I live in a log cabin in the Boreal Forest. By choice. Over 40 exhibitions Canada/UK, professional art worker for 30+ years.🇨🇦 Working with communities throughout Ontario. I paint and waste time online.
Excited to announce I started a podcast with my friend @trufelman.bsky.social, where we read classic philosophical works and discuss what they can teach us about why we buy, wear, and value the things we do. It’s basically a podcast for people who love clothes, books, and big ideas.
So the British Museum spends years & £M to get an artefact depicting foreigners crossing the Channel from France to England in small boats, on display in London. And tickets to celebrate this "invasion" depiction are selling like hot cakes. Small boat scourge Nigel Farage remains strangely silent.
A group of TO civil society leaders (in a sea of people who aren't saying a peep) have created TO Reality Check to oppose the Island Airport expansion. Give them some time + share where you can. They've made it easy to send a letter to Liberal MPs who could stop all this today. torealitycheck.ca
The Best of Toronto's Waterfront - And Why We Might Lose ItYouTube video by TO_RealityCheckwww.youtube.com
A new printing of The Quatermass Experiment is now in stock, @tobyhadoke.bsky.social's immersive account of the making of TV's first sci-fi classic, illustrated with rare photographs from the archives of writer Nigel Kneale. Order now from tenacrebooks.co.uk
Vase of Flowers, by Jan Davidsz de Heem, ca. 1660. De Heem was one of the greatest painters of still lifes in the Netherlands, combining a brilliance and harmony of colour along with an accurate rendering of objects. Buy print here: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/vase-of-flowers
NEW from me: I took a deep dive for @ricochetmedia.bsky.social into the American hedge fund-owned Canadian newspaper chain that’s pushing anti-trans, pro-genocide and climate science denial narratives down our throats. ricochet.media/media/dumpst...
‘Dumpster fire’: Postmedia’s decade of pushing Canada’s politics to the rightCanada’s largest newspaper chain has amplified conservative grievance politics — creating fertile ground for MAGA-style ideas, Alberta separatism, and an increasingly polarized political landscapericochet.media
The fireflies are adding some sparkle to the pollinator garden tonight #nativeplants #invertebrates
America: *Got a red card rescinded* Mexico: *Gets to do the chant* Canada: "Wait, we could have done some corruption?"
Justin HornekerWe’ve just given up policing the chant it seems
I ran an absolutely 100% human, zero AI-involvement at any stage passage of my writing through an "AI detector," curious if it could really tell human from AI work, and it said my own writing was "84% AI written" then asked I wanted to pay to have it "humanized." So there's that to keep in mind.
BREAKING: The Vatican excommunicates bishops from a breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics that consecrated them without Pope Leo's consent.
Vatican declares Society of St. Pius X in schism, excommunicates bishops and invalidates sacramentsThe Vatican has responded aggressively to a traditionalist society that consecrated bishops without the pope’s consent.bit.ly
Released 49 years ago today - July 1, 1977 "Pretty Vacant" the third single by the English punk rock band the Sex Pistols Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant (Notre Dame Hall 1976) #punk #punkrock #sexpistols #prettyvacant #history #punkrockhistory #otd
Author chats are creeping into gig-pricing territory. Saw one event charging £90.
Conor SenI haven’t seen anyone make this connection, but I think there’s a link between people looking to get off screens and the surge in live entertainment and travel demand: www.wsj.com/business/med...
A useful reminder that Russians are also victims of Putin — in fact he’s killed and maimed far more of his own people than Ukrainians. They didn’t choose him, their attempts to resist him were crushed, they can’t escape him, and he’s sending hundreds of thousands to quick and awful deaths
Peter BakerThe average life expectancy of a new Russian recruit—from arrival at a training ground to death in a combat zone—lies somewhere between 10 days and three weeks. Once sent onto the battlefield, they survive an average of 20 to 35 minutes. @peterfrankopan.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/25/r...