First of the month is New Contact Lens day! And there is nothing better than New Contact Lens Day during allergy season. 🫪🤧

In true Canadian fashion, the networks will now promptly cancel every single nominated show. #CDNscreenawards

Congratulations to Jackson Parrell, DP on both winning shows tonight, Heated Rivalry AND North of North!! He is the GOAT.

Best Comedy Series! North! Of! North! North! Of! North! 🤞🤞🤞

While we're talking Canadian TV, it didn't win its category, but Stuff the British Stole is *wonderful*. I highly recommend both the TV series and the podcast. Streaming on CBC Gem. #CDNScreenAwards

Are they really pretending there is any tension about which show has won the audience choice? #CDNscreenawards

If I have to watch this "safer Ontario" ad one more time, I am going to stuff Doug Ford into one of his new fucking prisons, I swear to god.

CBC Gem is using the Canadian Screen Awards to play ads for #NorthOfNorth and #HeatedRivalry. Like, guys, I guarantee anyone watching this does not need to learn about the existence of those two shows.

WOO!! Anna!! #CSA #NorthOfNorth

Ooh! Everlasting is on sale for $2.99! This book is what you get if you turn How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying inside out and upside down, until you end up with something beautiful and heartbreaking and full of yearning. It’s also an exploration of the power and purpose of storytelling.♥️

🇨🇦 Canadian voice actors! We're looking for talent to voice our cast for @polyfightergame.bsky.social 🖤 If you're a VA that's either local in Montréal, Québec or are located in Canada with a home studio, please consider submitting your reel. (I can't accept DMs about this; submission form below!)

Can I set this as an auto-response to every email demanding to know how I enjoyed my customer experience?

4/ It’s time for the countries of the world to rally and stop this impunity before it takes another sovereign country into chaos. We have to come to Cuba's aid. What's happening is too cruel, too horrible.

Autistic women have an “advantage” here in that most of us were forced to learn to mask at a young age. But it’s also why most of us are horrifyingly burnt out.

Me: I was really early last time, so I’ll leave the house 15 min later this time. TTC: did you know we can make it take 35 min to travel 6 stops on the Yonge line? Let us show you how… 😭

How we went from “we should oppose the use of state power for personal vengeance” to “what about a fictional edge case, we don’t want that person to FEEL BAD” is why, frankly we liberals lose.

This morning when I woke up, my digital Garmin watch read 1:55am. It was actually nearly 8. When I went downstairs, neither of the cat’s automated food dishes had opened. They’re set to go off at 2:30 and 5:30am. I have watched way too much sci-fi to be comfortable with this.

A ham-handed attempt to protect kids thinks it's a good idea to turn all our data over to the cops without a warrant. (More info up-thread, if you're curious.) Sign this petition to shut that shit down. I did. You should too.

5/ There's an official petition to withdraw C-22, sponsored by NDP MP @jennykwan.bsky.social. More than 2,600 Canadians have signed. We need more. Add your name and ask others to do the same while it's still at committee: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

They’re doing a reading of the unproduced Slings and Arrows prequel pilot at the Stratford Festival on July 26. All my passions combined!

When I voted for Mark Carney’s LPC, I wasn’t voting to undo all the hard-fought for achievements of the Trudeau LPC. I did NOT vote to undo the carbon tax, environmental protections, investment in sustainable energy, universal daycare and pharmacare. I did NOT vote for fossil fuel expansion.

Directed by Chris Abraham! OH, I am tempted...

Fans of SLINGS & ARROWS - here is something you will LOVE! The creators have a NEW SHOW in the works. About the (fictionalized) origins of the Stratford Festival. And they're doing a LIVE READING of the first two episodes. AT the Stratford Festival! Sunday, July 26th. 7:30pm Pass it on...

My Life as a House Gifted

I haven’t seen one of these in *decades*. I wonder if their doughnuts still taste of cigarettes? Can you still get a contact high from the nicotine in the Formica? 😂

Sometimes you do have to suck it up and clean out the bowl with the thing slowly achieving stinky sentience in the back of your fridge - as punishment for all the times you just threw the whole container away.

