Peter Janes
peterjanes.ca
Peter Janes
@peterjanes.ca
peterj is just zis guy, you know? (he/him)

Here to interact with folks who prefer Bluesky, but I'm mostly on the fediverse as @me@peterjanes.ca (@mastodon.peterjanes.ca in this app)
Time to plug another Canadian tradition: CBC's Christmas Eve rebroadcast of Alan Maitland reading "The Shepherd" by Frederick Forsythe. (It's online at www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha... if you can't listen live during As It Happens — which is an institution of its own — at 6:30 local time tomorrow night.)
'Fireside' Al Maitland reads Frederick Forsyth's The Shepherd | CBC Radio
The year is 1957. An RAF pilot is heading home from Germany for Christmas. Fog sets in, and all radio communication is lost.
www.cbc.ca
December 24, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Could probably do a video of similar length with just his oblivious self-owns.

Similar but different: I think the two-line exchange at 31s of this video from The Simpsons may be the hardest I ever laughed at the show. (It starts a bit early just for context.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmxD...
December 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Of or by? (Would be good either way.)
December 20, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I'll bet @electrolemon.bsky.social knows about this, but if not...
December 9, 2025 at 7:42 PM
It's been four hours and no one has responded to this with the "Homer disappearing into a bush" meme video yet?
December 8, 2025 at 4:50 AM
When I moved to my current place from the other tower in the complex I figured it would be easy; I wouldn't even have to go outside, so why would I "pack" for the move? 827 trips down the hall, down the elevator, across the commercial area, up the elevator, and down the hall later...
November 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Without Bea Arthur, is there even any point?
November 27, 2025 at 6:08 AM
I'm surprised Lucy would willingly try to catch snowflakes in her mouth, knowing that they come out of the ground "just like the flowers".
November 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Freeze-Frame by J. Geils Band. No idea why.

First song I got REALLY into that I'm still into? @alyankovic.bsky.social's I Lost on Jeopardy!, natch. (I can—and will—do Don Pardo's part verbatim, in character, at the drop of a hat.)
November 19, 2025 at 3:38 AM
I recently started reading a novel I'd seen recommended on here, and its epigraph quoted Loeb (of whom I mostly know by reputation). Hard to continue after that.
November 18, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Taskmaster is worth an exception. Unless he's studying for your future trials...
November 18, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Yeah, like seeing Hamlet without "To be &c."
November 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The Scottish play tonight, then? Loved the smoke and mirrors. (I was at Here for Now Theatre a few blocks away to see Pandora; amazing show.)
November 16, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Alt text: "Say no to generative AI art – buy art from real degenerates" written in white capital letters on a black square, followed by creator Joe Wos's signature. (A black Sharpie marker lies diagonally across the top left corner.)

Source (Wos's Facebook post): www.facebook.com/story.php?st...
Joe Wos
#noaiart #ai #noai
www.facebook.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I've been in meetings where it's been used both ways; which meaning was generally clear from context. Can't say which side of the Canada/US border those who used it were from offhand, but I think I'd personally tend to the first interpretation. (southwestern Ontario, Canada)
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Blinky, Inky, Pinky, and Clyde are cowering in their box.
October 31, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Word.
October 30, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Hope you (and 🐦) have two more of these in the tank.
October 29, 2025 at 3:31 AM
You have no rights, but you can scream (which, in Ellison's original, featured AM).
October 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM