I’m so saddened by the loss of Alice Wong, truly one of the good ones, to whom community-building came naturally. A great writer, activist, and person. bsky.app/profile/sesm...

He is remembered as a “Friends star,” but Matthew Perry wanted his legacy to be helping others. Matthew Perry House is making that happen, hosting a star-studded fundraiser with @makemusicmatter.bsky.social tonight. @jeyantvo.bsky.social spoke with Perry’s sister Caitlin Morrison.

(Snarky about the study involving "cognitive rehabilitation." Not about @thesicktimes.org.)

Was going to say something snarky about this part: "The RECOVER-NEURO clinical trial found that 'cognitive rehabilitation' failed in treating Long COVID." But then saw this. Affinity for breakfast, fine. But I could have told them cheese was not protective. thesicktimes.org/2025/11/11/r...

"But even through my twenties, even when I had the chance, I would plunk myself down wherever two roads diverged in a yellow wood. Plunk myself down and wait for Later." Gift link:

"I have allowed myself to lead this little life, when inside me there was so much more. And it's all gone unused. And now it never will be. Why do we get all this life if we don't ever use it? Why do we get all these feelings and dreams and hopes if we don't ever use them?" RIP Pauline Collins.

He has no earthly idea what happened last night or why I’m sad and hungover this morning, which makes me less sad (if no less hungover). Go Jays.

Average anti-Bluesky op-ed: this app is solely an echo chamber for left-wing politics Average Bluesky post: baseball has taken everything from me

Going to read this over and over. And over and over. And over some more.

We are Toronto we luxuriate in misery.

Every single play over the last 30 minutes of this game has had the same vibe as the "two people wrestling for a gun and then it fires and you don't know who was shot" movie trope.

What I wrote to my father earlier today: "Sort of an extension of my rationalization for the endless game of the other evening: if we go down, let's do it while creating a classic!" Text from my sister just now: "It is also probably the best game 7 in memory, right? Time to rationalize, right?"

Life is a meaningless tar-pit of misery. #BlueJays

Baseball is pain. Baseball is also barfing.

The inside of my brain is the colour of John Schneider's face.

Max Scherzer is ageless. He is the Pitcher of Dorian Gray.

Bo Bichette? Where

I like reading stuff by Nat Basen. I will read anything about the Blue Jays. So this worked out nicely for me:

LOSS ANGELES.

Further study reveals that “Toronto Blue Jays” is an anagram for “joyous talent, bro.”

“Los Angeles Dodgers” is an anagram for “draggled looseness.” Do with this information what you will.

YES. YES, I AM. I AM STILL THERE. ARE YOU?

"This historic game is not over yet—on to the 18th!"

We already have Vladimir in this game, all we need is Estragon

I posted this two hours ago.

YES. YES, I AM. I AM STILL THERE. ARE YOU?

If the Blue Jays have to lose, let them lose in the longest game of all time. Thirty innings. Fifty innings. If we lose, let us lose in the longest play-off game ever played.

I decided it was okay to drink just for the baseball game. Might've been a bad idea.

I feel like baseball players should be allowed to re-enter the game if they wear a sufficiently elaborate disguise

It's just—whatever happens now could just be something dumb. Whatever that dumb thing is could determine the mental state of fan bases for possibly decades. Trying to think that's a beautiful thing. #BlueJays

I am interested in starting to hear from care workers on SNAP about your concerns. I'm @motherjones.com's disability reporter. Please be in touch. My email is [email protected] and my Signal is juliametraux.49. Reposts are appreciated.

Ontario govt takes down trial balloon about changing rental system so that after a lease expires it would no longer revert to month-to-month, protecting tenants as long as they stay in place. Fear was that change would allow landlords to turf anyone after lease term and jack the tent

We live in an apartment in downtown Toronto and we pay well below market rate because we moved in eight years ago and the landlord has only been able to increase rent at about the rate of inflation. If this law passed and we got a rent hike we'd have to move, and I have no idea where we'd go.

At Yonge & Dundas Jays fans are obeying the pedestrian scramble, as is the custom & returning to sidewalk each light cycle.

I am a (fair-weather) Blue Jays fan. The Blue Jays may lose this. I know that. But why does this have to involve the Mariners? I like them. I don't want to like them. I want to be worried about losing to a repugnant team. Can't we play the Yankees again.

I can't find a pic of Gimenez as a kid, but here is the time he visited an art class in Cleveland. His shirt says, "this is my art shirt"

2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands. My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.

Watch The Rundown, a new 30-minute current affairs program hosted by @jeyantvo.bsky.social. Each episode takes a deep dive into the issues that matter most to Ontarians. Catch new episodes Monday to Thursday at 8pm on @wearetvo.bsky.social beginning Oct. 20. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwVC...

Casting a wide net- any US researchers looking at moving to Canada? Or did you investigate opportunities and found the pathway challenging? DM me.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

YouTube has a new and great name for Vladimir Guerrero Jr.

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long. There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...