Yeah, I think the difference between “the federal government” and “the party in power” is probably my entry for that “What’s something everyone in your job understands that you wish the general public did?” conversation.

“If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention” breeds “If you want everyone to know you’re paying attention, you need to log in every day and compete in the who’s angriest contest.”

Once again, this site has a significant problem with people who cannot distinguish between "here is what the law is"/"here is what happened" and "I endorse that law/what happened."

Avi’s grandfather had once told his father, “‘son, not in my lifetime, but maybe in yours.’” “Recently, my dad told me the same thing: ‘not in my lifetime, maybe in yours,’” Avi shares. “Well dad, I refuse to tell that to my kid. We cannot wait another generation. We’ve got to start winning now.”

Stephen Lewis has passed. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

This is one of those things where if you don’t know anything about Bob Dylan you go “yeah fine whatever”, and if you know a little about Bob Dylan you go “how could Bob Dylan do this?” and if you know a lot about Bob Dylan you go “yeah fine whatever”

There is, I think, a pervasive idea in the American culture that other countries aren’t, for lack of a better way to put it, real. Not as real as America, at least, or not real in any independent way beyond their relationship to America. There are other countries, sure, but America’s the main one.

And look, there are plenty of Americans who know a surprising amount about Canadian politics, including many who know it because they chose to live here. We all know that. It’s just that they tend to get drowned out by the people who, for example, call the Prime Minister our President.

The more you read, listen, learn and broaden your perspective, the more “political” things tend to seem. That’s largely because the time in your life when things “weren’t so political” was actually a time when you were rarely challenged and/or didn’t understand subtext yet.

At the time of this writing, according to ClearSky, the Attie account is the second most blocked account on BlueSky, trailing JD Vance by less than fifty thousand blocks.

“Forget it, Jake. It’s Big Trouble in Little China.”

Kalshi Rule #1 is “Have fun,” so Rule #2 really comes out of nowhere.

🎵 “INNN SUMMMERRR!” 🎵

A big part of why this worked, of course, is that Canada was and is unusually unified against the threat posed by the United States and their President. The Democrats have a different and arguably much bigger challenge than the Liberals did when they, um, “replaced their president.”

I'm grateful today for the short work week ahead, grateful for time to get a few things done around the house, and grateful for some genuine spring weather. #3Gratitudes

Star Trek: The Next Generation, possibly the best television show ever, is not about spaceships shooting lasers at each other, it is about a man who represents the best of us trying to teach his robot son to be human while debating whether humans even deserve to exist with his best frenemy, God.

“I’m begging of you please don’t take my man.”

Watch the NDP leadership results live. act.ndp.ca/go/15592?t=4...

If you ever feel like your job doesn’t matter, or that you’re not doing it well, just remember that you didn’t go to work today and post this.

Midnight Music Video: Underworld, “Two Months Off” #mmvid

“Everybody’s dead, Dave.” youtu.be/Cl2pvI1nQVU?...

“Macho Business Donkey Wrestler” is rightfully everyone’s favourite bit, but there will always be a special place in my heart for “I lost Bill.” youtu.be/9HpIfgOu0JA?...

I’m closer to fifty than forty, and therefore out of touch with popular culture to a point that I don’t like to make ignorant “You couldn’t do this today!” proclamations, but it does seem like the outright contempt of “Newsradio” for playing by the rules of a prime time sitcom was unique to its era.

If anything, I would love for people to say more positive things about these three criminally underrated comic actresses. Vicki Lewis in particular had to suffer the burden of being “Kathy Griffin but not Kathy Griffin,” which they actually addressed in the show.

Imagine watching “Newsradio” when it first premiered and thinking “Well, I can’t wait to see what the future holds for literally Joe Rogan, Dave Foley, Andy Dick and Phil Hartman.”

For what it’s worth, I’d argue that the “Joe Rogan for the Canadian left” is probably someone like Dean Blundell.

The window in which to scam investors and venture capitalists into funding a bold new AI actor named Plesse Jemons feels like it’s rapidly closing.

There’s always a risk, when conducting a poll or a study, of influencing your sample group by doing so. In this case, for example, a lot of the people in that 26% probably went on to Google “Joe Rogan.”

I’m by no means a “The Internet isn’t real life” type of guy, but I think it’s both instructive and encouraging to think that fully a quarter of Canadians don’t know who Joe Rogan is.

TFW when you eat too much cotton candy at the fair and throw up on Charlie Daniels.

Kids today don’t know what it was like to come of age during the seven years between Billy Joel denying that his generating started the fire and Keith Flint finally confessing that he did.

“Pee-wee’s Big Adventure” was, in many ways, an homage to the classic film “The Bicycle Thief” (or “Ladri di biciclette” in the original Italian). So that’s a fun thing you can bust out the next time you want someone to go away and leave you alone at a party.

An obvious effort, in my humble opinion, to avoid saying “Lolita” because Sting was absolutely the kind of guy who wanted to make sure you knew he’d read the book and hadn’t just watched the movie.

Me watching “Highlander” with my kids: “That’s Mr. Krabs.”

It’s tough to imagine anyone being more satisfied with a rhyme than Sting obviously was with “that book by Nabokov.”

“Americans’ employment prospects must be truly dire if Natalie’s son Trevor is still stuck working at Best Buy.” theonion.com/economists-w...

I’m going to go ahead and share this short because the “Rob Reiner rules” of it far outweighs the “Bill Maher sucks” of it. Jerry O’Connell strikes me as a chaotic good, but your mileage may vary. youtube.com/shorts/CxlOi...

@plorry.bsky.social Hey, hello!

I'm grateful today for an early morning walk to practice with my youngest, grateful for a quiet Wednesday at the office, and grateful for grad photos. #3Gratitudes

This is a fair argument in general, but it misses the point when it’s applied to Rowling in particular, as it is here, because the problem here is one of commerce, not art. Specifically, the problem of Rowling using the money she makes from this franchise to harm the trans community.

There’s something so perfectly “AI” about those YouTube shorts where they take a clip from a movie or show, strip out the pauses in the dialogue, and just spit the lines out at you in a series of jump cuts. All of the basic information, none of the humanity.

Today is David Suzuki’s 90th birthday. Donations made to the David Suzuki Foundation before midnight tonight will be matched. secure.davidsuzuki.org/page/185566/...

I’m grateful today for the sunrise over the city, grateful for a good night’s rest, and grateful for the return to my daily routines. #3Gratitudes

[rogue wave about to swallow my neighbourood] i can't believe david suzuki fucked this up so bad. you had one job jerk ass.

It would be unfair to call this “youth pastor energy” because at least the youth pastor stands for something.

A fun thing that Anthrax, AC/DC and Van Halen have in common is that each of them, for a time, had a member who was another member’s nephew.

Yeah, I’m not the type to make fun of a kid, but this adult man is fair and frankly easy game.

There will, of course, be people lining up to scold you for not being “the better person” if you say something like this when Trump dies. When that day comes, take solace in the fact that you have always been, and will always be, a better person that Trump.

“My son, Saxon,” is pretty much already the point at which I’m looking over your shoulder, pretending someone I know has just arrived, and saying “I’m sorry, but would you excuse me?”

My brother Jon got mentioned on “The Tonight Show” this week for pretty much the weirdest possible reason. youtu.be/S7EcxApPb7Y?...