Dan Jelly

@kingandjames.bsky.social

Canadian, #HamOnt, He/Him, Urbanist, Progressive, ADHD, Map nerd, Candy corn is awful, Half of @jellybros.bsky.social, can't find my glasses

I know I I haven't watched baseball in a while, but I think the Jays lost because they fielded all these new guys. Where are Manny Lee and Kelly Gruber? I really think Rance Mulliniks should have been a part of the equation

It's wild to me that an NHLer, who happened to score a couple of goals one night, answered more media questions in one press conference than the Conservative leader had to in a month-long campaign. Media availability should be mandatory for all politicians across the political spectrum. #cdnpoli

I voted. Notes on my experience: 1. It was busy, but fast. I was in and out in maybe 5 or 6 minutes 2. What a stark contrast to the Ontario provincial election in February. It felt like the vote mattered and I didn't have to leap a snow pile (🖕 Ford) 3. That school gym looked a lot bigger in 1986

I could have gone the rest of my life not knowing what the word "crepitus" means. At least I didn't learn it the hard way. Also, if the characters in these first aid videos, "Garry" and "Linda", aren't fictional, then they should be investigated. People around them are always getting hurt.

Peak procrastination: I had a dentist appointment this morning, or so I thought. I was a week early. I think they tried to offer me an opportunity to reschedule it to today but it was so hard to hear them over the sound of myself escaping rapidly and gleefully out the door.

People keep saying this is the darkest timeline so I peeked into the timeline next door and everyone there is running around with their hair literally on fire, so it's only marginally better.

Loblaws labelling their orange juice with a little red maple leaf is just more of the shady shit we've all come to expect from them. Was the fruit from the famous orange groves of Flin Flon, Manitoba? Their shiny new signs might as well say "Disrespecting our customers since 1919"

My partner asked me to pick up a tent but the reminder she sent me said "Trent". Clearly this is an opportunity to pull an only marginally funny and mostly awkward prank on her. Alas there aren't a lot of Trents around these days. This is yet another reason why 2025 is a tough time to be alive.

As an NDP voter, here's my totally for sure expert analysis of the other major national party leaders: Mark Carney seems like a level-headed, sensible, capable person. Pierre Poilievre seems like the kind of guy who would egg Justin Trudeau's house and shit on the hood of his car. #cdnpoli

At this point in time, with our country's sovereignty and economic future in doubt, any #HamOnt City Councillor still giving oxygen to a 2030 Commonwealth Games bid should resign. This was pure folly a year ago, it's absolute madness now.

The more cooking videos you watch the more you'll learn that it's super important to always wash your rice, but also never ever wash your rice, but also sometimes wash your rice.

If you're gullible enough to vote for Doug Ford, a man who never met a rich Conservative crony he wouldn't collude with, because you think he's going to stand up to Trump, the ultimate rich Conservative crony, you're bad at voting and should maybe just sit this one out. #onpoli #ontario