Not officially confirmed but Nelvana, one of Canada's most storied animation studios, appears to have quietly closed down on Friday, yet another casualty of Corus Entertainment's struggle to survive.
What do we do now? Wait. All power to the people. He/him, cis, www.craigburley.com I put the website (back soon) there because it's my name, my v e r i f i e d username and my bio have my name in them. Look me up anywhere.
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Not officially confirmed but Nelvana, one of Canada's most storied animation studios, appears to have quietly closed down on Friday, yet another casualty of Corus Entertainment's struggle to survive.
You guys see where this is going? Right?
Anyway good job Zach Polanski, 42 is late to hold your first job but i think you're gonna do great
The UK Greens getting hostile-takeovered by the Liberal Democrats, of all people, is even more embarrassing than the Canadian Greens getting peeled and eaten without crumbs by the Liberal Party
Good luck
Macron va devoir trouver une autre excuse pour continuer ses cadeaux aux plus riches. Faire payer les grandes fortunes apporterait des recettes indispensables. De nouveaux exilés fiscaux ne mettraient pas l'économie en péril. Fin du chantage.
And yet a trace of the true self resides in the false self
judging yourself by the standards of imaginary cis people is what chuck schumer does. you don't want to be like chuck schumer do you
everyone is asking!
sorry i should let this slide into the slipstream but who anointed the professor of farting slightly higher with the holy fucking oil such that he can lay down catechisms. you're a scholar of toadying, you're still here on suffrance
As usual there is nothing much wrong with business professors (or "Professors of Strategic Management", business speak for "Professor of Thinkily Doing") that couldn't be solved by sending them to university for several years on some improving course of actual study
lots of luck with the "the university is not a political body" theory there champ; your colleagues at the university will have some thoughts
jesus what driftnet hauled this on deck
made an irresponsible purchase called the Pink Flamingo and I couldn't be happier
...if you were a St. John's merchant and you had customers up along the Southwest Arm awaiting deliveries, you'd see the ship notice and arrange for freight for goods to Gooseberry Cove with the captain to his home port.
Another delightful one is this, showing that life in the outports depended on boats, and since fuel cost dear in poor communities sail was the way, until the road brought the goods to you. Once the road came through the outports this didn't happen, but back then... swahsociety.com/lifestyle/bo...
@rosemacready.bsky.social thought that the skipper having no idea where he was going was hilarious and I have to agree.
One of particular interest to me, because I am personally convinced it was depicted in a stamp issued later that year, is the Queen Victoria and the little pen picture of the excitement of her returning to port with the catch of the season is delightful swahsociety.com/lifestyle/bo...
Yes! swahsociety.com/lifestyle/bo... This is Schooners of Southwest Arm, detailing the wooden sailing schooners built in or sailing out of the outports along Newfoundland's Southwest Arm. Many of the entries have lovely long descriptive entries and many press notices of their arrivals and travels
as your attorney, i advise you to leave this room immediately
as your attorney, i advise you to leave this room immediately
Yep. And sure, but what's he gonna say? You can never placate a moral shaming. Perform the ritual, apologize within the local limits after careful legal advice, ignore the inevitable demands for further and more sweeping apologies, and get in with not going to any more tennis matches.
this Four Tarzans is great
the posts will be fucking incredible
It looks like you're trying to conceive! Would you like some help?
It would be less embarrassing to him than the pound shop St George bunting on his mantelpiece
And fussy little dorks have a very solid track record in Canadian politics, there is absolutely no bar to fussy little dorks being leaders here or ascending to high office. No real slight on PP other than it's his pretence he is something he isn't; the media swallowed it whole, good for him.
I met him in the 00s, at some social thing related to law. He was on the make and seemed at home doing politics. I have no insight into anything other than his presentation!
what does any of the "tough brawler" talk have to do with this fussy, depilated man in the heels whining very loudly beneath the nearest microphone
every time I see the media describe Pierre Poilievre, who I first met over twenty years ago and who hasn't changed his presentation and manner by even one degree, I feel like they have taken a large brass bell swung very hard to the center of the forehead. who is this man you are seeing
a "brawler"? he's a weird fey little dork gremlin wtf who are you describing
Thirty seconds after watching his first Jackie Chan movie, racing down the hall to get ready for bed, my boy leaped up & surprised himself in discovering he could do thus new trick… (he was very pleased to say the least)
Honestly this is great local journalism that I want to know about
We all remember that "Let's Move" was short for "Let's move away from mRNA vaccines"
I hope they get Julia Roberts to appear in the movie of this too
Not to mention virile
Shut the fuck up
In addition to bring offensive and racist, this dude is a blundering goofball who cannot stop stepping on his own shoelaces. What are you even promising to get rid of? Any answer to that question is dumb and wrong, as well as disgusting and impossible.
