Yay #jimmykimmel

Autumnal light in the garden that effectively shook off the vagaries of weather this year. #garden

We are all Jimmy Kimmel, says Stephen Colbert #jimmykimmel #stephencolbert youtu.be/ZdGLJly6P7c

@jmollins.bsky.social FYI. As expected of course but crazy things are happening all around us.

Gutted about Jimmy Kimmell

@jmollins.bsky.social FYI

Today I engaged with someone in a pickup truck who ran a red light, cut off another driver, almost hit me while I was cycling on Dupont, speeding and recklessly endangering lives all so he could park in the Loblaws lot at Dupont and Christie. #bikeTO

Who clapped in the House of Commons for Charlie Kirk?

So great that @JimmyKimmel.com returned this week. So funny. jimmykimmel.com 💙

I celebrated Labour Day by working - feeling fortunate #labourday

Train station in Stratford (still) under renovation and customers are stuck outside with no benches to sit on. The benches are behind the scaffold. I found a small wall to sit on and fortunately had my umbrella so could create my own shade. #stratford @viarailcanada.bsky.social #train #viarail

So fabulous yet poignant that @stratfest.bsky.social commemorates this wonderful production of “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” with Martha Henry, Peter Donaldson, William Hutt and Tom McCamus (the only one still with us) in the Tom Patterson Theatre. #stratfest #stratfordfestival #theatre #ONeill

Lurve the Stratford bike lockups #bikestratford Check this out #bikeTO @oliviachow.bsky.social

Listening to the CBC newscasts about the @aircanada.bsky.social strike and thinking it just sounds like business-as-usual. The last time I flew they couldn’t re book me onto a flight after a cancellation for a week and refused to compensate me. I took trains from Washington to Toronto. #aircanada

Act 1, Scene 1, Annie @stratfest.bsky.social Great show and performances with amazing costumes— A rather bland script magically transformed by director choreographer Donna Feore, orchestra, cast and crew. #stratford #stratfest #annie

Can’t fathom why Robert Lepage tried to rewrite Macbeth. I was always a Lepage fan but it didn’t work. He kept upstaging the actors-or sabotaging them-with overwrought stage business. It diminished the evil incarnate. Can’t outsmart the Bard. m.youtube.com/watch?v=rVXk... #stratfordfestival #macbeth

Wow youtu.be/LTlLp598J4I

Everybody!!!! I can’t go because I’m going to see my friend’s kid in a play but this is a time to celebrate. Have fun dear riders. See you soon. Thanks Cycle Ontario. You are the best.

Celebrating ruling by Ontario Superior Court Justice Paul Schabas, who has found that the province's plan to remove bike lanes along Bloor Street, Yonge Street and University Avenue violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. #bikeTO #champagne #bicycles #cycling #toronto

Old Toronto Star building #torstar

Bowmanville mixed-use landscape #dystopia #bowmanville

Yet another royal f*** up from Via Rail as we rumble along on schedule to be more than 1.5 hours late with sulky staffers acting as if they’re the ones who’ve been waiting on sun-drenched platforms in 30 degree C weather awaiting the arrival of the train. #trains #viarail

My latest doily #doily #crochet

Garden flowers #garden

Has anyone else noticed a change in Dentyne Fire recipe/taste?

Rain at last #rain

Whatever happened to phone etiquette: Never phone anyone before 10 am.

Cyclist in Kampala #cycling #bicycle

Thank you @traceyehm.bsky.social for celebrating Canada Day this way #canadaday #No.1sister #strawberryshortcake #strawberry #shortcake

I was not in Kalerwe

The raccoons are back with only two younguns this year. Unfortunately, they moved in under our deck. We had to have the wildlife expert in to create a trap door so they exited and we are hopeful they will find a new home. #raccoons #raccoonsTO

It’s all about purple #garden

Spot the 1/2 price sister.

From tree to table #lilacs

AI produces dull, convoluted and repetitive jargon. It seems totally sentence based. People who use it apparently don't know how to review, analyze, or parse their own writing. As an editor, I find it almost as insulting as being asked to work with materials processed through Google translate.

Public service unions question Carney government’s plans for ‘AI’ and hiring caps on federal workforce PSAC president says prime minister needs to ‘actually consult with the unions and the frontline workers who deliver the services’

Cat sighting yesterday at the Queen Mother on Queen Street W. And in our garden #cat #garden

At the @steelworkers.bsky.social in Toronto to remember the Hogs Hollow disaster of 1960. #hogshollow #steelworkers

Finally remembered where I’d heard new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal tagline “Canada Strong”. It’s the name of a company that sells respirator masks. canadastrong.ca #canpoli #canadastrong

Garden splendour #gardening

“We’re only defeated if we stop fighting.” - @jagmeetsingh.ca #NDP

I’m not sure why CBC journalists and commentators don’t talk about the candidates and constituencies rather than the illusory “wins” and “losses” -

Mark Carney won his seat; if projections are correct and he becomes prime minister, he will be the first PM to hold a seat in Ottawa since Sir John A. MacDonald, according to CBC

Not sure why CBC has two sets of election results—one on TV and another on the website. Totally confusing coverage with prognostications on ridings barely closed #canpoli

As international aid budgets face cuts in the UK, US & Europe, IRC President & CEO David Miliband will join @samirpuri.bsky.social at @chathamhouse.org to discuss how to make aid impactful in a changed landscape. Members can join from 12.30pm on Tue 29 April: www.chathamhouse.org/events/all/m...

In Nov 1965, @NDP.ca led by Tommy Douglas took 17.9 per cent of the popular vote, and 21 seats (a gain of 4 from 1963) in the election, which was won by the @Liberalca.bsky.social’s Lester Pearson. In this picture from @TheGlobeandMail.com by the late Boris Spremo, Douglas leads a rally.

The garden coming to life #garden

Paul Revere 2025: “The British aren’t coming and nor are the Europeans or Canadians….”

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