Jameson Tucker
@jwdtucker.bsky.social
Torontonian in Birmingham, mostly doing cricket, cycling, and Higher Education.
I listen to the Wilco a lot more these days, but in actual factual 2001 I absolutely loved Vespertine, and apparently that's my voting criteria here.
The Best Album of 2001@bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social · 3d agoThe Best Album of 2001 Round 6 (Final Four) Match #125 #1 Wilco, YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT VS. #5 Björk, VESPERTINE Go here to vote: forms.gle/Q1GZmxsACQzK...
If I get EU status back while the UK stays Brexited...
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d agoThree-byline alert: 🚨 “.. Carney has even suggested Canada take on a new title: ‘Associate Member of the European Union.’ .. The EU, not known for its flexible enforcement of membership rules, is open to the idea ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/europe...
you may think i am joking but i am not. they’re talking about AI the way protestant zealots talked about the end times. in both cases we are hearing people talk about themselves — their desires, their lust for destruction, their yearning to trample their rivals underfoot.
elias isquith@eliasisquith.blog · 5d agopart of the reason why elites can’t stop talking and writing and reading about fantasies of AI apocalypse is because of simple projection and frankly it’s unfair to the AI for them to burden it with so many of their repressed desires
By chance bought a Pamela Branch mystery in Lucca recently, as my wife read a Christianna Brand. Otherwise, I don't think I'd have twigged that Brand's detective is seemingly reading a crime novel written by Branch's character. Given they were friends it tracks, though.
Ski Sunday has been going downhill for quite some time.
The Echo Standard@echo-standard.bsky.social · 2w agoBBC axes ‘iconic’ Ski Sunday winter sports show after nearly 50 years on TV
I'm going to set a google alert for all the names in this story and 'firey wreck'
David Ingram@davidingram.bsky.social · 3w agoNEW from me: I interviewed Tesla drivers who say they sometimes sleep intentionally behind the wheel.
An intruiging mention of haunted holiday chalets in the recent West Country Modernism newsletter, which now makes me immediately think @raynewman.bsky.social
St Bartholomew's Day Massacre today, 1572. I really enjoyed this little note from a Folger curator about their acquiring a Hogenberg print of the event (I would not have had a problem having my name attached to the collection!) www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...
News of St. Bartholomew's Day, 1572 | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...
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We have just had proper rain here for the first time since June - and I have just come to realise that the purpose of Test cricket as a ritual in England is TO MAKE IT RAIN IN THE SUMMER. We have angered the gods with The Hundred and we must return to the old ways.
Ghost houses. The houses on Pape just north of the tracks have been expropriated by Metrolinx due to Ontario Line construction. They leave the lights on, so you can see into the abandoned houses at night. Still with bits of their former lives sometimes.
Eclipse at the cricket tonight. Someone had tons of extra glasses and our whole section got a good look
I'm a member of two different cricket club group chats trying to figure out if they're going to be able to keep playing through the eclipse this evening or how many overs they might lose to light.
I really like Cake; I am grateful that I can just vote for them without having to defend this notion at any sort of length.
The Best Album of 2001@bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social · last mo.The Best Album of 2001 Round 3 Match #98 #16 Low, THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE VS. #17 Cake, COMFORT EAGLE Go here to vote: forms.gle/fZXQNncqZGux...
I cannot imagine enjoying an album less than I do SoaD, so Josie it is!
The Best Album of 2001@bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social · last mo.The Best Album of 2001 Round 2 Match #96 #22 System of a Down, TOXICITY VS. #43 Josie and the Pussycats, JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS: MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE Go here to vote: forms.gle/md3FhKwoMKsX...
this is my new belief system btw i’m going chud but from an unexpected angle. ‘driving is soy’
rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2mo agoyou know what i fear? abandonment. good luck getting any mileage outta that one from the safety of your fruity lil death machine
CANADIAN TRAIN ETIQUETTE UPDATE: the woman opposite me has just taken a phone call and said 'I can't really talk on the train, so you just tell me things and I'll keep going mmm-hmm.'
Mark Watson@watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 2mo agoI'm on the train from Montréal to Toronto. There's just been a reminder that it is MANDATORY to use headphones when watching video. I can't believe this guys have resorted to legislation, rather than our system of having 75% of the carriage sit in murderous, futile rage.
'Main Sewage Treatment Playground' always had a certain Springfieldian vibe to it.
Adam Bunch@adambunch.bsky.social · 2mo agoToronto is losing one of its best names
If we're doing 100 years, I guess... armoured car driver, railway engineer, or various kinds of company clerk?
Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 2mo agoEnough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?
Turns out if you're in power you can do things
Paul Brand@paulbrand.bsky.social · 2mo agoBurnham announces: 1. Casey will bring forward her review by a year to summer 2027. He wants it to focus on creating a National Care Service that is ‘highly integrated’ with the NHS. 2. He will look at improving pay and progression of social care workforce. 3. Cross party talks to begin today.
That Bouie is the exception when it comes to American commentators who grasp how deep the distrust of the US now is among Canadians is telling about how much this problem in America is about more than Trump
Thor Benson@thorbenson.bsky.social · 2mo agoAs a Canadian-American, I am granting @jamellebouie.net honorary Canadian status for this video
Just realised that the King must feel the same sense of 'well, it's not what I would pick but it makes me remember my childhood' about this kind of interior as I do about, say, woodchip wallpaper.
Rob 🏳️🌈@rotster.net · 2mo agoI feel like there’s quite a lot to unpack in this image.
It's the absolute confidence in the tech that these chancers have that gets me. Ten minutes would establish that it's not ready for use!
Emilie K. M. Murphy@emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 2mo agoLOL just reading through comments from the copy-editor and, well, let's just say I'm not convinced that the copy-editor has really been doing much actual reading of my text here with these queries.. Screenshot of my paragraph for context here... Snort.
Increasingly coming to the view that the Harvard referencing system is the death of stylish academic writing. Flow as a reader is impossible when the text is littered with regular occurrences of (Boggins and Zuglinsky 2022).
I’m very pleased that the trade press is giving space to the Exeter horror. Next challenge is for them to look a little further down the league tables - Northumbria perhaps, or my own place. We have feelings too.
Andy Brockman@andybrockman.bsky.social · 3mo ago"The idea that people will be able to hold it together and deliver a term of teaching before they vanish off into the horizon, is bizarre, spiteful and naive as well.” The Times HE's punchy account of Exeter University's #BonfireOfTheHumanities & what one academic describes as "existential terror".
This makes me happy because Washington has finally embraced Balkan aesthetics. Every resident of Skopje sheds tears of joy at this abomination. Total North Macedonian cultural victory.
A week back in Toronto and there's good interest in the World Cup, but above all every third person is now wearing a Blue Jays. Hat
It turned out his girlfriend really DID go to another school.
One of my colleagues is doing a presentation on how great AI is, and to prove the point he got AI to create the slides for him, and he asked AI to save the presentation and I think you can all guess where this is going... Anyway, we've all learned an important lesson about using AI.