Should’ve responded, “Not half as worried as if she had to walk past a hotel full of BBC presenters”
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
i don't really mind the "bluesky is dying because people are mean to me" posts because i remember the alternative, which was "twitter is dying because people are mean to me" op eds in the new york times
A beautiful orange rock posy lichen (Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca), from my time in Yellowknife, NT, Canada. #lichen #fungifriends
Keir Starmer has appointed as his new Comms Director Tim Allan who was a board member of the hate group Sex Matters. It's no longer even pretending to adhere to its Manifesto promise to "remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance."
Huh turns out "fraudulent offer" isn't a meaningless concept, who knew
For @theleaduk.bsky.social I had another look at the impact of the poorly-designed 'Making Tax Digital' policy on the most economically vulnerable workers in the economy. The added cost for disabled people at the same time as benefit cuts is inexplicable. national.thelead.uk/p/making-tax...
FTBAL133.BMF
Fuck off
As someone who received hundreds of pieces of mail after writing the SATs, I know from whence Kemi Badenoch got the contemptibly false impression she got a part scholarship offer to Stanford. And yes it is utterly her MO to misunderstand something basic and blow it into an entire mind palace.
There's no difference. "Authenticity" isn't really a thing, it's just an impression. It's anticipating what people expect from you, it has nothing to do with the self.
Donald Trump Sir please prove the haters and losers wrong and walk briskly up a steep hill #TrumpWalkUpAHill
i will not name names and i don't make public Lists but 👀👀👀
you are not allowed to call delightful otter Zohran a bear, get outta here. that is against the criminal law
bury!
Luis Suarez *is* a racist! Why is he mad?
Shoutout to the breakfast place I went to this morning for giving Bernard a piece of bacon
Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
Hayden Lawrence using the local yokels to try to boost his local bona fides is certainly funny, I would have thought he'd have already made it and didn't need to leverage the Kool Keystone Kops and their awesome info network but clearly he feels different.
now Chris, I don't want to be critical because I enjoyed this immensely, but calling four guys with low-follower Twitter accounts the "right-wing machine" is a bit much. Hayden Lawrence is obviously a different kettle of fish but the Twitter guys are just the local racists
Rudy Giuliani happened to be in the middle of one of his favorite pastimes - RESPECTING WOMEN - when he suddenly broke every single bone in his body. Please do not call and ask any questions because his business partner is taking care of him ❤️
Also, "she's never been in trouble before" is the sweetest thing in the world, that is sisterly protection, since no I do not believe that the woman driving Rob Ford in his car from their rehab centre to the bank and then to her house on his first weekdays in rehab has "never been in trouble"
It was so sweet when it came out later that the Toronto cops, and not his detail either, used to follow Robbie home when he was driving drunk or stoned and wait for him to pull over and pass out and would drive him the rest of the way, like parents following an eight year old runaway at a distance
Love the idea of Rob Ford, way out past the edge, happily driving around with Local Woman on hooky from rehab, going to the bank and her house, just normal rehab "the Mayor is very sick" things
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The neighbour arriving straight off the top rope is a great moment in news writing
![She said she did not see anybody coming or going from the car. A Northland Towing representative confirmed his company received a black Escalade and that it is in their impound lot. He said the vehicle will remain there until the OPP chooses to release it. The employee told the Star the woman showed him ID confirming she was LeeAnne McRobb. After verifying the ID, the employee allowed McRobb to collect her personal belongings from the SUV. Sitler, who was at the lot with reporter Carly Verhoeven, said the woman showed up around 3 p.m. Wednesday and collected a bunch of belongings from the back of the SUV, which had no licence plates. Sitler said Bracebridge OPP told him t] -](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eata2lkcvmh7csdbbvoo4eib/bafkreielnv3bxan2b3hswv4jbx6qm6bac5isilw2f4bwsmcx2cbthansda@jpeg "Click to view full size")
The Rudy Giuliani "I was uhhhhhh rescuing a damsel in distress and then was hit by another car in an unrelated" incident, very normal story, reminded Karen as it did me of one of the funnier Rob Ford stories, of which the story I am about to excerpt is only one part of. Canada is very deferential!
