Great game from the Sirens! I don’t care if it’s Ottawa or Toronto in the 4th spot! I’m for anyone but the Frost winning the cup this year!

Really feeling for any Tempo players from warm places who arrived in Toronto this week for training camp! It freaking snowed on Sunday!

If only the sceptres were celebrating by getting SOG!

One final point here for members of the PC caucus at Queen’s Park to consider: they are being asked this week to vote to make it easier for the premier to make decisions behind closed doors, and to lock those doors even more firmly. Government House Leader Steve Clark has presented a motion to whip the budget measures bill through the legislature without committee hearings, including the section that will eviscerate Ontario’s freedom of information laws. Many in this government find journalists and their insistence on factual answers annoying, fine. But the events of the last few days are a reminder that a culture of insularity and secrecy is bad for governments, and Tories might want to ask whether leaning into that dysfunction is really what they need right now.

New from me at TVO, on the whole jet thing: www.tvo.org/article/anal...

PWHL attendance check in:

• one million fans this season were achieved in 46 fewer games than needed to reach the league’s first million fans
• through 112 games, attendance stands at 1,036,782 for an average of 9,257 fans per game
• 28% increase over last season+playoffs

With two games left in the season, here are the scenarios facing Ottawa, Toronto and New York:

Our entire roller derby board was at a social event today and we didn’t have a single board related conversation! Look at us having good boundaries and being an excellent team!

“Feud with the Pope” is BACK as a likely Wikipedia section heading after a 400-year gap.

Omg I missed this game and I’m SO HAPPY WITH TGIS RESULT!!

Reposting with alt text

For sale: private jet, never flown.

Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history

Learning about professional volleyball!

Roller Derby season is back! @royalcityroller.bsky.social season opener doubleheader!
Rum Rollers and Killer Uprising vs Durham Region. Only $15 and kids under 12 free! Get out and support local derby. #RollerDerby #WFTDA

I’m not big on mourning break-ups… why is a relationship only good if it lasts forever? I’d rather celebrate a successful 10 year relationship that ended at the right time.

Sooo, the baby-wearing subreddit is INTENSE!

Boycott FIFA, support your local #RollerDerby team

What seemed by middle-of-the-road Canadian standards as common sense in 2019, is now called radical. The mushy middle is a relative position. So media outlets of the political centre move right just because the whole spectrum shifts that way. Those on board may barely feel the motion.

I get called less by journalists since the moral panic against harm reduction got started a couple years back. Even the good ones stand a little further back. Plus, we can no longer get meetings with cabinet ministers. These are clearly the least important metrics of backlash, but there it is.

The WFTDA Bracket Drop// Champs Bids// Regional (Playoff) Champs Predictions All the brackets except Oceania have been released. New faces, old faces, a fourth NA location… and what it all might mean for the 16…

Also we have had NA + Europe brackets drop, so DISCUSS.
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That’s the example I use for adults confused about 6-7!
Also our poor teachers when beavis and butthead was popular…

I am a teensy bit smug because I predicted they wouldn’t do that well.

So like the exact opposite of a chow! My late chow mix was basically a cat in a dog body.

Amazing!!

😂😂

Battle of the brick walls 👀

Ann-Renée Desbiens and Aerin Frankel match each other with a record 17 wins and 7 shutouts on the season!

It doesn't matter whether you are on twitter or bluesky, you will always see long threads of men arguing w/ each other about whether economic feelings are real without seeing anyone mention childcare costs, rising unsheltered homelessness or the fact that uncountable numbers of families live in cars

A student was telling me that the bag they had was broken. I asked them if it was a broken bag on a Halifax pier? They did not get it. 😂😂

Acetaminophen Exposure During Pregnancy and the Risk of Autism in Offspring This cohort study evaluates the potential association between prenatal acetaminophen exposure and risk of autism in Danish national registers.

In another massive data set of more than 1.5 million children ‌born between 1997 and 2022, the use of Tylenol during pregnancy was NOT associated with autism, even after accounting for ​individual risk factors. Autism was diagnosed in 1.8% of children exposed to Tylenol and 3% of the unexposed group.

Tempo play by play nightmare

Kia. Kiki. Key.