a rather significant portion of the founding was based on “no guys like Donald Trump in particular” they really specifically wanted to avoid this type of know-nothing demagogue

Don't wanna work tomorrow... :/ But got to pay the bills somehow I guess... hopefully things won't be too stressful...

He said this on Wednesday. It's Sunday now. It's way past time for the full transcript of this interview to be released. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...

What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?

Another advantage of the new graphics engine is that it doesn't exhibit the weird rendering issues in iOS26.* that the old engine did (when using "Windowed Apps"). I wish Apple would have fixed it, but... this works, I guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Every major institution has been so useless for the last year that I'm ready to paint my face like william wallace for anybody who just plainly states exactly what we all know to be true

Joanne Rowling, like all transphobes, hates women and children. More than you can possibly imagine. And the transphobes who are women hate women and children even more than the men do.

The literal definition of a dictatorship.

Eventually got it going on the Linux system, although there's a few things that are broken (gamepad and keyboard support somehow aren't working yet, among other things...) Oh well... still, progress.

Finally getting around to installing "No Man's Sky", as a good friend gifted it to me over Christmas. I've just been so focused on app stuff... but I should give this a try. Had to clear up space on my Linux machine to make room for it... wiped the Apple/MacOS partition, I wasn't using it anyway.

There should be public dialogue from Dem leaders about what the medium-long term political strategy against Trumpism is. They don't want impeachment (not enough votes) so what can a Dem congress do that's more effective? Is there a philosophy other than "Vote for us and hope something good happens?"

Under my leadership, the next time the NDP holds the balance of power in parliament, we’ll have one demand: proportional representation. Sous ma direction, la prochaine fois que le NPD détiendra la balance du pouvoir au Parlement, nous n'aurons qu'une exigence : la représentation proportionnelle.

1,200 demonstrators came out in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, to denounce the right-wing hate campaign aimed at the city's local Kurdish population. Demonstrators walked 5km from West Kawaguchi Station, chanting "Stop hate" and "Live in harmony."

"It wasn't murder, and if you say it was murder we will kill you, which again will not be murder."

Progress - got it running on the Simulator. Not sure why the lighting is different than on my desktop instance. The edges of the tiles are harder to make out. But at least it's working to this point... maybe there's some setting I can tweak for iOS to adjust the lighting.

Uh ... I thought Federal Minister of AI-Generated Deepfake Porn Evan Solomon just assured us that wasn't happening in Canada.

Tonight thinking about this all-time @ndrew.bsky.social banger

genuinely insane we're at this point

Toronto Sun responds to journalist celebrating ICE murder by promoting him to CEO

the narcissism and myopia is genuinely astounding at times

Hmmmm so protesting in Iran is to be praised and supported with threats against the government crackdown While protestors against our government are threatened with violence and death Makes sense

The party of pro-life doing everything it can to kill people yet again

so lord Elon is starting an ai slop revenge porn freedom movement. got it.

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

Hi hello, the Toronto Sun's email is [email protected] in case you'd like to inquire as to how they feel about their Ottawa Bureau Chief making these kinds of statements about innocent women being shot by militarized thugs in the street! Let's make his weekend extra fun :)

I think I solved it. Adjusted the camera angle a bit more too. Colours are much richer / less 'washed-out' now. #mahjong #indieGameDev

If there are *any* Democrats in Congress who will still vote to keep funding this administration when it is using that money to terrorize our cities and refusing to allow congressional representatives their clear right to observe their activities, then those reps need to be primaried into retirement

I did. Their deaths are on her and Joe Biden for setting ICE funding records every year of their presidency, you poopy-pants boomer bitch

Not saying Dems should ignore suburbs and rural areas, but I think they need to put forward a vision celebrating urban and diverse spaces. It is what scares a lot of people about Mamdani, because he gives people that sort of vision

The past couple days have made it clear that arresting and prosecuting Johnathan Ross isn’t just the right thing to do, it is necessary to prevent future violence by ICE who have interpreted the situation as “we can do that to whoever we want”

Evan Solomon, the minister responsible for AI regulation and safety in Canada, declined an interview request.

I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.

I was just denied access to the ICE processing center at the Whipple Building. Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained. The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.

Ontario and Germany voted in the same month and season. The biggest difference was not weather or timing. It was the voting system and whether people believed their vote would matter.

if only there had been a movement and momentum several years ago to downsize police budgets, clear out the white supremacists and de-militarize local law enforcement

Furious Trump demands to know why Minneapolis shooting hasn’t sparked civil war yet

Which proves there is no business case www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

America fucking bullying us into keeping their shitty fucking website Christ on a fucking stick share.google/gjzZ8URlKJme...

Hello Ross this is your lawyer speaking. I am advising you today to please keep posting this shit.

I think it's all behaving? Going to do some more tests, but... so far so good. Here's how the same scene used to look, vs. how it looks now with the new 3D engine. Tiles with rounded edges, better lighting + shadows, etc. (2D/portrait view is more-or-less as it was). #mahjong #indieGameDev

The federal government seceding from the union is a new one

“Please be on the lookout for the following mothers, who are confirmed to be in possession of dangerous vehicles and should be met with extreme caution,” said DHS Secretary Kristi Noem

“in america, you deserve to be murdered by the state if you have gender pronouns in bio”

they want everyone to believe that resisting a white supremacist race war means the state should kill you and it’s deserved, and it’s concerning every republican on every level believes this now. in 2017 this was being said, but it was still a marginal opinion