lol, a month ago, the car I was renting wouldn't load carplay after I filled up with gas, and I didn't have the patience to figure out why, so I drove halfway to Toronto from Ottawa with no GPS in the dark in a snow squall. suck it Tesla bros.

12 dead at a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.💔 A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice. Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️

yet another disgusting attempt by the qac to shove "secularism" down quebecois' throats. these ignorant fucks don't even understand that if you bring non-kosher food into a kosher kitchen, the kitchen will not be kosher anymore. you cannot serve the two side-by-side!! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

if you have so little cognitive flexibility that you can't even approach these kinds of requirements with an open mind as to what it might bring to your future career in criminal justice, then uh..... well good luck when you get out into the real world

would love this bitch to step into my life in the throes of eldercare for the last 2–3 years and then tell me to my face how much fucking "free time" I have and the degree to which my life resembles a vacation. also she seems to have had time to do a perfectly smooth ponytail and makeup.

there are some personal things happening in my life that make me VISCERALLY angry about this, but all I'll say publicly is that it's maddening how the rich and powerful face no consequences for their actions in trafficking drugs while normal folks who get wrapped up in it have their lives ruined.

vacationing in Sydney (Australia) this week has left me nearly in tears about the state of public washrooms in Canada several times. I have used them: -at the beach -at train stations -in parks -at circular quay -at an indoor/outdoor mall all were spotless, well-equipped, and without big lineups.

1. Eyecare for all (expand seniors' ohip coverage to everyone) 2. CareOntario: retrain workers impacted by trade war to work in healthcare and childcare 3. Childcare for all (see point #2; open provincially-run ECE centres EVERYWHERE)

not to mention Carney himself is MP of Nepean. just seems eminently self-defeating to prune public service in your first budget when public servants are the main constituency of your riding. (btw just looked it up and seems Carney still does not have a riding office in Nepean 🙃)

just gotta end this wonderful night with a throwback to the period of time when curtis sliwa appeared regularly on NY1's inside city hall, lampooning andrew cuomo (he donned the costume and did this act every time cuomo came up, which was OFTEN):

NY1 HAS CALLED IT!!!!!! IT IS OFFICIAL!!!!! ZOHRAN MAMDANI IS MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY!!!!!!!!!!!

🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 as a former new yorker, I can say with authority that the people of new york have long received the short end of the stick when it comes to their political representation. I really hope that new yorkers like this 91-year-old lady finally get the representation they want and deserve today.

this is the lord's work

said every Canadian simultaneously

both of these are extremely true and I am fine being a self-hating resident of toronto

@tiomoid.bsky.social is trying to cheer me up by playing my favourite YouTube videos. unfortunately one of them happens to be a perfect representation of what the blue jays did tonight youtu.be/FkHbC1RSjv8

unsurprising considering only CEOs could actually afford to go to the fucking game

Toronto loves nothing more than tasteless mediocrity so this will never happen

FUUUUUUUUUCK I AM NEVER ROOTING FOR YOU AGAIN TORONTO SPORTS TEAMS YOU ALL FUCKING SUCK BASEBALL IS THE DUMBEST SPORT EVER INVENTED AND I WAS WRONG TO GIVE A SHIT ABOUT IT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE

SHORT KING THE WHOLE COUNTRY IS COUNTING ON YOU

I am no expert on baseball but I personally do not believe the jays can come back from this

this is the one and only time I have ever allowed myself to have anything whatsoever to do with a Toronto team and if these guys lose I will never make that fucking mistake again

I FUCKING HATE BASEBALL

I guess ohtani CAN'T do everything perfectly after all!!!!!!

there was only one option so far as pumpkin carving goes this year!!! #LetsGoBlueJays

ok rabid nationalism and some sentimentality about my dad dying at the start of this crazy season may have lured me into caring about this series, but this game has now reaffirmed that my lifelong instincts were correct and baseball, in fact, fucking SUCKS

