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Davis S. Pumpkinspice

@lloyddavis.ca

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Freelance copyeditor/proofreader of many Canadian best-sellers & award-winners, and 3 (count ’em!) NYT best-sellers. Member of SABR & SIHR. WWOZ Guardian of the Groove. I’ve got a lot of patience, baby, and that’s a lot of patience to lose.

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Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 21h

At the rate you’re going, we’ll be celebrating it on the last Thursday in November before very long.

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 23h

To Carney, "Elbows up" means buying American jets, building a pipeline to sell our oil to the US, joining a US missile defence system, opening our markets to more American dairy, and kissing the American president's ass at every opportunity.

This is what you voted for, is it?

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Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 1d

Bastards

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 1d

Because they’re all bastards

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Imbroglior @dkfoster.bsky.social · 1d

I hope on the other side of this, those liberals and radical centrists who pooh-poohed and sniffed at Defund the Police will be humbled enough to say, I was wrong.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 1d

masked federal agents have been on a tear through chicago neighborhoods today—enabled in no small part by the state + local cops now running security for ice in broadview.

at least 2 people abducted in cicero, 2 in humboldt park/hermosa, 3 in garfield ridge. sightings in schaumburg + hanover park.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

More vehicles with masked Border Patrol agents inside departing. It's a busy, busy morning for the secret police.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

This game should never have been played. UEFA failed. FIFA failed. Norway failed.

3–0 for Norway. There’d be absolutely no difference if Israel were kicked out of international football, they make no impact anyway. Just do it FIFA.

The only difference is seeing soldiers who’ve committed war crimes — or are complicit in apartheid — playing on a football pitch. Absolutely bizarre.

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Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 2d

G’night everybody. I look forward to not seeing the box score in tomorrow’s paper.

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 2d

Don’t sign him up.

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 2d

Here’s an idea for MLB:

Play extra innings 3-on-3.

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 2d

Good, because Friday’s was awful

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 2d

Me: Machado is quite awful.

The guy from the “Yet you participate in society” meme: So you’d rather it went to Donald J Trump—curious!

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Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 2d

It’s like when John Tory became mayor. His policies weee essentially those of Rob Ford, but he wore bespoke suits and spoke in complete sentences (loaded down with a tangle of subordinate clauses—you could literally hear the em dashes).

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 2d

Boo

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize

Leader of country’s opposition receives award after intense public and private campaign by Donald Trump

www.theguardian.com

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 2d

Obviously the country is too divided for our leaders to risk upsetting the status quo.

Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 2d

Support For Recognizing A Palestinian State:

Support: 50%
Oppose: 23%

Unsure: 27%

Leger / Oct 5, 2025 / n=1562 / Online

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 2d

The stupidest things, but announced in a calm tone of voice that reassures liberals.

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Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 2d

You mean it wasn’t better when Spadina had angled parking spots and no streetcars?

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Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 2d

She’s a pro-Trump, pro-Netanyahu neoliberal. This award is a farce.

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 2d

City Councillor: I move that we receive the report for information.

The motion carries, 24-1.

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 2d

This is right up there with the phone trees that ask you to punch in your account number or order number, and when you finally get to speak to an agent, their second question is “Can I please have your account/order number?”

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 3d

The first couple points are so basic even a guy like me who got Cs and Ds in gym class recognizes them: avoid holding your breath, and exhale when exerting the most effort. So the actual text is about best practices, but they sell it as “you’re doing it wrong.” But it’s CNN, so…

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 3d

Seriously, though, the article makes a lot of sense, and strikes me as being at odds with that headline.

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Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 3d

The “continue watching” queues in our streaming services have built up a bit of a backlog lately.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 3d

trying to figure out how this fits with rfk's theory that covid was “ethnically targeted” to spare ashkenazi jews and i think the answer is just that rfk is a giant antisemite.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 3d

It’s imperative to exhale after you inhale. If you try to do it the other way around, you’ll find there’s no air to exhale, and you could hurt yourself. It’s just science.

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 3d

Solutions? You expect me, a declared candidate for mayor, to propose solutions? Solutions that are based on an informed analysis of the facts? Forget it, Jake, it’s Torontotown.