James Bridges

For people from the US seeing this - yes, Toronto has a semi-pro baseball team called the Maple Leafs that is the same name as the city’s semi-pro hockey team.

SIMPLY SPECTACULAR STÜTZLE!!! 😤

I would disagree with his idea of a “perfect” joke. But good of him to remind everyone of the connection of his company to Juno News (formerly the True North Centre for Public Policy, formerly Independent Immigration Aid Association).

Your Netflix "4K" stream and a 4K disc put the same number of pixels on your screen. But the disc version of a two-hour movie is about 70 gigabytes. The stream is about 14. Same pixels, roughly five times less data filling them. You see it first in dark scenes. The stream doesn't have enough data to tell dark grey from black, so your TV just mashes it all into chunky blocks. Then you notice sunsets looking like a paint-by-numbers, with visible stripes where smooth color should be. Film grain is probably the biggest casualty. Directors add that slightly textured look on purpose to make movies feel cinematic. Streaming compression reads it as noise and wipes it. That's where the weirdly plastic, waxy look on a good OLED comes from. One comparison I can't stop thinking about. A regular 1080p Blu-ray (the older HD format, not even 4K) pushes about 40 megabits of data per second to fill 2 million pixels. A 4K stream pushes 15-25 to fill 8 million pixels. Four times the pixels. Less data. A plain HD disc from 2008 can look sharper than a brand new 4K stream. Sound is worse. Netflix sends "Dolby Atmos" audio at about 768 kilobits per second, compressed, with parts of the original permanently deleted. A disc sends TrueHD Atmos at up to 18,000, lossless, nothing removed. Up to 23x more sound data. If dialogue sounds flat when you're streaming, that's not your speakers. Netflix is getting better at this. As of late 2025, 30% of their streaming runs on a newer compression method called AV1, the same picture at a third less data. They also strip film grain out before compressing, then rebuild it on your TV during playback. Saves over a third on file size for most content, and up to two-thirds for really grainy movies. The rebuilt grain looks solid. The tradeoff won't go away, though. Netflix has to deliver a file that works over spotty rural Wi-Fi and gigabit fiber, adjusting quality frame by frame to whatever your connection can handle. A disc reads plastic. Same quality every time.

If I were Cathal Kelly, I would be kicking back enjoying a scotch right now, basking in glory.

Ain’t no Party Like a Kash Patel Party?!

Time for Tomlin to move on. That goes double for Aaron Rodgers. #Steelers #HereWeGo

Thanks for the support on TRAIN TO NOWHERE, last night it hit 10k views on YouTube as well as making it to #3 in its Trending/Hyped videos list. Amazing! #ottawa #ottcity #documentary

I always thought it was "TRAMAPOLINE! TRAMBOPOLY!"

#GoSensGo #Sens

@winsford99 Congrats for outing yourself as a bigoted moron. Too much time in the Florida sun?

This is a disgrace, no one looking like that would have worn a Canada patch in WWII. And there’s an Arabic inscription! Is there a third official language now?

@JasminLaine_ Cry more.

It is strikingly different what having a full bias vs slightly more diversity of thought looks like on national television. I just finished watching media coverage of MP Jeneroux’s resignation and here were their key points and takeaway: CTV Power Play (approx 11 min segment): 1️⃣ how good of a man Janeroux is. How many panelists (con and lib) knew him and respect him. 2️⃣ there may be more to the story, but they were hesitant to make comments on it because they don’t know. 3️⃣ discussed his family and wife’s career and how hard it must be to travel back and fourth. 4️⃣ the biggest national conversation right now is this budget—to the point where the host even apologized for bringing up Janeroux’s departure—but obviously it’s the news cycle so she had to talk about it. CBC Power & Politics (approx 36 min segment): 1️⃣ conservatives treated him horribly and were threatening him “that’s no way to treat a colleague”, 2️⃣ He clearly disagrees with Pierre Poilievre’s leadership style. He made no mention of his praise of Poilievre in his statement—so that’s proof he obviously disagrees—“his choice was, I’m not gonna cross the floor because I’m unhappy with the leadership of Poilievre (because I’ve been threatened), and I can’t stay in this caucus because of how I’ve been treated. So I have to resign” 3️⃣ Pierre’s leadership doesn’t work. He lost the election he was supposed to win. He lost his seat in Ottawa which was easy to win. 4️⃣ Poilievre is 20 points behind Carney in terms of popularity “people don’t like Poilievre. He has no allies. People don’t like Poilievre—and he’s not making it easy for people to like him” and then all laughed about the struggles Poilievre is having. Why do our tax dollars pay for this? How is this acceptable?

@David_Moscrop @Bertrand_Boily Disappointing it's that big and obscenely expensive and doesn't have a bridge to seat the minifigs in.

@Bertrand_Boily I’m in trouble.

@David_Moscrop blog.trekcore.com/2025/11/lego-s…

32 years ago today, Homer got his arms trapped inside two vending machines. “Marge on the Lam” first aired November 4, 1993.

#OnThisDay November 4, 1992, "Oprah: Behind The Scenes" aired on ABC. In this special, she went behind the scenes of TV shows including #TheSimpsons and, at the end of the Simpsons segment, she visited the characters.

The #Steelers pass defense is terrible, holy cow.

I can't believe Jordan Spence has been with the team as long as he has, and we haven't decided to nickname him 'Diamonds' yet. 😅 #Sens #GoSensGo

@TSNJR When the team is bad from top to bottom, year after year, it's time to blame the leadership at the top.

Rick Campbell's RedBlacks special teams group has been comically bad this year

Maybe they could spend less time on fashion and more time actually being good at hockey. #Sens #GoSensGo

@johnnycakes91 Hell yeah. Heaven on Earth!

Got the deal