Now why would the UCP be trying to rip apart urban ridings? Huh.

What is this fresh hell from Adobe!?

Going to a pension conference in Montreal - this is work appropriate attire, right?

I just remembered that in 1996 I was paid a minimum wage at a pharmacy of $6.40. It was 40 cents less than "adult" employees who made $6.85. That rate difference still exists and blows me away. Why was I paid less for the same work? (also, that was like $12.40 today...)

This USPS news drives me nuts - it's similar with arguments about Canada Post here. Mail is a public good. It doesn't need to bring in a profit.

how much money does the marine corps lose

This is catastrophic.

My semi-annual reminder that if you're in charge of conference food and you serve vegetarians cold, slimey veg on wet bread you deserve to be tried for war crimes.

Drake continues to suck.

I want to throw Microsoft in a fire this morning - OneDrive decided I should have ALL of my personal files on my work OneDrive by syncing with it (I didn't tell it to) and then GREYING OUT THE OPTION TO STOP IT FROM DOING IT.

Stories like these drive me up the wall for two reasons : - It's framed like CPP/PSP, etc. are investing in ICE. They're not, they're buying equities in telecoms and defense contractors, often in an indirect way from an index. AT&T, CACI, Palantir, General Dynamics, etc. 1/2.

Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.

We have been told shelter in place. We are safe. #puertovallarta

Age verification? I slept on a water bed - for years.

please give us more personal data please please please please c’mon you’re being so mean dude. we only got breached like three times. we’re NOT going to sell it man please please please plus its for like safety? so you’re the one who looks stupid right now come on pleaaaaaase just one data point bro

I've cancelled my nitro. This is clearly them gearing up for an IPO. There are alternatives - I have no desire to have my personal ID given to some third party to be hacked. @discord.com

Archives matter - but not to the Carney government. Canada has only ONE federal funding program for community archives, and they just killed it. Gone. @wgreaves.bsky.social www.canada.ca/en/library-a...

I'm glad the Grammys was used as a platform to push back against ICE/Trump - it's the first time the Grammys have been relevant in ages and definitely isn't because of the choices made for nominees/winners. (Defying Gravity over Golden? Really? Fuck off.)

I am calling this a panagram! I will not accept the faulty US spelling! #spellingbee #nytimes

I can't sleep. I know what's happening in MN isn't my country, isn't my government - but it's like watching a close friend descend further and further into self harming behavior. The further it goes, the more concerned I am they'll never recover. I'm sad. I'm angry. And there's nothing I can do.

Hey Youtube/Google - stop feeding me this AI Slop (BrownHouse, Sakura Yuki, etc).

I finally got a Queen Bee. I've been doing the Bee for a solid year. Yeesh.

Review of Death Stranding 2 after 10 hours : Kojima has never smelled such an orchestra of his own farts.

It's the most wonderful time of the year: Watching Muppet Family Christmas and then re-discovering how the Ripped from TV version someone uploaded to YouTube ends: youtu.be/Bi9qSKZuvC4?... #doomedbaby

"there was no vote on whether Israel could participate in Eurovision next year" - Fuck the EBU.

"Wait, people are still having Phoenix issues?" Yes. It's been 9 years. Imagine any other employer doing this. I got three Phoenix calls THIS MORNING.

I have so much respect for @michaelhobbes.bsky.social - I read the first bit of Sapiens when it came out and tapped out. Reading the whole thing then podcasting about it? Unreal. It's so epically bad.

It cannot be remembered enough that these were the same people who got worked up about drag brunches

I've been loving all of these 80s inspired Synth-Pop acts like Haute & Freddy (www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK-1...) is Annie Lennox (a thread)

Sexy Blue Jays vs. Dodgers ... Not counting my chickens before they hatch, but it's pretty sexy right now. (I'm going to jinx this aren't I?)

"Ronald Reagan's views on free trade are offensive to conservatives now" is a pretty crazy timeline to live in.

Is it just me or was the #nytimes crossword really easy today? (Friday) I did it in 8 minutes. That's a Monday time, not a Friday time!

This is disgusting behaviour from Carney towards Karina Gould. And frankly, coupled with the “boys club” stuff sources have previously told me and the way he tended to lose patience more quickly with female journalists during the campaign…he may need to “look inside himself.”

I mean, I already wasn't buying EA games...

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

The discourse over Kirk’s career is really hammering home how little the media and so many Dems understand the concept of lying or bad faith arguments. An entire life dedicated to poisoning the well under the guise of ‘an exchange of ideas’ and nobody is capable of calling it out for what it was.

This is going to go *so badly* and cost *so much money*...

I don't like doing this. It feels fucked up to constantly point out the negative dimensions of someone who just died in a horrific, worrying way. But I would like the media to tell basic truths about this person and his impact on public life rather than resorting to euphemism and outright lies!

Losing my goddamned mind. We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

A fun thing to remember on Labour Day is that Mark Carney eliminated the Cabinet role Minister of Labour, a position that had existed for more than a century under governments of all stripes, and Canada is currently without a labour minister for the first time since 1909.

Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to write a short story in as few words as possible. This was his entry. "For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn. NWT AUTHENTIC $200 OBO. NO lowballers!! I know know what I've got. Local pickup in Etobicoke NO SHIPPING."

I was an Imgur user for ages, it was one of my favourite online communities...and then Medialab bought them, fired everyone that worked there, replaced mods with AI and generally has let the site go to shit. www.404media.co/imgurs-commu...

I subscribe to If Books Could Kill patreon - and I was surprised they had abandoned the concept, more or less doing pundit portraits and such. It took me 6 months to realize that the patreon feed and the main feed were different *head desk*. I guess I have episodes to catch up on...

It's been a GOOD year for video game music - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 of course, but also surprise bangers like South of Midnight, Tempest Rising and The Rogue Prince of Persia OST : www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3PU...

My cat and I don't speak the same language, but when I opened the curtains in a dark room and she meowed while squinting and pulling back from the light... I feel like that's a universal experience that I understood.

actual footage from Washington DC