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DCapTO@dcapto· 25d

Thank you @sbellefeuille.bsky.social It’s hard reading not just people’s comments, but the US lawmakers threatening Canadian govt with what isn’t even coherent repercussions we’ll face by the US if we don’t manage our wildfires: globalnews.ca/news/1196860... Reposting with alt text 💔 #ClimateCrisis

Post from threads:
By sakade58
This is Canada's Boreal Forest cover. Americans have been telling us to "manage" our forests. Much of the northern part is inaccessible, uninhabited, wilderness. No roads, no air strips. Please use the critical thinking skills you hopefully have, and make a determination that helps you understand that rakes won't cut it. Fighting these fires is impossibly hard, and heartbreaking for our country. This isn't mismanagement on our part, it is not possible to prevent fires in this vast region.
Map of Canada showing about two thirds of it is boreal forest, shown in shades green. Copy and a table in the corner showing percentages of forested areas that correspond to the shades of green, all too tiny to read.

DCapTO@dcapto· 25d

My immediate thought yesterday when I woke up to a hazardous purple 378 AQI wildfire smoke forecast I’d never seen in Toronto, then looked out the window and the yellow orange sky was now white, was how many people were going to spend time outdoors thinking it was safer when it was actually worse. 😓

Screenshot of a post:
E.K. Johnston
@ekjohnston.bsky.social
Lady at grocery store, making small talk:
At least the smoke is less today.
Me, immediately activated: It does smell better, but our rating is worse than yesterday.
Lady: How?
Me: When it's orange or yellow, it's higher up. When it's white...
Lady, horror dawning: ...like a sunset?
Me: Yes.

DCapTO@dcapto· 25d

US lawmakers living in tinder-dry conditions shouldn’t sling flaming arrows. American wildfires in 2026 so far: www.nifc.gov/fire-informa... Canadian wildfires in 2026 so far: cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/en/summary Both countries need to stop spending trillions on defence & deal w/ their burning houses

Screenshot from National Interagency Fire Center website that reads: So far this year, 39,764 fires have burned more than 3.67 million acres across the United States.

Screenshot from Government of Canada National wildland fire summary page, info collected by Canadian Wildland Fire Information System. A table showing the total fires for 2026 so far are 3,634 and area of wildfires 2,773,842 hectares.

DCapTO@dcapto· 25d

“Who knows what other childhood curiosities are quietly growing into world-changing ideas right now in bedrooms, backyards and notebooks across the globe? The next big breakthrough might not come from a high-tech lab. It might come from a 10-year-old who just can’t stop wondering about butterflies”💖

Photo of 10 year old Japanese boy, Jo Nagai, with a black and white swallowtail butterfly on his jacket collar and another one on his index finger as he smiles at camera. Caption reads:

A Japanese boy noticed his butterflies seemed to recognise him. He spent two years designing an experiment and proved that metamorphosis does not erase memories formed during the caterpillar stage.

DCapTO@dcapto· 25d

Maybe Americans and Europeans need to boycott Canadian oil because our wildfires are hurting you all too. That’s the only thing that will make PM Carney reconsider abandoning climate targets, investing in more pipelines and ignoring solar & wind. This is off the charts scary. #cdnpoli #ClimateCrisis

Screenshot from PurpleAir air quality app:
US EPA PM2.5 (AQI) 10-minute

On July 16th, 2026, 11:11:57 AM EDT
10-minute
Average US EPA PM2.5 (AQI) is
1624
now

>300: Health warning of emergency conditions: everyone is more likely to be affected with 24 hours of exposure.

DCapTO@dcapto· 26d

It does look like the air quality will get better as the day progresses. If you must be outdoors, wear an N95. Check your city: www.iqair.com/ca/ #dlws

A screenshot on iqair.com of the Toronto hourly air quality forecast showing from 3pm to midnight, going from purple 201 AQI, to red, orange, and down to yellow 95 AQI by 7pm, through to tomorrow with the weekend in the 50-60 AQI yellow range.

DCapTO@dcapto· 26d

I have no words. Except I hope you can stay indoors today, Toronto & Ontario. Run an air purifier and hope this ends soon. All I can hear in my head is David Suzuki saying “It’s too late. What we need to do now is hunker down.” Build resilient community and help each other thru emergencies 😭 #dlws

Screenshot from iqair.com
Air quality in Toronto
Air quality index (AQI+) and PM2.5 air pollution in Toronto - 1M Followers - 08:00, July 16
378 US AQI+
Hazardous
Icon of person’s face in full face gas mask
Main pollutant: PM2.5
264.1 ug/m°
Partly cloudy icon 21°
Wind icon 11 km/h
Humidity icon 77%

DCapTO@dcapto· 27d

Reposting with alt text.

