David

@davidmordecai

Plants 🌱, personal pablum, less politics than before. Plural, ADDled, #bipolar... In a strange relationship with Madness. #DisabledInBusiness #ShameSlayer #WorthWhisperer Gay & sex-positive. No trans hate! He/they (we) davidmordecai.com ✊🏾🏳️‍🌈🇯🇲🇨🇦

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David@davidmordecai· Jul 16

One of my staff is comfortable wearing a respirator so we did get some work done. I don't believe in insisting people work in circumstances that they are uncomfortable in. [video pans across a curbside native plant and pollinator garden and briefly shows me in a mask.]

David@davidmordecai· Jul 10

🌱 Another cool plant #FloweringNow at the Toronto Botanical Gardens Onopordon acanthium,the Cotton or Scotch Thistle

a large plant with silver gray foliage spiky leaves and purple, thistle-shaped flowers

David@davidmordecai· Jul 10

🌱 Calycanthus floridus: the eastern sweetshrub, Carolina allspice, or spicebush, #FloweringNow at Toronto Botanical Gardens, one of my favourites!

David@davidmordecai· Jul 10

Jobsite for the first half of today. Thank goodness it wasn't too hot. [video of a penthouse terrace with multiple pines in large square containers with a portion of the downtown Toronto skyline in the background.

David@davidmordecai· Jul 9

The rain finally came back... [brief video of fairly heavy rain falling on a parking lot where construction is happening... people dodge in front of the camera]

David@davidmordecai· Jul 9

When the weather changes your workday plans and so you call your friend, and he makes you lunch...

Three plates on a kitchen island, on each plate is an open-faced wrap in the process of being made. The wraps have an assortment of veges, meat and feta cheese. My friend is reaching into a drawer on the far side of the island and his arm and lower torso are in the frame. A gas stove is behind him.

David@davidmordecai· Jul 6

🌱 An unusual plant I planted several years ago that I was happy to see finally thriving: Campanula 'Pink Octopus'

close-up of flowers with multiple long thin petals that hang downward in a manner that somewhat resembles an octopus.

Variegated hosta leaves are behind it

David@davidmordecai· Jul 6

🌱 back in this garden today prepping it for a party this evening...

A backyard perennial garden with a circular central bed surrounded by a gravel path and beds around the perimeter. there is a pergola in the back. plants with flowers of many colour ae planted throughout.

David@davidmordecai· Jul 1

They want us to believe that AI will solve all the world's problems and yet they haven't managed to get it to tell the past from the future. It's July 1st in our world.

Google search for "date of last FIFA match in Toronto" done on July 1st which gave an AI overview result of:

The last FIFA match hosted in Toronto was the 2026 FIFA World Cup Round of 32 match between Portugal and Croatia, which took place on July 2, 2026, at Toronto Stadium (Exhibition Place).

David@davidmordecai· Jun 28

OMG the weather is glorious today! 26 degrees, gentle breeze, clear sky.

View of the sun in the sky with a skyscraper in the background and the roof of my building in the foreground. My legs are in the bottom, right of the frame. I am wearing gray ankle socks and purple shorts

David@davidmordecai· Jun 26

Thank you! This is what it used to look like.

a photo of the same space showing an unhealthy lawn, bare flower beds, and boring hedges

David@davidmordecai· Jun 26

I am exhausted, but this garden I designed, that we were working in today, does make it worth it.

perennial flower garden with a variety of flowering and foliage plants and grasses.

David@davidmordecai· Jun 26

Tonight will be an extra-medicated sleep. Bipolar mood is euthymic but it’ll start kicking up if I don’t get more than 3 hours of sleep tonigh, and I have to be up no later than 5AM. [Selfie vid of me in an elevator talking about recent long work days and gratitude at getting a well-needed haircut.]

David@davidmordecai· Jun 22

A lot going on and almost forgot it was Father's Day. RIP Pops. 18 November, 1942 – 19 February, 2021.

Black and white photo of my father sitting on a back step. He is a light-skinned Black man with curly grey hair of about three inches length combed back so it is wavy. He has a goatee under his lip but is otherwise clean-shaven. He is looking straight at the camera and wearing glasses. He has a subtle grin on his face. He is wearing jeans, a black, loose-necked tee-shirt underneath a cardigan that looks speckled and gray. His arms are on his knees and he is holding something in his hands that we can't make out. He has a wedding ring on his left hand. He is probably about sixty five in this photo.

David@davidmordecai· Jun 14

🌱 Still pic of the largest climbing hydrangea I have ever seen, from the garden I was in yesterday. I estimate at least 40 feet and maybe more. The tree is a giant oak.

David@davidmordecai· Jun 13

🌱 Volunteering at Through The Garden Gate in the Beach today. I am the gardener answering questions in a lovely ravine garden.

David@davidmordecai· Jun 10

Our team going forward this season. We have two very occasional staff who could not join us today and we do expect to hire one more this season. Three peeps have moved on to jobs in other cities.

