It wasn’t just geeky stuff like movies/comics, 20th century brick-n-mortar stores used to employ all kinds of weirdos who knew everything about something and LOVED to help. Radio Shack had circuitry weirdos! Sears had vacuum cleaner weirdos! Shirt weirdos! Garden weirdos! Hat weirdos!

A thing that made the old Internet good was all the world’s weirdos came together to offer their deep expertise on niche subjects. Now it’s so much harder to find that online, and we’ve destroyed the weirdos’ natural habitats. Netflix homepage could NEVER recommend a film like a video store weirdo.

CW racist karen alert

Oh for fuck sake

I’m generally against bullying, but dude needs to be stuffed in a locker. Like, every day. Also his shirt is stupid.

Cat rescued after being stranded atop power pole -- Named Wattson by SPCA in honour of NS Power who helped - cat is approximately 1-2 years old #Truro #NovaScotia www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

I have this idea for a game show called Less Online, where the more online spouse/partner tries to explain something to their less online partner and they are racing against another couple to see who gets it first. (this morning I tried to explain the grink to my husband)

Furthering my theory that this entire website is for people who owned Doonesbury collections as children and understood about a third of it.

This is what Kamloops looks like right now while the liberals are building more pipelines and data centers

As you get older you realise that friendships can look different depending on the person - some friends are confidantes and supports, some are for fun and nonsense, some are event companions, some help you lure helpless sailors to their deaths with your communal enchanted singing, they're ALL valid

Albertans can’t escape into the woods to be off the grid anymore because that’s where the fucking data centres are. Harder and harder to be a local cryptid.

In my 20s, I enjoyed blue drinks. I’ve since grown more mature, and now I like…purple drinks.

The best edit I’ve seen in weeks, you absolutely have to turn the sound on for this one.

the main thing I want from video games is for people who make them to be paid and stable because I know that's gonna be the way we get the good video games. also because I'm not a dick

From Puppy Pubs to Knick Knack Shacks, front-lawn trading posts are building community #London #Ontario There are more than 60 trading posts across the country on the Worldwide Sidewalk Joy map www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Ever since I watched Schitt's Creek last month, I find myself occasionally doing something in Alexis' liltish cadence, and I'm not sure how I feel about that.

Sheet contains monsters - confirmed. Must be hunted.

There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.

Explaining 90s music to somebody that didn't live it is explaining our brief sojourn into swing music then a sidestep to gregorian chants, Garrh Brooks, the beginning of the Latin invasion, the dominance of r & b girl groups, the Lilith Fair scene, Loreena McKennitt. Oh yeah and some grunge.

some amazing things happening over on threads — ever since they “shut down CERN”

no talk to me im angy #Cat #Catsofbluesky #Caturday #LifuX

I think it's worth asking the question (of myself, as much as everyone else) of why it's Tilly Walden who is specifically getting blamed here for a somewhat thorny problem, and not editorial and publishers, who always seem to conveniently vanish when stuff like this comes up

okay it's been 24 hours and I'm ready to have a take on the comics vs academia conversation: ultimately--but not legally, necessarily, which is a problem imo--the publisher and editors are at fault here. they could have, and should have, flagged that this was a problem. that's *their job*

Good lordt. Joy had a little breakfast, and it supercharged her zoomies.

Sweetie no one cares

You have a soul of DIRT

Adopt the floofy boys!

Cat: “I cannot convey to you just how much I genuinely despise this food.” Me: “Here, have this instead.” Cat: “OMG I LOVE IT.” Me: “It’s exactly the same bowl of food. I just took it away for six seconds then put it back in the same place.” Cat: “I am fire and the wind. Do not attempt to know me.”

Little hat!!!

Might have to start calling the peonies beeonies.

twas the night before Canada Day and all through the land the people were listening to RUSH and The Band ketchup chips and toast crumbs are set out with care in hopes a House Hippo soon will be there

happy last day of pride from your favourite bisexual’s favourite bisexual see you all tomorrow for wrath month

Your daily affirmation: Seize the day. Then put on some soft pants, grab a good book, seize the night around the neck, and never let go.

As someone who has been struggling with this for months, if not years, without the ability to take any time off due to the crumbling economy and empty social safety net he helped create, I am torn between “glad you got the help you need” and “fuck off.”

No thank you. I have plants and cats.

“Go jump in some water before the data centres drink it all up,” one ad says, accompanied by a Polaroid of kids cannonballing into a lake. Perfection. “This is a threat to your childhood memories, your children’s, meaningful ways to capture them, and your kids themselves.”

Polaroid is in for a penny with anti-AI advertising and let me tell you why I love this. This is a company with cultural capital. Years of nostalgia and goodwill. They know AI is an existential threat—not only to their business, but to the idea of photography as a whole.

An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride

I’m at @danicahere.gander.social

Watching the sky booms!

I think there's a microgenerational gap between older Millennials/young Gen-X and younger Millennials/Gen-Z on this - being old enough to understand the Matthew Shepard attack, not knowing any out gay adults, not having many queer kids at school - and worse if you grew up in an exurb/rural vs urban.

Yellow level air quality warnings have been issued due to all the wildfire smoke being pushed in from northeastern Saskatchewan and northwestern Manitoba. This includes the Edmonton area. #yegwx #abstorm

oh hello, i am being targeted

damn horror book delivering on expectations. one star

There now go read You have my blessing as Pope Of Books (that is me, I am the Pope, I usually do not tell people because I don't want all the groveling and obsequiousness, you know how it is)