If one of these motherfuckers eventual gets more than a glancing blow on me and actually smokes me with their vehicle, I want that moniker on my tombstone.

Waiting for the streetcar ramp to deploy with a wagon. Driver gets mad that he has to wait while the streetcar doors are open, lights are flashing. Blasts past, glancing off wagon as he goes. Insane road rage…unrelated, anyone know if the automated cameras are running yet?

Alex, you thought I should take the job you could’ve just called me.

Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not

Went to a networking event tn and found that I am honestly getting so sick of hearing myself talk about cities. Need to get back out with the camera.

Matt does amazing work and is very patient with me using his live tweeting as means to snipe at councillor.

Classic of his genre

My boy is making friends!!!

Substack has this weird reader feature now… having this passage read back to me with a stranger’s voice made me really consider my life choices up till now.

repeatedly telling my good friend stephen holyday that the reason i can't hang out is because there "isn't a place for me to park near your place" had unintended consequences.

Perhaps the appropriate time to point out the Dupont bus runs every 30 minutes. It's like a mythical beast everytime I see it yet density keeps popping up on Dupont, and the bike lanes aren't appearing anytime soon.

Forcing young people, who are less likely to drive, into scarce pockets of new density and obliterating transit options between them has a much more profound impact than parking lots.

“How do you plan and design a city that is safe and functional while also leaving room for spontaneity and serendipity?” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

. @novakovicto.bsky.social returns to the field with a new publication, Expo, and an excellent essay on diversity in Canadian architefture. www.expothemagazine.com/expo-essays/...

Was lucky to have been invited on to the Vancouver stop of @thewaroncars.bsky.social book tour this past Fall - They will be in Toronto this Thursday night - highly recommend going if you are in town. www.cycleto.ca/cars

In celebration and appreciation of all the folks who came out to support the reintroduction of neighbourhood retail last year, @joshmatlow.bsky.social and I are hosting a (free!) movie night at City Hall on Thursday, February 19. Here's the trailer for the doc, Changing Lanes.

lol nick kouvalis has had it with bradford over on the other site

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.

The people who think like this know the system—they have the means and connections. But you can learn! Recently put my name in and was selected to sit on the Local Advisory Committee for the West Annex Heritage Conservation District. Or join a group like @moreneighboursto.bsky.social.

"Maybe the city's full" says the man living in a 2.7 million dollar house on Palmerston, while sipping $170 scotch after defeating a multiplex proposal across the street. www.pressreader.com/canada/toron...

Anyone who criticizes the support of this film is engaging in anti-Slovene bigotry. For too long my countrymen have suffered the shame of not having a hit documentary/propaganda film in our name.

BARI WEISS: I think it's so telling. Liberals only want to talk about the bad bunny. Whereas rational people like you and me, I think, people who can agree to disagree, we want to talk about the good bunny. BILLIONAIRE CHILD RAPIST: [nodding]

Went to demand a public inquiry with @joshmatlow.bsky.social, @ttcriders.bsky.social, and others—great turnout despite it being cold enough that my very active dog was ready to call it quits early.

They are selling Dubai chocolate at the Staples Copy and Print Centre.

This is the face on the other end of that leash btw

As much as you may have found today’s snow unpleasant, Penny was delighted.

At @moreneighboursto.bsky.social new speaking series, Making Room. First topic was Ending Homelessness, with @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social as a speaker. Lovely and packed.

I did "I don't Like Mondays" and SOAD's "Lonely Day"...I had AFI's "Dancing Through Sunday" in the chamber but wasn't confident I could pull off Davey's screaming.

I love architects. They are like "I can Fix Society if I just make the Right Shape of building" it's adorable and sad

i'm gonna be honest but if it came down to a wager i reckon i'm neither mentally or physically reslient enough to deal with a ww3

The theme night at karaoke this week is "dates". The song has to reference days, months, years etc. Currently, my picks are: - "Don't Like Mondays" Boomtown Rats - "Every Day is Exactly the Same" Nine Inch Nails Any other suggestions? I don't want to do "Friday I'm in Love".

At least someone is happy.

from last night--it's thank your bus/streetcar driver weather

THATS THE WAY THE CROMBIE CRUMBLES…uh the cookie crombies…whatever www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

...I have been to karaoke 7/14 days in 2026...

Canadian Taxpayers Federation doing the meme again

The product of our long Bathurst walk: a photo of one apartment per decade, eleven different decades (1910-2020). Long live the multiplex. www.architecturewritingworkshop.com/threads/1225...

Setting up this Google Alert was a brilliant move on my part.

i am baselessly going to claim this is domino effect from Toronto

Maybe I’m just a silly little layperson but imo we could be building subway stations that have revenue generators stacked on top. Ex. could student housing fit on top of here? A little dorm hat?

CanCon ICE jokes

posting for no reason www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDhT...

Some nice winter moments from the past few weeks

re: toronto condo market...this is literally the clone high "I watched the first two-thirds of "MC Hammer: Behind the Music" and if there's one thing I learned about money it's that it never runs out!" bit

Been sleeping well, eating clean, and exercising regularly since Jan 1st--sad to report I am feeling very good.

Starting with a voice coach in January, and he wants videos of me singing...realised this one is one won't be much use since it's more of a Springsteen impersonation than earnest singing, so now it's for all of you instead. Merry Christmas.

Been a bit quiet with an intense final push for the year at the ol day job but today’s the last day in the office till the new year and have some exciting stuff planned for ‘26. Stay tuned—have a Christmas Penny in the meantime.

❄️☀️

on grey winter mornings like this it's nice to remember there are also these kinds of winter mornings...

cedarvale ravine (winter version)