Shelagh Rowan-Legg
@shelaghrowanlegg.northsky.social
Poet | Writer | Filmmaker | Scholar | Editor, @screenanarchy.bsky.social | OFCS, AQCC, Fipresci | Tiohtià:ke/Montréal | Letterboxd, https://boxd.it/6L6X | she/they https://shelaghrowanlegg.com/
Sounds good. Except the government spending $310 million on non-market housing and $2.4 billion on market housing is the opposite of what those numbers should be. Why is the government using billions in public money to prop up a for-profit housing market that can't make a profit anymore?
Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 3h agoTogether with the City of Toronto, we’re getting more than 5,600 rental homes built. We're building 18 new housing projects across the city — with shovels in the ground on more than 80% of them this year. Read more: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...
Naomi Klein going all-in on launching a Substack in 20fucking26 makes me want to throw my teenage copy of NO LOGO through a window
There is no ethical consumption of Harry Potter. And not in the usual "no ethical consumption under capitalism" way. In the "your fandom is now comprised of hate symbols" way.
s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 8h agoJKR explicitly said she considers anything Potter-related, even fan-made, endorsement of her politics. And every time you engage with this franchise, you signal to the industry that there's still money in it and they should keep pumping out content from full-cast audiobooks to book box partnerships.
A wave of progressive populism is defying political gravity (ie big money) and upending primary season in the US. It’s exhilarating to witness. 🧵
Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 13h agoMoney out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.
There. Are. No. Trans. Women. In. The. WNBA. This whole conversation is a racist trap and long circuitous argument that always comes back to insulting cisgender Black women by calling them not women. In particular it attacks: Brittany Griner, Liz Cambage, and A'Ja Wilson.
I would have trouble at work for one day if AI disappeared, and that's because I would be a mixture of a walking party and an obnoxious dickhead who is shouting TOLD YOU SO as loudly as possible. So, I might lose my job when that day comes. I hope I'm already off.
In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname
Meet your NDP candidate for Beaches-East York! Shannon is a longtime community advocate, labour leader, and busy parent. She’s spent 20 years working on social justice, workers’ and housing rights, food security, queer and trans rights, and environmental issues in Toronto.
And all EA games are now worth $0. Support indies and people not powered by hateful fascist bastards.
Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · yesterdayEA is officially a privately owned company Main investors include Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners Deal was worth $55B
The *only* acceptable questions from strangers in a public ladies are "are you waiting/queuing", "is there any loo roll in that one", and "do you have a spare tampon."
Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · 2d agoIf someone asks you “What is your sex?” In a toilet, they are the weirdo. If they ask you “What sex were you assigned at birth?” They want to know what your genitals looked like when you were a baby. I would look at anyone doing this in the same I would look at Rod Liddle talking about porn.
OMG imagine "slave" having different meanings than the ones you understand! It's the anglicized spelling of an Indigenous word! The Slavey people have nothing to do with the practice of slavery and the naming of Great Slave Lake and Lesser Slave Lake are for them, not indentured people.
Unless we ban the use of fossil fuels for energy generation and surface transport, no company will ever leave this stuff in the ground. Why would they when they're making money hand over fist?
Oil Giant Saudi Aramco Reports 33% Profit Surge, Despite Iran War Disruptions (Gift Article)
Higher oil prices propelled a quarterly earnings jump for Saudi Arabia’s energy giant, which used pipelines to work around disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz.
nytimes.com
LRP leave kids alone you fucking freaks. leave them alone whether they're trans or cis or gender conforming or not or gay or not or intersex or not or whatever it is: leave them alone, you goddamn creepy horrible motherfuckers
Yeah, Kat Tenbarge was much nicer to Jack Osbourne than I would have been, I would have just told him to go fuck himself. Also, if you're going to accuse a writer or journalist of using "AI" on the basis of em dashes, absolutely positively go fuck yourself.
Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 4d agoSo I woke up this morning to find out that Ozzy Osbourne’s son made a video falsely accusing me of using AI to write a Rolling Stone article about the Tate brothers.
Anyway, since I’m always annoying my own brain by trying to come up with clearer and more specific wording for my own opinions: I reject the notion that LLMs can be deployed “responsibly” at scale and believe that anybody claiming otherwise is fooling themselves, conning you, or possibly both
ok folks in Canada: your recommendations for the best over the counter cold medication. I've been sick for five days and my usually reliable nyquil is doing nothing.
I would love to see this in Canada cc @avilewis.ca
Miles Grant@milesgrant.bsky.social · 4d agoWent to highwayside gas station for road trip grab & go dinner with kids & groaned aloud when I realized it was self-checkout - would’ve gone anywhere else Dems everywhere should copy this bill to require a 10% discount for self-checkout
This is the most ADORABLE cycling video you'll see today. youtube.com/shorts/mnmxv... (Though if you want to share more adorable bike vids, please do)
6 months of active riding with my 2-year-old
YouTube video by Dim’s Day-to-Day
youtube.com
I love music but it seems I cannot go anywhere, not even a camping ground nor its reception/eating area, without costant music. Is nowhere allowed to be quiet anymore?
I started getting followed by some "film festivals" and "writing festivals" and thought "oh, these are cool!" Then I looked a little closer. They're all part of a network that preys on writers, charging us for reviews, and feeding our stuff into slop generators. So I made a list.👋🏻🖕🏻😠
Probably there are people for whom it didn’t work; very few reviews work for everyone. But whether or not it makes Emily Wilson seem NICE is beside the point. Two more notes: 1) I thought it did make her seem like a good person; 2) I have trouble imagining this line of argument leveled at a man.
Given Tobi Lutke's apparent interest in destroying democracy, a quick reminder that he has a direct line to Mark Carney's office, and that Carney appears to be taking cues from Lutke on how to develop the economy The Plutocracy may in fact already exist #cdnpoli www.desmog.com/2025/12/08/m...
Mark Carney Took Speech Ideas From Billionaire-Founded ‘Build Canada’
The pro-AI and fossil fuel group tells DeSmog that it’s great to see its ideas “get taken up by government.”
desmog.com
packing up to go camping and I am NOT taking my laptop! Five days without it ... let's see how I manage