DCapTO@dcapto· 27d

Oh no Toronto (and the rest of Ontario), air quality is bad out today, like, wearing a KN95 outdoors bad. Take heed! #dlws www.iqair.com/ca/air-quali...

Screenshot from iqair.com
Air quality in Toronto
Air quality index (AQI*) and PM2.5 air pollution in Toronto • 1M Followers • 07:00, Jul 15
Red box with info and icon of person’s head wearing a mask:
186 US AQI+
Unhealthy
Main pollutant: PM2.5
105.3 мg/m3
Sun icon 25°
Wind icon 13 km/h
Humidity icon 69%

DCapTO@dcapto· 27d

The ticks make it so you can’t eat meat, the parasites make it so you can’t eat fruits and veggies, and the bloodsucking grocery profiteers make it so you can’t eat any food at all.

Screenshot of Lux Alptraum’s post because I don’t want to plagarize and want to give them credit for coming up with the first part of my post.

@luxalptraum.com
The ticks make it so you can't eat meat and the parasites make it so you can't eat veg
5:32 PM • Jul 14, 2026 Some people can reply

DCapTO@dcapto· Jul 11

This WAS Councillor Brad Bradford in 2019. Flip flopping now because he knows he’ll get more votes running for mayor by pandering to car-brained folks who don’t realize more bike lanes EASE congestion for them. Every bike is a car not in front of them in gridlock. Don’t trust this 🐍 #TOpoli #BikeTO

FB post by Brad Bradford
Jun 27, 2019
Today we took a meaningful step towards designing and implementing a bike lane pilot on the Danforth. Progress like this will help us improve road safety for everyone! Thanks Jennifer McKelvie - Councillor of Ward 25, Scarborough-Rouge Park for introducing my motion at committee.
Photo of Bradford smiling and holding his bike on his shoulder in a suit at city hall next to smiling Councillor McKelvie holding up a document.

A blog post from bradbradford.ca
Photo of him and Mayor John Bauters on bikes looking at each other with many cyclists behind them on an organized ride in downtown Toronto.

Welcome to Toronto, Mayor John Bauters!
Great to have the Mayor of Emeryville, California here in Toronto to talk road safety and active commuting, show him how our city has benefited from investments in cycling infrastructure, and pick up some new ideas from our neighbours to the south.
Thank you to @canadarobin & @lanrickbennettjr for organizing - and the incredible number of folks who joined! #bikeTO 💪

DCapTO@dcapto· Jul 11

Bradford spent years campaigning as a cycling advocate. Now kissing up to drivers to get votes. He’s abandoned HIMSELF—not to be trusted! 🐍 #TOpoli Alt text for quote post: FIXING ADELAIDE STREET ✔️Remove the barriers ✔️Improve traffic flow ✔️Move more streetcars to King Street Brad Bradford for Mayor

Screenshot of social post by @winkyj
So let me get this straight...
Brad Bradford, who's a cyclist and voted in favour of making the Richmond-Adelaide cycle tracks permanent in January 2019, is now blaming those same bike lanes for gridlock on that street?!
SMH!
#shame #TOpoli #StopBradford #ReelectChow

Screenshot of social post by Toronto Councillor Brad Bradford with still from a video. He’s standing next to a concrete barrier in the street with a TTC streetcar behind him, buildings in the background.
Brad Bradford
Time spent sitting in traffic is time away from your family and friends. And it's because of poor city planning.
Here is my Fix it Friday plan for Adelaide Street and Toronto-wide congestion.
Text on the video: FOUR LANES,
Subtitle text: be four lanes. Then they added a bike lane. Then they added a
7:41 PM • Jul 10, 2026 • 2.7K Views

DCapTO@dcapto· Jul 10

Neighbourhood flowers getting ready for bedtime. #FlowerReport #Bloomscrolling

A dark orange lily with dark brown spots and raindrops, and a few small bright yellow flowers that look like gerbera daisies behind it against dark green bunches of leaves.

I don’t know the name of this small bush of many white flowers. A close up of one blossom with raindrops from an earlier shower still hanging off the petals. A bluish cloudy sky behind it.

A bright pinkish purply dahlia with raindrops on its petals, another one close behind it.

A pink and white lily with dark stamen and yellow tipped pistil covered in raindrops. Greenery below and a dark burgundy plant behind it.

DCapTO@dcapto· Jul 10

A golden end to a dark heavy day. A preview of lightness to come? #FlowerReport #Bloomscrolling

The glowing sun at the edge of silhouetted trees and rooftops near the bottom of the shot, and a sky filled with orange, peach, salmon and light bluish grey clouds.

DCapTO@dcapto· Jul 7

Interesting insights on how society has chosen to forget and ignore the ongoing pandemic, making us more fearful, even turning to authoritarianism for security. But developing a more conscious awareness of death can help us make decisions that aren’t fear-based www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

Quote from the blog post linked titled: We’ve disappeared the pandemic, but its fallout is still with us.

