We’ve told all the casting agents that the Weird Al biopic sequel is currently on hold, but they just keep sending in headshots.

Over the past couple of years, especially living just a couple of hundred metres from Toronto proper, it has been a legitimate solace knowing that we have a mayor who gets it, while other politicians speak in bromides or contribute to making it worse.

Went there so many times and it was kinda sad the last time, with the diminished stock. Mostly, I think of the time I bought a tambourine and put in my bag and it wouldn't stop jingling with every step I took until I got home. They don't have off switches.

Yup. I know people would like to imagine that this Utopia is immune to the stuff that goes on in the old, bad place. I'm sad to report that it is not.

If you are here because you like punching Nazis but these pictures largely elicit a shrug, you may have missed a whole, important chapter of what made the Nazis, you know, Nazis.

My take? Let's focus on all the Rotterdam teens who didn't try to blow up a synagogue! Or not think too hard about it at all.

Working on this book was great fun Getting to do a second volume, with all that's happened regarding Toronto's cinematic scene over the past decade, is a real gift.

No arrests at this "protest" in a Jewish neighborhood yesterday. They will be back next week. What wouldn't they be? Neither police nor anyone else cares enough to be coming to the rescue.

Meanwhile, here's what actually goes on at Bathurst and Sheppard, week after week after week, with no peeps ever to be heard from those who have collectively enabled this about hate crimes, how flags might upset some people, giant FUs, public safety risks or anything else of the sort.

The recent acts of violence against Jews, including yesterday’s attack on a Michigan synagogue, showcase the explosive growth of anti-Jewish sentiment as a broadly accepted part of modern culture, @davidfrum.bsky.social argues.

One of the things that Jokerified me on this website was seeing an Australian leftist patiently explain why the Bondi massacre was actually "anti-Zionist" and not antisemitic. It really makes clear how this rhetoric has spiraled way out of control.

This has become whatever comes after infuriating and exhausting.

One thing people never get when they try to explain why it's happening because of X or Y is that antisemitism is always inherently irrational hate. None of the Medieval tropes make any more sense than Nazi "science" and neither do the slightly reframed "reasons" being used in polite society today.

Anyone wondering what a terrible person looks like, it's a person who hears synagogues were shot at and immediately goes to their convenient folder of screencaps to "prove" that it's likely Jews faking the antisemitic incidents. But whatever you do, don't accuse them of antisemitism!! Gross

This same post on X has 32 reposts and 106 likes. Yeah, I know there are still way fewer users here but if anyone thinks all the Nazis are there and Bluesky is some Edenic bastion of Philosemitism and anti-racism, they need to do the math.

Ah yes, yesterday. When the only stuff that had just happened in Canada were these 3 incidents. A more innocent time when none of the attacked buildings were in my neighbourhood, or buildings I'd repeatedly been inside of and/or at which I've celebrated my daughter's Bat Mitzvah.

I'm well aware that that other platform is apparently where the Nazis are but at least there, there's still people talking about this, amid the hate. Here, it's basically silence, which makes me wonder how much of what Nazis are/were is actually understood. Attacking synagogues, for example...?

These are 2 of the biggest synagogues in the GTA. One is a short walk from my house. This has become normalized because of apathy and failing to properly respond. Despite Toronto's alleged commitment to diversity, it has failed its Jewish community. I'm sick to my stomach over what it's come to.

Always proud to see my town attract some international media attention. No such thing as bad publicity when diversity is your strength.

North York synagogue struck by gunfire Monday night, police say

As with every other time this happens now, I take solace in knowing that this is not who we are, that hate has no place in Canada etc.

Wow. So there's a bit of a scene at Yonge and Steeles this evening.

Indeed. And do you know what kind of an as absolute bunch of bespittled, shit-flinging troglodytes you have to be to get the Canadian people mad at you? Do you know how badly you have to behave in public, day after self-degrading day to lose their friendship?

this clip from Shoresy of people rattling off Dutch names is the funniest and most impressive thing I’ve seen on tv in a long time

The government of Israel was not marching in the ceremony. This hatred was directed at the existence of Israel and Jews. What else is new in Europe.

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Can... Can we not? Feels real shitty to see this shit taking off. At some point we're going to have to put our fucking foot down about this "what are we, a bunch of J- I MEAN ISRAELIS?" shit when Americans see American evils enacted Americanly. avaduvernay.substack.com/p/the-narrat...

Somewhat confusingly, the Toronto Star says the 88cm of snow that's fallen so far January is more than the 110 cm that fell in the January 1999 storms. Either way, it's a lot and the month isn't over yet.

This man is so amazing and they cannot get him the ring he (and the city of Buffalo) deserves.

Vibes. #Bluejays

What is making me lose it over this story: yes Breads is doing well in NYC... and part of why that is has to do with Jewish customers wanting it to succeed, for Jewish-solidarity-type reasons.

Pathetic.

You might have missed some of these. I noticed every, single one of them (and I wasn't in Canada over the holidays).

Neil Diamond rose to fame at a time when Jewish identity was visible in culture, but a new film loosely inspired by a real-life Diamond tribute act omits his heritage. The writer Mireille Silcoff calls it a pattern: "The stories are about us, but we're not in them." nyti.ms/4sA86kz

Whether it's the lyrics, the animation or actually getting Darlene Love to sing, this testimony to Robert Smigel's genius never fails to delight. youtu.be/BGzO1ghRKp4?...

Let the word go forth from Toronto, where "Diversity is our strength," that as shabbat began, on the 6th night of Chanukah in 2025, there were "no (known) threats to Toronto's Jewish commnity!" What a heartbreaking state of affairs, folks, that this requires saying.

Well, this seems pretty scary but then I've been assured Canadian Jews are actually completely safe so little attempted kidnapping around the Greater Toronto Area is perhaps not worth getting too fussed over? www.tps.ca/media-centre...

It's been ages since I bought anything on Ebay but I could no longer resist the call of this vintage (1974) CN Tower whiskey bottle, which is basically a work of art. Wondering if I could decant into it or should leave it as is...

Are things picking up or slowing down? Hard to keep track over here.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “I had just let the whole thing wash over me. I marveled at what a good story the truth could make in the right hands,” the author Stephen King writes about seeing “Stand by Me,” Rob Reiner’s adaptation of King's novella “The Body.”

Also worth flashing back to Episode 3 of What is Happening Here? where Dave Meslin asserts all the vandalism, school shootings, bomb threats and arrests of terrorists, all demonstrative of a clear spike, only prove how SAFE Canadian Jews are. I'm not so sure. www.canadaland.com/podcast/3-as...

I now look forward to every Jewish holiday in the GTA where I'm supposed to feel safer because of an amped-up police presence.

For 2 years, when Canadian Jews have asserted rising antisemitism is a problem, this would-be federal party leader has repeatedly asserted how safe he feels and laughingly mocked us as "crybullies. " Now he's worried about consequences and courage. Just an embarrassing lack of self-awareness.

After Jewish senior citizens in an assisted living facility in Toronto had the mezuzahs ripped off their doorframes in an act of hate, volunteers helped them put the mezuzahs back up. Our love for our community will always be stronger than their hate 💜

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Steve Cropper, the prodigious guitarist, songwriter and producer who played a pivotal role in shaping the lean gutbucket soul music made at Memphis’s Stax Records in the 1960s and ’70s, has died at 84.