Bryan Heal

HOLY CRAP, SCOTTIE BARNES BLOCK ON JALEN GREEN. One of the Raptors plays of the year.

This is as good as everyone says it is, and to me it’s not really about losing the money, which most gamblers do; it’s about how gambling changed Coppins, and changed his relationship with the people around him. A perfectly executed piece.

Two G.O.A.Ts 🐐

Road trips down +30% and air travel down 18% from this time last year.

Solid progress Canada, but we can still go harder. 🇨🇦 #elbowsup

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🧪💙📚 🗃 #academicsky

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.

State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.

www.wired.com/story/gramma...

Biking is freedom.
LET'S GO, TO! 🚲👏🏽

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

From solar and wind, to cycling and other forms of active commuter infrastructure, there are just so many interesting things to invest in that have little dependency on weird oil/gas supply chains.

I'm happy for him. Although he's probably been up to shenanigans...

A win for Toronto and coffee and Dan. 👏

Bruce Arthur: The inside story of Canada Soccer’s financial breakthrough — and what it buys Soccer in Canada now has a chance to grow without unnecessary chaos or artificial constraints.

Canada Soccer's new deal with CSME - replacing the straightjacket CSB deal, which was the biggest problem in Canadian soccer for a while - is more than a revitalizing financial reality for Canada Soccer. Hopefully, it's the end of a civil war in the sport. www.thestar.com/sports/socce...

When in Barrhaven ...
#dietstartstomorrow 🍩🤤

All hail the Headless Chicken Monster

'Headless chicken monster' spotted swimming in Antarctic Ocean Unlike many other sea cucumbers, the headless chicken monster can swim up into the water column.

Today, on International Women's Day, I, a human woman, want you to know there is a type of sea cucumber called the Headless Chicken Monster

Your brain and data may be in the internet, a world that is both everywhere and nowhere. But your ass is still firmly planted in the jurisdiction of somebody's courts. And police.

Proton is correct. The odds of you finding a company that won't comply with its local police are basically zero.

100% all of this.
#youthsports

Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"

Curling has become the world's most scandalous sport.

Scientists discovered a caterpillar that murders insects and stitches their dismembered body parts onto its back as armor

You’re welcome. Happy day! 😆

a white orb covered in black speckles and spots rests on a dark sofa cushion. the left side is a dalmatian’s face, tucked in toward her haunches with her thin tail wrapped up to hug her face. she is looking at the camera with one sleepy brown eye.

This is Koyuki. Please do not disturb her. She's in ice cream scoop mode right now. Needs to focus. 12/10 (IG: fuji_bull)

Toronto’s mayor wants to finally fix this foul-smelling city eyesore. It’s unclear how much it will cost Mayor Olivia Chow is proposing the city take back control of its sidewalk trash receptacles after two decades of privatization.

. @shawnmicallef.bsky.social gets results!

www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...

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There's a ton going on, but make time for this. It gets to the corruption behind all of this.

Thank you Narwhal for joining the War Against Salt (WAS).

All fighters are welcome. All are needed.

www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

A PSA from Thomas Massie:

US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

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