Ryan McNutt

@mcnutt.bsky.social

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University comms person. Sporadic freelance music writer. Musicology grad. Dog dad from Dartmouth. Jays / Habs / Raptors. Eternal poptimist.

"Don't make me tap the sign" On the sign "Driving fast in urban settings is pointless. Your travel time is at the mercy of traffic signal happenstance. Rushing for the privilege of spending more time at the next light only makes streets more dangerous."
PCNS 40%, NDP 31%, SNL 22%, Abacus, June 26-July 2, sample size 600, online
SONG ORIGINS "This song grew out of a conversation with Sean Lennon & his friend, who argued that 'Nothing happened in the '50s'"
CBC Nova Scotia News clip featuring two people playing scrabble. One of them has his tiles arranged to spell “Jizbots”
Six vinyl records: Loretta Lynn’s Van Lear Rose, Lucy Dacus’ Historian, Stars’ Heart, Beyoncé’s Renaissance, The Wonder Years’ Suburbia, Snocaps’ self-titled
Screencap of Noah Syndergaard on Fox News. His quote: "It's like a dream come true. I'm riding on bliss in this interview with you right now. I don't understand the negativity he gets. He cares so much about everybody."
One common thread that ties together anti-vaccine views and growing sentiments against other protective measures for newborns is the fallacy that natural is always better than artificial, said Dr. David Hill, a Seattle pediatrician and researcher. “Nature will allow 1 in 5 human infants to die in the first year of life,” Hill said, “which is why generations of scientists and doctors have worked to bring that number way, way down.”
Project Hail Mary movie poster
Facebook post from David W Hillier: “I don't like posting about politics but I had an interesting conversation last night with Tim Houston. He was at the Lismore Wintertime Review in Pictou County where I met him many times at local events. He came up to me with his wife and no security at my audio engineering table and we had a great chat. I told him about our local Music Nova Scotia funding being cut and the broader issues in all of the Arts and Culture. He was aware of the issues but totally pissed off about the retaliation being people screaming FU and FB garbage comments. I suggested starting from scratch but he didn't think that would work and suggested most folks should forget about the Government handouts and get out there finding new ways to make money! What do you think?”
Two pie charts labelled "School travel models before/after free transit pass." The first pie chart shows that after the pass was implemented that 33.7% of students took transit, while the second shows that before the pass it was only 11.5%
In the NDP’s first designated hour for asking questions, NDP Leader Claudia Chender accused the Progressive Conservatives of not taking seriously the issue of high power bills.
News headline: NS premier booed at African Heritage Month gala as budget cuts spark upset.
Man in grey blazer wearing glasses. Title card: Billy Comeau
Let’s call this what this is: the worst kind of politics. The Mayor put forward something that virtually everyone else in the room rightly recognized as poorly thought out, poorly prepared, and completely impossible to do in the available timeline and despite all that overwhelming feedback, the Mayor, evidently, still feels everyone else is wrong. This is deeply unserious governance. Council not accepting this barely half-baked motion isn’t the reason he can’t deliver on the flat-tax rate that he promised during the election. This is just a clumsy attempt to scapegoat Council. If the Mayor wanted a lower potential tax bill, he should have moved more cuts, not shown up at the 11th hour with an idea that was impossible to implement.
Clip from the Heritage Minute on the Halifax Explosion featuring Vincent Coleman, with his colleague yelling at him, “Come on, Vince, come on!”