Mattea Roach

ABC Suspends ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ “Indefinitely” Over Charlie Kirk Comments The network’s decision comes after affiliate group Nexstar said it would pull the late-night show, and the chairman of the FCC suggested he might take action against ABC.

Between the purge of late night comedians, Trump allies buying up TV networks, Hollywood studios and social media platforms, and news organizations getting slapped with multi-billion dollar lawsuits, there is a full-court press to dismantle the information systems propping up American democracy

'We are prepared to help get rid of them,' Ont. government says after 16 speed cameras vandalized | CBC News Sixteen Toronto speed cameras were found damaged on Tuesday morning, only two days after the Parkside Drive speed camera was cut down for the seventh time in less than a year.

Trying to come up with an equivalent to this speed camera story but for transit riders. Imagine if, in wake of hypothetical reports of people getting mad about fines and vandalizing Presto readers, the gov was just like, well, I guess we should stop fare enforcement. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Tried to do a good deed by letting my brother borrow my carry-on suitcase to go back to NS bc his is broken… now I have to go to NS as well so guess who’s stuck using the busted suitcase 🙄

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

nothing more humbling/humiliating that straining your calf while running in a completely straight line at a steady speed across even terrain 😔

Last weekend I injured my calf in a manner befitting someone at least twice my age, and now my biggest concern is whether I can hobble to Oasis NEXT weekend without incurring permanent damage… it’s a hard knock life

a young man holds a young boy and girl in front of rubble

a man holds a microphone with an al jazeera logo while wearing a vest with the word press on it

a young man in glasses wearing a protective vest with the word press on it leans against a car

a collage shows three young men smiling

The five brave Palestinian journalists whom Israel targeted and killed today (left-right):
-Anas al-Sharif (correspondent)
-Mohammed Qreiqeh (correspondent) -Ibrahim Zaher (camera operator)
-Muhammad Al-Khalidi (photojournalist)
-Mohammed Noufal (camera operator)
-Moamen Aliwa (camera operator)

Good post by Fred DeLorey, pushing back against complaints (from non-Nova Scotians?) about Nova Scotia's fire prevention measures.

freddelorey.substack.com/p/nova-scoti...

A journalist with Canada’s public broadcaster was not allowed on the Canadian plane air dropping aid into Gaza because of Israeli restrictions.

When she made it onto a Jordanian plane, she was not allowed to film what she saw on the ground in Gaza because Israel forbids it from being shown.

Walter Benjamin, “The Storyteller” (1936)

How many books do you need for a weekend at the cottage - probably five or six, surely? How many pairs of socks? Two should be enough

Bought a new air conditioner from (redacted big box store) and immediately started getting instagram ads from the same store for the exact air conditioner I just bought… great work, all involved

Missing basically everything to do with Pride this year bc I have to move apartments but on the bright (?) side I am spending the day of the dyke march cruising around in a uhaul… very on theme

driving on a rural Moroccan road today and I said out loud “this is almost as nice as Cape Smokey”

A real toxic trait of mine is I will compare any location I ever visit in terms of how much I like it compared to Cape Breton

“what is Popocatéptl?” - what a relief to be able to sit at home and Google these questions rather than trying to pull them out of thin air on television for money!!

Love to watch Jeopardy Masters and hear proper nouns I’ve never heard before in my life

cheer up Toronto, they've set the precedent that mid-size Great Lakes metros can also have Cardinals that become Popes, we'll get it next time

(traditional TV coverage starts at 6pm ET - witness the gorgeous election night set, the product of two weeks’ worth of construction in the Broadcasting Centre atrium)

YouTube video by CBC News Election night's biggest moments | Front Burner Live

It’s all hands on deck for election coverage at the CBC tonight and they’ve even got me (a humble arts and culture host) doing coverage. Catch some of Canada’s sharpest political journalists and also me on the Front Burner livestream from 8pm ET: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYxM...

Gaza’s Christians ‘heartbroken’ for Pope who phoned them nightly CAIRO/BEIRUT: Members of Gaza’s tiny Christian community said they were “heartbroken” on Monday at the death of Pope Francis, who campaigned for peace for the devastated enclave and spoke to them on t...

Francis' compassion, even with the many Problems With The Church we all know that are not reconciled, was such a bigger flex than any other world leader could claim. I hope that whatever Pope comes after him will follow that lead. I hope it will matter, if they do. www.arabnews.com/node/2597954...

thank you for promoting essential cancon!!!

Everyone is arguing about Tariffs but not me, I’m riding the subway and crying listening to “The Only Living Boy in New York” by Simon & Garfunkel

brb dialing my dad up on the ouija board to see what he thinks of Mark Carney’s takes on The Clash

we filmed my ep of Top Chef back in August - if we only knew back then what the state of Canada-US relations was going to be when the show aired…

(interview with Curtis Sittenfeld about her new short story collection will be up Wednesday on Spotify/all other podcast platforms ✨)

Emma Donoghue boards a train destined for disaster Bookends with Mattea Roach · Episode

Bookends is getting preempted on Radio One today in much of the country for election coverage but remember we are also available as a podcast!! If you want a breather from thinking about tariffs you can listen to me and @emmadonoghue.bsky.social talk about trains, anarchism, and more here:

Niko is one of the very best at music writing - there’s just something about seeing Kraftwerk with someone you love!!

image is from a few years ago although I can easily imagine him being a little too eager

Mark Wahlberg on the Today Show after attending Ash Wednesday service. Chyron reads “Mark Wahlberg’s 40 Day Challenge”

Getting all my sinning out of the way tonight and then tomorrow it’s time for