Reposted by David RossStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Further evidence for my crank theory that chud men are cooking their brains with steroids. 1292
Reposted by David RossDerek Simon @dartmouthderek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The story of our age: amoral tech company releases a new technology that has few benefits, and lots of downsides. Governments that have been compromised or bought off by tech bros fail to protect the public by simply banning it. The cost of policing this nonsense falls on the rest of society. 153
David Ross @schemingdespot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Wishing @kehlee.bsky.social an average birthday. Why not something more superlative? Well why should a friend spend their birthday of all days labouring under the weight of other people’s potentially unreasonable expectations? That said, if you manage to clear that bar I’ll be happy for you 😉 130
Reposted by David RossDr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Just think of all the talent, time, and treasure that has gone into producing nonsense — NFTs, Bitcoin, “prediction markets”, fast fashion, data brokers, most social media, and a good fraction of AI “solutions” — that could have been used to make the world better instead… What a lost opportunity. 1215625
Reposted by David RossBarney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Local woman sniffs onion before speech. 4130058
David Ross @schemingdespot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026These photos of Mitch Tweel at the Charlottetown heritage awards, failing as usual to understand the assignment, are just too funny. For all of Philip Brown’s flaws as mayor, at least he seems to genuinely enjoy the job. www.facebook.com/share/p/1Dfz...facebook.comFacebook 110
Reposted by David RossEric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 17/09/2026One interesting thing nobody talks about is, to a dog, you're the service animal. 1131
Reposted by David Rossvictoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 12/09/2026As I was standing by this gas pump filling up my truck with six dollar gas I couldn’t help but think that this was a small price to pay so that every child wanting to play sports in elementary school has to submit to mandatory genital inspections 555444944
David Ross @schemingdespot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026LinkedIn: Pierre Poilievre is popular in your network Me: Fuck. Looks like I gotta get me a new network. 020
David Ross @schemingdespot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I just listened to an interview on As It Happens regarding this, and there’s so much wrong with the idea that I don’t even know where to start. www.hilltimes.com/2026/09/07/a...hilltimes.comA B.C. Conservative riding association proposes a ‘loyalty agreement’ to require floor-crossing MPs repay campaign costs - The Hill TimesThe only way to prevent floor crossing is for Parliament to pass legislation requiring MPs who switch parties to resign their seats and run again in a byelection, says former Conservative Senate leade... 101
David Ross @schemingdespot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Oh look, the MP for Niagara West-Glanbrook is complicit in in a multi-day PR stunt which he is naming after himself and calling an “inquiry” despite the lack of any parliamentary motion to that effect. There are certain benefits to no longer living there. 000
David Ross @schemingdespot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Taking the dogs out for a walk since there’s a break in the weather. It’s been making me a little stir crazy, but not “take my ride on mower out for a drive behind the Stratford Sobeys” levels of stir crazy. No implements on it. He plainly wasn’t cutting anything. 🤷 210
Reposted by David RossTom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Back 2 School! The Reality of road safety campaigns. Developed with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social 06119
David Ross @schemingdespot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026“The people don’t seem to be buying in to the neoliberalism thing any more” “Well, have we tried force feeding even more of it down their throats?” 011
David Ross @schemingdespot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I just had to bid farewell to our old Wetskins rain jacket. What kind of world are we living in when you cannot get a nylon rain jacket that will last as few as 30 years? 020
David Ross @schemingdespot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The s/w developer in me loves discovering bugs and configuration errors in the wild. This morning’s was the automated prescription refill system at my pharmacy suggesting that I could stop in to pick up my refill 2 hours before they will be open today. 000
Reposted by David RossBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/09/2026"If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn’t go and look at horses. They'd sit in their studies and say to themselves, 'What would I do if I were a horse?'" -Ely Devons 6313100
Reposted by David Ross𝚂𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚌𝚘𝚕 @2ndaryprotocol.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Jim Henson’s classic variety sketch comedy series ‘The Muppet Show’ premiered in the UK on the ITV Network on this day fifty years ago (September 5, 1976) 📺 🎭 🎶 TRIVIA: Kermit the Frog and Waldorf are the only characters to appear in all 120 episodes of ‘The Muppet Show’. (IMDB) 🖤 29826
David Ross @schemingdespot.bsky.social · 06/09/2026George Russell is surely Formula 1's living, breathing, walking, talking embodiment of Ken Dryden's #7 in the epilogue to The Game. 000
David Ross @schemingdespot.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I just walked past the new townhouse development, and thought of Pete Seeger‘s song “Little Boxes”, except now the lyrics would be “there’s a beige one and a beige one and a beige one and a beige one, and they’re all made out of ticky-tacky and they all look just the same” 150
David Ross @schemingdespot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026They’re called shallots, but they’re relatively small. Shouldn’t they be called shallittles? 240
David Ross @schemingdespot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Every so often I get a reminder of the passage of time. I just walked past the row of lockers assigned to the DVM class of 2030. If my math maths, most of them hadn't started kindergarten on my first day of employment here 17 years ago (and I had 15 years in the workforce then!) 030
David Ross @schemingdespot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Why on earth is Irving here to fill my propane tank at 4:40 am? 010
David Ross @schemingdespot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Our Jack Russell likes to nap in the sun. He just plunked himself down on his right side on our deck in front of the BBQ and proceeded to alternately wiggle his nose, eyebrows, and ears for about 90 seconds, like a golfer waggling his club before a swing. 030
