The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

Hergé

@vicbergeriv.bsky.social this your work?

I finally got one of those weird overly serious sanctimonious bluesky responses!

Archive.org is an amazing organization, constantly under attack and constantly and quietly fighting for our right to have access to our data. Donate money to them and if you are ever in San Francisco on a Friday afternoon, do their guided tour. Really cool.

February 12 was once a very important date in the Black community. At least for the 75 years after Emancipation. Frederick Douglass called him "emphatically the Black man's president." Sojourner Truth said "I was never treated by anyone with more kindness & cordiality than by Abraham Lincoln." 🧵

Fellow Montrealers, here's one action we can take to attempt to protect our bike lanes: www.reddit.com/r/montreal/c...

Post a banger that isn’t in English www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0uj...

If you're in Québec, do me a solid and sign this petition about adding a "grandfather clause" to the PEQ — and don't forget to verify email after sending the form. (If you have questions about the petition and don't want to use machine translation ping me.) www.assnat.qc.ca/fr/exprimez-...

If this shit is going down in TO, imagine what the pigs in Montreal are up to. But yeah let's devote the majority of our municipal budget to policing.

Happy National Girls and Women in Sports Day

Catherine O’Hara wardrobe polaroids from Second City, 1983. RIP an absolute legend & icon💔

Larry Nance Jr. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Dr. Not right now please

Which of you sweet bastards recommended Play Dirty (1969) to me? @pulpcurry.bsky.social ? It was incredible. Glad it's getting a re-appraisal. Nasty, though!

Vous utilisez gmail ? C'est le moment de vérifier que l'option "le contenu de vos mails va nourrir une IA" n'a pas été activée par défaut. (Si vous vous en foutez personnellement, faites-le pour les gens avec qui vous échangez des mails, qui n'ont rien demandé.) www.frandroid.com/marques/goog...

Straight talk #TTRPG creators: #Patreon was once an ideal spot. It is now a convoluted, pre-sale-to-vulture-captial mess. When it's not randomly changing policies that cut my audience to ribbons, it's adding idiotic process heavy pop-ups that do nothing. Use Ghost<dot>io instead. Here's ours:

Issue 3 of Secret Passages is about to hit Kickstarter, click below and follow along to get notified when it goes live.

6/ You can help us identify the rest. If you know about any of these individuals, please contact us directly so we can engage in a verification process.

Deux pistes cyclables à Montréal qui compétitionnent avec trois ponts de New York. Je pense que nous ne réalisons pas la chance que nous avons que le vélo prenne une aussi grande place dans notre mobilité collective à Montréal. www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/chr...

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.

An excerpt from @shannonappelcline.bsky.social's upcoming book, Designers & Dragons: Origins, tells the story of an infamous TSR module and its swift recall.

This is some apocalyptic cyberpunk shit right here

WTF Letterboxd?! This is fucking outrageously ignorant.

‼️🚨KICKSTARTER WORKERS ARE ON STRIKE🚨‼️ As of 8am this morning, the workers of Kickstarter United/OPEIU Local 153 are on strike. WE ARE NOT ASKING FOR A BOYCOTT! Creators and allies, please continue using and supporting the platform.

I would add the nuance of "gaming fora" instead of just RPGnet (though it was a massive gateway for many of us) and I do feel that for better or for worse, the current step may be Discord. I've recently discovered it and its quite lively.

@newsnerd.bsky.social www.opeiulocal153.org/news/kicksta...

Montreal and Longeuil police are basically organized crime, supported by the govt and media. Look at this murderer: therover.ca/the-killing-...

Somehow this is normal. A reckless, racist cop harasses and threatens Nooran and his friends for months before finally killing him – and leaving a community in grief and terror. When the community calls a march for Nooran, the police show up to terrorize them again.

Amazing reporting and presentation and such a dark story. These scam places are just one more example of how tech and elites makes us all victims.

"In Le Plateau Mont-Royal, where 21.9 per cent of trips started in that borough are by bicycle, we find that drivers are given 3.4 square metres per traveller, while bike travellers are allocated 1.5 square metres per traveller." On understanding #urbanMath. 🚲 theconversation.com/montreals-bi...

Tomorrow, Saturday September 20th, across Canada 🇨🇦: drawtheline.world/canada?r=CA&...

It's called writing. The Big Bite by Charles Williams

Jack Kirby, 1976

"Grab bag signifiers" Pay attention to the online behaviour, not the content. Those accounts "asking questions" that seem weirdly contrarian yet their feed is full of anti-MAGA propaganda: Block, report and move on.

Jesus holy fucking shit www.cinemaduparc.com/en/prog-spec...

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.” ― George Orwell, 1984 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It's on Tubi. Holds up. Great movie tubitv.com/movies/30776...

Jumped on the War2 bandwagon last night and wow that was fun. It starts off so preposterous that I felt disconnected, but Mukerji steadily builds an epic backstory that gives everything weight so by the end, you really, really care. NTR Jr.s charisma and acting also elevated.

My favourite doctor and companion

An Alpha Cinephile and a charming gentleman to boot.

@dameshek.bsky.social does this count?

Oooh hell yes and I may even be where it is showing!

It's not quite as perfect as Sean portrays here (still lots of corruption and cheap concrete means some of the earlier ped elements are already falling apart), but this is still a great overview of the incredible improvements Project Montreal has done for the city.

@fantasiafestival.com delivers again with an incredible retro double bill: Night of the Juggler: not quite as hardcore as we expected but gorgeously shot and restored in rundown, lively '70s NYC Office Party (AKA Hostile Takeover): weird, 80s that went the distance and Michael Ironside at the Q&A!

Today is the last day to tell the City of Montreal how you feel about $10K fines for noise complaints An online public consultation form allows Montrealers to weigh in on a new noise bylaw that would increase first-offence fines for music venues by 566%.

@heedthecallpod.bsky.social one more reason that Marc Sessler should be on Bluesky: