Caz Spidell
@elcaz.bsky.social
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sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
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You know what they say about competent authoritarians: the train ran on time
If you just cancel flights, then they're actually not late! Brilliant stuff from Sean Duffy here
November 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
You know what they say about competent authoritarians: the train ran on time
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I wrote an op-ed on what I think about the fight for local neighbourhood retail (and the grousing about Badiali's) means for the urban vision of Toronto. Gift link here: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
When even the humble corner store is impossible to open in Toronto, it’s a sign of something deeply wrong
We need to accept that Toronto is now a big city.
www.thestar.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I wrote an op-ed on what I think about the fight for local neighbourhood retail (and the grousing about Badiali's) means for the urban vision of Toronto. Gift link here: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Something is extremely frustrating about a bad policy being defended as good because it assuages some people's fears of the Boogeyman.
Economists have boatloads of evidence that rent control damages cities, and hence Mamdani's plans for it are disastrous. But there's also an argument (with some data) that rent control defuses the political resistance to new housing--it defangs NIMBYism (at least somewhat).
November 5, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Something is extremely frustrating about a bad policy being defended as good because it assuages some people's fears of the Boogeyman.
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Givin’g ‘em the ol’ razzle dazzle.
November 2, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Givin’g ‘em the ol’ razzle dazzle.
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When I was a kid and I was tired, my dad would tell me that my eyes looked like “two piss holes in a snowbank.“
I always remember that line when I see Blake Snell.
I always remember that line when I see Blake Snell.
October 30, 2025 at 1:31 AM
When I was a kid and I was tired, my dad would tell me that my eyes looked like “two piss holes in a snowbank.“
I always remember that line when I see Blake Snell.
I always remember that line when I see Blake Snell.
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get this man some nasty soup
October 30, 2025 at 12:31 AM
get this man some nasty soup
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I’m sick of sharing this link so help me bury the NIMBY opposition to cute neighbourhood shops! They just put a petition with a measly 209 signatures into the record to kill—not modify, kill—this small step towards maybe having corner stores again
Let’s tell them what we want: c.org/fYSGWfvYJv
Let’s tell them what we want: c.org/fYSGWfvYJv
Sign the Petition
Save Finch Store/Martin Cafe and Protect TO Neighbourhood Retail
c.org
October 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I’m sick of sharing this link so help me bury the NIMBY opposition to cute neighbourhood shops! They just put a petition with a measly 209 signatures into the record to kill—not modify, kill—this small step towards maybe having corner stores again
Let’s tell them what we want: c.org/fYSGWfvYJv
Let’s tell them what we want: c.org/fYSGWfvYJv
There's something, I'm not sure it's truly irony, about Jon Hamm becoming a regular pitchman.
October 28, 2025 at 1:39 AM
There's something, I'm not sure it's truly irony, about Jon Hamm becoming a regular pitchman.
Tungsten Arm ass home run
October 25, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Tungsten Arm ass home run
Good morning. Today, the Toronto Blue Jays play in game one of the World Series.
October 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Good morning. Today, the Toronto Blue Jays play in game one of the World Series.
Rereading V for Vendetta for... reasons, and I had completely forgotten that the fascist overlord is in love with/worships a predictive chatbot.
October 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Rereading V for Vendetta for... reasons, and I had completely forgotten that the fascist overlord is in love with/worships a predictive chatbot.
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the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
October 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
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At Yonge & Dundas Jays fans are obeying the pedestrian scramble, as is the custom & returning to sidewalk each light cycle.
October 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
At Yonge & Dundas Jays fans are obeying the pedestrian scramble, as is the custom & returning to sidewalk each light cycle.
That has basically the Blue Jays' Zack Britton Ubaldo Jiménez moment
October 18, 2025 at 1:13 AM
That has basically the Blue Jays' Zack Britton Ubaldo Jiménez moment
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Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.
Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...
Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...
October 15, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.
Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...
Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...
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A+ headline, no notes.
You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned
You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned
Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists
The pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires.
Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance Minds International. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
A+ headline, no notes.
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CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
October 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
This is messed up. We used to be a proper country.
October 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
This is messed up. We used to be a proper country.
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Broken Eggs, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1756
October 6, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Broken Eggs, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1756
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This is art.
October 3, 2025 at 11:35 PM
This is art.
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Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
October 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
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Generals gathered in their masses/ to listen to this fucking jackass
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered hundreds of generals to travel on short notice from around the world to hear him make a short speech on military standards and the “warrior ethos.”
New details emerge on Hegseth’s unusual mass gathering of top brass
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has summoned hundreds of generals for what is expected to be a short lecture on the “warrior ethos.” But top brass is bracing for possible firings or demotions.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Generals gathered in their masses/ to listen to this fucking jackass