The Liberals having a majority is bad. The Liberals having a majority in the way that they got it is worse.

My pet peeviest of pet peeves is when people asterisk their speech. Like if you're gonna say fuck, say fuck. Don't say f*ck. If you don't wanna say fuck, say something else. Fuck off.

My mother is an intelligent woman but I just had to have a full on argument to explain to her that a famous musician's father not being on his wikipedia page doesn't mean that he's "not in the picture" and in fact if that WAS the case the likelihood is that it would say "estranged father" somewhere.

Can't afford to be a Patreon supporter of The Downside with @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social right now, so this is my pitch to someone to use my this has gotta stop for their patron submission:

Rain + Stars. It always makes me sappy.

Been playing a bit of Marvel Snap lately; wild how I know as soon as I see Wong, I know I'm going to lose and it's going to annoy me.

There's (going to be) A LOT of this....

The pundit and columnist class meltdown from folks who have never supported the NDP honestly suggests to me that the NDP is doing something significant that’s worth paying attention to. Those who defend power tend to screech the loudest when power is genuinely threatened.

Seeing takes (already) that Lewis should moderate. And it's understandable, given the success of Prime Minister Tom Mulcair. Moderating the NDP away from their first principles certainly lead to success upon success, because it's what NDP voters want - grits in Orange.

I am more and more of the opinion that Don Callis is the best heel commentator since Jesse Ventura.

idk man, it feels against the NDP's traditions to do something smart and reasonable.

Kinda hate it when people say like "THE BOOKS AREN'T EVEN GOOD" when saying people shouldn't support the bad TERF lady. It kinda implies that if they were good by your estimation then giving more money to their problematic author would be fine.

this is a wonderful sentiment except jk rowling also gets paid and can do things with that money, so it's a wonderful sentiment until you think about it longer than 0.0000000993 seconds.

Deeply interesting, that.

Having read a couple of articles on it, this really reads like they fell for a phishing scam but didn't give the money away. Like I get a "we have video of you jacking off" scam every once in a while too. Idk, seems weird.

The MLA that got hacked is a former IT professional lmao.

Replace Rousey with Nyla Rose.

We do not want Ronda Rousey. We do not need Ronda Rousey. Not now, not ever. Trans rights up in this motherfucker.

I like watching youtube chefs doing youtube chef things and I often get a lot of great ideas for meals from them. That said, the one thing I cannot get next to is the obsession these guys seem to have with crumbling ground beef to the point it basically isn't a solid anymore.

Update on this - multiple times she has made the case that leftists voting 3rd party is why she lost. If that's the case, if leftists hold THAT MUCH electoral power, maybe a candidate who says with their whole chest that Israel is committing a genocide is appropriate?

So I'm reading the Kamala Harris "My Campaign Was So Short And That's Definitely Why I Lost" book and lemme just say...oof.

So I have started watching Survivor from the beginning. I'm 4 episodes in and I'm gonna just park this thread here for my occasional musings on it.

If the NSNDP was able to organize a large protest they also would have been able to organize an election victory.

There's a lot that can be said about Disney being a net negative on the world, but this might be their greatest crime.

When you have an audience or a business you have to ensure that you always provide a lot more value to people than you extract from them. If you don't then, long term, it all breaks down. Young people I talk to today...they feel like the whole entire world has broken this contract with them.

My god what a group of unrepentant dweebs

Is this the best joke I've ever made? Maybe.

My weird hot take for the day is that Brutal Bob Evans and Lance Storm look like they're related and you can't convince me otherwise.

Hey I'm late to the party but Dispatch - really good.

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The only pie discourse I'm involved in is a nearly 20 year old bit (that I do not recall the origins of) where I insist that @pamcg.bsky.social hates pie

So like I don't really mind self-censorship to get around content blocks on certain platforms (e.g. unalive) because that's just the game that has to be played in order to talk about certain topics that need discussing. When an adult goes out of their way to say "f***" instead of fuck, I lose it.

Nowadays, everybody wanna talk like they got somethin' to say But nothin' comes out when they move their lips Just a bunch of gibberish And motherfuckers act like they forgot about the gunpowder treason and plot.

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

I think the Jays would've won if Mattingly had trimmed his sideburns.

Reading a book I'm not gonna name; it's set in contemporary-ish America. I'm half-way through it and was enjoying it till the chapter I just landed on where we got 5 jokes about "woke" aphorisms (I suppose) and a reference to an 18 year old as a millennial. I'm tired, boss.

Hey - I'm willing to admit my thread from earlier was wrong based on this information.

lmao the Coast has fallen OFF.

Ugh. Not saying it's fine but "Man in his 20s picks a skull without knowing it's nazi shit" seems at least *as* likely as "Man in his 20s is a nazi and picks nazi shit". Again, not saying that it's *fine*, I'm saying it could be an honest mistake. Mistakes should still be rectified, mind you. (🧵1/3)

The kind of winning political message that worked so well for Democrats last election cycle.

I like Some More News and their podcasts but hate their ad reads and that is my curse.

Yeah, I don't like Wordpress; this is what I've learned so far. What do you mean I need to have a premium account to change the fucking colours? Get the fuck out of here.

Mostly I need this because otherwise it means creating a fucking blog and I both want and don't want to do that. Fuck, now I'm thinking about making a blog. Fuck.

I need there to be a goodreads for podcasts please. And like I know *some* things exist but I don't need it to be a podcast listening app, I just wanna rate podcasts without being attached to a listening app or Apple. Thanks in advance to you, person who makes this happen.

Recently found out that someone I was friendly with but not super close to is a somewhat closet conservative. I confronted her about this. She told me I was attacking her (I hadn't, I challenged her for sharing a TRULY CRINGE Poilievre video), and then said "agree to disagree should make a comeback"

Just flown in from Riyadh, and boy are my excuses tired

lmao why does this exist

I need someone to challenge The Majority Report on their "well we can't criticize the Rihyad Comedy Festival because the US is also bad" take. It's not the equivalency that they're calling it and it's annoying.

I choose to treat these things as linked, @josie.zone. I don't know how you're colluding with Garfield and the Possums, but I know you are.

Decided LOTR was a good movie series to throw on in the background while I work. I know I'm not the first to make this observation, but Gandalf being blown away that his friend whose name is basically "Evil McVillain" is in league with the BBEG is never not funny to me.