Pete Evans

Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront A project to restore coastal wetland leads to astonishing discoveries of a host of life: seeds and plant scraps, as well as water fleas, worms, larvae and plankton

I know some people involved in this and it’s really freaking cool

Basically all of the construction in the portlands has accidentally caused a bunch of long-dormant plants and other life forms to come back to life

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Won’t lie I’m very tempted

#tramampoline #trabopaline

Interesting, blue water bridge in Sarnia seemed similar on Sunday.

Truck line to USA was 10k deep on a Sunday afternoon

Baseball playoffs set to re-test contours of American and Canadian courtesy After witnessing the boor-fest that was the Ryder Cup, a successful Blue Jays post-season run may engender some heated feelings

I hadn’t considered it before now but there is an excellent chance that this Jays playoff series gets downright ugly

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Quite unexpectedly! Once you get an actual human saying “ok so $30 a month is too much for you but how about $10” or whatever. They call your bluff in a good way

Not sure if it will work in this case but I have had good success at places that force you to call to cancel, to negotiate a lower rate

Love this:

Only two baseball teams with $300M+ payrolls have ever missed the playoffs.

Both are the Mets

I installed from a very old backup and…. Honestly it’s good enough

Imperfect solution and I loathe some stuff but… a hard factory reset of the phone seems to have done the trick

I can’t even install new iOS because I need like 10 gigs free. But I can’t get in to see what’s in there

It’s basically a brick right now and I can’t figure it out.

Best guess is there is some old backups or iOS installs or something. 33 gigs!

I know I cheaped out with a 64GB iPhone but holy hell, system data is using up half of it and I can’t seem to clear it!

How do I fix this brick?

It’s honestly not fair that one person can be handsome both in regular mode and also in “bearded, slightly plump, disheveled mountain man” mode like leave some handsomeness for the rest of us man

Parents, take it from this hockey dad – misbehaving from the stands is a losing game Being too competitive from the sidelines can be obnoxious at best and damaging at worst

I enjoyed this a lot.

I played soccer as a kid not hockey and I still remember the day there was a drunk parent fight on the sidelines.

Genuinely traumatic for all the kids, especially the ones whose parents were involved

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Don’t toy with me!

I also think if he leaves I don’t see a big 7 year commitment anywhere.

If he leaves it’s to win so I could see max money short term, letting him pick up stakes if things change

I mean, we are all thinking it right?

Two words: Dave. Stieb.

No but they will provide a ladder

I dunno about for humans but my dog used to absolutely lose her mind for salmon skin

That’s what you call a motivated seller

I have sold a few things on Facebook marketplace recently and friends let me tell you that place is wild

The mouth tape industry is fascinating to me.

A truly astonishing amount of R&D and marketing spending is going toward creating and servicing a new product category that can be replaced by masking tape

An hour and two minutes…..

The injustices are building here: trying to report the theft with police, I learn I can’t do it online and I have to call. So far 33 minutes on hold and counting!

Scientists think they found two key bacteria that cause multiple sclerosis A study of twins reveals two gut bacteria linked to multiple sclerosis, offering new targets for future treatments.

I have no idea about the scientific veracity of this but as the kids say: huge if true

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I realize that “batting average” has been thoroughly debunked by advanced stats as the metric of a good hitter in baseball but it’s still absolutely wild to me that the AL leaderboard has only *seven* players above .300!

It’s the injustice that is getting to me most of all.

I can’t bring myself to just move on and replace it because I have this irrational psychotic belief that I’m just going to stumble upon it near one of the innumerable homeless encampments I go past every day

My expensive bike got stolen while locked up in downtown Toronto last night and it’s absolutely infuriating.

I’m always amazed by stories like that… old folks who go within hours of each other because they just let go

Maybe there’s something to that yeah

Unbelievably metal