Coming up soon, the longest night of the year with a Parade and Big Fire in Kensington Market on the winter solstice. Reposting here for visibility because it's one of my favorite celebrations of the year. Few of my pics from years past.. #toronto #solstice

When the Hong Kong fire occurred, initial international media coverage focused on bamboo scaffolding. This Orientalised and exoticised the tragedy, obscuring the fact that it was not just an accident, but an outcome shaped by long-term neglect and inequality, writes @tingguowrites.bsky.social.

remote work would be good for my health if only to stop running into clueless psychos blocking train doors

it's a christmas miracle, I have finished the first fic I've written in decades

Hello. I am offering up my Gift Sherpa services. Tell me whose gift you're stuck on and I will recommend something.

Rice Lake, located about 1.5 hours east of Toronto, passed a resolution recently in conjunction with the local Alderville First Nation that will grant the lake legal personhood status. It's the first lake (and second waterway, after the Magpie River in Quebec) to be granted personhood in Canada.

glad to see heritage minutes before shown before movies

my preferred fireplace channel has uploaded a new video after three years and it's called "real fireplace NO LOOP just big wood log on fire" bless us all, every one

Anniversary of halifax explosion so obligatory "Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbour making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys." - Vincent Coleman saved like 300 people on a train, and started the emergency response. Died for it

just went to a staging of a christmas carol in a historic georgian house downtown and it was incredible. a stunning production

How lovely are these linocut bookmarks my mum made of my cat Roscoe? www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...

lol it happened to me, I missed the bus because I waited at the wrong stop even though I squinted at google maps closely. would be nice if they put east or west on the shelter

went to pick up my order at the mystery-only bookstore in town (the classic model with a dog and classical music on the radio) AND the book unexpectedly is a christmas theme

So, in the last few weeks I got hit with a bill for a sleep study I I had already paid a co-pay for...for 758 dollars. Needed 2238 dollars worth of car repairs and still have 368 dollars from dental work. Venmo: ONIRAM48, paypal: [email protected]. I hate to ask, but not sure what else to do.

I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit

hey, guys: pretzel bread with toum

Day 1 of #BooksAreMyJam! Blueberry Maple jam, with Linguaphile: A life of language love by Julie Sedivy. A classic Canadian flavour duo + this book about @juliesedivy.bsky.social's relationship with language through her childhood in Montreal, later research as a linguist, and more

put a miniskirt on for the first time in years to go to a concert. 2 of 4 did not fit anymore but now I'm kicking up my heels feeling pretty

I've taken the paywall off this eulogy I wrote for my magical, mysterious ex-stray cat George - who died last year - in case anybody would like a read. It was very, very hard to write but I think it might be my favourite thing I’ve ever written about cats. www.tom-cox.com/lots-of-peop...

psa: if u need festive music that isn't the usual suspects, try jazz w a bit of a midcentury mod vibe, or baroque music

huge news: the frozen cookie balls in the freezer are still good after 2 years(?) and I just baked half a dozen to snack on

someone you know wants one of these $5 risograph cat prints store.kolbisneat.com/product/cats

@juggleduck.bsky.social @hunsweasel.bsky.social synergy

I was right he did need a top hat.

i just want to know if anyone is older than me in spotify age (81)

caf breakfast grill man finally got me to order pancakes with chocolate chips and I regret nothing

oh shit I gotta break into the short story advent calendar!!! I've been waiting a year!!!

an advent calendar with each day providing a small piece of the mystical sword needed to fight Santa when he finally breaks in

Shop drop on dec 1, 12am pst including a postcard calendar, seconds sale mystery necklaces (my fav), and hand painted wood shields pamwishbow.com

rewatching dungeon meshi and senshi's backstory, where the older dwarf insists on taking care of him because that's our duty to the next generation, makes me tear up

finally at home, on my couch, as the lord intended

not calling my last ex to find out if I grind my teeth in my sleep

@stefapie.bsky.social I'm browsing kids books and there's a disaster graphic novel series and one of them is I SURVIVED THE GREAT MOLASSES FLOOD 💀💀💀💀💀

#OtD 30 Nov 1999 the WTO meeting in Seattle was disrupted by big protests as people blockaded streets to prevent it taking place. Police attacked violently, and rioting broke out downtown hitting headlines and sparking a global anti-capitalist movt stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1033...

I put my ear against marlow's side and heard his insides gurgling and burbling and it felt like such an honour

hey guys: shortbread w black sesame

at a ramen place and they gave me a little basket to put my stuff in just like many did in japan 🥹

I want to show my mom a photo tomorrow for my haircut so I'm looking up short cuts for east asian hair and I WISH I wanted chow yun fat's hair

truth coming out of her cup noodles to shame mankind

to diminish the humanities is to miss out on a lot of little guys. that’s no way to live.

just washed a canvas backpack I've owned for ???? a decade ??? and the water was unspeakable

just watched a mercedes do a u turn in a three way stop

nothing to do but watch a canterbury tale (1944)

bugged my mom about finding out which groups to donate to support victims of the tai po apartment fires

appreciating the commercial grade crapper at the office today

I believe a thread dedicated to strongwomen will be appreciated

ohhhhhh shiiiiiit

I clogged a toilet at the bar so I need to die now