can confirm, a banana right off the tree and the thing you find in grocery stores here are two entirely different creatures

omg. embroidery folks remain undefeated Q: How to use metallic thread in embroidery without knotting and unraveling? A: You can't. It's awful and thats why we call it the devils pubes

Hockey Canada ordered to pay nation’s therapy bills

😊 www.cbc.ca/sports/olymp...

This is absolutely the kimd of peak Blueskyism I am here for

this might be the truest thing posted on this website today

anyway food is culture and culture is politics and we'll be fighting over rice until the end of time

rice discourse bluesky is best bluesky

ehehe, I see rice cooker discourse popped off earlier today and I am here for it 😁

east asians at least the ones I'm friends with mostly swear by rice cooker. As Indian I refuse to accept rice cooker. It is a whole struggle

I get along so well with all my east asian friends till the subject of rice cookers comes up

looooool 🫶 > The owner of Beck's Bar called it a "hard no," in a story she shared yesterday on social media. > "First and foremost, I don't want to see any of you at 6 a.m. Don't get me wrong, I love you, but I don't like anyone at 6 a.m," Becky Sawyer said. www.sootoday.com/local-sports...

hear hear. we need to curbstomp this notion that machines are better at human language than humans 🤬

looking at the current NHL franchise roster because reasons, and I haven't felt like this much of a crotchety, out of touch old man in a long time. "Utah Hockey Club"? what? "Columbus Blue Jackets"? aren't they a minor league AHL team? 😅

this phrasing reminds me of Judge Currie's ruling just a few months ago: "That cannot be the law."

me: python documentation google: wow. what a profound and important question. you know, many people search for python documentation

Hitomi Yaida, "Over The Distance". probably a modified Ouendan cut, with the bells and everything. fair warning, everybody in the place would be dead of feels, myself included. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSJW...

non-German speakers: omg German is such an ANGRY, AGGRESSIVE sounding language 😭 German speakers: Sehen wir uns in 10 Minütchen! 👋😊

People of the Irish diaspora! ☘️ The Irish language is still alive, and you can learn it. It's a connection to the ancestry, history and culture that was stolen from us. This group is amazing and they're running online classes!

imagine being a political commentator in a country where you can't even be bothered to read the coins in your pockets

today's mindlessly therapeutic youtube clip www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhYW...

Yoon trial might maybe have reminded me of this amazing clip, lol

mannn. wtf did the trains do? « nique la police » comprend la police ferroviaire 🤬

i mean, i'm no expert on stun guns, but i am pretty familiar with trains, and i don't think they're particularly vulnerable to stun guns

artist's rendition of today's wtf moment believe it or not, this is not how electrical capacity planning works

looking at the news, it seems clear we're in the age where everything is made up and reality doesn't matter sometimes I wonder how much my career has been limited by my inability to brazenly lie like a rug 😂

apparently "spending more time with my family" means "my new Liberal family" 😅

funny thing: I've spent maybe six months of my life in Germany all told. and yet I've had this exact same sentiment Jon describes getting Germanized is a thing, and it happens faster than you might expect 😅🇩🇪

battery-electric storage, EVs, BEMUs, micro-hydro, distributed generation, off-grid electrification, virtual power plants, mesh networks, better battery chemistries/energy density, sailing & sail-assisted cargo ships, climate change adaptation, greywater reuse, modular & prefab housing, tiny homes,

Sure: Light rail, high speed rail, ocean wave generation, solar power generation, wind generation, heat pump tech, geothermal heat pump tech, last mile on-demand transit solutions, better wheelchairs, better wheel chair lifts, better flexible seating on public transit, maker spaces, tool libraries.

first time in my life I have heard Cree—at least, more than a few words. 🥲 gem.cbc.ca/cree-curling...

"Why does this part about the original Legend of Zelda mention battery saving? That doesn't make any sense." I never thought I would have to pull the "get off of my lawn" shtick at work when it comes to the history of video games. excuse me while I crumble into dust. 🫠

I sometimes see Menards compared to Canadian Tire, but imho it's more like 3 parts Canadian Tire, 2 parts Home Depot, and 1 part Meijer. also the only place I've ever found 48" long UV-resistant heavy duty cable ties. 😅

Ramadan Mubarak! Kung Hei Fat Choi! Laissez bon temps rouler! Hodesh Adar tov! Y'ALL ⭐

ok this was my favourite bsky story of the day. 😅

Daily affirmation: You deserve pączki

the scene that plays out in my head every time someone says the meds that keep me alive & productive every day are actually a conspiracy by Big Pharma www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG8R...

I noticed some folks on here being confused about scoring in curling. and while the glib answer is "one point for every stone closer to the center of the target than the opponent's closest stone", that still might not clarify much 😅 so if you have questions about the basics, feel free to ask. 🥌

shoutout to one of the greatest moments of publicity that the sport of Curling ever got. 😅

people look at me funny when I say that these guys are every bit as much my favourite as the Shinkansen, but it's true. 😊

for everyone saying there are sweeping allegations of misconduct at the Olympics: sorry, it's about 10 years too late to make that pun. that was the *last* major curling scandal, lol en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broomgate

cross-country skiing: competitors helping each other up after they collapse at the finish line 🤝 luge: athletes tearfully hugging the person who just beat them the moment they step off the track 🥲 curling: cheating scandal brewing, harassment on social media, guys telling each other to fuck off 🤬

curling, despite being the canonical beer-league winter sport, never ceases to amaze with its ability to foment drama here's a must-see clip from the 1972 world championships 🚬🥌 www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOG0...

🎶 let's go swimming in a lake of fire / turn the radio up if you wanna get higher 🎶 they say, we will never learn / come on come on come on let's burn www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXoZ...

#JohnDoesJapan open questions thread! Ask me anything: how to plan, great places to go, sample itineraries, the lowdown on railway museums, the best Japanese gardens, the 12 remaining original castles, train set cafés and bars… (Drop hints about what you like, are interested in, or want to do!)

John is doing another one of his great threads about travel in Japan alert 😊🤩 I lived in Japan in the 90s, when it was supposedly expensive. Maebashi to Tokyo, a train trip of 120km, cost ¥1890 then. it's ¥1980 now, 30 years later. sometimes it feels like Japan is the land that inflation forgot.

better than 1,000 in on Crypt of the Necrodancer, lol

the last company I worked at was only involved in computer security, not strictly natsec or defence. and yet geopolitics had a huge impact on their business -- not just Russia/Ukraine, but also tensions between India and China

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it