really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

I do not want smart devices I want devices that work for 10 years and have actual tactile buttons and switches.

New from the top-tier construction YouTube channel The B1M: Spotlight on the Eglinton Crosstown Clusterfuck www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8mL...

“‘My building is shaking. So, I'm like, “What is that?” Then I look out the window, it's a Blackhawk helicopter,’ said witness Dr. Alii Muhammad.” Raiding a Chicago apartment building from above as if they were on a mission to capture Osama bin Laden. Absolutely demented.

Doug Ford faces new corruption accusations following scathing spending reports from Auditor General.

My wife was talking about the state of the world and I couldn't stop thinking about this song… which was released 39 years ago… www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq7F...

And now of Leakey's Trimates, only Birutė Galdikas remains.

KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag. KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense. KOKO: jealousy professor

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

OK, I just decided. For October I'm going to post one film photo of a sign every day, since I have an album of them on Flickr. Why not. 1. Minolta SRT 102, Cosina 24mm f/2.8, Kodak Gold 200. Dundas Street, Toronto (I think)

i am very sick of pretending conservatives have an argument that should be respected

slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross

#shutdown #satire #ice

This list of variations on cobbler reads like someone was brainstorming the worst insults they could think of for a coworker

Office in the arvo

Our local ER had a massive wait when we went the other night because of a private equity owned conglomerate going bankrupt and causing closures of other regional hospitals and overloading ones like ours but go on couchfucker

The entire Republican negotiating stance here is "give us money to run over your dog or we're going to run over your dog"

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Name a police station after Sewell (Sewell was voted out after he defended the gays after the bathhouse raids and had been a fairly consistent cop critic)

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

Donald doesn’t see this extravagance as just a ballroom; he sees it as a monument to his gilded glory. So, of course, the vain narcissist is going to prioritize it getting built over you staying alive.

"Libraries are government speech and must reflect the viewpoint of the government in power" is just jaw-droppingly false. An undoing of this kind of garbage will require constant reminders that the government operates entirely and exclusively as the agents and employees of all the citizens. ALL.

One reason the Dem establishment hates Mamdani is that he's just *better at this than they are*. He just talks like an authentic human about things that matter & people respond & it breaks their poll-tested, consultant-cooked brains.

It's important to name the tools of authoritarianism so we can identify and condemn them with precision. I'm glad we now have a term for ICE's openly racist, degrading immigration arrests: Kavanaugh stops. slate.com/news-and-pol...

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

lol

A 72-year-old woman who lives next to that ostrich farm where a group of convoy people are camping out was doused in gasoline and physically assaulted by a man in a balaclava who may have been trying to light her in fire She says she survived the attack by kicking the man in the nuts and biting him

From Edgewood, BC to Embrun, Ontario, the way these convoy people overwhelm small rural communities and intimidate local residents into silence is a familiar story: pressprogress.ca/the-convoy-i...

"Let them eat cake"

Update: and the post delivered. "It’s time to stop playing dead before the fascists ensure that you’re no longer playing."

Brilliant takedown of #PierrePoilievre by Adam van Koeverden. “Earlier this year when the leader of the Conservative Party lost his job he didn’t lose his house. That’s because he lives in government subsidized non market housing.” …yet PP always opposes such assistance for others. #cdnpoli

"Freedom isn't free" isn't just for soldiers. It's for all of us. And sometimes it just means "If you're lucky enough to be entrusted with land, do a good job with it. "Don't just shoot yourself in the foot & grovel for refunds."

When Trump bailed out farmers in his first term, that was executive branch orders. Congress had nothing to do with it. So already setting up a pattern of "Who cares about Congress & how it's supposed to set the US's budget I'm king, I like you, here's your money."

When I ran for office in 2024 (NC Commissioner of Agriculture), I ran on a platform of "We need to stop making our state's farms all about cheap bulk crops for China." I said it a little nicer than that. But there's a reason that was my platform.

Anyway, here's what this all means. US soybean farmers have two options. Grow something else, or get welfare checks forever. There is no third option.

"Under pressure from Elon Musk, Donald Trump Jr. and prominent right-wing activists in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the Anti-Defamation League is removing from its website the Glossary of Extremism and Hate, one of the organization’s signature anti-hate resources."

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Same office, different name

Wow. You've never seen a judicial opinion like this. A Reagan-appointed federal judge has ruled against Trump's policy re: ideological deportation. And he has used the opinion to teach Americans about Trump and the law—with great clarity, humor, and grace. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Bord du y'n Tavern Koth yn Eglosvelyan - pur dha

Find yourself someone who loves the sound of your voice as much at the CBC News loves the sound of Donald Trump's.

"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them..." U.S. Constitution, Article III, Section III

I'm skimming, but this paragraph stood out:

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

I am starting a new service where I slash the tires of expensive cars in Silicon Valley unless their owners specifically opt-out.

Kind of want to put this bit on a billboard somewhere (or, idk, replace every web ad everywhere with this text) bsky.app/profile/edzi...

the sinclair charlie kirk tribute has 71K views nine days after it was supposed to preempt jimmy kimmel by comparison, this antique toaster restoration video has 102K views after one day

There are only 41,000 coal miners in the United States. By way of comparison, there are 100,000 **registered** yoga teachers, 361,000 Starbucks baristas and 265,000 faculty and staff members working for the University of California system alone.