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Can't we just, for one day, allow Israel to be the victims and look the other way on their genocide? JUST FOR ONE DAY?! HAVE YOU NO COMPLACEN- er... DECENCY?!

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Can't we just, for one day, allow Israel to be the victims and look the other way on their genocide? JUST FOR ONE DAY?! HAVE YOU NO COMPLACEN- er... DECENCY?!

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In the final scene, we find out that Alice is secretly a prankster and has been fucking with Ted all season. Her impish delight is another layer in the best character the show has right now. It's also an interesting parallel to the season at large: "we've been messing with you all along."

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The ingredients are here. There is so much potential. But we need establishment of stakes that directly affect the characters, we need sharp focus, and we need to either sever ties to what came before, or better incorporate it. I'm optimistic that Season 5 will be renewed, and could be truly great.

The show hypes cameos from the old men's team more than getting to understand what Alice means when she talks about an absent father, or seeing if Lizzy can be a literal Soccer Mom, or if Shannon grows into a leader, etc. Ted Lasso is held back by nostalgia for seasons that came before this.

The show remains reluctant to fully make the women's team the main characters in their own story. Too late, for instance, we finally get just a dash of Captain Lizzy's home life, and behind the scenes, one wonders if contract negotiations with actor Faye Marsay are going to kill that character off.

Debug Magazine @debugmag.com · 06/10/2026

Ted Lasso final thoughts: A sense of relief. Relief that Higgins and Rebecca were not outwitted by a cartoon villain. That Alice finally gets centre stage. That Roy is no longer a main (sorry/not sorry). That relief is tinged, though: why couldn't these issues be more deftly handled from the start?

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Voidling Bound article in Debug magazine issue 17

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"When they promised they'd kill all these other people, I never thought I'd have to hold the gun," sobs helpless supporter of regime.

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Could Quebec see higher independence polling post-Trump? Maybe. But by 2029, we're going to get hammered by a supercharged climate crisis and El Nino, huge swaths of Canada burn, and gov finances will be obliterated. Saying "and now, a costly secession proposal" should deservedly get shit on.

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Kelly B @kellyblack.ca · 06/10/2026

It is deeply funny that the PQ is saying they'll only hold a referendum after Trump is out of office, which is a straight-up admission that the country is better able to confront threats like a hostile US president when it is unified.

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You would think that in a province where a kid shot and killed people at school because an AI chatbot encouraged them that a policy stopping AI in schools would be big news. But apparently not #bcpoli

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To everyone who breathlessly shared that Atlantic piece as Such a Profound Piece of Journalism: fuck you.

Shocked, truly shocked, that yet another dumbfuck "feel sorry for the Trump voters" piece didn't take even two seconds to research its subject before jerking itself off all over the internet.

6) It needs to be said: Roy/Keely are being given near 50% of the run time, and I don't give a damn about them. They're so far removed from the rest of the show I just can't be bothered. Axe them or incorporate them better. Give me Keely dating Boots. Give me Roy mentoring Shannon. Or ditch them.

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5) Even accepting there could be satisfying resolutions or setups in the finale, this is a rocky season. They need to give the women the depth we got from the men. The staff are fine - Alice is best - but the PLAYERS. Lizzie in partic has been underserved, and she's billed in the main cast. MORE.

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4) The big one: killing off a beloved side character. This feels...contrived. It feels like shock for shock's sake, and it doesn't mesh with the rest of the show. Rebecca, for instance, barely exchanged ten words with Mae, so for her to be gutted and somberly delivering the news to Ted is just off.

1a) That would actually be really interesting, and would really validate Rebecca and Higgins as smart characters. I hope that's where we end up, or a similar place. 2) The Oo Goobley bit is a series highlight. Love a good pig story. Love a good twin sync bit. 3) I'm over Keely/Roy. Sorry.

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Missed my Ted Lasso thoughts from last week: 1) The Zelda reveal is interesting - I might have underestimated the Ted Lasso team. Because the way they did this, with the AUDIENCE getting to know, but not the CHARACTERS - suggests the big reveal could be that Rebecca and Higgins knew the whole time.

