rapture happened if you can read this you are gay

When I was in Montreal a few weeks ago I felt like a bumpkin overwhelmed by the big city - but Toronto doesn’t faze me at all even though I moved away over 20 years ago.

New report by Jesse Helmer. We grade 34 S. Ontario municipalities in 5 housing start and sales categories. Across the region, sales of new condos are down 89%, and sales of new ground-oriented homes are down 70%. Read here: www.missingmiddleini...

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Canada is a once again a leader in the fight against apartheid by *checks notes* recognizing the bantustans. www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/politics/fed...

ha. oh.

first they came for the socialists and I was like 'heh, based,' then they came for the trade unionists and I was like 'good, fuck those guys' then they came for the Jews and I was like OH SHIT THAT'S ME.

Actually, the city’s new “mission” is to make Jeff Leal go away forever. www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/news/peterbo...

this is just brutal and I'm old enough to know it's true

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Peterborough's City Council has two main problems, and those are the mayor and the procedure bylaw. #ptbo

Public safety is making sure the racist march can continue without issue.

The thing about investing in public transit is that it *scales* — the more people use it, the better it gets. For everyone. Whereas the more cars there are, the *worse* everything about driving gets. Traffic. Parking. [Ever noticed that in just about every car ad it’s alone on the road? Yeah.]

The public should know how aggressive and cruel these City evictions are becoming. At this one, by-law officers were laughing while evicting tents and calling themselves “the teepee police.”

Got a nasty headache this afternoon and I blame the Mayor and Council of the City of Peterborough

It me

Citizens of Peterborough, enjoy having public infrastructure while you can because the city’s gonna be fucking bankrupt after tonight. You will have an arena and police station in lieu of roads and sewers.

I was at PHAC post H1N1 with massive layoffs. Those decisions set us up again to be unprepared for when COVID hit. Here we go again 😔 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

“What they really want is for us to just disappear forever.” www.trentarthur.ca/news/every-t...

This was never meant to provide shelter, it's to justify the further disenfranchisement of some of the most vulnerable in our community through enforcement and evictions. Councillors are not being consulted and costs for enforcement are unknown to date. A report should be public later this month.

The new dating app "trend" is called Bopping. the goal is to set up a romantic assignation using the spoken lines from the Big Bopper's 1958 hit "Chantilly Lace," i.e. messaging "Hello, BAAAAAABBBBY!!!," responding "this is the big bopper speaking," etc. you HAVE to say the line about being broke

Google developer #1: "That's it. Our search engine is simple, efficient, and reliable. It's perfect. We're done." Google developer #2, presumably: "But wouldn't it be *more* perfect if the first search result was always a robot who mansplained your search results to you incorrectly?"

Do people who use “$1700/month one-bedroom apartments” as a reason to oppose developments in Peterborough realize that’s just normal rent here in 2025?

anyone game to work with me on a legal challenge to Peterborough's "bullshit shelter -> encampment clearance" program?

anyone truly worried about traffic in East City should killdozer the Tim Hortons before they oppose development. #ptbo

The idea that mixed use or rental housing doesn’t belong in a “neighborhood” or “residential area” is grotesque. Are renters not people? Are there homes not residences? Are they not deserving or community? People employing that rhetoric should be ashamed of themselves. #ptbo

Poor Google Maps can simply not comprehend a bus being 10 minutes late. As a resident of Peterborough, I very much can.

If your daily newspaper is experiencing these symptoms, please seek help* *unsubscribe and then use that money to subscribe to an independent media outlet

the crystal ball says I'm going to spend my weekend going to the emergency room to renew a prescription. again.

“Never again” means “it’s cute when we do it”

jones in the fast lane, prompt, dos (1991) www.mobygames.com/game/370/jon...

I made a stupid thing on the internet for a niche group of people (specifically the perpetual stewheads) robhailman.com/stew.php

Nirvana's Nevermind cover but the baby is Baby Sinclair from the 90s sitcom Dinosaurs As requested by Morgan

I swear the song they’re playing at the drug store just sampled the Win98 startup sound.

We're hiring! As our newsroom's founding members depart to pursue new opportunities, we're seeking someone to take up the mantle and continue our work of delivering in-depth and community-centred local news to our audience. Details here: peterboroughcurrents.ca/announcement...

my “Coca-Cola doesn’t have typhoid in it” T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

Hot take: the tyranny of the broadcast clock makes for better programming. Podcasts & video series would to well to pick a length and stick to it - to the minute, at least, if not to the second.

@joylachica.bsky.social came up with the new City of Peterborough slogan tonight: "The logic of it defies me"

I’ve had plenty of really good beers in my life, but sometimes ya just gotta fuck with Miller High Life.

The fact that the one game made by an explicitly communist co-op game studio now has three successor studios making a self-proclaimed sequel to it, and dispute the legitimacy of the other two is, of course, the most communist outcome possible.

I love this weird little city.

I don't know how much I spent on ice cream and at this point I'm scared to check.

We're not gonna make it, are we? www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/news/council...

I firmly believe than anyone who unironically uses the phrase “virtue signaling” is a fascist.

Seriously, check out Rosewater! Something that separates it from most point-and-clicks is that you assemble a party of diverse characters over the course of the game, and as you get to know them and build relationships, you open up new puzzle solutions and story paths. Just a very fun, chill game!

[I type “I’m sorry” on a typewriter] “Holy shit my typewriter apologized!”

the year is 2001. you climb off the bus at a majority-Jewish summer camp in central Ontario. Settling into your cabin, your bunkmate asks if you prefer Dave Matthews or Sublime. Everyone must choose a side.