Your IKEA product name is your name spelled backwards with an umlaut. I am QNÖLP, an overstuffed love seat that isn't as comfy as it looks, and never quite matches the decor.

I bought what I thought was a pound of stew beef at the butcher shop on Sunday. The lady taking my request even repeated it back to me as such. When I unwrapped it today, I discovered she gave me ground beef instead. I can work with this. I guess. Everyone's allowed a brain fart now and then.

Alberta government to ban the number 58,008 in schools

Calliope got duck for breakfast this morning, and now she's tearing around the house like her tail's on fire. It's her favourite, next to rabbit, but it tends to put her in a fowl mood.

Breaking: so it is possible for a homegrown star to succeed in playoffs despite Toronto fans, media

Totally not the behaviour of Nazis. I like the part where the brown-shirts were putting zip-ties on naked children in Chicago and loading them into vans.

Police recommend calling 911 a few days before crime www.thebeaverton.com/2025/10/poli...

If you ever feel like you need a bit more stress in your day, try re-flashing your system BIOS. The harrowing 2-3 minutes of watching the status bar tick on the screen, while simultaneously keeping an eye out for any cats that might want to bump your USB stick will remind you that you're alive.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Gavin Newsom with the receipts!

I don't see eye-to-eye with the Conservatives on, well, much of anything these days. But this is one of those extraordinarily rare instances when we're on the same page.

There is no war in Portland. Medicaid pays only providers. Undocumented people are NOT on Medicaid. Republicans are responsible for the government shutdown. Republicans ARE enjoying harming others. ICE = Gestapo. FACTS.

Hey Linux folks, I was thinking of installing it on my old Surface Pro 3 now that Windows 10 has reached EOL. I tried booting up Mint as a trial on it from a USB stick, and it seems to support all of the hardware just fine. What flavour would you recommend for a complete Linux newbie?

Stressed?

For all our own problems, I'm glad that I live where I do. I can't imagine living in such constant, abject fear that I couldn't fathom going grocery shopping without a gun.

In memoriam...

Trump Asks JD Vance To Research Whether President Allowed To Kill Vice President https://theonion.com/trump-asks-jd-vance-to-research-whether-president-allowed-to-kill-vice-president/

I made sauerkraut soup to use up the last of our Kobassa and bacon. I mixed things up a bit from the last time I made this by adding some carrots and an apple to inject some sweetness. The red bit in the bowl is a whole fish pepper from the garden. It's delicious.

They smashed the windows last week, and then waited until Truth and Reconciliation day to firebomb her office. It's time to start treating this as the right-wing domestic terrorism that it is.

Hungover Hegseth Struggling To Remember How He Ended Up In Room Full Of Generals

RFK Jr. Promotes Natural Immunity With Invitation To Touch His Festering Sore

A couple more random pictures from Nuit Blanche.

Some random pictures I took while we walked around the Nuit Blanche venues.

We took in Nuit Blanch.

Thank goodness they insist on shoehorning AI answers into the top of search engine results. It serves as a good reminder not to trust much of the slop they churn out. Time to build a few more data centres, eh? This is what they are replacing actual humans with, folks.

Canada Post “lost” 1 billion dollars last year? How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.

Those, uh, terrorist Doritos crumbs on the bed are a dead giveaway.

As a cat owner, you read it and then slowly nod.

Snek. (Not pictured here: many, many more snakes. We were up at the snake pits.)

Wolf.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

If it was me, I would rapture everybody today EXCEPT the cultists who were convinced that it was going to happen yesterday as punishment for not reading Matthew 24:36. Would serve them right for spreading false prophecy.

I don't find it shocking at all. Honestly, I expect no better from anybody in that administration. Fearless leader to the south has made a point of surrounding himself with stupid, angry, mean and incompetent people.

Bird.

Smile, big guy.

Why do kangaroos always look so sketchy? I didn't think these two were up to no good when we approached, but now I'm wondering what we interrupted them from.

Wolf!

3 camels, 2 heads.

Bears. Wish I could figure out an easy way to edit out the giant snot streak on the glass, but I still like this shot.

It's always mouse o'clock somewhere.

Snep doing snep things.

Wolfs.

"And just like that, we solved hunger in America."

I often asked myself, "what benefit would I get from shelling out crazy money for a smart, internet-enabled fridge?" Well, now you can learn about singles in your area, and if there are sales on penis-enlargement cream when you're reaching for a snack to placate your crushing loneliness.

Newborn Loses Faith In Humanity After Record 6 Days https://theonion.com/newborn-loses-faith-in-humanity-after-record-6-days-1819573929/

If you blinked at the wrong time, you might miss a little vignette hidden in a copse of trees.

This little park was worth the drive across town. We went one direction on the river walk. It was muddy, but scenic. The return trip was less muddy, and less scenic, but had a scattering of nice little surprises in the form of tree carvings.