THE MAINSTREAM JEWISH COMMUNAL DEVIL'S BARGAIN WITH WHITE SUPREMACY HURTS EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE AND AS MAGA HAS MADE CLEAR IT ALWAYS BACKFIRES Solidarity is the only way home has always been collective liberation or bust loves

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

There is nog in my house. No stealing.

The Department of Unsubtle Metaphors continues to exceed expectations

These look like they will keep me on the road.

People in 1952 never thought that in the 21st century, humans would struggle to find staplers and other simple tools that just worked. Products get shittier every time the price increases.

My new Hammond stage organ. Early review: this thing is fucking incredible. Because Katie is marking, I have so far only played it through headphones. Tomorrow morning, however...

No Lancaster flight this year, but the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum's B-25 Mitchell just flew over my house, with one of their WW2 fighters following.

I was improvising on the new piano today, and came up with this. youtube.com/shorts/q4GNo...

Is there a way to buy a peerage these days? Because I would contribute cash money to get Sean Dunn named the Earl of Sandwich

So I just found out that Albert Camus and I have more in common than I thought. We have both written things and we both played goal in soccer. The bastard was undoubtedly better at both. But I have lived longer, so I've got that going for me. And just like that, I am a character in a Vonnegut novel.

Picked up my new ride today. It moves like it's supposed to so far. I usually take the train into Toronto on Wednesdays, but I think for tomorrow I will make an exception.

Why don't we have sportswriters like this? I didn't hear any post-game interview questions, but I know they were fawning and inane.

So a whole lot of elected officials (whose job it is to pass laws) are showing that they don't really know how laws work - or if they do, they just don't care. Which is why constitutions exist.

Netflix seems to have moved to subtitles on by default every time you open the app, and it's really fucking annoying. They are absolutely needed by some, and enjoyed by others. It shouldn't be hard for an app to remember a user setting.

Doug Ford asking the US ambassador to apologize instead of something like "I'm recommending that the PM tell you to get the fuck out of our country, you fascist bootlicking fuckface." Of course, I am also not surprised that current Republicans find Reagan's actual words insulting and outrageous.

Alexa explodes after Canadian replies to query with, “Oh, yeah, no, for sure.”

Join ICE, you too can mess yourself while being so panicked you feel it is necessary to shoot an unarmed person in the face with anti-riot weapons. This should be the recruitment poster.

I highly recommend both these items if you can get your hands on them.

Katie's back, and she brought presents!

I was telling people recently about one of my profs (William Renwick) whose advice on sight-reading *and* improvisation was this: If you make a mistake, make sure to do it again. For the audience, if it stood out and it happened again, it was intentional: it was supposed to be that way!

Except this is exactly how it is supposed to work. It is a language model, not a 'correct answer machine'. Oh, did somebody hoping to monetize its use tell you it is a correct answer machine? And you believed them?

You know, to paraphrase @kenwhite.bsky.social , if you joke about some things, it’s kind of like ‘ironically’ fucking a goat. Sure, you may say it’s for irony or performance art or to be provocative or whatever, but at the end of the day, you’re still balls deep in a goat.

I saw some cool things in my one afternoon in Marseille - may have to go back and see what else they have cooking!

I think the only thing I can like about baseball is that a team that is swimming along can suddenly come up against a different team and be one of the suckiest teams that ever sucked.

New "inventions" are not incentivized to solve actual problems as much as they are incentivized to attract money. If those goals overlap, cool, but it's not required (see NFTs). If modern society invented the wheel, it'd be accessed via a subscription-based proprietary plan with multiple tiers

Capitalism is a funny thing, because GenAI/LLM technology is considered successful not because of what it does, but because of its ability to attract venture capitalist investors

Made for Harold Pinter, I'm pretty sure.

This is why I am hoping all my friends and relatives are able to leave that country.

I live near campsites of homeless people. On my way to and from the GO bus stop, I encounter homeless people - middle of the day, early morning, after midnight. I do not get the average Canadian's fear of people experiencing poverty and homelessness.

Halloween pipe organ concert comin' up!

Getting out in the world and playing blues in Hamilton and Toronto has been a blast. I was out both Saturday and Sunday and both days had people I've never met call me up to play with them. I'm then called upon to figure out some kind of groove to go with songs I don't know, and maybe solo.

The difference a couple hours makes...

Piano? Yeah, ok. But what about three keyboards and something for the feet? I'll be taking this beaut from 1951 for a spin almost every Sunday. If you're in the west end of Toronto, swing by Humbercrest United and see what's happening.

I did an experiment. I liked it.

For all the talk of armed agents of the United States government targeting cities, hasn't the NRA been awfully quiet lately? Plenty of high-profile shootings opening the door to another stirring rendition of 'guns don't kill people, people kill people.'

Gas station in Brantford tonight: Regular gasoline 121.9¢ Diesel 189.9¢ Yowza. Sometimes it is cheaper, sometimes not. But not sure I've ever seen that big a spread.

Okay, it may really suck for the Carolinas, but named storms only getting to H in late September seems a bit of a win, no?

Lexi for Leader of the Free World.

One of my favourite things the last few years has been listening to people playing in bars when we stop in after our own performance. Performance is physically and mentally taxing. It's easy to appreciate the efforts of others when you've just done it yourself.

Can't wait to hear the announcement. I hope they really water it down so it is strong enough to convince everyone.

While I would generally agree with Hayden here, the Cincy subway is an unusual and interesting case. And one I only learned of last year!

the republican line to open corruption in the government is “WE DON’T CARE” lmfao

OTD in 1958, my father got on a boat with his parents and sister in Liverpool. The ship was bound for Montreal, but they were bound for Sault Ste Marie, where my grandparents lived till their deaths, and where my aunt still lives. My grandfather worked in the steel industry, which explains the move.

Hi! I was homeless. That's me he wants to kill. If you don't know me, hi, I am pretty nice, I think. I'm a privacy lawyer. I drive a cute yellow Bronco. I do art. I have two really fluffy Maine coon cats. I volunteer at food banks when I can. This guy would have killed me for being homeless.

This is an odd response considering they can only point to one incident. Security guards are not worth the money they cost. Little boys cosplaying as big boys - but with no authority to do anything. Yet the city can inflate the figure they claim to spend helping homeless people.

A lot of people think that, when they see temporary foreign workers in a minimum wage job (Hortons, McD), it's a job scam. But it's min wage, there's no savings to be had. More often than not, I'd wager it's a real estate scam.

Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon is an awful human being...

This is how you muck up the gears, people. Being really, really annoying wears down an occupying force.

I got to sit in with this outfit tonight. Garnetta Cromwell and daGroovMasters. Exactly what I needed today!