Keishi Kumashiro

Rendezvous on the Beach, by Edvard Munch, 1896

no I don’t like Rogers and their monopolization of Canadian sports, how can you tell?

anyway, this is just the sort of thing that happens when one company in a telecommunications duopoly acquires an entire sports team shortly before that franchise becomes the only one in a whole country

meanwhile we were watching the Korean Series this morning for free on the official KBO channel on scooplive.com

Rogers execs on Sportsnet+ World Series crash: "You can't expect a streaming service that only costs $30 a month to work every time" TORONTO – With the Sportsnet+ app failing for many viewers during the Blue Jays victory in Game 4 of the World Series, Rogers execs have come forward to say that “honestly, this is kinda your guys fau...

Rogers execs on Sportsnet+ World Series crash: “You can’t expect a streaming service that only costs $30 a month to work every time”

How do you move a village? Residents of France’s last outpost in North America try to outrun the sea As rising tides eat away at the Saint-Pierre and Miquelon archipelago off Canada, plans to move the historic village to higher ground have divided residents

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Blue Jays just need a rouge here to win it.

I think I better log off of Bluesky for the night.

look at my socialists dawg, we're never gonna achieve a revolution

by popular request, reupping my 'how did the Chinese Embassy in Ireland come to make a very weird post' explanation. (for fuller background, see here, also w/commentary by me - www.theguardian.com/world/2021/a...)

Arabic text of the announcement by resistance committees of El Fasher.

El Fasher resistance committees reporting that large numbers of volunteers in community kitchens were martyred as they tried to help civilians amidst fighting. This comes on the back of mass captures and executions by the RSF reported in the last 24 hours since the RSF captured the city.

Orlando Bloom Spotted At Dinner With Angela Merkel BERLIN—Just weeks after announcing his split with fiancée Katy Perry, English actor Orlando Bloom was photographed Friday dining with former German Chancellor Angela Merkel. “Angela kept Orlando laugh...

Orlando Bloom Spotted At Dinner With Angela Merkel

a big problem right now among our political, cultural and media elites is how few of them have any self-respect

[looks around for jake tapper] hey man, do you, uh, want to write about this?

A grey blue washed image of a bearded young ish white guy looking into the mirror all serious with his palm pressed against it. A serif font title reads: DID I JUST ARGUE WITH A JOKE? A semi opaque navy snoot near the bottom bears the bluesky logo and the text PART OF A BLUESKY EDUCATIONAL SERIES

asks to go off record

Japan's new education minister Matsumoto supported Nanjing Massacre-denial film - The Mainichi TOKYO -- Japan's new education minister Yohei Matsumoto was one backer of a 2007 movie that cast doubt on the factuality of the 1937-38

“Japan's new education minister Yohei Matsumoto was one backer of a 2007 movie that cast doubt on the factuality of the 1937-38 "Nanjing Massacre," in which the Imperial Japanese Army killed Chinese POWs and civilians and committed rape …”

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Wow it turns out the company that gobbled up 70% of the market share in the burrito taxi industry was only able to do it by deliberately violating immigration law in order to secure a massive pool of cheap labor wedded to their platform specifically. Who could have guessed?

MUSLIMS AGAINST MAMDANI ASK US WHY

We Demand To Be Taken Seriously

The ICJ finds that Israel as an occupying power and based on 4th Geneva Convention and customary convention has obligation to protect the civilian population, even under conditions of active fighting.

who amongst us

It's great that you owned your Holocaust-survivor grandad, Katie

“reprogramming”
“budgetary twister”

why do I even bother with the Times anymore

thanks I hate it

an irony, of course, is that a growing number of CPC voters are themselves immigrants

I believe there’s just one Canadian on the Jays’ roster, and that’s Guerrero Jr

Screenshot of a baseball Subreddit thread. Dodgers fan elementus: Shohei Ohtani is on the plane to Toronto. Frequent_Thanks583: The prophecy has come real. Guardians fan Uuuuuuuuuuu11: They didn’t have to pay Ohtani. He really did want to go to Toronto. Mariners fan meander_o: I chuckled at this. After a shitty night, thanks for the laugh.

reminded of the time I went to the J-Town in the suburbs of Toronto, and they had Itōen ads featuring Ohtani plastered everywhere, except someone had pasted paper cutouts of Jays caps on all of them

Welp, it was a good season. Thank you, Mariners. / Eh bien, c'était une bonne saison. Merci, les marins.

Watching the Mariners. / Regarder les marins.