Michael Buckley
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Michael Buckley
@michaelabuckley.bsky.social
Toronto burger. A real person who should probably be doing something else.
I remember Homolka skating on the same prejudice.
Something that I think gets lost in the "Epstein files as political weapon" discourse is that Maxwell's own crimes were serious, extensive, and included sexual abuse of minors that *she herself* perpetrated.
January 31, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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Apropos of nothing, this is a very good move by CBC to boost coverage (&visibility of that coverage) of things outside GTA/MTL/VAN.

There's a business case for news in those cities. CBC is realistically the only news we'll get elsewhere, it should be their focus.
January 31, 2026 at 8:47 PM
John Tory is just the biggest loser in Ontario. Consistently bad judgement. Toronto is on the hook to spend a zillion dollars for a few FIFA games and tie Toronto to the king of the pedos.
Great piece by my friend Paul. Here's what it looks like in print
January 31, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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When anyone from SCTV dies it’s like 30 people have died. Every character they created was as alive as anyone else you’ve ever met.
January 31, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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Steve Munro appreciation post!! Thank you for everything that you do advocating for better transit. The TTC would be much worse off without your advocacy, and our work would be so, so much harder.

We’re looking forward to many more years of collaborating, scheming and fist shaking! ❤️❤️❤️
January 31, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Be the news!
If I have the right Nellie Bowles, the partner in question is Bari Weiss
January 31, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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The thing about the famous trot to neocon pipeline is that it is actually an understandable mental response to being constantly exposed to apologetics for Russia.
January 31, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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There's too many fucking people in the Epstein files. Need Yakko Warner to sing a song about it to help me get caught up
January 31, 2026 at 3:51 AM
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"you should buy burner phones from this specific vendor"
January 31, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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I feel like I understand the failings of the French Revolution so much better in the last 24-48 hours.
What I actually did was allow credentialed press from mainstream outlets sit in my car on the condition that they identify no one but myself, something dozens of observers have done, but it’s fascinating how paranoiac mania over that imagined offense has evolved into vast crimes in 24 hours
January 31, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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I think it is OUTRAGEOUS that people are LEAPING to the conclusion that some our post prominent Americans are child rapists when it is EQUALLY PLAUSIBLE that they are simply indifferent to whether other people are child rapists so long as those other people can offer them access to power.
January 31, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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I definitely do not judge anybody for getting to dinnertime and just being *tired* and not wanting to deal with it, but if you *want* to not spend a mortgage payment on food delivery every month, there are ways to avoid that which still accommodate being out of fucks at the end of the day.
January 30, 2026 at 9:03 PM
A million years ago

Group Theory
Analytic Number Theory
Software Systems
Quantum Physics 1
Human Anatomy of the Limbs and Trunk
Fellow horrible nerds assemble

Organic Chemistry II
Power Systems Analysis
Multivariable Calculus for Engineers
Speculative Fiction: Science Fiction
Canadian Military History

(Honourable mentions to Control Systems and Speculative Fiction: Fantasy)
Yeah you guys are gonna love these five classes

Elements of Music
Chemical Foundations of Atomic Theory
Non-Euclidean Geometry
Mathematical Physics
French Poetry and Prose
January 31, 2026 at 2:58 PM
One a week, until the snow melts.
i hope i wake up on monday and see like 6 floor crossings
January 31, 2026 at 4:01 AM
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Pondering the City

Nathan Phillips Square
01/25/26

#snowTO #toronto #x100vi
January 31, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Says the minister for dairy.
"Unburdened by principle" gave him away 😅
January 31, 2026 at 1:23 AM
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SCTV royalty!
January 30, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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January 30, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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RIP Lola Heatherton. “You’re so beautiful, it’s SCARY!”

youtu.be/dDU5l4ewaRc?...
SCTV Lola Heatherton in Concert with Catherine O'Hara
YouTube video by SCTV
youtu.be
January 30, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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Canadian Comedy Icons.
January 30, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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From an early SCTV episode, exercising Exorcist style with Catherine O'Hara. At times, it seemed she was the go-to when they needed a feral character.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4lY...
SCTV - Exorcising with Reagan Blair
YouTube video by westnyacktwins
www.youtube.com
January 30, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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I’m in Union Station & just amazed at the endless humanity. It’s like Koyaanisqatsi level.
January 30, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Catherine O’Hara was talented and funny. But she was also warm, and kind. SCTV was full of people with big hearts to go with their talent, and I love that tradition in Canadian comedy. m.youtube.com/watch?v=O8Co...
Catherine O'Hara's John Candy Eulogy
YouTube video by Sra Lyn
m.youtube.com
January 30, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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January 30, 2026 at 8:34 AM
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It's six years today since Britain left the EU.

I wrote this on Brexit day in 2020, about the strategic dilemmas to which European membership had once been the answer and that would now reopen once Britain left.

I'd stand by most of it today.
gladstonediaries.blogspot.com/2020/01/brex...
Brexit in Historical Perspective: The Age of Britain in Europe
When the bell tolls at eleven o’clock tonight, ringing out Britain’s membership of the EU, an entire phase of British history will ...
gladstonediaries.blogspot.com
January 30, 2026 at 12:01 PM