(My partner says it was because I was wearing a "little scarf"... possible.)

A woman on the street asked me for directions, complimented my shoes, then asked me if I was French which I'm choosing to see as a positive.

It totally is. I have a friend I text for Headache Watch. If we both have one, the weather is changing.

I've been having day-ruining headaches once a week since late January. Truly the worst!

The picture sucks. I only took a couple then put the phone away. I'll remember her, the feeling she gave me, for a long time. Art, baby!

Want to quit my job and follow Florence + the Machine around on tour.

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

Every year that I lived in the Northwest Territories the CRA made me get my landlord to write a letter to prove I lived there, even though my pay stubs came from a Yellowknife business and all my spending was in the NT economy. All so I wouldn't take advantage of the Northern Living Allowance.

They really are just out here trying to tank public education beyond repair.

yeah man i'll circle back to you on that agenda item from yesterday's all hands in just a sec. our pedophile king just threatened to destroy a whole civilization

Received some sad news yesterday and pushed myself to get out and run errands today. Had lovely, friendly encounters in every shop I stopped in. It's raining and cold in Toronto but the city is good.

Years ago, I told a chronically late friend for every time he was more than 15 minutes late, whatever meal we were eating immediately afterwards would be on him. Suddenly, all future engagements began on time, as scheduled.

Truly, the one good fandom.

Universities should cut into executive salaries to hire dedicated professional administrators and project managers to do admin and project management work, instead of getting underpaid academics to do B-grade admin and project management on top of their actual teaching and research work.

Today in unusual niche jobs for urbanists, with an organization that is well named (but with a spelling mistake), based in San Francisco, but remote-first...

For five bucks!!!!!! This is why I don't post.

A green plastic sap bucket pinned to the trunk of a maple tree. There is snow on the ground.

A homemade smoker and a sap boiling apparatus on brown grass.

12 books spread out on a hardwood floor.

The sap is running in Lanark County. There's a bookstore out here that lets you take a whole bag of books for five books. These two things are unrelated but both contribute to a good day.

'Wimpole House', Marylebone (from 'Isolation Views', 2020) by Frank Laws
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Genuinely me too. A Tuesday-ass Monday all around it seems.

Listen, if some guy in a fursuit were in the Mayor's Office we'd have several more operating rapid transit lines, I'll tell you that much.

This city will never be lucky enough to have a furry for mayor.

Went for a long walk in Bloor West Village and watched people's will to live return to their bodies in real time. It's Spring.

This is about Timmy Houston.

I think we should start pie-ing politicians again.

A screenshot of Rachel Dratch from SNL. She's a white woman with short dark hair and blue eyes, and she's making an awkward expression that implies, "Sorry I have to tell you this and ruin your good time. But also I'm kind of not sorry about it." I've added a subtitle that reads, "That's AI."

an updated debbie downer sketch but it's friends showing her funny videos and she has to respond like this to every single one like this:

It's not niche but I found one. I'm so back.

What this technology is going to do is not end higher education, but it is going to undo so much of the baseline work on accessibility by pushing overworked professors to take things back to offline modalities, in person timed exams, keeping tech out of the classroom, etc.

I will be mad about this Forever. It was always a scam!!!

I'm flipping through a pristine March 2023 copy of Canadian House & Home and there's a whole section dedicated to 'wrapping rooms', which I feel like is a early-aughts specific shared delusion for middle class women. No one needed this! Not ever!

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