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kins @ Z'goktober @zoldafitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

it's always shiden time

kai shiden edited over a tiktok meme, he is smiling with his hand in his hair. text reads "i bring a sort of 'we should all quite' vibe to White Base that EFF brass don't really like"

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John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 3d

Yet another reason to make Avenue Rd less than 4 lane. It's not a highway people live on it. Schools are on it

John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 3d

Of course Burnside openly admis that cops let people drive WAY too fast on Avenue Rd

Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 3d

Councillor Burnside, a former cop, says when he used to do traffic enforcement on Avenue Road he wouldn't stop drivers unless they were doing 75 km/h or over.

"Maybe that was a little high," he admits. "A little high," agrees Gray.

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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 3d

Councillor Burnside, a former cop, says when he used to do traffic enforcement on Avenue Road he wouldn't stop drivers unless they were doing 75 km/h or over.

"Maybe that was a little high," he admits. "A little high," agrees Gray.

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John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 4d

Party leadership campaigns aren't about who the existing party likes as a leader. It's about who can bring in the most new members/funds

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John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 5d

Serious question: how do candidates raise funds to pay for the entry fee if they can't raise funds until they've applied? Is the payment due upfront or is there a window between applying and having to submit the fee?

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John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 5d

His full first name is Bradford

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John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 5d

Everything new is old again. Beaches councilor despised by his constituents decides that he should run for mayor is Tom Jacobek all over again.

Both managed to get around 1% of the vote when they ran for mayor. But Jacobek never came back for round 2!

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John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 6d

I was at the game yesterday didn't want to wait in the giant line for the j shop and none of the little satellite hat shops around the concourse had the white panel hat

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John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 9d

Younger than that, "gifted" almost always means privileged and ahead of their peers thanks to tutors, private daycare, etc, or just in the stream thanks to parental pressure

John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 9d

When I went into the gifted stream around age 7, the class size grew after a few weeks. Years later mom let me know that there were the kids who tested well and got in, then a second wave of white doctor's/lawyer's kids who got in when their connected parents complained.

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John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 10d

Automatic watches are an amazing feat of tiny engineering but whenever I have to update the date indicator I can never, never seem to land on the correct side of the AM/PM divide.

John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 23d

Or maybe that's the fantasy element. It's not the imperial Roman-like setting, or the leviathans, or the technology based on bio-engineering. It's the idea that our government, in the end, wants to protect us and keep us safe that's the real fantasy

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John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 23d

In 2025, seeing what the US looks like, what Russia looks like, what half of eastern Europe looks like, what China looks like, that idea rings hollow. Arguing government is benign or beneficial, especially in the face of corruption and extreme wealth, seems naive

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John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 23d

The book makes explicit the idea that bureaucracy might be ponderous and opaque but in in the end it has your best interests at heart. The army is there is to protect you from very real outside threats. The investigators have plans within plans to curb the worst excesses of corruption.

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John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 23d

I'm just finishing up the 2025 Hugo winning The Tainted Cup and as much as I like the idea of a elaborate mystery novel set in a well thought out fantasy setting, it has an overt thesis that troubles me: Imperial bureaucracy, specifically the military and policing arms of the government, are good

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John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 23d

I can't wait for the 2020s version of Paul is dead/Avril is a clone.

Is anyone claiming that the guys in BTS who came back from military service super jacked are actually replacements and it took 2 years for the plastic surgery to heal?

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 23d

"La Panthère de Cartier", a 7-minute short film by Yasuhiro Aoki, Naoki Urasawa & Production IG for the opening of a new Cartier shop in Ginza (Tokyo).
Only available on LINE app.
miniapp.line.me/cartier/anime

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John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 23d

@brianmcl.com We got What Noise Do I Make? from the library and the 2.5 year old loved it.

I'm going to bust out some of these animal calls when we take them to the zoo

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John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 23d

Played a little Silksong and I'm reminded that as much as I like the concept of Metrovania games, I don't actually like playing them.

I get lost and I'm just not a good enough platform gamer to handle even getting across the map, much less backtracking.

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John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 23d

Yeah I get it. And steak frites isn't some magical food only available in Metropolitan France.

Add to the that the fact that Japan, Korea, and China have taken to French-style pastries and modern Vietnamese is very much Viet-French fusion and I could cover my French food hankering elsewhere

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John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 24d

I mean, France.

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John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 24d

I'd put F in third. Jollof rice AND churrasco AND Argentine steaks

B's got to be the worst. And that's where my ethnic food come from. But schnitzel and chicken paprikash can only carry you so far

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John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 24d

It was just the laziest way to have another race on the weekend. Reverse grid? Reverse course? Junior/reserve race? Anything different at all?

No, it's just the exact same race only shorter and with less opportunity for strategy

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John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 26d

It's not puzzling at all. He assumes that it will happen again next election cycle. And then the one after that.

Canada has a unified right and a divided centre-left. The fear of vote splitting is real and unless there is voting reform lining up behind the Liberals seems to be the only option

Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26d

”It’s puzzling why Carney keeps doing things that alienate his own supporters ... the reason Carney is sitting in the PMO is because progressive swing voters made a strategic choice to lend him their votes — they didn’t lend their vote to appease Trump, impose austerity or roll back workers’ rights“

We knew he was a blue Liberal. But Mark Carney is alienating progressive voters

The new PM's defiant tone doesn't always appear to match his actions.

www.thestar.com

Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26d

”It’s puzzling why Carney keeps doing things that alienate his own supporters ... the reason Carney is sitting in the PMO is because progressive swing voters made a strategic choice to lend him their votes — they didn’t lend their vote to appease Trump, impose austerity or roll back workers’ rights“

We knew he was a blue Liberal. But Mark Carney is alienating progressive voters

The new PM's defiant tone doesn't always appear to match his actions.

www.thestar.com

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John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · Sep 9

What is the first video game you ever played?

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John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · Sep 9

Balancing difficulty has got to be tough when you've been polishing a game for years. And mastering it during testing.

I love how the Balatro dev went "oh shit I keep tweaking stuff in patches and haven't actually beaten the game in a while I need to see if I can still clear my own game"

John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · Sep 4

Part 1 of absolutely random theme songs from barely remembered tv shows from childhood that just popped in my head

youtu.be/R52-omQj74U?...

Classic TV Theme: Turkey Television (two versions)

YouTube video by David Gideon

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Damien Moule @damienmoule.bsky.social · Sep 2

A 4-storey, 10 unit apartment building at 877 Ossington, two blocks north of Ossington station, has been held up for 9 months and counting at the committee of adjustment. It has 66 letters of opposition by my count, including from the local councillor. MTSA zoning can't come fast enough.

An image of the unobjectionable 4-storey apartment building proposed for 877 Ossington

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