaria! Vulgaria! viva Vulgaria! a veevo, a vivo, a veevo vivo vum bum titty rat cat pitti patti cat cat rah rah rah rah Vulgaria #stooges www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoJZ...

Iran knows a Strait beats someone not playing with a full deck.

Bicycle policy in most American cities. From Jon Wesolowski on LinkedIn.

TPS needs to show me in their use of force manual where a refusal to stop and swearing at the boys without any immediate danger to them or the public justifies a violent takedown. I can't believe they actually released this statement. Oh wait they have absolute impunity and hate bikes...

youtu.be/gXBOvctfys4?... New episode! Dr. Andrew Lambert joins us to talk the frigate actions on the Atlantic Ocean! 1/2

📜 On This Day In 1866, today: The Fenians defeat Canadian forces at Ridgeway and Fort Erie, but the raids end soon after. #OnThisDay #WorldHistory

So TPS can tackle cyclists with excessive force but were completely incapable of finding the car drivers who destroyed the Parkside Drive speed cameras over and over again? Maybe they need to update their motto to "To Serve and Protect Motorists"😼

good review of "The Swerve" by Stephen Greenblatt www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNPY...

"Dumocrat" what are you, twelve?

Today in 1794 became known in the UK as “the Glorious First of June” due to what was in fact a rather inconclusive naval battle. www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/Hi...

maybe it will happen today #haiku #gesundheit

Just some of the over 700.000 artefacts found during the building of the Amsterdam metro. This superb website has catalogued about 20.000 of them, such a delight to go through: belowthesurface.amsterdam You can also see some of them in person at Rokin station.

🎨Michel Canetti

Lucky Moose #Toronto

don't give up #Toronto

The economy is in freefall and the war is a quagmire but the president is laser-focused on making Americans' lives better: - White House ballroom - UFC cage match on the lawn - big triumphal arch - painting the reflecting pool - painting statues gold - his face on a $250 bill - lining his pockets

Globally, car culture claims 3,500 lives a day. Yet our moral panic is spent on ebikes, people riding on sidewalks to stay safe, and pedestrians wearing dark clothing or wearing headphones. We have normalized mass casualties while villainizing people just trying to exist outside of a vehicle.

i feel like they were going for something different than why i took the photo

that submarine delivery by Tyler Rogers is so wicked... #BlueJays

Canada Post is a *service*. No news agency ever asks how much the fire department lost. Nobody ever asks how much money the police lost. This is irresponsible journalism. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

The latest 'Toronto History Curiosities' is weird... bobgeorgiou.substack.com/p/11-bizarre...

godspeed is a contraction of "god has peed" which he likes to do right before leaving on any kind of trip so it means he's ready to come with you and won't need a pit stop for a while

does this sound familiar? ring true for anyone?

oh look, something definitely going on #TOhistory #Toronto

Chapman’s Ice Cream now has new long term contracts with other countries & is dropping US fruits & nuts! My favourite ice cream just got better!

This is an important visual illustration of the contrasts...

Any guesses as to what this might be? I'll post the answer after I've seen a few guesses in thread. #MacroLife #EtobicokeCreek #OhMyDouglas

natchitoches www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-n1...

‼️Look at this insanely perfect shot my husband just captured with his phone. We're both very sad he didn't have a real camera, but this is still amazing.

#OTD May 28 1959, America launched its first primates into space -- Able and Baker, two female monkeys www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ6f... #space

more pics from my hike down the Lower Don river last week #Toronto

In the very early aughts I worked mornings in an independent coffee shop, downtown in one of the southeast's biggest cities. I was offered a parking pass, but I said I wouldn't need a it because I'd be coming in by bike or bus. Thought nothing else of it until a few weeks in... 🧵 #BikeSky

"Still flying abroad multiple times per year? Still driving a huge wankpanzer? Why?" gold 🏆

Normal people sometimes want to refer to something as a “database”, even though it is not, in any way, a “database”. At times like this I take a deep breath and employ the wise words of Mel Robbins: “Let Them”.

He just had to carry on with the make believe, huh? He couldn't just admit he fucked up, apologize, a d let her go. You know what? That is exactly the same brain freeze that MAGA freaks have. They've bought into the cult so deeply that they can't bring themselves to admit it all a farce.