Andrew Bates

Weathergirl from the Flavor Foley MV except she is wearing earmuffs and a scarf and mitts and holding a shovel

Weathergirl by @flavorfoley.bsky.social except the weather looks like snow

Picked this up on Bandcamp and it's very pretty

Peepers

"'You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.' – Wayne Gretzky" – Hilary Knight

"listen, we keep inventing new scams and you keep shooting them down, that's not very open minded of you. Be fair, you have to pick at least one scam to blow your cash on"

Props to the Canadian pairs figure skater Maxime who has a single shoulder pad like Mad Max on his costume, I dig it #olympics

Director Taylor Olsen speaks on stage for a Q&A following a screening of What We Dreamed Of Then at Saint John's Imperial Theatre Thursday.

Just saw What We Dreamed of Then, filmed in Saint John, and it was really, really, good. A well-told personal story about an unraveling and a really sensitive portrayal of unseen homelessness. Elements of Nomadland and The Last Five Years, NB looked great on screen but I think it could play anywhere

Cooke subsidiary ordered to pay $6K for 2022 fall leading to worker death Employee of Kelly Cove Salmon fell from ladder at Bayside wharf in June 2022 and died in hospital, court heard Thursday

Wrote about a 2022 workplace accident at the Bayside wharf for which a Cooke, Inc. subsidiary was ordered to pay $6,000 after pleading guilty to an OHSA charge: tj.news/saint-john-s...

Previously

(On top of the fact that there was, of course, lots and lots of political commentary: bsky.app/profile/beck...)

washingtonpost.com bluesky post: "Analysis: Weeks before he set foot on the stage, Bad Bunny’s halftime performance had already become a media event. But if you were looking for political commentary, the closest that you got was when he said “God bless America” in English." Link headline: "Analysis | Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show was expected to provoke. Did it?" Link subhead: "The Bad Bunny Super Bowl show nodded to injustices in Puerto Rico but mostly evoked wholesome family values that meshed with the more sentimental commercials."

Another thing about this framing that's so busted is that the part that was "expected to provoke" is that he's not white/Anglo. It's often the targets of bigotry depicted as acting out, when in fact it's bigots driving the conversation and the targets are just existing, putting out bangers

Everyone ended up married after, Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin guest spots, a Grammys callback, pan-American solidarity, wins all round

Halftime show was great, sounded great, the setting was cool and the ending was killer

Best gas masks “How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.

my colleague @sarahjeong.bsky.social did some service journalism www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

Finished the game: fun to play, very beautiful, exploring an alien world was very cool but some parts of the story were very boneheaded. the cutscene explaining the antagonist's deal, to the extent there was one, was hidden under an Amiibo paywall unless you got 100% items AND 100% scans (I didn't)

Time for the Metroid Prime 4 boss, meaning it's time for my Metroid Prime tradition: looping You Say Party's album Lose All Time while challenging the final boss

what a trash move

Per Marca, the linked QT is likely false, but I think your idea that some folks won't get on planes is likely, especially if there's a related incident before the tournament/in its first week. However, I feel like many folks in the market for high-end MWC tickets must feel isolated from Consequences

It feels like the reason this happens so often is because the "break up the tag team" option is always available, so if the writers/bookers are out of story ideas or just don't care to come up with an alternative it's the only one left

They need to shortlist #1000xResist on Canada Reads because I want to hear it talked about that way, we need to have a national conversation about this

Finished 1000xResist last night and it is still living in my head rent free wow

Screenshot of a tweet from BC_Bryson on May 11, 2023: There was a tweet a while back about Major League Soccer that was something to the effect of "MLS absolutely bangs because every week some 19-year old named Cayden Brayden Grayden will pull out some world-class shit and then literally Gonzalo Higuaín will miss a sitter"

How is this going to affect the market for imaginary MLS prospect Cayden Brayden-Grayden

Through Legault resigning and this Walrus story I learned about Pierre Trudeau's walk in the snow, which is just a tremendous metaphor for a political exit www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIW2...

The new Metroid Prime 4 ally character MacKenzie is seen in a screenshot superfluously reminding you that "it might be a good idea to check the map."

I cannot believe they thought the one thing metroid was missing was a shitty little guy who yells "eek!" every time a monster shoots at you

Samus is surrounded by glittering purple psychic energy in a transformation sequence from Metroid Prime 4

Samus is a magical girl in this one confirmed

Watcher is seen in front of a directional sign in a staircase indicating "Horse Lobby" in a screenshot from 1000xResist

Watcher is seen in the Horse Lobby, looking at a silver statue of a horse standing alone in the centre of a circular room in a screenshot from 1000xResist

I was like "what does it mean by horse lobby" and then, when I saw it, it seemed obvious

I got a Switch Light and COVID in the same week so what I'm saying is that I've been diving into Metroid Prime 4 and 1000xResist

City to pay $16.5M to victims of sex offender Estabrooks Judge approves notice of proposed settlement in lawsuit between Saint John and alleged victims of sex offender Kenneth Estabrooks

The City of Saint John has agreed to pay $16.5 million as part of a proposed settlement for a class-action lawsuit from victims of sex offender Kenneth Estabrooks from 1953 to 1975, when he was a city police officer: tj.news/saint-john-s...

a wall adapter with a tiny little usb c port on an otherwise large adapter

another large wall adapter with a single lonely usb c port

this one's smaller but there's still pretty big difference

this one looks about average in the size differential between the usb c port and the size of the wall adapter

reshare if you agree wall adapters with a single USB C port have a surface area differential ratio that looks weird

This feels like the reason why Star Trek had a design rule that nacelles should always be in even-numbered groups, two is balanced