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dallaninvictus.bsky.social
tisane al-gaib
@dallaninvictus.bsky.social
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Canadian tech/regulatory lawyer and recovering goth. Feed may contain current events, tech unrelated to my job, soccer (Whitecaps/Canada/Spurs), and assorted geekery.

YYC -> YEG -> YOW

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dallaninvictus.bsky.social
Weird, I'm on PC browser and mobile/TV Androids, I wouldn't have thought they'd be ahead of anyone on Apple TV features

hope yours gets it soon then!
Screenshot of an MLS result from the Apple TV Android app, showing the Recap button and Watch for a full replay Screenshot of an MLS result from the Apple TV Android TV app, showing the Recap button and Watch for a full replay Screenshot of an MLS result from the Apple TV website on OC, showing the Recap button and a play icon for a full replay
October 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
dallaninvictus.bsky.social
hoping this "the price disappears shortly after loading a book page on the Kobo store" thing is a mobile rendering bug rather than a deliberate choice because it's rather annoying while trying to decide what's a deep enough discount to jump on

(I don't adblock on mobile Chrome so it isn't that)
a screenshot of the Kobo bookstore website showing the issue described in the post - the price of the book has vanished
October 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
dallaninvictus.bsky.social
oh I assure you we don't want to deal with this version of LAFC either

though with all that history AND a playoff atmosphere AND the twin New Signing Bounces, if everyone is healthy it'll be a spectacle for the neutral

I will just be watching through my hands

www.mlssoccer.com/news/vancouv...
No one will want to deal with this version of LAFC in the postseason… except, perhaps, the aforementioned Whitecaps, who’ve seen several tournament runs cruelly crushed by Bouanga & Co. over the past few years.
September 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
dallaninvictus.bsky.social
It's not quite Spurs qualifying for the CL despite a 17th place league finish but I do enjoy that it's happened twice this year, even if it was for the Galaxy

magic of the cups indeed
A photo from CONCACAF celebrating the Los Angeles Galaxy's qualification for the CONCACAF Champions Cup through their third place finish in the Leagues Cup
September 1, 2025 at 1:06 AM
dallaninvictus.bsky.social
thank you from the bottom of my heart for alerting me to this masterpiece

(the rest of the piece and indeed the series is great too)
A screenshotted tweet from the official Colorado Rapids account reading "us watching the USMNT twitter crash out" dated 7:01 pm Eastern Time on 20 August 2025
August 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
dallaninvictus.bsky.social
The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature

you go girl, but also the brains that came up with this scheme and also RESPOND so fiercely to it over the simpler alternative of just...taking and sending said sexy photos without the intermediary platform need to be studied for science
screenshot of a post by Dan Savage reading: "Hi Dan. I am a 46 year-old, married, bi woman in a monogamish marriage for almost 20 years, and we've closed it up for a few reasons just lately. One of the things that I was struggling with was just low libido. I'm 46 and I think I'm starting to dip my toe into menopause. So he's very attracted to me- treats me like I'm his ideal woman, physically. And he's an almost 50-year-old unicorn, so it's hard to keep up with him. So what I decided to do was create an OnlyFans account where I'm a creator and I post. I made my subscription rate really high so that nobody would want to subscribe to me, except for my husband. So he's my only subscriber, and I bought a whole kit to take photos, so I've been able to take these really sexy photos, and I post them, and I cater to his kinks in these posts. And it's been really fun. It's really revved up my libido, and he is, like crazy over me, like, even more so than normal. But then I
August 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
dallaninvictus.bsky.social
same goes for Olukemi (nee Adegoke) Badenoch, for whom the days of "them having her back" are rapidly coming to a close in favour of "them stabbing her back"