This was an all time hilariously reported story, I'm gonna post about it
YES THANK YOU I WAS TRYING TO REMEMBER WHO HAD PLANTED A STORY LIKE THIS
So a couple quick thoughts: Rudy's girlfriend Maria Ryan, whom I don't think he has ever acknowledged as such, lives in NH; she was also a co-conspirator in the 2020 coup attempt. He has lied repeatedly in the press about this. Curious to learn more on this. www.nhbr.com/report-ex-co...
Oliver McCann. I'll remember that name, and that face, which I hope to punch one day. To call Oliver McCann a "music creator" is an insult to every musician who's ever lived.
Thank you Councillor these are some of the local racists, who seem to have found a new target. Thanks for the answer; a lot of people who claim to be into municipal politics don't understand anything about community housing providers, like usually needing market tenants to make the finances work.
Today on The Incline → Over the past few days, a #HamOnt political controversy in Ward 4 has had people buzzing. A look at how this non-scandal is similar to ones in the past and who is behind this campaign-like attack on a sitting councillor. theincline.email/p/home-on-th...
1/ If you take the LPC costed manifesto, ignore handwaving about "productivity savings", and then add the cost of lower GDP growth, eliminating the DST, increasing defence spending and adjust for way-below forecast counter-tarriff income, you get this (in nominal $Bs). This is ugly.
All sorts of politicians and others have to learn this! And many do! You can learn it. But you have to want it
Judge Sooknanan: And I tried to reach the government. I have been up since then..and didn't reach anyone from the government until later this morning. And the imminence that the plaintiff claimed proved true, because, in fact, those planes *were* loaded. One actually took off and was returned.
There are Midwesterners everywhere, for those with the eyes to see.
When Sooknanan wraps up, counsel for plaintiffs tell her that their understanding is that the planes with the children have been grounded but that the children have not been deplaned. Sooknanan asks Ensign for an explanation, he says it might be that they're waiting for resolution of this hearing
This whole scenario feels like it's straight outta the government's Alien Enemies Act/J.G.G. playbook. In J.G.G., Boasberg entered TRO barring removal of named plaintiffs and set weekend emergency hearing on certification of class. But DHS started removing people just before/during hearing...
We're back and Sooknanan asks if any planes have taken off. Ensign says all of the planes are on the ground -- one of them might have taken off and turned around. He's not sure. His understanding is that if that's the case, plane has returned.
Here's the complaint filed late last night. One of the named plaintiffs is as young as 10. Judge Sooknanan already entered a TRO to bar the removal of named plaintiffs, and a new TRO just hit the docket for the larger putative class. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This is beautiful
Google it.
Bosai-kun is Japan’s disaster-preparedness rhino.
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Somewhere in Park Slope this morning, Brad Lander unwinds himself carefully from two sleeping twentysomethings still clad only in their Z t-shirts and pads down to make coffee for them. He grabs the NYT from their hallway and reads MAMDANI OWES SUCCESS TO "HIMBO FACTOR". Brad Lander smiles knowingly
Noted Himbo Brad Lander
Or else everyone would do it! Or would they
The process by which simply everyone is madly searching for the secret to what Mamdani did, when what he did was described simply and plainly in response to every question of "Mr Mamdani, talk to me about your campaign" is a joy of political writing. If there's no trick, there must be a trick!
The same people who used to win democracy-arguments by pointing at someone they didn't like and calling them a bad name are now losing democracy-arguments by pointing and name calling, and they are real mad about it and I dunno what to tell anyone, as it was always this bad
that's democracy. the idea that the only thing that matters is winning an argument in the eyes of enough people, is called an "electoral democracy" and they are *wildly* popular around these parts. i can't stand them most of the time but we gotta dance with em, it's how we do things here
I'm overjoyed for Mitch that he'll get to play where he is wanted
La Décapitation de saint Georges, Bernat Martorell, 1430
Union station, DC
The lilies are magnificent!
DUCK DOWN, PUDDLES HAS LOST HIS HEAD (h/t @kwade.bsky.social)
You know the reason they talk like that is the constant terror
Because of all the deadly snakes?
I can