FUCKING FINALLY 👏👏👏👏👏 maybe next year the redblacks won't be a complete fucking embarrassment *kicks garbage can*

mark sutcliffe serves only two constituencies: drivers and the rich fucks who line his pockets. (and yes, the venn diagram of these two groups is very nearly a circle, except that there are many drivers who are "temporarily embarrassed" rich fucks, as the saying goes)

[probably the only Toronto team I will ever root for; I am not even a baseball fan in normal times; and yet I have been completely sucked in] LET'S GO BLUE JAYS!!!!!!!!!

nazi tattoo guy, MPP for sault ste marie who got turfed from the conservatives after he (allegedly) assaulted his wife with a high chair, said conservatives tabling a bill to ban speed cameras on their first day back at work after a many-months "summer break".... we are living in an era of no shame

GOODNIGHT, SEATTLE!

so the year my dad dies, his adulthood favourite team (the blue jays) is facing the current incarnation of his childhood favourite team (the brooklyn dodgers) in the world series. hard not to feel like this is intentional in some way lol

I feel like people who don't know how to spell "behemoth" shouldn't get to write opinion pieces about who is or is not equipped to run nyc

today on bluesky: first I read about how the canadian economy is propped up by a massive real estate speculation bubble. the next thing I read was all about this BC supreme court ruling in favour of indigenous control of land. and, like... wouldn't it be great if the former was burst by the latter?

severely bloated trucks and cars, driven largely by people who don't even fucking live here, are ruling the road in toronto these days, and nothing else. do not fucking write about "e-bikes"/mopeds until we have meaningful enforcement of speed limits and other traffic laws for car/truck drivers

hey @savethecbc.bsky.social what do you have to say about this??

You know it's time to stop procrastinating and go to sleep when you have wound up in this corner of the internet:

not to mention... some of us habitually take lunch at 1pm and not noon

at my workplace we have had soooooo many arguments about whether or not to include links to external content in the e-resources we create, and every time, I basically warn that this can happen, and people act like I'm crazy.

one advantage of migrating a lot is that you become acutely aware of your own personal vaccine deficiencies long before there is an outbreak. as far as I know, none of my doctors did shady shit like this, but I've needed to get MMR and varicella (chickenpox) boosters at various points in time.

I already have been having a hard time mentally with Yom Kippur this year (having lost my grandfather and my father in the last year and reflecting on the whole year). then I wake up this morning to go to services and this is the first thing I see. fuck.

this is a thing that has always confused the fuck out of me and I am glad I'm not the only one pretty much all my shoes—even my beloved Birkenstocks—contain leather so I usually do not engage with this tradition (all my purses are leather too, so... you know...)

this guy: invest in Canada also this guy: but not Canada Post also this guy: and not national pharmacare also this guy: not Canadian schools either

why don't you instead direct the police, who you (ostensibly) control, to conduct ticketing blitzes at every spot where there is currently a speed camera, instead of doing blitzes on vulnerable road users like cyclists and scooters??!!!

simply will never understand how it is that canadians voted for a liberal government and got a conservative one instead. (I am also wondering how the liberals think the next election will go for them when millions of ordinary canadians figure out the liberals stabbed the country in the back)

waiting for doug ford to address this particularly useless "tax grab"

thinking about the wedding I went to where the bride was part of a weird hipster evangelical church and the pastor officiating told the story about jesus turning water into wine in a similarly antisemitic way...

hey @mayoroliviachow.ca I thought you were fixing bus bunching???!!!! it is 8:30 on a Saturday night and the ossington bus is MIA

Olivia chow needs to answer for this. does she control the police service or not? why is TPS allowing a fascist hate group to march down bloor but not the pro-immigrant counter protest? (we know why but the mayor, council, and TPS must be held accountable)

had a pretty auspicious start to TIFF (Toronto international film fest) tonight: got momentarily cut off from returning to my seat with my popcorn when sterlin harjo and ethan hawke swept right past me and into the theatre for the premiere of their new show, the lowdown.