Halifax, NS

Gonna pop some pills and try and sit at a table with my leg stretched out and get some work done. Let's see how long this lasts.

Lots of chatter on this crack-you-up development approvals story from Toronto in my feed, so I guess I should post it .. www.thestar.com/news/gta/sne...

Dublin, and road safety

Minneapolis & St. Paul, MN

Bedridden (self-portrait, 2026)

I'm gonna have to lay in bed most of the day to rest my stitched knee. I like sleep, but for the record, I frickin' hate laying around in bed. Can't even read properly. Basically the phone is all you've got (and here I am)

"Ok guys - what if we invent a way to post ads with a news story, in a way that makes it impossible to read the story. Cool?"

What a crock (Klein's comment, not Glickman's). To understand what makes America glorious at those moments when it has been glorious, you have to understand the suffering and sin that brought it to those points in the first place, and which stood in the way.

New York City

Current mood youtu.be/9XcZraQjIRk?...

TFW you're only staying up so you can be awake to take more medication

And the world continues to spin at high speed toward the next crisis, and the next

Damaged my knee so I'm stuck with my leg up while stitches settle in. Listening to "Independence Day" like it's a radio play, and, oddly, it's working as a radio play so far...

Hamilton, ON ----> Halifax, NS

I would not have put it that way

Staten Island, NYC

"Une nouvelle victoire dans son combat contre Airbnb..." in Paris... www.leparisien.fr/paris-75/il-...

Council condemnation, featuring a communist mayor and a progressive majority against a far-right council member, in Ivry-sur-Seine (pop 65k, in the Parisian inner suburbs)

Housing, in San Diego, CA

This is likely in relation to Canada Day, but I'm seeing memes/videos surfacing on other socials again about how the Geneva Conventions were inspired by brutal Canadian actions during the world wars, and I (don't) regret to inform you it's utter nonsense.

🤔 in Toronto, ON

New York City

"Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive."

Frisco, TX

Duty-free condiments, in Boston, MA

Transit resurgent, in the Washington metro area

London transit

New York City

Transit and labour relations, in the Boston suburbs www.wbur.org/news/2026/07...

Passionate Transit, in Madrid

Canadian stream in Canadian rain, on Canadian holiday.

Kyiv, bracing for another night of Nazi attack after carrying on, resolved, for more than four years of variations of the same.

Big city condo comparison, in Toronto/Montreal www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

San Francisco, CA

Had a Canada Day nap. Dreamt in slightly jarring detail that my childhood house was getting demolished, and the owners had invited me and my son to tour it first. No subtleties there, Subconscious Me!

High winds ahead... Happy birthday, Canada and Nicholas.

When my wife was maybe five months pregnant, we took a vacation in Palm Springs, CA. Probably spent about US$3k in-country. Very pleasant trip. I will remember it differently, now.

Infrastructure and urban history, in Seattle/Tacoma. H/t @prchovanec.bsky.social

Brighton & Hove, UK. Some bickering but both sides seem to be right; while closing out unneeded capital reserves is real (and fair) cash, it's also still one-time money and so the structural deficit allegation appears real - especially if the Council expects high temp housing costs to continue.

Berlin, and, um, historic preservation policy -?. H/t @godevils2.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...

0613 and it's already been a long day.

London, and infrastructure. h/t @jonnelledge.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sydney, and parking policy

New York City Council (...2)

Tight fiscal, in Dallas, TX

Be careful what you wish for, in Vancouver, BC

Boston, MA is still awake

Thread: Durban, et al

Moscow