Six people, two male-presenting and four female-presenting, in hi-vis tops or bright pink shirts smiling in a group selfie

David@davidmordecai· Jun 6

Which is good, since @cpattonnyc.bsky.social is visiting me, just for the weekend, and talking was painful yesterday!

Me on the left in hi vis vest over a grey t-shirt and my friend Clarence on the right in a white cotton shirt with stripes in pastel shades of blue, purple, and green.

We’re both smiling at the camera.

David@davidmordecai· May 31

🌱 And the obligatory CN Tower picture. If you are a gardener in, or visiting, Toronto, the Music Garden is a must-see!

In the background is an almost entirely clear blue sky with the tall CN tower featuring prominently and a couple of condo buildings to the left and in the mid-ground. in front of the condo building and behind the garden in the middle of the frame are several large trees. In the bottom half of the frame is the curved, sloped sweep of a large perennial garden bed filled with a colorful variety of plants, though the colour mostly comes from foliage not flowers. The sweep of the bed wraps around a stepped lawn that serves as seating for music performances. to the right of the bed in the foreground is a sidewalk. in the top left corner in the front of the frame is a portion of a large willow tree

David@davidmordecai· May 31

🌱 Second video of my visit to the Toronto Music Garden this morning. If you’ve never been, I highly recommend it! [Video takes you on a tour of the garden showing perennial flower beds that are in winding shapes.]

David@davidmordecai· May 31

🌱 From my visit to the Toronto Music Garden this morning. If you’ve never been, I highly recommend it! [Video takes you on a tour of the garden showing perennial flower beds that are in winding shapes.]

David@davidmordecai· May 30

Got a photo with one of the filmmakers (who was adorable) thanks to my ever-documenting friend on the far left.

Selfie of five people arm in arm.
On the far left, my friend who is of a milk chocolate brown complexion, with short grey facial hair. He’s wearing a yellow shirt with a far green leather jacket. I’m next to him with a light brown complexion, curly salt and pepper hair and a full gray moustache and beard. Next to me on the right is a person with a dark brown complexion and mid length curly black hair. They are wearing a purple jacket over a yellow dress. Next them on the right is the film director Jamie Lewis who has pink pale skin, short dyed blonde hair and is wearing a white T-shirt with outlaws in pink text on it. and to his right is a man with a dark brown complexion, a short afro and sunglasses wearing a dark gray shirt. We are all smiling.

David@davidmordecai· May 28

🌱 Pruning results on Cotinus coggygria — Smoke Tree — a bit more than a month later. Later winter pruning is a wonder.

Photograph of the same plant that is in the video in the attached post showing lots of bright green shoots coming out of the top of what were bare branches in the video

David@davidmordecai· May 22

Forgot the picture. It was a full fall onto the asphalt.

picture showing a parking lot on the left with cars in it and a sidewalk on the right, and a banking and curb that is over a foot tall in between them

David@davidmordecai· May 18

🌱 Video of my visit to the Bonsai show at the Toronto Botanical Gardens [shows a variety of bonsai and dwarfed perennials.] I mis-identified a plant, I realized afterwards that it’s likely a Tiarella, not a Geranium (duh).

David@davidmordecai· May 12

#HashHow #SanityIsSocial is an old #Hashorism but #InsanityIsInterstitial, arising from neglectful social gaps, is a #HashHatch Alongside a meditation on the how time interferes with our recognizing consciousness in things like plants, I have hit the ideation point on my bipolar scale. Extra PRN!

Screenshot of one of my email signatures, and something I tweeted long ago:

Sanity is the ability to think and behave in ways that build a credible, coherent relationship between personal experiences and the experiences of others. It is both an individual and collective project. Sanity is deeply intertwined with equity and respect for human dignity—indeed, respect for the dignity of all life.

David@davidmordecai· May 8

the cover of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack

David@davidmordecai· May 7

All done work. It was a long but not difficult day. Video shows pretty sky after sunset over the parking lot at my last work stop for the night.

David@davidmordecai· May 5

This is sloppy empirical observation. Something akin to self-experience and even akin to ways of sensing reality is emerging with some AIs, but we will limit our ability to understand it if we don’t use an imaginative form of mentalization to distinguish what AIs do from biological consciousness.

Screenshot from article

"I fully expect the idea that AI systems are conscious to become increasingly mainstream over the course of this decade, and to spark some heated debates," said Henry Shevlin, a philosopher of cognitive science and AI ethicist at the University of Cambridge.
He said humankind remained largely in the dark about how consciousness worked and which beings or systems could have it.
"If anyone says that they know for sure that LLMs or future AI systems couldn't possibly be conscious, it's more likely to be an indicator of their own dogmatism than a reflection of the current state of scientific and philosophical opinion," he said.
Current AI systems are unlikely to be conscious, said Jeff Sebo, the director of the Center for Mind, Ethics and Policy at New York University, but "Dawkins is right to ask about AI consciousness with an open mind and I also think that the attribution of consciousness to AI systems will become more plausible over time".

David@davidmordecai· May 2

Winter pic from several years ago that my phone just served me.