Jen Whyte 🍁

To be fair, this is what we get for putting the men’s free skate on Friday the 13th. #MilanoCortina2026

I've been watching figure skating for a long time, and I'm not sure I've ever seen a bloodbath like that.

Yes, I do this regularly. And you'd be surprised at how much sewing increases the amount of hang-to-dry laundry one needs to do. All fabric should be pre-washed. It's still barely a dent in the Toronto Winter Armour, but we just need to hold on until spring.

But the humidity... Alas.

Oh, both. The portable one was practical, the whole-home one was aspirational.

Trust me, I have watched the full Technology Connections Humidifier saga, in my desperate - perhaps vain - attempt to grow tropical plants in Toronto

I never understood why everyone hated 'Beautiful Things' until watching the Olympics on CBC, where it's in fully half of the ads

I too immediately forgot about Coldplay as soon as they leave my field of vision

I know why this is the case but it is still remarkable to see people complaining about Bad Bunny (who is American) not being American enough for the super bowl when I didn't hear a word about The Weeknd. Or Rhianna. Or Shakira. Or Coldplay. They've had the Rolling Stones up there.

Yeah, see, there's a reason that most tournaments do a 'best of 7' for their finals. You're basically guaranteed at least one good game that way.

That is your perogative!

I mean, if you're counting Lewis you should probably also count Tolkein, for similar reasons.

But I guess the time to introduce that would have been Athens 2004, so we might have missed the opportunity.

I suppose this is as close as we can hope to get to philosophy as an olympic sport?

Ok, I'll admit that I haven't had time to follow the sport this year until now, but I'm not sure anything could have prepared me for how fucking goofy Ilia Malinin's long program is.

The name 'C.D. Broad' really was wasted on the philosopher. Should have been saved for a 90s music store with a great riot girl selection

Daily Affirmations:

- You are very wise
- You speak truly
- It must be as you say
- That is surely correct, Socrates

You know, the narrator in 'I've been everywhere' never actually specifies whether he's seen a road with as much dust and sand as the Winnemucca road he's currently on. He names many other roads he's been to, but doesn't make any ruling on their comparative dustiness or sandiness.

If the standard model ever develops a need for another pair of quarks they should call them based and cringe

There is a supreme irony in trying to go for the 'accuracy to the text' angle when everyone's walking around in batman helmets

But of course, you have a method for determining whether people would use your post for good and not ill that is completely unclouded by your non-epistemic value judgements, right?

You: you're just making up a guy to be mad at
Me: it's called writing a philosophical dialogue. Look it up, Simplicio

Nah, I think it's about the Value-Free Ideal of Science

If you make a substance specifically targeted at people who are likely to be less-than-usually dexterous, maybe it would be nice to not also make it radioactively orange

Winter is a great time to get some sewing done, but it comes with a caveat, and that caveat is what happens when you make a beautiful new white dress shirt - perfect for job interviews - put it on for the first time, and then immediately baptize it with the unmistakeable, indelible tinge of Dayquil

Not yet, but today might be the day.

I've been sick continuously for about a month now. At first I thought that the reason was that I've had to do a bunch of non-optional travel while sick and that was delaying my recovery. But that's not true. It's because I've been too busy to watch Star Trek. You gotta watch Star Trek.

And the Gender Euthyphro writes itself. Is it manly because men do it, or do men do it because it's manly?

I mean, a lot of people teach the allegory of the cave alongside The Matrix. And the trans subtext of the Matrix isn't exactly subtle. I think you could probably make the egg cave work without really stretching the text at all!