I teach English and write about movies (Cinema Scope, FFC, etc) and disability. Reviews editor, @HumberLitReview. Opinions all mine. qwiggles@gmail.com.
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[Applies for wheelchair ramp]
Best we can do is death
4 Dec 2022
'Retired Cpl. Christine Gauthier, who has been trying to get a wheelchair ramp installed at her home for 5 years, testified on Thurs. that a caseworker told her they could give her assisted dying, even offering to supply the MAID equipment for her' ctvnews.ca/politics/paralymp…
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In this guy’s Ontario, antisocial drug users are to be criminalized up to their first trillion dollars of income, then breathlessly glazed
Let me be clear that when it comes to public order, I will put transit riders first.
That means I’d demand cities enforce strict rules against drug use, menace, occupying multiple seats, blocking aisles, playing audio without headphones, smoking, vaping, camping, and other anti-social conduct that drives paying riders off public transit systems.
Repeat offenders should face escalating consequences up to and including involuntary solutions.
We do not have to tolerate disorder. And I’ll invest in space to help those in need at the same time.
But we should not be a culture that valorizes bad personal conduct as empathy.
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“If you’re going to be a drug user, it should be designer drugs, and if you’re going to use them, it should be in the halls of power, not the subway”
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I’m old-fashioned in the sense that I don’t believe the Premier of Ontario should be someone who looks around at people in distress on the subway car imagining all the ways he would punish them
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The aliens in DISCLOSURE DAY should have approached us in the form of AI crypto ads, to make us feel calm
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I feel it is for the best that DISCLOSURE DAY is unmistakably the work of a 79 year old who doesn’t know who Clavicular is
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Jun 12
Spielberg should’ve got Obama to deliver the last line in DISCLOSURE DAY
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Jun 12
The Tenth Commandment has never been more relevant than about the notion of writing mean things about the world’s first trillionaire in Canadian newspapers
Jun 12
The Tenth Commandment has never been more relevant or necessary than today. Malicious envy is now treated as political and moral virtue.
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Jun 11
DISCLOSURE DAY: Steven Spielberg said, “I believe in the magic of the movies and traditional local media 🥹”
A rich text, not always good but fascinating. I enjoyed it.
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Jun 10
Looks really bad, I'll be there x.com/SonyPictures/status/20…
Jun 10
Every revolution begins with a reckoning.
The Social Reckoning, a companion piece to The Social Network, is coming exclusively to theatres October 9.
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Jun 10
When you are meeting a source about the shady dealings of the Meta corporation
ALT Chris Evans under old age makeup in Avengers: Endgame
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Jun 8
Scooby is finally real!
Scooby is finally real! Meet the goodest boy in SCOOBY-DOO: ORIGINS, coming to Netflix in 2027.
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Jun 4
What Pope Leo meant was: “Palantir makes Canada Strong.”
Jun 4
PM Carney: In his recent encyclical, Pope Leo warned that the scale and speed at which AI is developing, and I quote, "Never has humanity had such power over itself." And he set the challenge of whether we would use that power for the common good.
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Jun 2
Should have just done a Burger King ad if he needed the money that badly
Jun 2
Martin Scorsese is an advisor to Black Forest Labs.
He's spent six decades shaping how the world sees stories. Now he's helping us shape visual intelligence with human taste and craft at the center.
We sat down with him for a working storyboarding session using FLUX.
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May 29
“Learn a trade” is the new “pivot to video”
May 29
Listening to a @CBCOntarioToday program about AI affecting the job market & the guest suggested to a recently laid off 61 year old caller who worked in animation his whole life that he should learn a trade. This is seriously the most out of touch bullshit I’ve ever heard
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May 29
Seduced by the search engine that doesn’t know how many weekdays have the letter “d” in them
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May 27
The RAM inflation crisis is just the natural cost for me to prompt Claude to generate 8000 hot takes about Cannes from Toronto
May 27
Valve just raised Steam Deck prices in the US 🎮
• 1TB OLED $649 ➡️ $949
• 512GB OLED $549 ➡️ $789
"these new prices reflect the current state of component costs and other global logistical challenges across the industry as a whole"
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May 27
There’s an account out there with whom I share 77 mutuals and 100% of their last hundred or so posts are pure Claude-slop
ALT Text: “The Palme d'Or used to critique traditional institutions. Patriarchal families. Authoritarian states. Oppressive churches. But Cannes 2026 went somewhere different. Fjord critiques progressivism itself. And it's divisive for a reason.”
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May 27
Surely this is not a lucrative grift, so what’s the point?
ALT Text: “Here's what makes it uncomtortable: you don't just watch this happen. Mungiu's camera forces you to realize you're doing exactly what the system does. Interpreting ordinary moments through a frame of suspicion. You become complicit. The film suggests something most cinema avoids: that progressive institutions can demonize faith the way they claim not to demonize anything. Through procedure. Through certainty. Through benevolence. At a moment when competing certainties claim authority over everything, the film asks: what if moral certainty itself— whatever form it takes—is the real enemy?”
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May 27
Going to have to go to smiling and normal human affect school I’m afraid. Ten more years of Ford I’m afraid.
May 27
I’m running to restore the Ontario deal.
Ontario used to lead. Let’s lead again.
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Je me présente pour rétablir le pacte de l’Ontario.
L’Ontario était autrefois leader. Reprenons les devants.
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Ontario Liberal Party running a steady stream of lizards and serpents as their leaders, then completely disappearing between elections
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