Stomp-stomp CLAP! Stomp-stomp CLAP! Stomp-stomp CLAP! Stomp-stomp CLAP! (The genius of the song is such that I don't have to link the video for many of you to guess what that song is.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojhK...

The finale of the great TV comedy show Blackadder goes Forth. Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it. Every single time.

Bond, aware he could never be near the woman he loved (at least for the moment) or his kid, faked his death and reinvented himself as a gay detective with an unbelievable accent.

If your game has voice acting, then working with the voice actors is half of your writing process. It's not complete until you've heard it interpreted and reimagined by a voice actor. And they always reimagine it in ways that elevate the writing, in ways you never would have imagined yourself.

This is one of the things I hate most about modern capitalism. The idea of making money has been fully peeled away from delivering any kind of goods or services that people would want to pay money for.

Genesis (social media) Genesis released "Land of Confusion" #OnThisDay in 1986 as a single from "Invisible Touch".

It’s insane to treat the filibuster as the most sacrosanct. Article 1 power of the purse, oversight, and war? Nah. Emoluments clauses? Bribery prohibition? Meh. Criminal law? 14A? Doesn’t count. But maybe the Senate changes a rule it has multiple times before? Gasp! Not that. Anything but that.

Idiom Origin “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” This was originally *sarcasm* & meant to convey that the act was impossible. A boot strap is a loop used to help put your boot on. This 1921 cartoon from the “Nonpartisan Leader” showcases that you can’t pull upward on your boots to levitate.

One reason among many that I'm so disappointed with Carney's budget; for all the "swinging for the fences" rhetoric it's mostly filled with bunts and balls. #CdnPoli

The science of storytelling with author and humanist Kurt Vonnegut 😅❤️ Kurt was born #OnThisDay 1922.

are you really going to imprison the goons terrorizing our cities? you just capitulated in a fight that you were very clearly winning

I see someone learned the lesson of Nortel: when one firm's shares dominate an exchange on the strength of impossible growth projections funded by credit derived from that growth, it's time to bail. (Only this time the real economy won't end up with "dark fibre" to support future growth.)

I would accuse Schumer of being a spineless jellyfish but that's giving him too much credit; jellyfish at least know to sting their attackers.

I put #DanielleSmith and #DougFord at the centre of this toxic embarrassment. Underfunding healthcare, public health and education, while actively allowing anti-vax nonsense to impact policy decisions. #ONpoli #ableg #measles #cenpoli

In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

It’s honestly kind of shocking we haven’t had one of these yet.

In my old town the GOP had run basically without serious challenge for decades. A bunch of us "millennials" joined the local Dem party and basically asked to help. We were running it in a year. Within 4 years we had a majority of town seats flipped Dem. A FAR more progressive Dem than old party

Free Sarah Kendzior.

The sooner Dem leadership examines their strategies and find the reasons for recent failures, the better off the planet will be -- and the likelier there will be a democratic republic in charge of America instead of heirs of a tinpot dictator. #MAGADelendaEst

I just woke up to about 10cm of snow accumulated on my balcony and it's still coming down. I had planned to walk to the store and get some groceries this morning, but I think I'll postpone the trip until this afternoon and give the city some time to clear the walks. #LdnOnt #Snow

The Rest of The World: football can't be played in the snow. Canada: Hold my beer and watch this...

This is Oakley. He has an injury that requires physical therapy and at-home massages. Luckily, his cat sibling River has been training his whole life for this. 14/10 for both

AND FOR THE SELF-PROMO TAX: you guys guess what…the rain stoped and the sun came out, holy crap

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I had to post this just for the caption on the thumbnail. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HTt...

Some of the stray dogs living near Chernobyl have recently turned blue. This confused scientists for weeks, until they realized they had simply been rolling around in chemicals from a nearby set of portable toilets. 14/10 for all

Exactly right. Why should we respect a president who doesn’t respect the constitution he swore an oath to uphold?

Phenomenal lede, 100/10 www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...

Hospitals across Canada are closing their ERs because there aren't enough doctors to run them. Millions don’t have a doctor. Millions more can’t get an appointment. It didn’t used to be this way. Turns out it wasn’t an accident.

This is a fantastic series of posts about subsistence farming and why your ancestors will rise from the grave and smack you if you return to it after they got out.

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Man found stuck, dead at U.S. Postal Service facility in Allen Park, report says

Think about how basically every TTPRPG group has more robust systems in place for dealing with bad actors, than the US government.

In ttrpg's, there's a constant problem of that one fucking guy who keeps trying to make a character who refuses to adventure. Everyone else is set to play and he's like "my character would not trust these people, and refuse to join their party"

The problem isn't that they caved for a promised vote; the problem is that the vote will be a meaningless gesture impressing no one but Senate Democrats. It will fail. ACA beneficiaries will suffer considerably as a result and there will be no consequences of any kind for Republicans.

On Nov. 10, 1979, a 106-car freight train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed and caught fire in Mississauga. The incident led to the largest evacuation in North American history to that point. Not a single life was lost. This is the story of the Mississauga Miracle. 🧵 1/12

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

Do you know how hard it is to politically radicalize someone who joined a website to reply with the cry laughing emoji to the Trix cereal rabbit?

If you see this post your bird art! It's Captain Jack Sparrow!

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

Canada has lost its measles elimination status. A sad day, a win for anti-vaccine ignorance and politicized public health, a new age where children, families, and communities will face additional health risks for no good reason other than the comfort of joining others with similar fact-less beliefs.

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

"When your enemy is making one catastrophic mistake after another, interrupt them and save them from any consequences they might face." –Schumer-Tzu

Mr. @deadder.bsky.social hits it out of the park again. 🍁🇺🇸🤭🇺🇸🍁

This is a classic blunder in a whole host of industries and professions. What you find is that having a small number of rabid evangelists is a far better route to success than having a bunch of people who give your work 2.5 stars.

Maybe if people think the Democratic Party is "weak" it is not because they think that Democrats "care about other people" but that they "fold every single time."