Earlier today I watched an American commentator (anti-ZM) on France24 seem to lose touch with reality when other panellists rightly said Mamdani’s positions are not radical but indeed only centre-left here in Europe.

No Joe Dante? Then it's not really a Gremlins movie is it?

1. Despite Pierre Poilievre’s partisan rhetoric, Conservative MPs feel ideologically at home in Mark Carney’s Liberal Party 2. Despite the Liberal Party’s partisan rhetoric, Conservative MPs feel ideologically at home in Mark Carney’s Liberal Party

Two blocks from each other on the same street (Palmerston). Remember: what is at stake here is if Emily Rose goes under and is converted to residential, going back is nigh impossible—a community amenity lost for good.

We're going to look back so fondly on this Jays team. But right now I'm just so frustrated. They had this.

Baaaarerfffff

Sometimes the anxiety beats out the thrill and you just stop watching the game and go to bed

Spoiler free thoughts on del Toro's Frankenstein: Every shot is gorgeous and there are some shots that feel like they came from a stylized anime with his use and framing of moving fabric The pacing and act structure is operatic. It has a sedate middle act and tightly focused interpersonal finale

If the Rogers Centre had a parking lot that covered the same surface area as the Dodgers' parking lot, it would stretch from Queen Street on one end to the Lake Ontario waterfront on the other

The 2025 World Series matchup out of context…

The Jays' after game party looks like Bear Night. So many thick dudes with beards and no shirts dancing with each other.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT GUYS GUYS THIS IS IS SEISMIC GUYS I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU OPUS DEI IS THE SCIENTOLOGY OF CATHOLICISM THEY ARE THE ONLY THING "THE DA VINCI CODE" GOT RIGHT THEY ARE AWFUL AND THEY ARE EVIL AND THEY HAVE ENORMOUS POWER AND THEY ARE INTEGRAL TO TRADFASH CATHOLICISM

Friendly reminder that Tidal ($10.99) is now cheaper than Spotify ($11.99), delivers better audio quality, pays its artists 2x as much, and generally doesn't allow AI slop. You can move your entire music library over in a matter of minutes.

I went to the opera last night to see Roméo et Juliette. It's really nice to see someone hone their craft and put decades into playing Romeo as a 45-year-old.

it's always shiden time

Of course Burnside openly admis that cops let people drive WAY too fast on Avenue Rd

Automatic watches are an amazing feat of tiny engineering but whenever I have to update the date indicator I can never, never seem to land on the correct side of the AM/PM divide.

American brands: We paid an AI slop company to make a chat bot that won’t load French brand: We hired the best living comic artist to make an original short film with a top director and Production IG

I'm just finishing up the 2025 Hugo winning The Tainted Cup and as much as I like the idea of a elaborate mystery novel set in a well thought out fantasy setting, it has an overt thesis that troubles me: Imperial bureaucracy, specifically the military and policing arms of the government, are good

@brianmcl.com We got What Noise Do I Make? from the library and the 2.5 year old loved it. I'm going to bust out some of these animal calls when we take them to the zoo

Played a little Silksong and I'm reminded that as much as I like the concept of Metrovania games, I don't actually like playing them. I get lost and I'm just not a good enough platform gamer to handle even getting across the map, much less backtracking.

It's not puzzling at all. He assumes that it will happen again next election cycle. And then the one after that. Canada has a unified right and a divided centre-left. The fear of vote splitting is real and unless there is voting reform lining up behind the Liberals seems to be the only option

What is the first video game you ever played?

Part 1 of absolutely random theme songs from barely remembered tv shows from childhood that just popped in my head youtu.be/R52-omQj74U?...

The year is 2010 and I'm reading about opposition to development on Ossington The year is 2025 and I'm reading about opposition to development on Ossington The year is 2040 and

I haven't played CoD in YEARs but CoD: WWII showed up on gamepass and I don't mind shooing a nazi or two so I installed it. Then proceeded to uninstall it after the bouncing off the first QTE. Who actually likes QTE? Anyone?

What people think they 80s were like versus what the 80s was actually like.

I think I'd like to see Current Jacques Villeneuve comment on 2000s Jacques Villeneuve. Like when Old Biff goes to 1955 and roasts the shit out of Young Biff.

Captain America: BNW was the first Marvel movie I skipped. It looked so bad. People thought Thunderbolts was better so I watched it last night. What a mediocre film. Florence Pugh is way too good to be in these movies.

See, this is why I don't do cruise ships.

Can't wait for some Federalist chud to put this together with the last week's worth of "Vegas is too expensive" content and try to paint this as the reason why.

This remains a very silly law. Most pedestrian signals only show a very short walk sign before switching to a long countdown. Complying with the letter of this law would mean pedestrians have to wait a whole light cycle at almost every intersection before crossing. www.thestar.com/news/gta/e-s...

I finally saw Superman so here's some spoilery thoughts....

Transphobes genuinely think women are inferior to men, physically and mentally. And that "a man in a dress" is instantly the superior to anyone ID'd as female at birth. Transphobes, deep down inside, hate women.

@ndp.ca I love ya but I'm blocking your email address. You send me fundraising requests multiple times daily and unsubscribe does nothing.

Name and shame!

"I've been coming to London since Maggie Thatcher started gutting the social safety net and boy has it been downhill ever since. Must be the immigrants fault"

In Athens having breakfast next to these very bro-y priests. Ends up they're on a Book of Revelations pilgrimage. Entitled. Absolutely lacking in humility. "Are you going to this monastery?" "The one with just men? Sounds like my kind of place!"

And we don't have gerrymandering here! An arms length org chooses the size and shape of the ridings.

I'm so tired of the NDP trying to be Liberal lite and focusing on winning over upper-middle class suburban homeowners. They have the opportunity to come out of a epochal pandemic with a new way of doing things and just failed to show any leadership.

The 2025 federal election is the biggest NDP fumble in history because I quite literally don't know a single Canadian that isn't concerned about the unsustainable cost of living + the pandemic got every day people considering UBI. This is classic NDP territory and they failed to seize the moment.

It's time for Canada to get serious about this

Haven't seen anyone comparing Trump's obsession with Zelenskyy not holding elections during the war to saying Trudeau couldn't even tell him when the next Canadian election is. Americans think any elections that don't happen on a recurring date are undemocratic and ripe for abuse.

Dave Matthews' Tour Bus

Some things I'd like to see in Canada thanks to this trade war 1) dismantling of inter-provincial trade barriers. It shouldn't be easier to get California wine in Ontario than wine from BC

They've all decided that they don't need to offer an alternative to conservative messaging. They just need to be a nicer version of the right to get a couple % points in suburban swing ridings. The right plays to their base. The left takes their base for granted and plays to the right.

Whenever I see a conservative campaign sign in my very NDP /liberal riding, I wonder did you put that there or did your landlord?

Here's a free drag King idea. Big swoopy kaiser bill mustache. Goes by the name Kaiser buns