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I think I went to school with Authenticity Brackets.

I'm also turned off by the way it talks to me like I'm such a smart and special boy who is full of the most inCREDible and vALuAbLE iNsIgHtS, and that all I ever need to do is slightly tweak whatever I'm proposing and it's perfect and genius.

That's not how editing works. That's manipulation.

So late in the season!

Hope the neighbours like Boney M.

"a drink ordered in honor of Charlie Kirk"

Careful, a publisher might run with that. (The first 50 attendees will be cursed live and in person by the author's very shade!)

Where else are the upmarket oysters meant to drink?

I also worry about a dangerous cultural meme around the idea of the intuitive genius who doesn't NEED to succeed in school. (Which sometimes works out okay if you are born rich, but seems to lead an awful lot of middle-class boys into their patents' basements.)

This is one of the most e x c r u c I a t i n g things about talking to armchair urban planning experts.

"Well the train line should never have been built there."

Well it was! In 1962! And we're not going to demolish half the city to fix it now!

Weeping in bathroom stall, holding a lighter under a spoon with a half-melted minifig.

You were expecting a six-volume treatise from a microblogging service?

I don't think this man knows how rideshares work.

"Property tax guys", as if it's two middle-aged men with scowls and a baseball bat.

Sumach Expresso is a pretty nice place, too!

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3. The NDP are not clearly a labour party. They certainly profess to be, and they enjoy the support of many of English Canada's unions, but statistically speaking, the average Canadian union member is likelier to vote Conservative than NDP. The base of the NDP is mostly urban progressives.

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2. The NDP, Greens and Liberals don't actually have much demographic overlap. Something made VERY apparent in 2025 is that a lot of voters are actually NDP/Conservative switchers. (In part because the Liberals don't always have a ton of credibility with rural/smalltown voters.)

I like to imagine them as fictional characters.

Elmwood Transcona, the nerdiest kid in middle school.

Burlington North, a noir detective who just can't trust a dame.

Pickering Brooklin, a WWII flying ace with a killer moustache.

Middlesex London, a husband-and-wife law firm who get results.