Given the lack of enforcement these days, this guy is probably an incredible menace on the road to face even these consequences.

I have read one of the five. Some hefty books this year.

SHORTLIST TIME

Tea and toast. #dlws

I've had this weird anxiety ever since I moved to Toronto about missing the "last nice day" and I don't know what that is but it's worse now. Anyway, summer is out. I'm on a patio.

Let's go rapture, let's go! *clap*clap*

So they terrorized a bunch of people making $7 an hour for a hoax.

Look, I can guarantee this one is completely fresh (despite the corpses) and a roaring good time. Agents? Editors? Hit me up, let's get this bad boy some sprayed edges.

By the head of the Federal Communications Commission, in 2022:

The land of the free and the home of the brave. 🫡

Helpful for the weather to play nice on my little long weekend staycation thing.

Technically TECHNICALLY your elbows are up when applauding other countries' right wing martyrs. So everything's fine. /s

Got black pudding for brekkie. 😍😍

I like a busy day at work that allows me to pretend we have Normal Life and I don't look at the internet too much. Just came to the internet to say so. Buy some books.

The Lone Beech. 15°C and breezy. Deer in the valley.

*pointedly ignoring the other thing* Authority is great in audio if you swing that way. Andrea Long Chu's narration is clear and lively and just a little sly. A delightful companion on a long run.

The racist extremists are on the move. Just like they did in Charlottesville. On Sept 13 they will try and take over Christie Pits where people fought the Nazi thugs in 1933. Show the world that Toronto will not put up with race-haters. Peaceful gathering:Christie Pits park 12:30 this Saturday.

The voyage to the bathroom situation at Jet Fuel in Cabbagetown is only a little terrifying.

Especially since so many of us threw our votes and voices behind him based on lies and fear. Unless there is a big change in tone and policy, never again.

Armani. Armani. Ah ah. Armani.

Some navel gazing: A thing I learned when I was in the depths of major depressive disorder was to take every small thing that felt good and experience the fuck out of it. A sunbeam or a scenario. Drink or destination. Morsel or meal. Just feel good, because you never know when you will again.

Heard a lot of good things about this one so picked it up on the Kobo

Literarily speaking, I'm pretty sure I would follow Catherine Lacey anywhere.

When Cameron was in Egypt's laaaand...

I want to express my profound disappointment today that the City has ordered its workers back into the office five days a week. It is a short-sighted decision that serves no one well in either the short or long term. (1/6)

Update. Poor lil guy. 😿 www.ladybirdanimalsanctuary.com/las1795/

There’s a counter rally organized by Workers Action Centre: actionnetwork.org/events/Sep13... from noon to 4:30 at Christie pits See screenshots as well

Hi everyone, it's that time again. Time for YEARLY MAIL MERGE. Where I do a task that I only do once a year and try to figure out how tf I did it last time, amidst *some* yelling.

Bridging into spooky season.

Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."

I wondered how long it would take for states (The States?) to start blocking free internet speech. Here we go.

Hey activist types! I have gone to several of the bike lane protests but those were just BEING. On a bike. If I need to make signage, what's the best way to do that? Poster board from the art supply store? A paint stir stick? (I don't have a hockey stick.)

Welp, I'm certainly going back to voting NDP.

You know who would have fought a lot harder? Truedeau. Plus we'd still get carbon rebates and social programs. Glad everyone was so excited to get rid of him!

My top library tip as a power user and former library staffer: browse this list with your library website open in another tab; put things on hold before they’ve even arrived at the library (and ask your library to purchase items you want if they haven’t ordered them).

It's becoming crystal clear that "the economy" means nothing but how the passive income set is doing. There will be a lot of pain for the plebs, but as long as they keep gaming the stock market with tariff scares, everyone that counts will be fine. #EatTheRich

Sometimes I think about how unfair some (petty) things are and then I realise that we're all going to die in a fiery climate disaster and that will equalize everything out. So, happy Monday!

Gussied up.

IT'S TIME.

So I started reading this book documenting the dreams some Germans were having c. 1933-9. Bad dreams to be sure. I went to bed and worried it would affect my own dreams. I do stress about the world. I dreamt I was making out with Morten Harket on a cruise ship.

It is absolutely perfect outside. #dlws

The male loneliness panic gives lie to the whole "women are inferior" schtick. They need us so bad they'll fash if they can't have us. Scares 'em. Some become better men, some misogynists. Meanwhile every woman, sooner or later, learns the eternal truth that "dick is abundant and low in value."

I'm more Blendy than Boss but who am I to turn down a strawberry milk coffee?

I was just thinking what a nice thing this was, to have it come together that a bunch of friends were in London with me and we went to this very old school East London caf and the tea arrived with milk already in and I had black puddings and then we went for 11am pints.

"Premier Doug Ford said he believes workers are 'more productive' in the office." Remind me again how long the summer vacation is for the provincial legislature? Four months?

I was bamboozled. It's just the block from Wallace to Ernst that reopened. *sad trombone*

A thing that breaks my heart (so much does lately) is seeing good, kind people fall for every awful propaganda trick, every lie, every bad faith argument, and then repeat them back, to defend apartheid and genocide. It should be unthinkable. I just finished this book. I wish you would read it.

The wind direction that cools things down is also the wind direction that brings in wildfire smoke and if that doesn't feel "early apocalypse" I don't know what does.

Oh so notes from my gross early run this morning THE RAILPATH IS OPEN!!! I'm not sure if all the way to Dundas again but I got on it at my usual Wallace and looked southbound it was GLORIOUSLY OPEN!!!