Don’t ask me to explain this, but Jakob Poeltl always looks like he just got off a Greyhound bus from Sudbury.
Luke
@splitletters.bsky.social
Jays fan, nerd, socialist, recovering Exvangelical PK Turns out I have #ADHD?
Americans talking about "naked Sydney Sweeney" this and "Liberty Biberty" that. NOT US! We've got the scruffy boyish charm of Michael Cera in a rapidly-expanding universe of interacting with Toronto athletes to get us to upgrade our cable package.
Speeding talk is so funny because no one needs to reveal themselves as a reckless shit head on here to strangers but they just cannot restrain themselves. You can just go speed and probably get away with it but you gotta make sure everyone thinks you're right for doing it too.
Scottie Barnes starts his address to the fans with: "What it do, baybeeeee"
The Raptors: might be pretty good (also the Bulls could be bad, idk, but I like the first option the most)
43 in the 1st quarter and didn't even play all that great. Raps winning the Championship.
Seems extremely smart and responsible for the media to collectively have settled on “isn’t it annoying that annoying man David Eby is annoyingly making you cast an annoying vote” as the framing for the election, and not, say, “is the party that was full of racist nuts still full of racist nuts?”
PressProgress@pressprogress.ca · 2d agoBC Conservative candidate Heather Maahs defends blog post about “slave auctions” and Blackface in Chilliwack schools Maahs said teachers were simply “using drama for instruction” new from @rumneeek.bsky.social pressprogress.ca/bc-conservat...
Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/
Hardly the first to say this, but the concept of the nuclear family is also the locus of fascism.
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3d agoThis is a quietly metastasizing moral panic
“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest
"Trans Lives are Real. Harry Potter is Not" Sticker spotted in NYC
Damn it got real chilly overnight, from pleasant to friggin +2c this morning is a bit of a swing
If your policies are so unpopular you need hundreds of police to do some basic roadwork, perhaps your policies are shite?
G20 levels of police presence to remove a fucking bike lane. Absolute cowards. (Photo: @chanface.bsky.social)
The Toronto Police arrested Aly Van Wyck-Smart, a Paralympian with cerebral palsy who was protecting part of the bike lane from removal. On the bright side, the construction workers put the bollards back and said we'd won for the day.
Next time bring some trucks and say you're protesting for freedom and then the cops won't do anything for two weeks.
Rodney 🚧🚇@chanface.bsky.social · last wk.They then called in a “public order” unit and blocked off the whole street causing congestion. Apparently you need an overkill amount to intimidate people with a cane and wheelchair.
One thing I find enormously annoying about the bike lane discourse is how many people think that Uber Eats and DoorDash drivers using them somehow invalidates the statistics. No problem ordering a burrito taxi, but god forbid we build safe infrastructure for the people delivering your order!!!
As a reminder, the entire reason this specific bike lane is somehow under the purview of the Provincial Government is because our moron Premier has to pass it on his way to his job (on the rare days he goes to work) and the sight of a cyclist passing his SUV in traffic makes his blood BOIL
Every anti-cyclist Red Pill moment is just "I saw a cyclist moving faster than car traffic, thus proving the argument that bike lanes are efficient at moving people and reducing car gridlock. This infuriated me."
Alex Bozikovic@alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 7d ago"One guy on a bike punched my Uber, so I now loudly repeat the Conservatives' bullshit talking points." Of course. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Toronto bike lane removal. When your infrastructure project has huge police protection and the contractors hide the logos on their trucks and gear, you are in the wrong.
Sean Marshall@seanyyz.bsky.social · last wk.In the end, the lanes come out.
Shoutout to every person who took time to be present and show resistance to Doug Ford. And massive Absolute massive shoutout to community leaders @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social @cycletoronto.bsky.social @ffsafestreets.bsky.social @lanrickbennett.bsky.social
You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.
"where will we get the money for th-" hey about if there are children who are hungry who the fuck cares where we get the money from.
Jeremy Mulder@jeremulder.bsky.social · last wk.www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Love these articles, on the same day our province is spending millions to destroy/ rip out vital infrastructure that fall under municipal jurisdiction. We never ask where the money is for those projects. Helping kids get a solid meal though.
Well this is not at all surprising. It had to be either a lingering injury, or his eyes going on him, because that downturn made no damn sense
Minor Leaguer@minorleaguer.ca · 2w agoVladdy's cornea is in the best shape of its life. www.reddit.com/r/Torontoblu...