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Probably the latter. I was actually a tiny bit happy for him when they won gold. It was what happened after, that made me lose a lot of respect for him.

I could come up with a long list, but here are a few of my favourites:

Mariana Enriquez
Maria Haskins ( @mariahaskins.com )
Gabino Iglesias ( @gabino.bsky.social )
Michael Wehunt ( @michaelwehunt.bsky.social )
Premee Mohamed ( @premeemohamed.com )
Brian Evenson ( @brianevenson.bsky.social )

I agree that we should provide more financial support to Olympic athletes even if it doesn’t benefit us personally. In a time when we are under attack, we need to support things that contribute to our national identity. I would include funding for the arts, as well.

Maybe both?

The result was disappointing but I’m not at all disappointed in the way Canada played. Sometimes the breaks just don’t go your way.

I agree. I was disappointed in the result but not at all disappointed in the way they played. This was one of the most exciting best-on-best tournaments I have ever seen.

Baby Sauropods Were the Potato Chips of the Jurassic Era Baby Sauropods Were the Potato Chips of the Jurassic Era: “Life was cheap in this ecosystem.”

Nooooooooo

nautil.us/baby-sauropo...

Raiders of the Lost Ark was probably the one I watched the most.

I just started THE STARVING SAINTS by Caitlin Starling.

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

Now comes a winter of ghosts and those beasts that live at the edges of fever when it has turned to shiver. In this season's shortened light, rain grows sharp teeth and wind becomes a spearpoint against bones. Even dawn seems reluctant to hoist hope high. – #DAKilroy, 1982 #Dawn

introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen

Pearl Jam (twice)
Bob Dylan
U2
Neil Young
The Tragically Hip (many times)

And I’ll always regret the time I was in Verona, Italy and could have seen Radiohead at the Roman arena beside our hotel. Instead I left a day early.

Album cover for Tom Waits’ Rain Dogs.

I was needing some writing inspiration today, and Tom Waits delivered.

I just happened to notice how one of my favourite books is rated on Goodreads, and it confirmed to me that Goodreads ratings are nearly always wrong.

I’m really liking what I hear from Avi Lewis, so far.

Avi Lewis makes his pitch for the NDP #NDP #canada #cdnpoli #frankdomenic🍁

Linda McQuaig: With Carney’s budget prioritizing the business elite, could this be Canada’s Mamdani moment? NDP leadership candidate Avi Lewis, like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, openly advocates taxing the rich in order to provide benefits for ordinary people. Now there’s a wild idea.

With Mark Carney coming out as a true banker, the moment is ripe for left-wing populist Avi Lewis -- who knows the wealth doesn't trickle down. #cdnpoli #canlab #NDP www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Not too surprising when the Prime Minister is really just a moderate conservative.

Based on the series in LA, it seems like the key to neutralizing Ohtani is to keep him up way past his bedtime for one night.

RIP david lynch you would have loved a baseball stadium full of people slowly losing their minds

I’m not sure how many people here have read W.P. Kinsella’s novel The Iowa Baseball Confederacy, where the game goes on for weeks. But this game is starting to look familiar…

Yours was a great one to cap off the month!

Great! Looking forward to it

No problem! Now I’m going to have to read The Legend of Charlie Fish sometime soon.

I agree. He’s correctly diagnosed the problem and he’s been the best at coming up with ideas to address it. The NDP needs to change and so far I think he’s the one most likely to do it.

If you are looking for something unsettling, spooky, or terrifying, I highly recommend any of these.

Cover for Hex. A witch hovers in the air, back turned to us. She is wrapped in chains.

Cover for A Sunny Place for Shady People. On the cover is a person in a red cape and hood, with flowers for a face and blue arms.

Cover for the Unkillable Frank Lightning. On the cover a hand that looks like wood, reaches through a crack in a wood board.

Cover for October Film Haunt.

My October reading for this year: Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt, The Unkillable Frank Lightning by @joshrountree.bsky.social, A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enriquez, and October Film Haunt by @michaelwehunt.bsky.social
#booksky

I’m reading Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt and will be watching my favourite team (the Blue Jays!) play in the World Series.

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

What happens next? America is in a moment of authoritarian crisis that could produce a fascist state, a Third Reconstruction, or anything in between.

I wanted to explore Britton-Purdy and Pozen's explanations of the 'three competing narratives' of our political moment, so ... here it is. One narrative is transparently illegitimate; the other two are divided mostly by appetite for reform.

www.unchartedblue.com/what-happens...