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Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.

Sorry, but you're not going to get me to watch 60 Minutes.

Incompetence, along with a whole organization who hates Weiss and is happy to undermine her.

Here's Roger Goodell in the Oval Office hanging out with President Trump while he suggests suspending habeas corpus. Definitely not the kind of behavior that's detrimental to the league whatsoever

It actually all makes perfect sense if... [clasps hands] ... It's a temporal pincer manoeuvre.

What's annoying about this is that the worst perpetrators are the AI companies, but then the confusion is used is often used to try and undercut critics of the technology.

I'm bored. Ask me anonymous questions, or send me messages. ngl.link/jamespmcleod2

Does anybody else remember the tv commercial where the woman had an orgasm because the shampoo was so good?

excuse me?!

Posting a screenshot of a headline, or a part of a news article, without linking to the article makes you a bad person.

If you've gotta work today, you should be unionized, or thinking about unionizing.

Lot of incorrect opinions on this matter, but the best Christmas song is actually "Noel Brun" by Les Cowboys Fringants. youtu.be/Popt4wlWzbo?...

LinkedIn is quietly the most interesting social media site. It's the one without ~all this~ because everyone is maintaining toxic positivity to land their next job. It's the capitalist utopia.

No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts

The butt.

Sorry if I was weird, it will happen again.

I'm 25% of the way through Oryx and Crake, finding the protagonist to be quite unpleasant, and I'm not really curious to find out how he got to where he is at. Does this book get better at some point, or is this just what it is?

Lot of incorrect opinions on this matter, but the best Christmas song is actually "Noel Brun" by Les Cowboys Fringants. youtu.be/Popt4wlWzbo?...

This Globe and Mail crossword is tearing the family apart.

The thing about the Knives Out movies is that you're not actually supposed to solve the mystery. You're just supposed to kinda sit back and let it all happen to you.

The wildest thing I learned this year: www.youtube.com/shorts/CEOdm...

He sounds Canadian, tbh,

Dec 21st 1990 - Kevin gets sent to bed by himself. Harry of the Wet Bandits cases the houses in the neighbourhood. Fuller McCallister (a Wet Bandit himself) prepares himself for the evening. 📽️📅 Home Alone (1990)

Now ask the police chief if we can reallocate funding from the police budget to whoever should be doing mental health calls instead.

Out for a walk in the snow squalls.

legitimately love this guy.

Happy Winter Solstice to all who celebrate.

If there was an Olympic event for over-packing, I could absolutely qualify.

Spotted this little tableau in a tree box on Queen, near Bellwoods. Just in case anyone wondered if Canadians were getting any less pissed off with the US

I love bowl season! 😂😂 #CFBSky

Weird

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

Dec 20th - Patrick Bateman asked Paul Allen the immortal question - "Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?". 📽️📅 American Psycho (2000)

Ok, this is officially my vibe until January 5, 2026. Don't talk to me unless you can keep the vibe cozy.

Dec 20th 1959 - Sam Loomis & Lila Crane head to the Bates Motel to investigate Marion's disappearance. While there, they meet Norman's mother 📽️📅 Psycho (1960)

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

Ok, this is officially my vibe until January 5, 2026. Don't talk to me unless you can keep the vibe cozy.

🚨 "The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials. " h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

You could probably take a nap this afternoon.

Advice for junior researchers: Today is the day you can cold call a CEO/senior executive for an interview and get them on the phone. They’ve sent their EAs home and they’re aimless. Have your questions ready to go.

Looking through old debates on floor-crossing. Stephen Harper had an underrated sense of humour.

So many people are convinced that rich people promote racism and sexism as a clever ploy to distract the proles from joining together against the one true enemy: wealth. Meanwhile, any time the private convos of rich people come out, it's stuff like "I hate black people and view women as sub-human."