This is a lovely, thoughtful thread.

OMG.

A Metro Transit LRT cardboard model on a desk, sitting atop a Palestinian embroidered mat with a Happy Apple baby toy in the background.

I have an lrt one!

I have another point of interest for you, but it's not one you can visit. bsky.app/profile/norw...

ME PRE TRANSITION: lava is so cool

THE LADS: hehe yeah bro

ME POST TRANSITION: lava is so cool

THE LADS: aha easy mistake to make but actually it's very hot

Ah, scrolled further, see you're covered. 😊

I've been paying attention to the Twin Cities still and there are local groups there doing bystander training and mobilization efforts to turn out neighbors. Some of the trainings are virtual, if you're interested I'll send you the next one I see.

She was contemporaneously famous and they were famous as a couple, so it's a bit different than an author's spouse who's like, an accountant.

To my friends from LiveJournal I still think about you Wonder if you finally quit, Do you still speak to your mom? I remember when you went to Japan How you swore you'd never forgive him. I can't remember to take my meds but I remember you wanted to live on a houseboat. It's a strange intimacy, all of us unspooling across decades of internet space Like balls of yarn leaving a trail behind us of everywhere and everyone we've ever been I hope you got your houseboat. I hope you got everything. -Hayley DeRoche

♥️

A picture of a frozen waterfall, in bright blues tipped with white and deep, dark blue in the crevices.

A mirror selfie of a woman with shoulder length straight hair died in colors approximating the frozen waterfall.

Another view of waterfall hair.

Matchy matchy.

A climate solution you can eat: the world’s first plant-based salmon is made in Toronto - NOW Toronto Aiming to reduce gas emissions from food production, these Toronto innovators have developed the world’s first plant-based salmon.

A climate solution you can eat: the world’s first plant-based salmon is made in Toronto

nowtoronto.com/news/a-clima...

Best case scenario, probably.

You know I don't think I'd want the job for the old number, but that's a hell of a raise.

Sometimes when you can't solve a problem you can change it to a different problem you can solve, and that's just as good.

YouTube video by sally travel Frozen Waterfalls of Ontario ❄️ | 5 Stunning Winter Spots

❄️ Ontario’s waterfalls transform into magical ice sculptures in winter! 🌨️🏞️
Discover Tiffany, Tews, Webster’s, Rockway, Bridal Veil & Decew Falls frozen in all their glory.
Watch now! 🎥 youtube.com/watch?v=zC9M...

Three horizontal lines above three more horizontal lines, the bottom of line 1 connecting to the top of line 2 below it It's the start of the fucking "Cool S"

The DM started describing a thieves cant symbol

I got this far into drawing it, at his instruction, before realising what it was and getting So Mad

My company has given her so much money to make me bored and miserable.

Sure would be cool if the @dfl.org supported her

I think some of the greatest delights in the business of etymology are words—especially everyday words—whose origins we just don’t know.

So, this year, I’ll do an etymological Advent calendar on this theme: words with origins that are obscure, uncertain, or otherwise unknown.

Nothing like realizing you need to take one more board out to fix the flood gap when you've already glued a patch piece to that board.

That's Amelia.

A supermarket shelf showing the soda aisle, with a brand called candy can that is frightening looking rocket pop and cotton candy flavors.

I want to try these but I no longer live in the same city as @viamarsala18.bsky.social to split cases with so I don't have to drink all 4 if they're terrible.

@dawnsabados.bsky.social for your consideration.

it's a listing of cats up for adoption. the same picture of the 5 little kittens is used for each one, their names are "vladdy", "springer", "bichette", "yesavage", and "kirk"

i need everyone to know that the toronto humane society had a litter of kittens up for adoption and they're all named after blue jays players

I felt that way with an order recently. Perfectly valid.

Damn.

Toronto’s rooftop farms show what’s at stake after Ford scraps green roof rule Rooftop farms reveal the cooling, flood-reducing and food-growing power green roofs brought to Toronto.

The province overturned Toronto's green roof bylaw, but TMU’s rooftop farms show exactly what the policy encouraged: cooler streets, less flooding and fresh, affordable food grown in the heart of the city. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/24/n...

Lovely.

She's wearing a wig in these, too. And I played dress up in that dress and wig when I was a kid, so it was conceivable, although she was around 24 here.