Michelle McAdorey

Fall Songwriting Class starts next week! Wednesday, October 8th, for eight weeks. Come join me at U of T's School of Continuing Studies. Urgent songs for urgent times. Let's do it! learn.utoronto.ca/programs-cou...

What's up? Toronto Blue Jays win AL East is what 💙. More Canadian 🇨🇦 coverage needed on BSKY.

The Star went undercover to expose how Ticketmaster colludes with scalpers. The probe is now at the heart of a major FTC lawsuit The joint Toronto Star/CBC investigation exposed Ticketmaster employees reassuring undercover scalper that they could use bots to gobble up box office tickets — in breach of both Ticketmaster’s terms ...

A Toronto Star/CBC investigation into Ticketmaster’s collusion with scalpers to resell hundreds of thousands of tickets to sports and music events at inflated prices forms the backbone of a new U.S. consumer-protection lawsuit against the world’s biggest ticketing company.

Is Toronto’s public design in the toilet? The city’s plan to repair and replace 125 public washrooms is a rushed, one-size-fits-all approach that misses an opportunity to showcase design

Toronto plans to repair and replace more than 125 public bathrooms across the city. It's long-overdue effort to tackle an essential civic problem, but do the new loos have to be ugly? by @alexbozikovic.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

Philip Gourevitch on Gilles Peress’s Photo from September 11th Peress reached the World Trade Center just as the second tower collapsed.

Incredible @pgourevitch.bsky.social piece
www.newyorker.com/magazine/tak...

An apartment complex. A headline reads: "Did Switzerland Solve The Housing Crisis?"

The way that housing co-ops work in Switzerland may seem foreign to many. But the central idea is simple: What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains? Advocates say their model could reshape how the world thinks about affordable housing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r...

will be in touch x

up north now, back and forth.

Thank you so much to everyone who has got onboard The Big Summer Holiday #PostcardDrop2025! It’s wonderful to know postcards still matter. Also intrigued by the special location frank-marks and the need for an additional “envelope” in some cases. Total so far = 294! ☺️💌🎉

I will ! I will! Would dig it too. 💓 Wish I had something new recorded, working on that happening, meanwhile summer heat has me spellbound.

Hey!Thank you ! @torontomike.com

It really is.

Perhaps, yet I think he is articulating something important. We also grow through seeing and learning what is happening around us, even if it isn't our particular habit? Many things can be true at the same time. :-)

Many things can be true at the same time. It's great you search out new music! I think we all need music in our lives and need to value it much more.

The streaming model doesn't pay musicians well in any way.The rate is utterly deplorable. Only a handful of superstars are able to get a good rate of pay and further market share. We are killing the prospect of an okay or decent living of many musicians. Royalties were always part of that. Not now.

Radio stations paid a much better royalty rate than the current day model of streaming services ,though radio became more formatted, there still were some DJs, as you write, that curated their own shows. Streaming, and now A,I is having a very detrimental effect on livelihoods of many musicians.

Sadly, maddeningly, you are right sir.

40 Years After Live Aid, It’s Still Personal for Bob Geldof

"Now, music is free and you get the news that you want to see. The web is an echo chamber of your own prejudices, so you only hear the music that it thinks you like. It’s a silo of the self. So I don’t think music can survive being the spine of the culture as it was"

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/a...

Poplars at Giverny - 1887 #artbots #monet
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10321

RIP Brian Wilson💙

Jimmy Kimmel Tells the Truth About What’s REALLY Happening in LA YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

Jimmy Kimmel has more courage than the entire ABC News C-Suite full of executives put together... times one hundred!

Kimmel correctly described the sending of troops to Los Angeles as a "disgusting and unnecessary abuse of power instigated by our mentally ill president"

Today is Endangered Species Day, a day for drawing attention to endangered wildlife around the world. In 2005, Southern Resident killer whales were designated as an endangered population, with 88 individuals remaining at that time. (1/3)

How to cross thin ice, #polar #bear edition: spread out wide to distribute weight and reduce pressure. This clever move helps avoid breaking the fragile surface.
A survival tactic perfected in the Arctic
#physics

Only Five People Have Seen This New Impossible Color Researchers discover a new color outside the range of human color vision, but you have to laser your retinas to see it

Five people—three researchers and two test subjects—have just seen a color no human has ever seen before.

A chorus of The Ramones' "I Wanna Be Sedated" for tonight's Pharmacy Appreciation Night pre-game ceremony at Fenway.

European Spa Company Therme Misrepresented Itself in an Effort to Expand Into Canada A Times investigation shows Therme, a European firm, exaggerated its track record in securing a deal with Ontario, and government auditors found that the process had been unfair and opaque.

Unbelievable. The @nytimes.com reports that Therme was misrepresenting basic aspects of its business - they copied the name of another company and claimed to own its properties.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...

Untamed howls 🐺

#SaveTheLobo

Indeed. It seems that is the unfortunate and too common rationale of why an older landmark historical building needs to go.

Absolutely got to hand it to BBC local radio stations for championing letter writing and handwritten letters. Having a chat with John Darvall on BBC Radio Bristol at about 10.30am about the Society, lovely letters, and the “adaptation” of our beautiful iconic postboxes. ☺️📮📻👏

The Sea Seen from the Cliffs of Fecamp

The Sea Seen from the Cliffs of Fecamp, 1881 #artbots #monet
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9704