Mark Jackson-Brown

I dunno, I'm pretty sure I could get a lower price by bundling together a million sem-related contracts and getting some hastily-cobbled-together international consortiums to put in bids

A out-of-service set of escalators from the concourse level to the Line 1 subway platform

An out-of-service elevator from the concourse level to the Line 1 subway platform

I just ~~love~~ that critical accessibility features for Eglinton station have been off limits for years just because they were part of the LRT construction contract (but only serve Line 1!!!)

I've finished my Scarborough Subway project
Now joining in on building out the Ontario Line!

I love the copious Scott Pilgrim characters

wplace is so funny I love looking at random major cities and seeing what memes people put

OpenFreeMap survived 100,000 requests per second Sorry Wplace.live

apparently wplace.live is partially down because they overloaded openfreemap:

blog.hyperknot.com/p/openfreema...

Which explains why I can still draw, I just can't see WHERE I'm drawing.

Tough to see, but someone has accepted the challenge of threading the Ontario Line through the dense noise downtown

The Eglinton LRT was making great progress this morning, but seems to have stalled out...
Projected eta... the year 3845?

Looks like the Finch LRT needs a little help...

wplace.live is the place to be
I'm slowly working on building out the Scarborough Subway extension

electronics were so much cooler when we could buy them in fun fruity colors especially if they were seethrough and its actual bullshit the only options now are like black, white, and some kind of shitty desaturated pastel

If only there was a large empty square on the right side of the board where messages like "proof of payment in effect" could be put, but I guess this will have to do

A day later, and the esotericness of the words is decidedly higher
More scientific, or lesser used modifiers

Well this is fun.
You can even watch as new words are encountered, and read the post it came from.
(Only a day or two of history, so the words are not *super* esoteric yet)

As a physicist I can easily calculate time dilation from relativistic motion (time slows when you're moving fast) or proximity to a massive object (time slows in gravity) but I have yet to find a solution for emotional time dilation (the task takes five minutes to complete but six weeks to start) 🫠

Highway 7 absolutely. I have never had the misfortune of biking up there, it looks horrible, if at least better than nothing. I imagine a good % of cyclists are still on the sidewalk.

I can only imagine how my parents must have felt at this stage. They grew up with schools still giving corporal punishment

Where is here? I'm at a pool in midtown Toronto right now

Indoor even!
It's just become a fully regularized part of the "swim suit"

At swim lessons, like 90+% of boys have swim shirts. An article of clothing that basically didn't exist 30 years ago.

My school lunch diet *was* peanut butter. Banished.
Kids all have water bottles!
Every birthday is cause to give out treat bags to the class???

It's fascinating, having a 6-year-old, and now getting to see all the ways things have changed since I was a child.
Like, obviously ~phones~, but I'm talking about the more mundane stuff, school and extracurriculars.

Urban shoulders should be provided wherever possible. An urban shoulder delineated by an edge line shall be a minimum width of 1.2m and may be as wide as 2.3m where space is available

What traffic engineers tend not to say out loud is that they prefer bike lanes because they are almost "free" to add. Adding a 1.5m bike lane replaces a desired 1.2m "urban shoulder".
from: www.toronto.ca/wp-content/u...

Toronto desperately needs to get on the multi-use-path bandwagon.
It is the absolute best cycling infra for suburban arterials and highway crossings in pedestrian-light environments

A can of Superflux brewery's Colour & Light The can features three prominent horizontal stripes: pink, white, and light blue

Something about this Superflux Colour & Light makes me feel like my trans friends have rights and they matter

Shout out John Tory

@dryad.technology manifesting
bsky.app/profile/drya...

Star Trek The Next Generation scene. We're in a darkly lit engineering near the warp core. Worf is in uniform and walking alongside the cute lil safety railing. He looks focused and intense. Closed caption reads, "Living among these humans has sucked."

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen As a restaurant owner – I’m astounded at the rate of progress since microwaves were released a few short years ago. Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s m…

When my parental leave is over, I really will have to learn about the stuff microwaves (👀) do well
www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t...

I'll say, that for the GSD to actually do cargo (in a meaningful way), you're looking at $500+ extra for the attachments