England up 1 deciding to sit back and do nothing with 9 in the box for a half hour against Argentina in the World Cup

Hatred of AI now reaching the level of cultural consensus that becomes attractive to advertisers

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

Kid1, who is both an conductor and engineer for CN and has driven trains through SK wildfires himself, just sent me this video from Ontario. When I tell you they arent paid enough!!! vt.tiktok.com/ZSXkuEadE/

Heh, I knew it'd be possible. Amazing

In historic first, Dollarama opens second cash

Hey people if you want features added to mods you love always try approaching the original devs first instead of commissioning someone else to add it and then re uploading the mod with a minor change. Hey if you are already willing to commission someone why not donate to the original devs? #ModDev

JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.

Carney insists he won negotiations to finally open TrumpCoin International Bridge

Ahead of England v Norway in the World Cup, enjoy this classic from my old pal Patrick Kidd in The Times

Good morning Ottawa. Bonjour Ottawa.

Lemme explain what the words BELIEVE WOMEN should mean. They don't mean you have to believe women no matter what. They do mean that you have to treat women as a source the same way you'd treat a man.

Canadians "struggle to access care" because the healthcare system is underfunded and understaffed. Switching to a partially-privatized system isn't going to magically create more doctors and nurses, and in fact the steps in that direction thus far have made the problem much worse.

Is that the warrior from village people?

Window into the mocking with which foreign media is treating the situation. The latest on the live of Le Monde, France’s paper of record: “We’re being told Trump wants to file an appeal with Infantino alleging that the Belgian team played soccer.”

Everything Trump touches dies - USMNT edition

The USMNT and Knicks being really good except for the precise moment when Trump involves himself is really funny

UEFA had a long beef with FIFA. This Balogun thing might prove to be a proverbial straw. I think the world cup will be a lot poorer without European participation.

If Canada lose, I am glad that we will all agree that it was Gretzky’s fault

We know who to blame

today is a celebration of the US narrowly escaping British tyranny. unfortunately there’s no counterfactual of what would’ve happened if the British maintained territory in north america but we can only assume it would’ve been terrible

1986. Saturday. I'm meeting with grandad for the semi regular pilgrimage to Stamford bridge on a train. 2026. Saturday. I'm sadly alone on a train to a Canada world cup watch party in Ottawa. A toast to grandad. He'd have loved this.

The storms yesterday were absolutely wild. Basically started thunder lightning and heavy rain about 2pm. It didn't really ease until after 10pm. Absolutely wild. Probably half a dozen lightning strikes within 500m or so too. That distinct loud POP you get from very close.

There was a beautiful moment in time when mobile gaming was a promising new frontier and I was excited about its future. Now it’s a saturated mess and I can’t access most of its past.

This is OBSCENE The developer who demovicted dozens of tenants from a heritage building at Bank & Nepean was being pursued for *$65 MILLION IN DEBTS* when the City of Ottawa rezoned the property to let the developer build a luxury condo No condo was ever built and the property is now up for sale

What is inaction costing you? GO ALTO launched a new calculator to estimate what your regular intercity trips already cost each year in time, money, emissions, and days lost to travel. How ALTO is built matters. So does what we keep losing while we wait. go-alto.ca/cost

I’m not sure I like the term “AI hallucination.” It implies that regurgitative AI can perceive things, which it can’t, because it’s just plagiarism soup. Degenerative AI doesn’t hallucinate - it makes mistakes, spreads misinformation, and indiscriminately scrapes material without context.

Québécois rock duo Angine de poitrine tops Spotify’s global charts, earns enough to pay for Spotify Premium

This looks like it's from the same firm that did printed barbie houses for a big barbie con recently. Probably AI planned and executed.

The America 250 stuff is sad to me because the idea of throwing a fun party to celebrate the country should be a slam dunk and we’re not going to get to enjoy it because the government is filled with incompetent boobs.

Were you hoping to buy your children a Nintendo Switch 2 for Christmas? Sorry, we needed all the RAM to make a machine that will tell your children to kill themselves instead.

Babe wake up, new industrial band five-album discography just dropped

Lol

From Reddit: pride train crushes Tesla with Virginia plates, lololol.

Canada cleared to enter Eurovision if they promise not to sing in Canadian French

Heh. Corporate mandates finger touches on your yubikey when you log in to the VPN. Which is a pain if you don't want to get out of bed yet. So I just built a simple fingerbot. Along with some vnc and router hacks, corporate stupid security mandate: defeated. Note: 2FA still fires on phone.

Graphic design is my passion.

As an addendum. Don't try and get mods and modloaders into the middle of this fight. Yes, it's obvious that mods and modloaders could absolutely skirt the ban. But that then paints a visible target on those tools, and MS banning mods and modloaders for circumvention is the only realistic outcome.

Oh look. A very predictable thing has happened. @ibxtoycat.bsky.social was part of a ban wave being committed by unidentified actors who have a justifiable anti-ban stance. My thoughts: this is inevitable and you can expect an escalating arms race. youtube.com/watch?v=FbLF...

Good. Booing the ad break. I approve 😁

L to R: Chris Richards: biracial kid from Alabama who speaks about black history and has tattoos of MLK, Ali, and Obama Sergiño Dest: Dutch-Surinamese, emigrated to Brooklyn as a kid, naturalized Fola Balogun: born in Brooklyn to vacationing parents, raised in UK but CHOOSES to play for USA

Fascists are not welcome at this party. Get lost