HOOTIN AND HOLLERIN

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New Brunswick Union supports the Canadian Union of Postal Workers! @cupwsttp.bsky.social

1. Gruber tagged Sanders 2. Choo held his bat out like that on purpose 3. Springer hit it fair and that wasn’t a strike

Oh come on

Happy Harvest

Me to Graystone on Friday afternoons:

Going to be close but I think I can slide in just in time

“Two dippy dogs and get me the hell out of here”

No, Blood on the Tracks came out 51 years ago. collider.com/bob-dylan-al...

Vacation mode fully engaged

If I simply e-transfer the bully my lunch money on Sunday, surely he won’t come looking for more during the week. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Wow she took the advice Blaine Higgs gave to healthcare workers

Didn’t think this vacation would happen, but now that it is, it was an easy t-shirt choice for the flight tonight.

“Get you home? Well no, but we can send you to a country that has a casual relationship with habeas corpus and then abandon you there.”

Message from our members on the front line: nbu.ca/wildland-fir...

Gen Xers love to “flip” you an email.

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

Bryce Harper rules.

❌ doomscrolling ✅ opening up the MLB app and staring at the AL East standings

starting to get the feeling that the Yankees aren't a great defensive team

This Report is so good - I wholeheartedly agree, especially with the “7 Reasons” section beginning on page 16. Labour understands these dynamics and I hope that’s its perspective on leverage and power - as outlined here by Stanford - informs Canada’s strategy.

With Aug.1 looming, so important for Canadian negotiators to stay firm. A bad deal with Trump (with tariffs that would hit Canada harder than almost any other country) is worse than no deal at all. See our Centre for Future Work Cda report: centreforfuturework.ca/2025/07/22/a... #cdneon #canlab /2

From somewhere in Algonquin Provincial Park

Congrats to my fellow 45 year-olds on having somebody our age in MLB again. If only for a start or two, we’re Not Old Yet. As the great poet said, “It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there”.

Took my son fishing this morning and going to visit my dad this evening. aka the Cat’s in the Cradle combo

Re the 35% tariff announcement, I guess today would have been a better day for this thread I posted yesterday re the negotiating choice to scrap the Digital Services Tax… bsky.app/profile/leig...

I often listen to playlists on Spotify while I work. Lately, I’d say at least a third of the time that I think “damn that’s good, wonder who it is” and I check it’s either Waxahatchee or Big Thief.

Wow I guess removing the Digital Services Tax didn't turn out to be the first ever successful preemptive concession in the human history of negotiation after all. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Thanks to my good friends in Dartmouth at @nsgeu.bsky.social for giving me a place to charge up during our meeting

Wrong again, Wing’s

Reflexively blaming NB Power for an outage is nonsensical.

Whenever I’m in a Canadian provincial capital for work I always make time to go for a walk to the provincial legislature. Here’s the Alberta Legislature in Edmonton today. This leaves only Regina that I need to complete the set.

Just got to Edmonton. People seem excited, is there something going on here this week??

Happy May 2-4 (24 mm of rain)

what is fascinating to me is the number of people whose “knowledge” of government appears to just be an accumulation of cliches and stereotypes + an inchoate sense that if something is big and costly then it must necessarily be “wasteful”

The thing is, it’s hard to delicately let these people down. “The reason you think ChatGPT is good is that you are functionally illiterate” is a hard pill to swallow.

Come work with me! NBU is hiring an Executive Assistant to work directly with the President and I. If you’d like to work for a progressive organization in a competitively compensated supporting role, please apply! www.careerbeacon.com/en/job/21372...

Hope it’s permanent.

Very few works of art have moved me the way Lynch’s work did. RIP

Oh no. RIP to one of the best. Mulholland Drive, or maybe the Twin Peaks pilot, for me tonight.

Do you have experience in advocacy? Do you have pro-worker values? Are you a Human Resources professional who’d like to switch sides 😉? Excellent team, great working environment, downtown office, good pay & benefits, unionized, etc. Come work with me! www.careerbeacon.com/en/job/21331...

On the left, my image. On the right, the Al image that was clearly trained on, and designed to plagiarize, my image. All Al generated imagery is inherently theft. It's unethical, environmentally disastrous, and does irreparable harm to both artists and society.

There’s no better Xmas movie than “It’s a Wonderful Life.”

Quick family pre-Christmas vacation in NYC you think to yourself “The kids will be impressed with the big city, but me, I’ve been here before, I’m cool” but then you’re walking down 7th avenue to grab a coffee and get totally starstruck this absolute icon. 🫡

Over lifetime, each additional year of union membership reduces the odds of mortality by 1.5%. Effects primarily occur between ages of 41 and 67. Nice work @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Let’s go

For dinner this evening I’m enjoying Mexican/Middle Eastern fusion cuisine at an exclusive club in Montreal! (stale tortilla chips and hummus at the YUL Air Canada Lounge)

My 9 y/o when I ask him if he knows why I got a password change notification email for my PlayStation account.