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The coloured thermos / the dark comes closer / ktoronto canada / eclectic not eccentric posting
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· Apr 11
Coltsfoot - tussilago farfara - one of Ontario’s first native signs of spring - Sam Smith Park / joy stumbling on them
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This is true. It is the best email I got this year.
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This is true. It is the best email I got this year.
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Best 3 minutes you will spend on the internet today.
October 8, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Best 3 minutes you will spend on the internet today.
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canadian media would never have this courage
Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.
October 14, 2025 at 1:17 AM
canadian media would never have this courage
essential reading on the State south of us.
October 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
essential reading on the State south of us.
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From Saint John the Wise. 👏🥰😎
September 27, 2025 at 11:41 PM
From Saint John the Wise. 👏🥰😎
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Ronnie James nails it again.
September 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Ronnie James nails it again.
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In case people don’t have access to a @winnipegfreepress.com account
September 25, 2025 at 11:08 PM
In case people don’t have access to a @winnipegfreepress.com account
Is this the Mongol Invasion? sheesh so sick
He is lost in his dark, violent fantasies. Just completely out of touch with reality.
June 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Is this the Mongol Invasion? sheesh so sick
Spectacular!
The entire thread is a joy:
Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵
First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.
First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.
May 29, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Spectacular!
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“READ MY LIPS: PERMISSION. CONSENT…if you don’t get our permission, you ain’t doing it.”🙅
The public committee hearings on Bill 5 continue today. This statement was given by Dean Sayers, spokesperson for Robinson Huron Waawiindamaagewin Political Group, during Thursday’s hearings #StopBill5 #ONpoli
The public committee hearings on Bill 5 continue today. This statement was given by Dean Sayers, spokesperson for Robinson Huron Waawiindamaagewin Political Group, during Thursday’s hearings #StopBill5 #ONpoli
May 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
“READ MY LIPS: PERMISSION. CONSENT…if you don’t get our permission, you ain’t doing it.”🙅
The public committee hearings on Bill 5 continue today. This statement was given by Dean Sayers, spokesperson for Robinson Huron Waawiindamaagewin Political Group, during Thursday’s hearings #StopBill5 #ONpoli
The public committee hearings on Bill 5 continue today. This statement was given by Dean Sayers, spokesperson for Robinson Huron Waawiindamaagewin Political Group, during Thursday’s hearings #StopBill5 #ONpoli
Excellent summary -- short and succinct -- well deserves wider posting and readership
License to kill: The pandemic on our roads
By @donovanadamo.bsky.social
healthydebate.ca/2025/05/topi...
By @donovanadamo.bsky.social
healthydebate.ca/2025/05/topi...
License to kill: The pandemic on our roads - Healthy Debate
Many vehicular deaths are preventable. Traffic violence happens frequently but we don’t take these incidents seriously, judicially, socially nor traffic engineering-wise.
healthydebate.ca
May 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Excellent summary -- short and succinct -- well deserves wider posting and readership
yep
NY Times headline: "How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?"
Me: When you have to ask the question out loud.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
Me: When you have to ask the question out loud.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
Opinion | How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?
www.nytimes.com
May 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
yep
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I don’t know how to tell you this, but White House is completely disengaged from major trading partners EU, Canada and China as it stunts with the UK. Just wasting time as the US transportation, tourism and retail industries hurtle towards the June brick wall.
May 8, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I don’t know how to tell you this, but White House is completely disengaged from major trading partners EU, Canada and China as it stunts with the UK. Just wasting time as the US transportation, tourism and retail industries hurtle towards the June brick wall.
I can't watch or listen to the whole thing -- skip to the comments --- priceless
This exchange is so very telling.
Trump repeatedly claims the photoshopped MS-13 on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's knuckles is real, Terry Moran keeps telling him it isn't, prompting Trump to say this:
"I never heard of you. I picked you. You’re not being very nice. He had MS-13 tattooed... Just say yes!"
Trump repeatedly claims the photoshopped MS-13 on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's knuckles is real, Terry Moran keeps telling him it isn't, prompting Trump to say this:
"I never heard of you. I picked you. You’re not being very nice. He had MS-13 tattooed... Just say yes!"
