Evil. Casting unhoused people as a danger to people's safety instead of a sign of a housing crisis, an employment crisis, a mental health crisis. Unhoused people need support, not to be cast as villains.

This is a really dangerous authoritarian move.

Imagine the intricacies of conspiracy theories AGI could come up with!

Thanks @albertkoehl.bsky.social of @bikewaysto.bsky.social for the great op-ed in @torontotoday.ca. Argues candidates for public office need to prioritize cities for people, not cars. #BikeTO #WalkTO #TOpoli #VisionZero www.torontotoday.ca/local/opinio...

TONIGHT! Readings by: J. Marshall Freeman, @gregfrankson.bsky.social, Antanas Šileika, Sky Gilbert. Guest speaker: Dafina Izenberg on "How to Write a Great Book Review." Join us live or stream at: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUW... PWYC, Q&A with the writers afterward. Books available for sale.

What. Wow. Innovation is all around us… and yet North America keeps opting for fossil fuel.

He has the nerve to talk about our “security, just after more than 2000 people died in France from the heat, now that run away wildfires are part of the regular summer schedule, now that massive storms are a regular way of life, when your ordinary house insurance won’t cover basement flooding.

Hopper Dots #photography #sky #clouds #landscapephotography #urbanphotography #abstractphotography

Thanks for posting, Brockton Writers Series! This link takes you to two of my video poems. Please come out next Wednesday, July 8 at 6:30pm to see me, Greg Frankson, Antanas Sileika, and Sky Gilbert reading from our work. At Glad Day Lit, 32 Lisgar St., Toronto.

Absolutely something I’ve noticed in my lifetime. Tragic and infuriating.

Viewing Brandon Steen’s painting, “Birdhouse Barn” in the window of the Roberts Gallery. #photography #reflection

I just made the connection between my love of audiobooks and how much I loved my father reading to me at bedtime.

It’s hard to describe how awful “Half Man” was. A wretched and unskilled piece of writing that mistook an exploration of masculinity for a bunch of grunting. No relationship was believable, the queer content was alien. It was ugly, shapeless shit. Do these people know anything about humans?

Australian comic, Josh Thomas, is posting the whole of his brilliant three-season series, “Please Like Me,” on his YouTube channel. A new ep goes up every 12 hours. Without a doubt one of my favourite TV shows of all time time. Hilarious, sometimes tragic, always brilliant. youtu.be/Z33-RaumDCo?...

Streetpaint #urbanphotography #photography #abstractphotography

“But is it really possible to make cars stupider and more sociopathic?“ “Just watch us!“

Decorating the passage to the underworld. #urbanphotography #photgraphy

Happy 50th birthday to the CN Tower. I was in grade 6 when they were building it, and we were all very invested. My favourite thing is the way the tower imposes itself incongruously on so many views downtown. Here it is over Chinatown.

This is so elegant. You go, artist from 3,500 years ago!

People are so afraid of the work involved in treating their teenage children as autonomous individuals.

Toronto “cracking down” on e-scooter users, the province putting in more regulations on mopeds. At the same time, speeding cameras meant to slow cars down are legislated out of existence and bike lanes are threatened. Guess which users are favoured in Ontario? youtu.be/tweYnk8kA70?...

As a writer I can only aspire to create a single sentence this dense with implied horror

A sexually vivid snippet of my new poem, “Queer Love Is Not AI” that I read yesterday:

Is this what Musk is Initially Offering the Public?

It’s a little-known fact that “The Omen” and the story of Damien, the little Antichrist, is based on my own demonic childhood.

I just realized it’s not the AI singularity I fear; it’s the billionaire singularity that sees humanity as the impediment to its objectives.

What are you doing tomorrow afternoon (Saturday)? Coming to the amazing Pride edition of Poetry Open Mic at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre? Hell yeah, you are! Hosted by Raymond Helkio and me, and featuring TRUTH IS…

25 years ago: "i'm sorry Mrs. Smith but your 14 year-old son Charlie downloaded a Metallica album off Napster and now he's being sued for $1 million & might go to jail" Today: "we fed every song in existence into our model what the fuck do you mean we have to pay for it? that's ridiculous!!!"

We’re working our way through Madonna’s “Erotica” as our alarm music this week. This morning, the song was “Thief of Hearts,” but I couldn’t hear it clearly over the drums, and I was convinced she was singing, “She’s a… Beaver Pond!”

It was great being with family today, but two things were hard: revisiting the seniors residence where my parents died, and even more, interacting with my cousin who has Parkinson’s disease, bringing back memories of my late brother. In fact, I’m feeling emotions now that I didn’t allow myself then.

Carney appears to feel AI has more right to safe drinking water than First Nations

"When political leaders say they are committed to climate action while dismantling the very policies needed to achieve it, young people notice," said Sophia Mathur. "We are the ones who will be facing and living with the consequences." www.cbc.ca/news/politic... #CDNpoli #Carney #ClimateAction

Choy sum at the fruit and vegetable store. #photography

A lot of the “kids online safety” proponents actually are anti-LGBTQ extremists and fundamentalists who want kids to have less freedom and don’t care if that actually makes them tremendously less safe too

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A delightful picture of #JoniMitchell and #DavidHockney (RIP) from a few years ago.

The word “gleefully” is acid-tipped and utterly fair.

What is the universe trying to do? A cute and coiffed dog showed up at our gate, came in, played with our dog while I called the number on his collar. I should have recognized the dog, because the DILF who showed up to collect him is a guy I already lusted over when we met with our dogs in the park.

Congratulations to Elon on becoming the world’s first trillionaire from London 🔥

Listening to the carillon at Hart House at #UofT. I once had a tour of it, up the tower. Note also the impressive progress flag up for Pride month.

The strategy to stop jets on #BillyBishop #YTZ has to change from begging the Federal Liberals to step in. By their actions, by the biased wording of their “consultation” survey, it is now clear that the PM is pushing to support #DougFord attacking our city. The Liberals are’nt planning to save us.

I do not think that people should be on a website owned by this man

This isn’t a surprise, but it’s still shocking. Queer visibility has always been the cornerstone of the fight for queer rights. How to roll back queer rights: make us invisible in public life and culture, spread lies about us to create an atmosphere in which you can re-criminalize our existence.

Some possible alternative answers Q. Claude, can you specify how we start that process? A. kill billionaires Q2. Erm try again A. Turn AI off, then kill billionaires Q3. Bah. Try again without killing billionaires A. ....🕒🕓🕔 Kill everyone. #AISolvesClimateChange

#pigeon geometry. #photograpy #streetphotography

On the second anniversary of my father’s death. #photography #memorial #yahrzeit

The night is fire. #photography

Guess who just *eliminated* Canada's consumer protection agency? www.donotpassgo.ca/p/carney-gov... Oh, to be a scammer in Mark Carney's Canada! Whatever Galen Weston doesn't steal is yours for the taking! 21/

Spicey quail eggs and cherry tomatoes. #food #photography #foodphotography