I love the rugby highlight videos where it's the largest person you've ever seen running faster than you've ever seen anyone run while slightly smaller yet still enormous people bounce off them. The human body is so various in its forms and abilities.

When you see politicians breathlessly supporting Israel I need you to remember this data and realize they are not courting Jews THEY ARE COURTING CHRISTIAN ZIONISTS WHO HAVE ALL THE MONEY AND POWER

This past year, I watched a few shows that were released weekly and I really enjoyed it. Gave me time to mull over an episode and built some anticipation for the next one

THE ACKROOMS

when i was young they had these people called “investigative journalists” who could find out stuff like if a senator was dead or not

Do you re-read books? And is there one that you re-read more often than othrrs? If so, why?

Platner is what happens when self-hating liberals buy into the conservative critique that Democrats are too woke, elite, educated, white collar, feminized, multi-racial, LGBTG, and/or “soft.” It’s an implicit and self-hating rejection of the belief that inclusive diversity matters and has value.

You do not have to give people “due process” before you choose not to vote for them. You can just be like “oh word the guy who wrote rape apologia and had allegations just got another serious allegation? Guess he doesn’t need to be my senator.”

To see Mark Carney abandon that reform and return to the grubby patronage of the 19th and 20th centuries is more than depressing, it's outrageous. This guy some people thought would be a policy wonk is just another short-term political animal. In short, a failure. 2/2

I can't help but hear the title in Buddy Cole's voice.

If anything, a defining feature of the current era of “smart” technologies is compartmentalization. Legal frameworks established against the obvious risks of surreptitious recordings in court, while these wearables are marketed far and wide in the general public as another “inevitable” accoutrement.

Me and who 👉👈

People are right to be mad about the predictable Platner fiasco, but it's worth remembering that last year a ton of establishment Democrats supported disgraced sexual harasser Andrew Cuomo against clean-as-a-whistle Zohran. Tolerating problem men is an issue across the ideological spectrum.

Any time a guy rushes to defend another man whose been credibly accused of sexual assault, it raises questions about what skeletons are rattling in that guy's closet.

Y'all want a forever Dustbowl? Well removing wild herd animals is how we got the first one, and not listening to Natives about this was why the first one lasted so damn long

The leadership of allegedly progressive political parties have to stop throwing their weight behind dubiously qualified/eligible cis straight white guys instead of very qualified/eligible women, BIPOC & LGBTQ+ candidates. It's a losing strategy & yet an unforced error that happens repeatedly. 1/

who else is looking forward to yet another round of 'male acquaintances channel their secret contempt for women through a loudmouthed defense of graham platner'

You know you have a great political system when you get one “is that congressman alive” scandal per month

They make a new cockroach wife with not a single iota of appeal, because we don't have the same emotional investment in a nobody who doesn't do anything and has nothing unique to them. Stardoms are sold on personality.

Every few years someone does that digital actress thing. Sega Saturn has Laura. Final Fantasy Spirits Within had Aki Ross. And everytime it comes out wooden, upsetting sterile, and a upsetting bankruptcy inducing business gaff.

UPDATE: CNBC responds, says it only includes the disclosure of their financial relationship with Kalshi when it is "directly relevant to the story" These are examples of stories where CNBC determined it wasn't "relevant" to disclose that the company invests in Kalshi and gets paid for new customers

This is the logical culmination of the idiotic ‘balance sheet’ view of colonialism with railways & the English lang put in the credit column though they were instruments of efficient exploitation. And why we need to make study of colonialism mandatory at school & uni. #colonialism #empire #history

Academics “examined the behaviour of mainstream large language models provided by Elon Musk’s xAI, Meta, Google, China’s Alibaba and France’s Mistral and found the introduction of bias happens even when the AI tool is instructed to preserve the original sense.”

I'd send this to my mom, one of the all time fast walkers, but it'd only encourage her in believing she can outrun(walk) Death.

I didn't explain the magic system behind why one of the characters comes back from the dead. I was like this isn't Harry Potter? The supernatural needs no explanation. But I had written the bloodshed of WW1 had woken up ancient ways & disrupted natural patterns, which seemed sufficient.

Still a little puzzled by “I didn’t like that the characters thought in italics.” My friend, that ship sailed so long ago that it was owned by the East India Company.

In addition to the ska & swing revival everyone else had, Canada in the 1990s had a Celtic music trend

Yep! People think misogyny happens bc Some Guys are just Too Caveman To Cope With Women. But nope! A lot of guys who hate women are soft as shit! That's why they need ALL OF SOCIETY to be on board with hating women. If they had to do the work themselves to get women to serve them, they'd fail!

I finally saw our fox neighbour myself. Proof I'm not secretly a fox.

Quakers didn't always land on the right side of history (see residential schools), but they at least admit that and strive to do better. They at least have a culture of admitting mistakes and improving. Something too many institutions aren't capable of.

Quakers spoke out against Japanese American Internment!

Right, what we are not going to do this month: Tell people they don’t count as disabled Tell people who are not ready to self ID they are disabled Claim we can reclaim the r slur Install “you must be this incapacitated to ride” signs Deny the experience of long COVID havers

impeccable headline, no notes

The aggros forget or willfully ignore every successful movement uses a variety of tactics. ACT UP is an example. Various resistance movements in Europe during WW2 also show this. It can't be 100% destruction. It's also passing info, inspiring others via art, creating joy, offering mutual aid.

I'm so tired of guys like Jivani making their own personal issues our problem.

This one got some play on MuchMusic back in the day.

A Canadian icon.

Just saw a video of someone singing Vera Lynn to old people in a home despite most of them being too young to remember the war, and it's unlocked a new terror in me of being elderly and them making my teenager-in-the-00s ass listen to WW2 music because "that's what old people like".

The White Rock Pier was damaged by an incredibly powerful wind storm, the kind of extreme weather event which becomes more likely by the day because politicians like Carney refuse to decarbonize.

"Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their ​use in the education of older children to prevent a ‌negative impact on learning" Sometimes, good policymaking is incredibly simple. www.reuters.com/technology/n...

I had not thought of the more vulnerable writer who is afraid their human writing could be mistaken for AI and thus PAY an AI to "humanize" their human writing...thus, ironically, rendering it tainted by AI after all. (I would basically challenge anyone to a dual who suggested my writing was AI.)

I need the pattern for Philippa's cardi though.

Being from the UK and a member of the late part of Generation X means having to live with the fact that every photo from your childhood resembles a still from a cultishly acclaimed but commercially disappointing folk horror film. ESPECIALLY IF THEY ACTUALLY ARE: www.tom-cox.com/some-photos-...

Pushing kids to focus on STEM only & creating a culture that told STEM grads they were more specuial & smarter than arts & humanities didn't help create well-rounded people. It should never have been STEM > Arts & Humanities. It should have always been STEM+Arts & Humanities.

Going to wave this in the face of all the “English degree in creative writing? That won’t get you hired” people. Granted, I don’t want to work in finance, but yeah, you bet my ideas are less shallow than AI floggers. The average shower thought of a humanities major is deeper than AI bullshit.

Mark Carney cares about dollars and cents. Next to all the investments he’s touting by burning more fossil fuels, he should tally up the costs of flooded farmland, homes and businesses destroyed by stronger hurricanes and tornadoes, and communities burned to the ground by more aggressive wildfires.

our banker prime minister is gutting the federal government

This was very helpful for thinking through the broader death of personal computing situation we seem to be in