why does Kitchener, the largest Tri-City, not simply eat the other two?

like if ron popeil got up on stage and said “listen here you little shits, you’re all gonna have to dice it, slice it, and julienne fry it with the veg-o-matic whether you want to or not, so shut your whiny yaps”… do you think the crowd wouldn’t boo?

today's achievement: instantly recognized Peterborough from the air

the science-fictional juxtaposition of an eighteenth-century fortification being maintained in part by a twenty-first century robot

back home from Halifax; much thanks to @tricon-hfx.bsky.social for putting on such a rad shindig!

Oozing back and just kind of being accepted is a longstanding and highly successful tactic for awful men. This is your friendly reminder that it only works if we let it. Block that waste of space.

this is the strangest airport store I've ever seen

I can think of at least two things wrong here

this giant mecha doesn't have an ejection seat! enjoy your deathtrap, ladies

evergreen (via the brilliant @smoothdunk2.bsky.social)

this drug psa is a fetish ad

Purposefully doing 9/11 at a historical inauguration for heteroflexible people is a form of Anti-Catalanism

Idk who needs to hear this but ACAB includes penis inspectors

AI is great at everything you know nothing about. But the moment you get a little bit of knowledge you start seeing how bad it actually is. Which is probably why CEOs love it, they know nothing about everything.

I guess the bird is busy enough keeping Ontario kids from breaking into electrical boxes that Nova Scotia needs its own safety mascot

reading Christie and you gotta admire the synergy of British propaganda- she got Hastings out here yelling about how Johnny Waverly must have been kidnapped by a foreign gang because no Englishman would ever do a crime so underhand as kidnap while living in the country financed by stealing ppl

You go to a website called "www.freemario.game", click download, only to find the zip file contains nothing but ash and a cow skull. Duped again.

bames jond

realization: if the city of Halifax was to be obliterated by an asteroid impact, there is a non-zero chance that the next day's Toronto Sun headline would be "HALI-GONE!"

If you told this person this is the same thing people used to say about "separate but equal" discrimination back in the day they would undoubtedly take great offense at that, despite it being the exact same thing

Guys. The Ancient Greeks weren't white. They were more like cephalopods than modern humans -- their skin was bioluminescent and constantly shifting its color. And they didn't live in in idyllic seaside villages; they could only survive near deep-ocean vents. They DID have Matt Damon accents, though

Space rendezvous and docking assisted by extensible booms: selenianboondocks.com/2009/11/boom... This is just a sensible replacement to a process that's been slow, dangerous and complicated for decades now.

Trans women are evil manly men unlike me, a white cisgender man who has done the work to deconstruct my male privilege and arrived at "trans women are the problem".

I haven't been in Halifax for 24 hours yet and already I've shot two rolls of film 😅 Good thing I brought six

this argument is the moral equivalent of saying "I stand up for [marginalized ethnic group]'s right to exist, I just don't agree they're equal to white people" and should be treated as such

ahoy, Halifax in general and @tricon-hfx.bsky.social in particular: this is today! come see me panel and/or read!

brushed my hair under the strong lights of the hotel washroom and realized my hair is greyer than I thought, but there's something triumphant about a trans woman going grey even if it's a result of deep stress

they're both megaphoning "BRO"

I love that multiple people at @tricon-hfx.bsky.social have referred to my 35mm SLR from 1994 as "a real camera"

1632 is an all timer tho "We, who have seen THE HORRORS, have brought you a humble suggestion: be nice to people. Or you'll get THE FUCKING HORRORS."

neat to take the bus into Halifax and seeing navy ships just there, right next to downtown. reminds me of Yokosuka but without all the Americans

Earth Fire Wind Water Heart Captain Planet

dang, but Halifax has a big airport for such spotty transit service

and besides, it's much funnier to dunk on Wonder Bread Guy instead. you know, Wonder Bread Guy, the guy who keeps commissioning art of women destroying rainforests to build bread factories

Clearly my cat also wants to attend @tricon-hfx.bsky.social

her name was juniper blessing.

the achewood news is so upsetting lmao

Every time I open Bluesky,

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completed the most important part of preparation for @tricon-hfx.bsky.social: choosing the film I'll be taking to Halifax

what? the wacky waving inflatable arm-flailing tube man was only invented in 1996? hwaet?????

Toad's Turnpike in Mario Kart 64 has a great deal of traffic, but no off-ramps. Clearly it's a hell for traffic engineers who built car-dependent dystopias and are now condemned to drive the same figure-8 highway loop, endlessly That the Mario Kart racers can come and go is just extra torment

Bite size news item from Cork: City considers erecting “the world’s smallest public statue” to recall its part in bringing Cromwell to an early end.

when it comes to a word meaning "place filled with vomit," you can't do better than vomitopia *maybe* vomitropolis

it's a good start but we can't give up

the first time my cat Seth heard me working on a typewriter, he walked into my office and stood up with an expression rather like this he wasn't even leaning on anything, just standing in the entryway to try to figure out what the hell that racket was

I have rolls of film set aside specifically to document the aftermath

basketball would be even more amazing if this image was true to life (photo, since no alt text: the Toronto Tempo marking "First Ever WIN," with a score of 86 to 73. The I is of a baskeball player who, given the scale of the court, looks like she's 30 or 40 feet tall)