What is a reasonable amount these days for a cash gift for a nibling who is convocating? $100?

You REPRIMAND Tomatillo? You place him on the PERFORMANCE PLAN?

god this app is gonna be insufferable next week when G’hzarxl the Rancorous plunges Earth into the aeon of Endless Night

AMERICAN COMEDY: It’s funny because they “tell it like it is” but also there’s always an underlying optimism BRITISH COMEDY: It’s funny because it’s sardonic and pessimistic, but self-deprecating CANADIAN COMEDY: I have no fucking idea why this is funny but it’s the funniest thing I’ve ever seen

SpaceX's best year was a 25% loss

I just taught myself how to open a casement window that has a broken latch (aka our bedroom window where I have been sweltering for a couple of months) and now the window is wide open and I'm feeling like

I briefly saw a bright glowing orb in the sky this morning. It looked familiar but I hadn't seen it in a long time. #yegwx

in any remotely serious society, "leaving guns lying around your house" would be the kind of thing that prevents you from being able to adopt a dog let alone run for office. unfortunately life in hamburgerreich is rarely serious

Stop with the Malthusian eco-fascism. 10% of the world population use as much resources as 90%. 830 million using as much as 7.5 billion. Solve that and you solve the resource crisis

It turns out that doing whatever GIS says is great training for doing whatever ChatGPT says

“I’m Kid Rock.” “I’m Naomi Wolf.” “I’m Kanye West.” “I’m Matt Taibbi.” “I’m Catturd. Those stories, plus Rob Schneider, tonight on 60 Minutes.”

What's a song you never get tired of even after hearing it 10,000 times? youtu.be/HyHNuVaZJ-k?...

I would have posted a funicular status update this morning, but when I went to the shed to grab my bike this morning, my gravel bike had a flat on the rear tire & one of my neighbours had LOCKED THEIR BIKE TO MY CRUISER 🤯🤯🤯🤬 so no active transportation for me today.

Once again, it's like a match between my 2 least favorite sportsball teams

Ever notice how some debates never move forward? No matter the evidence, the standard keeps changing. That’s called moving the goalposts, and it’s a common misinformation tactic. Read more about it here 👇 scienceupfirst.com/misinformati... #ScienceUpFirst

picked up a book at the public library then mailed a package at the post office and am about to use public transportation to get to the gym. I love Services

This might be my favorite New York Post headline ever

"Man Who Exited From 7 Lane Highway Can't Believe Entitled Cyclists Riding Two Abreast"

Newlyweds Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe take a spin on their Raleigh Lenton Tourists in Englefield Green, UK, August 1956 #BicycleBirthday Marilyn Monroe June 1 (1926-1962)

Once day a major outlet will manage to write about the rise of misogyny as a unifying ideological project in the American right without a viscous little aside about how it’s actually all women’s fault for buying “male tears” mugs in 2015.

Some of you on here

- Burn down data center. - Get arrested. - Use one phone call to contact Vaticsn legal services. - Only recorded comment when questioned? "We're on a misson from God."

Someday some one is going to call the police on me when I’m stalking a kingfisher because I look like I’m conducting a heist in an action movie. Hiding behind trees, using my car as a shield like I’m in a gunfight, I must look ridiculous #NemesisBird #birds 🌿

Whyyy am I going out of town on a weekend full of cool #yegbike things?

Edmonton represent!

this is Miles Davis from jazz 😂

“NASA has had a number of explosions over the years, typical government incompetence, we must privatize space exploration” [every privatized rocket immediately explodes upon launch] “ah! well, nevertheless,”

On this day in 2013, Henry Morgentaler died. He fought for abortion rights in Canada. His landmark Supreme court case ruled the abortion provision in the Criminal Code was unconstitutional. Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇 buff.ly/ELpDbkP 📸 CP

have we considered that flo rida and vanilla ice might be locked in a deadly game of chicken where both performers have their entire net worth tied up in elaborate parallel kalshi bets that they will be the last act to drop out? I am asking us to consider it

New rapid unscheduled disassembly just dropped

Don't hate me because my property taxes actually went down this year. 🤭

Sir, they've lost Bret Michaels.

When customers say, “Have a blessed day!” I respond that the cursed amulet won’t let me

I still can’t believe this Great Blue Heron let me witness this tonight. Those wild feathers are breeding plumes, and seeing them lit softly in the evening shadows felt almost unreal.

To the tune of You dont make friends with salad.

Real men have shoulder kittens. Photo from my collection, ca. 1950s.

Not sure who's sillier on Twitter, Elon Musk for claiming history's most infamous far right dictator was a socialist, or the climate change sceptics for saying this temperature in May is fine because a few million years ago the surface of the planet was molten lava

If my dad vibe coded an app to not pick me up from school I’d sort nursing homes by rating and put him in the worst one

Job posting: Are you passionate about [corporate buzzword salad] Me: hell no

Found the city’s transportation master plan.

Smol cobra chicken

"But what about video games?" you ask slyly. Well, if you refuse to acknowledge there's a difference between game mechanic AI use and this fucking mess we're staring at right now, then I'll go full throttle Luddite and abandon it all. Yup.

Borb alert 🔴🐦

I love this gif but there are just not enough opportunities to use it

I've decided to just say no to the tyranny of the blow dryer for the spring/summer and let my natural wave do its thang. Sometimes it looks intentional, sometimes it looks like a mess, but who cares.

The idea that there is something to be learned from arguing with ignorant dickheads must have been originated by an ignorant dickhead. We don't have to accept it. There's really nothing to be gained.

One of the many sources cited in the new papal encyclical is... Gandalf

Heading back to the office tomorrow after a week's vacation spent birding, gardening, and relaxing - aka practicing for retirement.

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”