I won't claim to know all the complexities, but if a separatist Alberta runs its government the way it's handled its insurance market, it will be the world's coldest banana republic within 18 months

i love how each time Canada loses at the WJC we have to have a national autopsy over how we are Failing The Game, ignoring that Canada has five players who didn't go because they're already NHL regulars, including two guys who are very clearly going to be superstars

Canada, like other western states, is worried about alienating Trump. But that just invites isolation next time, when it's your turn over the barrel, and everyone else stays silent for fear of alienating Trump. Democracies worthy of the name must stand together for the rule of law, or fall apart.

Democrats get treated as the Annoying Mom party, Republicans as the Cool Dad party, no matter how obscene and ridiculous the outcome

He's not a superstar but I have to say Stecher seems too good to have been on waivers

growing concerned that the United States is not the benign force in Central and South America that I've been led to believe

Was at the game last night, and while I don't have trenchant insights, the beauty of social media is I get to share them anyway 1. My God, the Leafs defence is a fucking nightmare for breakout passing. We all knew they would be, we all know they are, but Benoit's bad at it and Myers is much worse

It is time to stop playing Philippe Myers

After going through a bunch of year-end lists I think this was a pretty weak year for independent music and part of the buzz around the Geese album was that it was seen as saving 2025 at the end

I've joked about Millennials being the last generation that can read or wants to, but also it's truer than it is kidding

ME: (first day practicing Bug Law) May it please the Court— BUG JUDGE: (sternly) Bug Court.

I leave a lot of room for homage and all that but every effort by others to tack on to C and H after this has felt like spitting on the actual comic, which earned this 100% and then cashed it in

getting skunked by this version of the Leafs ought to prompt some severe introspection for the Devils. you really gotta talk to the man in the mirror after that one.

It's a real testament to the quality of this album that it stays good even after you go on antidepressants youtu.be/CuqEpjcBfaU?...

this feels like the fifth or sixth time this year that the leafs have won 1.5 games and been like "We've turned a corner. We're really executing in a way we weren't before." and then they lose while getting outshot 63-8

deeply annoying whenever space colonization comes up as a potential idea because a) it's extremely cool to me and b) it will never, ever, ever be viable at all

people love to rain on Pitchfork and they've always been a mile up their own asses, but also the number of music outlets with interesting writing is just dwindling

Bluesky was generally better when we all more or less agreed to simply block dumb accounts and move on rather than quote dunk on them for clout.

found this the other day: the sole video content i ever made in my blogging career, when i broke down the backbreaker goal in the TOR-CBJ series. #analysis

bluesky is where elder millennials enjoying internet retirement meet younger millennials with untreated depression

SCOREZONE IN EFFECT

couldn't sleep so i am now enjoying the John Chayka "my greatest weakness is doubting myself despite enormous success" letter again www.sportico.com/personalitie...

you know, these days, many people time of year. but this season, try when to everything a special time — it just might become which with you

Activating like a Cardboard Box John Wick years after my career in retail ended

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God bless Tanev but man, why are you coming back for this? You're 35 and you just took two concussions, and this team sucks shit. At least take the rest of the year to recover and see if the Leafs can do anything next year

BREAKING: Americans Convert to "Millennial Canadian Indie" En Masse. Broken Social Scene Flags Waving Amid Riots. "Your Ex-Lover Is Dead" Heard As Queen West Worshippers March On DC

I hope the boom Wolf Parade is getting from being on Heated Rivalry sparks interest in the members' later work. Spencer Krug wrote some truly incredible piano and vox pieces while innovating a lo-fi sound. Dan Boeckner turned into a Twitter Communist. Anyway I guess I'd say check out Spencer Krug

"The Odyssey trailer doesn't have historically accurate boats! The helmets are anachro--" You jolt awake. It is 1283 BCE. The helmets and the boats look different but it's basically fine.

they're not going to fire him before Christmas, and he's obviously not the only problem, but you cannot keep Berube as the coach when the team is playing like this

this is another Too Niche post but i like listening to ambient dub music while i work, and this is my album of the year in that regard. great floating in space stuff ctatsu.bandcamp.com/album/a-cool...

New Knives Out is very enjoyable.if you like that kind of thing. I feel like people often criticize these movies because they do not like that kind of thing, which is fine, but then you should not watch that kind of thing

had things to do this morning but wound up talking about how good the Beatles were for two hours

can't fucking wait to turn 36 and become a double adult who can watch mega pornography and buy the good cigs that make you healthier

Are people actually this excited for Avatar 3? No problem if they are, the first two just looked and sounded terrible to me

This has to be the end.

team dead

Twitter was bad for this too but one of the worst BlueSky tics is "and you're surprised by this?" in response to anything bad happening or anyone doing a bad thing. shut up!

Willing to vote for mild-to-medium ecological disruption for a plan that geo engineers the Earth so the sun never sets earlier than 9PM where I live

God this team sucks. Big W

you can debate all the other pieces you might want to shuffle, but this team is premised on Auston Matthews being a superstar, and we're now coming up on a year and a half of him being just Very Good. if this is who he is now, this version of the team is over and the Leafs have to act accordingly.

one upside of the Quinn Hughes trade is that i think we're gonna get a lot less blather about how he's better than Cale Makar

hey, quick q for anyone aware of the weird updates Microsoft inflicts: what is this

He addresses the nation every nine minutes. It's gonna start with him declaring war on Enemies of the People and end with him saying that Pritzker's dad was "very unfair" during the RJR Nabisco buyout in 1988

Fascinated by the thing about Paradox games influencing the new right. I only really got into Stellaris but it always seemed to have a progressive tilt to me (immigration is a superpower, genocidal powers almost invariably get destroyed etc)

you can debate all the other pieces you might want to shuffle, but this team is premised on Auston Matthews being a superstar, and we're now coming up on a year and a half of him being just Very Good. if this is who he is now, this version of the team is over and the Leafs have to act accordingly.

Is it me or has Scotiabank been using that "Italian grandmother sternly picks a tomato at grandson's dinner" footage for like eight years but they just keep changing the song

nothing so alienating to me as an Elder Millennial as the move to video content. i fucking hate that shit. if you send me a video longer than twenty seconds i view it as a personal attack. meanwhile both the young and the elderly are marinating their brains in slop for hours a day