April 30, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I can't watch or listen to the whole thing -- skip to the comments --- priceless
Italian Design .... beautifully balanced ... sigh
The ghost of a pillar: restoration of historic masonry columns through steel confinement.
e-artec.it/the-ghost-of...
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THE GHOST OF A PILLAR: RESTORATION OF HISTORIC MASONRY COLUMNS THROUGH STEEL CONFINEMENT / IL FANTASMA DI UN PILASTRO: RESTAURO DI PILASTRI STORICI CON UN INTERVENTO DI CERCHIATURA IN ACCIAIO
Brescia, Italy – 2023Completion 2023 L’intervento ha riguardato il rinforzo strutturale di due pilastri in muratura del porticato di Via X Giornate a Brescia, la principale arteria commerciale del …
e-artec.it
April 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Italian Design .... beautifully balanced ... sigh
"because Canada has momentarily imported two-party, tribal politics from America into their multi-party parliamentary democracy" Worth while read.
Media forecasts what will happen, all the time, by way of manufacturing consent.
Notice Ford quoted as being eloquent and insightful (🤣), up against a quote from his friend, Freeland.
Author suggests Ford could be US Ambassador, and his humble, demure response. 🤣
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Notice Ford quoted as being eloquent and insightful (🤣), up against a quote from his friend, Freeland.
Author suggests Ford could be US Ambassador, and his humble, demure response. 🤣
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Canada vs. Trump: How Monday’s Election Will Play Out
The U.S. president’s tariffs and insults have altered alliances everywhere, with reverberations from Quebec to Alberta to Washington.
www.politico.com
April 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"because Canada has momentarily imported two-party, tribal politics from America into their multi-party parliamentary democracy" Worth while read.
JFC
This method guarantees that no deals are made for at least 60 days. It forces six countries in each group into dozens of interlocking bilateral and trilateral talks. Dark chaos.
April 26, 2025 at 12:59 AM
JFC
"April is the cruelest month" May will be worse.
This is the key to the whole mess. Bessent and Trump are hardened flim flam men. They have fed investors enough hope to prevent markets from forcing them to back down. Frontrunning has kept retail biz humming. So now we slam into brick wall on second week of May.
April 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
"April is the cruelest month" May will be worse.
And how will Canadian American “negotiations” proceed under Tributary Procedures at Mar-a-Lago?
As more details about the US-Japan trade talks emerge, I think we're seeing what it looks like when the Trump administration tries to achieve a Mar-a-Lago accord-style deal with an ally.
observingjapan.substack.com/p/when-akaza...
observingjapan.substack.com/p/when-akaza...
When Akazawa met Trump
Japan faces diplomacy, Mar-a-Lago style
observingjapan.substack.com
April 19, 2025 at 12:14 AM
And how will Canadian American “negotiations” proceed under Tributary Procedures at Mar-a-Lago?
Disturbing— rightfully so
April 18, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Disturbing— rightfully so
Across cultures and and across age — superb
The Vietnamese musicologist Trần Quang Hải and the American folklorist Roger Mason demonstrating their spoon playing techniques.
I love how the kids around them are enthralled by their skills and spontaneously start singing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP-e...
I love how the kids around them are enthralled by their skills and spontaneously start singing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP-e...
TRAN QUANG HAI & ROGER MASON in a duet of SPOONS, Cernay la ville, France, 24 june 2017
YouTube video by QuangHai Tran
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April 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Across cultures and and across age — superb
No words either
The World Press Photo organization chose “Mahmoud Ajjour, Aged Nine” by Samar Abu Elouf for @nytimes.com as Photo of the Year.
Mahmoud Ajjour lost both of his arms during an Israeli attack on Gaza City in March 2024.
www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/p...
Mahmoud Ajjour lost both of his arms during an Israeli attack on Gaza City in March 2024.
www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/p...
April 18, 2025 at 2:28 AM
No words either
Brutal targeting
April 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Brutal targeting
Jesse Duquette - unflinching
Bill is cool with fascists as long as they laugh at his jokes and invite him over for dinner
April 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Jesse Duquette - unflinching