Hungry in the Hammer

The drunk uncle theory.

You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

Yesterday Andrew Scheer threw a Canadian reporter to the conservative wolves and today Pierre Poilievre is quote tweeting JK Rowling on the subject of fundamentalism and authoritarianism.

It never really was about the carbon tax.

Cropped photo of a newspaper article from the Hamilton Spectator, published on July 3, 2025. The opening paragraph reads: “Sitting in front of an impressive hearth in the provost's office, widely considered the best at the uni-versity, wearing a smart navy suit dress, Susan Tighe has the tailored look of an academic leader.”

If the incoming @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social president was a man, would the @thespec1846.bsky.social article about her open with a lede paragraph describing his clothing and appearance? #HamOnt

Premier Ford is deeply misinformed on the applicable law here, including the Treaty-based law, and his remarks below are just unconscionably rude and racist.

Every Harry Potter book or shirt you buy directly funds the persecution of trans people.

There's absolutely no excuse to support anything Harry Potter anymore unless you hate trans people.

I feel deceived.

Can you share them?

Ford has always been a fraud. He probably doesn't even care about the tariffs but they let him cosplay as a champion of the people (while he destroys their healthcare and education systems, fails at solving the housing crisis and siphons their tax dollars into his friends' pockets)

#onpoli

Trump Truth Social post that reads: South Africa is confiscating land, and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY. It is a bad situation that the Radical Left Media doesn’t want to so much as mention. A massive Human Rights VIOLATION, at a minimum, is happening for all to see. The United States won’t stand for it, we will act. Also, I will be cutting off all future funding to South Africa until a full investigation of this situation has been completed!

Trump says the US is ending all “future funding” to South Africa on the basis of a ridiculous “white genocide” conspiracy theory. Canada needs to step up and increase our support and Canadians, please skip the California section, buy more (amazing) South African wine.

Doug’s not protecting Canada. Doug’s promoting Doug.

A large No Name jug of canola oil next to a wine glass full of canola oil.

“What did you do during the Great Trade War of 2025, Grandma?”

“I don’t want to talk about it.”

“Ah, c’mon, Grandma!”

“No, really, I don’t want to talk about it.”

YouTube video by DougSaid Doug Ford defends Trumps misogynistic comments - October 3, 2016

Here is Doug Ford saying he would 'absolutely support Trump. I wouldn't waver. The GOP is wavering, but I wouldn't waver." He then goes on to excuse harassing women.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk2m...

A graphic with a purple background that says "Re-elect Sarah Jama - Independent - Hamilton Centre" in white & yellow text.

A circular graphic with a purple background that says "Sarah Jama - Independent" with an illustration of a rose in the middle.

A circular graphic on a purple background with several illustrated elements including a rose, a sunrise, the Hamilton skyline, a gear and a megaphone.

Wishing my friend Sarah Jama a great campaign launch this Sunday at noon- If you'd like to help re-elect Sarah as Hamilton Centre's MPP, please visit hamiltoncentre.ca to order a lawn sign, volunteer or donate to her campaign. #HamOnt

A provincial election for Ontario (where many of you are, like me) will be called Wednesday.

A Canadian federal election will follow soon.

Especially if you’ve moved like me, or are a new voter, check your registration to vote, or register!

Federal registry is at ereg.elections.ca

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Go check your smoke alarms. Even if you're pretty sure they work, and that they haven't expired, check anyway. It only takes a couple of minutes.

HFD stats say in 59% of house fires there are no working smoke alarms. #hamont

A photo of my text from my e-mail, white on a black background: L Dear M. Perrault, I am writing to ask that Elections Canada carefully consider and review the behaviour of Twitter Inc., now called X Corp, during the last Canadian federal election, during the recent federal by-elections, and its threats (made through its chief officers) to influence the upcoming federal election. X Corp runs a social media site (still popularly called Twitter and now rebranded as X). It has been used to devastating effect during the recent U.S. federal and state elections, including as the locus for a blatantly illegal vote-buying lottery. X has pledged its support to a particular party, the Conservative Party of Canada, and I believe is manipulating its platform to provide illegal assistance to the party and its declared candidates. Please investigate and protect the integrity of our elections. Sincerely Craig Burley

Please write to Stephane.Perrault@elections.ca

He is the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada

Ask him to investigate Twitter’s manipulative and illegal assistance to the CPC

Use your words (or steal mine) and it can be just one line. But please ask! The integrity of our democracy is important.

Bezos deletes 'LGBTQ+ rights' and 'equity for Black people' from Amazon policies

Amazon removes statements on LGBTQ rights and racial equity from its corporate policies, per The Washington Post.

Elon Musk gave two Nazi salutes during his Trump inauguration speech.

Neo-Nazis across the globe are already celebrating

"WE ARE FUCKING BACK"

www.wired.com/story/neo-na...

TW: Rape / Imprisonment

Listen, if they really cared about girl’s sports, they would make sure that girls have the same access as boys to funding. Or facilities. Or coaches. Or uniforms. Or bus budgets.

They don’t care about girl’s sports. They care about punching down on a minuscule number of trans athletes.

for the love of everything holy, please just WASH YOUR HANDS. especially since this particular nasty bug can't be killed with hand sanitizer.

🚨Stolen Trike🚨 3 adaptive trikes have been stolen. All are recumbent trikes:

2 are dark blue e-assist recumbents (TerraTrike Charge). They were stolen without the batteries on them. 1 trike has a specialized headrest.
1 is an orange, pedal recumbent trike (TerraTrike Rambler)

I can’t get over how cartoonishly evil this is

putting in your fucking “hate speech” policy that a particular kind of hate speech against a particular group of people is explicitly allowed - and therefore encouraged - is the kind of shit that should be done from a volcano lair with a shark moat

A photo from the 2021 violent insurrection, but be honest, if this was a different photo from today you wouldn't be that surprised.

NEWS IN PHOTO: Trump throws surprise January 6th riot just for the hell of it

Photo of Mapleside Park in southwest Hamilton, Ontario, with the borders set up to pour an ice rink

Several #HamOnt parks are getting set up to host neighbourhood ice rinks. The ten-day weather forecast looks good for some ice time!

You should be paying rent for the space you take up in his head.

Morning, night & even dreary days, there's lots of dark & low light during regular commuting, working & riding hours. Stop by our Toronto Office (703-158 Sterling Rd) or Hamilton Office (200-605 James St. N) for a set of free bike lights! Remember, it's also the law: HTA 62(17).

We repeat: stop attacks on hospitals. People in Gaza need access to health care. Humanitarians need access to provide health aid. Ceasefire!

JK Rowling: There are no trans kids. No child is 'born in the wrong body'. There are only adults like you, prepared to sacrifice the health of minors to bolster your belief in an ideology that will end up wreaking more harm than lobotomies and false memory syndrome combined.

They used to say there was no such thing as gay kids. That it was a choice that could be beaten or tortured out of them through conversion therapy