The least I can do is try to be more mindful of the faded signs mandating masks, the half-peeled stickers telling me to keep six feet away from others. Rather than simply ignore them as visual noise—where they threaten to work on me unconsciously—I’ve learned to take them as public mementos mori, reminders of those days when many of us nearly died, and others did. A time when each of us faced something about ourselves and learned from the process.

DCapTO@dcapto· Jul 7

Ceci n’est pas une fin karmique. — the ghost of René Magritte #WorldCup 🇺🇸 1-4 🇧🇪

A tight crop of the back of the pink and light blue Belgium away jersey that shows a small statement written in script near the collar, a tribute to René Magritte: Ceci n’est pas un maillot. Translation: This is not a jersey.

DCapTO@dcapto· Jul 7

I know this is not a solution to your problem but it made me think of this amazing sweater I saw on ‘Survival of the Thickest’ and I want to find a way to do this with 2 sweaters in need of repair. 💖

Khalil, a Black man in the series ‘Survival of the Thickest’ by comedian Michelle Buteau, sitting on a light brown leather couch in his therapist’s office with his arms crossed. He’s wearing a sweater that’s mostly brown with cream X pattern and a visibly patched full sleeve that’s a completely different softer, fuzzier sweater with black leopard spots on pale mustard, royal blue, and light pink pattern.

DCapTO@dcapto· Jul 6

A fun and inspiring way to spend an afternoon, especially if you’re a creative person, too. Lots of kids there loving it all, if you’re wondering what to do with yours this summer. Also, did you know the RBG has evening outdoor summer concerts? Lido Pimienta, Patrick Watson & BADBADNOTGOOD! 🤩

A large wavy-petaled flower sculpture by artist and contemporary sculptor Ken Kelleher on a white pedestal. It has a short green stem and petals from the bottom to top in different colours: dark green, dark blue, lighter blue, purple, pink, coral, and orange at the top. Trees and greenery in the background and pretty yellow and magenta real flowers all around the base of the pedestal.

DCapTO@dcapto· Jul 6

I won’t spoil it for you but in addition to 18 fun, colourful sculptures set among the blooming gardens, there are a few augmented reality characters to discover too so make sure your phone is fully charged to find them with QR codes. There’s short audio by the artist talking about each piece, too!

A cute and colourful bunny character sculpture called ‘Quantum Leap’ by artist Ken Kelleher, set in area of the botanical gardens where there are some interesting trees, too. There’s a placard on a stand near it that reads: Quantum Leap appears when patience fails. He is not chaos - he's compression. When something must change immediately, he collapses time and forces motion. Storms, breakthroughs, sudden pivots - Quantum Leap rides them all. Low Orbit City doesn't fear him. It relies on him.
SCAN the QR code with your smartphone camera to listen to a message from Anchorball (the artist’s pseudonym).

Another placard that looks different, a blue cloud on a stand shot from above with grass in the background that reads:
Dream Weaver
Congratulations, you found Dream Weaver!
The Cloud Characters formed from collective emotion, hovering above the city like emotional weather.
They appear only when perception shifts.
• Scan the QR code with your phone camera and follow the instructions on the screen
• Place and Scale - make Dream Weaver bigger or smaller using two fingers on your screen
• Snap a picture and share it on social media with @rbgcanada
Brought to you by incite
FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS

A screenshot of the augmented reality sculpture of an amalgam of a few characters like a white and pink kitty, a little blue guy with X eyes and colourful bullseye belly and a green thing with sharp white teeth and a long red tongue, with some other shapes connecting them all as a pair of brown feet support them all up on the grass. Trees, some metal sculptures, and a small crowd of people on a path in the far background.

DCapTO@dcapto· Jul 6

Got my fill of whimsy today at the outdoor pop art experience ‘ANCHORBALL: A Curious Art Journey’ by artist & sculptor Ken Kelleher. It’s on all summer at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington if you’re in the area and also want to add some whimsy to your life! #Art www.rbg.ca/events/ancho...

Part of the series of Venus Sculptures by artist Ken Kelleher, this one is called ‘Bloom Ascendant’. It’s a large colourful, glossy sculpture of a woman’s face and neck on a white pedestal surrounded by a circular planter of real flowers as she wears a huge, sculpted bouquet of colourful flowers on her head.

DCapTO@dcapto· Jul 5

Oh that’s odd, because if you set that toggle to require alt text, it literally can’t post if you haven’t added alt text. The Post button is not even clickable.

DCapTO@dcapto· Jul 4

That first half almost had me BELIEVE we had a chance… Good thing I’ve trained with the Leafs for decades to take the heartbreak of loss in stride. Good run, Canada. 👏👏👏🇨🇦 Next time! #WorldCup

Ted Lasso in the AFC Richmond locker room with Coach Beard and Nathan in the background, “It’s the hope that kills you.”

