In an Uber ride on the highway, passing businesses with dubious names: “Forest Paving” and “Cobra Doors,” which are both bad ideas.

We live in creative times.

Nervous about Rosh Hashana family lunch with a lot of normies today. Lovely people, but they get their worldview exclusively from big centrist to centre-right news outlets. Will I hold my tongue? Will I remain calm if I speak up? All episodes now streaming.

There was only one good scene in the first ep of “Black Rabbit,” the scene where Jason Bateman is betting his coins robbed. The rest was utterly banal and cliché and ungrounded. Actors were talking, not living—even Jude Law. Boring.

Tag yourself. I’m ‘Vintage’.

AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities - on.ft.com/3IuZ5qz via @FT

Pink blunt

The summer’s last batch of dill pickles is doing its thing!

Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok. They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post. They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets. “Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.

And enough posts about American insanity. I’m now here to ask… What the heck is going on with the editing in Stephen Soderberg’s “Black Bag”? Especially in the dinner party scene? What is the point of those jarring camera angle changes?

For those who missed it, here's my obituary for Charlie Kirk, a man who made the world worse every day he drew breath. www.patreon.com/posts/on-vio...

MAGA eats your family pets. What? “If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do.”

The same people who bragged about "creating" the Haitian dog-eating story now demand that comedians have their facts exactly accurate at all times, or else the power of the federal government will be unleashed on them. www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

This is the correct response, and so few are as brave as Gretchen. Welcome back to Bluesky!

“Uh, Ms. Corday… just one more thing…”

Reskeet with your mental state

Trans rights are human rights. And making trans people legally less than other humans is a blueprint for doing it to other groups. “Trans people are porn.” “Immigrants are criminal.” “Women with agency are antisocial.”

Uh-oh! I found a shed xenomorph carapace near the baseball field. This might be it, folks!!

Fuck me. I was listening to @marcmaron.bsky.social ‘s very good interview with Jamie Lee Curtis that went up yesterday, and I had to turn it off when she started crying sentimentally about the death of the Nazi. The world has gone insane (says old man shouting at clouds).

The Liberal Party of Canada has just given a standing ovation to a Nazi. This either means they’re scared of not being seen to follow a dumb trend, or they’re too stupid to know who they’re applauding. Either reason is depressing.

I’m sure that nonstop heads-up distraction will have no negative consequences. “I’m sorry I ran over the dog, officer. I got a notification from Pinterest.“

I just clocked the irony of Ms. Casey's affirmation sessions in the 1st season of #Severance. "Your outie is well-respected, your outie knows how to paint," etc. By the end of season 3, we see that for an innie, the outie can be a symbol of oppression. Knowing they have a great life could suck.

“Community” police cyclists in the busy bike lane between Spadina and Bathurst c. 4:30. They pull over this cyclist for some infraction and, instead of moving the operation to the sidewalk, they block the whole bike lane for five minutes, endangering all the cyclists. @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

Today! I'll be reading between 4 and 5, but making an afternoon of it is highly recommended. So many great writers.

preach, charlie kaufman, preach

So, here’s a thought: does @bsky.app not have a responsibility to say to the community why they are specifically kicking out a member? Do their followers not have a right to know? Is it content with being an axe hanging in the sky, an executioner poised to strike at any time without explanation?

My short story collection, TO WRAP YOURSELF IN LIGHT, is now available as a Kobo ebook! Also available in softcover and ebook from Amazon. More sources coming soon. #lgbtbooks #sfbooks #queerbooks #shortstory www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...

Gretchen Felker-Martin getting her comic cancelled for echoing this exact sentiment is *wildly* on-the-nose

It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.

@jay.bsky.team Charlie Kirk dies, and suddenly this man of hate-speech is lauded by everyone. Gretchen Felker-Martin makes a joke critical of the violence he has perpetuated and inspired and gets kicked off Bluesky. Protect queer and progressive voices, not just fascist ones. Unacceptable.

@moderation.bsky.app Charlie Kirk dies, and suddenly this man of hate-speech is lauded by everyone. Gretchen Felker-Martin makes a joke critical of the violence he has perpetuated and inspired and gets kicked off Bluesky. Protect queer and progressive voices, not just fascist ones. Unacceptable.

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

Treatments. #photography

Ontario taxpayers are on the hook for at least $2.2B to pay for a private spa and a parking lot that they’ll have to pay to use but Doug Ford says “photo radar is a tax grab!”

Doug Ford believes in street carnage. He is more than indifferent to deaths by automobile, he is actively taking steps to increase the numbers.

This Saturday, Glad Day Bookshop, the world's longest-running queer bookstore re-opens at its new location, 32 Lisgar St., near Queen St. W. and Ossington. A great line-up of queer Toronto writers will be reading all afternoon. I'm on between 3 and 4. Come and give Glad Day some love and support!

Increasingly, I believe that politicians of all stripes, and globally, are looking at the Trump regime and saying, “Hey, it’s working for him. I should try all that!” Too many politicians want this kind of dictatorial power, and believe, in their excessive hubris, that they will wield it fairly. 1/2

Flowers and their shadows #photography

Toronto could be a world-class biking city. We just have to fight the traditional mindsets and their irrationality.

haha, NO, Ingram Spark, I won't. They asked me to fill out a survey on how I ended up using them, and then wouldn't let me submit it unless I clicked a box agreeing to receive marketing material.

This is good to see after another clown video from a suburban councillor candidate “proving” that a priority bus lane should be removed to “stop congestion.”

The fetch maniac in action. #corgisofbluesky #cardigancorgi

The difference between the text of the post and the headline of the article below it is staggering

Carol Burnett talking to the audience. That’s my sister, Joan and her friend, Liz Allemang at 1:08, pretending to be French Canadian, presenting Carol with a bucket-sitting award in honour of her charwoman character. Joan introduces herself to Carol as Jeanne Librehomme. youtu.be/ar3BCMhjn4A?...

The #algorithms at work. If I watch a new creator on YouTube, I’ll get a few recs for their channel in the days to follow. But I watched one video about 9/11 and one of airplane accidents, and I’ve been FLOODED with recs on those topics for days. Trying to suck me into high emotions and conspiracy.

Morning walk #photography

Björk is the inspiration for the day: It takes courage to enjoy it The hardcore and the gentle Big-time sensuality

Post for writers and editors: I just came across a “He released a breath he didn't realize he'd been holding” in the wild!

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”