My wardrobe is black and I drink red wine sooooo #2 it must be

Overheard as I biked past a bus stop: "It's been what, seven minutes? Ten? I've got titty sweat." #dlws #toronto

Carney’s flight to Edmonton, where he’d hear Danielle Smith’s pipeline plan pitch, is grounded due to extreme weather —which is exacerbated by the climate crisis that pipeline plan would worsen 🤗 WHEEEEEEEEEE WHAT A WORLD

I think I might skip the moisturizer today. And possibly also foundation garments. #dlws

This is too bad, really. "Not proven" as a verdict is a very pointed concept and something that should have spread much further. boingboing.net/2026/06/29/p...

For dinner tonight I shall mainly be enjoying the Strait of Hummus.

John Anderton! You could use a Guinness right about now! www.wired.com/story/britis...

Also, Rock Band made me aware of just how very difficult it is to sing! There are very few good spots to breathe. She had awesome breath control (among her other talents).

...that is not what "physical" means www.bbc.com/news/article...

I’ve had straight men essentially say I’m overreacting for talking about rising internet censorship under the guise of protecting children, which is how I know it’s probably going to be an even bigger problem than I thought

I have several young gentlemen here smoothing my concrete, and that's not a metaphor either

“There’s no reason you’d need more police at a pedestrian street than any other street,” [Moise] said. “They’re safer, because there are fewer cars.” www.thestar.com/news/gta/cit...

As so often happens, @doctorow.pluralistic.net says what I was thinking. pluralistic.net/2026/06/23/d...

I'm delighted to discover new words! English is so vast, and has so many niche corners of vocabulary that one can wander into. There's no point in feeling bad one doesn't know all of it; nobody can.

Combination of 2 & 3

Une mauvaise nouvelle, c'est sûr ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/226...

Kudos to CBC for this headline, which avoids the tired and inaccurate "road closed" trope www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Does this street look closed to you? We shouldn’t need to host the #WorldCup in order to open streets for people. #UrbanTruth #Vancouver

Parallel play date! Excellent. Fully in favour. (I'm married though, so leave this idea for others)

As an IT worker, I beg you to turn your computer off and then turn it on again before calling IT.

I understand why news editors omit them, but I hate it when articles like this don't link to the fundraiser mentioned. Anyway, this kid needs a professional flute www.cbc.ca/news/indigen... and the fundraiser is here www.gofundme.com/f/my-flute-c... if you're inclined to contibute (I did)

There were over 46k Bike Share rides in Toronto yesterday, more than the average ridership of the Queen streetcar. The cost to the city to operate that streetcar was over $50k/day in 2015. Bike share costs the city $8k/day. 6x as cost efficient. Smart cities invest in cycling.

For 2 weeks the newspapers have been full of letters to the editor praising the Toronto cops for beating up on scofflaw cyclists for “blowing through stop signs.” Here’s why they are wrong; this is not a legal problem, it is a design problem. open.substack.com/pub/lloydalt...

Yes. Yes, minors have a right to privacy. bookriot.com/minors-right...

"There is no way to even get close to effective implementation of a [social media ban on under-16s] without violating the privacy of all users," @emmettmacfarlane.com argues: emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/bill-c-34s...

"The problem is that we’re just not building the right kind of multifamily housing." Indeed! Worth a read. macleans.ca/economy/real...

Ok fine we gave in and turned on the air conditioning #dlws

Famous authors asking you out

I wrote an actual cheque to pay for something (something rather large, beyond the Interac-transfer limit) yesterday! I don't think I've written a cheque for over a decade. I'm impressed I managed to find my chequebook.

...which century are we in again?

All of those at once

Bloke with an artificial lower leg riding an e-assist bicycle through the village with a load of mates on a variety of other bikes. E-bikes are a mobility solution.

Even scammers forget about GenX, apparently (from this weekend’s Globe feature)

Hear him, hear him

Exactly. It's not a competition! Any reading is good reading. Let people enjoy their reading accomplishments as defined by themselves.

What utter nonsense. I hope Toronto does push back (as mentioned in the article) because wtf www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

If only someone could figure out how to make milk safe to drink! It'd be such a big deal the process would be named after them.

Given the US allows forced labour within its own prison system, this is kind of rich www.nationalobserver.com/2026/06/04/n...

This is the 3rd preventable drowning story this year. Please, please 1. wear a PFD if you might bonk your head on what you're in or on (canoe, paddleboard, raft), 2. teach your children to swim (make them finish ALL the levels), 3. learn to swim yourself. vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/06/03/s...

Can confirm

I, too, would like a 21-week break after working for 30 days following a 14-week break. Sounds like a pleasant schedule. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

#PedalPoll 2026! 243 bikes, I'd say 3/4 eastbound? The pedestrians were about even. Neither bike numbers nor pedestrian numbers are anywhere close to as minimal as the city estimates.

Happy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.

...goat ambassadors. I love it. Meet Sugar and Spice, goat ambassadors of the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

You know what we don't talk enough about? Queen & Annie Lennox/David Bowie rehearsing 'Under Pressure' in 1992. So much going on! Everyone's clothes, Bowie with a lit cig throughout, where Annie PROPER GOES FOR IT, George Michael singing along in the background. The amazing vocals. Yes, please!

It's lovely that they changed the Google Workspace icons so they're not identical rainbow squiggles, but um. Now I can't tell Chat from Sheets.

#15MinuteCities for the win.

Bike parking grades: Stockyards Beer Store gets a C+, a gentleman’s pass. Proper ring properly secured to the ground, usable but much too close to the wall; my right pannier was obstructed. And only one bike can use each of the two available posts. Another 50cm from the wall would get an A.

1. It really should not take 30+ years to build a simple tunnel 2. Thank goodness the end is in sight. Currently, it's a really awkward connection with zero helpful signage. www.blogto.com/city/2026/05...