A.Godfrey🇨🇦

Cataloguing librarian, lover of books and literacy. 💙🩶RABID Detroit Lions fan🦁. On here, you get my personal views only👇. Same @ on the other place.

[A.Godfrey🇨🇦 @Oldandsurly]

@ElJonesPoet @MSVU_Halifax Congratulations!!

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

In 2008, a group of friends in a small Yorkshire town decided to start planting food in unused public spaces.

The town is Todmorden, population about 15,000, tucked into a valley between Burnley and Halifax. The group is Incredible Edible Todmorden. Their motto is "if you eat, you're in."

Today the railway station beds grow herbs. The fire station is surrounded by fruit trees. The canal towpath is lined with edible plantings. The forecourt of the local police station has been transformed into what's now called "possibly the finest and greenest looking police station in the UK," with a small library of crime novels installed for good measure. Everything is free to harvest.

They have no paid staff, no buildings, and no public funding. They've operated this way for almost two decades. Their guiding principles: "believe in the power of small actions," "kindness underpins everything we do," and "it's sometimes better to ask for forgiveness, not permission."

Over the years they've added a Tool Library, a Makery, and little free libraries scattered around town. They host visitors from around the world (they call it "vegetable tourism"). Their gardening Sundays have grown from four or five people to forty or fifty.

The model has been replicated in over 700 projects worldwide and continued to spread.

[Sheila @shelearn]

'doctored' = fake @Lianne_Rood

[Janel Comeau 🍁 @VeryBadLlama]

yeah your lifetime risk of arthritis probably does increase when you get to live to old age instead of dying young from preventable cervical cancer

[A.Godfrey🇨🇦 @Oldandsurly]

@KurtHolmanMP Crossing the floor is the very best thing you could do for the people of London-Fanshawe. Polievre will never form a government and you will never be re-elected. Why not do some actual good?

[Kate Dupuis @DrKateTO]

In a class of 30, this amounts to $25/kid for the entire school year.

$600,000,000 for a European spa company's MegaGarage.

$1,000,000,000 for a magical 🦄 401 tunnel.

$25 for your kid.

@fordnation @PaulCalandra priorities at work.

#onted #onpoli

[Amber Mac @ambermac]

I'm very confused about Ontario's plans, especially here in Toronto.

So long, bikes, nature, science centre.
Hello jets, beer, spas.

Sorry about the overflowing hospitals.
But, also, yes to virtual healthcare cuts.

Elementary students are failing.
Too bad, we will keep underfunding education.

Let's prioritize a return to paper-based report cards.
However, no AI plan/curriculum guidance for K-12 despite massive AI job disruption.

[Orkney Library @OrkneyLibrary]

2026 is the #NationalYearOfReading so we're joining in with the national campaign to encourage people back to reading. 📚

We've made a display of shorter books, all under 200 pages, and each book has a simple label with 3 words to help people find a book to suit them.

[Flea @flea333]

I was lost in a world of joyful awe and mystery with it when i was 11. It was heaven to me, thought about it every waking moment. I am of average intelligence, its just fukking great and all kids should read

[Clare Hecla 🇨🇦 @hitaskunk]

I am one broken window or flat tire away from having to sell my plasma to buy groceries, but sure

[Jeremy Tregunna @jtregunna]

I wouldn't wish epilepsy on my worst enemy. I'm happy I have it and not anyone else I know. I don't like it, it's been a major issue in my life, and having a crisis when I least expect it is never fun.

I don't know if 65 million have epilepsy, but if you have it, take care.

[tom howden 🇨🇦 @Thomas_Howden]

This guy

[Pulp Librarian @PulpLibrarian]

Instructions on how to type your own picture of Kojak, from Bob Neill's Book of Typewriter Art (1982).

You never know when you might need to.

[George Stroumboulopoulos 🐺 @strombo]

Of all the things I’ve seen said about the [other] halftime show. This seems to be the [most] accurate.…

the people who want “their own” halftime show are the same people who wanted their own drinking fountains.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Those who begin reading the classics soon learn how addictive they are. Great books aren’t boring, it’s just that our collective brains are so fried from excess entertainment that we can’t see the hollowness of those amusements, and how delightful books are by comparison.

[sententiae antiquae @sentantiq]

for the weekend's Odyssey movie casting discourse, a reminder

[Bev 🇨🇦 @Garnet_2203]

I ask conservatives. Is Pierre Poilievre the leader you think is going to take you forward?

[Alison Craig @lawandchocolate]

"[N]o one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails.  A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones."

- Nelson Mandela

[Norm Di Pasquale 🇨🇦 @normsworld]

Just sent a letter to Minister Calandra from our school parent council demanding a clear roadmap for when the TDSB will be taken out of supervision with Trustees returned to their role. Parent Councils should express their concern before it's too late! #topoli #onpoli #onted

[zellie @zellieimani]

This cold turns no-drug or no-alcohol shelter rules into a death sentence. People die outside over criteria instead of being allowed to warm up. People with substance use disorder are people too — loved, valued, deserving of care. Prevention saves lives.