To right wing men, we are private property. To left wing men, we are public property.

and then i come home to find out 1. tumblr reverted the most fuckass change they've ever done (barring the porn ban) after mass user pushback 2. da yankees lose 3. at least one province in Canada is trying to ban algorithmic pricing... everything's coming up Milhouse

incredible, transcendent show from Mary Lattimore and Julianna Barwick at the Great Hall tonight, great opening set from Masahiro Takahashi and crew too. live music!

Fellas, is it offensive to podcast?

the transparency with which poptimism becomes "people saying the bad thing is good, when i said it was bad! stop it!" is a bit too on the nose now, i prefer the more circuitous arguments when at least they were making an effort

beautiful work, album and review both

extremely good thread here

It’s Friday

im so tired

this is how your email finds me

Doug Ford uses his private cellphone to conduct public business to skirt Freedom of Information rules. He said turning those phone records over would breach his privacy. The court said, oops, that only made his phone records subject to FOI. So now he’s trying to change the FOI rules instead.

I am begging my fellow Canadians to take a break for a second from obsessing about American corruption to focus on our home grown versions. Ford is a corrupt crony goon who has done countless shady backroom deals. He wants to remove one of our most powerful tools to hold him accountable. Fuck that!

It's her day today ❤️

remember, if michael myers or freddy tries to murder you today tell them NO! today is jason’s special day for murdering

Sure you’ll see a bunch of fun cool bands but also you just might luck out and experience the highest high an alt head can experience: seeing a bad band that then gets famous later and you can forever talk shit about how bad they were when they played in front of 15 people

All this. I don’t care if some people find flying out of downtown easier. We need to stop letting these people run Toronto like it’s the place people have to be when they’re not at the cottage. We live here, we like it. Park not planes, @liberalca.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social

bonus Discworld QOTD, from The Shepherd's Crown "FOR I CAN SEE THE BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD MUCH BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT…"

To be clear here, they didn't just rape a man, they raped him with a knife and filmed it. They've been doing this for decades. Sometimes they use electrical prods instead. They do this to children, regularly, as has been documented by numerous human rights groups.

it's crazy that we're all on here pretending like the world didn't radically shift under our feet last week. you just can't deny the technological leap that has happened and those of you who refuse to take advantage of it are going to get left behind. I am of course talking about slay the spire 2

[choking from a failed attempt to eat a devil dog, yodel, and yankee doodle at the same time, a complicated maneuver known as the "triple drake"] i was in love with the frisson of transgression. there was an element of gnosticism to it.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

Replies to this very much a reminder of why "ally" is a term that should only be used by the marginalised community about someone outside it, *never* by a purported ally about themself. Once you make "ally" your identity, rather than a thing you try to do, you stop doing it.

i'm not saying you're a bad person if you stand motionlessly blocking one half of a subway entrance on a phone call for the entire length of me walking a full city block until i get there and have to squeeze past you, but you're sure doing a good imitation of one

yeah it's a spectacularly beautiful day for a long walk but have you considered there's no slay the spire 2 out there

I swear every dystopian tech development is like "Hey, are you OK with being this much not-a-person in our eyes? How about this much? One or two? <clicking noises> OK, how about now—one or two?" like I'm at the devil's optometry office.

third day in a row of having this song stuck in my head. what could it mean?

“Go talk to a librarian” “No, it’s too slow.” Who needs to think about topics or actually do research when you can ask an LLM to give you an answer plausible enough that you feel satisfied regardless of the actually truth? (A lot of very smart people, sadly.)

WHAT IF YOU JUST READ A FUCKING BOOK

silence, wastrel. To the sluggo manifolds with ye

Happy Mario day!

I sometimes worry that too many people think being a good critic means being a self-righteous dick about every little thing and I think far too many miss the point that you can't critique anything if you don't know how to love something.

a number of people on this website are only a few steps away from veering into this territory, make sure it isn’t you

I know I'm not supposed to tell you this, and maybe I'll delete this skeet, but in case you didn't know, Soulseek is back in action for file piracy, and it feels like a way better version of the Napster experience circa A.D. 2000:

i'm not shocked Slay the Spire 2 is great so far, but i am very very happy about it

specific guys aside—it is politically and morally bankrupt to be told we must seriously consider how many is too many pieces of nazi flair

Thom Yorke's wife going to bed: Did you set your alarm? Did you set your surprise?

BTW it is EXTREMELY common for academic papers to declare Lara Croft the first playable female game character (a very easy fact to debunk). As a grad student I wrote a paper that traced every appearance of this "fact" to a single paper, which is why you don't only engage with academic texts!!

This whole interview rocks

men love to be like ‘if i saw some guy doing that shit to my girl i’d kill him.’ no you wouldn’t lol. you can’t even politely ask your buddy to stop calling women fat bitches or whatever

this only makes sense if you think trans people aren’t human or if you think being trans is a luxury belief and a choice that any of us could walk away from at anytime, this is the fascist cultural victory we’re dealing with

thanks again to everyone who has pitched in so far to help my girl, any amount helps relieve some of the stress. there are a couple other ways to help her in the thread if you still want to and are able. please don't put yourself out.

Omens of the underground, he approaches

Instead of hate reading some nonsense essay about gender by some very hateable fella, you could read my book full of essays that are also about gender, and labour, and death, and addiction, and music, but in a much more curious and much more fun way bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

One of the main reasons I don't use AI is that you have to fact-check every single thing it gives you and by the time I do that, I could have just done the research myself.

fuck it, 24 games youtu.be/4VyfUq2ZHBE

"Man convicted of manslaughter after girlfriend dies hiking in winter storm" sounds insane until you get into the details. He put an inexperienced hiker into harm's way despite explicit warnings and waved away numerous attempts to rescue her! The punishment was too lax here, not too severe.

Levels of Bluesky reached here that would kill users of any other website

Sorry, gonna be reposting this one a bit. TLDR: found out my dog has cancer in the process of figuring out the source of her limp and it's going to cost me somewhere in the vicinity of $5-6k to take care of both presuming that she does not need chemo too. So yeah, I need help if possible.