What--and I can't say this forcefully enough--the fuck. It's like, you've got a bunch of rakes in front of you, and you could choose not to step on them? You could turn around and live a rake-in-the-face free life? But you don't? And then you just keep on blithely walking down the rake-strewn path?

Currently mad that they aren't making new shows I have seen ten thousand times and can watch when I'm too overwhelmed to watch something new, but I don't wanna watch anything old because I've already watched all those ten thousand times and want something I haven't watched ten thousand times. Woe.

Garnett Genuis has asked about Antifa members in the CAF. I had a name for him.

Gor colour draped with friends and 1. Boy it's come a long way since the 80s when my mother did livingroom parties!! And 2. Yeahhhh I've been wearing the wrong shades, incl makeup. My new makeup looks SO MUCH BETTER that it's a little embarassing for past me tbh?? It wasn't quite Trumpian buuut

So this is massive: by making public services visible and collaborative it REALLY defangs race-to-the-bottom tax cut types who want you to believe government is fundamentally useless.

Don't play the cooperation game with people who want to play the murder game: a banger of an essay from @juliusgoat.bsky.social about how we unparadox tolerance. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...

RIP Tom Noonan, thank you for flapping your meat at us. youtu.be/T6JFTmQCFHg?...

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I just want a cute small car that can carry some stuff on its roof. I don't want a "CRV" (read, minivan without the benefits), I don't want fancy electronics, I don't want a boat that I have to maneuver. Just gimme a little zippy hatchback. Why are cars so freaking huge now?!!

athlete: so if triathlon is running, biking and swimming, that must mean biathlon is running and biking? coach: [taking out skis and a gun] haha yeah you’d think so

Went to a party, wore uncomfortable shoes. Fancy dress deployed to maximum stunning effect. Spanx level: sausage casing.

Well, I got the job! (internal, I'm a lacky of the capitalist machine now, i.e. management.) Brain is still not letting me get good sleep. Who's in charge of this thing? I wanna speak to the manager. Wait. Well. Shit.

Whoever at Google introduced the 'Beautify' Banana should be gently boo'd in public wherever they go for the rest of their days. Oh look it's a generic 1990s gradient-infested mess, is this ✨data viualization✨?

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

Me on Saturday night: you have to prep for an interview on Monday, brain, go to sleep My brain:

Oh, are we doing "relentlessly review every stupid and insensitive thing you said and feel bad about it all over again even though the person you said it to has forgotten it already?" afternoons again, brain? Excellent, I was about to ask if we could start doing this again, because it's so helpful!

AI-lookin ruminant

Talking about 2020 be like

Sharing this classic post Die Hard was declared a Christmas Movie at the First Council of Nicaea in 325 AD

Once we finish our downstairs reno, Damian suggested we put a painting over top of the electrical box that swings open.... of an electrical box. Ngl I adore this idea so very much.

My response to anything over the next two weeks

you say "i asked chatgpt" i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]" an improv group wrote this report instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group

See the thing about reading books as a way to connect with people across time and space, people who have passed, is that it actually is a record of their thoughts, that they made when they were alive to record those thoughts. Not some ghoulish posthumous puppet for someone else's profit.

I fuck up a lot. I keep waiting for devastating consequences and they never come. Yet, I know they ARE COMING. My punishment is the waiting, isn’t it? But what if it’s not? What if they’re really coming?

Company acquired. Sigh. This is sort of a rite of passage in tech but that doesn't mean I have to like it.

A French ICC judge sanctioned by the US over the Netanyau arrest warrant says all his accounts with US companies have been closed, making it “like being sent back to the 1990s.” “Without sovereignty – military, health, financial and digital – we can no longer guarantee the rule of law,” he says.

This is so important. Instead I can use it to ruminate over that awkward conversation where I'm pretty sure I blurted out something assholeish to someone in a moment of panic instead!

Me, doing a Canadians summoning: SPOUT - BEC

I'm still so mad at the NDP for letting things get so bad wrt leadership, organization, and strategy -- even, when they were effective-ish, doing dental care in the worst most reversible way possible!? -- that I don't *want* to get involved federally again, yet. But I also think I should?

If you aren't a subscribe to Loonie Politics I highly recommend it. Dale knocks it out of the park every time (now if only Carney was a subscriber.)

Tax breaks for companies encourage dividends and buybacks. If companies don't receive tax breaks they have an incentive to increase expenses (which lowers tax burden) by investing in improving the business, employee training, and other good things that benefit both the company and society.

I LAUGH EVERY TIME

Day 6 of waking up at after 5h sleep for no reason and not being able to get back to sleep and I am... not okay. 🫤

A film you've seen more than seven times with a gif

What's going on with CPP Investments? #canada #cdnpoli #canadian #canadianpolitics #frankdomenic🍁

i’m a thin-skinned libertarian cryptofascist who melts down at the slightest whiff of criticism from the user base of my website. time to add a ‘dislike post’ button and take a big sip of coffee,

Classical mythology is just soap operas + time

Working with brilliant people is such a blessing and such a curse. Pro: I learn cool new things ALL THE TIME Con: There are few laurals to rest on and I feel wildly inadequate A LOT. What would be a great performance anywhere else is solidly average in comparison, and sometimes that's exhausting.

I did a task today that requires a significant amount of waiting time after it before I can do the follow up task and this is ADHD discrimination

"Protestors are doing it wrong! You're having too much fun and sapping energy from more effective organizing!" 1. Disaffected moral superiority also saps energy. 2. Engagement is not a gas tank. It doesn't run dry eventually. Action begets action. Shut up. Let people protest.

I have a perfectly good and exciting book I could be reading right now

You know how local media is getting decimated as disinformation floods in? Well, my friends at @nationalobserver.com have created an incredibly cool new tool for keeping an eye on local politics. Check it out:

I have once again pushed it too far, and left the deck cushions on for just a day too long. And now it's pouring.

New column from me at @xtramagazine.com: The premiers violating your Charter rights don't want the courts to weigh in #canqueer #cdnpoli

we're not going to have a good, sustainable social media site as long as it is made or run by tech people. that is why I am building my own out of water, small rocks, moss, snails, brightly colored shrimp, one of those sucking fish, a mermaid statue. I'll be honest, this may actually be an aquarium.

”The pain of being able to touch someone who is no longer there is unbearable. And when the second death comes, the death of body, there is almost a sense of relief, and along with that, of course, the shame of feeling it.“ buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...