Death by Shakespeare
Causes of 74 deaths in Shakespeare's plays
#ShakespeareDay

Tweet from Reverend Jordan Wells: "Why So Many Protestants Are Done with the Modern Papacy I respect Catholicism deeply, but this is exactly why so many Protestants have major issues with the current direction of the Vatican. The Pope’s clear liberal political bent is impossible to defend."

This is an incredible tweet.

It’s Not Me, It’s Them: A Breakup Letter to the Calgary School You know that friend who keeps dating the same kind of terrible person? The one who swears each new partner is different, and then six months in you’re hearing the same complaints about the s…

Children with disabilities deserve inclusion, until it requires budgeting for it, at which point they need to earn it.

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like clearly the plane is worth roughly what it was bought and sold for, that's not the issue here. The point is that Bombardier presumably did this for a reason and the obvious reason is they wanted Ford to owe them a favor.

Doug Ford says private jet has been sold for same price Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the province has sold off a private jet it purchased for $28.9 million following an outcry.

Rather than putting an end to this scandal, this purchase raises serious questions of whether Bombardier expects a quid pro quo.

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This is a hard truth: driving responsibly is way harder and involves way more effort than driving correctly. You can follow all the rules and still kill someone with your car. If you don't want to do that, it takes a lot of extra work: avoiding driving where possible, recognizing bad design, etc.

one hippo, once more alone
misses the other (n(n+1)/2)-1

Driver who fatally struck Hamilton crossing guard in November now facing careless driving charge, police say | CBC News The driver who fatally struck a Hamilton crossing guard in November is facing a charge of careless driving causing death, police said Friday. The crossing guard, 52, was on his way to work on Nov. 13 ...

🔥 quote here from a pedestrian using the insane Mohawk & Upper Wentworth intersection. #HamOnt #VisionZero

"Everyone does have a responsibility for their own safety and the safety, especially, of the people around them when they're driving a multi-ton killing machine"

Yeah I am not interested in private schools, merely pointing out that Doug is doing his very best to push people in that direction.

I'm amazed that you've heard that song in the last 3 decades or so!

Canada's gas tax debate is even dumber than it looks The federal government's decision to suspend the excise tax on gasoline combines is an obvious attempt to put politics ahead of policy. It also looks downright sophisticated compared to the populist s...

Mark Carney's decision to suspend the federal gas tax was dumb. The positions taken by Pierre Poilievre and Avi Lewis, on the other hand, were downright ludicrous.

We can do better than this, folks. We have to. #cdnpoli

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BREAKING: The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine just issued a formal statement defending Pope Leo XIV's teaching authority on just war doctrine — less than twelve hours after JD Vance told a Turning Point USA crowd the pope should “be careful” talking theology.

This is a serious escalation.

To be fair, I think they gave up on "if you're sick, stay home" in like 2022.

Can we also add unreliable school buses to the list of things that force people (who can afford it) into private school? I would estimate that I have to do an unplanned drop-off about once per week at this point.

United States Ambassador To Italy Mrs Clare Boothe Luce Listens To The Words Of Pope Pius Xii,During An Audience At The Pontiff'S Lakeside Summer Residence.13 October 1955

American conservative politician Clare Boothe Luce converted to Catholicism in 1946.

In a 1953 meeting with Pope Pius XII, she was fiercely lecturing the pontiff on the Church's moral duty to fight communism when the Pope finally interrupted her.

"You know, Mrs. Ambassador, I am a Catholic too."

"The Hamburgler is incorrect on matters of burgling hamburgers."

A clip of Tolkien's letter titled Beautiful place because trees are loved, cut from the yellowed page of The Daily Telegraph from 4 July 1972, and fastened to the background with adhesive tapes. It is owned and copyrighted by The Telegraph. The letter said: Sir, with reference to your leader on 29 June, I feel that it is unfair to use my name as an adjective qualifying gloom especially in a context dealing with trees. In all my works I take the part of trees against all their enemies. Lothlorien is beautiful because there the trees were loved; elsewhere forests are represented as awakening to conscious of themselves. The Old Forest was hostile to two-legged creatures because of the memory of many injuries. Fangorn Forest was old and beautiful, but at the time of the story tense with hostility because it was threatened by machine-loving enemy. Mirkwood had fallen under the domination of a power that hated all living things, but it was restored to beauty and became Greenwood the Great before the end of the story.

"Beautiful Place because Trees are Loved" is the title of Tolkien's letter to The Daily Telegraph (4 July 1972)

A response to an article that used the phrase "Tolkien gloom" for trees, he insisted that he's always on the side of trees against their enemies. 1/4

#TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday

Council Quote of the Week (nothing will top this)

Gage Park basketball court scheduled to be build by 2051.

They will be age 41 in 2051, noted two teenagers to City Council, adding that will probably be more concerned about back pain than playing basketball by the time the court is built. #yhmcc

The excuse will now be needing to meet swing voters halfway.

As a woman, I offer my sympathies to the Pope who is now being told hourly by very many random men what he actually means

:sobbing: the taxation of trade routes is in dispute ::

A street corner, with a sign reading "Play Area & Cholera Burial Ground".

Saving for "State your mood in one image" threads.

Leaflet of three candidates, white blokes with limited hair, all in glasses. --- **GATESHEAD IS BROKEN. VOTE REFORM UK TO FIX IT** Introducing your Reform UK candidates for Low Fell leaflet text: **ATKINSON, John** Reform UK John has lived in Low Fell for 30+ years. His background is in civil engineering, policing, teaching and transport. He wants to bring back a sense of community, listen to residents' concerns and focus on local issues such as crime, roads and streets, and better services. --- **HENDERSON, Iain** Reform UK Iain has lived and worked in Gateshead all his life. Now retired, he wants to give something back to the borough. With a positive outlook, Iain is looking forward to making a real difference to the lives of the residents of Low Fell and to working closely with them. --- **MURRAY, Arthur** Reform UK Arthur has owned several businesses for many years. He has lived locally for 50 years and employs local staff, servicing the northeast and Scotland. His priorities are to see the ward and area prospering once again, caring for the old and infirm and maintaining our parks and open spaces. ---

This Reform leaflet from three Gateshead candidates looks like a timelapse of the same person

"Magataotao" on Twitter writes: "I am Catholic. This👇is not my Pope." Attached is a video of the Pope saying that we should search for peace and reject war. A community note under their tweet says: "You are not a Catholic if you do not accept the Pope, but rather a schismatic. Canon 751: “Schism is the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff,” ie. the Pope. https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib3-cann747-755_en.html"

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

sick of these catholic converts showing up and saying "well I have a different interpretation of the scripture" no you don't. that's protestantism and a heresy. don't like it there's the (incredibly beautiful and heavily ornamented with precious metals) door

This is why there should be no opt-outs for the measles vaccine for religious or other conscientious objections.

Jordan Leichnitz: "It's clear that the Liberals under Carney are building a big tent, and apparently it's such a big tent you can drive a trucker convoy through it"

Does Gender-Affirming Care Make Mental Health Worse? The case of a rather poorly-done paper.

A new paper has come out that has Twitter/X afire. It seems to argue that gender-affirming care for transgender youth is not only ineffective, but potentially harmful.

It's also a very poorly-done piece of work. My new piece:
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PCI makes cardiac health worse because patients referred for PCI have a higher frequency of cardiology visits over the next two years than age-matched controls.

It's seriously embarrassing what passes for "research."

actual nytimes headline FEMA Official Says He Teleported to Waffle House. Experts Are Dubious.

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides

the nytimes: