Husband trying to explain to me difference bw figure skating jumps is like me trying to explain difference between omoplata & gogoplata

Meathead pod: “though most people need to be pushed to train with sufficient intensity to elicit adaptations, some people who have had difficult times in their life have the opposite problem & need to dial things back” Me, having been carried out of a gym on a spine board: 😅

It simply must be a radio (& then even worse after the advent of TV) thing, but: it is remarkable how impoverished the common register of expression is in our moment. You can draw a straight line backwards for decades & simply see the through-line medium level of expression ascend

No matter how “smart” an individual is, the social pressure to conform operate at a much higher level than intellectual principle (unless they are powerfully autistic). This makes the spread of transparently risible “with us or against us” garrison mentality no less disappointing, if predictable

The kind of cold winter day where even though it’s nice & sunny I am of a mind to just not leave the house

Inbound DVP on a Friday night from Scarborough is an extremely specific vibe It being winter - centre lane, 105, passed on both sides Home in one piece, enough for me

Ahhhh the algorithm served me up an amazing little video of a seal doing a gallumph gallumph then sliiiiiide into a snoot-boop of a ball & I don’t know I’ve ever seen anything so perfect

I hate that I am thinking of reverting to chrome (gross) but safari’s insistence on putting an extra button press between me and switching tabs is pushing me there

I finally spent some time parsing some LLM output and…you begin to see patterns. From multiple different models. Favoured constructions, lots of syntactic sameness. It could be just as epiphemonenal of the style of the underlying corpus they were trained on but once you start seeing it, you see it

Had a chat with husband last night realizing we’ll never get to see historical Cuba now. It’ll be Walmarts & cheap Vegas stuff in the next five years.

I saw the new Sam Raimi movie Send Help. It’s very good. Very Sam. Highly recommended. Plenty of camera fun, very well-acted & -edited. Lots of good gross out stuff. Goofy in that classic Raimi way.

Well that was a lousy Monday

So as it turns out it was super rich pedophiles who invented the “trans people are coming for your kids” canard to distract from the people who were actually preying on kids: the super rich pedophiles

this is one of my favorite pictures lately

So Grindr is selling an AI service that will make hookups for you automatically? And charging $120 a week for it? What is happening. Who is this for??

Every major website/company now: Yeah if we find out you post or look at a boob we will freeze all your accounts without warning The CEO of every major website/company over Gmail: Oh Jeffrey you are simply a hoot. Lovely spending time with you on Party Pervert Pedo Island Jeffrey Epstein: yeag ,

Ok I am awake & sober & hungover & in the daylight reading this new Epstein shit is super duper fucked up. These people are speculating about corpse disposal now?

Cross posting from the bad bird app is app but seeing this is legitimately possibly going to make me insane

The terminus of everything being a content event. Nauseating.

Epstein is like pervert forest gump.

PSA for any wine nerds: I had no idea Wales made rieslings but apparently they do. DO NOT DRINK IT. It is v bad. Like, very _VERY_ bad

It’s interesting; I don’t even know if straight people understand how aggressive their family picture sharing rituals can come off (particularly men). And it’s always fun, as a member of a queer family unit, to be able to reciprocate in a completely unexpected capacity. Feels like a reverse uno card

Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign

your periodic reminder to NEVER PAY FOR ANYTHING THROUGH AN APP unless it's literally impossible not to. The app store takes a cut, so the app charges a higher price for the subscription AND ISN'T ALLOWED TO TELL YOU ABOUT THE MARKUP www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3D_...

Goddam it’s cold. I’m figuring we got what, four or five weeks of hovering around negative double digits? I just hope it gets closer to -10 than -20, -20 is a bit much

Cool that Carney gives us a rebate just in time for Galen Weston to add a 25 cent surcharge on every single dang thing at the grocery store 😤 If we ever get a guaranteed income or whatever in this country it’ll all just go straight into the oligopolists’ pockets

Every time I see a dog or cat stretch my internal monologue gets a Bruce Dickinson voice like in the bridge of Can I Play With Madness going “ooooOOOOOOH big streeeeeeeeetch”

What I love about the incoherence of this even just purely based on the jock part is if you actually try to do both significant running mileage & actually lift appreciably heavy by any meaningful standard you will fucking bury yourself. These nerds, they try so hard to be tough. Just be nerd it’s ok

As Events progress, it will be interesting to see how and if bike infrastructure becomes an even more acute culture war cleavage than it already is

Just saw an old episode of Charlie Rose in which Ian McKellen praises Brendan Fraser’s “complete naturalism at portraying the thought process of being bewildered” which I thought to be a very roundabout and quite British way of calling him a dumbass

One of those days when opening up the news feels like when you watch your friend who’s really bad at video games just eating shit & it keeps getting worse

I assume that all of these damned devices do this. Yes even the apple phones. Consumer panopticon. And if advertisers can get this stuff, there’s no question other more coercive parties can too

Also: fun how half the crosswalks are just inaccessible (buttons cannot be reached, snowdrifts 3+ feet high); and also: buses don’t open their rear doors (guess who got to walk an extra stop after getting off whee)

Ah, Toronto after major snowfall: hell of slow walkers 🤬

Behind that door is one of the last cool spaces in the city. Projectionist/bicycle mechanic Martin Heath has run a combo theatre/bike repair shop for ages; recently the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre has stepped in and some of the rough edges have been sanded off, but it's still going.

One of my favorite Vietnamese restaurants on Nicollet is giving back today for the next hour or so, but you can throw a little cash their way whenever

It was funny I hate short form video & was almost about to use the tick tock app & today everyone just talked about how Larry Ellison is breaking & censoring it so I’m like phew I can just delete this & not wade into that mental minefield of sensory stimulus

Really should’ve tried to catch the powder on the toboggan hill this morning but instead glued to the horror of the unspooling news scroll. Oops

Oh, this reminds me, if you have access to fine powder snow such as we currently do in Toronto, and you have freezer-cold gin and chilled glasses, you can make a Martini with suspended ice particles that's like drinking one of those glitter lava lamps.

Love to open my phone app & spend 5 minutes finding where they buried my “favourites” list Fucks sake apple. This shit is terrible

Correct, and also absolutely welcome & downright charming

the forums era did give us some good things

It is time to revisit Sichuan peppercorns.

This article is from 2020.

Video games do not cause violence. But we as an industry are clearly not ready to have a conversation about how we've normalized a military fantasy

So on this round of social media platform curation I tried to be less political in who I follow but even still my feed is basically 50/50 weird/horny shit & just white hot outrage

I think it’s very important for people to be aware of & understand what is happening down there. But that doesn’t mean everyone needs to expose themselves to the psychic damage that comes with seeing the actual footage.

Tried to write hobnobbing as hobknobbing. Feels like that says something; not sure what