Robyn is still here

As the parent of a toddler, the idea having food thrown at you is felony assault is tragicomic.

Canada's national parks are free for everyone this summer. Should they be? | CBC News Free admission to Canada's national parks this summer has helped draw visitors to the country's most popular parks, fuelling traffic jams and raising environmental concerns.

Don't be grumpy about people using parks. Make more parks!

The current level of parks is clearly not keeping up with demand (and was largely established at a time when the population was much smaller).

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The bourbon thing is interesting as Kentucky voted 64.5% for Trump last year, higher than 2016 and 2020.

It's a very acute & clean feedback loop.

Reboot Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations” but with Alan Dershowitz and the whole show is just enjoying him never getting food because he’s a querulous, joyless douche and he’s constantly demanding that the Laotian street vendor or whoever denounce Hamas before he’ll try the khao jee

Up near Algonquin Park and we’ve been needing—not wanting, needing—pre-bedtime dips in the lake to cool down #dlws

The raspberries have been terrific this year too

Again, louder for those in the back: this is not deportation; this is human trafficking.

Clearly it's somehow the fault of bike lanes, right?

Hackers Hijacked Google’s Gemini AI With a Poisoned Calendar Invite to Take Over a Smart Home For likely the first time ever, security researchers have shown how AI can be hacked to create real world havoc, allowing them to turn off lights, open smart shutters, and more.

Louder for those in the back: don't put anything online you don't want hacked www.wired.com/story/google...

Millionaire trophy hunter gored to death by 1.3 tonne bull on African safari Asher Watkins, 52, was tracking a 1.3 tonne Cape Buffalo bull, known as the Black Death, on Sunday when it suddenly charged at him at 35mph.

Ah that's lovely news.

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It’s Easy to Hate Traffic Cameras. But They Do Save Lives. They raise issues of fairness, and critics claim they’re only about revenue. More speed and red-light cameras, however, would prevent a lot of deaths and injuries.

Yes, traffic cameras work, but it's a myth that people hate them!

Survey after survey shows that most people support automatic enforcement (and often want more of it).

This is a false controversy, fed by a minority of disgruntled drivers & journalists seeking narratives with conflict.

Uh oh. You may rip holes in the space-time continuum

I was going to say Zotero, but diigo.com is another option, possibly less complicated. They're not paying me to say so but I've used it for ages.

I think if men are struggling to get laid they should pick up a copy of Julia Childs “mastering the art of French cooking” and I’m not even a little bit joking

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and/or Hotel California. I dive for the off button if either comes on.

Fairlyn sure I bought @maryrobinettekowal.com's The Martian Contingency solely because I saw other people here say things about it that made me think oooh, that's a good one, must acquire (and the rest of the series)

A cute baby elephant

Elephants are born weighing 250 lbs. They are the biggest babies on earth except for motorists when they see a bike lane

Of course you need it. I mean. Everyone needs a working cannon.

When I went to grad school, my train went over the 16 lanes of Highway 401, which were inevitably slowed or stopped. It was absolutely glorious to just glide on past.

It’s great though. Frankly most holidays should be postponed if the weather is crap.

Bearskin airlines in Ontario is similar. Awesome fun. The same person checks you in, takes your bag, puts it on the plane, then gets in and flies it. So nice to have it be a properly human experience.

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Well THAT is really fucking creepy and inappropriate. If you're going to track your kids, be honest about it AND let them track you too. It's only fair.

Same same. I'm quite enjoying being old and uncool.

It's not just his obsession with Toronto -- it's his enacted dislike for Toronto and determination to break it

Ontario court strikes down Ford government's plan to remove Toronto bike lanes | CBC News An Ontario court has deemed the province's plan to remove three major Toronto bike lanes unconstitutional.

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mk9 peanuts

Paperback books are like velveteen rabbits — ours to be loved and squeezed and read and stuffed into shoulder bags and left in the sun and read and read again until there's nothing left but memories from something real

How Doug Ford Plans to Dismantle Ontario’s Most Popular Provincial Park More than half of the Wasaga Beach shoreline could be opened to development

This is, to put it mildly, a VERY BAD IDEA pressprogress.ca/doug-ford-pl...

Definitely