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The ravine today.

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"On a bike, you are always by definition working class and also always a noble knight on his trusty steed, writing up page by page, ride by ride, your own picaresque." Lydia Perovic on the joy of cycling, which should be apolitical. 🎩 @stepfordto.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/longplay...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

The most bizarre gift I received this Christmas. But actually, they're great!

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

This self-watering Amaryllis in a wax ball (or something) is pretty great.

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

This place is so bizarre. Where's the frenzy about UK politics?

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

I get it, raccoon-deer.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Why though?

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Hanukkah. (First time using my new menorah.)

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

I’m sorry but “we stan a murderer because it’s been impossible to change the American healthcare system through nonviolent means” rings a little hollow when 15 years ago people with “pre-existing conditions” couldn’t get health insurance and the thing that changed that was not an assassination.

submitted 65 days ago • 25 comments

Lydia Perovic on all things cultural is always brilliant (albeit often provocative). open.substack.com/pub/longplay...

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

First fire of the season last night.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Ugly-looking butter tarts: my Canadian holiday season special.

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

Sunday Morning No. 2 Jack Chambers 1973

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

At the Hanukkah bush farm

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

Yonge and Eglinton (Yonge and Eligible, per the sign--haven't heard that for a while!) is upping its public/corporate art game.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Well this isn’t the coherent politics I’ve come to expect from murderers 🤔

submitted 80 days ago • 25 comments

Has anyone in Canada, who consumes news via CBC, heard about this act of terrorism that took place very close to where I am right now in Melbourne?

submitted 80 days ago • 2 comments

Will it help with social media addiction? 🤔

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

A suggestion to follow @phoebebovy.bsky.social apparently constitutes intolerance on this friendly site.

submitted 83 days ago • 2 comments

Trying some alternatives to poinsettias this year.

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

They restored Notre Dame before the Eglinton crosstown. 😭 #topoli #onpoli #metrolinx

submitted 91 days ago • 9 comments

Happy Advent! I will repost Christmas music that has been posted on the AnOpusADay.wordpress.com over the years as a #MusicalAdventCalendar. Here's a Swedish Advent classic to start with: anopusaday.wordpress.com/2021/11/30/o...

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Quite happy that our "lake effect" here in Toronto tends toward less or zero (as now) snow. (Snow should fall for five days, from the 21st to the 26th of December, then melt away to nothing and stay away for the rest of winter, imho.)

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

It’s no coincidence that “white liberal millennial woman” has replaced “Karen” as soon as these women became the mom stand-ins www.cartoonshateher.com/p/move-over-...

submitted 89 days ago • 3 comments

After 30 years, Hal Niedzviecki announces he’s shuttering Broken Pencil, the Bible of small-press and zine culture, because, in part, the “cultural environment has become incompatible with the values of free speech, independent thought, and meaningful dialogue.” brokenpencil.com/news/broken-...

submitted 90 days ago • 4 comments

Who says cancellation is dead?

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Early Hannukah gift to myself. Weighs a ton and would make a good weapon.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Toronto reindeer are back.

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

Interesting interview but why is Kingwell wearing his jogging outfit?

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Will all arts gala events in Canada now forever be similar to what we saw this year with the Giller Prize—or is another approach possible? BONJOUR CHAI is the weekly podcast where we discuss the state of Jewish culture wars

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