Rob Cruickshank

when your cow-abducting alien fetish takes over the whole bedroom.

(alt text: a double bed that's trying for a space-age vibe but actually looks like a pool table had a baby with a boogie van, in a horrible shade of green, with a blue mattress adorned with a calfskin blanket)

A map showing a town called Deer Park next to a town called Kildeer

Easy choice if you're a deer deciding where to buy a house

(Too many people liking this for me to repost with an edit, but pretend there's a period instead of a question mark in that first sentence, if you would be so kind.)

Guy with a leaf blower, caption LEAF BLOWERS: "Y'ALL EVER WANT TO JUST LIKE, BOTHER EVERYONE?"

I understand some people consider them necessary.

We are currently at 5.15, so yeah! Nobody climb anything harder, please!

For those who are shouting "that's not how decimals work", originally, 5th class was 5.0 to 5.9, but as techniques and equipment evolved it became necessary to add more grades rather than bunch everything hard into 5.9.

Road sign for 'Skirmish Paintball'

How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.

Also, if she was on the scooter, I could keep up with her sometimes reckless pace. I knew a guy who actually *took up* skateboarding at 65 because his wife got one.

I wonder if anyone has explored the intersection with disability studies? My mom used a rollator and a motorized scooter, and I realized one day that skating around her town allowed me to have an intuitive sense of what would work for her and her wheels.

Seeing Like a Skater: Skateboarding as Poetic Technology Reflecting on her experiences of skateboarding in Cairo, New York and other cities as a form of ‘rolling ethnography’, Alia ElKattan positions ‘seeing like a skater’ as a new way to approach urban lan...

Reflecting on her experiences of skateboarding in Cairo, New York and other cities as a form of ‘rolling ethnography’, Alia ElKattan positions ‘seeing like a skater’ as a new way to approach urban landscapes.

An unmasked woman just entered the bathroom as I came out of the stall and didn’t go in. After a minute, she asked me if I was masked because I was sick.

There are at least 5 people hacking up their lungs at the boarding gate but they aren’t bothering her.

Early COVID should have taught us better.

from Cowley Abbott’s current auction preview in Toronto: 1) a stunning Rita Letendre arrow canvas, 2) Bertram Brooker’s Space and Time, which is reproduced as in my book Out of School, 3) Rita Letendre, 4) an enigmatic symbolist scene by Mary Alexandra Bell Eastlake 🖼️🖼️🖼️✨

@cowleyabbott.bsky.social

Remind me not to accept a dough-nut from an old Amsterdam housewife, then.

A pastry that's basically a long piece of sweet bread with several stacked up on a tray. They're called Fartones.

This is a pastry made for Bluesky

no thoughts, only wiggles

The arms of an octopus were used to mark specific parts of this page that were of importance or interest - 14th century, Bancroft Library, BANC MS UCB 085

A man wearing headphones looks into the camera.

A man wearing headphones looks into the camera. In the foreground is an out-of-focus microphone arm; in the background are black velvet paintings of Kurt Cobain, and of Lemmy Kilmister holding a lamb.

Jeff Sarge has announced that the last episode of his Reggae Schoolroom radio show on @wfmu.bsky.social will be the November 30th, 2025 one – ending the popular show's 41-year(!!) run.

#reggae #DJ #dub #WFMU #ReggaeSchoolroom #JeffSarge #music #photograph #portrait #environmental #radio

Hard to express how important a part of WFMU Jeff has been since the 1980s. His show will be sorely missed.

DIBS ON TORONTO (2025)

I don't think you're allowed to just do that

Oh wow! Big nostalgia hit there.

OMG

Oh wow, that's amazing! I don't think I've ever seen an AVA!

Yeah, I i was four dogs in today too. Two were actually a bit frightening. My partner got mauled a few years back, and I have absolutely no chill on the topic.

I grew up in Alberta and never really thought about the name of the place until I read Half Lives by Lucy Jane Santos, and suddenly realized that yeah, it was a radium health craze thing.

Really fun blog post that shows the joy of rearing out bugs. Love the photo of the rearing set up!

3 years, six months, and one week ago I got to live one of my life dreams.
I was riding past this farm, and stopped and knocked on the farmhouse door and said...
"Hello? Bonjour? Hello?"
"What?"
"Your cows are loose."
"OK."
Fun fact: one of these cows was the ringleader leading the escape.

A Parkdale friend is getting renovicted from her apartment (could be a rooming house, I’m not entirely sure). If you know of any bachelor apartments for her and her small dog, let me know. Neighbourhood agnostic, but definitely price sensitive

Deadly Enemy to Bacteria Found in Common Mold A common mold, of the same group that spoil oranges and other fruits, has been found to secrete a substance that is deadlier to bacteria than even the almost miraculous new sulfa drugs. Discovery of this property was made by an English bacteriologist, Prof. A. Fleming of St. Mary’s Hospi- tal, London. Reports of Prof. Flem- ing’s work have just reached this country. The mold belongs to the genus Peni- cillium, and the germ-killing sub- stance it secrets is called penicillin.

If you're 42 years old, we're as far away from your birth as your birth is from the invention of antibiotics!

History is weird.

What we consider modernity is way closer than we think...

1941

LOC
lccn.loc.gov/sn82016181

#c20th #histmed 🗃️