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Lots to like about Bluesky. Feels like Twitter circa 2012.
The biggest thing I've noticed is that your personal feed can actually cut through the engagement bait crap and get straight to insights from interesting people.
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Andrew Joe Potter
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Andrew Joe Potter
@AndrewJoePotter
Now: M.S.Ed. candidate | Prev: Toronto Star newsletters, theScore, one-time child | he/him | 🇨🇦
Toronto Katılım Eylül 2009
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Based on the available info, it might've been a mental gymnastics injury.
Scott Robertson@sarobertsonca
Pierre Poilievre tells Steven Bartlett that he got into politics because he hurt his back playing football Yet, on Joe Rogan's podcast, he said it was tendinitis and wrestling...
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@DonRubix @JohnMcCloy My older-than-average father asked me to do this once when I was in my teens. It kind of was a profound moment — that sort of vulnerability that Boomer men aren't really known for.
I immediately shaved off his sideburns off and he never let me touch his clippers again.
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@JohnMcCloy I never cut my Dad’s hair. But I wish he was still here so I could try.
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💔 This poor girl is going to be absolutely going through it. It is believed Romy Reiner discovered her parents Rob & Michele around 3:30 & called 911. They were just on vacation. You can tell they were close & no child should ever have to endure this.
No matter what you think politically this was a tender moment of just a Dad & Daughter.
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@TomAandTom1 @TheCinesthetic I love Die Hard and the rest as much as the next guy but if your recent movies are consistently costing the studio 10s of millions in losses, you better be the ultimate good vibes guy at the office.
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John McTiernan in directors jail is still insane to think about. The guy who gave Die Hard, Predator, and The Hunt for Red October literally defined modern action grammar. Clean geography, real tension, muscular practicality.
cinesthetic.@TheCinesthetic
Which filmmakers who are in “Director’s Jail” would you like to see make a comeback
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@TomAandTom1 @TheCinesthetic That would be hiring a Hollywood fixer to wiretap his producer's phone because he was paranoid about studio interference with, of all movies, Rollerball.
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@AndrewJoePotter @TheCinesthetic What uh
Would be the main reason?
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@aqueminienjoyer @MarxGasol Yeah, that's a tough one.
- Distinctly Canadian director
- Shot in Canada
- Produced by Americans
- Non-Canadian primary cast
- Set in the U.S. midwest
- Distinctly U.S. themes
It's more "Anglo Canadian" than 99% of releases but it's not exactly Goin' Down the Road.
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@MarxGasol I’m literally unprepared for this conversation in the sense that I’m not sure how we categorize a film as Anglo Canadian
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this is probably the best Anglo Canadian film but I'm not sure how ready we are to have that conversation
Lil Mosquito Disease 🏳️⚧️☭⚢@thelilmosquito
"In this family, we do not solve our problems by hitting people!" "No, in this family, we shoot them!"
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@adaroundtown I think we're glossing over the fact that it's a video podcast hosted by the primaries of a crisis communications/content strategy firm.
As a former journalist, I think it's OK for me to speculate about the exact nature of the relationship between guests/hosts.
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@AndrewJoePotter …The inclusion of SGT, also makes me think they’re interested in talking to ppl outside of politics, too. You can speculate & editorialize on X or, as a “journalist” just ask the ppl making it yourself.
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Absolutely fascinated by this new podcast by former CBC News host Travis Dhanraj and CP24 reporter/anchor Karman Wong.
Can't Be Censored is registered to Westbridge Strategies — the hosts' crisis comms/media training firm.
Some immediate questions/concerns ...
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@GarnetLollar @EricDLombardi @josephgleasure I thought the same. It's not unreasonable that people might have different thresholds for what "complete reconciliation" means — but at the very least, the TRC's 94 Calls to Action are basically codified.
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@EricDLombardi @josephgleasure Ugly, ugly look man.
If you want to seriously talk about these questions, I'm happy to schedule time for you to discuss Indigenous (capitalize it.) knowledge and reconciliation. But being this publicly awkward about it is shameful
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At the risk of pissing a lot of people on this website off, convince me that (e) is anything other than whitewashing graft.
I can promise you that no indigenous knowledge is needed to build a high speed train. It makes me wonder whose payoff is being covered for.
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It's clearly designed to eventually be a pretty seamless astroturfing op — one that will probably be used by clients of a certain political/ideological bent.
I get why a Smith or May would see value in legitimizing this, either now or down the line. But Chow? Gregoire Trudeau?
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This isn't about the hosts or their personal politics.
I'm just earnestly very curious about how all of this works. Like — Chuck Todd? WTF ... ? What does he get out of this? It can't just be narcism of being a featured guest on a frankly pretty well produced media(ish) product.
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@TheSlowBurn @anotherglassbox The Toronto music-scene-booster-page to grifter pipeline.
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@anotherglassbox I mean the page he runs is evil and he actively hates this city so that tracks.
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Honest to god, the shamelessness…IntegrityTO’s creation on the left, my original art on the right.
Dan Seljak@anotherglassbox
The folks at IntegrityTO have finally weighed in on neighbourhood retail with AI generated scenes of creepy faceless loiterers congregating outside a 7-11… Mind you the recommendation (that didn’t make it past committee) was for *corner lots*. They can’t even prompt right.
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These guys care soooo much about protecting children — but think it's outrageous that a school administrator would be on alert when an adult man with no apparent ties to the school shows up on school grounds and starts filming students.
Dan Zaksheske@RealDanZak
Skyline High School, which has a trans-identifying male on its girls volleyball team, is currently playing for a spot in the Michigan state tournament. The principal of Skyline is following me everywhere I go inside the gym.
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@dgorgan @bananafitz Our best geologists are still discovering new tunnel systems in the PATH.
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@bananafitz I don’t think you can get to Evergreen from High Park. It’s impossible
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My most unexpected surprise of #TIFF50 so far is Baz Luhrmann's EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, which he described as more of a tone poem than a trad music doc or concert film.
The archival footage and sound are astonishing.
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@anotherglassbox Yeah, I think this was the sweet spot — just beyond the back NE corner of the stadium. Also, barely any bar lines at the vendors beyond the back corner.
But all the vendors/washrooms directly to the East were packed. And there were hardly any vendors off the west side.
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I am going to fucking die in the washroom line at Rogers Stadium.
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Malcolm Gladwell is the most trusted voice in sports cultural criticism.
Andrew Joe Potter@AndrewJoePotter
As we near the thrilling conclusion of the 2018-19 season, I want to pay respect to the most ludicrous basketball take I heard all year: Malcolm Gladwell claiming South Africa-born Canadian of Welsh/British descent Steve Nash for a hypothetical diasporia-inclusive Team Nigeria.
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