Have you tried Yerba Mate?

Caffeine pills will also do the trick, although personally I find them a bit… aggressive

😭😭😭

ICE is murdering civilians and kidnapping children. One small way for Canadians to push back below:

I feel like we’re not talking enough about the fact that Europe is now facing a two-front war (Ukrainian and Greenland) and those rarely end well.

Very comfortable sharing a water & land border w this country.

Title: The street tom waits grew up on. Image: a shabby, broken down old timey American street. Caption: Buildings (left to right): vern's all-nite pizza 'n' tattoo, accordion players' graveyard, abandoned clown-shoe factory, divorced salesmen's polka club, tomb of the unknown cabbie, bootleg ice-cream warehouse, saint frank's hobo orphanage, illegal umbrella incinerator.

Happy 76th Birthday, Tom Waits!

My condolences to you and your family, keeping you in my thoughts today

Fuck a duck
Screw a pigeon
Go to hell and get religion

Appalachian boys’ playground chant from my childhood. I’ve come to imagine it meant they were wise to the preachers.

‘Try to praise the mutilated world.’

Zagajewski is wonderful. I smile often at how many of the same lines and poets @chowleen.bsky.social and I seem to love.

There are times when it is harder to praise, but that’s the poet’s thought: why he says ‘try.’ The need to remember, hold to, try to embody beauty and grace.

Forget the camera. Someone get a backhoe and start digging potholes throughout Parkside Drive. Traffic slows down, and it will take years for the city to fix them

One of our greatest Canadians. Rest in peace.

I get the impression that Vance & co see Ukraine as an *Axis* power in the WW2 analogy. They’ve bought the Russian “we need to stamp out Nazis in Ukraine” bullshit hook, line, and sinker

It’s reached the point where you want to have one on hand, just in case 😂

I think ppl who grew up in Toronto wildly underestimate how much the rest of the province/country hates it. I’ve been told to my face it’s a dirty, evil place… by people who then proudly tell me they’ve never been here and will never go

Look for the Hamilton or Saskatchewan jerseys 😂 - the Argos draw a lot of visiting team fans, which also supports your argument!

Me giving directions “head south. the lake is south. If you’re in the lake, you’ve gone too far”

I love this idea.

For one thing, "to mitigate safety risks" city staff had asked the province to keep these vehicles off Bloor Street between Avenue Road and Christie Street, and for the vehicles to travel no more than one consecutive block on Bloor anywhere west of Christie. City staff also asked the province to prevent these vehicles from operating during afternoon rush hour on weekdays north of Bloor on Bathurst and Dufferin streets, and any streets south of Bloor. The ministry response said these requests were not "viable" restrictions, "as it presents challenges and would make data collection difficult."

So, according to the Provincial gov’t, bike lanes slow down traffic, but delivery robots followed by a chase car do not. Right.

www.thestar.com/news/gta/dri...

This becomes even more important as driverless cars hit the road. Was this a driverless car? If not, it had a driver. And the public needs to know which it is.

Once again, a city of nearly 3 million people trying to pretend it’s 5 small towns in a trench coat 🙄

Matt Elliott: Multiplexes in Toronto neighbourhoods were madness, said critics. Now the city should give in to the joy of six The city’s planning committee is being asked this week to approve allowing sixplexes into Toronto neighbourhoods, removing a four-unit cap.

My @thestar.com column: Critics said multiplexes were madness. It turns out they provide cheaper and larger places to live. (No major parking problems, either!)

With the kind of data they've got, Toronto council should have no doubt: sixplexes are the sensible move.

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Under 30 years after @greatdismal.bsky.social's Idoru was published, we are finally here.

Thor & Friends Are Inspired on This Lush, Ambient Album » PopMatters Thor & Friends create meditative, minimalist noise that is exploratory but beautifully soothing. It's art that quenches thirsty souls.

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We talk a lot about might happen when computers become smarter than humans and not nearly enough about humans becoming stupider than machines.

I need to start doing these minis again 😁

I mean, fine, World Goth Day.

But does anyone think of the Visigoths?

Do THEY ever get a Day?

Nope.

Sometimes it just freaks me out. I was there. We were all there. It was a disease as contagious as the common cold. There weren’t effective treatments, and no vaccine. It was spreading like wildfire and it killed two percent of the people who got it.

I see once again I’m going to have to beg pundits who haven’t lived outside of Toronto in decades to stop opining on how useful Canada Post is.

I don’t care how little you personally get or send mail. A public postal service with a mandate to get mail to every address in Canada is a public good.

Mom: Your sister went to see some concert, can't remember who. Some girl.

Me (checking social media feed): Ah, Pearl Jam