The Ford government has been so chaotically fiscally irresponsible that literally billions of dollars have been wasted, misspent, or misappropriated. How did Rae Days make countless boomers terrified to ever vote NDP again, but the Cons get away with this over and over.

The framing of this is hilarious: Democrats deeply worried about the repercussions of a victory www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/m...

I will never forgive Andrew Wakefield, Jenny McCarthy, the Parents' Rights movement, every "just asking questions" anti-data asshole, and everyone who thinks that reading some blog posts "doing my own research" is more valuable than rigorous scientific study. More dead children, more disability.

No more Black or trans staffers. No politics of any kind. The cowardice of mainstream media isn't just insulting, it's *boring.* Now TV is just like any other beauty rag. Why not just kill it quickly? Why the slow-motion pretense?

“Libertarians are like house cats, they’re convinced of their fierce independence while dependent on a system they don’t appreciate or understand.”

After texting with my BFF Jeff I am now confused and wondering if it's just cishet guys who don't seem to get Cronenberg's humour, because he was uncertain about even The Fly being funny beyond Goldblum being an inherently funny actor. What is going on.

Not having seen Texas Chain Saw Massacre was part of why I was diagnosed w autism (or rather, seeking out dozens of podcasts/essays/reviews for 2yrs w no intent to see it) Well I finally watched it, so GREAT NEWS I'm not autistic anymore

There's this constantly regurgitated talking point among Movie People that Cronenberg's filmmaking is humourless (stated offhand as a given), and I get increasingly DERANGED every time I hear it. Cronenberg is a very deliberately funny and sly filmmaker, and has been since 1975.

September 1990 - despite almost a decade of AIDS activism and tens of thousands of deaths, citizen activists are still accused of 'social hysteria'

One of the hardest things for me to reckon w is that my precautions started w facts. And the facts didn't change (they got worse). All that changed was everyone else got tired of precautions. I had no exceptions w seatbelts, bike helmets, and condoms when I was single, why would this be different?

Kind of want to write a book called "The Neurodivergent's Guide to Surviving a Pandemic"™️ and the main premise of the book is that we don't care when neurotypical people tell us "but everyone else has moved on"

Me when a podcast ranks Crash (1996) as a top 7 Erotic HORROR film of all time. My boy David's whole filmography of horny horror is right there, and you choose one of the few not-remotely-horror options?? It is the best Canadian movie ever made, my favourite Cronenberg, but STILL

I have been a Scream fan for almost 30 years, and not even Matthew Lillard can get me to watch the new one after the way they treated Melissa Barrera for speaking up for Palestinians 🖕🖕

NYT editorial I will meet you with the emperor's blade in my hand

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

Two murals I finished last week-- if I could just do murals in Toronto forever as my whole job I would be in heaven. Featuring: some of the goofiest medieval animals I could find.

A fundamental issue with watching Lost is that I don't care about men's "honor" but they sure do

love to see it. curious which unions will respond

All posthumous publishing of a writer's work is a profound transgression unless they explicitly wanted it released, and yes that means I think that Kafka being important is not a good enough reason to violate his wishes. Also applies to CGI depictions of dead actors even if their family approved.

Watched Poltergeist for the first time last night at the tender age of 38 because @youaregood.bsky.social made me cry talking about Zelda Rubinstein's HIV/AIDS PSA. A beautiful story of the hottest pot-smoking parents in your suburb ignoring their son's crippling anxiety disorder. I truly loved it.

I prefer most foods kinda warm. I let hot foods cool down because I have a sensitive baby mouth (if it's steaming, it's too hot), and I like to microwave cold and room temp foods (pasta salad, sandwiches, most baked goods) for 15-25 seconds to take the chill off.

If I crashed on a desert island, I wouldn't be in any kind of a leadership role... unless it was the Lost island, because day two I'm staging a coup against this killer cop nightmare.

I don't think some people understand the romantic era or the gothic very well tbh. a large part of the gothic is the tension between what is deemed repulsive and what is deemed attractive (I know you know this) and a lot of ppl lol some who are on the gothic train now are like huh?

It’s funny when i see people complain about del toros Frankenstein being hot bc like That’s kind of del toros whole bag??? Fuckable romantic monsters????

A new study in the Southeastern US concludes that it's pointless to try to stop the spread of coyotes. Well, duh. Better to coexist. Besides, I once saw a coyote use a crosswalk... while someone jaywalked 50 feet away. So they may be smarter than us.

Easily the stupidest of my ailments is severe motion sickness. It's so embarrassing to show up somewhere like "I frew up :( "

I often say that conservatives want to repeal the various Civil Rights Act but it’s probably more accurate to say they want to overturn the Reconstruction amendments.

I hope her decades in Cuba had her feeling free and powerful and loved at the end.

A message from Assata Shakur's daughter, Kakuya Shakur:

Me everytime I see you using AI www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfI2...

📮 55,000 postal workers are on strike. With CBC, Canadians see the real stakes: protecting public services, workers’ rights & rural communities. This is why we fight to #SaveTheCBC-- strong public reporting protects democracy. 📌 r.pebmac.ca/https://www....

We lost a warrior, a freedom fighter, a visionary, someone who changed the way I see the world. May Assata Shakur rest in power with the ancestors!

the original is a banger:

What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color Every queer press org should be picking up this story

#Medsky🧪 #IDSky #Immunosky #publichealth A new comprehensive peer reviewed (161 studies and over 2 mil patients) clearly states that #COVID is not just a cold. It’s a multi-system disease that can leave lasting damage to multiple organs e.g🧠 ,kidneys, 🫁 🫀 often without obvious symptoms.

No one talks about highways and police departments "running deficits" and "being unprofitable" and they damn well shouldn't talk about transit, libraries, or the post office that way either.

I’m getting my Covid booster today at Shoppers. They’re available now in Ontario even think no one is telling you that.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

Maybe James Gunn is the only real Wife Guy because he wrote Harcourt in Peacemaker. Like, what a fucking role to write for your wife, knowing that she would obliterate the performance. Jennifer Holland picking messy bar fights is somehow the most emotionally compelling choice in the series.

He may play a CREEP but Mark Duplass is a stand-up guy, as Duplass Brothers Productions is teaming up with the Transgender Film Center to launch the Found Footage Fund for trans filmmakers.

Just a reminder that the CDC's guidance during the Biden admin was largely based on economic factors and not to do with Covid changing. They changed the isolation from 10 to 5 days because airlines demanded it, despite knowing that you are still contagious after 5 days, and everyone bought it.

Instead, Biden pulled a Bush "mission achieved" declaring the pandemic over and COVID defeated, even though it very much was not (and still is not).

Emily Oster is so high on my list of Celebrities To Challenge To A Boxing Match for her cherrypicking of data and immeasurably harmful covid minimizing. We're sacrificing an entire generation of kids on the altar of wanting to act "normal."

THIS!!! Autism has always been a thing. Understanding, diagnosis, and scientific review has not. Knowledge constantly evolves.

I am so tickled to see that I am The Bluesky Age

Us not being able to sell MANHUNT suddenly makes a lot more sense this past week

1200 people currently unfindable from just one facility, with a high likelihood that they've been secretly shipped off to random countries they are not even from (a Cuban man in the article was secretly forced into Mexico without his family or lawyer's knowledge).

This pilot experiment PAID FOR ITSELF. Ireland spent $105 million on artists providing them basic income, and saw that drop to $72 million after accounting for economic impacts, then with $80 million in psychological wellbeing impacts, that dropped to -$8 million.