(www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...)
“While the idea of Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke Badenoch was always deeply seductive to a certain kind of Tory,” the former academic and Reform mouthpiece Matt Goodwin wrote in February, unsubtly implying that Badenoch is not British by using her full name, “The idea of Kemi Badenoch is definitely not igniting the same reaction out there in the wider country.” The optimism that marked an older generation of Conservatives like Fraser Nelson and boosterish Tory leaders like Johnson has given way in certain parts of the right to an astral pessimism about Britain, its demographics and its future. There is a deep pathos to Badenoch’s slow-motion retreat into herself, refusing to face the reality of her position. “She tries to keep everyone together and they stab her in the back,” said her former staffer. “You think you belong. You think you are attached to this institution. But it’s full of backstabbers.”
July 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
dallaninvictus.bsky.social
five years after I wrote this (and this is only half that thread, I was Big Mad) the city and Council appear no closer to realising the actual problem

lucky for me specifically that I have spent 80+ per cent of that time working from home
Why go with the SNC-led bid despite iffy technical scores? The sexy answer is bribes but nobody here is that interesting. They were cheaper! Why plan to layoff 100s of drivers and not replace their buses as they aged? Cheaper! Why schedule with no slack time/capacity? Guess! Why build stations open to the air in a city with awful winters and copious rain? Must I really go on? All the coverage has been about how much we spent on a "lemon" but the dirty secret is that doing it properly would almost certainly have cost EVEN MORE! The second coming of Baron Haussmann couldn't make OC Transpo work in this spread out city with this published schedule and the number of drivers and buses available to it on the budget that taxpayers and the farebox provide. Until Ottawans can confront this fact with open eyes and elect a city council that is prepared to do the same, OC Transpo will always be terrible regardless of the efforts of front line staff. Fire Manconi if you want. But we get managers like him because this city is in denial.
June 3, 2025 at 10:52 PM
dallaninvictus.bsky.social
regretting to learn that the UK is falling to the brain worms
The Maximum Canada thesis (h/t to @DougSaunders) is the only way any Anglosphere culture avoids being assimilated by various American brain worms in the long run. Even the UK probably isn't immune but between their own size and history they have a bit more of a fighting chance.
June 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
dallaninvictus.bsky.social
oh, right, I should explain my thinking

basically, Doomscrolling Serendipity Strikes Again
A screenshot of a Bluesky feed, featuring a post of the above Joni Ernst video followed by a post reading "This is what happens when you build your politics around online radicalism outbidding instead of results, children:"
May 31, 2025 at 9:52 PM
dallaninvictus.bsky.social
in this vein, my favourite and seemingly obscure example of the genre
A screenshot of the New York Times article: An Unobtrusive Man's Odyssey: Polite Student to Suicide Hijacker By STEVEN ERLANGER SEPT. 15, 2001 He was diligent. He was polite. He had, until quite recently, a taste for black jeans and a liking for a hangout here called Sharky's Billiard Bar, which calls itself "The Bar With Mega-Possibilities." But Mohammed Atta, 33, was not what he long appeared to his teachers at the Technical
May 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM
dallaninvictus.bsky.social
If the Crusader Kings 3 devs can pull all of this off then All Under Heaven will be as massive an injection of flavour to the game as Asian cuisines are to food

and even if they don't quite nail it we'll still have the new map

look at it, it's beautiful

forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/develo...
May 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
dallaninvictus.bsky.social
there has to be a word for the kind of bizarre reverse serendipity that puts posts like these together

yes, everything is Content now, unfortunately
Three posts on Bluesky. The first reads: "One thing I think every "Red Storm Rising for the 21st Century" wannabe Sino-American War book I've read doesn't reckon enough with how we live in a world where everything is Content now. No, IDK how to approach it, but it feels important even if only to note its absence and why." The second reads: *Reality TV show where Trump regime officials compete not to spend the rest of their lives in foreign prisons" and quotes The Daily Beast saying: "Kristi Noem has been working with the producer of "Duck Dynasty" to pitch a reality TV show-titled "The American"-where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges across the country "for the honor of fast-tracking their way to US citizenship," according to new report."
May 16, 2025 at 1:45 AM
dallaninvictus.bsky.social
a picture of a suited-up Bugs Bunny, his forehead caressing a golden pistol in grim determination. The famed hare was in a bad way: "Lord Forgive Me...Time to Go Back to Tha Old Me."
May 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
dallaninvictus.bsky.social
̶e̶n̶r̶a̶g̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶ fascinating
"As Don Moynihan writes, “There is more immigration in the UK than there was pre-Brexit but people are no longer worried about it. What happened? Media and political framing of immigration as a problem to be solved disappeared post-Brexit, and so did public opposition." Moynihan cites two charts (data from here) that show an extremely sudden divergence between actual immigration levels and public concern, once the Daily Mail stopped talking about it:" A graph showing annual immigration to the uk only sometimes correlated with % of brits saying immigration is one of the most important issues A graph showing% of daily mail print articles mentioning immigration closely correlated with the % of brits saying immigration is one of the most important issues
May 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
dallaninvictus.bsky.social
You had my curiosity but now, now you have my attention
A quote from the Hollywood Reporter as follows: "In Patel's hands, the setting has been changed from its Italian setting and the character's Pope-connected backstory to an India that is colorfully vibrant and almost mystical. The producers are also hoping the feature can launch a franchise."
April 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
dallaninvictus.bsky.social
my mistake, he was a first round draft pick

