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rudy.ca @rudydotca.bsky.social · 2h

the benefits of walking!

Streets.mn @streets.mn · 2h

“Walking keeps me connected with community, and I never get bored of it,” Joan concluded. “There’s always new things to see, or people to bump into. It doesn’t feel boring to me. And that helps me appreciate where I live a lot more.” www.minnpost.com/cityscape/20...

Too many of us are missing the benefits of walking

Even in good weather in parts of the Twin Cities with nice sidewalks and close destinations, people aren't walking as much as they could.

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rudy.ca @rudydotca.bsky.social · 2h

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rudy.ca @rudydotca.bsky.social · 2h

NO trespassing

a halloween lawn sign that says "NO tresspassing -- we're tired of hjiding the bodies"

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rudy.ca @rudydotca.bsky.social · 3h

so many lunch hours in the mid-1980s spent at a pinball arcade in the food court at the Hudson's Bay Centre at Yonge & Bloor playing this game...

25¢

man, those were the days

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWUE...

Flash Pinball Gameplay

YouTube video by PAPApinball

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rudy.ca @rudydotca.bsky.social · 3h

Edgar and Judith -- each sculpture weighs as much as a small elephant!

great social media work by Toronto Public Library

(aside: why isn't TPL on BlueSky?)

#Toronto

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From the toronto community on Reddit: New York City, we see your library lion sculptures, and raise you a pair of griffins

Explore this post and more from the toronto community

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rudy.ca @rudydotca.bsky.social · 3h

Ronald Reagan was an actor in Brylcreem commercials who married Ayn Rand... their daughter Maggie Thatcher was pro tem Queen of England during the Iraq war

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4h

One of the greatest comedy sketches in history.

In case you need cheering up.

youtu.be/RlllabwmWcc?...

"Who's on First?" in HD w/LIVE AUDIENCE from The Abbott and Costello TV Show (1953)

YouTube video by ClassicFlix

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rudy.ca @rudydotca.bsky.social · 3h

it's locked, but i've been in there

they have a building where bodies were held during winter because the ground was frozen too hard to dig graves

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rudy.ca @rudydotca.bsky.social · 4h

interesting anecdote on a tragic day

#TOhistory

David Cavlovic🇨🇦🍁 @davidcavlovic.bsky.social · 4h

The Jeff Healey Band used to have their studio in a house on the west side of Spadina at the ravine. Jeff told me they were working in the house (and old three story Victorian typical of the area so you know how solid they are) and they could feel the ground shake when the trains collided.

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rudy.ca @rudydotca.bsky.social · 4h

delightful article!

"This system allows emergency responders to pinpoint an address quickly and accurately. This is especially important in rural areas, where emergency personnel may be volunteers arriving in their own vehicles."

Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 4h

Wouldn’t be Exhibition GO, would be Bloor GO!

And there are a lot of good cycling routes from K-W, including the rail trails to Hamilton.

Or you can bike to Punkeydoodles Corners.

seanmarshall.ca/2019/06/10/p...

Punkeydoodle’s Corners and the world’s highest numbered address

Last weekend, I went for a ride in Waterloo Region, particularly in Wilmot Township, to the west of Kitchener-Waterloo. Despite some deceptively difficult hills and a strong headwind going back eas…

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rudy.ca @rudydotca.bsky.social · 5h

have you ever been to Richview Memorial Cemetery?

#TOhistory

www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

How this tiny cemetery ended up wedged between two major Toronto highways

If you’ve ever driven by the massive interchange of Highways 401 and 427, you might have noticed a tiny graveyard tucked between the chaos of merging lanes and constant traffic. Richview Memorial Ceme...

www.cbc.ca

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 1d

This is the road where people are driving 154 km/h. A residential area with young families on one side, a park on the other.

And yet for some reason, people are clocking Autobahn speeds here. A few years ago a guy doing 100 killed an elderly couple. 1,500 crashes on this stretch in the past decade

A view of Parkside Drive in Toronto showing a simple residential street with a park on the other side

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rudy.ca @rudydotca.bsky.social · 1d

backpfeifengesicht

#iykyk

The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 1d

“Restore merit, end DEI” says man who could only get elected in Canada’s safest Conservative stronghold

OTTAWA - Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has launched a petition to "end DEI programs and restore merit", just months after losing his own heavily-favoured seat before running in an even more hea...

www.thebeaverton.com

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torontorivers.bsky.social @torontorivers.bsky.social · 1d

71 years ago, Hurricane Hazel reached Toronto & 3 days of continuous rain filled our rivers & creeks to overflowing.
After midnight, the #Humber River poured into a small neighbourhood on #Etobicoke's Raymore Dr.
TODAY @ 4pm, a walk tells the story & points to lessons for today.

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What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 2d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

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rudy.ca @rudydotca.bsky.social · 1d

Moe: you numbskull
Larry: yeah, if we ever get past that inch by inch line, maybe this act would be something
Moe: what're you sittin' in there for?
Curly: so it shouldn't be a total loss, i'm taking a bath
Moe: a bath?
Curly: yeah
Moe: ...
Moe: move over

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rudy.ca @rudydotca.bsky.social · 2d

fabulous, stunning cinematography in the 1930 widescreen film "The Big Trail" with a dashing 23-year-old John Wayne

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big...

it's free on Tubi but you have to sit through those "you didn't check Trivago" commercials

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scene from "The Big Trail" starring John Wayne, in which he says "Someday, somewhere, our trails will cross again"

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 2d

For anyone wondering how the Eglinton Crosstown LRT revenue service demonstration is going, many of the drivers are still finding it challenging to stop in the right place and to set the destination shown on the vehicle (and on the displays above the platforms).

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Eric Meyer @meyerweb.com · 2d

As of today, Nintendo’s platform game “Super Mario Bros.” was released closer to the end of fighting in World War II than to the present day.

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Tim & struppig @mkltxt.bsky.social · 2d

Ich soll bitte was!?

Karton mit Süßigkeiten von Hitschler in Warenregal. Auf dem Karton steht „Hitschies. Nasch dein Ding.“

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d

When you finally run out of fucks to give.

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rudy.ca @rudydotca.bsky.social · 2d

Buffalo Bills are on

rudy.ca @rudydotca.bsky.social · 2d

you, you, you
i'm in love with you, you, you

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The Ames Brothers - You, You, You (with lyrics)

YouTube video by Vista Vasta

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rudy.ca @rudydotca.bsky.social · 2d

autumn colours are real, and they're spectacular

#Toronto

a tree in a park, displaying glorious colours of red and orange and yellow

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 2d

Two paths diverged in a wood, and I–
I took the one more traveled by;
Because the wood is still a full ecosystem and leaving the maintained path can damage it,
Also I don't want ticks or wet socks

A photo of an open section in an autumn forest, there is a rocky dirt path on the right and a half-formed path through tall grasses and possibly reeds to the left.

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