To so much of the news I hear the voice of the great David Byrne in head, one of my favourite lyrics of all time: And if our cells are our destiny I want to be free of biology

RIP

ah yes i can’t wait to get answers that are ai generated and far more intelligent than before

Imagine a world in which no one has a job and 8 guys own 100% of the wealth. Doesn't that sound amazing, Class of 2026?

No cell phone and no email until I was well into my 20s, and for you young folks: it was glorious! I want to go back.

Is it time to start up again on my yearly ban the Toronto air show ranting?

If they put the amount of money going into data centres into renewables and managing climate change first - we’d be doing I’m sure better than any of us can imagine

Leaked image of new Apple EV.

Buying new jean shorts seems insane to me. When you need some is when you get to buy new jeans and sacrifice the legs of an old.

From Safe Parkside: look what happened on Parkside Drive after Premier Doug Ford banned speed cameras.

frankly I have come to believe techies are illiterate. science fiction isn't about the future, stupid. it's about the current political situation but set in space so no one gets mad. duh!

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I think there needs to be rule, law, whatever, about closed captions, at least in movies and tv shows, be correct. It so often is not. A single word can make a world of difference.

swore I would never bike in TO but by a ginormous margin it is the best option to get to my studio (48min walk which is a bit much for both ways each day). Now I’m just swearing out loud at a cycling map. There is a big ass hole of no lanes trying to get out of my neighborhood.

Deeply integrating our economy with the United States is what made Canada so vulnerable to Trump’s bullying in the first place. This isn’t what Canadians voted for. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

Ananda Coomaraswamy famously said museums are where we proudly display the artifacts of a way of life that has become impossible. A new mass transit subway stop nextdoor to a car museum makes a terrific A1 photo in today’s LA Times, by Carlin Stiehl.

This, plus “does it reduce suffering”. For ourselves the planet and all life on it.

That we have let the biggest losers with no vision or care for humanity and the planet hoard and rule is the beyond me. Honestly fuck these pathetic losers. We need an enormous paradigm shift or we have simply thrown in the towel and accepted the saddest outcome the entirety of history in jest.

Legal experts just confirmed Danielle Smith's private health care law breaks the Canada Health Act. Wealthy patients pay to skip the line. Everyone else waits longer. Protecting public healthcare is the federal government's job. So why is PM Carney letting Conservatives dismantle it?

I had to look up the theme - fashion as art? And yah this checks for these peoples concept of art

Just me or is this the saddest Met carpet ever? Blah. I’ve long defended the Met Gala as a fundraising event (for whatever reason the costume institute is the only Met department that has to self fund) - but if you get the most out of touch psycho hoarders to head it I guess this is the end

PSA: THE TIME IS NOW And it is a brief fleeting moment

Harper would say he was going to do something awful and conservative and then he would do it. Trudeau was performative in saying he was going to do something progressive and then not doing it. Carney says he will do progressive things, but then he does things that are awful and conservative.

Why are the Liberals so obsessed with Billy Bishop Airport, a tiny boutique airport that carries less than 5% of Toronto’s passenger traffic? “We must look at how passenger volumes might grow.” - @juliedabrusin.bsky.social Why? Who says that is in the public interest? Based on what?

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I’ve cycled through trying to be vegetarian in my life, to varying success, but the easiest hard no for my adult life is I will absolutely not eat octopus. It’s the invertebrate equivalent to deciding to eat an elephant imo

I’m in the testing problem solving stage of a new series of pictures, full of disappointments, this is everything. Nothing feels better. A zillion micro epiphanies. In time-space. My inclination is this isn’t specific to me or the creative class it’s universal. Yet technolords want to take it away

I’d thought I’d saved one or two failed mount prints when I moved because a big sheet of dibond is usefully in the studio - I needed it today so I pulled them out. Turns out I did junk them, but in turn I found where my former studio assistant packed about 2k of acrylics etc. I thought lost 😭😭

Two crossing guards in Ontario have been killed on the job in less than six months (and both since the Ford government emboldened motorists by removing speed safety cameras). There should be a public inquest or coroner's report. This is not acceptable.

Save Toronto Island! Premier Ford has expropriated the entire Toronto island for his jet scheme. Sign our petition and tell your elected rep to abandon this terrible plan at NoJetsTO.com! #topoli #onpoli

Showing Fran my magic wand

"Benches are where optimistic visions of civic life meet reality. To remove them, or to curate who gets to sit, is to abandon the work of defining a civic ideal and determining, together, how to live up to it." NEW: Why benches are slowly disappearing from public spaces — and why we need them back:

From Barcelona to Paris, cities thrive with women in charge. It’s all about sharing public space | Melissa and Chris Bruntlett

Truth. I’ve missed maybe 3 or 4 flights, the first time I’d read the date wrong and was late by….3 days. It was so fine. Out of CDG so decent airport wine;) Another time I missed a connecting flight and was very tired and this is how I learned you can rent an airport hotel room for a half day!

A California man was charged with grand theft after buying thousands of dollars worth of Lego kits, replacing pieces with bags of uncooked pasta, and returning the sets to stores for refunds, the police said on Thursday.

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It’s a brilliant tax because when they say “but the billionaires will leave” you get to say “they already don’t live there”

This is me dressed up as Jesus! — I mean, as a Red Cross Doctor. Who could possibly be mistaken?

Until you try to keep one as a houseplant….

If the Liberals passed this into law in 2018, Ontario students would’ve been unable to organize protests against Doug Ford’s sex-ed curriculum change 15 yr old Greta Thunberg would have been banned from posting about climate change Teenagers actually participate in our democracy, believe it or not

My cat Fran’s absolute favourite thing is if you dance for her. I oblige. I oblige.

I have *a number of times* imagined the insufferable bro crew and incessant glosting we would have to endure No thanks. Space X is I believe winning tho at making space a garbage dump

I'm struck by the number of modes of transit these astronauts will experience today. 1. Slicing through the Earth's atmosphere in a spaceship 2. An inflatable raft 3. A rope swing 4. Helicopter 5 Aircraft carrier 6. Airplane. 7. Van.

Thank god. Honestly with everything going on some sort of Challenger event would be the thing that finally put me right over the edge

The problem is “TEENS” not having more babies!! FFS 🤬🤬

I wanna watch the Artemis landing on this.

Here's the thing, though. "I believe that abortion is murder and churches should have the right to torture gay youth" is a pretty big stance to take and if she's willing to abandon those "values" to march the party line, then she's got no integrity. But if she stands by those values, she's a traitor

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After Trump's latest genocidal utterances, I'm posting this again from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944: “America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.

It’s completely insane to me that this morning the president of the United States said that an entire civilization will die tonight and now hours later he is still the president of the United States.