Elijah 🏳️‍⚧️

AFAB - assigned fool at birth

@hellohalima I mean would the raptors have brought it within 2 after being down 19+ on two separate occasions 😭

It’s so funny cause if this was the raptors I would’ve changed the channel. But it’s the tempo and they’re a just a baby

this needs to be made illegal lmao artificially restricting supply to "stabilize" the market, aka preventing prices from dropping further and actually becoming affordable to the average person

Bro what do you mean Google calendar’s “calendars of interest” doesn’t have Toronto or Portland in their list of teams. Still!

Slim got the defense. Marina got the offense. Toronto got the Tempo. The new North stars cover SLAM 262. ⭐ slam.ly/tempo

Less than 1% of OSAP was wrongly issued. Doug Ford invented a crisis to cut student aid...then spent $30M on a private jet. Wrong priorities. Wrong premier.

@adashky @EricDLombardi @jslaterTO It also was only yesterday. Today line 2 is fully open

@EricDLombardi @jslaterTO Line 2 closure was Kipling to Jane. Inconvenient but very manageable. There were shuttle buses. Sounds like you were never going to take public transit in the first place

Way to go Toronto. Close the DVP between Jarvis and the 401, and then have a marathon on Front so nobody can access Jarvis, and then do nothing to let map applications know roads are closed. Then have all the re-routes be an extra hour because no light timing changes or traffic control is added. Oh, and then close down major parts of Line 2 and surely, Metrolinx can’t coordinate with the city either and so, let’s reduce GO Rail. Because who needs to travel north, south, east or west on Mothers Day. Because of course, we cannot expect government agencies to coordinate with each other, as if solving coordination problems isn’t a key function of government. So a 1hr drive to visit my mom I planned for 1.5hr has become nearly 2.5hr. Pure dysfunction, yet no one to hold accountable. Ontarians frustrated with the indifference of our governments towards the inconveniences they cause us, I see you. You’re right to demand higher standards.

Coco cola coliseum sounds LOUD

they told me the "mnba playoffs" are on tonight WE DO NOT CARE WE ARE WATCHING TEMPO BASKETBALL!!! #UpTheTempo

@MDBx999 @trendyhoopstars Actually I think it is meant to be a baby blue (“borealis blue”). I’m hoping it just doesn’t show up well in this pic

@trendyhoopstars Tempo missed a great opportunity for a baby blue jersey here. Two different white jerseys in your first year is kinda dumb.

The WNBA Rebel Edition jerseys are here! 🔥

hashtag kicking out transphobia by reducing our ftm player to his agab and banning trans women

Toronto sports teams looooove pricing out fans Note: these are not resale tickets! Tempo just sent out an email urging fans to get tickets before opening night tomorrow. Maybe drop the prices and you’ll actually sell out!

@TorontoTempura @chelsealeite I’m about 99% certain they would. I’m sure that would be included in the media rights deal signed by bell. They want you to tune in to TSN instead of league pass

@chelsealeite Do you know Chelsea if WNBA league pass will have blackouts for local games involving the Tempo?

We talked about this a few weeks ago on here, but this is pretty similar to how Canadians get access to the Toronto Raptors All 44 Tempo games, including the 19 US national games, will be nationally televised broadcast in Canada via TSN. Plus the playoffs and finals.

Next stop in Slovenia: the small town of Žalec, which is home to a beer fountain in the middle of its central park. Simply buy a beer glass with a chip from the nearby store, and you can tap six local beers! Fun to do, and the beers are all of excellent quality.