Beavers are infrastructure

Here’s a new facet of the capitalist hellscape I encountered yesterday: They’ve started forcing the “rate your experience” bullshit into the payment terminals. You have to rate before you can complete your purchase. You can X out, but JFC.

We all literally, LITERALLY just watched NASA fly four absolute all-stars the farthest any human has ever been from Earth and back flawlessly, and yet we're still continuously forced to pretend Musk's bullshit catastrophe factory is the future of human space exploration

I refuse to give money to Spotify, but I’ve really been wanting a place to stream music. So I’m experimenting with Deezer which a) is NOT an American tech company, and b) has a better (not great, but better) system for compensating artists. So far it also has all the songs I want.

This is a cat checkpoint; relinquish your most recent cat photo.

Hey Bluesky, here's a gift link to my column on Colbert getting sucked into a wormhole. It's probably the only one to note that the 1135pm slot on CBS pre-Late Show was Crimetime after Primetime and filled with Canadian imports like Forever Knight. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e60f469...

@chadbourn.bsky.social @twmcltd.bsky.social I think this video deserves more attention that media is giving it. While I admit it's absolutely Pro European, it is verifiable in it's core message and should serve as a warning for the Pentagon @mcfaulmike.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDKd...

Question for the class: is "built like a brick shithouse" a commonly used descriptor in North America or more a British thing? Part of me is going "yeah, it's fine" and the other part is saying it's too vulgar to put into a script, and I'm wondering if that's a British vs Canadian thing?

Vital thread. Very solid explanation. If you're a white person and have felt threatened by the term, read this and share it.

I've spent an unreasonable amount of time this week working out what day it is.

What we need to survive: Funded and accessible education Independent bookstores and presses Removing the class of landlords Co-op housing Gender-affirming health care Indigenous sovereignty Deep ecologies Non-human species kinship Accessible neighborhoods Arts and creativity over profit

You want to *invert* his taxes. He gets to keep 0.98% from now on. The rest gets taken.

I. DO NOT. TALK. TO COMPUTERS.

We’re at the stage of spring where I have four weights of coats and three weights of pyjamas on standby at all times. 😂

Here’s the thing. Our brains can do SO MUCH MORE than most people realize. We lost a stunning amount when we adopted writing. So instead of letting bullshit LLMs steal even more from us, take a minute to learn what we could work to get back instead. The key, as always, is music and dance and art!

I don’t know what this place actually is, but the idyllic setting + brutalist architecture + weird fucking vents + completely abandoned (holiday weekend) = full-on horror movie vibes. This is the place that smallpox or the fucking demagorgon is going to escape from, I STG.

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Horror movie: Canadian edition. Holiday long weekend. On Route parking lot is FULL. You finally make it to the front of the line at Tim Hortons… and it’s the cashier’s first day on the job. 😱 She got both our orders wrong, but we escaped with our lives and a box of Timbits so we’re calling it a win

On the road today but not driving, which means I have the attention to spare for bad signage. Just passed one in the oncoming lane. The English said “wrong way.” The French (translated) said “back up.” I feel like those are two very different messages.

Here's an example of a linguistic fact that I think should be straightforward and obvious when pointed out, but which a lot of people seem surprisingly resistant to: Colloquial Latin never died. In fact it's spoken extremely widely across the world. 🧵

Yes to all this! And also it is a crime show where the people who are harmed A) are not women B) richly fucking deserve it. The show’s commitment to poetic justice is SO satisfying. And it achieves all of this because it is planted so firmly in the female gaze.

1/ It’s time to build affordable homes, a national network of public grocery stores, electric buses and an east-west clean energy grid. Not massive corporate AI data centres unleashed without any democratic debate. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Evergreen.

Today we drove past a cybertruck wrapped in an ad for a realtor - presumably the owner - parked in front of a crappy bungalow in the suburbs. Every single adult in my car, simultaneously and unprompted, reacted with a noise like they’d just stepped in dog shit. Truly the worst wrap I have seen yet.