So we're done moving everything that was "easy", now it's the heavy stuff. Ugh. It would help if we were buff, and it were cool, but... Which led to us sleeping at the new house for the first time cuz we were just exhausted and couldn't bear unloading the trailer last night. It was very quiet. Mmh!

It's not that I don't feel schadenfreude when the worst people (Trump & Musk) are at each other's throat, and like so many I expected the break-up, but it's that so many people are invested in them working together that they all will do their utmost to get them to stop this dicksize contest. >>>

Hate surveillance. But clearly many humans can't be trusted while behind the wheel of a weapon of mass destruction. And if we must therefore be watched, I'd rather a bot does it than cops, and that all speeders get ticketed rather than a few unlucky ones. Maybe it'll train people to speed less? 1/2

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Did a quick native berry inventory on the property last weekend: Salmonberry Red Huckleberry Saskatoonberry Thimbleberry Osoberry Salal Trailing Blackberry Nootka Rose (hips) That's outstanding. There might be others in hiding, I just walked down the main "trail". I can propagate those!

25 Favorite Science Fiction Novels x 2 No particular order, no explanation, just covers. Comments on the chosen book of the day welcome. Day 49/50 David Gerrold, When HARLIE Was One 🪐 📚 🚀 #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #ScienceFiction #Scifi

For the first time ever my boots' uppers have come apart before the soles. Hm. Weird. And so I needed new boots, but since COVID I'm buying everything online that I can, yet boots seemed always a try-on kinda thing. Still, I risked it, and here they are. And they fit! I ordered the same brand >>>

I see "Trump Lawsuit" trending, and am thinking that this doesn't narrow it down. Do I want to know? Not today, Satan.

Yesterday we had the inaugural use of the washer and dryer, as well as mowing the lawn (way too much lawn, which will be remediated after grading). Still doesn't feel like home, but at least I no longer have a lingering undercurrent of being an intruder.

When a high school track runner is more mature than the entire Republican party. What a kid!

My last 3 tests with ChatGPT have all resulted in misinformation -- it told me Mark Carney wasn't Prime Minister yet, that Chrystia Freeland was still Deputy Prime Minister, and that Bashar el-Assad was still in control in Syria. It is particularly untrustworthy when it comes to recent events. >>>

25 Favorite Science Fiction Novels x 2 No particular order, no explanation, just covers. Comments on the chosen book of the day welcome. Day 48/50 Karin Lowachee, Warchild 🪐 📚 🚀 #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #ScienceFiction #Scifi

25 Favorite Science Fiction Novels x 2 No particular order, no explanation, just covers. Comments on the chosen book of the day welcome. Day 47/50 James Alan Gardner, All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault 🪐 📚 🚀 #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #ScienceFiction #Scifi

Robert Prevost wasn't on my radar as new pope, but since I am just a minimally informed lay person with no dog in this fight, that's not saying much. From everything I've read, this is NOT a step back from Francis, :relieved sigh:. Unusual, like w/ Francis, my instant first impression is positive.

I feel accomplished. Got my new phone set up before the deadline. Ok, so the deadline was extended, and I did not set it up before the original deadline -- close enough! It was way more complicated than it should be. Mostly because my old phone was too old to talk to the new phone. >>>

25 Favorite Science Fiction Novels x 2 No particular order, no explanation, just covers. Comments on the chosen book of the day welcome. Day 46/50 Robert Charles Wilson, Blind Lake 🪐 📚 🚀 #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #ScienceFiction #Scifi

I'm tempted to put a picture of Nancy Mace inside my toilet.

Remember the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 dashboard? Well they are back and it's tracking measles outbreaks in the U.S. This is critical, especially with rampant disinformation and declining reporting standards. Data is our best weapon against disinformation. #PublicHealth #Measles #SciComm

25 Favorite Science Fiction Novels x 2 No particular order, no explanation, just covers. Comments on the chosen book of the day welcome. Day 45/50 Peter Watts, Blindsight 🪐 📚 🚀 #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #ScienceFiction #Scifi

I think I'll start posting in a new category: "moronic things about the new house". Today's entry is the dryer vent which is a hole in the floor that leads into the utility room. Not outside, ever, no. It just emits the moist, warn air into the basement. Which has already a surfeit of moisture.

I'm gonna have a democracy sausage for dinner in honour of Australia's elections. globalnews.ca/news/1116149...

So Zuckerberg's "fewer than 3 friends" thing probably comes from the Pew study referenced in this article. And many people protest that but I don't see them defining "friend". Cause there are different kinds. I ran into that a lot when I first was in the US. 1/6 www.npr.org/2023/10/25/1...

100 days of Trump & Co flinging poisonous shit into the zone. This is just an impression, not a full accounting. And yet, it overwhelms.

