they bring diamonds and rust

[the_siobhan]

Cross-posting to LJ has been broken for a while and I'm just now getting around to doing something about it. So we'll see if this works.

Basement DJ was sick for about three days and then recovered completely. His test came back negative so at this point we're thinking it wasn't Covid. My plan is to get re-tested next weekend and visit the old man the Friday after.

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Somewhere in the middle of this Toronto had a tornado watch and I would have missed it if my sister hadn't texted me about it. From Spain.

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A group called the Afro-Indigenous Rising Coalition set up a tent city in front of Toronto City Hall and they recently got kicked out, so they've moved into the big park up the street from my house. I'm not up that way often so the first I heard about it was somebody on the mailing list suggesting people call the non-emergency police line to ask they be moved. I was extremely gratified that the overwhelming response to their suggestion was WTF, NO DON'T CALL THE POLICE WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING? There is currently a discussion going on about organizing a neighbourhood group to help them with things like supplies and access to laundry.

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I'm looking at resuming my books read posts, and man it's a short list. I used to be one of those kids that would carry as many books home from the library as they would let me check out, and now look at me.

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[elusis]

I used to be one of those kids that would carry as many books home from the library as they would let me check out, and now look at me.

Yeah. I feel that.

[greylock]

We had a limit of two per week.
It was never enough.

[50ftqueenie]

Which park is that?

Also, someone posted on FB about how they were a kid who read like mad and can now barely finish a book. SO many people, myself included, agreed. And we all want to get that back and we don't know how.

[spoondrift]

The book thing? I feel this in my soul.

[nicklausse]

California was like that. Ppl from the east coast would be like, "You had an earthquake, are you okay?" And we'd be like *looking at the news*, oh, hey, we did.

[greylock]

Somewhere in the middle of this Toronto had a tornado watch and I would have missed it if my sister hadn't texted me about it. From Spain.

Does Toronto often have tornado watch? I'm thinking not. But, ain't connection grand?

A group called the Afro-Indigenous Rising Coalition set up a tent city in front of Toronto City Hall and they recently got kicked out, so they've moved into the big park up the street from my house.

I'd be team cops but... I've seen how those camps usually go here.
Things might be different there.

[the_siobhan]

That's kind of an appalling admission dude. I'm solidly anti-murderers myself.

[greylock]

Twitter-espoused death wishes aside, I am also solidly anti-murderer.

But our camp removals tend to be less murdery than North America.