The Doug Ford government is moving to shield politicians from scrutiny. Here are secrets the new law would have kept under wraps

SUPER NINTENDO CHALMERS

Two questions: 1) Is there a documented phenomenon of the elderly watching Dragon’s Den/Shark’s Tank-type shows or is it just the older people in my life? 2) How hard can it possibly be to learn how to pronounce “Manjit” properly?

Ah ok. Another Bsky is dying thing. I dunno. I don’t have anything particularly novel or insightful to offer. I think it’s nice to have a place to talk about stuff with people and also a place to connect one’s public-facing profile to work one does? That’s the writer in me talking.

What have I missed? What are y’all talking about?

streets full of people walking, robins, everything all at once

We do not need ways to make writing easier so there's more of it. We need ways to make writing harder so there's less of it.

The cardinal mistake of latter day critical theory is to render the totality as a familiar thing (“capitalism”) when the job is to defamiliarize it.

my main question here: who is using their 911 to haul their bike to the trail?

Have 3 more episodes of Andor to go! Lemme log in to the ole' Bluesky and see what's going on in the wor--

Not disagreeing with the main point necessarily, but the argument is that there is in fact something problematic with the "God gives you dominion over the earth, go explore and exploit it" ethos. Clear-cutting rainforests where no-one lives is also bad etc. That may not apply to the moon! And yet...

"bluesky should have a minimum age of 30+" i hate to break this to you

Battles that were lost: - blog vs. blog post, where the former got used instead of the latter - simplistic vs. simple, where the former gets used for the latter despite the former being pejorative and the latter usually more neutral

I wrote quite a ranty column about living in a carsick city after your child gets hit by a car www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

I don’t know if this is right or not. No Kings seems like a big deal. But do opposition movements need leaders? And does a leader of an opposition need to be the kind that appeals across partisan or even intra-partisan divides? Is that possible in 2026? Got no real answers to these questions

Don’t know how true this is, but in the era of the attention economy and “flood the zone” etc., the fact that there isn’t a figure opposed to Trump who also commands respect seems like a problem - i.e. that there isn’t a locus or focal point for opposition. Instead, there is diffuse noise.

If you think Artemis II is cool, read this gorgeous and sad essay from @rwarnica.bsky.social about the Trump-driven death of NASA and what it means for all of us, on a philsophical level: www.wired.com/story/the-de...

…

Why the need for a rocket given the elevator's ability?

Take me down to Mexico City / Where the trees are purple and the tacos aren't sh-- you know what, I should get back to work

this caused me to stop for a sec: " I feel a little less safe with just a dumbphone, so I carry pepper spray."

Blithely skipping through the news today — you can't fool me with your silly April pranks, The New York Times. President Trump, indeed!

Re the endless discussion of "art should/shouldn't be political": is there a piece of art/entertainment with quite different politics than yours that you still enjoy/admire etc.? For me it might be Taylor Sheridan's "Frontier Trilogy".

besides brigading, there's several kinds of pile-ons. the first is largely accidental. someone gets on the radar of a group of people outside their circle, who are offended, and then they tell their friends, who tell their friends, etc. the second type is more insidious

Some people think AI is going to take over the world. Other people use email software made by the a company with a multi-trillion dollar market cap and see that it capitalizes the first letter after "p.m." because it thinks the period represents the end of the sentence.

and now we cut live to a shot of me explaining to my mum how to switch esims from her regular one to the travel one before the plane departs

Vote on the name for Toronto's new electric ferries - though if you select "Harbour Swan," I will judge you. haveyoursay.toronto.ca/FerryNaming

Montreal: Canada's greatest city Vancouver: Canada's most beautiful city Edmonton: Canada's most innovative city Toronto: Canada's largest city

Jaysus Effin' Christ. I hope this leads to a better policy of scrutiny. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/b...

[at the thanksgiving dinner table] i don't know much about this brent guy except for the fact that he's crude!

wrote a commercial genre novel (ie an "entertainment" per Graham Greene). am looking for representation. hmu with leads plz

NEW: On the first day of the war with Iran, the United States used a new ballistic missile. It was untested in combat. Our analysis shows it struck a sports hall, an elementary school, and residential areas — killing at least 21 people, including children. w/ @johnismay.bsky.social

Thoughts on some movies I've seen. Sentimental Value: sorry, but a dour film in a muted colour palette about artists? can't help but love it. 14/10 If I had legs I'd kick you: saw it described as a 2 hour ad for birth control and? correct. 7.5/10, never want to see it again Highest 2 Lowest: wtf?

I reserve the right to change my mind but for now, I plan not to pay attention to baseball ever again. In my next life maybe. That whole World Series thing was too much.

I would say it’s a relief to read something by someone who actually knows what they’re talking about but relief is the last thing I felt reading this.

I would say it’s a relief to read something by someone who actually knows what they’re talking about but relief is the last thing I felt reading this.

Oh did you want 3300 words from me on today's IOC sex testing rules? An essay on the nature of evidence and why we can't seem to stop getting stuck in the same traps around sex and gender in sports? Wow lucky you!! www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

NGL, I'm captivated by these new shirts at temu

"We haven’t patched a hole in this ship’s hull: the ship is still taking on water faster than we can bail it out." — @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social

"For nearly eight years, Ford has trampled on the elected representatives of the city of Toronto at every turn, much like a medieval king who finds the grumbling of tenant peasants annoying to his ears." #GiftLink 🎁 #OnPoli #ToPoli www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

I think the main function of X now is to be the home for increasingly hard right, new reactionary discourse. But as I've said many times, the significance of Twitter before was never about the size of the userbase. It was its influence via overlapping sections of "elites" and, relatedly, virality

Bluesky v Rumble mentions in official congressional e-newsletters. As I see it, it's not "echo chambers", it’s nearly entirely separate media ecosystems.

If only someone had written an essay any handwriting in the age of digital tech. hazlitt.net/feature/what...

One of you complained about how predictable Spelling Bee has become and now all of a sudden it’s super hard. Thanks a lot!

Likely doesn’t reflect well on me, but somehow I’m still resentful of what happened to Twitter, how social media became balkanized, and even places like Instagram, the last platform where my “irl” friends are, seems designed to rot your brain* too *or rather, preys on your worst instincts

going to be controversial and say that beyond 3 cheeses you're really entering into the realm of diminishing returns