|
Terry McDonald@pterrymc.bsky.social |
33 followers 123 following 38 posts
Curiouser and curiouser. Re-posts are not endorsements but may suggest I’m feeling fight-y.
|
My IRL friends call me Chris
@christyceeck.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Doug Ford steals from children.
"Dozens of high school students from across the province who had hoped to spend a semester learning at the Ontario Science Centre have been told they won’t get that chance after the building was suddenly closed last month." #OnPoli
2 replies 3 reposts 7 likes
|
Neil Lewis, Jr.
@neillewisjr.bsky.social
[ View ] |
This meme is relevant again.
15 replies 398 reposts 1266 likes
|
☕️ Jeremy Diamond
@dmnd.me
[ View ] |
Nick Offerman doing 30 seconds as Ron Swanson telling everyone about the parks plan, that a vote for Trump is a vote to sell our national parks to the highest bidder, and sending them to a URL to learn more would kill with this crowd
1 replies 1 reposts 10 likes
|
Maladroithe
@maladroithe.bsky.social
[ View ] |
France dropkicked a baldly fascist political coalition out of office, imo if we can’t manage to do the same we should give back the Statue of Liberty
10 replies 248 reposts 1131 likes
|
Mike Boylan-Kolchin
@mbkplus.bsky.social
[ View ] |
He doesn’t even bother to disavow Project 2025’s aims, but the fact that they’re shying away from direct association with it demonstrates that it’s a vulnerability. If the press is looking for something new and substantive to report on, they could start with the dystopia that these folks want for us
4 replies 73 reposts 225 likes
|
@jiminnh.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I'm going to end up sharing this everywhere, but look how easily it *could* be done donmoynihan.substack.com/p/troubling-...
11 replies 138 reposts 350 likes
|
Jen Donohue
@authorizedmusings.bsky.social
[ View ] |
today is my NINETEEN YEAR anniversary working at my local library In honor of that, I ask you to get a card to your local public library today! If you ALREADY have a card to your local public library, check out their digital resources! Their summer programs! And yeah, they have books too.
84 replies 277 reposts 1546 likes
|
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)
@brainnotonyet.bsky.social
[ View ] |
The “it is inevitable” discourse is designed to disempower actual pushback and demoralize voters to turn away or give up on democratic processes and voting. As much as it may seem like things have fully collapsed. Winning the election keeps options on the table that give us actual power to stop this
4 replies 45 reposts 153 likes
|
Linda Holmes
@lindaholmes.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Holy moly. What is going on over there is grim.
12 replies 79 reposts 476 likes
|
Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
[ View ] |
It's pretty interesting what the media decides is front page news and what they don't decide is front page news! Trump being a child sex abuser with close connections to Jeffrey Epstein somehow doesn't merit the same coverage as "unnamed Dem insider has concerns about Biden's age"
20 replies 277 reposts 738 likes
|
Tim Carvell
@timcarvell.bsky.social
[ View ] |
For about the millionth time, I’ll just say — having a public editor who could ask people how this happened and lay it out for readers would actually make the paper look better than fucking up this badly and then walking away from it without saying a word.
7 replies 63 reposts 317 likes
|
Daniel Radosh
@radosh.bsky.social
[ View ] |
And I’ll add for the millionth time that one of the reasons the times said it didn’t need a public editor anymore was because it was now responsive to readers on social media — and then immediately began categorically dismissing any criticism on social media
6 replies 52 reposts 234 likes
|
Kameron Hurley
@kameronhurley.bsky.social
[ View ] |
This is the explicit goal of an astonishing amount of paid (and paid for!) propaganda out there. If you're feeling voting doesn't matter, maybe consider why it is so many people are spending so much money, time, effort and ad space trying to convince you not to.
8 replies 174 reposts 428 likes
|
|
Terry McDonald
@pterrymc.bsky.social
[ View ] |
We visited a pub on Skye in 2010, and I was astounded to see the bartender throw a bucket of coal on the fire. It felt like going back in time.
0 replies 0 reposts 3 likes
|
|
My IRL friends call me Chris
@christyceeck.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Doug Ford is stealing from children.
Ontario Science Centre. Ontario Place. Not for kids, for cronies.
Former students of the school operated out of Ontario Science Centre are reminiscing about their experiences, following its closure.
