Thom McVeigh

These are the best six new wines under $20 at the LCBO right now — Toronto Star There's nothing to beat the joy of discovering a great new wine, and sharing something unexpected with guests. Here are six bottles worth buying now.

The Yalumba Shiraz is definitely worth checking out.

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Iran's warship sunk by US was unarmed, attack violates international law: Iranian official Iran says US submarine attack on its unarmed warship off Sri Lanka violates international law, killing 87 sailors. Iranian official condemns the assault, stresses defensive actions, and highlights ong...

Wouldn’t want the navy to follow rules of engagement, just kill em all. “No stupid rules of engagement, no nation-building quagmire, no democracy building exercise, no politically correct wars.”
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Once upon a time Warren Kinsella opposed fascism. I don’t recognize him anymore.

How long do electric vehicle batteries actually last? When the modern electric vehicle was still in its infancy, drivers worried that vehicles would need expensive battery replacements within a few years. But battery lifespans are exceeding expectations.

“Thomas McVeigh, of Ontario, Canada, drives a 2014 BMW i3. That vehicle didn't have an impressive range even when it was new, and now it can only manage about 55 miles on a single charge in the winter. But it still looks great. It's pleasant to drive. It saves him on gas...” <= is me. 😉

Seeing several people chatting about planting more veg this year ahead of possible shortages due to WW3.

While I've spent the afternoon researching canabalism.

I should point out these two things are not related.

Yet.

It’s in the washing machine.

Civic campus is so weirdly numbered and organized that even if I think I know where I’m going I ask for directions once I’m in the main building.

Stand up and turn your back. Visibly shun him. It’s contemptuous without giving ground.

Everything that Trump says tonight in the State of the Union will be a lie, and the real State of the Union is a dumpster fire. #SOTU

Such a nightmare company to deal with.

Using detailed address-level microdata, we trace movement chains originating with the initial residents of The Central and document three main findings. First, we show the building generated a substantial number of local vacancies. We identify 180 specific addresses that became vacant because of moves into The Central. Scaling to account for data coverage suggests the new tower induced more than 500 local vacancies in the three years after construction, by setting off chains of moves. Second, while The Central units were expensive on a per-square-foot basis, the homes vacated by movers were significantly cheaper. Homes left behind by those moving into The Central were about 40% less expensive. Unlike much of the prior literature, which track the changing neighborhood characteristics of movers

Even more evidence that building new housing decreases rents: Researchers tracked the residents of a newly built luxury condo building and found that they freed up less expensive apartments nearby.
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2025 is just turning out to be one fuckshit of a year so far.

Reading people. Body language. Knowing how to connect with people totally unlike you and with different backgrounds and beliefs. Defusing tense situations. Gaining trust. High endurance, pain tolerance, and work ethic. Reaction time. Prioritizing order of execution. Anticipating people’s needs. Tons

Fascism is here and yet we insist on continuing to make things. Keep creating. It's so important. Do not let the fascists colonize your imagination or curtail your creativity.

Public pools used to be everywhere in America. Then racism shut them down. In her new book, “The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together,” Heather McGhee looks at how racism drained not only public pools, but also public support for universal he...

Just to be clear. Universal healthcare would save money, so it’s revenue positive. You don’t have it because of racism, not because of budgetary reasons. See also, closing pools when they were integrated. www.marketplace.org/story/2021/0...

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

Reddit, Meta, and Google voluntarily complied with administrative subpoenas from the Department of Homeland Security for identifying details of users critical of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

The furor over curling sure feels like a psyop to change public opinion about Canadians. Change my mind.

That is a #superbowl

Eggplant. The most use they have is as an emoji for something else.

It’s interesting framing of the time scale… 12000-0 is not the same as 0-2000, distorting the time frame of contemporary history and Indigenous legacy.

Bingo card listing the 25 stereotypical complaints about installing sidewalks

I've saved a bunch of Bingo memes, like the sample below, over the past few years & made a few of my own.

Would you find a page of them amusing? If so, if lots of you smash that Like button, I'll put up a page of them.

Can we talk about the Haitian Olympic uniforms? I’m tired and it’s almost midnight but dang Stella Jean said fuck you the Olympic committee and I’m so here for it?

“In my work with the defendants I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men.

Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

If science still meant anything to anyone this would be huge

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

First step in my next wine learning journey

I’m beginning to think the people advocating this are trying to poison the well and make it so expensive it will get cancelled.

I’m thinking I need one of these.

Chart by Neil Kaye showing the lengthening and shortening of daylight hours in southern Britain each week through the year. Each bar represents how much daylight is gained or lost each week. The line is roughly a sine curve (head blown emoji), with the fastest daylight gains in Feb, March and April, and the fastest losses in Aug, Sep and October.

A quick reminder of what #BigFebruary is about…
Thanks to the magic of the cosmos, we start gaining daylight much faster in Feb than in Jan. Over 20 mins a week - setting us up for Spring.

This chart is by @neilrkaye.bsky.social and is one of my all time favourites.

The real peak coward bullshit is the next ‘reporter’ not asking the same goddam question.

Protest sign from MN that says, “DEARLY BELOVED. WE ARE GATHERED HERE TODAY TODISMANTLE THIS THING CALLED ICE.” with a picture of Prince in the left hand lower corner.

10/10 ICE protest sign