Picture of the day today comes from Shania Murdock who bumped into these new parents who wanted to show off their newborn as the little one enjoyed a snack!

People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.

"It’s a fantastic feeling to type in a search query and once again get useful, relevant, non-AI results (that I can customize!). It’s a bit of sanity returning to my Internet experience, and I’m grateful." arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Peonies in an orange vase #peonies #vancouver

I get a lot of Qs about the hell we're supposed to do about young men and radicalization. There are lots of different resources on this and @whiteribbon.bsky.social has just created a new one specific for those who are raising boys and young men.

a-z-animals.com/articles/ida... Natures engineers!

Don't be fooled by the myth of control Be at peace within the chaos And constant rebirth of the creative mind To be in the now of creation ...🎶 "Clear Water" by Meshell Ndegeocello is like one of the funkiest hymns I've ever heard. Musicianship, vocals, lyrics—everything. outstanding.

This is a pretty sweet tray of flytraps (a b52 hybrid, for the nerds out there)

I gift you 2 minutes of zen with a skateboarding bulldog #dogs Enjoy

Taken the evening after Gord Downie died. People were gathered on the shore around a campfires playing the Tragically Hip. The music carried across the lake, but it felt like ti was carried right across #Canada. #memory #Bobcaygeon

The rampant data sharing fueled by online tracking has serious consequences. Privacy Badger blocks online tracking to prevent your browsing data from being used against you. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Knights of Molino. I’m obsessed.

I hate Steven Harper so much more the 2nd time around! Fuck this guy "If development gets bogged down in B.C., PM says his government will be 'spending more time elsewhere'...." (Oil) This *plus* giving individual MPs veto power over decades old environmental laws Fuck this guy #cdnpoli #bcpoli

Transcripts created by 12 of the 20 programs contained incorrect information like capturing a different drug than was prescribed by the doctor. Seventeen of the 20 systems missed key details about patients’ mental health issues. In BC our medical data is stored in the US too #cdnpoli #bcpoli

A highlight of #90smusic, Garbage #music

#MayMusicChallenge #MusicChallenge #music A song about Radio Loretta Lynn guides my hands through the radio Where would I be in times like these without the songs Loretta wrote? When you can't find a friend you've still got the radio Nanci Griffith - Listen to the Radio

they’ve won the decades long culture war, the supreme court is stacked, people love the racisms. it’s gonna take more than expensive gas and groceries to deprogram cultists.

Please don't say "We're in a good place". Please don't say "We're in a good place". Please don't say "We're in a good place". #WordsOfDoom www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

#MayMusicChallenge #MusicChallenge #music A song with only vocals Sarah McLachlan - Mercy There's no hope in regretting now All the pain that we could not see We both knew what we wanted And we took it, believing it free And we took it, believing it free

Good day my friends, it's #RockInTuesday. Enjoy the day. ☺️☮️💙 #Nature #Scape #Photography #Maine #Birds

Just played a CD.. All the songs were mixed to the same volume and, get this, no adverts at all. I'm telling you, this is the future.

No, I wont sing 😒

I was today years old when I learned that the very end of two songs on the the Nine Inch Nails album "Year Zero" have images encoded into them that are only visible via spectrogram.

Real estate was my second bubble. "Garran estimates that AI now accounts for over four times the wealth trapped in the 2008 subprime mortgage bubble, which resulted in years of protracted crisis across the globe." People without jobs were given loans to buy $750K houses. Enough said.

Foothills Ivan Eyre 1998

#MusicChallenge #IsmuasMonthOfMusic Day 8 A Duet Between Two Pop Artists Kim Wilde & Boy George I believed love was a temple Where our prayers were born every day Precious dreams, forever sacred Now we feel them slipping away So stay with me Lay with me Feel our love Shine on, shine on

I am starting a petition to no longer refer to AI "art" as AI art but instead as Computer-Rendered Artificial Pictures (CRAP). Pass it on.

A peaceful day for the caregivers and the nurturers 🌿

#MusicChallenge #80smusic #IsmuasMonthOfMusic Day 9: A synth-pop track from the 80s So many great posts, I'm going to add a niche entry - I bought Mathilde Santing's debut 10" vinyl just because this highschool gay boy saw a kindred spirit in the cover photo. Classic covers, synthified!

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic Day 9- A Synth- Pop Track From The 80s youtu.be/i5HDfxDW7Ck?...

#MusicChallenge #80smusic #IsmuasMonthOfMusic Day 9: A synth-pop track from the 80s The UK's most charted female artist of the #80s, just one of her classics Kim Wilde - Cambodia

I want to go to there

#MusicChallenge #IsmuasMonthOfMusic Day 8 A Duet Between Two Pop Artists Kim Wilde & Boy George I believed love was a temple Where our prayers were born every day Precious dreams, forever sacred Now we feel them slipping away So stay with me Lay with me Feel our love Shine on, shine on

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #musicchallenge Day 8: With road or avenue in the title From an uptown apartment To a knife on the A train It's not that far From the sharks in the penthouse To the rats in the basement It's not that far To the bag lady frozen asleep in the park Oh no, it's not that far

The whale is inside the swim buoy at English Bay Beach right now

Bougainvillea-

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 8 - A duet between two pop artists

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 8 - A duet between two pop artists I'm looking forward to Matt Cardle's new album, looks like his first truly great LP imho. I've always loved this catchy, pure pop duet about fwbs falling in love. Melanie C & Matt Cardle