Gentrification

Monochrome Monday - just cut my hair and trimmed my beard edition with bonus raccoon eyes - which fits because I’m pudgy, each junk, and may possibly be rabid.

Mel Brooks is 100 today. Drop a gif of one of your favorite of his films to celebrate. More of one of my favourite little gems. If I had to pick a favourite film I’d be torn between Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles, with any of his other films winning third place on a nod they’re so close.

Vittorio Storaro (with scenes from "Identikit", "The Conformist", "The Last Emperor" and "The Sheltering Sky" where Storaro served as the cinematographer) - BOTD

Older lady peeped the rainbow flag on my bike, asked in a thick Russian accent “It’s your Pride?” She told me her youngest grandchild is “not she berry or he berry but no berry.” I said “Nonbinary?” She got so excited. Yes! Yes! And “Is a secret, but they are my“ *looks around, whispers* “favorite.”

Round two in the escalating hidden war has to be butter tarts. Of course in the Canada, the most pressing division in our population isn’t East vs West, English vs French, Left vs Right it’s Raisins vs No Raisins in our butter tarts. I am and always will be on Team Raisins.

Advertise your Bluesky account with a Simpsons GIF

Kind of surprised to find a mutual I thought of as a friend decided to block me last month. I strongly support using blocks and mutes to construct a low drama and supportive social media space, I’m just sorry I obviously failed to deliver that.

In light of that MMA meathead calling Michele a man, here’s what I think anytime transvestigation comes up

"What does Red Lobster need with AI?"

Always late to the bandwagon but I actually created my header and felt not enough chubby chasers were noticing it.

My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/

There is no algorithm here to drive views You have to earn them Your writing has to be worth reading This post is just going to reduce your viewers. Making you more irrelevant. If you can't stand without an algorithm, maybe sit down

The innocence and privilege of people not on statins!

Post a meme made by you.

your post was classified as a serious boo boo, adding four goofs to your account, which elevates your permanent record to a gold bungle. we're putting you in the no no zone for a week

Your software is not sentient, but your printer is. It can detect urgency, and sometimes just enjoys messing with you.

A senior Pentagon official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said recent German rhetoric had been "inappropriate and unhelpful. The president is rightly reacting to these counterproductive remarks," the official said. It’s like only allies have agency. Trump can be as rude to them …

Without stating your age, post a film that was released when you were 18 years old.

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I would have loved to have written the headline for this back in my newspaper days: TANKER TRANSIT TESTING ‘TACO’ TRUMP.

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You might want to verify that with the NASA in-flight recorder transcripts. I have the feeling a few “merde” may have be tossed around during Apollo 13. 😬

Artemis is launching today because it's a full moon and therefore a bigger target

People who say marriage is just a piece of paper have never known someone kicked out of ICU cause they "weren't family" . Folks who say marriage is just a piece of paper have never been kickes out of their home, cause their partner passed and the family wants to sell.

“The Curmudgeon Years” I think mine started about 30 years ago.

I keep trying to find some underwear that can corral “the boys” because I am getting real TIRED of sitting on them. I have ADHD and get into long hyperfocus periods when I’m coding, and suddenly 8 hours passes and I suddenly realize I’ve been glued in my chair sitting on my balls all day.

What the actual fuck??

Age Verification? Two words: Punch Cards.

Story. Of. My. Life.

it really underlines the mafia mentality of this government when you remember that the justice department has nothing to do with ICE. it’s like bribing the interior secretary to call off the IRS

My favourite comment, to a post saying “Look how hard I get when I think about abolishing ICE” is “LICK COCK NOT BOOT” 😋

turning on the CNN coverage of the NY election with a wide, placid smile on my face

AND THIS. The best news segment ever to air on network television

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

It would be funny if it wasn't so infuriating to see the seamless pivot from "CLEANSE THEM WITH FIRE AND BLOOD" to "Now, now as the great Bard of Avon once told us 'The quality of mercy is not strained but falleth..." now that it's known the shooter's family voted Republican.

Or when the homeowner gains 30lbs and can’t fit through half of the secret tunnels anymore.

A great piece about a great book. Heartbreaking, all the same. Brava @mollyjongfast.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

This is the best team crossover video I've ever seen.

kind of obsessed with 2025 pride merch...I'm calling it cowardcore.

Me, right now.

Gay powers restored something something etc. Still need to neaten up the beard a bit but I’m kind of embracing the bushier ‘stache. It blends well with the rabid raccoon dark circles under my eyes.

I’m a little annoyed. My company has started offering language training as part of our continuing education, so I decided to brush up on my French. After all my father was québécois, and I grew up speaking franglais in Montreal. I also got by quite well in Paris and even used it in BsAs.

Not to be too pro technocrat, but it is astounding how much this country depended on the selflessness of like a few hundred thousand highly educated public servants who, for peanuts, made sure our food and medicine and environment etc were safe. And in return these servants were demonized.