Flower Moon After all it is no spring flower, but only a postscript to a hope (p. 28). Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac. 1949. Ballantine,...
Check the link for a full-size version (3600 x 4800).
Unenforceable The story of the collapse of the Roman Republic is one in which these elements of the mos maiorum slowly crumble under the weight of the...
This notice was found last summer (July 2023) on St. Clair W., after the Salsa on St. Clair festival.
We were inspired by your recent photos. We'll post more.
Fortress to the East Here stood a sacred forest. Here the messenger Wing-footed went, his touch upon the dumb glades leaving... Upon the site of cities, nor...
Photo taken from the west side in late December 2023.
Made using discarded parking tickets, among other things. More images here: https://archive.org/details/lawful-evil-hwmb-03-009
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There are so many local names for this insect: water strider, water skipper, water skimmer, water bug... got any more?
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Short documentary focusing on a few of the artists living in Dafen, China. This village hosts both independent artist studios and fascimilie factories with various connections between the people working in them. The short documentary is subtitled in English (sometimes hard to read), but good production quality. Much of the conversation revolves around the tension between reproduction and originality, and the professional lives of working artists in the village.
This broadcast is not official. Here's a RadioReference forum post with the technical details re: how someone can monitor the TETRA system that TTC uses to communicate across its network. This broadcastify feed is picking up the signal from the Birchmount location/frequency.
Toronto Transit Control Live Audio Feed on Broadcastify.com
If you ever want more info about a transit delay than what you get from official communications, or if you want a better sense of daily issues on trains and buses (most of which are never reported to the police/press), check out this unofficial feed: https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/31629
Here's a 1-minute video showing the Transit Control centre where many of these calls are received: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQoKVmNJlSs
"We have new people whose life experiences have been radically different than ours. And so for those of us who have been here for decades or a long time, it gives us an insight into how people lived in other parts of the world, and now they're with us and we want to learn about them. So we are one united community."
This is such a positive take from someone in leadership re: new immigration to their community. It can be difficult to manage unexpected population growth and the federal/provincial governments offer poor support to growing communities across Canada. Mr. Morrison and his neighbours deserve lots of credit and respect for welcoming new neighbours who've been through a lot. They sound like good people.
Just a reminder that many former government staff, ex-elected officials, family members and acquaintances of current politicians, etc. are now lobbyists and/or investors in the commercial cannabis sector. For example, Smitherman (CEO of CCC) worked for 4 decades in Ontario politics before becoming a lobbyist. As the retailer quoted in this article says, these politically-connected producers are the intended beneficiaries of pricing changes, not the retailers or customers.
Unfortunately, this is standard business practice in Canada: now that they have achieved market dominance over less-connected peers, they look to the government to help protect their profits, which they will use to purchase struggling competitors to further consolidate the industry and allow them to raise wholesale prices in the future. Once only 2-3 major producers remain in the country, they will have spent two decades lobbying the government and can look forward to protectionist government intervention, price collusion, and guaranteed profits, not unlike Rogers/Bell/Telus enjoy today.
Swiss technology company that focuses on privacy products. Initially funded by a Swiss startup capital firm and now uses a subscription model. ProtonMail is not open source or non-profit, but the product they offer is privacy. Switzerland also has strict privacy laws and resists state-based information requests. Best option is to run one's own email client server, but simple folks like me don't have the skills to do so. (FWIW, I use ProtonMail and think it works great.)
If anyone is interested, the address is 986 Bathurst Street (right between Dupont and Bathurst). It is currently staffed on Thursdays and Fridays, from noon to 6pm. Here's the website.
You are welcome at the https://lemmy.ca/c/art community. Currently, most submissions are people's artworks, but what you describe is also seems relevant to the community and I'd post content too if there's interest in it!
"In my view, a lot of the general associations we have with drinking in public are negative, like drunkenness in public, drinking and driving, like drunken hoodlums, all of these things — which make the news, but aren't necessarily the only way people consume alcohol in public."
Dr. Malleck quoted here gets close to the source of the problem, which is classism.
