#ThenAndNow E.T.Seton pond, 2015 and 2025 out to shoot a few holes of frisbee golf at Seton last Tuesday, i took another picture (i have dozens) of the pond i wanted to show what has changed, and by sheer coincidence here's a sweet pic from ten years ago on the very same day #Toronto

this video is so old that some of you might not be familiar with it time for a refresher, bro www.youtube.com/watch?v=OloL...

And the full video is available now! Please have a look.

you guys i know it's been two weeks since halloween but i really don't want to miss posting this awfully scary pumpkin i saw yesterday -- it says AI #Toronto

"Stay tuned!!!" is the latest closing? i liked when he used his rap name "President DJT"

How did people walk on the floor of Lake Ontario? I covered that in my video about how the shoreline has changed over time: youtu.be/rMTM0cyQ51o

#ThenAndNow E.T.Seton pond, 2015 and 2025 out to shoot a few holes of frisbee golf at Seton last Tuesday, i took another picture (i have dozens) of the pond i wanted to show what has changed, and by sheer coincidence here's a sweet pic from ten years ago on the very same day #Toronto

Two pages apart in the @thestar.com : 9 year old killed by driver of SUV jumping curb, and Ontario bans speed cameras. Yes they are related, because Doug Ford inculcates a culture that the world is made for drivers, but kids and cyclists? Too bad.

There's a weird etymology here. In the 11th century, a pre-arranged army command was 'CRIER HAVOT', which means in Old French: "order to pillage." This was corrupted to "cry havoc" in English. Wreak, meanwhile, is Old English for "punish/avenge". So "wreaking havoc" is revenge pillaging.

Here’s a headline that could use some punctuation, parentheses, or something…

Radiolab had a great podcast on alpha-gal radiolab.org/podcast/alph...

*crumbles into dust*

just saw someone using the phrase "wreaking havoc" which reminded me once again of the ever popular ontological questions of whether there are any other things you can wreak besides havoc, and whether there is anything else you can do to havoc besides wreaking it #havoc

how far can you walk into a forest? only half way, 'cause then you're walking out

These clowns worry about the noise an ice cream or coffee shop on a residential corner might make, but they’re fine with the air and noise pollution of gas-powered leaf blowers. Like, buy a goddamn rake.

He's hellbent on getting his casino and giant ferris wheel somewhere before he resigns to lead the CPC into the abyss.

surprised not surprised Dougie's a thug

A general question related to constantly uttering statements like this: does this particular councillor say this just to be contrarian and appeal to a certain base that doesn’t like anything in life, or are they a legitimately miserable human being who must ensure everyone is as no fun as they are?

So……those of us with back issues, of which there are millions, have to traverse neighbourhoods full of speed bumps so that grown ass adults can’t regulate their speeds. This is the cost we all pay for a lack of self control and responsibility to each other.

nonchalant bollard just waiting for someone to try it @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social @pareidolia.bsky.social #pareidolia

Please rise if you are able and remove your caps for the new flag of the City of Toronto

municipal government should support hockey? i knew it... Holyday is a socialist

I love this lede from NYT's Victor Mather on the death of the penny

P.S. I can report on all of the above in a single post: "As a matter of public health, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency properly culled a flock of H5N1 avian flu-infected ostriches." See how easy that was?

The personality trait displaying as *out-of-control greed* will one day be studied as a psychological pathology.

THE SITUATION ROOM

Each vehicle can carry over 150 passengers (>2x the crush load of a bus) and they're going to run them in trains of 2 (but the line is built for 3 so there's room to grow), so each one replaces 4+ buses. (1/2)

Langsam komme ich in das Alter, wo man den Bremsruck der S-Bahn zum Aufstehen nutzt.

nonchalant bollard just waiting for someone to try it @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social @pareidolia.bsky.social #pareidolia

update to my thread from a year ago about the stairs from Eglinton and Leslie down to E.T. Seton park they're still closed it's now been over 3 years since BlogTO did a story about it, using some of my pictures (see thread)

Crosstown LRT testing on Eglinton East yesterday, Brentcliffe portal to Leslie St

Ginkgo drop day came fast in my neighbourhood, as the trees all reacted to the heavy snow the same way… everywhere, bright yellow skirts on melting snow.

Happy Exploding Whale Day to those who celebrate. youtu.be/V6CLumsir34?...

the same NOAA that Trump eviscerated because 1. NOAA shows how climate change, caused by the petroleum industry, will destroy us 2. people laughed at him when he altered a hurricane forecast using a sharpie

Cheers! 🥂

"This iconic Kensington Market mural is finally complete — 43 years after it was painted on a dare" gift link didn't seem to work for me, sorry www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

Jupiter says “Trans Rights Are Human Rights”

the same NOAA that Trump eviscerated because 1. NOAA shows how climate change, caused by the petroleum industry, will destroy us 2. people laughed at him when he altered a hurricane forecast using a sharpie

#OTD November 11 1813, the Battle of Crysler's Farm (approx 25km west of Cornwall, Ontario) a British force with Canadian and Mohawk support chased, engaged, and proceeded to defeat a much larger army of Americans, causing them to abandon their invasion of Canada for this year #WarOf1812

"This iconic Kensington Market mural is finally complete — 43 years after it was painted on a dare" gift link didn't seem to work for me, sorry www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

this post received quite a number of responses, so i thought i'd add some comments if you find yourself nearby and want to take a look

if you choose not to find joy in snow, you will have less joy in your life but still the same amount of snow #snow

Happy fall of the Berlin Wall 36 years ago!

#OTD November 9 1938, Kristallnacht shit suddenly got real en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristal...

#OTD November 9 1965, the great Northeast Blackout i remember it well, i was in Grade 12 web.archive.org/web/20121020...

pic from yesterday, pre-snow Toronto skyline as seen from the Leaside bridge, with a huge crane dominating the scene -- the Ontario Line subway will cross the valley on a new bridge under construction here #Toronto

pic from yesterday, pre-snow some kind of stone kiln in the lower Don valley, where the Domtar plant used to be #Toronto

pic from yesterday, pre-snow Florence Moosengale, in her eponymous nurse uniform, remembers #Toronto

#Toronto heritage plaque

i love it when something is by dint of something else. i tell all my friends, don’t text me about shit unless it’s by dint of some other shit