seeing a lot of "higher gas prices won't affect me because I don't drive very much" and unfortunately it is my sad duty to inform you that your food does not teleport to the grocery store

fucking sick @roryblank.bsky.social

"We can be monsters together." Made a poster for Frankenstein (2025)! Always a fan of @realgdt.bsky.social, since "El espinazo del diablo."

The level of realism on the animals is a bit startling. I wonder if some filters were applied to some actual photos.

Holy shit.

I don't believe you. When you cheerlead for oil and gas and mines and pipelines and also fire hundreds of federal environmental scientists, you've told us exactly what your priorities are.

“we’re planning a heist of FORT KNOX” “sick, what’s the plan for our ill-gotten gains?” “it is, at long last, time for INFRASTRUCTURE WEEK”

IMINT #4785 from NROL-82 (USAP) 1. Pirated Distortion 2. Oneiric Incense

Academic citation styles are needlessly fussy and don't matter a whole lot for the vast majority of their use cases. Almost nobody, even academic journals, ever gets them right, and there are virtually never any problems or consequences.

I'm so f*cking tired of just being viewed of as just a source of profit, and not a citizen

I spend more on home internet & email in one month than what my per capita cost of Canada Post is. I don't want to have to maintain internet to get email bills when I can get bills in the post for so much less. Canada Post Home Delivery has to be kept

This is absolute horseshit. The Carney government is absolutely eviscerating the public service.

from Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream — Yuko Shimizu, 2014 yukoart.com

Oswald came and spoke to my remix culture class in grad school. He was super interesting.

I have a complicated relationship with “traditional” masculinities, particularly in the context of urban/rural divides, but on my softest day I am harder than this man has ever been in his life.

I just learned the phrase “reverse centaur,” and having spent the last 4 months reading Marxist commentary about this very issue (going back to the man himself), I am so very, very tired. We don’t have to wait for some mediocre shitposter to coin a twee term to talk about a political concept.

Update #072 from Zuma (USAP) 1. Mystic Bathyspheres 2. Hot Take Port 3. Bloody Space

This is fabulous. I’m not an artist, but I sometimes make maps for games, and there is always a cat in them somewhere.

Mark Carney is really going on social media and condemning Iran for its "unprovoked attacks on the region" with his whole chest, and I just think we should all mail him pictures of the bombed Iranian children's school until he gets the fucking picture.

Recreating the Hackers movie UI. blog.simone.computer/recreating-h...

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Three if these, unfortunately, were demonstrably better than what we got instead.

Koolhaas wrote the most intense rant against air conditioning I’ve ever read.

I was invited to become a moderator for the William Gibson subreddit, where I have posted only a handful of times. Strange world.

Today in AI: Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials. Everyone involved should be fired. archive.is/ELrCI#select...

One thing my partner (an archivist) has found is that not learning cursive has made it significantly harder for many students & younger researchers she works with to use primary sources. Not just historians, but policy & infrastructure researchers.

obviously it’s not all genre books that I’m describing here, it’s just that I keep trying to read things other people I know and respect suggest to me and I keep having a similar “this is conceptually fun but is written at a 4th grade level, and I can’t quite get past that” reaction

The allegations here are extremely disturbing. Prosecutors, possibly more than any other lawyer out there, have a duty to seek the truth regardless of the impact on their "case". Their duty is to the public and the law, not to police (or any other constituency).

Boozled, Bam. W.B. Boozled, if you prefer.

my “I asked your doctor how your operatio went and he took me aside and SHOWED me something” shirt is prompting a lot of questions absolutely not answered by my shirt

alternate premonition // handcut paper collage on recycled paperboard, march 2026 #collage #queerart #abstract

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

Does anyone know of any papers exploring digital TTRPG marketplaces like itch.io? I'm trying to look at how these marketplaces may have affected labour in the industry, but I'm having difficulty finding if there's any existing research.

1 scrambled egg = basically nothing 2 scrambled eggs = 2 scrambled eggs 3 scrambled eggs = 2 scrambled eggs 4 scrambled eggs = 2 scrambled eggs 5 scrambled eggs = 2 scrambled eggs

Physics are perfectly fine, but they just don't apply to eggs. The astronauts experimented with souffles on Skylab but the government sealed the results until 2079.

I understood every word of this.

Here's something that's bothered me for years: why are scrambled eggs so much easier to eat? I feel like I could eat 8 scrambled eggs without even thinking. Eight fried eggs feels like a lot. Eight boiled eggs? Absurd

odd polyp

Thanks! The person who first explained that to me was the late Professor John Doheny of the UBC Department of English, around 1975 or so.

It’s Akira Kurosawa’s birthday. This is what it’s all about.

Manifest #9705 from NROL-111 (USAP) 1. Nothingness Dome

This motherfucker just cut federal environmental spending by half.

Knowing who to be mad at is praxis.

This might legitimately be the first thing Nilay Patel has done that's worth reading.

A shame about Starfleet Academy. It was the third best of the recent ST shows (after Lower Decks & SNW). It had some of the same writing problems as Disco, but it actually felt like an ensemble show and at least *tried* to not make trauma its only form of character development.

Manifest #599 from RASR-2 (TS/SCI) 1. Darkness Laboratory 2. Bronze Madness 3. Empty Office of Bullshit

Me too, but I also got yelled at so hard by a security guard for trying to get close enough to a Chuck Close painting to parse the brush strokes.

I have had two major breakthroughs with long term writing projects this weekend. I managed to completely plot out an idea I've been trying to nail down since before the pandemic, and coming up w/ the name "Wilf Thorgilsson" blew open a project that's been stalled at the 2/3 mark for, like, 2 years.

Whoa that... wow, that fucking sucks.