I aspire to @kevinmkruse.bsky.social’s level of creativity in insulting Rob Schneider.

Have you seen Carley? Brantford police searching for missing woman

Telling American bigots that we don't have to, and won't, play along with their stupid rules is a core Canadian value. #ElbowsUp #MAGADelendaEst www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pkj...

Keir Starmer was the model for centrists and popularists who insisted that moving right on issues, especially immigration, is how you win at politics. Wonder if there will ever be any self-reflection here! Ah well nevertheless

we should compile a list of things Dems believe people care about, which absolutely nobody cares about. 1. pinocchios 2. the national debt 3. preserving The Norms 4 "the judgement of history"

Think propaganda can only be used for evil? Don't be a sucker. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t...

i wish joe biden and barack obama had used a lot more propaganda. it is an excellent tool against fascism.

"Accelerated reading course." Herblock on the persistence of segregated schools nearly 13 years after the Brown v Board decision, April 1967.

There's no oscillation. A program designed to force a white supremacist society to include people who are being unnaturally restricted is not discriminatory, and is good. White christian conservatives wouldn't be able to handle actual discrimination. They can't even handle equality. Weak.

When they talk about freedom, they have always been specifically talking about their own freedom and that of people like them, and not everyone’s liberty. Their freedom is entirely compatible with you being clubbed in the teeth by a policeman in space marine armour, and at some points depends on it.

Rime ice can be OT for Hydro, but my town has been magical for days. And nights. 🌙

Feeling cranky and put-upon, so instead of more grumping here let me share some danger boops. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANzO...

Neofascist KuKluxKonvoy protagonist Tom Marazzo represents the true heart and soul of today’s Conservative Party of Canada, spouting lies in all directions, reading aloud from Putin’s playbook. Isn’t he the dude who wanted to negotiate a new government with the Governor General and Senate?

I had intended to spend my day off today catching up on all the shopping I hadn't done while laid up after my fall. Alas, I mathed it out and the risk is too high of getting caught in the blizzard conditions forecast for mid-morning here. Guess I'll turtle up instead & hope I can do it tomorrow.

anyway good night

If only Americans had a recent way to know how crucial immigrants were for the success of the Manhattan Project. A big Hollywood movie where a lot of the nuclear scientist characters speak with accents and talk about fleeing Europe that makes tons of money and wins a bunch of Oscars, perhaps.

1. Silicon Valley Bank didn't get bailed out. It failed, and was acquired. 2. FDIC didn't do any special favors for SVB bankers, and didn't do it for silicon valley crypto bros. They did it to keep the promise that leads to stability: " When you put money in a US Bank, your deposits are safe."

I've seen people reference the claim that RFK Jr. believes the 1918 influenza came from lab research, but since no one provided a link, I was skeptical that even he could be that stupid. Boy, was I wrong. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Oh wow you were forced to apologize for being white. How did you phrase your apology? Where were you? Who demanded it of you, and what law compelled you? Was it a local ordinance? State level? Was it court-mandated? Tell me more about this apology you made for being white.

Conclave Selects First Chicago-Style Pope

Not really liking how the office lights are dimming every now and then. #LdnOnt #ONStorm

Researchers discover rare breed of Canadian tuxedo cat #DumbWeek

Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter

Thinking about the airplay of this song in my white working class hometown in the 1980s. How it spoke to a lot of people’s imaginations. How it might have, in its original, moved those imaginations.

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

The Morning Monty doesn’t know who ordered the sunny weather, but he’d like to extend his thanks

We had congressional hearings when parents just suspected heavy metal was leading some kids to suicide.

Head's up for Canucks: US visitors are very thin-skinned right now. I was explaining to one--in slowly spoken simple grade English, no less!--that in Canada, women are people, reading is legal, and he cannot test his new gun by emptying it into a classroom. It was like _I_ was somehow the bad guy.

My usual reminder that “we’re gonna file a lawsuit” isn’t news. That’s a press release. “We filed a lawsuit and here’s the complaint” is news.

Take it from someone who teaches AI ethics at the postgrad level: AI researchers care little about ethics. (AI, like a rock, does not care, of course) 😜

What got us Trump was the GOP being a malevolent force for evil and the Democrats at every turn refusing to fire full blast at the right (including before Trump). It’s obviously not all on Harris but a cycle with Democrats assuming the left would just show up without any motivation is a big reason.

My most woke opinions: Laws apply to everybody. There are no "sincere belief" exceptions for religious majorities. Corporations have a progressive revenue tax. Corporations are not allowed to contribute to political campaigns or own copyrights; they can only license copyrights from creators.

What gets missed so often by people who claim they want to see bad people redeemed and transformed is whether or not the person in question is interested in doing anything redeeming and if they are transforming, or if they just want exoneration for free, and reconciliation without reparation.

Republicans motivate their core voters to show up every cycle and they do. Democrats just assume their equivalent will do the same and spend the entire cycle pursuing swing voters, meanwhile depressing core turnout. Then they blame those core voters when they lose. The cycle must be broken.

Legendary screen siren and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot has died at age 91. The alluring former model starred in numerous movies, often playing the highly sexualized love interest. n.pr/3N3Tnhg

ce post est tellement @mitildide.bsky.social coded

“it is illegal for you not to like me”

Ukraine has had some surprising intelligence successes in its fight against Russia. It turns out that their ace in the hole was... the Russian privatised intelligence market. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTb-...

Back from a week in Canada visiting my in-laws. Normally we get together in the Poconos, as it’s central for all of the families, but the in-laws aren’t comfortable coming here under Trump’s new rules so we moved it all north of the border. That’s probably $8k that would’ve gone to Pennsylvania.

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y’all mind if i have a little american dim sum for thanksgiving dinner? 🌭

How I'm walking out of 2025

This message hits hard.

Hail to the King, baby

Anyway, nothing will ever reach the heights of Sony in the 1980s.

You can tell it's the holidays by the flood of new people entering discords and forums demanding that their new toy do what AI said it does, followed by getting angry at the developers who explain politely that the AI is wrong.

The Morning Monty would once again like to thank the weather gods for giving him a real nice sunbeam.

This is when robots learned comedic timing, and humanity's days were numbered.

This is a metaphor for the tech industry overall circa 2025