The men’s room at the Ottawa airport has large mirrors above the urinals. If you look up at the right moment you can make intensely awkward eye contact with the person pissing next to you.

Nothing could better sum up where we are as a culture

If they but knew it

Clerk at baggage drop in the airport looks like Ariana Grande if she were actually Asian.

Ok seems like they were deleting negative comments for a while & have now deleted the video. I am sure these people love their grandmother but sorry it’s time to start making more people think about the ghoulish soulless creeping AI environment they are participating in

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate, and best wishes regardless.

Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit

call us old fashioned but, if you've built a machine that makes child porn, we really don't care if can do anything else. unplug the machine.

“Stop stealing and start creating” is a real thing an “AI artist” said

Drive-By Truckers really popped off with this one: "I know the bottle ain't to blame And I ain't trying to 'Cause it don't make you do a thing It just lets you"

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

I have somehow managed to clear my desk. I will return to work in the new year with no pending tasks.

My favourite version of Henry Mancini’s Peter Gunn theme is by The Hatters. It appears on a collection of instrumentals recorded by teen bands from Pittsburgh in the early ‘60s called The Battle of Rat Fink Hill. youtu.be/5yAwn-5kE-E?...

Pretty sure that workout was the first time my heart’s hit 172bpm since that time I was dragged by a truck for 6 blocks at 70km/hr.

The people on the Genius forums have the best usernames. (Yes, the lyrics site.)

@michaelcisco.bsky.social Not sure if I mentioned here, but I read Black Brane & loved it. Buying up your backlist as fast as I can. (A while back I wrote a snarky letter to Clash about the copy editing in Pest, which I feel slightly bad about, but I notice the problems are gone in BB…)

andrea calisi -- baba yaga not to be confused with santa

TIL that many Windows keyboard shortcuts, particularly for special characters, don’t work on laptops because they require a full number pad. What foolishness.

Rian Johnson bringing his own copy of RAVENOUS to put onto the Criterion Collection shelf is probably the best thing that’s going to happen to me this week. youtu.be/U2plMSuOgrI

I wonder what our society would look like if tech reporters weren’t its most easily-duped members.

That white gold.

It's one of the most beautiful things I've ever watched but I don't know if I can do it twice. I do want to buy it to have in case I bave a brave day. I've also seen it on free streamer Pluto.

I don’t think we as a society have thanked @papapishu.bsky.social for obtaining, ripping, and uploading a master copy of the essential Ricky Jay And His 52 Assistants, Jay’s 1997 HBO special and the best distillation of his one of a kind talent archive.org/details/rick...

when a keebler elf dies the other elves take it to the entrance of the tree and dump it on the ground outside like how bees do

Today is the birthday of cartoonist Jack Cole (Dec. 14, 1914-Aug. 13,1958), best known for creating Plastic Man, his time working on Will Eisner’s The Spirit, & his cartoon work in Playboy magazine.

Ha haaa aaaaaaaaah. 🔥 💀

A wondrous quote from George, back in 2010:

fun fact: a billionaire taxed at 90% is still at least a hundred millionaire. imagine having a hundred million dollars and bitching about your finances shut the fuck up you gold plated baby.

OTOH, every literary novelist, looking at those first week sales numbers:

I love the fact that Jordan Peterson wrote multiple books telling people how they need to live their lives while simultaneously having his own life constantly spiraling out of control.

It's very, very difficult to write a true haiku. Most just wind up being pseudoku.

My aquarium at night.

My doctor's office has this habit of putting me on hold for 15–20 minutes and then hanging up on me. It is starting to get frustrating.

To say that I hate the submissions process for journals and publishers would be a gross understatement.

Getting a new tattoo at the end of the month.

A good rule for modern living is to avoid getting your information from someone who holds a lapel mic up to their face.

Our first skirret harvest. A little sweet, a little earthy. Sort of midway between a carrot and a parsnip. They are members of the carrot family, but cannot be eaten until the second year. The leaves are also pretty tasty. I replanted a couple of plants for next year.

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

5 concerts: Massive Attack Buddy Guy Air Bjork Zero 7 + Sia + José González (Z7 was touring w/ Sia before she had a big solo career, & blew a fuse, so Sia & JG did an impromptu acoustic set at the edge of the stage while they got back up & running)

Appalling, but sadly, not surprising. Corporate landlords have been racist as fuck in the US—they have been especially anti-Black—and I did not expect any different from them here.

Notable that Carney gets nothing in return: this will hurt the liberals in BC, they won't make any gains in Alberta, Smith won't stop and of her bullshit, and it will likely tear apart the Liberal caucus. The only reasonable conclusion is that Carney is a climate change denialist and a fool.

The Wire is the Pitt of cop dramas. Also, does “peeler” mean something different in Ireland? It’s slang for “stripper” in Canada.

Liberals are like excuse me tankies but we are the adults in the room, thats why we're making the fascists take us seriously by posting babytalk slop like tRump Drumpf Elonia Pootin Taco Cheeto McOrangeHands

Maybe I'm missing an important point, but the Ford gov's claim that "Landlords will lower rents if they can rent out more of their properties now that we've given them more power over tenants" feels like something you'd say if you'd never literally never heard of capitalism before in your life.

“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.” —André Gide, winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature

Howie, the owner of my hometown comic shop when I was a kid, has passed away. He taught me more about being open to new kinds of reading experiences than pretty much anyone else. I owe a lot of my ability to read both openly and critically to his encouragement. yoursunsetcountry.ca/obituaries/h...

Any fans of ultramarine blue out there? Gulf Storm. 6”x6” oil painting