she is the best of us

The most revealing thing in this post is that the worker’s need to live never appears as a real business cost. VAT is real. Business rates are real. Energy bills are real. National Insurance is real. Rent is real. Beans, milk, cups, insurance, accountants, card fees, compliance, all real. But the person making the coffee needing enough money to pay rent, eat, heat their home, travel to work and not rely on state top-ups? Suddenly that is “silly socialism”. No. That is the cost of labour. If your business model depends on paying people less than they need to live, then the state is not attacking your business by demanding higher wages. The state is currently propping your business up by letting taxpayers subsidise the gap between what you pay and what your staff need to survive. That is the bit you cannot grasp, or do not want to grasp. You say businesses fail because they are unprofitable. Fine. Businesses do fail. But “I can only make a profit if my workers stay poor” is not a serious moral defence of a business. It is a confession. You say a cup of coffee has to absorb lots of costs. Yes. Welcome to business. But you are treating wages as the flexible bit that must always be squeezed so your business model survives. Nobody says, “If you can’t afford coffee beans, just get the taxpayer to provide the beans.” Nobody says, “If you can’t afford electricity, tell the staff to sit in the dark and call it prosperity.” But when the unaffordable item is the person being doing the work, suddenly everyone is supposed to become very mature and economically literate about poverty pay. You also get VAT badly muddled. VAT-registered businesses can generally reclaim VAT on goods and services bought for business use, and the VAT registration threshold is turnover above £90,000. So this line about 20% VAT and inputs not being claimable is not the killer argument you think it is. The bigger point is simpler. Workers do not get to tell landlords, supermarkets, energy firms and train companies that their boss has “compounding costs” so everyone must please wait quietly while they are paid less than a living wage. The worker’s bills have compounded too. Their rent has gone up. Their food has gone up. Their energy has gone up. Their council tax has gone up. Their travel has gone up. Funny how “proper economics” always discovers pressure when it lands on the owner, but turns into a lecture on realism when it lands on the staff. The Green proposal is £15 an hour by April 2027. The real Living Wage is already £13.45 across the UK and £14.80 in London, calculated on what people need to live, not what a struggling employer would prefer to pay. And even before that, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation found that a single working-age adult on the National Living Wage was nearly £7,000 short of the gross income needed for a minimum acceptable standard of living in 2025. So spare us the sob story that £15 is some wild Bolshevik fantasy. It is much closer to the actual cost of surviving than poverty pay dressed up as realism. You say jobs will disappear. That is always the threat. Every time wages rise, the same people emerge to announce that civilisation will collapse because a cleaner, waiter, carer or barista might be able to pay a bill without choosing which meal to skip. Yet the Low Pay Commission’s latest judgement was that recent National Living Wage increases have not had a significant negative impact on employment. That does not mean every business has no pressure. Of course small businesses are under pressure. Business rates need reform. Energy costs are brutal. Rents are often obscene. Big chains can absorb shocks that small independents cannot. But none of that proves workers should be the shock absorber. It proves the economy has been built so badly that the smallest businesses and the lowest-paid workers are set against each other while landlords, energy firms, banks and large corporations walk away with the margin. Your welfare argument is even worse. Universal Credit is explicitly available to people who are working but on low incomes, and as earnings rise, Universal Credit is tapered down. That means low wages and public spending are already linked. The taxpayer is already helping cover the living costs that low-pay employers do not meet. So when you ask “where does the money come from?”, one answer is: from the business that uses the labour. That is not extremist. That is basic decency. Profit is not ugly. Profit made by selling a product people want, paying suppliers properly, paying workers enough to live, and still having something left over is perfectly defensible. Profit made by underpaying staff and then expecting the public to top them up through benefits is not heroic enterprise. It is a business model leaning on the state while pretending to despise the state. And this “read a book” routine is always funny from people whose entire economic theory seems to be: owners must be protected from hardship, workers must be exposed to it, and taxpayers must quietly make up the difference while being lectured about socialism. A liveable wage is not a luxury add-on. It is the price of employing a human being. If a business cannot pay rent, it cannot use the building. If it cannot pay suppliers, it cannot use the stock. If it cannot pay energy bills, it cannot keep the lights on. And if it cannot pay workers enough to live, it should not expect applause for creating jobs that keep people poor.

This is probably the most common and pervasive way in which little girls are taught to prioritise men and placate them at all costs and little boys are taught that life should revolve around them as adults.

I, for one, love higher costs and worse service.

Just a little fyi for the gays: Sniffies (Match Group) works with Palantir, a tech company heavily involved with the IDF and the precision-targeting of Palestinians. In every literal sense.

That’s what public transit is