Tron: Ares is a good movie. Loved the style and music of it all. The story is absurd but who cares. Was not expecting to like it, but 8/10.

Anyhow, it turns out that I now think 3 hours is a very reasonable and healthy amount of time to spend thinking about elections in any given quarter.

I think I've maybe spent 3 hours this fall thinking about this year's Calgary municipal election (about 1% as much as usual), which is almost certainly a direct consequence of various anxiety management activities I've been engaged in this year, which is at least mildly interesting to me.

Make baseball players fat again.

Sometimes I wonder what a social media site would be like if it was more than just the basic follow-people-you-like-and-argue-with-strangers model. Bluesky gives you tools to minimize the toxic parts of that, but it is still fundamentally that kind of site.

Nuther day, nuther divorce.

Putting it out there for posterity: The first major political party that advocates Canada joining the EU gets my vote, no questions asked.

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

Watched Section 31. Thought it was going to be awful and tired, but it wasn't. It's an action B-movie that happens to exist in the Star Trek universe. I liked the actors and never felt bored. Would I recommend it...? Sure, with caveats. You know what movie I saw that was 10x worse? Thunderbolts.

My shower drain clogged and I pulled about 2 large rats worth of hair from the shower drain today. Invest in a drain auger. It was so gross but so satisfying. Now the drain is flowing free for the first time since I moved in here.

My mind is so loud and full of distractions, but every once in a while I manage to finish a complete thought, and it feels like the voices all stop for a minute. Maybe I should get tested for ADHD lol.

Politicians sure do love the make housing more affordable without affecting house prices challenge (impossible)

Watching the pageantry around the new pope, it's hard not to think that in a different life, all these people would be super into cosplay culture. It's all adults playing dress-up, and being obsessed with their special interest media (the bible), and getting into arguments about fandom (theology).

A win is a win is a win.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.

May TERF island be swallowed up by the ocean.

Man films and confronts two suspected undercover ICE officers (potentially NYPD) after they racially profiled and handcuffed a random civilian. Keep doing this shit. Make these fuckers famous. Make all police and immigration officers fear having their faces known to the masses.

Alright, 10 toes in for Carney, he's saying all the right things.

Mahmoud Khalil's new op-ed from detention— "Faced with a movement for divestment they couldn't crush, your trustees opted to set fire to the institution they're entrusted with…History will redeem us, while those who were content to wait on the sidelines will be forever remembered for their silence."

The fascist coalition uses "woke" to define itself, by excluding everyone they are not. The definition of woke changes constantly because the term exists to exclude everyone who isn't in the fascist coalition.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.

It’s Trans Day of Visibility today, and we’re in an election campaign. I’ll definitely be watching to see who mentions trans folks’ rights and who doesn’t!

Putting mass grave in quotes is next level sinister.

That feeling when you wake up and it's all good news on your phone.

Someone I follow on here lost their mom a few weeks ago. I think about them fairly often and hope they are doing well. Watching them go through the loss, regrets, etc... I wish there was anything I could say to them that was appropriate to say to a stranger.

Severance is so good, it has me re-examining my life.

Bring back one canceled tv show (Avenue 5)

I love the feeling of having a mental breakdown, working on it for a few hours, then resolving the internal conflict and becoming unburdened by it. It's like being a hermit crab and finding a shell that fits you just a little bit better.

Remember the good guys and give them the headlines. www.cbc.ca/news/world/m...

Bought a rotisserie chicken and am eating strips of it on sour onion potato chips. This is pretty great.

Boycott the 2028 Olympics. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I want a painting like this

Just found the perfect representation of my gender in this Britt Lower interview on Stephen Colbert.

I AM GOING LIVE ON TWITCH TONIGHT AT 7:00pmET TO SHOOT THE SHIT WITH MY HOMIES IN THE CHAT ✨💞 GOT QUESTIONS? WANT TO SEE HOW EASILY DISTRACTED I AM? LET’S HANG 💅 twitch.tv/rachel_gilmore

Death? I don't know her, I have bones up my ass. - @superbutterbuns.bsky.social

Walked home carrying 7 full bags of groceries rather than pay a $10 cab fare... Does my penny-pinching know no bounds?

As a bi non-binary person, how do you balance a need for self-preservation with family who think that's a joke? It started as misgendering, is escalating to political posts about grooming etc, and having my concerns dismissed. We're in Canada, but if this is how things are going, I don't feel safe.

Panicking because I can't find the cute picture of a cat I saw earlier.

My city hosted its Soupfest today. I ate so much soup. I am so full of soup I may die. My heart is having palpitations because it is full of soup. #Moncton #Soupfest

Trump is the world's biggest scam artist. He is trying to make Canada give concessions we really don't have to. He can damage Canada-US trade, but he can't force us to act against our own interests. The pressure to do something to appease him may be great, but the way we win is by not self harming.

Fuck yeah look at this thing

I hope Trump gets bitten to death by 500 chihuahuas. or shot. Chihuahuas preferred but a kill is a kill.

Time to modernize Employment Insurance to rectify adequacy, eligibility and duration challenges is now. Not to mention critical need to increase access to skills-training for those who are set to lose their jobs in the months to come. ppforum.ca/publications...

THERE IS SOME GOOD IN THIS WORLD MISTER FRODO AND IT'S WORTH FIGHTING FOR!!! www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/01/thai...

none of this is new; Bush did the same thing in the post-9/11 world, with the same intensity, and with even more of a consensus mandate.

Keir Starmer said, "Because we say ‘never again’ – but where was ‘never again’ in the genocides of Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur – and where is ‘never again’ as antisemitism kills Jewish people still?" This is true, but he failed to mention the genocide in Gaza. This is a terrible omission.

I am not sure I have ever seen a Canadian politician sound more desperate than this.