Larissa
@purlgurly.bsky.social
She/her/elle. Alto, ADHDer. Interested in politics (esp.TOpoli), stories, disability, food, knitting, geekery, cats. Unrepentant leftie in 🇨🇦
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Larissa
@purlgurly.bsky.social
· May 25
Picked up my Snaraness again this weekend, I’ve done 8 of 12 pattern repeats (although I think I’m going to add some additional repeats to make it a bit bigger than the pattern) #KnitSky
Did I hear that it's time for a Wonder Man remake? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_...
November 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Did I hear that it's time for a Wonder Man remake? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_...
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I’m doing my first Ottawa market this weekend (613flea on Nov 15, 10-4 @ Aberdeen Pavilion for anyone who also lives here ) & have to promote this thing on insta…which lead to a gently unhinged video about the first chunk of mug-underglazing, brought to you by the LOTR extended editions. Enjoy!
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I’m doing my first Ottawa market this weekend (613flea on Nov 15, 10-4 @ Aberdeen Pavilion for anyone who also lives here ) & have to promote this thing on insta…which lead to a gently unhinged video about the first chunk of mug-underglazing, brought to you by the LOTR extended editions. Enjoy!
Photo of my grandpa, William MacKinnon Large, at home in PEI - just out of high school and off to serve in WWII. ❤️
November 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Photo of my grandpa, William MacKinnon Large, at home in PEI - just out of high school and off to serve in WWII. ❤️
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The 2010s cinematic universe-serialized movie craze really caused some damage, eh?
“He’s a spy doing spy stuff!” is all audiences reasonably expect from James Bond. We don’t actually expect the Brits to give their spies generous expense accounts. This isn’t The Ipcress File.
“He’s a spy doing spy stuff!” is all audiences reasonably expect from James Bond. We don’t actually expect the Brits to give their spies generous expense accounts. This isn’t The Ipcress File.
November 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The 2010s cinematic universe-serialized movie craze really caused some damage, eh?
“He’s a spy doing spy stuff!” is all audiences reasonably expect from James Bond. We don’t actually expect the Brits to give their spies generous expense accounts. This isn’t The Ipcress File.
“He’s a spy doing spy stuff!” is all audiences reasonably expect from James Bond. We don’t actually expect the Brits to give their spies generous expense accounts. This isn’t The Ipcress File.
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Yep, studios were broken by internet nitpickers and think normal audiences would not be perfectly happy to see Different Handsome Brit walk in and say “Bond, James Bond” whilst holding onto the delusion that a Kangaroo is a Martini.
this kind of feels like freaking out over a problem that 95% of the audience is not going to have an issue with
Report: Amazon Is Struggling to Think How to Bring James Bond Back From the Dead
Daniel Craig's permanent exit in 'No Time to Die' is apparently causing issues for the next 'Bond' film.
gizmodo.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Yep, studios were broken by internet nitpickers and think normal audiences would not be perfectly happy to see Different Handsome Brit walk in and say “Bond, James Bond” whilst holding onto the delusion that a Kangaroo is a Martini.
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My last word on the matter
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
My last word on the matter
This was my first thought when I saw the $230 version - I loved my iPod socks.
in 2004, apple jokingly released a real product called ipod socks to protect ipods in your bag or pocket. you got 6 colors of knit ipod sleeves in 1 box for $28
November 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This was my first thought when I saw the $230 version - I loved my iPod socks.
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THE SOCK IS TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY DOLLARS. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
THE SOCK IS TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY DOLLARS. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Homelessness will dramatically increase in Toronto over the winter, primarily because of provincial and federal funding cuts. Because of this, Toronto's Warming Centres will not be able to meet the need.
My interview this morning with CBC Metro Morning.
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
My interview this morning with CBC Metro Morning.
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
November 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Homelessness will dramatically increase in Toronto over the winter, primarily because of provincial and federal funding cuts. Because of this, Toronto's Warming Centres will not be able to meet the need.
My interview this morning with CBC Metro Morning.
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
My interview this morning with CBC Metro Morning.
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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Obsessive devotion to continuity is the enemy of epic/mythological storytelling—especially when there are many authors involved. Whether we're talking about Star Wars, superheroes, or Bond, the answer is to nail the essence of the story and care less about making it all "fit."
Or just have him start the next film alive and well and then at some point have someone be like "Bond! I thought you got blown up!" And then have him quip "you know better than to listen to rumors," or "what can I say? That was no time to die" and then absolutely refuse to explain further
November 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Obsessive devotion to continuity is the enemy of epic/mythological storytelling—especially when there are many authors involved. Whether we're talking about Star Wars, superheroes, or Bond, the answer is to nail the essence of the story and care less about making it all "fit."
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“The office of federal Health Minister Marjorie Michel declined to comment.”
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Canada loses measles elimination status after three decades, health agency says
Canada has lost its measles elimination status after nearly three decades due to its failure to curb a year-long outbreak, the country's public health agency said on Monday.
www.reuters.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“The office of federal Health Minister Marjorie Michel declined to comment.”
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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Everything has become confidential under this government. Protected by vague, widely-encompassing exceptions like “advice to government” or “economic and other interests of Ontario.”
The Ford government refuses to release earlier assessments that found “risks to public safety from impacts of the tunnel to Highway 401 such as potential for roadway collapse” globalnews.ca/news/1151718... #onpoli
Ford government refuses to release completed work on Hwy. 401 tunnel idea | Globalnews.ca
Ontario is refusing to release already completed work on the viability of Premier Doug Ford's Highway 401 tunnel vision after signing a $9.1 million contract to study it again.
globalnews.ca
November 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Everything has become confidential under this government. Protected by vague, widely-encompassing exceptions like “advice to government” or “economic and other interests of Ontario.”
