Theyβve never really topped Lisa Simpson.
04.10.2025 01:17 β π 64 π 8 π¬ 4 π 0@tabathasouthey.bsky.social
Tabatha Southey is a freelance writer who is based, in Toronto. She/Her. Bylines Globe and Mail, Macleans, Foreign Policy, Elle Magazine, National Post, Toronto Life, Explore Magazine and more, author of three books. π¨π¦
Theyβve never really topped Lisa Simpson.
04.10.2025 01:17 β π 64 π 8 π¬ 4 π 0The whole package, Peacemaker opening credits deserve a special Emmy.
03.10.2025 19:19 β π 10 π 2 π¬ 2 π 0Van Art Nation
03.10.2025 18:10 β π 8 π 2 π¬ 2 π 0I wrote a short piece for the Observer on the attacks in Manchester.
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
With news that Bari Weiss is going to be the new EIC at CBS News, I wanted to reup this piece I wrote 6 years ago about how she and Bret Stephens helped turn NYT into a moral panic factory www.mediamatters.org/new-york-tim...
02.10.2025 20:41 β π 2944 π 992 π¬ 20 π 25If you're interested in Paramount, CBS News, the Free Press, or the right-wing takeover of the media, please help spread this around and let's see if we can find out anything interesting :-)
02.10.2025 22:23 β π 358 π 151 π¬ 2 π 1New article from The Free Press My Favorite Actress Is Not Human βNot everyone is happy about this gorgeous innovation,β writes Tyler Cowen. Tilly Norwood doesnβt need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. Thatβs because sheβs AI. By Tyler Cowen 10.02.25
Paramount is about to pay $150 million for this
02.10.2025 20:42 β π 2143 π 357 π¬ 199 π 377If you work at CBS News and have anything you'd like to share, please text me on Signal premthakker.35
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A photo of Catherine McKenna sitting on a chair on a stage wearing a bright pink dress while being interviewed, behind her is a large blowup of her new book βRun Like a Girl.β
Absolutely great to hear @cathmckenna.bsky.social speak at @utoronto.caβs Trinity College tonight. Her new book is βRun Like a Girlβ and boy, she sold it.
02.10.2025 01:57 β π 27 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0The people at this ostrich farm are the same gang that opposed M-103, co-opted yellow vests, push UN / WEF conspiracies, opposed lockdowns, face masks and vaccines, occupied Ottawa, harassed people at drag story time events etc
Itβs all the same far-right influencers and content creators every time
A 72-year-old woman who lives next to that ostrich farm where a group of convoy people are camping out was doused in gasoline and physically assaulted by a man in a balaclava who may have been trying to light her in fire
She says she survived the attack by kicking the man in the nuts and biting him
Thanks @lucympowell.bsky.social. Every kind person, every not-particularly-kind-but-just-sensible person should oppose this cruel and unworkable ban. The traditional βsort yourselves outβ policy is the only way to run a public bathroom.
01.10.2025 12:11 β π 22 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Iβm in London for a few months every winter and each time I go back Iβm struck by how the air, and traffic, is noticeably better than the last time.
01.10.2025 11:22 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Before sunrise in Toronto
01.10.2025 11:13 β π 57 π 3 π¬ 2 π 1βThe Ulez scheme, introduced in 2019, meant the drivers of the most polluting cars had to pay a Β£12.50 daily charge.
The zone was extended across the whole of Greater London in August 2023, creating the world's biggest pollution charging zone.β
And walk or bike through London, you feel it.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/p...
30.09.2025 21:44 β π 4669 π 1976 π¬ 216 π 105Something our glorious Secretary of War does not seem to have considered is that the reason military PT and grooming standards, plus policies for EEO and abuse reporting, are the way they are is because they're necessary for recruitment and retention
30.09.2025 14:17 β π 3307 π 423 π¬ 89 π 64Jingle dress dancer Dara Wawatie and drummer Nimkeehns Wemigwans attended a memorial for residential school children on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Ottawa.
The ceremony took place at the Beechwood National Cemetery, where Dr. Peter Bryce is buried.
Especially if you're in Calgary, please share with anyone who you think might be interested -- everyone is welcome.
30.09.2025 17:19 β π 13 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0The Downtown Core Neighbourhood Association in #yyc is co-presenting a free evening of Indigenous storytelling, with screening on Saturday of two films, and a conversation with the director.
You can find out more details and RSVP at the link here.
downtowncoreneighbourhood.ca/event/free-t...
Itβs both depressing and darkly hilarious how Lawfare posting has gone from βwe got him on an Article 33, Clause 8, Subsection Alpha infraction, baby cannon time!β to *slams whisky bottle down* βthe law is fake and I challenge John Roberts to a fistfight at the Walmart parking lot.β
29.09.2025 17:18 β π 3322 π 500 π¬ 54 π 31I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were
29.09.2025 15:42 β π 16042 π 5677 π¬ 345 π 453Thereβs an even bigger conspiracy and it goes even deeper. It turns out that well over half of Parliament and thousands of councillors around the country are all members of a leftist organisation called βThe Labour Partyβ.
27.09.2025 09:44 β π 632 π 80 π¬ 56 π 25"Why has West Belfast always supported the Palestinians?"
West Belfast people: "C'mere a wee minute 'til I show you something....".
Do not let the length of the latest @shaunvids.bsky.social spook you. I promise by the end youβll wish it was four hours longer. Keep your eyes open for some CanCon.
26.09.2025 02:12 β π 22 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0I hope there will come a day soon where it dawns on someone in Starmerβs team that their strategy of communicating βNigel Farage is right about everything but please vote for us insteadβ is fuelling these disastrous figures rather than mitigating them, but today is not that day
26.09.2025 07:21 β π 648 π 183 π¬ 17 π 12Update to this story on a group that trains people to work in clubs run by Zlatko Starkovski, a longtime Ford Nation figure: Ontario's public accounts show the group got an additional $3.3M in grants from the Skills Development Fund last year, for a total of more than $9.8M.
26.09.2025 12:50 β π 21 π 21 π¬ 5 π 4Italy has moved me to tears for 3 days straight. Bravo β€οΈ
25.09.2025 13:07 β π 5415 π 1806 π¬ 35 π 165Antitrans bigotry is homophobic bigotry is antifeminist bigotry...
26.09.2025 12:24 β π 16 π 10 π¬ 1 π 0I am not anti-fishing.
I am not anti- shark fishing.
But hammerheads in particular are species of significant conservation concern, and one of the worst candidates for βcatch and releaseβ of any known fish species.
And itβd be nice if media coverage *of hammerhead fishing* mentioned that