Jonathan Kay

@quillette editor/writer/podcaster. Author. Advisor @fairforall_org & @FSU_Canada Ex-tax-lawyer -engineer -coder. Disc golf, 3D-printing, boardgames, baseball

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

You "shared some tears" because they're holding a Harry Potter event for kids in a park ?

You "disavowed" @jk_rowling ?

Are you in a cult ?

[Tom Digby @ThomasDigby1]

Last night, @ParkBoard did the right thing. Apologized to TGD2S community after emotional discussion. Shared some tears. Disavowed JKR. Will undertake concrete actions to rebuild trust.

https://t.co/dGC0zP3eun

[Amy Eileen Hamm @preta_6]

Why are you posting about me from behind a block? Grow a spine.

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

to be fair, this was 2021, when the CBC still thought its future success lay in letting a bunch of 25 year old Ryerson J-school grads turn their web site into Canadian Teen Vogue. Since then, the middle-agers trying to quietly run out the pension clock have reasserted control

[Travis Dhanraj @Travisdhanraj]

I’m just catching up on this story and still trying to wrap my head around how @CBC could think this was appropriate…

Have they apologized?

@JMcknightDelta, @MarkJCarney @MarcMillerVM your thoughts?? #Cdnpoli

[Adam Zivo @AdamZivo]

Another garbage article by the Canadian Press. It isn’t mentioned until the *ninth* paragraph that a judge found the sexual assault allegations unsubstantiated, and the fact that several lawsuit defendants settled and apologized is omitted completely.

https://t.co/u9uVPkXClQ

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

@amboultbee @TheRealKeean Sounds like you got nothing

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

Oh wow, how brave and mysterious

[Amelia Boultbee @amboultbee]

The Russell Brand conviction has me thinking.

Unfriendly reminder: there is no statute of limitations on sexual assault in British Columbia.

Some people have been sleeping too soundly lately, who shouldn’t.

Justice can come anytime.

[DouglasTodd @DouglasTodd]

Both @trentuniversity activist Mandi Gray and artist A.B. have made sex-assault accusations against author Steven Galloway "a feature point of their careers."
As told by @sarkonakj.
Her reporting recounts when mis-using the well-intentioned #metoo movement advanced your career.
#cdnpoli #bcpoli

[Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo]

Toronto (Nov. 8) — A trans extremist was arrested in a Jewish neighborhood after violating a court order to stay away from the area after he was released following another leftist direct action-related arrest.

@TorontoPolice and the media are referring to the man, “Diana Bosco,” as a “woman.” Canadian officials and media also lied to the public about the trans Canadian gunman who slaughtered eight women and children in British Columbia earlier this year.

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

@makeshift_money @UBC One of the issues here is that very little of Canadian university funding comes from private donors. It’s mostly from the government. So they live in a land beyond accountability.

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

It’s absolutely insane that anyone at @UBC involved in this debacle still has their job.

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

UBC paid accuser to join Steven Galloway inquiry, court hears

https://t.co/u657iK05z5

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

my latest for @Quillette focuses on @MrAndyNgo’s great new book about the murderous “Zizian” cult, which emerged in the 2010s from fringes of trans activism & Bay Area “rationalist” AI doomerism. I also discuss Christopher Clark’s fine historical book, “A Scandal in Köningsberg”

[Quillette @Quillette]

What does a 19th-century Prussian sect have in common with a California cult obsessed with AI doom?

More than you'd think. @jonkay reviews @MrAndyNgo’s new book on the Zizians, a tiny group linked to eight deaths, alongside Christopher Clark's history of a Königsberg scandal.

https://t.co/CFuTeWWN1w

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

the most tragicomic part of these melodramas is when tough-talk protestors (who support “all means of resistance” and heroic forms of “direct action”) finally get arrested: they start hysterically playing the role of eggshell-sensitive martyr the moment they’re put in handcuffs

[Jesse Brown @JesseBrown]

Antizionist Diana Bosco was ordered by a court to stay away from the Jewish neighbourhood of Bathurst & Sheppard, where protesters menace the community every weekend. Bosco violated that court order repeatedly. Yesterday they were finally arrested.

[Jamie Sarkonak @sarkonakj]

The woman who accused Steven Galloway of sexual assault made an art project about him in 2018. She had it posted to her website for years, all the way up until earlier in the trial. It is no longer on her website.

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

I think the bigger story here is that I apparently didn’t use paragraph breaks

[Jason Toney @jasontoney_]

A "cynical campaign to convince the world that Canada is a cesspool of violent anti-Semitism."

A 2010 National Post article wherein @jonkay critiqued @bnaibrithcanada's data about antisemitism.

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

“Public push back”

[CTV National News @CTVNationalNews]

Local bakery shifts annual infamous gingerbread house theme after public push back https://t.co/kSPQBkaVrL

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

I would absolutely love to hear what’s going through this person’s brain as she watches this Monty python farce unfold

[Kosher @koshercockney]

Welsh Queers for Palestine 🇵��

[C.K. Bouferrache aka Honeybadgermom @Honeybadgermom]

I’m at the Washington State high school cross country finals where the Camas, WA team is competing because of their top runner, a biological boy who switched to the girl’s team mid-season. Without him on the team they wouldn’t have made state.

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

@Mspundit It would be a “boycott” by three people with blue hair and n95 masks who come in four times a week to order a green tea, use the Wi-Fi, and complain endlessly about how the choice of dishwasher soap affects their multiple chemical sensitivities and Very Long COVID

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

explain why it’s always these cutesy upper middle class cafés, bakeries, vegan shops etc that are so easily terrorized into obeying the diktats of genderwang lunatics?
In this case, it’s Duchess bakery in Edmonton
Is it because they feel bad for making everyone fat with carbs?

[Sheila Gunn Reid @SheilaGunnReid]

The lefties in Edmonton had their feelings hurt by a Harry Potter gingerbread house. Worse still, the offending bakery apologized instead of telling these weirdos to cry harder about an imaginary wizard boy.

Pathetic, all around.

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

thank you for your inspiring revolutionary message, comrade gilmore. In the workers paradise, everyone will be able to watch a variety of popular sports channels for free, or at very reduced prices.

Call your post-revolutionary cable provider for details

Conditions may apply

[Rachel Gilmore @atRachelGilmore]

Oh my god I hate capitalism I just wanted to get back into basketball so I paid for TSN but tonight's Raptors game IS ON SPORTSNET so now I have to pay for that even tho I'm mad and didn't want to pay for Rogers bc hockey bullshit

BELL ROGERS BELL ROGERS BELL THERE IS NO ESCAPE

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

@BellaLucyBee @ripx4nutmeg Why are so many totally real women so obsessed with all of these hobbies ?