David Ross @schemingdespot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I do like how sometimes sitting on a problem for a bit gives a solution that is both simpler and better than the idea that I first had. I like to call this “procrastination pays off” 110
David Ross @schemingdespot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Is executive order what you do when you lack the ability for executive functioning? 130
Reposted by David RossTom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 27/08/2026we ask everyone outside of the car to be safe so that drivers can be dangerous - this is the entirety of our approach to road safety. 37922
David Ross @schemingdespot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026A gnumerous gnumber of gnats in my yard just gnow. I don’t know by that I’ve seen that before. I certainly haven’t this year. 010
David Ross @schemingdespot.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I see the City of Charlottetown built its new pool too short. How could this have happened with Mitch Tweel chairing parks and recreation since 2018? Hang on…I’m hearing that I may have just answered my own question. 050
David Ross @schemingdespot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026The number of qualifiers that the Gold Cup and Saucer uses to try and attain superlative status amuses me It’s the top horse race In Eastern Canada For aged pacing horses On a half mile track (Held in August On a Saturday In an Island province Across the road from a sewage treatment plant) 000
David Ross @schemingdespot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026In light of the latest trade shenanigans I feel like it’s time to level up my response. Currently my single biggest discretionary expenditure on American made product is pet food. Any recommendations for Canadian owned and manufactured dry dog and cat food? 310
Reposted by David RossSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 22/08/2026mr carney if you're listening now is the time to suspend US IP protections in Canada 11722116
Reposted by David RossBlayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Canada’s leaders — and Mark Carney especially — need to finally let go of the fantasy that any beneficial trade agreement with the US is possible, and reform their entire strategy. Certainty was never on the table. It’s time for Carney to stop dealing in old bromides and actually face up to reality. 12710
David Ross @schemingdespot.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Everybody’s cat: I don’t give a damn what you say, it’s empty. Feed me you bastard. 020
Reposted by David RossBlayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 21/08/2026In the mismatch between words and actions, Mark Carney is the most cynical politician in my lifetime, and it isn’t even close. If I were to match that cynicism, I would suggest that Canadians are about to find out why he moved heaven and earth to secure a majority government. 04614
Reposted by David RossFietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 20/08/2026You can't buy happiness, but you can buy a bike, and that's kind of the same thing. 646456
David Ross @schemingdespot.bsky.social · 21/08/2026We called ours Miss Piggy. Under the feathers this is a 1973 Oldsmobile 98 and our family owned one (minus the chicken parts) in that same colour when I was about 5. 020
David Ross @schemingdespot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I've nothing against e-scooters that are speed-limited similarly to e-bikes and we should absolutely carve out space for both to operate separated from pedestrians and motor vehicles, but what possible use-case could there be for an e-scooter that can attain speeds of almost 50mph? 000
Reposted by David RossPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026op-ed columnists should have to submit to an annual quiz of some basic facts about the world and be fired if they fail 924222428
Reposted by David RossRebecca Chapman @swedishpony.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Our national animal is the beaver, noted for its industry and its co-operative spirit…is also noted for its habit, when frightened, of biting off its testicles and offering them to its pursuer. I hope we are not succumbing to some form of that impulse. M. Atwood, 1987 on Can-US Free Trade Agreement 012
Reposted by David RossCanadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 15/08/2026On this day in 1925, Oscar Peterson was born in Montreal. One of Canada's most celebrated musicians and called the Maharaja of the Keyboard by Duke Ellington, he released over 200 recordings, won eight Grammys and has a star on Canada's Walk of Fame. 📸 Anefo Archive 110022
Reposted by David RossSean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Can’t say I’m surprised. The Brampton Chrysler plant has been in limbo for years. But I have an idea: the federal gov’t should buy it, leasing it to rail manufacturers that want to bid on contracts but don’t have a manufacturing presence here (Hitachi, CRRC, CAF, etc.). www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caStellantis is considering closing and selling Brampton Assembly plant, Unifor says | CBC NewsA national union says it was told by Stellantis this week that it is seriously considering the closure and sale of the Brampton Assembly Plant. 86319
David Ross @schemingdespot.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I was thinking a couple of days ago that it’s been a while since we’ve had a service dog in the house, but then I realized that warming up our spots in the bed is a service, and often a deeply appreciated one. 140
David Ross @schemingdespot.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Well I see that the japanese beetles are back with a vengeance. Those weren’t there when we left 10 days ago. 100
David Ross @schemingdespot.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I've been at my inlaws for the last week or so, and a couple of days ago I had to drive their 2025 Hyundai Tucson. I like driving. In my 38 years of it I've driven a lot of different cars. I've disliked some of them, but I've never felt hostility towards a car like I do this one ..1/n 130
David Ross @schemingdespot.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Elbows up in the "here, smell my armpits" kind of way 061
David Ross @schemingdespot.bsky.social · 21/07/2026The house that I grew up in had a sour cherry tree in the back corner of the property. It was tucked right up next to the property line at the top of a small but fairly steep hill. When I was primary school age my brother and I used to climb it. 1/3 110
David Ross @schemingdespot.bsky.social · 20/07/2026A newer GM pickup was in front of me this morning waiting to make a turn. I thought "that thing is as big as a tank", and as it turns out: GMC Sierra 2500HD: 6.36m long, 2.07m wide (w/o mirrors, so probably 2.5m+ with them), 2.02m h M4 Sherman Tank: 6.27m long, 2.62m wide, 2.74m high 140
Reposted by David RossA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Since “defunding the pillars of society in order to save money” and “giving all the money to police and wealthy pricks” are core tenets of conservatism, I think as a society we ought to consider “conservative” a dangerous indecent thing to be, and those who identify as such should pay a social cost. 2512115