"I just want to cry after hearing the news."
#OnPoli
1 replies 3 reposts 7 likes
|
|
Terry McDonald
@pterrymc.bsky.social
[ View ] |
The Dolly Parton’s America podcast series had an episode focussed on her relationship with the LGBTQ community. In it, bluegrass musician Justin Hiltner covered her songs, and he was amazing. Really worth checking out. There’s so much more going on than the schlock that’s being played commercially.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Ranger Frog
@rangerfrog.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I just finished calling my senators and representative. It took me maybe 15 minutes, including looking up their phone numbers. Take the time to give yours a call. If you hate phone calls, make a script for yourself first and then just read it.
4 replies 57 reposts 130 likes
|
|
Terry McDonald
@pterrymc.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Sent the link along to Duff.
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
My IRL friends call me Chris
@christyceeck.bsky.social
[ View ] |
"In my memory, the overriding feeling of entering Children’s Village was of an exhilarating, perhaps even slightly scary freedom. The world under the iconic orange canopy was capacious enough that you always felt as if there were undiscovered corners" Doug Ford is stealing from children.
0 replies 1 reposts 7 likes
|
Mitchell Epner
@mitchellepner.bsky.social
[ View ] |
For the same reason handlers of search & rescue dogs occasionally have volunteers put themselves in a position to be "found" alive in a grim disaster scene -- to keep up morale so that these dogs keep working -- I give you this screen shot from the BOP showing the current location of Steve Bannon.
34 replies 184 reposts 941 likes
|
Micah
@rincewind.run
[ View ] |
brought the four year old to a public splash pad this afternoon and he had a blast and so did every other kid there anyway sometimes I think about the people who filled in or drained public pools rather than allow them to be used by kids of a different race and just how fucking evil that is
18 replies 92 reposts 800 likes
|
|
Terry McDonald
@pterrymc.bsky.social
[ View ] |
If only so we can have a pizza parlour named Za Za Gabor’s.
1 replies 0 reposts 3 likes
|
Jackie Barbosa
@jackiebarbosa.bsky.social
[ View ] |
If anyone wants to understand why Mexico has such problems with corruption, it's LITERALLY because their Constitution actually PROHIBITS prosecuting presidents, sitting or retired. That has meant Mexican presidents can and thus generally do whatever they want, legal or not.
2 replies 94 reposts 442 likes
|
David Slack
@slack2thefuture.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Gorsuch is sitting in Merrick Garland’s seat. Barrett’s confirmation was rushed through two weeks before an election. Kavanaugh is a credibly accused rapist with magically disappearing debts. Alito signals he’s not impartial. Thomas takes bribes. This Supreme Court is illegitimate.
8 replies 69 reposts 252 likes
|
southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Over the weekend, one of the major party presidential candidates promoted the idea of trying a former congresswoman for treason with televised military tribunals, and I’ll bet you haven’t seen a news article—much less a catastrophizing op-ed—about it.
20 replies 303 reposts 1080 likes
|
DaveAnthony
@daveanthony.bsky.social
[ View ] |
It's still beyond belief that Democrats have not turned the Federalist Society into villains the way Republicans did to Acorn.
5 replies 11 reposts 84 likes
|
KJ Charles
@kjcharleswriter.com
[ View ] |
I trust Brits thinking 'it's a foregone conclusion so why bother to vote' are watching events in France and the US. It is *never* a foregone conclusion and you *always* have to vote against the bad people because they will sure as shit vote against you.
9 replies 144 reposts 473 likes
|
|
Terry McDonald
@pterrymc.bsky.social
[ View ] |
There’s no such thing as a bad carrot cake. It’s good, better, or sublime.
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Comfortably Numb
@numb.comfortab.ly
[ View ] |
Convicted felon appoints judges who rule it's ok for him to do crimes.
8 replies 144 reposts 560 likes
|
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.bsky.social
[ View ] |
"Unelected right-wing justices, all of whom have a lifetime position, have pulled off what is likely the biggest power grab in American history, knowing full well there’s no way that the other two branches can get it together enough to stop them." -- @snipy.bsky.social
15 replies 86 reposts 339 likes
|
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
[ View ] |
john roberts would crumble into tears and dust at the first real television attack ad on him and i think dem aligned superPACs should at least do some focus testing on exactly that
18 replies 53 reposts 345 likes
|
Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I really have lost my former tolerance for "we're doomed/fucked/it's all over/they've won" takes at this point, in that they're the most dangerous attitudes one could possibly have when confronted with a truly existential political threat (which we still DO have levers to address).