Most mayors, city councilors, etc. are doing well financially and they own their own houses (as well as cottages, investment properties, etc.), so the idea of going to a public park to drink outside with friends seems unusual to them. They view public parks as community spaces, but only within their personal perspectives as homeowners, and therefore what is allowed in parks is restricted to class-based moral sensibilities. It's easy for Councilor So-and-So to bring her laptop to her backyard garden patio for another Zoom meeting. The line worker who just wants to sit outside with her family after 12 hours inside sorting chicken meat for Councilor So-and-So's BBQ that weekend... she was an afterthought when it comes to these kinds of public space bylaws.
This disconnect between how municipal leaders and many apartment/condo-dwelling constituents live also explains the conflicts during the pandemic when people wanted to leave the isolation of their apartments for fresh air, but homeowner leaders (with their backyards, cottage retreats, 'working' holidays, etc.) told them to go back inside and threatened them with fines.
We do we have these bylaws? Ignorance rooted in class.
Just wanted to add that The Verge article quotes from the source document, but does not include its links, etc. Here's a hyperlinked version, including some specific open source resources, which the author calls 'third faction' content: https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither
Hello friend -- I love your fence! Your garden patch looks like a dream. What kinds of chillis are you growing?
How can it feel so dry and be so humid at the same time? These days, even the dryads need a better skincare product...
The hand is made from coffee filter. The bottle and 'Dryad' logo are product packaging. The sun is yellow tissue paper, while the haze background is washi paper.
Our most productive plant is K. laetivirens, an unusual succulent that yields many plantlets around the edges of its leaves. There are varieties: ours is bright green, resilient, and likes small pots.
We grew a large one (to truly become a mother of thousands). We cultivate its many plantlets in glass pots and anonymously leave them for others in our neighbourhood in Toronto.
I watched Canada v. Guadeloupe live last night. It was first time I've seen the men's team play and wanted to share some impressions. I follow European club football very closely and rarely watch international games/tournaments. Consequently, don't know almost any of these players.
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BMO Field is a great stadium. Good view of the pitch from most seats, even the cheap bleachers behind the north-side goal. Atmosphere improved over the match, sound echoes and is amplified by the half-roof, and the regular supporters behind the south-side goal were great! Side note: also fun to see planes take off from the Island airport nearby.
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Gold Cup security/organization was not great. I mean this sincerely: pre-match media and attempts to hype the game made me feel embarrassed to be there.
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This was not a skilled game, but entertaining. The pitch was slick (rained for hours beforehand) so there were lots of slips and some unexpected chances.
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The last-minute goal for Guadeloupe was heartbreaking and probably not deserved, on the balance of play.
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Guadeloupe: 10-Phaeton and 9-Ambrose had very good chemistry, especially in the first half. They played defensively throughout the match, but Phaeton was really strong up the wing when he had the opportunity. They deserved their early goal.
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Canada: 11-Millar was arguably Canada's best player on the pitch. (22-Laryea also did well). Millar was often in "acres of space" on the wing in the first half, but rarely received service. Constantly looking to get behind defenders, but service to him was inexcusably bad. Tracked back defensively and made a few important recoveries/stops. It didn't make any sense to substitute him early in the 2nd half, unless there was a fitness issue. 13-Shaffelburg was good from the moment he came on; unfortunately, had the same problem as Millar re: bad service. He also tracked back well and seemed to be a crowd favorite.
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Canada: The midfield was very poor and, despite what post-match reports suggest, 20-Ahmed was possibly Canada's worst player on the pitch. Tons of energy, but not much else. Poor passing and even worse decision-making, especially from midfield positions when Canada really needed to push up the field. Frequently lost the ball, both with and without pressure. Would often (unsuccessfully) try little give-and-go passes on the wing with 22-Laryea when surrounded by Guadeloupe players, rather than find the open man. I couldn't understand why he returned in the second half and it was even more baffling that he played the whole match. Hometown bias, maybe?
If you also attended/watched this match, let's talk about it!
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Details here: https://archive.org/details/wood-thrush-hwbl-03-014
