It was Little Guy Time at Ken Whillans and Terra Cotta Conservation areas today! #LittleGuys #caterpillars #fuzzy #ontario

TTC fleet mean velocity 59.0 mm/s, bearing -15.6° for 1,115 moving vehicles: reported at 14:33:54 EDT.

When life takes you to Middlefield and Steeles at lunchtime, smoked meat from Sumilicious is called for

Thanks, ADHD, for repeatedly yelling the name G. E. M. Skues until I looked him up. I must have read his name when I was in my fly fishing phase roughly 40 years ago.

I forked this excellent multi-precision maths library to give it explicit support for CircuitPython: scruss/micropython-decimal-number: Micropython Decimal Number Module — github.com/scruss/micro... So it you're finding single-precision a bit cramped, give it a shot. #CircuitPython

#ONPoli #VisionZero globalnews.ca/news/1144907...

Inspire confidence with your eBay local pickup orders by being at neither the address on your website nor the one on Google maps. (It's a weird semi-derelict office park. There's an abandoned office with a Glowforge sitting on a table ...)

9/ I had launch with Paulina Borsook last month in Oakland. Her life is hard, but she still has a lot to say! She's trying to raise funds to get a new version of the book reissued on the Internet Archive. Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

My signup for Toronto Public Library's Google AI course is going just great. I'm now getting spam from Coursera and it's trying to sign me up for a course in French instead. My browser language first choice isn't English so Coursera thinks Canada+ not English= French! How intelligent ...

10/ Instead of centering men who missed the boat (and still don't seem to get it), let's lift up the work of Paulina Borsook, who saw it all very clearly and tried to warn us 25 years ago. Someone should do a profile of her very interesting life. And hey, let's drop some cash into her GoFundme!

A DM worth mentioning (thanks, Sue): "Shouting Elgar, Elgar, Elgar!" is the middle class alternative chorus of Underworld's Born Slippy.

I'm glad my late uncle wasn't around to see this. He volunteered for this place and would have inflicted extreme malky on the perpetrators if he'd found them. Man jailed for torching Bo'ness model railway in deliberate fire — www.bbc.com/news/article...

Semi-successful tetrapod cast using surplus crayons in a 3d printed mould. Bad surface finish and the filler sprue is blocked. This meant that the wax had to form a void somewhere as it cooled/contracted. The small hole near the centre of the cast is a void, probably 10% of the volume #tetrapod

TTC fleet mean velocity 80.8 mm/s, bearing -6.4° for 988 moving vehicles: reported at 22:07:52 EDT.

TTC fleet mean velocity 21.4 mm/s, bearing -72.1° for 1,242 moving vehicles: reported at 15:53:03 EDT.

“gelatinous protein deposit”

Always good stuff at the Aga Khan museum 'Exchange' and 'Red Card', both by Hassan Hajjaj, 2006 (outside display in the park)

Hanging out with the Blue Raspberry Lion at the Aga Khan Museum (That's not the piece's real name, but we call it that and make sure to say hello every time we visit)

Happy Be Unbearably Smug about Metric day! (anniversary of the Mars Climate Orbiter loss due to barbarian units: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Cl... )

TTC fleet mean velocity 193.2 mm/s, bearing 115.2° for 1,249 moving vehicles: reported at 08:38:21 EDT.

WALK FAST LOOK MAD , TRUST ME - dashare.zone ADMIN

good grief! The Jays are in the playoffs. Toronto's teams are supposed to be endearingly/expensively terrible, so this doesn't seem right

IM RIGHT - dashare.zone ADMIN

First empty Crosstown train swished past the mostly full 34 bus. We're not quite at Warden yet. #ttc

Joy: the Eglinton bus now takes nearly an hour to get to near Yonge. Meanwhile I'm sure many empty Crosstown trains will zip by

A skunk has sprayed near the house and it smells so bad I can almost hear it

terrible car, excellent logo

TIL (via mefi) how the dreaded ringless voicemail works. It almost makes me want to track down the patentees and repeat-call them with dead air forever US8605869B1 - Method and apparatus for forcing a call to a carrier provided voice mail facility — patents.google.com/patent/US860...

Somehow, The Ever Lovin Jug Band manage to make this: * about the most Canadian thing ever; * in the style of The Thirteenth Floor Elevators; * with a bridge done as Lou Reed/VU. "Five Pin" everlovinjugband.bandcamp.com/album/move-t...

There is a jumpy-boi in the basement that I must - somehow - get outside

Cartoon by @laloalcaraz.bsky.social.

Maynard DIxon, "Scab”, 1934

This must be the cloud computing I keep hearing about

musical weirdness: Music Boxes And Chiming Clocks From The Alec Templeton Collection — archive.org/details/lp_m...

Spiny little guy - do not pet (Hickory Tussock Moth caterpillar, one of the "ouchworms")

Bald Eagle. Petticoat Creek. Never seen one on Lake Ontario before #birds #birb #toronto #pickering

Emma Swift's new album is particularly sweet

7 septembre 2025 Cigognes en plein chantier à Matemale, Pyrénées-Orientales 📷 Jean Joel REMY photographe

For #thingThursday - a Magic Designer (aka Hoot Nanny), a geometric drawing toy made from the 1940s to the 1970s. (For the electrical/electronics nerd, it was invented by the same person who developed the Cinch plug, an electrical connector)

47 bus, where are you? (TTC transit feeds are all borked. They're producing hopeful but useless results)

KJuice / KGinger Demon Hunters for where I'm from

Extra shitty service on Line 2 this morning. No train at Kennedy due for 15 minutes. #ttc

YAAAAY!

welp, there go the plans to spend the day at the makerspace

so that's vimeo gone to the VC shitbirds

forehead teeth. Now there's a thing.

pie roll

Doctor I trust more than RFK Jr

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".

we predict cleveland’s browns will have great movement, be well managed, and finish much better than they started. as for the football team we are less certain.