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Family picture day. Photo from my collection, no date/info. 🌸

They came from the future! In 1933, the theme of the Ontario College of Art's annual costume ball was "Neo Aeon," a new era. Students strutted in their best science fictional fashion creations. https://ow.ly/6x1T50ZQLAa

"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear." - Jack Layton

Happy to say that I helped ruin Brad Bradfords dreams of being mayor of Toronto today

Cluster Amaryllis - Hidaka, Saitama, Japan

What is’t o’clock?

I can usually wind up on the right side of history by finding the white supremacists and then choosing the other side hard. For some reason they don’t seem to like trans people or school lunches either.

Seconding the 'please, if you have room and inclination, adopt' because what if you DO adopt some little creecher and you're like "I have never had a cat before, he is very cute but what do I do with him" and he's like "YOU DO THIS" for a solid month (Photo from July 2022)

Every gothic horror:

This, but Egyptologists and pyramid conspiracies

CBC also broadcast live in studio on election night 1952. These hand-painted leaderboards are being live updated by a female CBC staffer. On the left, she’s moving a tiny, Mayor Lamport and Nathan Phillips, up the steps of a painted City Hall in accordance to their votes.

Dudes rock (highly laudatory): www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

skeletons in the de lisle psalter, 14th century

Brad Bradford vows to put a cop in your living room if elected Mayor

if you think Toronto is unsafe than carry Naloxone with you, because the people who are using on the streets are at higher risk than you. it doesn't help anyone to deny the reality that it's happening, it's how we talk about it and what we do that matters.

Why did I write a Minecraft book? Because last year a shy 11-yr-old boy brought two huge lobsters to my door I asked how much His dad said: No he wants to give them to you. He hated reading before your Minecraft book & now he loves it. He wants to pay you back THAT’S WHY I WROTE A MINECRAFT BOOK

"Professors ... compared this number against the total resource revenue that Alberta has received from the oil and gas industry since 1970 and found that if cleanup costs were to fall on the taxpayer, it would erase almost 60 per cent of our historic revenues."

Nathan Fielder being the hottest ticket in town getting everyone hooked on weird Canadian shit. Everyone is calling cigarettes darts. Kids are being taken to the hospital in droves because they broke their fingers playing crokinole. Someone is showing up to gay halloween dressed like Red Green.

Druid Loving This Cloak Weather https://theonion.com/druid-loving-this-cloak-weather/

Oh, hey, btw, the first three JOHANNES CABAL novels are coming out in France. I can't share the unreleased covers yet, but the third (L'INSTITUT DE LA PEUR, obvs) does feature a cat speckled with human blood. People like cats, right?

I’m sorry what

Hey, I hope @tkingfisher.com is getting her naps and looking at cactus and playing lots of D&D and doing whatever it is one does to recover from lots of people online being kinda appalling

If there were more books on journaling like this and fewer featuring immaculate spreads in full calligraphy, we would see a revolution.

Swift reading this in the afterlife like: “Jesus fucking Christ.”

It’s too scholarly to be a true hatchet job, but this is still a joy to read. Goodwin is “a drop-out from academic life who prefer[s] the public exercise of his own unedited anxieties to empirical rigour”. More of a scalpel job. Really good stuff

I am in my second read of the Finder Chronicles by @zanzjan.bsky.social Suzanne Palmer, and I am just happy as a clam.

Following

Yes, of course McDonald’s posting about National Coming Out Day is “performative.” Nobody thinks Ronald McDonald threw the first brick at Stonewall. Nonetheless, the biggest and most influential institutions in American life performing affirmation of LGBT social and civil equality is a good thing.

Nevertheless, Happy Indigenous People's Day (Pre-Large Swaths of Land Edition)

Anyway I'm not going to DIVE into today's Extremely Silly Hot Take By A Stupid Person, but like... where are people getting these ideas? Do they have any data ACTUALLY showing that (say) men prefer to read men? Women prefer to read women? Crabs prefer to read crabs???? Where are the studies?

people keep making movies where the premise is "it's kind of like a man but it looks like a monstrous freak but it's nice and sexy and doesn't abuse the woman so it's basically the most romantic thing ever" and men keep not getting it.

Australopithecus 3 million years ago:

Marry us

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion." - Francis Bacon

Two cool ladies and a small pal. Photo from my collection, ca. 1930s.

I need to review a silly little film. My incredibly depressing rabbit hole has led to the KKK expansion into Canada on an anti-Catholic, anti-French and anti-immigration platform. I need to review something goofy and nice to detox

Really wish I could visit New York without possibly encouraging a complete maniac

if you don’t keep up with the youth i want you to know they’ve renamed “tramp stamps” to “cake toppers” which feels like the first advancement for feminism in a long time

Bradford wants to hire a THOUSAND new cops?! No. Hell, no. On top of gutting revenue with his cuts, he wants to explode the already massive police budget? Toronto, we HAVE to re-elect Olivia Chow. (Also, citing Malcom Gladwell in a serious policy discussion is instantly disqualifying.) #TOPoli

My kid would sometimes stop and hug the book if the characters were having a hard time.

Canada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying