Democratic Party candidates should be held to the same standard as my church holds its ministers. If you've never been arrested at a civil rights protest, you at least have to make a convincing argument why not.

Sometimes I daydream about retiring and opening a coffee shop with my wife called "Les Beans"

Looks like we'll be getting near-record lows* around the end of this week. Oh joy. * Around -30; wind chill in the mid -40s.

Here's the original study: arxiv.org/abs/2601.02671 An interesting detail: some of the systems appear to have safeguards in place that prevent the user from accessing the "stored" data, despite every indication that it is actually there. This suggests intentional action by the systems' creators.

LA has been sneakily building a damn good subway system piece by piece while nobody was looking. It's the best way to get around half the city already.

I saw this in isolation and was like... Warframe? (yup, it was warframe)

I will take a movie or tv show, thank you www.them.us/story/usa-ca...

The ION train in K-W is an absolute treasure

This is just a good general principle when you're put in a position like this. If the only choice you're offered in a situation is to take what you're given or leave, the only way for you to exert any power over the situation is to leave.

There is no better way to kill a relationship than to problem solve for someone else without their participation.

So I have no dog in the Ottawa PWHL stadium dust up, but I think they lost their team and the reason are going to lose them is worth talking about: The complaints from the team are all about being excluded from planning. The mayor says we expanded seating from the original plan. I winced.

hey siri play everything burns

I posted something about bsky needing follower-only and no-discover-feed posts to prevent dogpiling and then realized that we have the former already, and it's evidently not helping enough to keep people from being run off the platform.

Evidence is mounting that even the most vulgar YIMBYism is broadly correct in its diagnoses and policy recommendations

Black people in the UK live *longer* than white people. But Black folk in the US don't live nearly as long as white folk. 🙂🙃 Even though both Black populations are descended from West Africa, and have similar risk markers at a genetic level? You can literally see the racism at a population level.👀

We watched The Wizard of Oz in a theater last night with the kid. It really was better than I remembered, and I remembered it as being good.

It was deliberate intentional and from the top down. That's how you do it.

The best way to make a social program both more expensive and harder for people who need it to actually access it is to institute means-testing - the stricter the means-testing, the worse the program functions.

The Vancouver Island Tourism Board:

Evergreen post.

Agents don’t learn! Interns do! The only reason the metaphor works is cause you treat your interns like shit and belittle them and crudely force them to learn on their own while insulting them and making no efforts to improve your own codebases to facilitate them That’s not something to be proud of

Law schools get around this by having you read a bunch of food blogs about recipes people have made with comments by people who have eaten the results. Business schools have you read reviews of restaurants and tell you if they are still in business or not and have you write theoretical menus.

Business schools have the same problem law schools have, in that they are like a culinary school where you are absolutely not allowed to cook anything or use the knives.

doing a tarot reading but using an apples to apples deck, is this anything

College football fans, let me explain what's going on, as some other anti-racists and I had a big part in what you're describing as chaos: 1.College coaches aren't as important as you thought they were 2.College athletes are more important than you thought they were 3.Pay them more. Treat them well

HIS MOM MADE YODA CAN YOU EVEN IMAGINE

- You remind me of the babe. - What babe? - The babe with the power. - What power? - The power to be surrounded by terrifying puppets without freaking out because he was (accidentally) bred for that specific purpose. www.pdxmonthly.com/arts-and-cul...

This is a delightful list consisting of equal parts: - wrong - right - right (monkey's paw curls) - gods, I wish

Chained Echoes really said, "What if FFXII was 16-bit?" huh. I was not expecting this depth of exploration and customization.

Louder for the people in the back

2026 has one thing going for it already: a mistakenly-written 5 is easy to correct to a 6 if that's not good luck idk what is

From week one of the league!

Your characters are a posse of frenemies - at the club, at Denny's, etc. It's late, you've run up a tab, you have to work tomorrow, and you're about to start shit. Your goal is to have the best night possible without getting arrested. The GM is there to play the world and fuck with you.

Dudes rock.

Fuck your eyes in particular

I posted about moving back to Canada and a man got angry that I was not like setting all my shit on fire to get to Canada faster. I'm not sure why he wanted to rush me but he was very mad that I wasn't midnight dashing to Canada. Apparently moving to a new country in 90 days is slow, now.

I have caught A Crud. I do not think it is The Crud, on account of low fever and mostly just ick/head congestion. However I am Not Pleased.

Businesses are not real things, they are a kind of imaginary friend we all agree to pretend about. But I am still sad about the wrap up and end of Smol Law, it was an excellent imaginary friend for almost ten years. It was time, but sometimes even good changes are sad.

The Second-Order Streisand Effect is a social phenomenon where if a party makes an effort to censor information, discussion and news about the censorship paradoxically leads to an increased awareness of Barbara Streisand, a musician whom most "Zoomers" would probably have otherwise never heard of

Correction: cat-sized lizard with fur that eats your trash (complimentary)

Possum o’clock 2.

Youve heard of art school girlfriend. I now present the Art Job Wife

modesty laws prevented showing even one lousy frame of John Waters' PINK FLAMINGOS (1972) in the trailer, so the only footage in it is of people reacting to a screening they just came out of. every single type of extant queer person is contained in the specific sequences I have selected here

Legitimately? I need a guarantee that FFXIV will run well on my hardware on Linux without Steam/with only a squenix account. I trust Valve to handle the rest of my games and nothing else I do requires Microsoft-specific software. (Also for them to rename "GIMP", but that's asking a lot.)

We are definitely having Weather today

That four digit player numbers in roller derby should be phased out, it slows down all officiating processes and they are harder to see. Also teams are fifteen players we do not need four digits except people wanted 1337 and 1989 and similar. It SHOULD be fun but don't make it suck to be a zebra.

Anyone in the K-W region want about 0.6-0.7 kg of US pennies? Like, for an art project, or just to melt down for copper?

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather