Finally! Somebody gets it!

‪I for one love being relegated to a tiny picnic table in the peanut gallery so me and my buds can giggle at the use of "erection" in land use by-law.

Heh

I just want to highlight that a public official, like a police chief, who sends a letter on police letterhead to members of public bodies should probably, as a matter of basic professionalism, conduct themselves as if the correspondence will eventually become public. Maybe my standards are too high.

This report brings a TON of details into light, namely the strategy behind Northcrest Neighbours For Fair Process’ public outreach and the true extent of NNFP’s financial situation:

Actually everything is mandatory under CSPA, including intimidating elected officials into doing what I want /j

Oh, to be me a week ago before the IC exonerated the Mayor of Peterborough from saying a racial slur because our council’s code of conduct [checks notes] doesn’t count for one-time incidents

It’s almost like if you task councillors to enforce codes of conduct on themselves or people they like, they probably won’t do it!

Now that the customary week-long statute on posting answers to NYT puzzles is up, what the fuck was this?

This is actually true! SIREG Holdings went to Ontario Land Tribunal with the City of North Bay over a denial on a similar basis of unaffordability, but North Bay city staff did recommend the conversion, so OLT ruled in SIREG’s favour: www.canlii.org/en/on/onlt/d...

Thank you so much for your service, Jeff.

During our first big copy backlog of the year, I woke up early to get some work done and found myself suggesting edits on an essay I’d written for class.

me listening to the purple planet city council waiting screen music

Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.

Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art

History is currently absolving me

This was humiliating insofar as using the verb “retweet” revealed my fundamental nature of being a former Twitter power user :(

Some Reddit poster in Peterborough tattled on a local kid for dumping newspapers. Who needs an increase in police money when you’ve already got thousands of Redditors on the case

Wow. All of these years later and I still make the exact same face in every single photo.

you don't have to put on blackface to get social media attention. you can simply develop mild depression, join a menswear forum, spend the next 15 years arguing about pants, and then weaponize the knowledge against your enemies on social media.

you should be able to steal a home run if you want to. just drop the bat and try to book it for the fence before anyone can tag you. if you can make it all the way out there and throw yourself over the fence, you're good

apologies to all the cisgender roommates I've had in the past. you probably thought you were just renting a cheap, rundown 2BR with a person of awkward gender, but actually that was the seeds of the woke mind virus being planted that are now erupting in a "28 days later with pronouns" situation

Setting aside the incorrect claim about herd immunity:

I have got to get off Mr. Bones’ Wild Ride.

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.”

It is insane that it took more than 200 journalists to be slaughtered and almost two years of Israel deliberately targeting them, for the CAJ to finally make a statement that prétends they've been opposed all along. Uncredible hack organization that serves the employers.

I will not be renewing my @cajournalists.bsky.social membership after this. CAJ’s failure to effectively speak out against Israel’s targeted killings of over 190 journalists since October 2023 should cast serious doubt on their ability to advocate for press freedom abroad.

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

[discourse voice] bodybuilders are cisgender transsexuals

Pretty convincing response from Trump to the WSJ story about him sending an Sex Vampire Birthday Greeting to Jeffrey Epstein. Going to go ahead and declare this one "a nothing burger."

SiIvaGunner started off as an elaborate bit. It transformed into a volunteer, non-profit, artist-managed collective in the service of great rips and one the best parts of YouTube. aftermath.site/siivagunner-yo...

We've got three people working on local news at Trent Radio this summer - and just launched a news website. You can listen at 6am and 6pm each day, or check out news.trentradio.ca. Exciting stuff! #ptbo

A TRANS PERSON MADE YOUR PUZZLE is LIVE !!!! donate at least $10 USD to an American trans charity and receive 10 puzzles by trans constructors edited by me and @cantorlope.bsky.social beautiful cover art by @pseudonymjones.bsky.social happy pride :) tinyurl.com/transxwords

Tomorrow, we're launching a new collection in the library... along with a special video episode of the Video Game History Hour! Patreon members get to watch first. www.patreon.com/posts/vghh-e...

Week two of nobody sitting in the old media seating. Here’s me from last week’s gen. committee meeting:

you should never read the comments, but this is a banger:

At my old workplace there was once a chicken-wing eating contest and one contestant was going so slowly that a coworker shouted out scornfully, “He’s just eating lunch.”

love seeing 00’s Doctor Who character actors do a bunch of E boxd.it/9THoa3

Yeah, so the Mayor who: - threatened to carve someone - yelled at a woman and continued to bully her - said one of the worst racial slurs … will NOT be facing consequences for his behaviour. This report isn’t even about the slur!

I can appreciate the stance this takes, considering how actively homophobic some clubs are, yet I think it’s worthwhile to note that we’re talking about a sports franchise worth $2.2 billion.

“Don’t put poison in your mouth,” and other great tips from ’80s and ’90s trading cards: defector.com/dont-put-poi...

It’s hour one of #droneday out at Sadleir House. @garbageface.bsky.social starting off strong.

wearing a Protect The Dolls shirt to show my support for everyone who paints warhammer minis

take a moment to watch the first segment of this video where robert sits and ruminates on the doctors who decided that helping a trans person was too embarrassing so they opted to let him die a slow and painful death.

Journalism's slop crisis started long before that AI-generated summer insert: defector.com/journalisms-...

well well well, if it isn't the thing everyone said would happen

I begin so many professional emails with “David here” like I’m a lifestyle YouTuber or a Just Chatting streamer. I assure you I’m a journalist! Please believe me!!!!!!

FINALLY: The workwear man is here to save me from dressing like Kevin James

This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.