@tiomoid.bsky.social needed to catch a train at union at 8:30am yesterday and that's how we learned the subway doesn't start until 8am 😂😂 poor guy walked to ossington and then found the station was locked shut! pretty dumb.

@tiomoid.bsky.social and I call gananoque gana-no-way! on account of once driving through on a Sunday at 3pm and finding every single promising lunch option was closed. we got McDonald's and never returned. nice to see our opinion validated lol

I didn't know about Marcia until we went to see mando&grogu and started talking afterward about why jon favreau did a better job with the universe than george lucas did after IV/V/VI. @tiomoid.bsky.social told me it was down to the absence of Marcia's editing in the pre/sequels. RIP to a real one.

I am from the land of the sugarbush, the cabane à sucre, the epicentre of all things maple in Canada, and I do. not. like. maple. syrup.

turned on @pbsnews.org tonight and they were giving airtime to an anti-vaxxer. changed channels after about 30 seconds when she said "I was MAHA before MAHA" and no one challenged her. wtf is going on over there?? glad I stopped donating when they fired their DEI staff.

I don't understand how one can find the culture on bluesky "obnoxious" but not have a problem with the nazi culture on x. like I'm sorry that people here actively enforce their boundaries of acceptable conversation (which excludes nazis and right-wing apologists)??!!? maybe get better friends??!!

the truth is you can just call these places whatever name you want in conversation without drawing extra attention to the fact that you are doing so. then you will get maybe a smirk of recognition or a comment from someone else who also still likes the old name.

love to hit the yearly maximum for coverage of therapy on my employer's health insurance plan before we even reach the halfway point of the year 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃 definitely makes me feel like my employer gives a shit about my mental health and wellbeing 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

every day another reason I am so glad that I, an immigrant who adjusted her status from H-1B to a spousal green card while living in the US, decided to leave the US before trump got re-elected

noticed this gem on the @westendphoenix.bsky.social calendar today! I googled and it seems they were, in fact, found and returned to the zoo.

I dunno, man, probably not gonna trust a company to do "precision painting" when you can't even spell "precision" correctly on your poster

yesterday, while driving along a 2-lane highway, I reached a passing lane and was overtaken by three cars, even though I was going around 90-95 km/h in an 80 km/h zone. seconds later, an OPP car takes off after them. watching the first car get pulled over was the best behind-the-wheel schadenfreude.

pro: I got my landlord to fix my air conditioner on the same day I noticed it's broken, which is also the first day this year that the temperature may surpass 30°C con: now it's too cold in my apartment even though it's hot outside :( :( :(

I don't give a shit about drake, but I do think it's cool that @thestar.com is trying out live-skeeting. next time let's hope it's a more compelling topic

hosting the world cup: -costs our governments hundreds of millions $ -has not led to sold-out hotels as promised (the opposite) -and may lead to a rise in measles cases in canada!! what were the benefits supposed to be again?? and why do these same governments refuse to fund arts at this level??

today I got a stark personal reminder of why academic freedom is so important and why those who have it should value it. some of us out here on the fringes of academia do not have it and it fucking sucks.

and yet... on the very rare occasions when I need one, it takes 10+ mins for me to get a lyft to my pickup location and the drivers are easily the worst of any city where I have used lyft. no part of this system is working well.

today at work I need to QA content that can only be accessed via an app on my phone. this is proving extremely problematic for me on a personal level because what do you mean I don't even have to pick up my phone to procrastinate anymore???!!! it's already in my hand and unlocked??!!!

ohhhhhhhhh my goddddddddddddd

🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 I find this creeping corruption and privatization of everything in Ontario utterly heartbreaking. some of this goes beyond what even past conservative governments would dare to attempt and carney is just giving his silent blessing. this is not what I moved back to Canada for.

OK NOW THAT POILIEVRE IS IN FAVOUR CAN THE LIBERALS PLEASE GROW A PAIR AND COME OUT AGAINST???!!!! or are they still cosplaying as conservatives?

I'm the worst because I said Jennifer from the marketing department but that's incorrect 😭 she is in the performing arts department. though actually the head of marketing is also named Jennifer, but I don't really know her.

do any other millennials on here have, like, a million friends/acquaintances named Jennifer/Jen/Jenn? I've got (to start): -cousin Jen -friend from summer camp Jen -friend from organizing work Jenn -Jennifer from the publishing department at work -Jennifer from the marketing department at work

YIMBY whereby the thing I am saying yes to is a quaker nest in my backyard so I can make friends with them and have quaker parrot parties in said backyard

went to check out the cherry blossoms at robarts library on my lunch break and they sure were blossoming!!

before trump's reelection, @tiomoid.bsky.social and I made a number of trips down to Buffalo after we moved to Toronto. it is genuinely such a nice city, with fantastic people, and it makes me really sad that I cannot go visit it without risking detention at the border. one day we will be back.

ok this one hurts on a personal level. during his time at treasury board, my grandfather oversaw the budgets for the development of several of Canada's major airports. he was especially proud of the free luggage carts, still used today. the idea was they'd get passengers in and out more efficiently.

I am simply a girl, standing before the producers at BBC/ITV, begging them to PLEEEEEASE give us a juicy period drama centred around one or more fin-de-siècle composers. Mahler in Vienna? Debussy or Ravel in Paris? Stravinsky all over the fucking place? sign me the fffff upppppp

I want to make this essay my whole personality

vote for fifth business!!!!! (to be fair, I have not read life of pi, but fifth business is one of my absolute favourite books of all time, and I highly doubt I would rate life of pi higher)

the @viarailcanada.bsky.social departures area at union station: possibly the only such area in the world that lacks a functioning intercom system AND a departures board listing the gates??!! why is via so fucking bad at this???!!!!! (note: usually there is a departures board but not today!!!)

absolutely incredible ratio, you love to see it

it's too bad these people keep missing

cry about it some more

a series of chamber music lecture-concerts wherein I do all of the lectures and play most of the piano parts

me to the ottawa senators:

I am so fucking angry about the stupid new AI summaries google maps is ramming down everyone's throats but the exhortation to "bring a sharp knife" to a public place did make me laugh. can't wait for our first google-motivated stabbing in the bakery lineup!!

got absolutely shitfaced at the work function tonight, got home at 1am, now it is past 2am, I have to be at work by 9am, HALP

AMS just sent me a letter begging me to renew my (several years lapsed) membership. is the larger membership boycott beginning to have an effect? what is the latest with that, anyway? tagging @imanimosley.bsky.social because I figure you know the answer

centre slush puppie in Gatineau has their namesake beverage plus really good, freshly popped popcorn. I think it cost only $12 or something for both!!

this sens-hurricanes game has been insane!!!! canes thought they had the game-winning goal till it was ruled OFFSIDE and now the game is going to a second overtime period. playoff hockey is BACK BITCHES!!!!!!! #gosensgo

I do feel this way about most other things - that if I am constantly arriving places early, I am wasting my time - but definitely not to the point of missing a flight. knock on wood I haven't yet missed one, but did have a very close call with traffic to JFK one time.

for almost everything else in life, I'm team late and it drives @tiomoid.bsky.social (a perpetual earlybird) crazy. but my anxiety about missing flights requires me to be team ETTA. (not crazy early, though; I won't do a full 3 hours for international no matter how many times they suggest it.)

why is the canadian economy so unproductive?? hmmm I dunno maybe it has something to do with the fact that every 6-10 months I have to spend an hour plus on the phone with one of our two phone companies threatening to switch to the other phone company so that I can maintain the same fucking price 🤬

HAHAHAHAHAHA now imagine what would happen if we could similarly capture the attention of the press/public with any of the other undemocratic, corrupt excesses doug ford is foisting upon us at the same time

a judeo-masonic blood ritual!!!!! watching these losers crash out is going to be very funny (so long as they don't foment a pogrom along the way)

feel quite confident that Canada's new minister of AI is not up to the task of dealing with... whatever the fuck this is

@thestar.com is interviewing famous torontonians about what they would do as mayor. the first round of interviews contains a lot of great ideas, but without a doubt this is my personal favourite:

it is deeply frustrating to watch a so-called financial whiz make the most basic, obvious economic mistakes in the name of populism. mark carney is utterly failing to meet the moment.

watching the sens-leafs game and the sens are celebrating the retirement of leafs commentator Joe Bowen by playing a highlight reel of Joe announcing sens goals against the leafs 😂😂😂 truly epic levels of cattiness and I'm here for it #GoSensGo