Richard Eriksson

How would I have found about this other than asking the universe? I had a reminder set to look it up around now, and did a lot of searching, but came up empty.

Wunderbar!

Blackout anniversary party flyer

Few extra hops away to the start at Christie Pits this year. Gonna try to get there around 730ish. Picnic?

Northeast blackout of 2003 - Wikipedia

Who can tell me when and where to join the celebration to honour the anniversary 2003 blackout in Toronto this year? Will it be at King and Bathurst like it was last year? That’s a hop, skip and a jump from my place. Looking in your direction, @syncros.bsky.social.

I agree: Ban drivers at all urban intersections.

The full moon reflects off lake Ontario. Tinted yellow from smoke in the air.

Toronto skyline seen from Tommy Thompson park.

Toronto skyline seen from Tommy Thompson park.

Toronto skyline seen from Tommy Thompson park.

Rode Tommy Thompson park after dark. Amazing ride in #Toronto. Bring a flashlight and refreshments. Take a break at the point and enjoy the skyline.

How to verify your Bluesky account - Bluesky Here's how to verify your Bluesky account by setting your website as your username.

Would you consider verifying your account using these instructions?

300,000+, yes. Overwhelmingly newsletters and promotions that I just look at the subject headers of, though.

Brazil is as prescient as ever 40 years later and newly restored in 4K.

Revisited one of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time and found it disturbingly relevant to what’s happening in the US

Forever. I delete calendar reminders sent by email, but I save everything else.

Town of Comox receives Bee City designation - My Comox Valley Now The Town of Comox has been recognized for their work protecting bees, butterflies, and other insects.

The town of @comox.ca has received an official Bee City designation from Bee City Canada for their long-term commitment to pollinator protection and ecological stewardship. 🐝

I’ve paused these as they weren’t doing anything for my follower count on any of the other services.

A screenshot of a Google Street View, at August Ave. and Paul Ln Gardens in Toronto, which shows a pedestrian call button at knee height for adults (in the very middle of the screenshot). There is a wide sidewalk with a crosswalk that takes up most of the screenshot.

There’s one like this at Augusta Ave. and Paul Ln Gardens (you can sort of see it in the very middle of this Google Street View of it). I (jokingly) thought it was for kids and kids only, but there’s gotta be some other, better explanation for it. If you go to the link you can zoom in more.

I have a ticket for Hard Boiled and A Better Tomorrow (both on Sundays). Thanks for pointing this out!

Hong Kong Cinema Classics - Fox Theatre A retrospective of essential titles produced in Hong Kong, newly scanned in 4K and restored from original camera elements.

Movie-peeps in Toronto, the Fox Theatre is bringing the Hong Kong Cinema Classics slate to Toronto for a theatrical run starting next month. This is your chance to see doves flying in slow-mo, bullets a-plenty and cigarettes lit with a flaming $100 bill on the big screen!

This is a test of knowledge for the fans of the TV show Severance, isn’t it?

the truth is that MM-DD-YYYY and DD-MM-YYYY are both improper. YYYY-MM-DD is proper.

Radicalizing the Romanceless [PLEASE NOTE: This post is from 2014.] [Content note: Gender, relationships, feminism, manosphere. Quotes, without endorsing and with quite a bit of mocking, mean arguments by terrible people. Some…

It was never compelling to others for me to be a “male feminist”, which I was, and probably still am. It just never mattered. Misspent energy on my part. There’s also “Radicalizing the Romanceless” which I identify with, but I went a third way, one not really discussed in the article.

I’m a man and I hate the manosphere, but feminism failed me, too.

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For fans of baseball, Moby-Dick, and The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach (I am all of those people), do I ever have a series from the @defector.com for you! ⚾️🐋

Iconic.

RSS 4 life

Hell yeah @molly.wiki preach! RSS is the way.

Curate your own newspaper with RSS Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read

Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.

Here’s how to use RSS.
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We won 🚲

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I’m telling you, fellas. Yoga.

Attention 🐋 fans:

Plaque commemorating the 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games in Toronto, titled “41 Trees.” The plaque features the Toronto 2015 logo, and logos of major partners including CIBC, the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation, City of Toronto, Government of Canada, and Government of Ontario. Text (English side): ⸻ 41 TREES In the summer of 2015, Toronto hosted the XVII Pan American and V Parapan American Games, the largest international multi-sport Games in Canada’s history. These 41 trees, which stand on the traditional lands of the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation, are in tribute to the 41 participating countries and territories, and the talent, commitment and teamwork of the athletes who were here in pursuit of a dream. More than 10,000 athletes, coaches and officials participated in the TORONTO 2015 Games, thanks to the funding and leadership of the Government of Canada, the Province of Ontario, the City of Toronto, Lead Partner CIBC and 15 other municipalities across the Greater Golden Horseshoe region, three universities and more than a dozen other civic-minded corporate sponsors. None of it would have been possible without the passionate dedication of 23,000-plus Games-time volunteers. United We Play.

🌳🌳🌳 Welcome to Tree Thread: The Sequel.

Ten years ago today — July 10, 2015 — Toronto kicked off the 2015 Pan Am Games.

To mark the event, 41 trees were planted along a section of Front Street East — one for each country or territory.

In this thread, again, I'll review the state of every tree.

We TSS FC Rovers “co-owners” definitely do say “we” a lot.