I like a lot of the books marketed to old dads

Canada has a transparency problem

AI companies really trying to get them young

The majority of people — politicians, business folk and public alike — fail to realise how violent a 2.6°C hotter world (over 4°C in Europe) will be. Displacements, forced migrations and armed conflicts will become the norm at every level, everywhere, including in currently peaceful regions. #COP30

It was an android double. It was an imposter wearing a sophisticated Bond face. It was a simulation. I believe in you, Anthony.

Mortifying and completely preventable. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

Well. I shovelled snow.

"I decided to go out for a walk And do nothing except Look everybody I see in the eyes And not be the first to avert my eyes And I didn’t return for two years... By which time I was the heavyweight champion of the world And the expectant father of sixteen children" —Dan Bern, "True Revolutionaries"

New study finds “brutal drought and extreme heat wave that began in September 2023 transformed the lake into a steaming cauldron. The lake's waters reached 41C (106F).” 😱

Women are so powerful

Good news everyone, your private jets and yachts are about to become cheaper!

Six people died from eating pasta. Everything is more dangerous under the Trump regime.

It is very good news that the CFIA is fully aware that Canada’s food safety regime is being compromised by the US abandonment of science. It is very bad news that Carney’s austerity cuts will make it impossible for CFIA to beef up Canadian regulatory oversight and enforcement in response.

How long is the time of monsters supposed to last?

The baseball torment nexus

peak baseball is indistinguishable from the feeling of hitting your head against a cement wall

My little heart can't take it

Impossible not to love Ernie Clement

Been hugely enjoying the live coverage put out by the Globe and Mail team for the Jays games this weeked. This update from @grahamisador.bsky.social made me laugh:

YES YES YES

as a bird artist, in honor of tonight’s game i have attempted to draw the gorgeous blue jay as accurately as possible. as always please let me know if you have any constructive criticism

Baseball is a fun time

For about five seconds, I did extra work. One time on set between takes, a seasoned extra said to me "We are all but shadows."

Going to fix my baseball hangover with more baseball. Hair of the dog

I'm gonna be up soon

Need an emergency stat holiday

This game is like a tariff against the eastern half of Canada’s economy tomorrow.

I should be in bed

Updated The Hockey Sweater

Another egregious use of the notwithstanding clause. The right wing populist governments in this country are a scourge.

Exxon says it can't reveal how much pollution it makes because doing so would force it to “serve as a mouthpiece for ideas with which it disagrees.” Which is just the "homework is against my religion" excuse, if the student saying it killed 8 million people a year.

PSA: Ontario is opening COVID and flu shots to the general public starting tomorrow

Thought I'd found the coolest Halloween decoration ever in east-end Hamilton. Turns out, it's just very cool foliage.

I’m in standing room at @torontobluejays.bsky.social , behind accessible seating, where a kid/teen in a wheelchair is distraught because he can’t see anything with everyone standing up. If anyone happens to be in a box or something with extra seats, this is your chance to do a good deed.

Running for office and revealing a giant back tattoo that just says WOMEN. Nobody can agree if it's good or bad

The score is now my birthday

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Oh shoot, I hadn't even gotten to the part of this *same bill* that would ban cities from "reducing the number of motor vehicle lanes when installing new bicycle lanes." bsky.app/profile/camb...

The Ford government has announced plans to shred a bunch of tenant protections: news.ontario.ca/assets/files... (pdf, see p. 13-15)

9yo after seeing Han Solo and Leia kiss in Empire Strikes Back: "Those poor actors!"

Oh no, I’ve just found the circulating library one! Spiritually akin to some of JJ Grandville and Giuseppe Arcimboldo?

Glad to see Wherry note that Poilievre, on the same podcast where he called RCMP leadership “despicable”, also said that the “authoritarian left” killed Charlie Kirk. Poilievre then said that the left is authoritarian. Here’s my transcription.

100% your fault if you misfile your taxes though 🤪

"The Canada Revenue Agency’s contact centres provided accurate responses to questions about individuals' taxes only 17 per cent of the time between February and May 2025, the federal auditor general said in a report released Tuesday." www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/cra...

Astonishingly self-destructive messaging. "Why spend the best times of your life out in the world when you could spend them trapped in debt in our planet-destroying box instead?"

Holee

I'll just keep holding my breath till it's over