Patrick Johnston 🇨🇦
Sports guy. Some yelling about other things too.
I had a blue check once, but Elon took it away. 🇺🇦
@loveyourcake.bsky.social tolerates my snoring
- Reposted by Patrick Johnston 🇨🇦My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
- Hearing Ken Sim is pulling back from his irresponsible BC Place World Cup viewing party idea. ‘Insane and unworkable’ I was told. Was never going to work and it was ridiculous he floated it in the first place given how much breathless regurgitation there’s been on social media
- Almost like billionaires are the disease
- Reposted by Patrick Johnston 🇨🇦This is big: France and other European nations are investigating Elon Musk’s X as explained in the post below from the French Foreign Ministry’s rapid response account.
- Reposted by Patrick Johnston 🇨🇦My favorite line in Citizen Kane. Bezos clearly missed the memo.
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- Gonna suggest this is a real PR misstep from the Whitecaps if they really intend to stay in Vancouver. theprovince.com/sports/socce...
- Reposted by Patrick Johnston 🇨🇦My apologies to France, I was not familiar with your game.
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- Fife Flyers, the Scottish team that signed David Booth & Milan Lucic, is under fire for last minute changes to their Pride Night. Players were meant to wear Pride jerseys in game but changed to just warm up. Booth skipped warmup altogether. Then got hurt in-game www.fifetoday.co.uk/sport/ice-ho...
- "Neither team has been very porous" Craig Simpson claims, as Sportsnet broadcast puts up graphic showing Canucks have given up *13* shots already this period.
- For the record, Tyler Myers does not have size 16 skates. He wears 13.
- Here to report the Canucks set up a hot dog bar in the press box during second intermission tonight.
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- Really nice pass by Kane to Willander
- Helluva shot by Lekkerimaki but also what kind of defending was that from the Leafs?!
- There are so many Leafs fans here at Rogers the boos were *very* notable when the Canucks were announced on to the ice here pre-game
- Not fun to write this at all and I really hope I’m wrong.
- World Cup gonna be lit
- Reposted by Patrick Johnston 🇨🇦we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds
- Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.” This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker
- Good news for the Olympics
- Stadium continues to be the issue. Full stop.
- More racist madness in Minnesota towards kids varsity.startribune.com/minneapolis-...
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- Spoke with Junior about this post-game theprovince.com/sports/hocke...
- Stunning story
- Leafs continue to reel
- Will Drew O'Connor win most exciting player this season?
- Canucks confirm that Tolopilo was pulled by the concussion spotter -- obviously he cleared the assessment because he's now back in goal
- Smattering of boos for Ken Sim as he's announced at centre ice for the ceremonial faceoff on Lunar New Year night here at Rogers
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- Reposted by Patrick Johnston 🇨🇦There is an old word to describe going to a foreign power and asking for their assistance in breaking up a sovereign country — it’s treason. Canadians are standing together in defence of this beautiful land. 🇨🇦
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- Reposted by Patrick Johnston 🇨🇦This line ought to set off a huge alarm at MLS HQ: "The Loons were negotiating transfer deals with Slovenian midfielder Tomi Horvat and Dutch defender Cherrion Valerius, but both players cited concerns about life in Minnesota for them and their families as why they declined contracts with MNUFC."
- Very very sad to learn that @dhm.bsky.social is no longer with him. Met a couple times in person. Lovely man. Thoughts with his family defector.com/dan-mcquade-...
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- Whitecaps are "very close" I'm told to locking in Bruno Caicedo and AZ Jackson theprovince.com/sports/socce...
- Are you glass half-full or half-empty on what Ryan Gauld going under the knife on his troublesome left knee means? theprovince.com/sports/socce...
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- Tyler Myers on Thatcher Demko’s perseverance: “I don’t think a lot of guys could handle what he’s gone through … I think a lot of guys would be out of the league already.“ theprovince.com/sports/hocke...
- Reposted by Patrick Johnston 🇨🇦Asked about Minneapolis, Victor Wembanyama says, “PR has tried, but I’m not going to sit here and be politically correct.” Then says “it’s crazy that people make it seem like … the murder of civilians is acceptable.”
- It’s beyond time to break up big tech
- SCOOP Meta has started blocking links to ICE List on Facebook, Instagram and Threads www.wired.com/story/meta-i...
