Delays on Line 1. Should I be concerned?

Please could you spread this?

“These books are medicinal!”

That was a lot of fun while it lasted. #BlueJays

HALLOWEEN BEGINS

The sculptures this artist creates are beautiful and weird in the best way.

We'll be closed all day Sunday November 2nd for our semi-annual inventory count. We'll be back open for our regular hours on the 3rd. On a totally unrelated note, on Saturday November 1st, all books will be 10% off! (Please buy everything in the store, that way we don't have to do inventory.)

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

OMG, this is amazing!

This photo of rookie Yesavage casually walking off the mound as future Hall of Famer and helmet-less Ohtani is still in motion striking out is everything. #WantItAll

Gerrard St. East - from Chinatown east to the tracks - will be facing changes as the Ontario Line gets developed. Photographer Peter MacCallum captures its current state. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

Genuinely laughing to keep from crying at this instant classic from @mcsweeneys.net www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-...

“These books are medicinal!” Is killing me! 😂😂😂😂

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

I found a NASA document that is a history of wake-up songs played for astronauts since the Gemini missions. It’s not complete, but includes songs played to Skylab, the ISS, and to Sojourner and Spirit on Mars. I am beside myself. 1/2

“I fell in love with research as an adrenaline junkie.” OW.

I have Boscs *and* Bartletts in the house that need dealing with. *rubs hands together*

At Yonge & Dundas Jays fans are obeying the pedestrian scramble, as is the custom & returning to sidewalk each light cycle.

By wearing that jersey, this magnificent hero must be planning to break the Leafs’ curse with the power of a Game 7 win by the Jays. That crazy sonuvabitch. (Cue internal screaming)

Went out and passed by three dog owners, each with a large dog, discussing which ones were friendly and which ones were nervous as they attempted to pass each other on both sides of one street. A bit of a dog jam, but it was all sorted. Good owners and good bois.

There's a particular sickness unique to the American mind that makes us believe roads, highways, and interstates don't need to turn a profit, but trains must.

Cleaning up the storage/laundry room to make space for sewing and other projects, and boy howdy, there is a lot of dust in there. How does one underutilized room gather so much dust? #rhetorical

I don’t speak math, but I knit. My husband is fluent in math, but does not knit. This looks like a win/win, bridging the divide kind of book to me!

More of this, all the time, from all our elected leaders.

What Fr Dowling is doing here was not just "offering communion to detainees". A full on Eucharistic Procession is a really fucking big deal. In Catholic theological framing, those folks were the honor guard with the very great privilege of escorting Jesus himself to the detention center.

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

"When they fought, the Vikings fought hahd! N’ some’ah the ones that got the most famous fahr fightin’ the fuckin’ hahdest were the Varangians who fought in Constantinople befoh r’it turned intah a Turkish caliphate ah whatevah." #LeifEriksonDay

I still don’t understand how we accomplished something this cool as a city, but we did. Yay, ancient peat bogs! Go, ancient microfauna!

Wooooo!

I’m deeply amused by how superstitious a major sports home team championship run can make me and everyone around me. And also anxious (so anxious).

Just when I am ready to log off forever and go be a hermit in the woods, someone makes an off-handed comment and starts a super useful thread that gives me explanations for why my body (yet again) is so weird. So it’s not off to the woods for me yet; which is good. I hate moving. And mosquitoes.

Just yelled at a friend of mine to stop watching the game and jinxing it. #BlueJays

Fascinating thread about moderation for online communities that could apply to all sorts of social groups.

Well, crap.

I heard a red-tailed hawk outside the house, very close, and ran out to record the sound for my bird app. I also heard a blue jay, which flew into the tree in front of the house and opened its beak to do an excellent imitation of a red-tailed hawk. Apparently they do that. 1/2

"Where's Papa going with that ax?" said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

No truer headline.

As usual @johnlorinc.bsky.social nails it again. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

“Mmmm. Forbidden donut.”

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Mmmm…paper book…

This only happens to you once

Happy Stanislav Petrov day!

Am freshly vaxxed and waiting to see if I get the free pass or the day in bed. I will know by morning! But this time I got it done just before the weekend, instead of during a busy work week (living dangerously, receiving consequences), so yay me.

I keep thinking about buyers and how—over the space of a decade or two—I watched how the chain bookstore I worked at went from "let us tell find the right book for you" to "these books go here on these displays, exactly like this, no exceptions." It… sucked. (1/?)

It’s only blocking trolls but I like it, like it, yes I do!

TriCon: The Trident Conference for Speculative Fiction May 15-17, 2026 Kjipuktuk | Halifax, Nova Scotia Registration now open! More details: tricon-halifax.com. GOHs: @amalelmohtar.com @englelaird.bsky.social @kurestinarmada.bsky.social #amwriting #speculativefiction @tricon-hfx.bsky.social

Mad respect.

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.