Incredible shot.

Initially assumed this was a photo of Toronto. Exactly the colour of the sky right now.

Our postal carrier just dropped off a package. It's the first time I've ever seen him wearing a mask. My spouse just texted me that it looks like something out of Blade Runner from the 25th floor. If you have to be outside, wear a mask.

Toronto has the worst air quality in the world right now (or close to it) thanks to wildfire smoke. Environment Canada mentions that "a properly worn respirator type mask (such as a NIOSH-certified N95 or equivalent respirator) can reduce your exposure to the fine particles in the smoke." 1/3

"Observe perpetually. Observe the oncome [sic] of age. Observe greed. Observe my own despondency. By that means it becomes serviceable. Or so I hope. I insist upon spending this time to best advantage. I will go down with my colours flying." 8 March 1941 💔

Today we lost the guy behind one of my favourite line deliveries ever. RIP, Mr. Cat Burglar.

Losing my mind at this Murder, She Wrote promo

One of the funnier bits from a recent Ontario auditor general report was the finding that the government couldn't even force civil servants to use copilot

From a distance, it really looks like the Canadian soccer team has been playing under a flock of seagulls or one giant seagull.

Saffron Spice Kitchen in Toronto has had this on the menu since 2019. Hope they're having a good week.

To resist America, we apparently need to become America? I wrote about it for @thestar.com. Don’t @ me, Carney stans: www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Story now updated with what happened in the meeting and background on the issue. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A highway safety solution used for decades elsewhere is still years away in Ontario. “We need it yesterday,” Maggie Horsfield (Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities) tells @jeyantvo.bsky.social. At 8pm with Charles Cirtwill (Northern Policy Institute) | Producer: @sarahsweet.bsky.social

This is agonizing, and I'm a raptors fan. Please get my son, OG another ring. Get him a ring as a star. I've always hoped he'd get his ring and be healthy enough to actually grind it out on the court.

OG Anunoby

"What about scarves?" — Fucking legend

OG OH MY

OG OH MY

"OG has become a special two-way player this year." This year, eh. OG OH MYYYYY

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NBA announcer talking about OG and how talented Siakam "ENDED up being." He was already talented in 2019, ffs. (Nice to have the chance to get worked up about the Raptors during the finals.)

A transcription tool Ontario approved for doctors lists testimonials from doctors who don’t appear to exist — and has a link to a website that seems to post AI-generated news articles. zurl.co/J9jqS

I know! Murray Head!

The shock I felt, seeing this the first time. Pretty sure this scene is also the reason I found out his brother sang "One Night in Bangkok."

Chants of “f--k AI” filled Hamilton’s city council chambers ahead of a raucous planning meeting Thursday morning as dozens of people packed the public gallery and over a hundred waited in the halls outside.  www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #HamOnt #OnPoli

This is just an incredible section. Do these "intimidation tactics" involve anything more than "specific patients groups" monitoring research to identify "formal flaws"? The PACE trial is dead; long live the PACE trial. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PACE_tr...

Wemby: “I refuse to carry the burden of having to hide my emotions.” This is amazing.

There’s also Garrett Temple, beloved Raptor, long may he stay one.

The World Cup will bring global attention and heavy travel. After last year’s shortage of air-traffic controllers and other staff, how prepared is Canada’s air traffic system? @jeyantvo.bsky.social talks with Jonathan Bagg of @navcanada.bsky.social tonight at 8pm | Producer: @sarahsweet.bsky.social

Should Canadian airports be privatized? PM Mark Carney says he’s open to it, and to foreign investment. @jeyantvo.bsky.social talks risks and benefits with Lily Chang (@canadianlabour.bsky.social) and Jake Fuss (The Fraser Institute) tonight 8pm | Producer: @sarahsweet.bsky.social

Move over, Whiskey Fridays With Tony Dokoupil. It's time for Miller Light Saturdays With Tyler Austin Harper.

Cyclists on the Gateway Bridge over the mouth if the Humber River.

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

A Passage to Indianapolis

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Grogu

Funny to see the CNN anchors interview, one by one, the roughly 25 CNN staff who are inside the ballroom. Journalistic ouroboros.

Hey at least Ford is being transparent about Ontario Place.

"Today the provincial government announced legislation to seize city land without our consent and without our input. Not just land on the island, but city land at Bathurst & Queens Quay. That includes Little Norway Park. They're going to pave it into a parking lot!" Chow says.

Kind of concerned that Jon Lovitz was in a cybersecurity-training video I had to watch for work, but on the plus side: I got to watch Jon Lovitz in a cybersecurity-training video for work. (Almost didn't believe you when you told me, @poppedculture.bsky.social)

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If health-related reasons (e.g., respiratory illness, mental health issues, disability) are even partly responsible for this rather dramatic increase in absences, making students' grades contingent on being present could very well make matters worse.

Maybe not longer, but better: Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983-1987).

Obvious choice. Knows his stuff.

Is it still the Dunning–Kruger effect if I know I lack knowledge and skill and am overestimating my own competence and still think I could maybe be a better MLSE president and CEO. www.nytimes.com/athletic/719...

It's a good thing we've got Canada's sharpest mind — and most honest broker — in charge of regulating an abstruse technology peddled by deep-pocketed psychopaths.