The Toronto Star’s City Report Card survey suggests six in 10 Torontonians believe that the city’s best days are in the past. Given the challenges Toronto faces right now, it’s an understandable position, but it’s wrong. My column on teenage Toronto. The future is bright if we….(pls read n share).

THE TIME HAS COME, IT IS NOW. youtu.be/OBM0DO8Xt1c?...

I went out to buy sour cream to make ginger pear muffins, bought a bunch of things I needed to make other stuff, forgot the sour cream. Too hot to go back outside; muffins will have to wait until tomorrow. I made a nice watermelon, tomato, feta and mint salad, but am still feeling slightly put out.

I love everything about this story, and now I want to play.

10/10, would buy one in a red-hot second, then mod it with sparkly bits and stars. To start.

I have been working flat out for the last year, and have a space in my schedule opening up for the first time in what feels like ages. Normally this would stress me out, but I am looking forward to the time with great intensity. I am not built for cascading and overlapping projects anymore.

Scrabble mentioned.

Finished The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association by Caitlin Rozakis; very enjoyable and a little on the nose at times. Made me miss when the kids were little and reminded me that I am so glad to be past that stage of life.

Looking at my TBR pile (Russians, Iain M. Banks, Robert Graves, reading for the bookstore, library books, new purchases). I think I need more time/heads/hands.

This hits close to home, for many reasons. What a wonderful, sad, beautiful story.

James has a way with words (and is an excellent editor).

Current reading: I, Claudius (first reread after many decades); The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association by Caitlin Rozakis (just started). I'm also listening to the audiobook of Watership Down, narrated by Peter Capaldi (it's marvellous).

Second load of laundry is up on the line in the bright sunshine. The sheets smell good.

Biked to work; biked home. Also walked about 3.5 km. How much chocolate can I eat before exceeding calorie neutrality?

Me to Younger Son: I love you, kid, but if you ever use ChatGPT to do any part of your homework, I will kill you. Younger Son: Validly.

Sometimes you read the news and find out what that fascinating person you went to grad school with thirty years ago is up to. I'm glad to see @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social still standing up for what she believes in.

I thought it was “speed it up a notch.” Glad to be corrected! Time to try and memorize this song again. *wanders off, whistling*

They do not get to do this. Saddle up.

Love this letter.

Oh yeah, I’ll be getting this.

No new pictures, where are you mentally?

Reskeeting this for all the fabulous, fabulous recs.

OMG, derptiles! (so cute)

Grammarly must be making huge amounts of money or losing huge amounts of money, given how many of their freaking ads I see on YouTube. Either way, from hell's heart I stab at thee. #crankythursday

I’m a sucker for sharp choreography. Add some crazy good dancers and Kelis and I am all in. Mic dropped.

Oh, this is delightful.

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This is amazing: From April 1990, four months after FLOOD was released, here’s @tmbg.bsky.social performing on The Tonight Show with guest host Jay Leno. They do BIRDHOUSE IN YOUR SOUL and ISTANBUL (NOT CONSTANTINOPLE), and yes, Doc and the orchestra play along. Inceedible. youtu.be/2AQ9nSbWJHI?...

(@poslfit.bsky.social arrives with coffee and food) Me: And maintaining his perfect record as Husband of the Day, John! Him: Husband of the Day? I thought we were in this for the long haul. Me: I figured daily rewards are good for keeping up the energy. Him: *snort*

This cartoon by @debbieohi.com is not inaccurate. :)

Welcome to Jurassic Pork 🦕🥟🦖 #Delicious #Dinosaur #Dumplings

This weekend I wrote about Doug Ford’s plan to sell off a large chunk of Wasaga Beach Provincial Park. Exactly the opposite of what should be happening: parkland expansion.

This one-woman show about a real-life all-female gang of thieves is absolutely wonderful, queer & dark & extraordinary. I'd love to see Margo reach the funding goal to do a 10th anniversary remount in at least two cities!

Once I tried to get @tkingfisher.com to remove an em dash. She sent me a photo of STET THIS across her knuckles.

The person behind this commercial should win a motherfucking Oscar, and so (of course) should Samuel L. Jackson.

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I did not let my mother’s cat out onto the balcony without a harness. I am the Cruel Sister.

Plus ça change

Shodo-banned for my bad calligraphy.

Goddamn it. A hell of a hot mess of a dude, but “Paranoid” alone is reason for him to live on forever. Rock on, Ozzy.

Umm…whaaaat?!

Post a pic you took (no description) to bring some zen (but please include alt text).

Gives me the horrors.

Every once in a while, I get in the mood to listen to four versions of “Train Kept A Rollin’” in a row: Tiny Bradshaw (1951), then Johnny Burnette (1956), the Yardbirds (1965), and Aerosmith (1974). Hell of a song. Today, I like the Yardbirds best—tomorrow, who knows? youtu.be/Cd1gRHk28IE?...

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts. Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

The new Murderbot short story is up at Reactor Magazine: reactormag.com/rapport-mart... Edited by Lee Harris, art by Jaime Jones.

If you see this, post a shark that isn’t from Jaws.

As more journalists are driven out of their jobs, I keep hearing this drumbeat of "it's ok -- they can start their own newsletter or publication." Some can. But becoming your own business is a huge job, and will eliminate many talented reporters from the public sphere. Here's why. (1/5)

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