Adam Riggio
@adamriggio
Education, Training, & Curriculum Design Professional; author figuring out the next project; For All Our Futures newsletter at Canadian he-person; slowly recovering faith in humanity, recovery not guaranteed
At Osheaga festival with the extended family this weekend. Wolf Parade still rocks but Dan Boeckner has aged into Trailer Park Kieran Culkin
A benefit of my kids taking a couple of weeks of summer camps at the Art Gallery of Ontario is being able to scope trippy installations before pickup time, like these sculptures by Ranbir Sidhu
Selected cats from a small town Ontario menagerie that’s part of the Minden movie theatre and cat sanctuary complex
Fascinating to think how only five years later, he’d become Prime Minister himself, one of Britain’s most incompetent & disastrous
What’s better for the quality of people’s lives? Whimsy like this? Or a destructive airport that won’t even be used?
I’m spending the day with my family on the Toronto Islands exploring the whimsical fun which is at risk of being bulldozed for an airport expansion so that JP Morgan doesn’t have to write off its bad investment in Billy Bishop Airport
A few months ago, I found a used copy of Persepolis & started reading it this week for the first time in about 20 years. My daughter bedazzled it this morning, which I feel like Marjane Satrapi would have enjoyed
I stopped in a Walmart a while ago and saw a display of Mario and Luigi toys. Luigi gets no love
When you live in a maximally decorated house, you don’t always notice new deco right away. One of my kids built this in a cosplay class that just wrapped & I didn’t realize that this has been in my living room since Wednesday evening
As usual for me at festivals, one of my favourites was the fourth billing act. An amazing set from Momma with some blistering guitar & happy head bopping.
Consider that Smalls does a lot of his social platform networking on X and would seem to spend a lot of time there
Today I’m at a beautiful beach on Vancouver Island with a long path through the woods to reach it & a very visible recycling bin. Good to know they encourage recycling visitors’ trash & that some poor parks worker has to trudge along that km-long path with a bag of recycling every day
QRT with the doctor you would trust leading the hantavirus response instead of RFK Jr.
The excitement of a work from home job is when your partner leaves you a lunch sandwich so thick that it stands up on its own
The things I do for my family on Record Store Day. Still, it’s better than when people used to do the same lineups just to get an iPhone
Now I’m posting food this morning on an afternoon trip to Hamilton. Thanks Berkeley North for being one of the only restaurants serving food this afternoon on King William Street
Among the entirely new infrastructure Memorial built over only the last ten years or so, this huge new building of scientific research labs & grad student residences halfway up a cliff face accessible by a twisting, difficult road, while main campus buildings crumble www.mun.ca/signalhill/
The enby & I are cruising a dollar store at Gerrard Square while my wife is at the passport office. It’s closing down, everything is on clearance, & the place is an apocalypse
My own headcanon is that Waluigi became a villain because he’s Greek & the Mario Bros never understand that there’s a Gamma on his hat & his name is actually Georges
Doing my part for the movement (or at least paying for the transition) from Canada this Xmas. A great gift this year
I've shared about this incident on LinkedIn, but it matters for the folks connected to me on BlueSky & #AcademicSky too. Storytime! www.linkedin.com/posts/adamri...
Antiquing around Oshawa today and discovered a book that should have been made very obsolete this weekend
Things that happen in a home office that don’t occur on site. A neighbour’s cat, who’s normally outdoor, followed me inside because it was too cold out for her so I invited her in to warm up
All workplaces have their distractions, but remote work has the strangest ones. Consider this cat who huffs the radiator behind our living room couch