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This is absolutely infuriating. There was no reason for this to happen. Pointless illness, disability, and death. I'm so angry and so sad.
Canada expected to lose long-standing measles-elimination status on Monday, by @kkirkup.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art... via @theglobeandmail.com
Canada expected to lose long-standing measles-elimination status
If the country loses its status, public-health researchers say the return of endemic measles would carry serious health consequences
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM
This is absolutely infuriating. There was no reason for this to happen. Pointless illness, disability, and death. I'm so angry and so sad.
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Toronto can go from winter to summer or autumn to winter literally overnight. A pretty city in all the seasons. 🌸☀️🍂❄️
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Toronto can go from winter to summer or autumn to winter literally overnight. A pretty city in all the seasons. 🌸☀️🍂❄️
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The democrats commemorating the anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald by also being a sinking ship
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
The democrats commemorating the anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald by also being a sinking ship
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Out of an abundance of caution, two Warming Centres will open today at 5 p.m. Walk-ins welcome.
📍 81 Elizabeth St.
📍 885 Scarborough Golf Club Rd.
➡️ Locations: toronto.ca/warmingcentres
➡️ Daytime drop-in programs are also available across Toronto. Locations: toronto.ca/homelesshelp
📍 81 Elizabeth St.
📍 885 Scarborough Golf Club Rd.
➡️ Locations: toronto.ca/warmingcentres
➡️ Daytime drop-in programs are also available across Toronto. Locations: toronto.ca/homelesshelp
November 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Out of an abundance of caution, two Warming Centres will open today at 5 p.m. Walk-ins welcome.
📍 81 Elizabeth St.
📍 885 Scarborough Golf Club Rd.
➡️ Locations: toronto.ca/warmingcentres
➡️ Daytime drop-in programs are also available across Toronto. Locations: toronto.ca/homelesshelp
📍 81 Elizabeth St.
📍 885 Scarborough Golf Club Rd.
➡️ Locations: toronto.ca/warmingcentres
➡️ Daytime drop-in programs are also available across Toronto. Locations: toronto.ca/homelesshelp
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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Scenes at the Canadian Premier League final between Atlético Ottawa and Cavalry FC, which is underway in Ottawa. Goalkeeper Nathan Ingham is helping clear snow off the pitch.
November 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Scenes at the Canadian Premier League final between Atlético Ottawa and Cavalry FC, which is underway in Ottawa. Goalkeeper Nathan Ingham is helping clear snow off the pitch.
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Toronto, it's the first snow fall of this season and sidewalk plows will be out soon as the snow reached the 2 cm threshold for sidewalk clearing. Beginning at 7 pm, crews will begin clearing TTC stops ahead of the Monday morning commute.
November 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Toronto, it's the first snow fall of this season and sidewalk plows will be out soon as the snow reached the 2 cm threshold for sidewalk clearing. Beginning at 7 pm, crews will begin clearing TTC stops ahead of the Monday morning commute.
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"the row obscures the context that explains what is, at the heart of the matter, a political campaign against the BBC that could act as a textbook example of how to confuse and undermine the kind of journalism that is, at the very least, aiming for impartiality in a sea of spin and distortion."
The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it’s given in | Jane Martinson
The corporation should have stood up to the Telegraph, Trump and the Tories. Now, its enemies know how little it takes for it to fold, says Jane Martinson, professor of financial journalism
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
"the row obscures the context that explains what is, at the heart of the matter, a political campaign against the BBC that could act as a textbook example of how to confuse and undermine the kind of journalism that is, at the very least, aiming for impartiality in a sea of spin and distortion."
The global right has a new push on against the BBC (I had briefly hoped before clicking on the link that this was "serious and systemic" bias against trans people and other folks whose rights have been trampled because I am apparently still foolishly naive/hopeful)
Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general after accusations of ‘serious and systemic’ bias in coverage www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general after accusations of ‘serious and systemic’ bias in coverage
Davie tells staff departure was “my own decision” but it comes with the BBC preparing to apologise for the way it edited a Trump speech
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The global right has a new push on against the BBC (I had briefly hoped before clicking on the link that this was "serious and systemic" bias against trans people and other folks whose rights have been trampled because I am apparently still foolishly naive/hopeful)
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“The report found that the heaviest AI users are thought leadership writers (84%), PR/comms professionals (73%), and content marketing writers (73%).”
How can you be a thought leader when you don’t think? Fraud. Scam. Grift and nonsense!
How can you be a thought leader when you don’t think? Fraud. Scam. Grift and nonsense!
November 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
“The report found that the heaviest AI users are thought leadership writers (84%), PR/comms professionals (73%), and content marketing writers (73%).”
How can you be a thought leader when you don’t think? Fraud. Scam. Grift and nonsense!
How can you be a thought leader when you don’t think? Fraud. Scam. Grift and nonsense!
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Mamdani got 1,036,051 votes and had 108,000 volunteers. One out of ten people who voted for him also built the campaign. Amazing.
All of us olds live in constant PTSD about Obama's campaign purposefully unwinding its volunteer army in 2009.
Good news: Mamdani's team says it's doing the opposite.
All of us olds live in constant PTSD about Obama's campaign purposefully unwinding its volunteer army in 2009.
Good news: Mamdani's team says it's doing the opposite.
November 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Mamdani got 1,036,051 votes and had 108,000 volunteers. One out of ten people who voted for him also built the campaign. Amazing.
All of us olds live in constant PTSD about Obama's campaign purposefully unwinding its volunteer army in 2009.
Good news: Mamdani's team says it's doing the opposite.
All of us olds live in constant PTSD about Obama's campaign purposefully unwinding its volunteer army in 2009.
Good news: Mamdani's team says it's doing the opposite.