If I had a nickel for every time Loblaws created a grocery store bank just to sell off its grocery store bank a few years later, I'd have two nickels

White House astonished as Pete Hegseth reads Franklin book all by himself

A fresh of breath air

I don't follow the disc horse bot anymore because i got got by that thing at least twice a day. It's too powerful

Beauty of the Moment Steve Driscoll 2024

Current status: saying "9 and 4 49ers" until i pass out

This lies somewhere between "you can Google The Anarchist's Cookbook" and "everyone will have nuclear launch capabilities with the PlayStation 2" in terms of comically overstated fearmongering

Romancing the Casserole Mary Pratt 1985

Danielle Smith uses notwithstanding clause to declare herself premier of B.C.

Ultimately if you are a Dem partisan and you are thinking about the Minority House leader's off-year winter policy slogan for more than 0 seconds: what are you doing, stop that, do something productive instead

John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893)- Snow and mist.

Baking Bread Mary Pratt 1974

James Rosenquist Sister Shrieks, 1987

Ivy dog has just had the best day of her entire life.

Ol' Ivy here is very tuckered out but wants to say hi

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The rare "like three posts in a thread and then mute the poster because they seem generally unpleasant"

Props to the mom on this train who gave her toddler vinyl window clings to play with, they are making this trip more fun

These are getting so derivative, i heard they're working on Holiday Boat Stuck: Chiefs Edition for next year 😔

Being the train equivalent of an Exit Row Guy is so fun "heres how to open the doors. Here's how our lil stair thingy works" my inner twelve year old is in heaven

You know it's bad when the commentators have had it with the refs and we're not through the 1st yet

have lived in the US for 15 years and this is how I learned that “it’s a bit of a gong show” is a Canadian figure of speech

Old woman next to me in the flu shot line is watching a podcast on circumcision at full volume

outrageous sunset today

The numbers, Charlie Brown! What do they mean?

Waiting for the Santa Claus parade to start under the watchful eye of the Great Turkey, Robarts Library

Giving up on the Leafs game, switching to a new season of A Man on the Inside

If you'd all like a palate cleanser from ~the news~ this weekend, here's Adam Savage geeking out about the world's coolest pop up book with its author

What a beautiful morning free of the psychological horror of Knowing, now to look at the bird app and see what everyone else is talking about

Every upscaled skybox in Minecraft like

We got a snow globe that doubles as a bottle opener

En ces temps incertains qui affligent le Québec, le Canada et la planète, une enquête de Léger montre que les Québécois semblent personnellement confiants dans la tempête. Mais collectivement, ils s’inquiètent pour le Québec et le monde. lactualite.com/societe/le-q...

Calm eyes, calm feet, can't lose

You guys hate waymo bc of fears about AI and a loss of human control in driving I hate waymo bc I had to advise them about their terrible backoffice processes and they annoyed the hell out of me We are not the same

I got the top one, my wife got the bottom one. Our fortune cookies smack of Gender

Closing Glory Franz Johnston 1932

For decades, Greebles have been used as stimuli in psychology studies on facial recognition. Greebles come in five families (Samar, Galli, Osmit, Radok and Tasio) and two genders (plok and glip). Though nobody is sure where they come from, science owes these odd creatures an enormous debt.

Shipyard

My usual plane-oriented stress dreams crossing with What Type bsky to produce last night's special, "The Gang Narrowly Avoids A Tenerife"

Checkmate Stout & Mycelia for board game date (cc @unlox.bsky.social for stout check)

Just give the President some gold so he can keep hoarding it and displaying it in his golden lair where he spends most of his time sleeping, the President is Smaug, it’s fine, America wanted Smaug as President, it’s what they voted for

Emil Nolde, La Mer III, 1913

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[driving my brand new convertible through sunny southern california to a michelin-starred restaurant as part an interview for an article that is outrageously horny for me] "in a lot of ways, I see Solzhenitsyn, the other samizdat writers, as kindred spirits. We're connected, in our exile"

Today's Special Marcia Harris 2023

Fondly recalling the Trump I years where the Globe and Mail's editorial staff thought it was a good idea to give her a regular column. Folks, I do not believe this sort of validation was good for her. It was certainly not good for G&M subscribers.

My modal Bsky experience is typing out a reply, staring at it for two seconds, and then happily deleting the draft because it isn't interesting or funny. I must do this twenty times a day Great way to use the app. Bad for my memory, tho, because I keep mixing up which dumb thoughts I quietly binned

Gender under Woke 2

My wife is rewatching Lucifer. My understanding is this is a show about The World's Most Fixable Man.

Today I learned that “wheat from Manitoba” is a prominent selling feature in a number of Italian flour products