On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

So.

It's on, one more time.

I just out that Prof. Snyder's joined the Munk School. Here's his profile page:

https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timothy-snyder

And here's how I found out:

https://bsky.app/profile/nhannahjones.bsky.social/post/3llakwvszts2c

The Tyee interviews Rachel Notley.

Desire pathways in spite of sidewalks and bike paths

How the Santa Tracker got started.

Toronto, place names and democracy as discussed by Shawn Micallef.

About this entry re: Star Trek location shooting on Toronto streets...?

The Toronto Star just spoilered the Hell out of a large chunk of the plot of the episode they were filming back in spring of last year, in today's edition.

...as reasons to resign as mayor go.

And four months into the no-longer-current term of office, too.

This...house...was used as a location on last week's _Strange New Worlds_:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkwood_Estate

https://twitter.com/bradycummings/status/1535119730654076928

I was wondering how long it was going to take for this to happen. Apparently, Strange New Worlds, the Pike-focused series, is doing location shoots around downtown Toronto...which will finally get to be itself on-camera.

https://twitter.com/TOFilming_EM/status/1508091199399337987

https://twitter.com/TOFilming_EM/status/1503186418813833221

https://twitter.com/TOFilming_EM/status/1503549698900168711

https://twitter.com/AnitaWindisman/status/1503108418772602883

Noting that the "police cruiser" was deliberately detailed to not look like an official Toronto police cruiser. There are several possible reasons for that: avoidance of "paid duty" fees, lack of script approval, and quite possibly not wanting their rented vehicle to be mistaken for a real cruiser for safety reasons unrelated to any other concerns.

(Although that faux prison bus with "Illinois State Penitentiary" detailing is poking holes in my theory.)

Some random notes:

- Beth Simons writes for Spacing Toronto about the discovery of incomplete headstones made for Jewish cemetery use.

- I watched Star Trek: Prodigy tonight. Not bad. Some cringey bits of dialogue, or maybe it was the character interactions that annoyed more than the dialogue. More believable than I'd like in places, maybe? I have to remember that most of the main characters are newly escaped-from-enslavement children here.

- I got somewhat lucky today: someone else cancelled, so my molar repair gets moved up the dentist's schedule to tomorrow morning.

- My Eye Institute exam got pushed back again, this time to next February. This is...I think, the third rescheduling for the eye exam.

As I type this, I am also in attendance of the virtual edition of Third Monday, a gathering of fandoms over Zoom, mostly based in metro Toronto. Good people, and I'm grateful for the remote access to such gatherings.

From the good people at Spacing Media:



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