Just thought I might toss this explosive, out-of-nowhere thought into the realm: Doug Ford is really bad. I know, we're all shocked!

Got propane for my BBQ again so perhaps it's time to abandon politics before I let the idea that Christians think they're being persecuted in this country take root in my brain (for God's sakes)

Seems pretty telling of Toronto Police's lackadaisical attitude toward traffic enforcement that an officer feels comfortable publicly calling speed cameras a "fucking scam." www.thestar.com/news/gta/the...

can you just say there’s a rule?

I honestly really do like my councillor as a person but hoo boy what a shit show today (posting on Bluesky because he follows my Twitter and I don't want to upset him lol)

This feels almost gossipy to put up on my twitter, but I love when Paul Ainslie likes my tweets shit talking Bradford

Toronto politics is like "What if we gained popular support for tearing down every good proposal in the city?" "Great idea, what if instead we simply pretended to have legitimate grassroots support?"

What an awful crew coming in

I think Don Stewart losing is less important than Michelle Ferreri, but it does make me laugh; his victory was the canary-in-the-coal-mine for Trudeau's departure, and... that was pretty much it.

How the fuck did this happen?!

It was a boring election, until it wasn't. 25 point lead. lmao

Wait what are the electoral odds of Jivani keeping his seat, I haven't thought about him all election

'The Crown lawyer said she couldn't speak for the government, but noted that those streets all have public transit routes along them. But the premier didn’t say he was choosing roads with subways under them when he announced the removals — "He just picked them," [Judge] Schabas noted.' Lol, lmao

A very simplified form of my considerations for my federal endorsement in Scarborough Southwest: the NDP (Fatima Shaban) and Green (Amanda Cain) candidates both talked about their struggles as lower income individuals. Literally no one else did.

Spooked him with the threat of a question *so good* that he decided preemptively to be my friend

Wait this is great

Let's do it! As long as we give one person in a car the same priority as 50 people in a bus, we will never solve our road congestion problem. www.thestar.com/news/gta/new...

Gonna ask Nate a question so good he has no choice but to be my friend.

What if this becomes my fitness inspo, what then

Hmm. Matt just called me. He's feeling pretty bummed that the numbers on our podcast aren't going up! And he's feeling a bit burnt out from political commentary, feeling like we've circled the drain a bit. The MuniciPals might be going on hiatus!

Are you guys seeing this shit??

I still feel like I don't "Get" the whole "Doug Ford is going to jump ship to federal politics and take over from Poilievre" thing. I'm not saying it's beyond the realm of possibility, I just don't really see its apparent inevitability.

Sorry Blueskyians, I keep making all my good content on the bad app, anyways we have a silly new Prime Minister

This can't be right. They keep calling the guy, "Marx Carney."

The frustrating thing about Bluesky discourse is that no one has mentioned Mendicino, Federal Liberal MP who seems to be anti-Olivia Chow's mayorality because, "Taxes are bad!" is set to be Carney's Chief of Staff! How did I have to learn this between bouts of on again off again X functionality??

I think it's really important to get comfortable describing what's happening in the United States as fascism. That's not a hyperbolic or manipulative term. It is just the accurate description. Once you get comfortable naming it as fascism, it changes the way you view the entire project.

You know what? I guess this was the only way I was ever going to give it up

Did anything big happen in Canada or has everything just been cool and chill?

That's me!

Baldur's Gate 3, a game I haven't really gotten into but I know a lot of cool people really like it, is getting cross-play, so someone should play this apparently very cool game with me

Homeless in Ontario and want to vote in the upcoming provincial election? It isn't super easy, but I made you a one-page resource to help you to cast your ballot and make your voice heard! You can download and print a PDF copy here: drive.google.com/file/d/1lkIX...

I am losing my patience with this newly established advocacy group, ABC Toronto, and their cheerleader Councillor Bradford. Austerity is the reason Toronto is where it's at right now, and they want us to pretend that we should go right back to it and that magically the TTC will work again, and

W-wha?? What do you mean alienating your base while appealing to people who won't vote for you because they would rather vote for, "The real thing," isn't a good way to win elections??

Oh hey, good on Councillor Cheng (Not a very common sentiment from me)

It’s time for Toronto to become a Charter City. #TOpoli #ONpoli www.thestar.com/news/gta/mar...

And what if I sent him an email that included this, would he be more or less likely to come on my silly lil podcast

In fun news, my podcast co-host Matt (Well, this isn't the fun part) is feeling a bit burnt out and he wants ME to do a couple of episodes on my own (This is the potential fun part). I'm recording February 2nd and 16th, so I've gotta figure out what exactly I'm going to focus on

I must be addicted to being mad considering I accidentally swapped to posting exclusively on Twitter again. I continue to feel as if you're missing some political context if you ignore "The other side" but it's really ramping up the rhetoric huh

it’s becoming increasingly clear the goal of the far right is to defund and buy up every source of reliable information until there is no more objective reality to counter them

I'm going to miss Theo's Trudeau!

Too left? No. People are rejecting neoliberalism, which has co-opted the language of the left to mask policies built upon deficit thinking, fiscal austerity, deregulation, and privatization. Now that language is seen as a lie, and anyone using it — even the sincerely left — are seen as liars.

A couple of the things that annoys me about the partisan (in support) response to the Peterson X Poilievre "Interview": one, that the amount of views is somehow indicative of the quality of the interview and participants, and that "The elites hate that they can't control the narrative"

Oh my credit card didn't work for the groceries? Oh the landlord wants us out by the end of February? Oh I've forgotten to take my anti-anxiety medication for a week? Lol, lmao

The more I return and entrench myself in Twitter discourse the more obviously feral I become. I need to help myself lol or perhaps I just need to get back to work, maybe I'm just not busy enough

Rachel died for our sins

Counted down to the New Year in the tradition of my people (Nintendo fans): on my Animal Crossing Island

Starting week 3 off work 🙃 This is me screaming at my leg to heal faster