James Taite
@jamestaite.bsky.social
Stonemason in Ottawa, Canada. Approaching peak hoser.
lilies and roses and lilies
November 25, 2025 at 11:57 PM
lilies and roses and lilies
movember winner pack it in boys
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
movember winner pack it in boys
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the main reason to buy cheap coffee is it tastes bad but gets the job done. the main reason to buy expensive coffee gear and specialty beans is it tastes bad and it's your fault. once again everything comes back to catholic brain or protestant brain
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
the main reason to buy cheap coffee is it tastes bad but gets the job done. the main reason to buy expensive coffee gear and specialty beans is it tastes bad and it's your fault. once again everything comes back to catholic brain or protestant brain
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If I had a time machine me and Duke Ellington would ride our bikes to the Cape Cod Canal and we’d fish for stripers at sunset.
“We’re canal rats!” I’d joke, but he’d already be composing music based on the sound of cars and trucks going over the Sagamore Bridge.
“We’re canal rats!” I’d joke, but he’d already be composing music based on the sound of cars and trucks going over the Sagamore Bridge.
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
If I had a time machine me and Duke Ellington would ride our bikes to the Cape Cod Canal and we’d fish for stripers at sunset.
“We’re canal rats!” I’d joke, but he’d already be composing music based on the sound of cars and trucks going over the Sagamore Bridge.
“We’re canal rats!” I’d joke, but he’d already be composing music based on the sound of cars and trucks going over the Sagamore Bridge.
as a dad of a 15yo with a developmental delay:
If there is a god these fucks will burn in hell
If there is a god these fucks will burn in hell
Emmanuel, a 15-year-old with intellectual disabilities, wandered away from his mom’s fruit stand in October.
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
A Disabled Child’s Mom Reported Him Missing. He Was Locked Away by Federal Immigration Authorities for 48 Days.
Emmanuel, a 15-year-old who has an intellectual disability, walked away from his mom’s fruit stand in October. Houston Police called ICE.
thebarbedwire.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
as a dad of a 15yo with a developmental delay:
If there is a god these fucks will burn in hell
If there is a god these fucks will burn in hell
Just heard ‘Edmund Fitzgerald’ and noticed for the first time Lightfoot’s 3-syllable pronunciation of Detroyit, which is how my dad has always spoken it. Is this an Ontario thing? Any Detroit natives ever say it that way?
November 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Just heard ‘Edmund Fitzgerald’ and noticed for the first time Lightfoot’s 3-syllable pronunciation of Detroyit, which is how my dad has always spoken it. Is this an Ontario thing? Any Detroit natives ever say it that way?
old City Registry Office, Ottawa, 1873
November 24, 2025 at 12:09 PM
old City Registry Office, Ottawa, 1873
triskelion representing the perpetually recurring cosmic trinity of concrete cure, crack, and patch
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
triskelion representing the perpetually recurring cosmic trinity of concrete cure, crack, and patch
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The Unintended Art Of Others
The shipyard painters who cleaned their brushes on the shipping container they store their paint in.
Banff
Scotland
The shipyard painters who cleaned their brushes on the shipping container they store their paint in.
Banff
Scotland
December 1, 2024 at 6:22 PM
The Unintended Art Of Others
The shipyard painters who cleaned their brushes on the shipping container they store their paint in.
Banff
Scotland
The shipyard painters who cleaned their brushes on the shipping container they store their paint in.
Banff
Scotland
beaut of a Dutchman on the return stop of a bellcast wash
look at how well the tooling carries from the old piece to the new just fucking beautiful
look at how well the tooling carries from the old piece to the new just fucking beautiful
November 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
beaut of a Dutchman on the return stop of a bellcast wash
look at how well the tooling carries from the old piece to the new just fucking beautiful
look at how well the tooling carries from the old piece to the new just fucking beautiful
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The fresco restoration work marks the culmination of a series of interventions we have carried out on this sanctuary since 2006.
In 2008, I designed an extension to the church and we restored the adjoining house.
In 2011, we designed an access path for wheelchair users.
And now, the frescoes.
In 2008, I designed an extension to the church and we restored the adjoining house.
In 2011, we designed an access path for wheelchair users.
And now, the frescoes.
November 14, 2025 at 10:25 AM
The fresco restoration work marks the culmination of a series of interventions we have carried out on this sanctuary since 2006.
In 2008, I designed an extension to the church and we restored the adjoining house.
In 2011, we designed an access path for wheelchair users.
And now, the frescoes.
In 2008, I designed an extension to the church and we restored the adjoining house.
In 2011, we designed an access path for wheelchair users.
And now, the frescoes.
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Would you like a free up and coming urban history book for Christmas? Would you like to write a review for us at @urbanhistory.bsky.social? We have the books and you have the words! Browse the below list and get in touch if you want to write us a review:
November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Would you like a free up and coming urban history book for Christmas? Would you like to write a review for us at @urbanhistory.bsky.social? We have the books and you have the words! Browse the below list and get in touch if you want to write us a review:
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Concrete is not T.I.N.A. (there is no alternative)
Stone-timber floor demonstration in London.
The alternatives to anthropocene construction are popping up everywhere now.
foto: Bamberger Natursteinwerke
www.instagram.com/p/DQpH6HGirD...
Stone-timber floor demonstration in London.
The alternatives to anthropocene construction are popping up everywhere now.
foto: Bamberger Natursteinwerke
www.instagram.com/p/DQpH6HGirD...
November 13, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Concrete is not T.I.N.A. (there is no alternative)
Stone-timber floor demonstration in London.
The alternatives to anthropocene construction are popping up everywhere now.
foto: Bamberger Natursteinwerke
www.instagram.com/p/DQpH6HGirD...
Stone-timber floor demonstration in London.
The alternatives to anthropocene construction are popping up everywhere now.
foto: Bamberger Natursteinwerke
www.instagram.com/p/DQpH6HGirD...
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I would like to skip the ringside seat at this debauched circus and go straight to the empty field where the tent once stood.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I would like to skip the ringside seat at this debauched circus and go straight to the empty field where the tent once stood.
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As someone who now needs a kidney transplant myself (due to damage caused quite suddenly by an autoimmune disease), here’s some information about becoming a living donor 🥰
www.cuh.nhs.uk/our-services...
www.cuh.nhs.uk/our-services...
Living Kidney Donation
www.cuh.nhs.uk
November 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
As someone who now needs a kidney transplant myself (due to damage caused quite suddenly by an autoimmune disease), here’s some information about becoming a living donor 🥰
www.cuh.nhs.uk/our-services...
www.cuh.nhs.uk/our-services...
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Ugborough Church, Devon. Medieval roof boss depicting a blacksmith #woodensday
November 12, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Ugborough Church, Devon. Medieval roof boss depicting a blacksmith #woodensday
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
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Oh you think the Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald is funny? My father was killed in a Gordon Lightfoot song you son of a bitch (not that one; it was Sundown)
November 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Oh you think the Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald is funny? My father was killed in a Gordon Lightfoot song you son of a bitch (not that one; it was Sundown)
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An old work- "Matthew (rain)", oil, plaster, drywall, wood, copper pipe, 12x14", 2006, (obverse & reverse.) I'm putting this up for sale at it's original 2006 price- $450(Cdn) (shipping within Canada only.) #art
November 9, 2025 at 12:24 AM
An old work- "Matthew (rain)", oil, plaster, drywall, wood, copper pipe, 12x14", 2006, (obverse & reverse.) I'm putting this up for sale at it's original 2006 price- $450(Cdn) (shipping within Canada only.) #art
if there is a god these fucks will burn in hell
ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
November 9, 2025 at 12:25 AM
if there is a god these fucks will burn in hell
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If only someone had written a blog and a book chapter to clear all this nonsense up...
triskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/2022/09/26/m...
triskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/2022/09/26/m...
Mediaeval Mythbusting Blog #18: Sex, Stonemasons & the Sacred - Triskele Heritage
26 September 2022 In 1517, a flamboyant new gatehouse was under construction at Canterbury Cathedral. Built in a late-flowering example of the Perpendicular Gothic style, the Christchurch Gateway feat...
triskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:13 PM
If only someone had written a blog and a book chapter to clear all this nonsense up...
triskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/2022/09/26/m...
triskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/2022/09/26/m...
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in honor of the reopening of the met breuer, sotheby's, its new tenant, let me write the introductory text on brutalism and its many afterlives www.sothebys.com/en/articles/...
How Brutalism Became Both a Utopian Dream and a Dystopian Meme
Brutalism, an architectural movement associated with state power and science fiction, is perpetually misunderstood – yet it has left an indelible imprint on popular culture.
www.sothebys.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
in honor of the reopening of the met breuer, sotheby's, its new tenant, let me write the introductory text on brutalism and its many afterlives www.sothebys.com/en/articles/...
did you have chatgpt write that one for you bud
“The history of technology is that it always creates jobs,” says Liberal MP Evan Solomon of AI apprehension on 640 Toronto.
Brother, I know you’re not a journalist anymore, but damn.
Brother, I know you’re not a journalist anymore, but damn.
November 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
did you have chatgpt write that one for you bud