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GKIDS just announced two new Studio Ghibli 4K remasters

if it wasn't a world-destroying atrocity it would be kind of funny how much time and money and energy is being put into convincing everyone to love AI and still the general consensus is like "meh"

Warren Steinley signed a nice letter for me to congratulate me on becoming a citizen. He even sent me a sticker of his own face! I put it right next to my "feminist killjoy" and my "I don't give a fuck what the founding fathers wanted" stickers in my sticker book. Good luck, I'm not voting for you

I loathe this - one of the quotes is from Ursula K Le Guin, and if you knew anything about her, she would be burning the NYT headquarters and salting the earth behind her after being "compared" to AI. I don't care if the echo machine makes convincing echoes.

Weiter sagen!

If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.

Interesting to think that Donald Trump may have, completely inadvertently and at a horrific cost, finally woken up the world to how urgent it is we get off our dangerous addiction to fossil fuels.

Me: A cat dancer is just a wire and a tiny bit of cardboard. Mimi is 8 years old and hates moving. How fun could she really find it? Mimi:

Telegraph in even-a-broken-clock-right-twice-day moment:

Just another Monday… A Roman mosaic depicting a somewhat whimsical owl 🦉, found in Uzès, southern France, dating second half of the 1st century BC. 📷 Denis Gliksman, Inrap 🏺 #MosaicMonday

Shuttered Street Glow #pixelart #ドット絵

I watched the silent hill 2 movie and now I can’t stop thinking about her

Books will outlast your puny digital technology www.thetimes.com/article/74a7... @whippletom.bsky.social

Great thread about Maud Lewis, Canadian folk painter. I had a chance to visit her house that now lives inside the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (it’s that small). Such an interesting person and her art always brings a smile

I can't handle more fluoride debate!!!! I'm going to lose it!!!!!!!!

I think there's a huge argument to be made to #yqrcc that with the median car price being $63K (holy shit) and gas being a precarious political item, building car centric communities is actually a huge security and survivability risk, long term.

Traffic Engineering: 2026 Edition 📖

I've driven up and down Cermak road in Chicago so many times and I knew that it was named after a former mayor but I didn't know that that mayor, Anton Cermak was SHOT by an ASSASSIN who was trying to KILL FDR, but a woman standing next to the gunman grabbed his arm and he shot Cermak instead.

On one hand I got back into my house and it smells like the inside of a toilet because we are having sewer line problems in the basement. On the other hand my cat politely waited for me to change into my pjs before she led me over to her dinner bowl and meowed at me to watch her soooooo

If you smell toast, you might be having a stroke... a stroke of luck that is. It’s toast time.

One of the best of all time. “You’re not stuck in traffic. You ARE traffic.” Wish we had come up with that one. #UrbanTruth

And, btw… this Thursday on the Queen City Improvement Bureau, we have local author Suzy Krause (@suzykrause.bsky.social) as our guest. She'll be talking about her award winning novel "I Think We've Been Here Before". Plus, we'll probably chat about parking meters too. #yqrcc

I wonder if scraping Role Playing forums for AI learning maybe might have been a... bad idea.

seems bad

Council in December: WE MUST BRING DOWN THE MILL RATE! CUT! CUT! CUT! Council in March: MY PHONE'S RINGING OFF THE HOOK! WHO MADE THIS INSANE CUT?! RETREAT! RETREAT! #yqrcc

Tsiklis: Thank you, I'd like to make that motion. SO! Tsiklis is moving a reconsideration of the ENTIRE 2026 BUDGET! just because the parking fee — he approved! — is a few cents too high! #yqrcc

Tsiklis says that adding $2.50 to a lunch date to park each car is a problem. It'll kill the downtown. Hmmmmm… $2.50 to park will kill downtown. Meanwhile, transit fares… #yqrcc

Funny how the most fiscally hawkish councillors are also the ones demanding limitless, free parking — despite the costs parking imposes upon cities. Why, it's almost like it's the fiscal hawks driving up property taxes & not the Inefficiency Jabberwock they're forever chasing. #yqrcc

Here's an idea: Drive-In School! No school building: just a giant parking lot and a big screen. Kids will have to learn how to drive themselves a lot sooner but I'm surprised we haven't done that long ago. #yqrcc

No offense, but are these elementary students driving to school? Why do we need parking lots the size of a big box store for like 30 minutes of drop off/pick up a day? I'm just so tired.

This question made me put on my tin foil hat. That RFP becoming a baseball stadium... sounds so plausible the way that some of the councilors are speaking :/

Was watching some stuff on male loneliness & more general social isolation… First thing I did when we moved to Regina was go to my local community association & ask, How can I help? Instant community. Incidentally… the Cathedral Village Arts Festival is looking for volunteers. cvaf.ca

History doesn’t repeat itself but it sure rhymes a lot.

Carney: Canada supports the United States… Canada: no, we fucking do not.

ICYMI: Suburban development costs 38% more in upfront public costs & 10% more in ongoing costs than compact development, PLUS has only 1/10th the tax revenue per acre, confirms report summarizing 17 studies. Via @smartgrowthusa.bsky.social The blunt truth? Sprawl is heavily subsidized by ALL of us.

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

Good one by new @flaminghydra.com @katewagner.wehwalt.net flaminghydra.com/issue-513/

We're great at parties.

Hey look they said the quiet part out loud. I'm just going to make sure my emergency kit is all good to go.

Today's victory in attention span: I sent the emails and did the things I said I was going to do, like call the plumber, fold laundry, take a shower, and make cream of asparagus soup Attention span failure of the day: My actual job

This is big news— “British Columbia to end time changes, adopt year-round daylight time. March 8 will be the last time British Columbians have to change their clocks, premier announces.” Wasn’t that important to me, but I support no more time changes. So we’ll be on permanent PDT, Seattle won’t be.

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It’s awesome that he’s giving them an actual reason to bomb the White House

what if we just fucking didn't bomb people how would that go