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And honestly? Go ahead. I'm so burnt out on stupid separatist movements in Canada. They can never articulate a vision for why this would benefit anyone besides vibes - which is likely why polling shows this is mainly a Gen Z thing, from the generation that appears to operate entirely on vibes now.

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Maybe I'm naive, but I'm not terribly worried about Quebec's election, at least from a national unity perspective. Oh, the PQ is going to be shit. Their anti-immigrant "fight Ottawa" policy is going to tank Quebec's economy. But the separatist part is dead. 28% is hardly a ringing endorsement.

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Tim Ford @timfordwrites.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Something's gotta change. In BC, we have a situation where the Greens are polling at 15% and they could end up with just 2 seats. Mixed Member Prop Rep - keep your MP but vote for Party as well, add List MP Seats, minimum threshold of 10% province/nationwide. #cdnpoli

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Basically, the left needs to stop acting like they can meet fascists in the centre, and actually do leftist policy.

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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If folks do want to help out, I am not earning an income right now, obviously, and xmas is coming. The kids gave me their wish list. If sugar settlers want to help fulfill this wishlist, it would really help us retain some normalcy this season. www.amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/...

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Oh Canada! Terre de nos aïeux Ton front est ceint de fleurons glorieux Caaaaaarrr Tu es la.... *tsk* O Canada? Terre de nos aïeux Car ton front est la.... *chuckles nervously* OK EVERYBODYYYY

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Yes, this movie pissed me off so much that I've posted three times about it today. That's not a good thing, and the people who think it is are the same people who think artless, aimless cynicism is peak intellectual prowess.

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The spoiler-free summation of Digger is: it thinks satire is dumb, art is dumb, you're dumb, everyone is dumb, but Iñárritu is smart for saying so. It is empty drek. It is the embodiment of the comic with the guy popping out of the well to say "YET YOU PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY. I AM VERY SMART."

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Sheo @sheologian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The thing about South American politics is: 1) a significant number of people will vote right-wing simply because Socialism bad 2) a significant number of people will vote right-wing simply because Christianity And I don't see that ever changing.

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A white man so insulated from the consequences of his vote for Trump that he didn’t have to think about them until someone that was directly affected died literally in front of him gets a write up in the Atlantic that gargles his balls and some of you are gargling in chorus Pathetic

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This shit right here is why I refuse to support Digger, and why I can't stomach people defending it as this brave artistic swing for the fences. It is milquetoast, limp-wristed, shitlib horseshit, from a director whose chief concern is processing his rolling midlife crises.

From the Wikipedia page on Digger:
In writing Digger, Iñárritu said he was "not interested in pointing fingers or reducing the film to a political commentary or a right or left thing" while singling out Cruise's monologue, adding "we are all part of this madness. That there are no good people or bad people. The system has trapped all of us, and we have to find a way out together."

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“GOTTA LEARN AI OR BE LEFT BEHIND.” Good. Fuck off! Leave me behind! Enjoy your artbarf rapture, your janky Temu future. I’ll be back here looking at real birds and writing weird, also real, books.

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To the pickup-driving white guy with baseball cap and sunglasses who honked at me repeatedly for having the audacity to use a vehicle lane on my bicycle to make a left turn: 1) it's true, I was in front of you for the shocking distance of 90 feet 2) the loss of 1.2 secs of your time is a war crime

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Side note: I am rewatching Lower Decks and it remains amazing.

It's OK to dislike Strange New Worlds. It's OK to dislike Picard. It's OK to dislike Discovery. It's OK to dislike Enterprise, VOY, DS9, TNG or the OG. It's not OK to say "this is not real Star Trek." The former are all personal opinions. The latter are about putting up barriers around fandoms.

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The normalization of anti-trans and anti-immigrant bigotry is about to be joined by anti-Indigenous hate and a sweeping denial of residential school and other Canadian institutional racism. BC on the verge of electing a gov explicitly because they want to repeal DRIPA is the first warning shot.

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