25 Favorite Science Fiction Novels x 2 No particular order, no explanation, just covers. Comments on the chosen book of the day welcome. Day 44/50 c 🪐 📚 🚀 #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #ScienceFiction #Scifi

Is it just me, or did a Guardian graphic artist throw shade on Trump here? Link: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

So I asked ChatGPT [*] today what the national voter turnout was for the Canadian Federal Elections. And it informed me that the elections were to happen on or before October 25, and since that hadn't happened yet, it couldn't tell me. After I informed it that it was wrong, it found out. 1/2

I try not to post much on Trumpian BS, but this one got me... I dunno. If it's a joke, how is it funny? As far as asskissing goes, Lindsey Graham is maybe jealous of that cabinet meeting and wants to show he, too, can crawl up Trump's rectum all the way to his tonsils, rooting for a 3rd term?

The septic system is finished! We "inaugurated" it on the weekend since the hookup was done by then, but the contractor needed a couple of extra days to clean up (remove the temporary gravel road he built to get equipment in for the drainfield mound).

Liberal Fanjoy leading by 3,793 with only 2 polls left to count in Carleton. Sleep? What is sleep.

Go, Carleton, go! 9 more polls to count.

Canadian Elections: I am relieved, but it's too darn close for comfort. In our riding Cons are leading because the vote splits. I hate FPTP; some "representation" when 3/4 of the voters don't want the winner. I weep for the NDP. Bright light might be Carleton, if Poilievre loses. Can't sleep now!

25 Favorite Science Fiction Novels x 2 No particular order, no explanation, just covers. Comments on the chosen book of the day welcome. Day 43/50 Sean Stewart, Passion Play 🪐 📚 🚀 #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #ScienceFiction #Scifi

I don't think I have seen any movie more than 6 times.

Of course none of these misogynist shits have ever even THOUGHT of trans men, and how utterly discombobulating it would be for your average TERF to have to share bathrooms with them. Idiots. Men who rape have done it long before transgender was a concept for cons and TERFs to manufacture outrage.

I often feel crabby, but I don't wear jewelry (dislike dangly bits; it would just make me more crabby). But maybe somebody else might like these cuties! I'm pretty sure one doesn't even have to feel crabby to enjoy them.

Considering the Trump regime is going after Wikipedia, today is probably a good day to spread knowledge about Kivix, an offline reader for online content like Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, etc. Non-profit, free, open-source. kiwix.org/en/

Awww, damn. My timeline really needed this. Short🧵.

25 Favorite Science Fiction Novels x 2 No particular order, no explanation, just covers. Comments on the chosen book of the day welcome. Day 42/50 Julie E Czerneda, In the Company of Others 🪐 📚 🚀 #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #ScienceFiction #Scifi

Judge J Harvie Wilkinson III, rock on.

I don't recognize Poilievre's description of Dark Canada. He says "People need to know the terrifying picture that a 4th Liberal term will paint, with higher costs, of raging crime, of more despair". That reminds me a lot more of the US right now. Electing PP would get us closer to that.>>> #cdnpoli

And this is why we don't use follow farming or followback hashtags, so automatic followback, or follow someone just because they look like they're on your side

Just give other countries more reasons to reject the import of US dairy products, why not. The Trump regime is obviously fine with endangering Americans, but nobody with a well-functioning government is going to go along with that. This is what DOGE "efficiency" means. Some "Grade A" milk, eh.

25 Favorite Science Fiction Novels x 2 No particular order, no explanation, just covers. Comments on the chosen book of the day welcome. Day 41/50 Geoff Ryman, Air 🪐 📚 🚀 #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #ScienceFiction #Scifi

So apparently a Nanaimo man posted a tiktok video inviting Americans to come to Nanaimo to show their support for Canada by enjoying touristy things. He's had an unexpectedly phenomenal response; people are taking him up on it in the hundreds, and our mayor got onboard. cheknews.ca/americans-st...

💸💕 Unfortunately, my wife was laid off at the end of last month. We had not yet recovered from her extended unemployment so need a little help. gofund.me/bf0509d8

I'm kinda grateful to that doofus (newly minted would-be revolutionary is my guess) who ranted at a cat-posting account that we shouldn't be distracting ourselves because these are SERIOUS TIMES -- the number of cat pictures in my feed has shot up exponentially, and it's making my life better. >>>

It's hard for me to give up on earnest attempts to discuss things with some people -- that's how I change my mind: bring me solid new data, I'll research & accept that. It's been disheartening to realize that the %age of bigots who're instead fueled by hating the Other is much larger than I thought.

Alt text: mechanical mosquito sculpture full of gears and joints with a hypodermic needle nose and big blue eyes full of pathos.

RIP, Pope Francis. I don't hold much truck with the Catholic Church (nor with organized religion in general), but this is probably the only pope in my lifetime I'm sad to see pass on. A genuinely good person, unusually kind, empathetic, compassionate, and caring for somebody in that position.

25 Favorite Science Fiction Novels x 2 No particular order, no explanation, just covers. Comments on the chosen book of the day welcome. Day 40/50 Cameron Reed, The Fortunate Fall (formerly known as Raphael Carter) 🪐 📚 🚀 #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #ScienceFiction #Scifi