DCapTO@dcapto· Jul 4

You can set it so you never forget it because it won’t let you post until you add the alt text. Go to Settings > Accessibility 👇

Accessibility settings page:
Alt text
Require alt text before posting (toggle blue showing feature on)
Display larger alt text badges (toggle grey showing it’s off)

DCapTO@dcapto· Jul 3

“Buzz off, this is my energy drink!” Toronto, 31°C at 6pm, feels like 41°C (humidex) 🥤🥵 #FlowerReport #Bloomscrolling

A close up of an orange day lily in half shade and half late afternoon sun making the colour pop. A wasp is hovering above the pistils looking at camera. Another day lily in the shade and dark greenery in the background.

DCapTO@dcapto· Jul 2

Reposting with alt text. Recognize heat exhaustion and heat stroke and know what to do about it.

Diagram with shape of person, half is orange, the other half red.
HEAT EXHAUSTION OR HEAT STROKE

Orange side: Heat exhaustion
Faint or dizzy
Excessive sweating
Cool, pale, clammy skin
Nausea or vomiting
Rapid, weak pulse
Muscle cramps
• Get to a cooler, air conditioned place
• Drink water if fully conscious
• Take a cool shower or use cold compresses

Red side: Heat stroke
Throbbing headache
No sweating
Body temperature above 103°
Red, hot, dry skin
Nausea or vomiting
Rapid, strong pulse
May lose consciousness
CALL 9-1-1
• Take immediate action to cool the person until help arrives

Source: Weather.gov p

DCapTO@dcapto· Jun 28

Found these floor decals outside a Staples store the other day. I’m sure the scene was bumpin’ as folks waited in line outside for their turn to outfit their home office in 2020 & ‘21. I’m also sure those new desks, chairs and filing cabinets are now collecting dust as they rushed back to work ASAP.

A low shot showing a series of wide white rectangular floor decals with the words: do your part. stand 6 feet apart painted on the concrete outside the Staples store. Brick wall and brick pillar on either side and part of the parking lot in the far background with a black pickup truck driving by.

DCapTO@dcapto· Jun 28

BEN was there, too! 💖 Vaughan (Woodbridge), Ontario #StreetArt #graffiti

A massive warehouse wall shot on angle to capture it all. I think this used to be a Walmart. The artist BIRDO on the west side of the building and artist BEN here, on the north side. Ben Johnston is the artist with this signature 3D blocky typography style. This one reads BETTER TOGETHER in alternating tilted 3D ALL CAPS. The letters are shades of pink on a red background. Stands out beautifully against a bright blue sky above and light grey concrete below. A condo and a construction crane in the background.

Part of that massive warehouse wall now shot straight on and only showing word TOGETHER, the huge 3D letters are bold and look “together” even though chaotically tilted. Two condo buildings and a construction crane in the background against bright blue sky.

DCapTO@dcapto· Jun 28

I ❤️ BIRDO 🐦 Vaughan (Woodbridge), Ontario #StreetArt #graffiti

A realistic rendering of a bird’s head and chest, with a long beak and more graphic wing painted on a bright pink massive warehouse wall. Graphic shapes in the left bottom corner, 3D shapes, a diamond shape near the wing. The colour palette of pink, light blue, white, black, brown, beige and pale yellow is beautiful against a deep blue sky with tall, architecturally interesting white and glass condo buildings in the background. By BIRDO

The left side of the warehouse with a smaller but still about a 2 storey tall wall. A different realistic illustration of a blue bird’s head with salmon coloured cheek and chest, and long black beak. Blue beige snd pale yellow graphic looking wing, and geometric shapes on a bright pink background. Three modern tall condo buildings against a deep blue sky with tiny puffy dramatic clouds.

The right side of the warehouse with a smaller but still about a 2 storey tall wall. A different realistic illustration of a blue bird’s head similar to the right side with salmon coloured cheek and long black beak. Blue beige and pale yellow graphic looking wing, and geometric shapes on a bright pink background. A few modern tall condo buildings against a deep blue sky with tiny puffy dramatic clouds.

Two of the birds in this shot I took from further back. The bright pink and birds looks very Miami against the deep blue sky and glass and white modern condo buildings. A patch of green grass and yellow wild flowers along a curb at the bottom of the shot.

DCapTO@dcapto· Jun 27

My favourite view of the CN Tower is anywhere north of midtown where it’s pretty much visible thru any clearing. I love seeing it when I round the entrance ramp to the 401 East from near Yorkdale. I even loved being surprised to see it so far away from Hwy 7 in Markham yesterday. Our South Star ⭐️

A grey sky and hazy summer view of the CN Tower and downtown skyscrapers from a rooftop in The Junction Triangle. Some homes in the midground and a new white and black condo building peeking in from the right side of the shot.

DCapTO@dcapto· Jun 24