59 replies 418 reposts 1568 likes
|
|
Terry McDonald
@pterrymc.bsky.social
[ View ] |
There are a lot of smart, otherwise thoughtful people being deliberately obtuse or performing mental gymnastics about the impact of using respirator masks. It’s demoralizing.
1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Terry McDonald
@pterrymc.bsky.social
[ View ] |
That was exactly the one they quoted. I was reminded of it when watching The Inbestigators w/ my kid. when the kids who’ve misplaced their sun hats have to spend recess under a shelter.
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Terry McDonald
@pterrymc.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I recall Aussie cousins visiting in the 1980s, and they were much more sun conscious than we Canadians were at the time. They talked about advertising campaigns about it.
1 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
|
Terry McDonald
@pterrymc.bsky.social
[ View ] |
This is what I can’t understand about the O&G industry. If they’d reinvested in solar, rather than spending so much money on lobbying, propaganda, and finding new ways to utterly destroy the environment, they’d still be making money hand over fist.
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Zeynep Arsel 🍉
@zeyneparsel.bsky.social
[ View ] |
They’re trying to literally criminalize mask wearing in USA and able bodied white “liberal” opinion leaders are publicly wondering if masks are even that effective Tell me this is not a choice one deliberately makes
10 replies 77 reposts 303 likes
|
|
Terry McDonald
@pterrymc.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I think it’s also hard to dictate what people are doing outside of their working hours.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Terry McDonald
@pterrymc.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Last week there was the story about the production of the latest Knives Out movie being held up by Glenn Close’s COVID infection. Preventative measures would save a lot of money…
1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Terry McDonald
@pterrymc.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Have you read cartoonist Al Jaffee’s biography? There are strong parallels. www.amazon.com/Al-Jaffees-M...
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Terry McDonald
@pterrymc.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Mind boggling.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Sara Hastings-Simon
@shastingssimon.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I understand why companies don't want to be regulated but I don't understand why individuals think that their interests will be better protected by companies than governments.
2 replies 7 reposts 30 likes
|
|
Terry McDonald
@pterrymc.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I cannot be fooled into thinking that is a cat rather than an owl.
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Dr Eleanor Janega
@goingmedieval.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Childcare? No. Equal pay? No. Seeing us as actual people with rich inner lives as important as any man's? LMAO oh my god lol, no. I will terrorise your trans friends though. You are welcome.
4 replies 18 reposts 172 likes
|
|
My IRL friends call me Chris
@christyceeck.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Let's let beloved institutions like the Science Centre rot. Let's degrade healthcare & education. To buy votes.
"The annual $120 licence plate renewal fee, which brought $1.1 billion into the provincial coffers each year, was scrapped by Premier Doug Ford ahead of the 2022 general election" #OnPoli
1 replies 3 reposts 5 likes
|
|
My IRL friends call me Chris
@christyceeck.bsky.social
[ View ] |
The sudden closure of a landmark Ontario attraction -- a really special place -- loved by multiple generations should be a scandal. It's shameless. It's like a crime.
2 replies 8 reposts 27 likes
|
Sue Gowans
@sueinnovates.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Please consider signing this letter to indicate your concern about closing the ON Science Centre.
act.newmode.net/action/evide...
2 replies 28 reposts 32 likes
|
|
Terry McDonald
@pterrymc.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I do recall being pleasantly surprised by the movie Afterglow that part of it was set in the building.
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Dr. Lucky Tran
@luckytran.bsky.social
[ View ] |
New York City's libraries can't fix broken A/C during a heatwave, subways have halted making more stations accessible, but instead of trying to fix these critical problems, the Mayor is focused on a useless mask ban that doesn't improve safety, and in reality makes it worse.
3 replies 41 reposts 113 likes
|
Canada Truth
@canadatruth.org
[ View ] |
Deniers and profiteers are vastly overrepresented in the media, giving an outsize impression of their reach. In reality, the world is overwhelmingly united in the desire for bold action to address the climate crisis quickly.
0 replies 28 reposts 65 likes