Riding the bus around here very quickly gives you the impression that whoever schedules the routes doesn’t want anyone to actually use them.

This government would ban George from the Famous Five.

Tex Murphy looms almost as large in my memories of '90s gaming as Guybrush Threepwood, so it's crazy exciting to have just learned about this campaign and the fact that it got funded. Let's not blow up the planet until this is out, okay? www.kickstarter.com/projects/tex...

When the weather gets hot, please take special care for the goths in your life. With their floor-length coats, platform shoes, and velvet capes, it’s hard for them to thermoregulate as we do.

And the fuckery begins... buzzarddoomfolk.bandcamp.com/album/hillbi...

Put on Secretary for the first time in ages this evening and the interview with Andrew Fierberg about putting the funding together was kind of insane: at one point, they had Reese Witherspoon and Ray Liotta in the lead roles and I want you to try to picture that movie in your head.

I can't believe taking the mexican chicken baguette off the greggs menu worked

In a just universe, Peter Silverman would have been 95 years old today.

OH THE FACES I MADE WHEN THAT BEAT KICKED IN @bugpressure.bsky.social AND DIS FIG DONE DID IT AGAIN thebugdisfig.bandcamp.com/track/vanish...

This week's episode of "Why Things Like @bandcamp.com, @subvert.fm, and @gog.com Are Generally Better Places To Put Your Money Than Any Streaming Platform" also features a cat named Blackberry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLOy... (Thumbnail's a little nuance-free, but such is thumbnail-ness.)

Happy 4th July to all USA friends and family. youtube.com/watch?v=O_25...

Season two of Surface confirmed at last?

Hey, Ontario... you know how you shook your head at the White House arguing that the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional because what could he be trying to hide? You don't even have to imagine too hard in this case.

It's hard to imagine ever not stopping and nodding along when this comes up on shuffle. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqLK...

"100% Canadian", oil on Wendy's coupons, 11x12", 2026- $125(Cdn) #chicken #birds #wendy's #canada

I have been reflecting on the opening of the exhibit, “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present”, at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is hard to fully put into words my reflections, but I will try. My reflections: yipeng.ca/2026/06/28/t...

I'm enjoying all these failed-state fair videos, though I do feel slight twinges of sympathy for the food vendors who agreed to be there to sell to nobody.

Crawling Chaos - Arabesque [Ashington, UK ; Post-Punk / Art Rock] (1982) https://redd.it/1tszpl8 https://youtu.be/8nrg5Qvaw4c

When the Canadian Bar Association is warning lawyers how Carney is attacking the judicial system and Canadian law, perhaps listen in?

Jun 28th - A great white shark killed it's first victim, Chrissie Watkins, a student enjoying her summer break on Amity Island. 📽️📅 Jaws (1975)

There is no money in affordable housing The margins for construction are simply not there… which is why it’s a public investment

A friend has had to deal with this same crap from doctors for over two decades now and while I sort of get telling someone who's twenty that they might change their mind, it's beyond stupid to keep that obstruction up year after year after year. Just trust that an adult knows what they want, okay?

a thread on my thoughts on each Madonna album, in order of release date.

Looking at a recent upscale of Deep Space Nine sourced from US and Japanese laserdiscs and holy wow, it is leagues ahead of what existed even four years ago. So much '90s video smeariness has been eliminated!

Look, I know Build Canada was created to be a self-serving, self-dealing advocacy group, but can they not suck quite this much? thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Another entry has been post at my Substack: KHAAAAAAAN! … and Me (or How I Learned to Love Star Trek - Part I) open.substack.com/pub/nicholas...

Happy 2:42. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJWd...

Council is back. Councillor Lily Cheng announces she's launching a "Pigeon Impact Photo Contest." "We are calling on all members of Willowdale and maybe beyond to join the Pooparazi and share your best pigeon impact photo so that we can discourage people from feeding the pigeons."

Tonight I made a red curry stir fry but realized we’re out of coconut milk so I added not-enough yogurt. The heat from the dish was so intense I poured myself a shot of vodka. Upon taking said shot I realized that was the vodka we infused with habaneros. My husband is laughing like this is funny

Yup. This entire routine, with Cab Calloway and an orchestra ripping it up in the background, is only one of the jaw-droppers in Stormy Weather, which is the perfect antidote to thinking that you don't like musicals.

It's been an opposite-ends-of-the-spectrum day here, putting on Petey Wheatstraw while I did some sanding this afternoon and then following it up with Trouble Every Day tonight.

Renters in British Columbia are paying inflated utility charges and illegal fees hidden behind opaque billing practices by private submetering companies. These firms may be helping landlords pass hidden costs onto tenants during an affordability crisis.

Reddit is now old enough to drink pretty much anywhere other than a couple of states in India. Congrats?

A grave in Gaza costs $500. Imagine, we can't even afford to live, let alone die and be buried. 💔🥹

TODAY IN GOOD JOURNALISM: Reading a @thegreenlineto.bsky.social piece on the push to recognize cultural neighbourhoods in Toronto, very much liked seeing links to the writers' sources and a bio more than 25 words long. thegreenline.to/stories/cult...

In theory, I should be on this somewhere. Can't wait to hear it.

One cute detail I've never noticed on the House of Commons site before: the seating plan there includes the mace on the Clerk's table in front of the Speaker's seat.

If any Canadians wanted to see how their MP performed on the undemocratic "hey, let's rush C-22 through with no time for discussion" front this week, the House of Commons site has your back. (And yes, the NDP sat it out.) www.ourcommons.ca/members/en/v...

Had the Vernon Reid/Bill Frisell album Smash & Scatteration on this afternoon and this last track is so good that I'm shocked they haven't done anything together since. Absolute dream concert pairing if I ever become king. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9erE... (At 34:56 if embedding lets me down.)

Thank you @elizabethemay.bsky.social for informing the press & Canadians about the undemocratic abuse of process the Liberals have undertaken to pass C-22 “Lawful Access” against all advice of experts such as @openmedia.org, @iclmg-csilc.bsky.social, @citizenlab.ca, @signal.org & legal scholars.

Reading Bill C-22’s updated version & the government changed metadata retention from a year to 6 months which is still a Section 8 Charter violation. Anyone who votes for this bill tomorrow does so knowing it is a violation of your fundamental Charter rights & does not deserve to hold public office.

Carney rammed C-22 through committee, rushing a massive expansion of state surveillance powers without proper debate. While few minor fixes were made, core threats to digital privacy and civil liberties remain unresolved. Canadians deserve better than secret orders and closed-door cabinet overreach.

I wish physical media outfits could ease off on the ten-disc extravaganzas a little and just let us buy the titles we're interested in, but I guess the numbers say big fans like big price tags.

This is your periodic reminder that Time Waits For No Slave is probably the best 21st century Napalm Death album.

So the Liberal government decided last night that it wasn't even worth debating amendments to Bill C-22 and voted on them by number, hoping to get the thing passed before they bugger off for the summer. Just a taste of what we can expect from their new majority, I'm sure.

Not that he struck me as the office-job type, but Bryn Jones would have been old enough to consider retiring today. So much good music in such a short period of time. darkroomrecords.bandcamp.com/track/how-ru...

My favourite AI lunacy story of the day was the one about Starbucks launching a promotion in South Korea that seemed to make fun of pro-democracy activists murdered in 1980 because some marketing dope asked an LLM for slogan suggestions: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Just filled out the Transport Canada survey on the Billy Bishop expansion and looking into the actual provincial Act is beyond infuriating. The fuckers can't even be straight about the land they intend to seize, hiding it behind plot numbers so it won't sound so bad.