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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 1d

This isn't a closing election argument, it's Vidkun Quisling explaining why surrender is better than resistance.

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 2d

They say baseball breaks your heart, and the Blue Jays are a Hall of Fame what if team, now. So what does it mean to watch your team lose the World Series in one of the greatest games ever played? It means you got to feel something; you just didn’t get to choose what. www.thestar.com/sports/blue-...

Bruce Arthur: These Blue Jays are a Hall of Fame ‘what if’ team. The World Series loss just makes the heartbreak worse

This World Series will echo across Canada for decades, because Toronto lost the MLB championship in one of the greatest baseball games ever played.

www.thestar.com

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 5d

Unc Thant, or something

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 5d

I fully had to google who/what John Pork is after seeing said instagram post and I still don’t think I understand. the zeitgeist leaves us all behind and in my world Unc is an honorific

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 8d

CBC presents This Hour has 22 Innings

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 8d

Alejandro Kirk is a Scorpio and this is his season let’s GO

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 9d

but most importantly let’s go blue jays

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 9d

go off king

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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 15d

YOU READY SHOHEI??????????????

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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 14d

My @thestar.com column this week: after Toronto Council requested reports on potential new rules for activities like raves, jet ski riding and pickleball, I’ve got an important reminder: it is a very good thing that people are having fun in the city.

Fun is good.

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Matt Elliott: Now, Toronto has noisy pickleball games in its crosshairs. Are we becoming the City That Fun Forgot?

Tending to the whims of grumblers might make for good politics in election season, but it often makes for lousy governance.

www.thestar.com

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 15d

Every day is a beautiful day to live in Toronto but TODAY MOST OF ALL!!!!!

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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 16d

“One day we will be brought to the [International Criminal Court in the Hague], not because of Gaza, because of what happens in the West Bank and we will have no good defence. Because it happens in front of our eyes and no one seems to care.” - former Israeli PM Olmert: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Canadian charities complicit in helping fund Israeli settlement movement in West Bank, critics say | CBC News

Tax deductible donations made by Canadians to groups that financially support West Bank settlements that are illegal under international law are continuing in the face of escalating attacks on Palesti...

www.cbc.ca

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 19d

truth be told I’m not great at following municipal politics outside of the GTA and Nova Scotia (HRM but also some other counties) - will definitely read up on this!!

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 19d

however in both Toronto and Halifax most regular drivers seem to not really walk or use public transit (let alone cycle) at all… and the empathy/understanding for people who use different modalities does not go both ways!!

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 19d

Any time I have to drive anywhere to run an errand I start to understand within about ten minutes why so many regular drivers’ views on municipal politics seem to be entirely informed by shit like traffic and parking. I don’t think it’s right but I get it!!

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · Sep 17

Between the purge of late night comedians, Trump allies buying up TV networks, Hollywood studios and social media platforms, and news organizations getting slapped with multi-billion dollar lawsuits, there is a full-court press to dismantle the information systems propping up American democracy

ABC Suspends ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ “Indefinitely” Over Charlie Kirk Comments

The network’s decision comes after affiliate group Nexstar said it would pull the late-night show, and the chairman of the FCC suggested he might take action against ABC.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · Sep 10

Trying to come up with an equivalent to this speed camera story but for transit riders. Imagine if, in wake of hypothetical reports of people getting mad about fines and vandalizing Presto readers, the gov was just like, well, I guess we should stop fare enforcement. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

'We are prepared to help get rid of them,' Ont. government says after 16 speed cameras vandalized | CBC News

Sixteen Toronto speed cameras were found damaged on Tuesday morning, only two days after the Parkside Drive speed camera was cut down for the seventh time in less than a year.

www.cbc.ca

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · Aug 27

Tried to do a good deed by letting my brother borrow my carry-on suitcase to go back to NS bc his is broken… now I have to go to NS as well so guess who’s stuck using the busted suitcase 🙄

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · Aug 22

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · Aug 14

nothing more humbling/humiliating that straining your calf while running in a completely straight line at a steady speed across even terrain 😔

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · Aug 14

Last weekend I injured my calf in a manner befitting someone at least twice my age, and now my biggest concern is whether I can hobble to Oasis NEXT weekend without incurring permanent damage… it’s a hard knock life

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · Aug 11

The five brave Palestinian journalists whom Israel targeted and killed today (left-right):
-Anas al-Sharif (correspondent)
-Mohammed Qreiqeh (correspondent) -Ibrahim Zaher (camera operator)
-Muhammad Al-Khalidi (photojournalist)
-Mohammed Noufal (camera operator)
-Moamen Aliwa (camera operator)

a young man holds a young boy and girl in front of rubble

a young man in glasses wearing a protective vest with the word press on it leans against a car

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · Aug 8

Good post by Fred DeLorey, pushing back against complaints (from non-Nova Scotians?) about Nova Scotia's fire prevention measures.

freddelorey.substack.com/p/nova-scoti...

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · Aug 5

A journalist with Canada’s public broadcaster was not allowed on the Canadian plane air dropping aid into Gaza because of Israeli restrictions.

When she made it onto a Jordanian plane, she was not allowed to film what she saw on the ground in Gaza because Israel forbids it from being shown.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · Aug 3

Walter Benjamin, “The Storyteller” (1936)

A picture of two paragraphs from Benjamin’s The Storyteller about how modernity has removed death as a public process and component of life. “Today people live in rooms that have never been touched by death, dry dwellers of eternity, and when their end comes they are stowed away in sanatoria or hospitals by their heirs.”

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