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The under-construction 100+ storey Pinnacle One Yonge at Bloor & Yonge pierces above the orangey-yellow clouds at sunrise, with just a few other skyscrapers and the CN Tower popping out above the cloud line in the background, via photographer Kotsy on Instagram

A striking, portrait-sized shot of the CN Tower shooting up out of the white-grey fog with only a few skyscrapers peaking out of the fog in the background with a cool blue sky in the background

Last week's pea-soup fog over the city provided some insane drone photography shots of towers piercing up out of the clouds
(via Instagram photographer Kotsy: www.instagram.com/itsonlykotsy/)

It means any monsters you've killed come back to life

I swear to god don't poopoo this by saying "it's gonna be rainy". ooohhhh I'm afraid of water. get a jacket!

Surprisingly cheap Toronto-Vancouver flights in April ($216 round trip for Flair, $319 on a real airline) 4-star downtown hotels for under 300 bucks Wrestling (AEW Dynasty) / Baseball (Vancouver Canadians) / Cherry blossoms

Surprisingly affordable trip recommendation for anyone in Toronto who wants to get away, but is looking for a more budget-conscious "we don't need Japan we've got Japan at home" vibe: Vancouver in April

So the F-15 is the most successful combat aircraft in modern history. 104 air combat engagements with enemy aircraft. 104 victories. Zero losses. A perfect record.

Only 6 F-15s have been lost to ground based fire in all history. 3 of those 6 were friendly fire under this Operation Epstein Fury.🤡

Christopher & Mary are longtime faves but I think this is my first time seeing their daughter Barbara on this account. Wow. Apple didn't fall far from the tree at all.

Well well well, look who's checking the Alt Text to find out if it will contain the answer to the riddle. No such luck, my friend! All that I'll tell you is that it contains 6 images with some sort of hidden connection or link between them: a former Montreal Expos manager, a famous collie, a judo outfit, an 80s Finnish Oilers great, an award containing a statuette of an actor, and a toy child.

SUNDAY NIGHT TRIVIA:
What is the connection between this images?

1900: [title too racist to print] by ives 'cracker' whitey 1910: gods blade cuts down the sinners by the smiles family singers 1920: married to frankenstein blues by blind soupy fogg 1930: the st lois choo choo train by willard gibson and his orchestra 1940: i will kiss him in heaven (unless you buy war bonds) by elspeth whitey 1950: makin babies by big 'richard' willie 1960: why oh why (did god take my baby away) by the marvelous wonderettes 1970: why'd you leave me bitch by the baby brats 1980: why did you leave, robot girl? by country club 1990: shit by phlegm

the history of music in the 20th century:

The answer is: HOMOPHONES OF INDIAN FOOD 1. Baseball great Felipe Alou (ALOO - potatoes) 2. Collie great Lassie (LASSI - mango drink) 3. Judo/karate outift Gi (GHEE - clarified butter) 4. 80s Oilers player Jari Kurri (CURRY - self-explanatory) 5. Now called the Actor Award this was once known as the SAG award (SAAG - spinach) 6. This is just a doll (DAAL - lentils)

At least one person has figured it out, so please check the alt text to be spoiled by the answer!

This was inspired by my mystery connection category at my pub trivia night I ran this past week, and I was told by my regulars it was tricky, so I'll see how my nerds of Bluesky find it.

Well well well, look who's checking the Alt Text to find out if it will contain the answer to the riddle. No such luck, my friend! All that I'll tell you is that it contains 6 images with some sort of hidden connection or link between them: a former Montreal Expos manager, a famous collie, a judo outfit, an 80s Finnish Oilers great, an award containing a statuette of an actor, and a toy child.

SUNDAY NIGHT TRIVIA:
What is the connection between this images?

Flightaware live tracking from my app over the middle east showing no traffic over Iran and all flights diverting north or south. A ton of planes over Turkmenistan just north of Iran

(Clocking in for my first day at work as air traffic controller in Turkmenistan)
Alright, should be a pretty chill Sunday, let's see who we've got in the air

Brits have long held some sort of funhouse-mirror view of Canada - remember when Morissey & Paul McCartney launched boycotts of Canada over seal hunts, or Brit tabloid hysteria over MAID.

Anyways I'm sure Vancouver isn't hurting over "oh no an 86-year-old can't do his 60-year-old jokes here"

Here is Brady Tkachuk saying "that's for the people who say I can't read, go F yourself" after attempting to do some elementary school math and getting the wrong answer

The Tkachuks just narrowly missed out on this gig after it was learned that reading SNL cue cards requires being able to read

Showing my jar of Holy Duck Chili oil which is Chinese spicy red chili oil with Canadian duck fat in it

The resulting load showing a perfect beautiful spiral inside. All credit to my wife for this one

IMPORTANT:

Sourdough bread loaf with duck fat chili oil, scallions and cheddar

In recent years, Bilbao has quietly built a cycling network shaped by lessons from the Netherlands: calmed where it can be, protected where it must be, and always comfortable and connected.

The result? You can now pedal across the city on infrastructure made for everyone—not just the fit and brave.

Also why Kalshi and its even more deregulated/deranged cousin Polymarket keep getting press for insane bets like "will Jesus return in 2026". And you'll get like, 99% odds of No. "Wow! Free money!" Well, no. After fees you'd be better off with your money in a 0.5% interest savings account

"But if the money is self contained where the losers pay the winners, how does Kalshi make any money?"

By charging a transaction fee every time you bet.

That means they don't really have to give a shit about the actual outcomes of any given bet as long as people keep betting.

(Also some people are confused about how Kalshi works: Kalshi doesn't benefit from not paying out the "Ayatollah will die by March 1" bets. It's not a traditional bookie. If "Yes" wins a bet, the payout comes from the "No" bettors. It's not like Kalshi is just keeping someone's money they were owed)

Honestly probably only the 2nd most embarrassing Kalshi insider trading story this week: a few days ago, one of MrBeast's video editors was caught betting $4000 on MrBeast-related Kalshi bets like "what will MrBeast say in his next video", which is, bafflingly, a thing adults could gamble money on

"The Jetsons" is canonically set in the year 2062. That means we've only got 36 years left for baby-naming trends in America to change enough that you can name a blond kid Elroy.

it’s gritney bitch

Mandatory 10x voltage if the topic is "Canada" (seen this a lot during the Olympics) and you reply to someone with the default top gif for "Canada" which is the two Barstool guys saying "sorry". Gee great thanks for adding to the thread with this Barstool gif, Evelyn in Canmore

If someone is talking about tacos and you just reply with a gif that you found by searching "taco" on Giphy, do you ever think "nailed it. Absolutely nailed this conversation. Now people on the taco thread will see some choppy 3-frame watermarked gif of a spinning taco."

Guys who reply to posts by pulling up the Gif keyboard, typing whatever topic is at hand, and just sending whatever stupid gif pops up first should receive a mild electric shock from their device. Voltage can increase for each additional gif sent.

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to bomb this elementary school full of kids because he thinks it makes him look cool. also his scheming viziers will be betting money on it for fun. good luck soldier

Two thoughts

1. Most modern high-end brooms are made of carbon fiber and are HARD to break, I don't remember ever seeing this, my man was putting some TORQUE on that thing

2. I think you need to be native Quebec French speaker to say tabarnak with that perfect proper tone, a Frenchman could never

A sweeper on Team Quebec snapped his broom in half while sweeping at the Brier, and the skip's response was extremely Québecois