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Oh it's better! Unfortunately, the "better" is worse than the AQI in the worst days before the coal plants were shut down. "Moderate" is a scam rating based on comparisons to things much worse than we've ever experienced. And as the usual becomes worse, "moderate" will be what is currently "abysmal"

92 AQI in Toronto

wildfire smoke makes great sunsets and moon viewing.

I see what you did there

Counterpoint: crypto bros are the most likely people to hurl sex toys at WNBA games.

Certainly my wife's strong view!

Nothing! Just making an easy turn about ten seconds after unlocking it. Hence thinking the frame, which is original like that piece, may be compromised.

The thinger part of my bike joining the handlebars to the head tube almost snapped in two due to metal fatigue.

Bike people: Is this bad? I think it's probably bad.

Ok when this happens to a bike purchased in 2008 for $300 of which this is one of the few remaining original parts is it time to:

a) get a new goddam bike, something else is gonna break while I am riding it!

b) double down and fix it!

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A creepy reddish sunrise between trees overhanging a hazy residential street in Toronto with cars parked on both sides.

Air quality index (AQ|*) and PM2.5 air pollution in Toronto 06:00, Aug 07 Local time Toronto AQI Alert 111 AQI* Unhealthy for sensitive groups Main pollutant: PM2.5

Fossil Fueled Sunrise

smiling blond child soldier from Starship Troopers in-movie late war enlistment advertisement.

Big Starship Troopers enlistment quota problems energy there.

It is because many of the people in management like big pickups and either own or aspire to own big pickups themselves and so they can't imagine depriving their departments of big pickups.

Of course, even municipal workers mostly need a pickup like this for their work ⏬

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Tiny kubota pickup truck with a lawn mower in the back on University Ave at Richmond St in Toronto.

The size of pickup truck that 99% of pickup truck drivers actually need.

In which the @theglobeandmail.com manages to write a front page piece on the close to record setting number and scope of Canadian wildfires causing evacuations & choking cities thousands of kilometres away with smoke without once mentioning they are fueled by climate change caused by fossil fuels.

Half of the CN Tower, with the left side visible and the right side blocked by a beige and brown building.

Semi-Detached CN Tower

alternatively......

Lotta this going around.

Probably the best five minutes of my life. No idea where the parents were while we were trying to maim each other.

This 🧵 brings up a great 70's Scarborough childhood memory.

Friend's 8th bday party. Picnic in the Rouge where river is very shallow. Someone proposed a rock fight, 1 team on each side of the river. Just whipping stones at each other. I took a sharp one off the forehead. End of party. 2 stitches.

Special Air Quality Statement 26°C Clear Feels 30 H:28° L:20° Smoke brings abysmal, unsafe air quality

True:

"smoke brings abysmal, unsafe air quality"

"1000 words on the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of AI"

Worst person you know just made a great point meme

China declares all cryptocurrency transactions illegal.

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A 133 AQI in Toronto is normal. The smoke stinging your eyes and making you wheeze 2000 km from wildfire sources is normal. It has always been this way. Every summer since you were a child was like this. As you were. Let's get those pipelines up and running.

A delicious looking mojito with crushed ice on top and much mint in a translucent liquid sit on the arm of a chair in front of a colourful front yard garden.

Nothing ol' Lord Simcoe liked better than the traditional August long weekend Mojito.

No one better exemplifies Wasaga's 1980's "mullet and Trans Am era"(TM) than Doug Ford, but this is the first step in a 21st century real estate play for his friends & donors whereby the provincial park is privatized & monetized. No other plausible explanation.

(TM): @shawnmicallef.bsky.social

Yellow Swallowtail butterfly on a purple flower with milkweed behind it.

Look at that beaut

Greenery with a Monarch butterfly at the top and a Yellow Swallowtail butterfly middle right, both alighted on purple flowers on the same plant

So many bees it's tough for butterflies to find a place to land.

Monarch at top and Yellow Swallowtail at middle right, both successfully parked.

We went hard on this issue in the bike lane case. One of the two individual plaintiffs, Narada Kiondo, is a bike delivery guy.

I expect it is very common for drivers who hate bike lanes to think it is perfectly fine to routinely have stuff delivered to them by bike couriers, danger be damned.

So hammered. Just a quarter beat off throughout.

The Ontario government argued precisely the opposite in court, saying people without cars don't need bike lanes along those routes because subway.

Utterly nonsense, but that was an express argument.

I'm all about term coinage

Cycle Toronto Victory Lap around Queens Park this evening.

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