Tate Johnson, take a bow son #ConcaChampions
some second round draft pick out of Directional State University who once gloated about packing a Messi for his FUT team now also gets to gloat about pocketing actual Messi this will happen at least once and the prospect is worth whatever contribution the rest of the league made
April 25, 2025 at 4:43 AM
dallaninvictus.bsky.social
Between this from Matt Levine's summary of the below article, and some recent Costco Discourse, is our capitalists learning?

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Japanese-style kaizen meetings, in which people up and down the hierarchy find ways to improve the business. "Our job is to find good companies that we can make a lot better," Stavros says. "Because how could we say we're optimizing a business if 40% of the workers are quitting every year?" If making companies a lot better requires making their bosses a lot nicer, then, in its ruthless pursuit of profits, KKR will just have to do that.
April 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
dallaninvictus.bsky.social
Paul Wells doing Paul Wells shit (unpaywalled this time) about another attempt to spin up controversy about the insidest of inside baseball

also, today's unsettling reminder that Pierre Poilievre is only very slightly older than me

open.substack.com/pub/paulwell...
Many more people may struggle to real from fake," the report says. This opens public debates up to "new vulnerabilities to attacks from malicious actors." Indeed, "Authoritarian or anti-government movements may grow when trust is low." To me, this is no more certain a future than the global war or the homemade bioweapons. All that's needed to avoid it is an outbreak of good faith and reasonably minimal standards in our democratic discourse. One thing we could hope, for instance, is that a 45-year-old man aspiring to high elected office would resist the urge to engage in the cheapest flim-flam to distract from the fact that his numbers don't add up.
April 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
dallaninvictus.bsky.social
terrible for our country, of course, but tremendous content
A tweet dated 29 November 2022, reading as follows: "I am concerned that the leopards ate MY face" laments departing founder of the United Leopards Eating People's Faces Party"
April 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
dallaninvictus.bsky.social
regretting to advise that the only thing preventing Doug Ford from becoming PM in a landslide is his clear and consuming desire to be Mayor of Toronto instead, and realising he can continue running Toronto despite its residents by simply going over their heads to voters in the rest of the province
Headline from the Toronto Star reading as follows: Insiders say Pierre Poilievre called Doug Ford for 'advice' - but the premier said he'll be 'staying out' of the election The premier told him he would be too busy governing Ontario, the Star has learned.
March 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
dallaninvictus.bsky.social
after over eight hours of work spread across three consecutive days, and at least two blood sacrifices IT'S ALIVE
March 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
dallaninvictus.bsky.social
maybe this answer is under the paywall but the Tories won over two thirds of the seats: what on EARTH were his electoral expectations?
March 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
dallaninvictus.bsky.social
From the latest Guardian Football Daily (https://www.theguardian.com/football/series/footballdaily):

actually precisely one referee in the best part of three decades has given a flying one about the six second rule AND I AM STILL NOT OVER IT TYVM
And trials allowing goalkeepers to hold the ball for eight seconds instead of six are progressing positively towards a law change in the future, according to Ifab, despite the fact that no referee appears to have given a flying one about this rule for the best part of three decades.
February 28, 2025 at 6:42 PM
dallaninvictus.bsky.social
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February 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM