Can I just give a shoutout to my local independent cinema, Toronto's historic REVUE CINEMA Over 3 days they've got screenings w/ Q&As with Matt Johnson, Jacob Tierney, Emily Hampshire, Ben McKenzie, a John Waters midnight screening presented in ~odorama~, & Atom Egoyan. Indie cinema Murderer's Row.

Burying the lede a bit: Kevin Gausman also shotgunned a beer with Nylander on stage last night. Nylander is on vacation until September and Gausman starts at 1:30 this afternoon

MITCH MARNER IN THE 2026 PLAYOFFS In games where Vegas is facing elimination: 🤮 0 G / 0 A / 0 P 🤮 In Game 7s: 🤢 0 G / 0 A / 0 P 🤢 Did the Leafs dodge a bullet? 🤔💭

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The Knicks returning to the Garden for Game 3:

The thing about the original Littlest Hobo is that, as a show, it was bad! It's a bad show with a catchy theme song! But 21 Jump Street was ALSO a bad 80s show with a catchy theme song, and they ALSO managed to reboot that (in the loosest sense possible) into a modern comedy classic. So hey! Maybe!

Separatism is only polling at 15% in Alberta. To put 15% in context: 21% of Canadians believe that sasquatch is real. You are more likely to meet a sasquatch believer in Alberta than a separatist.

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Looks like the translators went a bit too hard on the Jazz Fest website

Elon Musk says that 82% of the entire U.S. economy is about to be based around a racist chatbot. In response to this, the stock market has agreed to prop up SpaceX in a welfare scheme by getting it fast-tracked into major indices so that every 401k, pension plan and mutual fund is forced to buy in.

When my 5-year-old nephew in French Immersion says "six sept" but I have to begrudgingly applaud his use of French

Every pub trivia night starts with the host having to do a little ramble of rules that's like - the Wham!/George Michael Principle - the England/Taiwan/Palestine Decree - the Saoirse/Antetokounmpo Regulations on Orthography - the Surname Directives and the Cher Corollary

Elbows Up (Against Your Own Caucus Colleagues)

Say what you want about the Billy Bishop takeover, it's objectively funny that Ford's two biggest developments in Toronto are: -A fancy waterfront spa -Extending an airport runway to a point approximately two football fields from the fancy waterfront spa

FANS: what's the name of this creature who plays a horn in Mos Eisley with 4 seconds of screentime STAR WARS: that is Bloop Zorpo the Fnarl player, here is a 7-page biography FANS: Grogu and Yoda look exactly alike, are they related? what species are they? SW: it is illegal for you to ask me that

Fans at the World Cup going to the Coca Cola-owned concession stands:

That "82-0" game will let you put together, like, Draymond Green, Ron Artest, Charles Oakley, Chris Paul & Bill Laimbeer and say "bleep bloop yes that is a 70 win team". ABSOLUTELY disagree. That is a zero win team. That team doesn't escape training camp alive. That team's banned by the UN.

Your guide to where to watch the World Cup in Toronto to cheer for your team

the Golden Knights truly have it all - a reminder of the failures of our criminal justice system - rat-faced Trump lover - miserable hardass afraid of reporters - the guy they'd pretend was injured to avoid salary cap rules - guy who did nothing wrong but will MAKE MY LIFE SO ANNOYING if he wins

IMPORTANT UPDATE: The person who originally saw this broadcast and took the pictures of the TV is currently the Icelandic Ambassador to the US.

stray observations as a Jays fans

Biggie Buys a SNES. Oldie but a goodie.

I remember for a previous World Cup the newspaper tried to do a map of all of the "official bars" in the city for supporters of all of the different countries in the tournament and they couldn't find a Sweden bar so they just told people to go to Ikea

Something odd about this site: every so often, you'll post about something and get, like, 100 replies/50 quotes of people just "yes, and-ing" you. People are too scared to start their own topic, but now that YOU brought up - I dunno - pillows, boom, here's 100 strangers' opinions & riffs on pillows

French Mets fans:

I do love trains, and I love sports documentaries, but there's something funny about a docuseries about taking the train to soccer games on a continent where it's largely impossible to take the train to soccer games

These Canada third jerseys......

Rare year for the Canadian Screen Awards where the TV show that won everything (Heated Rivalry) and the movie that won everything (Nirvanna) are both *real things* that *people watched.* Usually in Canada we can only have one but not the other.

🎵So no one told you wife was 🎵Gonna be this gay

Apparently X has been on a barrage of suspending thousands of accounts for "inauthentic behavior" over the past couple days. www.reddit.com/r/Twitterhelp is overrun with people who've had decade-old accounts nuked for just doing normal stuff like liking posts Lots of suspicion it's AI-powered mods

Welcome to Bluesky, here are today's topics - CBS News (a TV show 90% of us don't watch) - Maine politics (a state 99% of us don't live in) note that the topics have remained the same every day for the past 6 months and you're expected to contribute 3+ posts per day on each

This must be nuts for Victoria Mboko. She's NINETEEN and the greatest to ever do it is coming out of retirement to say "but only if I get to play doubles with you." That's gotta feel like Chosen One shit.

I watched Survivor for the first time in, like, 20 years this season. Overall I liked it! But reading reviews from the hardened, never-gave-up, all-50-seasons fans, I saw a lot of Jeff hate. Fans did NOT like all of his "This is the BIGGEST season" "The CRAZIEST twist" "The BIGGEST episode" hype...

God, if Google does this to their built-in calculator next?? I do pretty much all my math by just typing it into the Google search box and if one day I type "87/4" and it says "it looks like you're asking about an unusual musical time signature!" I'm becoming the Unabomber

Disingenuous conservative guys think that railroad tracks are "a Berlin Wall" that will carve rural areas apart from their neighbours but also think that we need more highways, which somehow do not carve areas apart

this finance CEO bought an old downtown restaurant, renamed it after himself, and is talking like he invented the concept of "a pub" (I checked their menu and they charge $42 for fish & chips)

This is good but the main thing is: these guys don't want to make art -- they want to *have made art.* They want people to look at the art they can't bother making and praise and respect them for it. Because generally they feel they deserve the world's respect without doing anything to earn it.

Canada sent a Celebrini/Crosby line to the Worlds and we lost to a team with as many players who play in the Swedish third division (1) as the NHL (1)

The World Cup is about celebrating exotic host nation cultures

the stereotypical small town story is of the pitcher who gets away with sexual harassment because they can throw a fastball at 95 mph. the era we are in is ruled by the guy who never made the team but bets on the game, but still somehow loudly gets away with the open sexual harassment

I fear the World Cup is going to usher in a new golden age of Guys Saying Sportsball on this website

coffee: the bean juice

Waterloo Region Excellence is back baby, Blackberry is suddenly the darling of the tech sector again (they pivoted from phones to automotive software that's installed in most new cars, became profitable again for the first time in years, and their stock's nearly tripled since March)