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

And Toronto erupts. Even the dogs are howling. #baseball

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My weekend afternoons shown by two art books: Saturday book launch for Louis de Niverville: Pentimenti (designed by me!), and Sunday lecture by Jeff Wall in honour of his solo retrospective at MOCA Toronto.

It's Ada Lovelace Day, so worth noting that the era during which coders were mainly women (starting with her machine-language explication of the Bernoulli sequence in 1843) lasted about 130 years whereas the male-dominated period has lasted less than half that long

One other minor thing about this is it sorta takes back the noble frog from that far right meme.

Thank heavens. That whole “you can’t leave the US we killed your flight booking” was scary.

Dolly Parton announces "I ain't dead yet" after sister sparks concern with Facebook post requesting prayer for the music legend

My favorite new initialism: AI;DR I'll be using this a lot from here on out.

Just heard the very sad news that Nobuo Kubota has left us. Here is a wonderful 1982 film portrait of him. www.nfb.ca/film/kubota/

This is good, you should read this.

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

I, too, am proud to share this quite exciting finding with you: Europe's oldest mineral blue pigment. It's azurite and we found it on a legacy object that had long languished in a storehouse. New analysis bring new insights :) #palaeolithicblues

WTF? Canadians know this one (all too) well also!

Happening tomorrow, Toronto peeps! I'll be reading from RADIOLAND (and signing books) at the next Drunk Fiction reading event at The Caledonian, hosted by Emily Weedon (launching her next novel)! There will be authors aplenty and a wide array of ales and whisky. Hope to see you Tuesday @ 6pm!

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The “transit” app has become enshittified. Sad. It was an ok alt to rocket man. Now hard to use.

This is correct. Examples: Good good coffee: Kicking Horse, Dirty Girl Good bad coffee: Most diners, McDonald's Bad good coffee: Starbucks, most hipster places that look down on drip Bad bad coffee: Taco Bell (most non-McDs fast food really), the Hotcake House by Milwaukie and Powell in Portland.

*weeps in bluesky*

Doctor I trust more than RFK Jr.

I am waiting for this.

If you ever made a recipe that instructed you to scald the milk first — and if you’re not baking or making a custard — it probably predates pasteurisation!

Bluesky Labour Day weekend in a nutshell.

The stand in at the Bell Canada booth is happening right now to protest their AI Photo Booth.

This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read

Yes. But also: Plan B (all 3 English seasons - there’s a fourth en français) is an astonishing show.

This is the most dangerous shade your brush water can be.

Famously, between the first and the second act of Waiting for Godot, the only difference in the stage set is that a previously bare tree ‘has four or five leaves’. So what’s the main note to self I found in this copy which seems to have belonged to a stage manager called Nigel...?

In hot weather like this, remember to keep an eye on your freelancers. Move them to a shaded spot, indoors if possible, away from ‘people’. Distract them with a computer or some unrealistic deadline. Do check on them, by email, but don’t forget to set yours to out of office in case they reply 🙏

I turn 62 next week. I believe the best moment of my life was discovering a copy of the Stratford Festival’s production of The Mikado in the martial arts section of my local video store.

Happy Caturday to whoever who spray painted “CATS RULE” across the entire dog run at the local park

Great exploration of the Ontario food terminal in today’s star

RIP but my word this needed a closer read before hitting “publish.”

"Antony, where's Araminta?" "Oh, she's here."

Vanessa is amazing. Highly recommend.

the FreshCo Giller Prize

It's a brimful of

Nonfiction

Typography is 90% of visual design. Get it right.

Tried to quote tweet this but couldn’t - so sharing in screenshot. Faber has introduced a ‘Human Written’ maker’s mark for Sarah Hall’s new book, with Hall’s US publisher following suit. I think others are planning to do it too.

The exact correct analogy for this WeTransfer business. It is outrageous that they are claiming rights to the content being transferred.

Here we go again! Woke up this morning to find out Toronto has the second worst air quality in the world. You may want to limit your outdoor time and mask up if you need to. #TOpoli

Saturday? In this economy? We'll see about that.

Town planners in Porters Lake, Nova Scotia seem to have run out of ideas. There are streets named "This Street", "That Street", and "The Other Street".

Try being that child who wrote them in her spare time.

Happy to have made an appearance in The Guardian today, wearing my therapist hat, in this great piece by @ioanmarcjones.bsky.social. A timely subject, too!

Some east-ender thoughts on this map. You can see the Greek presence still, migrating north-east from the Danforth. And the Ethiopians and Tigrayans really are concentrated where their restaurants are along the east Danforth.