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"Its like seeing a dying dog with parvo on the street like im totally disgusted but a part of me wants to care for it in its last moments so maybe im confusing that for lust." [Brock Samson voice] Yeaaaah. That's Rusty Venture all right. You'll get over it.

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They came from the future! In 1933, the theme of the Ontario College of Art's annual costume ball was "Neo Aeon," a new era. Students strutted in their best science fictional fashion creations. https://ow.ly/6x1T50ZQLAa

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Jordyn Marcellus

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BRING ME THE TEARS OF TOBI LUTKE

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If you ever need evidence that most talking heads just Say Things:

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On CBC, Nokha Dakroub from The Radical Centre podcast offers her big takeaways from the night: "I think Mississauga found a Mamdani and Oshawa found a Mamdani, and unfortunately Brad Bradford wasn't Mamdani enough."

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Whatever you think of Mamdani, his entire persona is that of someone who loves his city. Brad? Well...

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The only politician I've ever seen get in a fight with the police over whether his city is safe or not, and it isn't the police who are fearmongering

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I'd love to know why the polls were so off. They had been predicting a close race, and other than a nailbiter start it's been anything but

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Turnout seems likely to be up compared to the past few elections, even taking into account the city's growth. Chow's the first candidate to crack half a million votes. And Bradford's 396k would have been enough to win any previous election save 2000 & 2018

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Oh wait. Bradford's cracked 400k. With only 11 polling stations left, it doesn't look like it's going to hit the million voter mark

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I'd love to know why the polls were so off. They had been predicting a close race, and other than a nailbiter start it's been anything but

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Did that prediction galvanize previously unenthused Chow voters who had been on the fence about voting? Is it (to quote a joke I've often made), that nobody really likes Bradford that much?

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Interesting to compare the current vote map (image 1) to the other recent competitive elections: 2023 (img 2), 2014 (img 3) and 2010 (img 4)

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Brad Brad can't even win all of Etobicoke, traditionally one of the city's more conservative strongholds

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Joshua Hind

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Removing bike lanes…LOST Privatizing water…LOST 1000 more cops…LOST Crazy debts schemes…LOST Toronto’s right-wing influencer class…LOST Mr. Ontario Proud…LOST BRAD BRADFORD…LOST.

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Looks like Nunziata, Moise, and Myers are the only incumbent councillors likely to lose their seats tonight

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At the end of the day, I'm just glad a split vote didn't give Tate the victory

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Frances Nunziata, who has been on council since amalgamation & before that was a York councillor & later mayor, in 3rd in York South Weston

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CP24 reports that Chow camp has told them that Toronto results are waiting on voters still in line in Regent Park and Scarborough.

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on DC: "Nobody wanted to eat out. They were afraid. Even if you were in the restaurant, people would walk in and like the Wild West, 'Hold it up!' Everybody is standing there. Can you imagine? A fancy restaurant. They were robbing the whole restaurant. It's crazy."

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Well, did my civic duty

"Never buy the first iteration of a new Apple product" used to be one of those unspoken bits of knowledge

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NEW: The iPhone Duo screen-cracking issue is real. Apple hasn’t given stores or customer service representatives guidance but the company is investigating it. Several have personally sent me their images and stories of their new $2000 device breaking within hours. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

bloomberg.comApple’s Foldable iPhone Duo Draws Early Complaints of the Screen CrackingThe iPhone Duo, one of Apple Inc.’s biggest new products in years, is drawing a growing number of complaints from customers who say the foldable display cracked after just hours or days of use.

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🎶 Is there Liz on Maaaaaaaars? 🎶

politico.euLiz Truss claims Brits would be on Mars by 2040 if she hadn’t been oustedFormer prime minister dreams of a brighter alternative future.

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Reminder to self: I don't have a copy of Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! (What I always think of when I see Zawinul's name.) Should get around to fixing that one of these days.

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Turns out this album has a fairly stacked credits list. Backing vocals from the Dixie Hummingbirds. Piano by Ray Bryant, Keith Jarrett, Hank Jones, & Joe Zawinul. Arranged by Roberta Flack. Produced by Flack & Joel Dorn.

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Walked into a local record store, and guess what was sitting right at the front of their new arrivals bin? "Funky" said the handwritten note on it

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I'm not sure if a gospel funk rendition of the Mahā-mantra is the most late-60s/early-70s thing I've heard, but it's certainly the most I've heard in a while.

youtube.comHare KrishnaProvided to YouTube by Rhino AtlanticHare Krishna · Marion WilliamsStanding Here Wondering Which Way To Go℗ 1969 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the Unite...

Because I forgot to mention the drums

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Joe Zawinul and Keith Jarrett do piano on this with drums by Bernard Purdie because 1971 was a lawless land.

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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD

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Jair Bolsonaro still unsure whether to go for a celebratory trip to the hospital or a consolatory trip to the hospital

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I am intrigued but not hopeful

cbc.caIs this Quebec-developed fruit the 'apple of the future'? | CBC NewsQuebec apple producers say it’s been a good season, harvest- and sales-wise. They say it has much to do with U.S. tariffs and new varieties developed in — and for — Quebec.

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Far too many sweet apples already out there at the grocery store We need more crisp & tart ones. Not another "so sweet" one

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at the optometrist:

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It's the oft overlooked final child of his Berlin era, but I've been listening to Lodger a lot lately and I think I might actually like it as an album to just put on & listen to more than "Heroes"

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I can see why it's the "…oh yeah, and that one" album. On initial encounter it seems more conventional than either Low or "Heroes" — no mostly instrumental second side, songwriting that's more guitar-forward. But it also is more eclectic — old Bowie crashing into new Bowie crashing into world music

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Low remains one of the few true 5-star pop records though.

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Had to be out in Etobicoke last weekend, Scarborough this one. And look, trying to measure electoral support solely from lawn signs is a mug's game, but I'd bet there's an inverse relationship between the density of Bradford signs & your distance from Beaches—East York

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Bumper sticker reading “MY OTHER MAP IS THE TERRITORY”

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#RandomGameSaturday Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete Oh, Working Designs. Why did you do anything of the things you did?

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Making shakshuka for breakfast and suddenly remembered the time a restaurant offered to make a coworker a vegan version "Isn't that just a bowl of tomato sauce?"

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Though on the subject of things that have gotten better over the past 30 years: the widespread availability of vegetarian (though unfortunately not vegan) options in restaurants It's almost shocking these days to find a menu with only the classic contempt salad on it

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@nutedawn.bsky.social If the double play is overturned & the Brewers still win because Simpson didn't run to home....

Touch 'em all, Joe

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Joe Carter had one of the biggest swings EVER! OTD in 1993, he delivered the @bluejaysbot.bsky.social their second consecutive World Series championship with a dramatic three-run walk-off home run!

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punkin dunkin

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Camellia Tea Ceremony

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One of my favourite ukiyoe subjects is the famed swordsman Miyamoto Musashi (宮本武藏 1584-1645) fighting a nobusuma in the mountains of Tanba (丹波国). A 'nobusuma' (野衾) or 'tobikura' (飛倉) is a bat that transforms into a yōkai with old age.