Aleksander Bajrak
@abajrak.bsky.social
Pronounced 'bye-rack'. Fail whale expat and former editor, now work in comms. Cosmopolitan. #Coffee enthusiast. Passionately curious; obviously wrong views my own.
Strictly Canadian version. People: You can't just post one line from a song and expect everyone to know the song. Me: Oh the Milky Way, has gone a little sour
Darlene McLeod@darlenemcleod.bsky.social · 3d agoStrictly Canadian version. People: You can't just post one line from a song and expect everyone to know the song. Me: You'll have to excuse me, I'm not at my best
Strictly Canadian version. People: You can't just post one line from a song and expect everyone to know the song. Me: Oh the Milky Way, has gone a little sour
Darlene McLeod@darlenemcleod.bsky.social · 3d agoStrictly Canadian version. People: You can't just post one line from a song and expect everyone to know the song. Me: You'll have to excuse me, I'm not at my best
In the true spirit of International Cat Day, the cats have started "strategic commiserating" - mutual grooming in the goal of obtaining extra food. #Caturday
Aleksander Bajrak@abajrak.bsky.social · last yr.The mutual agreement is holding.
Who's afraid of 138, #RaveyardShift? Armin van Buuren posed the question in 2013, with trance music in a commercial halt & song tempos slowing down. edm.com/news/jono-gr... 10 classics that bucked the trends: 1. Oliver Smith - Nimbus (Original Mix) [Anjunabeats, 2007] #TranceSky #musicsky #trance
Oliver Smith - Nimbus [Anjunabeats]
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The Unfinished@theunfinished.bsky.social · 5mo agoI'm listening to a lot of trance again at the moment. It's good nostalgia. Not just of the music, but the feeling of lusting after unaffordable gear in copies of Future Music and Sound On Sound I did at the time, and also the general feel of my life in those days - footloose and fancy free!
If you're wondering, no, I'm not going to restart the tariff thread again. You can only touch the stove so many times.
Aleksander Bajrak@abajrak.bsky.social · last yr.The third fold. Pot is awarded to Canada and Mexico. May the Fentanyl Czar reign for many more years. /thread
I didn't expect some of my first photography bylines (in years) to be for APTN, but I'm grateful for @jesseandrushko.bsky.social and his team for considering them.
APTN News@aptnnews.bsky.social · 2mo agoPhoto of the day today comes from Aleksander Bajrak from Etobicoke, Ontario who wanted to share this beautiful view of the Toronto skyline from the shores of Sam Smith Park.
Because Toronto air quality: This is low-key the smartest resource CBC News has published. Can't recommend it enough. www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...
Graeme Bruce@graemebruce.bsky.social · last yr.CBC News is tracking #wildfires in Canada — location, smoke levels, air quality and more: www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...
A lovely, poignant and thoughtful thread
Judah Grunstein@judah-grunstein.bsky.social · last mo.More than any other global event, the World Cup channels postcolonial legacies and the entangled nature of global modernities, from the countries competing and the commentary about specific teams and matchups, to the makeup of individual squads. I find it poignant, enraging and hopeful all at once.
Bonne fête du Canada! Calgary DJ Edwin "Yelow" Tsui is about to go live for a maple-flavoured #TranceSky guest mix. 3 hours of 🇨🇦 trance, progressive, breaks, electronic & everything in-between: tinyurl.com/trancesky (Cover art by @jaketobin.bsky.social.) #CanadaDay #RaveyardShift #MusicChallenge
#TranceSky - Trance: The Canadian Collection, 1998-2026 (by Yelow)
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Happy 100th birthday to Mel Brooks. May the Schwartz be with you.
Mel Brooks@officialmelbrooks.bsky.social · last yr.I told you we’d be back
I don't think we really appreciate how weird a moment this is, collectively, for Canadian sports. Bluesky has never fully encountered the Trade Raptor joke. globalnews.ca/news/5213493...
Jake Goldsbie@jakegoldsbie.bsky.social · last mo.Please don't trade for Kawhi at 4 AM this time. I am older and much more tired than I was before and the odds of me being awake this time are much lower.
Even if that is the only point we get, it was Mission Accomplished. #Bajrak
Stephanie Carvin@stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 2mo agoWell. Maybe the real World Cup was the friends we made along the way.
(5) Finally I have to beat the drum for service improvements generally. We spend cast efforts drawing lines on maps that cannot possibly be in service within a decade, but leave the surface networks to rot. Tech battles between streetcar haters, ebus aficionados, and just plain buses don't help.
My carefully-researched and considered paper on the birthright citizenship debate is as follows. May you have a good #Juneteenth.
Aleksander Bajrak@abajrak.bsky.social · 10mo agoSubmitted a letter to the editor about this a few days back. Without jus soli we don't get this video.
For those wondering: Russia, in the 5th year of this war: - attacked the Orthodox monastery in Kyiv that holds Ilya Muromets, Nestor the Chronicler and & *checks notes* Yuri I Vladimirovich ("Founder of Moscow") Dolgorukiy.
Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2mo agoJust appalling
Old (Raptors) heads have always known that Anunoby is gold.
NBA Daily News@insidenbanews.bsky.social · 2mo agoOG ANUNOBY PUTBACK FOR THE LEAD
Hi #RaveyardShift! To close the loop on my prog house showcase, here are more tracks that didn't make the first run, but are still worth a peek. 1. Alex H - Seeking Agapism (Chillout Mix) [White Label, 2021] #TranceSky #musicsky #technocity #progressivehouse #downtempo #electronica
Alex H - Seeking Agapism (Alex H Chillout Mix)
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Legitimately, Google Scholar and the (fragments of) Google Books are the only tools that are keeping the search engine together right now.
Jeff Lazarus@jlazarus.bsky.social · 3mo agoReal talk Google Scholar is by far the easiest to use and most comprehensive search engine for academic research and if they fuck with that my job will get measurably more difficult.
Yoko Shimomura is an amazing VGM composer and her works will outlast the Kingdom Hearts fandom. (I've already grown out of it, but not her music. This was arranged with Kaoru Wada.)
Passion (KINGDOM Orchestra Instrumental Version)
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Giovanni Colantonio@marioprime.bsky.social · 3mo agoFOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS, ALL KINGDOM HEARTS TAKES ARE LEGAL
Toronto Tempo are opening their WNBA season tonight! To mark the moment, we're looking back at women’s basketball through the decades in the city.
Time to shuffle it up a bit, #RaveyardShift. While I have no claim to @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social's discographic knowledge, I present to you the many shades of progressive house: 1. David Green - Lypen (Extended Mix) [FSOE UV, 2023] #TranceSky #RaveyardShift #musicsky #progressivehouse
Lypen (Extended Mix)
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Among other things, this is a PR muckup for Bombardier.
Peggy Blair@peggyjblair.bsky.social · 4mo agoI wondered about that. I used to travel north of Thunder Bay regularly to meet with First Nations leaders. Apart from the Thunder Bay airport itself, not sure how you could land anything on those runways except for bush planes.
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