Jason Chapman

Not sure what I clicked on but I'm getting fed lots of YT videos of people in their 50's and 60's saying "I'm ... years old and these are the top 5 secrets..."
Am I supposed to have figured this shit out by now?

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.

Fantastic news! But, I can't help still being pissed that this much effort and peoples' time and money were needed to "combat" this ridiculous move in the first place.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Unless this is the plan. In a few years we'll be more open to colonizing the surface of Venus.

Well, I can see YOU are not going to be the one to convince me. Ha

I remain unconvinced that pickleball was a necessary invention.

Pretty happy to be Canadian this year!

Understood all around. Hope you enjoy!

Awesome. Won't find ol' Tetus on many road trip reading lists!

But, physical book reading is way up.

Cooking has returned.

And I generally remember why I picked up my phone to look at it now.

State of modern life management: souring Social Media

What I've left myself with is

YouTube shorts: repetitive, unfunny and terrible
Bluesky: 99% breathless exclamations of political attrocities

So, not very interested in spending much time on them.

Ha. Nice. I held back from interacting with a woman having a crying breakdown at the Pet Value, while trying to return opened cat food, so I still have that IRL goal to accomplish.

Tuesday Social Experiment:
Disagree with someone IRL today. Offer halting agreement to someone online.

Things Become Other Things A book of walking the Kii Peninsula

Discovered this book by accident and I'm enjoying it but, more importantly, I am dumbfounded that someone in the world has made a living out of the same combination of interests as me! (writing, photography, walking, Japan)
I have some delving to do!

craigmod.com/books/things...

Martin Scorsese no longer watches films in cinemas due to audience bad behaviour Noise of phone conversations and guzzling of snacks have spoiled the experience, veteran director tells critic Peter Travers

I have to agree.
I was annoying too when I was a teenager, but usually in something like Passenger 57 or Days of Thunder, so it was raucous anyway.
I'm seeing grown adults openly talking like they're on their own couch and eating a full dinner.
It's over.

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

And to watch out for "1 unknown male". Useful.

It's been so long since I saw a street meat vendor! That food truck hubbub killed the whole industry. Thanks a lot Food Network. That looks excellent.

Buy audiobooks & support local bookstores Libro.fm makes it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through local bookstores.

On top of dropping off the other socials, I'm also trying to reduce money going to Amazon so I'm not buying books from them, including Kindle and Audible. I'm pretty happy so far with libro.fm. Plus, it sends proceeds to the shop around the block!
#books

Ripley's has asked that I stop calling them. They do not know who you are and this is not their process.
Congrats on a cool sounding assignment!

I "re-read" this not too long ago. It's so beautifully done and I'm just in awe of how effective it is at going directly at your experience and emotions without the specifics of language in the way.

Ah, optimism. Fair enough. I definitely hope we get there too. If it turns out the way you imagine, I'm with you.

Well, I don't know why you're so certain it's so imminent either.

I wouldn't say it's silly. The money pouring into infrastructure to push it forward, and make its environmental impact, is going to far outpace the clean energy solutions that neutralize it for a long time.

Likely dodged a bullet since most people who LIKED the movie still wish the ending wasn't there.
In retrospect, I didn't care for this film except for its production efficiency. Seeing it over the holidays, in a theatre, was a bit of a sensory hammer and I probably rated it higher than I would now.

Oh thanks. We squeaked by. Looking forward to convoy 2.0 now.

Very much making sense why us Arctic dwellers get most of our produce from the U.S.! (Still dusty leafless plants and sporadic snowfalls. 😢)
Congrats on y'alls bounty!

Well, can't disagree with that. But "debate" is not really something that happens in modern politics anywhere (to my knowledge) and that idea is the only thing that might be useful in broadening or enlightening people and their already firmly held beliefs. So, this, I don't bother watching.

Lolz

non, merci

Looks amazing! I'm anxiously awaiting that season's arrival here in probably another month or so. (I thankfully have so far dodged seasonal allergies.)

Mario Vargas Llosa has died at 89. The Nobel Prize-winning Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, the last living titan of the Latin American literary “boom,” and one of the most influential writers of the Spanish-speakin…

Mario Vargas Llosa
"Without fictions we would be less aware of the importance of freedom for life to be livable, the hell it turns into when it is trampled underfoot by a tyrant, an ideology, or a religion."
lithub.com/mario-vargas...