Biking out to Mount Stewart with @sorcieredelile.northsky.social. Great way to spend a Friday off.

Easy day for MapTap July 15 98🔥 99🔥 100🎯 98🔥 97🏅 Final score: 982

this is where your money goes when you buy harry potter stuff. rowling isn’t shy about it. amnesty wrote an even-handed report that laid out what anti-rights groups do; rowling uses her billions & clout to suppress it. when you give rowling money; she spends it on stealing people’s human rights.

I was saying to @sorcieredelile.northsky.social yesterday that having had my musical taste informed by 90s alternative and 00s indie has made it so our record collection definitely has less happy, upbeat music than it would otherwise

@playstation.com eliminating physical discs has definitely lost the goodwill I had for the brand. My PS5 (for which I specifically got the disc-drive version) will probably be my last PlayStation console.

In the waiting room of my doctor’s office for routine bloodwork. Here’s hoping my veins will cooperate today. A good day being three pokes or less. My veins are great.

Another Canada-in-Eurovision thought: @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social should bring @worldvishawn.bsky.social in as the official commentator for the English language Canadian broadcast of the ESC. Either that or somehow poach Jaako Oleander from yle (Finland’s broadcaster)

And now I’ve got this stuck in my head

Had a thought about a knock-on effect of Canada participating in Eurovision. I wonder if it would translate to wider availability of releases by ESC participants in Canada. I’m still wishing I could get a copy of The Roop’s Concrete Flower on vinyl

While physical media does not guarantee preservation, or ownership, it has so many other benefits for huge numbers of people in various situations from parents, to those with lower disposable income, to those requiring accessibility. Don't get lost in the weeds. Just support physical media.

Beastie Boys providing color commentary on the evolving schism in the Catholic Church.

If buying isn’t ownership, piracy isn’t theft

As a Canadian eurofan, I’m of slightly mixed opinion on this. On the one hand, the ESC isn’t exactly in the most prestigious place right now. It seems like the EBU rules change that allowed CBC to join as a full member (and therefore participate in the ESC) was nakedly political.

We were flying by the seat of our pants out there!

Anyone who knows me and my tastes in music shouldn’t be surprised that I enjoy the experimental alien math rock band

A pretty great episode, and @danielleradford.bsky.social was a great tag in for Oscar. Of course, I’m considering writing a strongly-worded letter to my MP regarding Dimitry getting the date of Canada Day wrong in the preview of next week’s episode.

Still feeling a bit heated about JK Rowling. I’ve been thinking that a part of me is glad she went full mask off with her transphobia, because it made me realize some of the other casual bigotry spread through her body of work.

One of the comments on the original bsky post noted that, if it’s the Battle of Stalingrad, and considering the GCs are the ones on the attack against WPATH, she’s calling the movement she’s bankrolled for years nazis.

using AI at any stage of game development is loser shit but the excuse of "oh we only used it during the concept art stage" is always insane to me. concept art is literally the fun part. you asked the robot to do the fun part for you. do you also need the robot to eat dessert for you

The Jack Welch-ification of the games industry in action.

What a shame. 1666: Amsterdam was one of the more interesting looking games from SGF this year.

Just stopped in at my local independent record store (Back Alley Music in Charlottetown) to pick up my preorder of the Angine de Poitrine albums, and was recognized by name. I think that’s awesome.

Reasons Bluesky is now Tumblr: Up to 10 photos per post Posting here will not make you famous Mods hate the users Photos with labels are flagged anyway Everyone is a little annoying

@andenheks.bsky.social and I have been watching old Eurovisions recently, and tonight we decided on the year no one wanted to win: 2008.

One of the perks of finally having a family doctor is that I was able to (finally) get an ADHD diagnosis. I’m a few days in on my new meds, and I’m already seeing a difference

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

I’ve been hoping that D20 would do a World of Darkness season for a while now. So hyped. (Ofc, I wish they were playing Changeling, but I’m in a small minority there)

Man what a week, and I can’t even accurately use the 30 Rock gif

It’s taken far too long, and a couple of false starts, but I’ve finally rolled credits on Persona 5 (Royal, specifically).

explaining to kuchisake-onna how patriarchy is set up to pit women against each other for male attention and that i can't answer for her because beauty is found in self determination and that women can scissor other women in a better way

Here’s my early #eurovision2026 fave. Nearly two weeks since Moldova’s national selection and it’s still on loop in my brain. ESC 2027 in Chișinău?

of the moral conundrums you will be presented with, as an adult, "stop buying these specific children's toys" is like. the easiest possible

Let’s add “gender critical” to this list while we’re at it

Star Trek is always so relatable. I’m human and I also don’t have any money…

One of the rare “survived” years

Remember: don't eat the mid tier fast food chicken, don't play the wizard game, don't shop at the hobby store run by the bad guys from Indiana Jones, and don't donate to the bigot bucket.

That’s just gross

I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke history is a fucking joke lmao

"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.

I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power

🏳️‍⚧️happy transgender awareness week!🏳️‍⚧️ hire trans people! buy from trans artists! support the trans community! 🙏

I’ve seen a few folks go for the “if you simply must watch that new Harry Potter show just pirate it” and sorry. No. Just no. Just don’t watch it. At all. Ever. Break free of it. It’s time. You’ll be ok. I promise. I know it mattered to you as a kid. Find new things, it’s healthier. Just move on.

Pretty pleased with the burgers I made for supper (with homemade onion jam!)

Anyone have 490 bucks they can give me?

The victory of progressive candidates is a byproduct of our work caring for one another and building a better world, not the goal of our work.

Between the budget released by the Carney gov’t yesterday and the results from the elections in the US yesterday, it was a bit of a rollercoaster of a day. Having had some time to take it all in, it’s still a mixed bag, but I’m letting myself have a little hope as a treat.

genuinely beautiful that new york elected a muslim lefty mayor the same day that dick cheney died