Oh my god y'all I had not seen the rest of the Vanity Fair photos holy shit. Christopher Anderson deserves a medal. Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.

Idk who needs to hear this, but talking to blorbo on the plagerism machine is crossing the picket line.

#FFXIVART this is super old but still my favorite ffxiv piece i've ever done!! i miss drawing like this...i drew it shortly after finishing arr~

In my greatest hour of need, where were you

the world has changed

behold, the platonic ideal of social media

It's hard to talk about this without buying-in to stigmatizing trans bodies, but there's a really cruel part hiding here: The effects of dual puberty (what you force by banning blockers) are the exact elements of trans bodies that cis people later use to justify discrimination against trans folks.

paywall

EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA – Alberta’s governing United Conservatives stayed up into the early pre-dawn hours of Wednesday morning to pass a bill that marks the fourth time in under two months they have used the Charter’s notwithstanding clause.

A year ago, Kevin O’Leary announced plans to have a colossal data centre starting in northwestern Alberta in 2027. How’s it going, we wondered. O’Leary Ventures wouldn’t say. So I went to Grande Prairie to see. https://thelogic.co/news/the-big-read/wonder-valley-data-centre-alberta-kevin-oleary/

Your sexbot is a Mechanical Turk.

"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard

This is a hell of a scoop from @charlesrusnell.bsky.social and if Alberta accredits Peterson’s ridiculous ‘academy’, it will instantly devalue degrees from real universities in this province. Albertans often wonder why the rest of the country treats us with disdain. This is a Masterclass in why.

This is among the most democratically dangerous things Danielle Smith has said. She wants to remove all checks and balances on her power and projects herself as the embodiment of "the people." We have left the realm of liberal democracy in this province.

On teaching people to be aware of disinformation efforts - thread

I just backed Bunlith! -The Animated Series on @kickstarter.com @b0tster.yeag.gay www.kickstarter.com/projects/bun...

Scrolling thru my TL history, made up entirely of re-posts, an chuckling happily. "Ah man, you still got it!" I say to myself.

I tallied the number of court cases or legal challenges Alberta’s government has recently stepped in to block or pre-empt. Was surprised how long the exercise took - they’re at like a one-per-week clip: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Take the crystal— I cannot hold open the Patient Portal any longer! You must validate your insurance provider at least 10 minutes prior to your appointment!

wow.. where did lets-plot.org come from? ...undeniably impressive, especially the the geo-support.

we gotta do something about the tech world

if you’re cold they’re cold let your demons in

A good meme to send people who are convinced we live in a computer simulation.

A reminder this holiday season and always

I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape

Some friends last weekend kinda landed on a working theory that Important Art Museums are some of the last places random Americans will be exposed to surprise in art that might make them feel something--even if the feeling is distaste--because you go as a Tourist Destination and can't pick the art.

The price of Western Canadian Select Oil over the last 5 years #Abpoli #Ableg #Cdnpoli #EconSky Alberta is budgeting for $75. Break even for oil companies ranges from $43 to $75, depending on the project and stage. New projects need at least $75. #MarkCarney #CanadaSky

UCP AGM 2025, baby

I just became aware of this incredibly relatable drawing by John Singer Sargent.

Definitely worth a read over coffee this morning. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e4efabc...

canadians be like

Pledge to support community-led renewable energy and tell the Canadian government to do the same! @sierraclubcanada.bsky.social ✉️ Send a letter here: www.sierraclub.ca/action-item/...

The details of the Northern Gateway debate may have faded from our memories. (They certainly did from mine, I realized, while working on this article!) So here's a little refresher on what the country went through the last time an MOU was signed on a pipeline from Alberta's oilsands to BC's coast:

As Ottawa and Alberta edge toward a new pipeline deal, Carbon Tracker (@carbontracker.bsky.social) warns the plan is a financial trap. Up to 30% of Canada’s oil & gas value is at risk, and provincial revenues could fall 82% in the 2030s as global demand drops.

How is this not the top story in the news. AIMCo lost $2.1B and UCP doesn’t want to be sued for bad management. There’s a lot of people’s pension managed by AIMCo. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Me tracking which movie is on which streaming service

Thinking about that Krugman soundbite about how only 2% of Americans have ever done anything with crypto and it feels like the enormous crypto marketing blitz I see constantly in New York and New Jersey is less to attract customers and more to make people believe there's an industry there

As soon as this new information was unleashed, people began looking at the location data for accounts that primarily serve to stoke political tensions in the U.S. with far-right narratives that are often misleading or outright false.

The bats are a surprise. 📊 By @ourworldindata.org

We used to have nice things

I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

meta prompted me to summarize the message “good job”

thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation

Are you fucking kidding me it’s like we are living in a cartoon

Next week Calgary city council sets its annual budget. But the provincial requisition on 2026 property taxes doesn't come down til the Alberta budget in Feb—and it jumped by 17.5% last time. I get into it in my latest @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social dispatch. #yyccc #ableg