Michael Pilon
@mjpilon.bsky.social
Physiotherapist, teacher, ex- football player now coach, foodie, video game enthusiast and hardcore sports fan
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I feel like when folk music starts getting this good again it’s usually a pretty good indicator that shit is FUCKED
January 26, 2026 at 1:19 AM
I feel like when folk music starts getting this good again it’s usually a pretty good indicator that shit is FUCKED
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Gotta agree with Lindsay here. The piece equates pension savings to any other consumer choice. That ignores the insurance aspect of pensions, which is central to understanding the issue if you're an actual economist.
What literal horseshit is this and what editor let this get published financialpost.com/opinion/shut...
Matthew Lau: Shut down the tax-financed Canada Pension Plan
Contribution rates (i.e., payroll taxes) have only gone up while the CPP's bloated investment arm repeatedly misses its benchmarks. Read on.
financialpost.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Gotta agree with Lindsay here. The piece equates pension savings to any other consumer choice. That ignores the insurance aspect of pensions, which is central to understanding the issue if you're an actual economist.
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All of this going down during the 250th anniversary year of America is a degree of cringey writing that would be roundly mocked were it a novel published in an alternative timeline.
January 10, 2026 at 11:03 PM
All of this going down during the 250th anniversary year of America is a degree of cringey writing that would be roundly mocked were it a novel published in an alternative timeline.
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To so many people, this is what the word "America" means. We do not have to let that go away
Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
January 9, 2026 at 2:15 AM
To so many people, this is what the word "America" means. We do not have to let that go away
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The same people who spent yesterday, and the past five years, insisting a Black police officer who shot an insurrectionist breaking into the Capitol should be prosecuted are today bending over backwards to defend an ICE agent who shot a woman in her car in cold blood.
Scum.
Scum.
January 8, 2026 at 12:59 AM
The same people who spent yesterday, and the past five years, insisting a Black police officer who shot an insurrectionist breaking into the Capitol should be prosecuted are today bending over backwards to defend an ICE agent who shot a woman in her car in cold blood.
Scum.
Scum.
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The American people’s capacity to tolerate being bullied, insulted, conned, gaslit, and murdered by its own government is greater than I had thought.
January 8, 2026 at 4:58 AM
The American people’s capacity to tolerate being bullied, insulted, conned, gaslit, and murdered by its own government is greater than I had thought.
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I’ll make fun of him but it ruled that Mario Cristobal was asked what his team needed to win and his on-air answer was “more violence”
January 1, 2026 at 4:12 AM
I’ll make fun of him but it ruled that Mario Cristobal was asked what his team needed to win and his on-air answer was “more violence”
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I’m in favor of right wing influencers challenging real boxers to beat them senseless. Never been a boxing fan but if this becomes a trend it might change my mind.
December 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I’m in favor of right wing influencers challenging real boxers to beat them senseless. Never been a boxing fan but if this becomes a trend it might change my mind.
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I'll add that as someone who not that long ago spent many frantic nights looking for information on sleep training, feeding, etc etc--by far the most valuable internet resource was reddit, the only place with human advice. Everything else is basically useless at this point.
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I'll add that as someone who not that long ago spent many frantic nights looking for information on sleep training, feeding, etc etc--by far the most valuable internet resource was reddit, the only place with human advice. Everything else is basically useless at this point.
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This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
I’ll try to stay open minded but now we get to see if after 8 years of just complaining and never offering solutions, does @EnsembleMtl have anything other than removing bike lines and giving money to developers? #mtlpoli
November 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I’ll try to stay open minded but now we get to see if after 8 years of just complaining and never offering solutions, does @EnsembleMtl have anything other than removing bike lines and giving money to developers? #mtlpoli
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I always get drawn back to Al Gore telling voters that he’d only raise taxes on the top 1% and then after the election a poll showed that something like 20% of voters thought they were in the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be in the next five years. Just a total tragic disconnect.
Maaaaan, this. So much this. Every time there's any kind of actual in-depth survey we find that the American people are *abysmally* ignorant about even the most basic political facts, but the pundit class just immediately forgets & proceeds with political analysis based on subtle policy differences.
Feels like so many of our convos are revolving about how voters respond to what politicians are doing, or what parties’ positions on issues are, without much actual empirical sense of what they actually know about those topics.
October 29, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I always get drawn back to Al Gore telling voters that he’d only raise taxes on the top 1% and then after the election a poll showed that something like 20% of voters thought they were in the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be in the next five years. Just a total tragic disconnect.
