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attaboy.ca
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Honestly, they should be forced to name the team after a shittier tree.

submitted 5 days ago • 26 comments

What a fascinating interview to publish on election day in Canada. (Please remember to vote!)

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

I don’t think very often about hot dogs, but when I do I’m sad because none of them will ever taste as good as the one I had at Hot Doug’s in Chicago.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Now is not the time to start a trade war between Canada and Australia. www.torontotoday.ca/local/food-d...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

“Maybe it’s a vaccine, you think. Maybe we need this ugly dose of What Can Be in order to avoid What Could Come. Then again we had four years of it the first time and somehow, immunity didn’t take. Maybe we fucked that up and now it’s a drug-resistant socio-political superbug.”

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Skating to where the fascism is going

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

The dying sound effect from Gameboy Tetris popped into my head just now, definitely for no reason at all youtu.be/R-o_8-SQej4

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Proposed seasonal aphorisms for Toronto: - April sleet brings May heat - April ice but May nice - April white stuff, May bright enough - April snowstorm means May’s so warm #dlws

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Can we talk about the cruel irony of the present and past tense of “read” being spelled the same, thus hindering the very activity described by the word?

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Well, I have successfully made it in (and now, thank god, out) of the United States. Idk if/when I will be back—which is sad, because I love US folks. Once again, they did not make it easy. I will explain.

submitted 63 days ago • 48 comments

There are some positive signs. 🦅 🥾

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

In case you missed it, and even if you didn’t, please enjoy the entirety of Stephen Colbert’s recent hilarious and lengthy interview with Gary Oldman. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Jasmine Mooney, the Canadian woman who was recently detained for 12 days by ICE in the US after attempting to renew her visa, shares her harrowing experience, and the stories of the people she met: medium.com/@jasminemoon...

submitted 65 days ago • 2 comments

Latest essay, on inviting in and not selling out. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/stand-your-g...

submitted 68 days ago • 10 comments

Call it anecdotal, but my Canadian friends who are cancelling their US travel are not doing it because of tariff worries at all; they’re doing it because the US government is currently actively threatening Canada’s sovereignty and economy and they’re all justifiably furious

submitted 69 days ago • 404 comments

Went grocery shopping tonight. It’s early March in Toronto. The ground is frozen. The nadir of local produce. Any fresh fruit and veg right now is imported or from a well-heated greenhouse. It’s striking just how much less American the produce section has become, at least at the local No Frills.

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

The question was a bit risible (“one of his realms,” really?), but what an appeasement-dipshit response this was from Starmer.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Remembering Gene Hackman today and this brilliant piece by @rbuas.bsky.social flaminghydra.com/gene-hackman...

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Is there a name for the phenomenon where you hear music poorly and your brain registers it in one key, and then your brain abruptly realizes it’s in a different key than you first thought? Does this happen to other people?

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

Sorry

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

That flushing sound you hear is the Federal NDP.

submitted 94 days ago • 2 comments

Incredible that everyone survived the Delta plane crash at Pearson youtu.be/e1jJulE6WXU

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Terrific @newyorker.com interview with Mike White. What a delightful weirdo and creative force. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

I don't like that a small group of bloated tech companies are in control of so much in the world. I don't like how they're falling over themselves to fight a MAGA culture war. I really don't like that they're asking how AI might make better bombs for bigger profits. www.theverge.com/news/606418/...

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment