@factorytheatre.bsky.social AD job posted to LinkedIn - but comments are turned off. LOL i woulda done the same. Whoever they get needs to reset the discourse.

I can only assume Carney chose to structure his historic speech around the words of Vaclav Havel because of the economic benefits his plays generated for the Czech Republic economy.

The thing that jumped out for me the most from the NYT piece on Carney's speech was: "It highlighted the Canadian prime minister’s motives for flexing his rhetorical muscle on the Davos stage: Canada’s economic and, perhaps literal, survival." 'Will Canada survive? An open question.'

Carney speech was big. Later we can unpack how the neoliberalism the PM espouses created the conditions for the rules-based order Davos epitomizes to crumble, but today the world is looking for basic answers about how to think about surviving. Good it comes from us. We're going to need the world.

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We sat through decades of Sorkinesque BS w/ music swelling as a steadicam pans the Statue of Liberty or Congress embodying the strength and endurance of American Democracy. Yet all it took was 1 incredibly stupid, and greedy man to bring it all down. It was made of string and paper clips all along.

Seeing some Raptors posts about the team gaining more fans because it's an international fan base, but it's hard to root for a US team at this point. Raps let you have a non Darth Vader team... I think lhere's a big opportunity for the Canadian arts scene that follows this energy.

Moving back to TO and remembering about Brad Brad the only candidate to ever receive 1% (!!!!) of the vote and still get regular media coverage as a relevant player.

I know everything the US regime has done seems unhinged, but the 'let me take over any country we want or we'll tax you' approach to world affairs may be the proverbial straw. There is no upside for the Europeans to cave on this. It will just embolden further similar actions.

On a Friday VIA train leaving TO at 5:07PM. VIA makes all deals and passes invalid for Friday trips and charges more on Fridays. The trains is 75% empty. Total comitment to a train service that is expensive and empty vs full and affordable.

Huh. I wonder if this is the consequence of embracing MAGA in your party without thinking too hard about what the letters mean.

The internet is rife with rumours on potential Raps trades. My faves are ones that move Quickley and his contract. Both (player and contract) are a huge liability IMO. JJJ would be amazing - all of a sudden maybe we are top defense in the league and last time that worked out really well for us.

Mandami was handing ut feree ticket to Under The Radar because theatre shouldn't be an unaffordable luxury. Maybe there are better argumenst for the arts than they contribute to a broken economy few benefit from? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/t...

Honestly, I think it's not a great look to be a Deputy Prime Minister and then Sr Cabinet Minister in a G7 Government one day, and then the next day to be like I'm working for another country now bye.

First Shake Shack Exp: Shake- WAY to sweet! Burger - Amazing. NNNN (lol am i going to revive the NOW NNs in my posts? Maybe.)

My new office came with a whole bunch of theatre books in it. On lunch I have read through "Writing in Restaurants "by David Mamet (1986). I'm here to report it does not stand the test of time, other than I can see some early threads of MAGA anti-liberal logic.

Just saw that Kawhi is shooting 98.2% FTs.... Mama, there goes that cyborg.

Man i know im the only person on this platform watching Raptors, but Quick was having the worst game i have seen anyone have. Just brutal, missed a million open shots, awful defence, and all we will remember is the last shot. 3 2 win.

Ending the holiday season explaining to the kids (8 and under) why all billionaires are policy failures. We're all ready to get back to it IMO.

This all seems pretty unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner

I've been working hard of this file since mid-Nov, but glad to see it taking off.

What a grift.

Literally no one, and particularly no one in this social space, wants to hear this, but I've been missing about with 2nd Gen Meta AI glasses and they're impressive. As usual, best features aren't the ones FB promotes, but if you get away from brainrot content gen -could be new Airpods when smaller.

There is such a massive hole opening up on the Canadian left. If Avi is elected the next NDP leader, and there are 3-4 years to plan, people are gonna be so fed up with the results these guys produce by then and it's gonna be a competitive 3-way election.

This is in response to a post supporting higher ed institutions establishing values and programs that support those values, instead of pursuing latest tech trends, and I think this key. So often "innovation" becomes synonymous with scalability and profitability, but that's not the assignment.

Thinking about how Carney's primary branding was as an pro-environment candidate and one year in he's the opposite - and then remembering JT was a democratic reform candidate in 2015. IMO this sort of stuff can do generational damage to a political brand over time. The promises stop moving ppl.

Mel Hague has left her role of AD @factorytheatre.bsky.social. IMO: 1 The building in a public asset. Any decision on selling the building should not be up to the board or staff without public consultation. 2 Just because someone worked there once should not give them an out-sized voice either.

As someone who travels this route frequently with VIA, this does not surprise me. It often seems that no one is in charge.

I did a graduate degree in the US, I have friends there, and this makes me wonder if I will ever go back. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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I'm not a Zuck-booster, but FB didn't wast the money they have invested into VR technologies. They're just not profitable rn. Some some of innovation from a hardware perspective is really impressive. The RD also underpins glasses that use AR and AI, which will become pervasive in society IMO.

Last weekend I was trying to demo what double-dribble is with the 6 and 7 year old boys i coach. And then they realized the action a ref does to indicate double dribble also means 6 7. Anyhow, they still don't know what double dribble is.

Pretty happy to hear my old classmate and very smart thinker @helenshaw.bsky.social is the new Head Theatre Critic at NYT. I don't live in NYC, so reticent to argue something makes sense too hard, but from the outside as a reader or reviews, I sometimes wondered why this wasn't the case already.

Was about to use AI to ideate on the title for an abstract I'm proposing to a conference and then i was like, "oh yeah this is how that muscle atrophies".

Bookmark this as where the Federal NDP started to become competitive again. No longer everything to all people, the Carney Government's enviro policies are so egregious that credible Ministers must resign. BC and QC are back in play. Also, who will be in charge of arts and culture now?

It's really wild how much BI has unlocked Scottie. I have him in a fantasy 9 category league, and he's the 4 best player in the world if your goal is to contribute to every major statistical category.

Posting about how great Mamdani is on Bluesky is not my most original form of expression, but so often when the campaign ends, even the good guys stop engaging the public. I love this approach to communicating what govt will be and who is thinking about it. (Artists listed 2nd in advisor list.)

Guys we made The TImes.

The 1-4 Raptors are now the 12-5 Raptors. .

A few people have texted me as a known Raptors watcher to ask if i saw this block the other night as if i haven't watched it 14 times. Even tho Scottie's block in the final play seals the game, I think this is the moment TO ball fans realized it will be fun this year. www.reddit.com/r/nba/commen...

This is the same company that was found guilty of fixing the price of bread.

There’s a very surreal conversation I keep having on here where people seem unable to hold two ideas at the same time, and I’m not sure why. It’s simply true that the Big AI platforms like ChatGPT are: 1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways. 2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.

This is the only plan and anyone who has questions is a radical communist.

Theatre idea: The combined raw materials of the Elon text message archive and the Epstein email archive is a fascinating and large dramatic data set on how the 0.001% operates and talks to each other. Most be something worth staging for an audience to consider in here.

I just, i don't understand why the Epstein/Trump thing is front page news in many countries. We know Trump committed repeated sexual assaults and that he is a sexual predator. (Access Hollywood anyone?) What new about doing it with a specific billionaire moves the needle for millions of people?

The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.

I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful. Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened. This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

Update Tara won! www.intermissionmagazine.ca/news/tara-be...