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if someone told you in 2020 that stanford-SMU would be a conference game in a few years, how many guesses would it take before you got the conference right
October 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
if someone told you in 2020 that stanford-SMU would be a conference game in a few years, how many guesses would it take before you got the conference right
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Every 'free speech controversy' must be assessed in context. If you work for a political party, yes, you can be fired for saying the wrong political thing. It takes an enormously entitled attitude to think otherwise.
Here is the audio recording of Lindsay Shepherd getting fired by the BC Conservative Party
For those keeping track (*leans back in rocking chair whilst reflecting on old memories*) this is now the second time Lindsay Shepherd has recorded her employer and then released the recording publicly
For those keeping track (*leans back in rocking chair whilst reflecting on old memories*) this is now the second time Lindsay Shepherd has recorded her employer and then released the recording publicly
October 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Every 'free speech controversy' must be assessed in context. If you work for a political party, yes, you can be fired for saying the wrong political thing. It takes an enormously entitled attitude to think otherwise.
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Hunh weird did someone do something to US trade relationships worldwide?
Joni Ernst: "Unfortunately, our farmers do need that assistance. They don't like it. They consider it welfare. They want trade, not aid. So we really need to see some of these new markets opening up around the globe ... but if there's anybody that can make a deal, it's President Trump."
October 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Hunh weird did someone do something to US trade relationships worldwide?
THIS - If you don't vote, don't complain montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu... @mtltoula.bsky.social
Drimonis: Angry about the state of Montreal? Save it for the ballot box
While many Montrealers are quick to express their dissatisfaction online, the majority don’t bother voting in municipal elections.
montrealgazette.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:19 PM
THIS - If you don't vote, don't complain montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu... @mtltoula.bsky.social
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I had three final thoughts from the Ryder Cup, but No. 3 is probably the one that will linger. The fans who screamed vile stuff about Rory and his wife? In the Hall of Fame of Losers. www.thefriedegg.com/articles/202...
2025 Ryder Cup Final Thoughts
Touching on what could have been for Justin Thomas, press conferences, who wasn't there for the United States, and the rowdy Bethpage fans.
www.thefriedegg.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe
August 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe
This honestly is such an empty statement. We have been rebuilding and nothing to show for it truly other than some good sales. Actually do something concrete and get back to us #cfmtl
CF Montreal officially enters rebuild mode after winning just three of their first 24 games of the season.
July 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This honestly is such an empty statement. We have been rebuilding and nothing to show for it truly other than some good sales. Actually do something concrete and get back to us #cfmtl
A great example of the follies of “do my own research” crowd. Just because you are brillant in one field doesn’t mean you understand other fields
I just saw my cardiologist, who thinks tariffs are good and trade deficits bad. I said “I pay you for a visit and you pay me nothing, so I have a trade deficit with you”
He said “I don’t understand”
So I said “if I predicated trade with you ONLY IF you paid me for my services, we wouldn’t . . . /1
He said “I don’t understand”
So I said “if I predicated trade with you ONLY IF you paid me for my services, we wouldn’t . . . /1
July 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM
A great example of the follies of “do my own research” crowd. Just because you are brillant in one field doesn’t mean you understand other fields
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Nothing going on is that hard to understand as long as someone with some credibility has the desire to explain it and the space to do so and I’m glad this NBC station did this for their viewers
Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
June 3, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Nothing going on is that hard to understand as long as someone with some credibility has the desire to explain it and the space to do so and I’m glad this NBC station did this for their viewers
This is sad. C'mon people - this is the part of bedtime routine I like (once we agreed to a consistent number of books per night lol)
the fraction of parents reading to their 0-4 year old kids frequently has apparently fallen by 23 POINTS since 2012 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Most parents don’t enjoy reading to their children, survey suggests
Report from Nielsen and HarperCollins shows that parents see reading as a literacy skill, rather than something to encourage their children to love
www.theguardian.com
May 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This is sad. C'mon people - this is the part of bedtime routine I like (once we agreed to a consistent number of books per night lol)
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A "direct inverse correlation" between fluoride exposure and low IQ" means the more fluoride you get, the higher your IQ. What he's looking for is a "direct correlation," but he doesn't know what any of these words mean or how science works.
RFK Jr: "We found that there's a direct inverse correlation between fluoride exposure and low IQ in children. So the more you get, the stupider you are."
April 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
A "direct inverse correlation" between fluoride exposure and low IQ" means the more fluoride you get, the higher your IQ. What he's looking for is a "direct correlation," but he doesn't know what any of these words mean or how science works.
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"If you strip out the effects of the cancer, the patient is actually doing great."
Peter Navarro on CNBC reacts to the shrinking GDP number by insisting it's actually good news because if you strip out the effect of tariffs "you have 3 percent growth. So we really like where we're at now."
April 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"If you strip out the effects of the cancer, the patient is actually doing great."
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“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
April 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic