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Thom McVeigh @thomasmcveigh.com · 14/09/2026

Very happy to come home to a @jleiper.bsky.social sign on my lawn. Let’s make this a city that works! www.leiper2026.ca/donate

An urban front lawn with a Jeff Leiper for Mayor sign on it

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Thom McVeigh @thomasmcveigh.com · 05/09/2026

I’m just going to take up reporting salary range violations as a hobby www.ontario.ca/document/you...

Screenshot of a job posting with a range of 39 thousand to a hundred and fourty-two thousand dollars

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Thom McVeigh @thomasmcveigh.com · 17/08/2026

Ugh. I suddenly don’t trust the anonymity of Glassdoor. Even less than I did before.

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Thom McVeigh @thomasmcveigh.com · 05/08/2026

I felt this was the appropriate response here.

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Thom McVeigh @thomasmcveigh.com · 23/07/2026

Pretty sure exposure to David Bowie might be correlated..

Movie poster of The Hunger, starring Bowie, Catherine DeNeuve and Susan Sarandon

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Thom McVeigh @thomasmcveigh.com · 19/07/2026

Dear @tsnofficial.bsky.social : I loathe you. Deleting you was the second best part of my day, and if Spain hadn’t won, it would have been the best part of my day. Your poorly coded, ad infested, broken app and website were a nightmare to deal with. Good riddance.

A picture of me deleting the TSN app from my tv.

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Thom McVeigh @thomasmcveigh.com · 10/07/2026

Like everything streaming with TSN is just inexcusably bad

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Thom McVeigh @thomasmcveigh.com · 04/07/2026

And when I can’t read the article, and get put back on the main page:

Screenshot showing headline: “New documents link ‘horrendous’ Toronto police corruption allegations to Ryan Wedding cocaine case

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Thom McVeigh @thomasmcveigh.com · 30/06/2026

Yup; that’s an accurate assessment of my opinion

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Thom McVeigh @thomasmcveigh.com · 06/06/2026

Got a new-to-me bike. After years of my upright Amsterdam style, it actually made me a bit nervous to ride, as it’s much zippier and maneuverable…. Which is another way of saying dangerous. Made me think in might need a helmet, which my Amsterdam bike never makes me feel.

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Thom McVeigh @thomasmcveigh.com · 30/03/2026

It may not look too tasty, but this is the first iteration of a really good veggie burger recipe. Refried beans, quinoa and cheddar. Needs some veggies like carrots, but I’m happy with this start.

Refried beans, quinoa and cheese burger experiment.

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Thom McVeigh @thomasmcveigh.com · 05/02/2026

First step in my next wine learning journey

A text book and several wine glasses in the foreground and in the background a slide on a screen saying ‘French Wine Scholar’

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Thom McVeigh @thomasmcveigh.com · 31/12/2025

The lost context of that post: the original poster had a map showing all of the billionaires yachts at St Barts for New Years Eve, and something along the lines of “Poseidon, I’m not a devout worshipper, but please grant this one wish”

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Thom McVeigh @thomasmcveigh.com · 26/11/2025

Of course they did. toronto.citynews.ca/2025/11/26/d...

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Thom McVeigh @thomasmcveigh.com · 20/11/2025

Now they’re happily bubbling away.

Two carboys of beer, one amber the other a stout, both clearly fermenting.

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Thom McVeigh @thomasmcveigh.com · 19/11/2025

And the stout is starting to mash in now.

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Thom McVeigh @thomasmcveigh.com · 19/11/2025

Time for a two batch brew day. Stout and SMASH.

Two buckets of beer grains in front of a Grainfather brewing appliance.

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Thom McVeigh @thomasmcveigh.com · 10/06/2025

Beer o’clock; an inadvertently hazy pale ale

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Thom McVeigh @thomasmcveigh.com · 18/05/2025

I just want to eat my breakfast

Wondermark "the terrible sea lion" comic. Too much text, but Google "wondermark sea lion" for context

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Thom McVeigh @thomasmcveigh.com · 08/03/2025

@linkedin.com are you freaking kidding me with this? This kind of crap makes me want to delete my account. Do not shove right wing lunatics at me.

Screenshot of an email from LinkedIn suggesting I follow Jordan fucking Peterson. For fucks sakes.

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Thom McVeigh @thomasmcveigh.com · 25/02/2025

Ok. Fine. I voted. But I’m not happy about it.

Picture of an elections Ontario sign in a hallway

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Thom McVeigh @thomasmcveigh.com · 16/02/2025

Nothing like a snow day to give you time to make ice cream. #chocolate

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Thom McVeigh @thomasmcveigh.com · 13/02/2025

Mac-Paps volunteered illegally. The government of the day did not oppose Franco’s fascists.

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Thom McVeigh @thomasmcveigh.com · 06/02/2025

Jesus wept but google is getting brutally bad.

Result of a google search of whether Edmonton or Belfast is further north. The google summary says Edmonton is significantly further north, but the data immediately below shows that to be wrong.

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Thom McVeigh @thomasmcveigh.com · 04/02/2025

If America ever invades Canada, they’ll discover that there have been far fewer boating accidents than reported in the last thirty years.

Screenshot from Wikipedia showing Canada as having the 7th most civilian owned firearms of any country in the world, which only includes registered firearms.

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Thom McVeigh @thomasmcveigh.com · 26/12/2024

Depends what kind of bear she’s worried about.

Cartoon of a burly man with the word ‘bear’ shaved into his hairy chest

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Thom McVeigh @thomasmcveigh.com · 25/12/2024

Merry winter solstice festival folks , whichever one you celebrate. Wishing you and yours the very best for the coming year.

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Thom McVeigh @thomasmcveigh.com · 16/12/2024

This was the first vinyl I bought with my own money. My parents had lots in the house though.

Record cover for the Prince album Around the World in a Day

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Thom McVeigh @thomasmcveigh.com · 08/12/2024

Just need some toast. Let the lazy Sunday commence.

Still life with avocados, teapot and a large mug with the words ‘death before decaf’ and a skull in the shape of the mug on it.

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Thom McVeigh @thomasmcveigh.com · 07/12/2024

Propaganda of the Deed seems to be back on the menu.

Woodcut style image of marchers with a black flag, surrounded by skyscrapers with the Text ‘propaganda of the deed’

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Thom McVeigh @thomasmcveigh.com · 07/12/2024

Dear Air Fryer. I love you.

A stainless steel bowl full of yummy French fries made in my air fryer.

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Thom McVeigh @thomasmcveigh.com · 04/12/2024

And colt.fm roasts my taste appropriately

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Thom McVeigh @thomasmcveigh.com · 04/12/2024

Apparently these artists were on the release radar I listened to three times. 🤣 I’ll give it Amyl and the Sniffers, but Meryl Streek, Pengshui, Laura Jane Grace and the Redskins should be the top 5 bands by my memory and choice.

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Thom McVeigh @thomasmcveigh.com · 04/12/2024

This was outside the doors to the washrooms of my restaurant when I owned it, pointing out the issue with our health code. It’s a public statement of support. It was literally the least I could do. Physical confrontations in support of the whole community is on the table.

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