Lissa Douglas

Calendar page for December with a photograph of a crossing guard posing in the centre of a Toronto intersection.

Shoutout to Kathleen featured on the final page of the @westendphoenix.bsky.social crossing guard calendar.

Her morning dancing tunes at Queen and Shaw are 👌 ✨
#Toronto

The Salvation Army is not a charity. They are an evangelical church that uses donated money to actively oppress gay rights. They've been especially cruel to trans people.

It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.

There's a couple reasons so many IWW songs are set to the tunes of hymns and one is that the Salvation Army Band would show up and try to stop workers organizing by playing hymns to drown out speeches, so the Wobblies came up with words so they could sing along. SA has been trash all along.

The Toronto skyline seen across the water from Hanlan's Point on a clear day in 2009. A small plane is taking off from the Island Airport into a bright blue sky. Photo by Peter Mintz, Fonds 589, Item 196.

We have permission for take-off! Hello Bluesky!

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#Toronto #TOHistory #TOArchives

Kids Can Press company logo and logo and image of Franklin character with statement text,”Franklin the Turtle is a beloved Canadian icon who has inspired generations of children and stands for kindness, empathy, and inclusivity. We strongly condemn any denigrating, violent, or unauthorized use of Franklin’s name or image, which directly contradicts these values.”

I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape

International media, you can do better than this.

"Bamboo" is maybe exotic and a compelling hook but it is too easy. The real story here is the growing culture of corruption, including a lack of accountability and oversight, that enabled a chain of human errors that led to this disaster.

It's the digital Hapsburg effect

World-famous brewing institution leaving U.S. for Canada A renowned American beer brewing school is heading north and getting ready to settle in at a new address in Montreal.

Trump’s immigration policies have cost Chicago a world famous brewing school

The Siebel Institute will relocate to Montreal

“regulatory changes in the US have made it much more challenging for many of our international students, who have become the majority of our student body, to attend classes”

It’s the $2k rent for <500sqft that make them livestock pens.
Micro-apartments like that should be affordable for people that work one full time minimum wage job or are on ODSP.
Or for people that want to save money for a big ticket item, like a year on sabbatical.

I just distinguish between humane, livable apartments and condos that are like overpriced urban-professional veal pens in the sky, which is what it feels like developers were cranking out for a decade and a half here.

Good old Woz. Good for him.

Growing up my friend lived on the same street as Wozniak and on Halloween he gave out full bars and we stanned for him then and we stan for him now.

Silicon Valley picked the wrong Steve to lionize.

“Quiet, Piggy” would be fitting for his tombstone.

So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.

Got it.

The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.

meme comic of someone pushing two buttons at once the first button says 'gratitude for this timeline on a grand cosmic level’ and second says 'understanding it still takes work to make it better.' the last panel is a bud giving a thumbs up and he is labled 'buckaroos proving love is real'

buckaroos know this classic way

I do want to note Mamdani's transition specifically calling attention to like, people applying for city jobs and how many CVs they got in the mail, etc, because when was the last time you saw a politician actually talk about expanding state capacity other than hiring more cops?

If some motherfucker has a full-time job and qualifies for government assistance, that's welfare being paid to their employer

I’m okay with it because if they had, it would have made the movie a minute or two longer

One of the reasons these people are trying to womanize 15-year-olds is so they can marry them and train them (raise them) to be the submissive wives they want. Some of these folk voted against ending child marriage for that very reason.

caption: game recognize game pic: nancy reagan shaking hands with donald trump in the 80's. both of them have very likely given sloppy toppy to bill clinton, which is why they are shaking hands. ronald reagan stands in the background wearing a tan fucking suit like the depraved piece of shit he ever was

All-human social media is totally about to become a Thing. AI-free is about to become a digital product selling point.

Indigenous activists from Brazil’s lower Tapajós region and Tupinambá tribes, joined by other activists stormed the Global Climate Summit (COP30) in Brazil demanding land rights and real climate action, not fancy summits full of all talk.

Our gyro

Crosstitch guide image reads “this machine kills fascists” with clipart images of an onion, a sub and a bottle of mustard

Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc

Art by Liberal Jane. Captions read:“Fight Poverty Not The Poor.”

It's not radical to want everyone
housed and fed.🧡
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Art by: @liberaljane.bsky.social

Sewer grate

Harbord cyclists beware: in the new lanes some sewer grates have been put in the death position by contractors. This @ Manning just ate my tire but luckily was coming to a stop. Jarring still. At speed I’d be over the handlebars. There were others along way.