Luke Andrews

Willow, a white dog with a black patch on one eye and a black nose smiles for the camera while showing two teeth in a very boopable pose.

Willow boops with teeth! (teef?)

Ford outlines plans for three-tiered 401 tunnel, dismisses risk of collapse The province has not yet awarded a contract to study the feasibility of the tunnel and other congestion solutions

Doug still doing a pretty reasonable line on Trumpism today: www.torontotoday.ca/local/transp...

never forget this conversation between President Johnson and his tailor

Hope is an important element of resistance! And I truly believe change starts locally, not nationally. If people find inspiration in Mamdani to emulate in their own communities, that’s great.

Canada Day at Christie Pits, the washrooms were all locked at 7:30pm. But also, parks are advertised as open earlier and later—until midnight. Shouldn’t the washroom hours at least match the park hours?

It’s so discouraging that we’ve yet to hear a peep from national or provincial leaders about increasing funding for science and research, and trying to attract the sort of talented people our neighbours apparently don’t want anymore.

It’s worth the free registration with Haaretz to read this article.

“Haaretz has learned that the Military Advocate General has instructed the IDF General Staff's Fact-Finding Assessment Mechanism…to investigate suspected war crimes at these sites.”

IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid ***

Israeli media willing to report what American and Canadian media won’t:

“I can say with certainty that the people were not close to the forces and did not endanger them. It was pointless — they were just killed, for nothing. This thing called killing innocent people — it's been normalized.”

The sun went down, there was a lovely, warm evening breeze, I had a great evening of conversation with real people in the world at @1rg.space AND New Yorkers rejected the big-money sexual abuser? What a night to be alive.

IQAir report showing cities in the world ranked by worst air quality. Detroit, Santiago, and Toronto are the top 3.

This site seems to disagree, at least when ranking cities! 😷 www.iqair.com/ca/world-air...

More Pulp · Album · 2025 · 11 songs

It’s a good day for More Pulp. More Pulp is good. open.spotify.com/album/4et2xB...

Honestly, they should be forced to name the team after a shittier tree.

- Parallel on Geary is fantastic, and a great space architecturally.
- Campechano for tacos
- Alma for delightful modern Chinese fusion, and lots of great food, drinks, shops generally in the area (Bloor west of Dufferin)

Even if it’s not church, we need people, places, and ideas IRL that challenge us to be the best version of ourselves. I’ve found it really therapeutic to spend 1 day a week at a co-workspace @1rg.space with a focus on community. We talk about stuff! Face to face!

My local polling station in Toronto was busy but efficient this morning. I bumped into many neighbours, and waited maybe 10 minutes to vote. Canadian elections continue to be refreshingly analogue—voter lists on paper with rulers and pens to cross names off, paper ballots, cardboard boxes.

He's Canada’s Most Successful Conservative Right Now — And He Is Disappointed in Pierre Poilievre Canada is holding its most consequential election on Monday. Here’s how Ontario Premier Doug Ford thinks it will go.

What a fascinating interview to publish on election day in Canada.

(Please remember to vote!)

I don’t think very often about hot dogs, but when I do I’m sad because none of them will ever taste as good as the one I had at Hot Doug’s in Chicago.

Toronto cafe ordered to destroy $8K worth of Vegemite by food authority Australian expats are worried Vegemite may be banned after Found Coffee, an Aussie-inspired cafe, was ordered to pull the spread from its menu by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency

Now is not the time to start a trade war between Canada and Australia. www.torontotoday.ca/local/food-d...

What It Feels Like, Right Now When I was in college in North Carolina, I flew home to Pennsylvania for the holidays. My mother and father were going through a divorce at that point (a divorce that should’ve happened many …

“Maybe it’s a vaccine, you think. Maybe we need this ugly dose of What Can Be in order to avoid What Could Come. Then again we had four years of it the first time and somehow, immunity didn’t take. Maybe we fucked that up and now it’s a drug-resistant socio-political superbug.”

I always think about my history teacher in grade 12 (“senior year” in American 😏) and his careful use of “o”-prefix, hyphenated syntax for bi-national concerns—e.g. Sino-Russian relations, or the Franco-Prussian war.

That makes you Amero-Canadian in my books.

Skating to where the fascism is going

We’ve got plenty of room, eh?

Have we figured out the tariff rate on importing The Onion to Canada yet? 🥲

Saxon from White Lotus as a metaphor for 2025 America, hey-o…

YouTube video by classicgameover Game Over: Tetris (Game Boy)

The dying sound effect from Gameboy Tetris popped into my head just now, definitely for no reason at all youtu.be/R-o_8-SQej4

Proposed seasonal aphorisms for Toronto:
- April sleet brings May heat
- April ice but May nice
- April white stuff, May bright enough
- April snowstorm means May’s so warm

#dlws

+1, bourbon fan here and I strongly endorse Lot 40 Dark Oak

Can we talk about the cruel irony of the present and past tense of “read” being spelled the same, thus hindering the very activity described by the word?

That’s probably true, but I wonder if the speed of razing will ultimately backfire on the administration. Most authoritarian regimes have had some kind of populist policy to placate the masses—jobs, houses. welfare, clean streets, etc.

Even Putin made sure the retirees got their pensions at first.