Patrick Imbeau

It cannot be remembered enough that these were the same people who got worked up about drag brunches

These things happen, looking forward to hearing you again in two weeks :)

Yes, with their abundance of charisma (?)

We Cults or Shadows Hold could also be The Cure. Basically there's like a half dozen The Cures running around right now.

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French Police is The Cure... I mean this isn't a bad thing, I love all of this music, but I feel like I'm listening to an 80s playlist. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiBI...

YouTube video by NightCrawl Lost Highway (Official Video)

NightCrawl = New Order

YouTube video by Jfarrari - Topic Face Myself Again

Jfarrari here is basically Joy Division

YouTube video by Haute & Freddy Haute & Freddy - Shy Girl (Official Music Video)

I've been loving all of these 80s inspired Synth-Pop acts like Haute & Freddy (www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK-1...) is Annie Lennox (a thread)

It really is. Have you read Zeke Faux's Number Go Up? It's horrifying.

Sexy Blue Jays vs. Dodgers ... Not counting my chickens before they hatch, but it's pretty sexy right now. (I'm going to jinx this aren't I?)

QotW : I'm sure it's not feasible with modern games - but I miss the Game Genie. It was so much fun to break open a game and experiment with the different codes or make a game easier on myself. On PC, modding does that to some extent - but on console, you get what you get.

"Ronald Reagan's views on free trade are offensive to conservatives now" is a pretty crazy timeline to live in.

Look, all we have to do is not piss off all the boomers that own the houses by reducing the worth of their real estate while also making houses cheaper for younger folks. It's simple.

Is it just me or was the #nytimes crossword really easy today? (Friday) I did it in 8 minutes. That's a Monday time, not a Friday time!

MACLEAN'S excerpt: The attacks were genteel compared to most political mud-slinging, and Liberals warmed to her during the campaign. They embraced her as both a cherished member of the Liberal family and, increasingly, the standard bearer for its left flank. But her needling got under Carney's skin, even though he was the front-runner (she ultimately received only three per cent of the vote). He and his staff made their irritation plain; one member of Gould's team told me that many of them were aggressive in their vitriol toward her.

MACLEAN'S excerpt continued: “When someone from Gould's team texted to ask if she could stop by and congratulate the winner, Carney said no. In fact, according to one source I spoke with, he said he didn't ever want to see her again. Carney's staff sent Gould a non-committal answer, trying not to offend her, but she showed up anyway. That led to a brief, awkward meeting with Carney. The incident rattled some of the people around the newly elected leader. Many had worked under Justin Trudeau, who, after a lifetime in politics, had skin like a crocodile. Carney, after years of being celebrated, venerated and treated with the deference accorded to a titan of the financial world, seems to have a skin like a peach.”

This is disgusting behaviour from Carney towards Karina Gould.

And frankly, coupled with the “boys club” stuff sources have previously told me and the way he tended to lose patience more quickly with female journalists during the campaign…he may need to “look inside himself.”

QotW : I don't buy new games unless it's a Steam Sale, Black Friday (or Boxing Day here in Canada). I pay for PC Gamepass (though that may go if the price increases too much), and mostly stick to cheaper indie games with replayability (Hades II, Cult of the Lam, Stardew Valley, Balatro, etc.)

EA Announces Unprecedented $55 Billion Sale To Saudi Arabia, Jared Kushner's Private Equity Group, And Others - Kotaku The Madden publisher is going private

I mean, I already wasn't buying EA games...

Watching it, and it's phenomenal. Congratulations!

This is the crux of the issue isn't it? It's cheaper to ram whatever bullshit into the black box and say "oops, it shouldn't have said that" than to actually pay artists, writers, etc. for their material and QA folks to oversee the data being inputted.

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk NEW YORK—Insisting your fate was sealed the moment you clicked the link, a report released Tuesday found that you will be fired for reading this headline about Charlie Kirk. “Shortly after you navigat...

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

The discourse over Kirk’s career is really hammering home how little the media and so many Dems understand the concept of lying or bad faith arguments.

An entire life dedicated to poisoning the well under the guise of ‘an exchange of ideas’ and nobody is capable of calling it out for what it was.

This is going to go *so badly* and cost *so much money*...

I don't like doing this. It feels fucked up to constantly point out the negative dimensions of someone who just died in a horrific, worrying way. But I would like the media to tell basic truths about this person and his impact on public life rather than resorting to euphemism and outright lies!

Losing my goddamned mind.

We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

A fun thing to remember on Labour Day is that Mark Carney eliminated the Cabinet role Minister of Labour, a position that had existed for more than a century under governments of all stripes, and Canada is currently without a labour minister for the first time since 1909.

Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to write a short story in as few words as possible. This was his entry.

"For sale.
Baby shoes.
Never worn.
NWT AUTHENTIC $200 OBO.
NO lowballers!! I know know what I've got.
Local pickup in Etobicoke NO SHIPPING."