The Toronto Blue Jays offseason:

Holy crap. Gigantic move. A forerunner of more?

As part of the Raptors' 8-game win streak, the team posts a locker room victory photo after each game, and my favourite ongoing bit is how Gradey Dick hits the exact same tough-guy pose in the same spot in all of them

IT HAS ONLY BEEN ONE YEAR OF THIS what

Another concert thought: Ticketmaster's concealing ticket prices until the point of purchase sucks in many ways, but an underrated one is that it makes it hard to coordinate ticket purchases with other people. What's "too rich for my blood" for one person might be "go for it" for another!

So there were Halifax concert announcements today for shows on the long weekends in August (Kathleen Edwards) and September (Australian Pink Floyd) and, like... expecting people to set plans NOW for those dates is just a bit wild to me. WHAT IF YOU'RE A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PERSON BY THEN!?!

I'm not saying the Goo Goo Dolls are the GREATEST band to succeed with the formula: "What if The Replacements, but not fame-averse dysfunctional fuck-ups?" But for a good chunk of their career, they were a pretty good one. I'll probably be at this Halifax show, won't lie.

Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen

Trump is a creature of media before anything else and I suspect one thing we're seeing in this (wild!) Mamdani meeting is that nothing impresses/intimidates him like someone capable of generating a competing media phenomenon

Walked in on an office conversation about ALF. Proceeded to immediately launch into each and every one of my ALF stories that I had no idea were so close to the top of my brain.

Honestly kind of admire the doubling-down of the second Project Hail Mary trailer. "Oh, y'all were upset the first trailer spoiled the way the book hides what it's REALLY about? How about we do that in the FIRST TEN SECONDS this time?!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VYs...

Jay-Z, by process of elimination, you now — against all odds — have the best verse on “Monster.”

Given we've had minority parliaments in 6 of the 9 federal elections this century, you think our political culture would have already adjusted to this new normal but (as Wherry's thread makes clear) hahaha nope.

It's perhaps not surprising that Disney would push the Beatles Anthology in a manner akin to a new series — even releasing the episodes in batches! — but it's still a bit strange to me given that, minus one new episode, it's all 30 years old!

Link'd in.

‘Stop emailing each other all the time you fucking idiots!’

Me telling the youths about the good ol' days* when the MacKay Bridge inbound wasn't backed to the mall every day regardless of conditions. *Six months ago

What a treat to read

Posted for no reason

Now this is a holiday ornament.

I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul

The difference, of course, is that violence (and depictions/expressions of it) is something the general fascist project needs to control for its own means, whereas GenAI's extremities support the general fascist project just fine on their own.

Me telling the youths about the good ol' days* when the MacKay Bridge inbound wasn't backed to the mall every day regardless of conditions. *Six months ago

Imagine wanting to be part of any party (political, social or otherwise) in which you need to explicitly announce you’re in the “Hitler sucks” contingent.

UNDERSTAND THE ASSIGNMENT!

Who is going to be the first opposition MP to refer to #Budget2025 as "Champagne Problems"?

Seeing the setlist for Radiohead's first show of their short European tour is making me even more regretful I didn't get my butt organized to try and get tickets to Radiohead's European tour.

For those of you (like me) who'd see this headline and instantly realize what a wonderful match this is.

"The Sanders/Mamdani style of democratic socialism is, whatever its merits, at least compatible with America’s tradition of liberal democracy. The Trump style of national socialism is not."

Best Shivering Songs lineup ever? This looks incredible.

"[I've] spent many days, months, and years watching Blue Jays teams that were sometimes good, sometimes successful, and sometimes fun. Much of the time, they were none of these. But in no other year have they been all three, at the same time, quite like they were in 2025."

Wrote it all out. This one's for them — Vlad, Bo, Ernie, George, Trey and the rest — but mostly for me.

Got a tea reading at afternoon tea today.

Awful ending. So it goes. Back at it tomorrow.

Got these photos taken on opening day, when the photo studio at work was amazingly colour aligned for the occasion. Never in a million years thought that, seven months later, the team would be a win away from a World Series title.

I still like the Jays’ chances of winning in seven, but how about just winning tonight instead?

Hey Halifax, if your bike has been stolen in the past year, check out to see if it was stolen by a cop! www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...

Springer squashin’ Dodger dreams.

Not home to take a pic of the record for the feed. But y’all know this is a true all-timer.

translating this in indie terms: each baseball team has 10 johnny marrs and 16 morrisseys but you root for the smiths as a whole

One of the joys of this Jays run is that it’s happening at a time when Sportsnet has the best on-camera team the Jays have ever seen. It is VERY hard to find an MLB team’s home broadcast team that’s even just not embarrassing, let alone actively great. And we get ours through the whole postseason.

Vladdy was waiting for his hug 😂 #WANTITALL

I seriously think the Jays are a great and timely model of healthy masculinity. Selfless devotion to the common good, positive affection (they hug a lot), not a lot of ego, and there's room to be hyper-competitive and possibly unhinged (Max Scherzer) without being toxic. They are good!

Every baseball playoffs has a supremely stupid narrative and the anger over intentional walks definitely is the winner this time around for me. I still miss pitchers having to actually throw four balls to do it. But even if one considers them a problem (and I don’t), it’s one without a solution.

Two chances to win the whole damn thing. The Yamamoto game is not do-or-die. The kid just somehow outdid his Yankees start for an all-timer World Series moment. I still can’t believe this is actually happening.

no whammy no whammy no whammy STOP

Trey Yesavage has set the all-time record for strikeouts by a rookie in the World Series with 12. #BlueJays

why do they all have guitars