Anyone Else Here xkcd.com/3188/

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Latest update from the City of Calgary says a damage assessment is still underway on the broken feeder main. Boil water advisories remain in effect. Here’s a list of the water wagon locations in the affected areas.

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shakespeare: but they’re in the middle of a conversation, why would i have a character stop to directly address the audience? the ceo of the globe: bill, i hear you, but a lot of people aren’t really paying attention to the play so you’ve *got* to spell it out for them

Other work of the Ladybird artists. Winter scene Artist: SR Badmin

For me, the funniest part of these threads is not the people who get that it’s a joke and “yes and” it, and it’s not the people who don’t get that it’s a joke and get enraged about it, it’s the people that don’t get that it’s a joke and strongly agree with the premise.

Bafflingly there are still people out there in the world who think being passionate about nature is “kind of weird”. or “a niche interest”. These people have it all wrong. Nature isn’t some quirky sideline to the main business. It IS the main business. Nature is us.

Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...

huh so Google is kicking off the new year by pissing off knitters that’s fun

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Locations of potable water stations in the Boil Water Advisory area: bsky.app/profile/myke... #yyccc #yyc 7/

So @calgary.ca officials again requested for the public to reduce water usage. Says they haven’t seen significant reduction in usage and we are drawing down our reserves from the Glenmore Reservoir. #yyccc #yyc 8/

The City @calgary.ca has a water usage dashboard here. Water usage is currently in the “Unsustainable” zone: app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrI... #yyccc #yyc

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I keep saying folks need a hobby that involves their hands. I don't care if it's knitting, painting, drawing, scrubbing behind the toilet until it's cleaner than an operating room, getting free puzzles from your local Buy Nothing group....you need to do something with your damn hands!

buy my books i have expensive hobbies

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🥳 Welcome to the Public Domain: creative works from 1930 & sound recordings published in 1925! Duke Law's Center for the Study of the Public Domain has highlighted some of the most anticipated works entering the #publicdomain in 2026! More ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... @dukelaw.bsky.social

Giving people art they want will only ever—at best—satisfy them. It will never inspire them. That is what AI will never be built to understand.

2026 is about affordable homeownership. No more "policy" this year. Feed the local fauna, befriend them, and then use them to overpower homeowners so you can occupy their dwellings.

This MIT study shows that using generative AI resulted in brain damage: "While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels." www.media.mit.edu/publications...

“many angry posts should have been naps or little packets of crackers” is deep wisdom and you don’t need to reproduce to embrace it!

Also you are currently nearer in time to Cleopatra than Cleopatra was to the laying-down of the first stone of the Great Pyramid of Giza, so even human time is completely unfathomable to us, let alone the vastly deeper variety. Follow me for more science-based existential horror in 2026. 👍

Zohran Mamdani Refuses To Share Plan For Making Rich Richer https://theonion.com/zohran-mamdani-refuses-to-share-plan-for-making-rich-richer/

The recent #Calgary Christmas Bird Count recently tallied 38 Trumpeter Swans in the count circle. That is the highest on records - even more amazing is that this species only became a regular overwintering bird in the last 5 years! #birds

Boil water advisory in effect for several areas of #Calgary after major water main break Break led to significant flooding, with 13 people rescued from their cars, according to fire official www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Video of #Calgary firefighters rescuing people trapped on their vehicle from the water main break. Global is reporting that firefighters rescued 13 people tonight, 7 vehicles were trapped by the water and that nobody was injured 👍 (I added a blur towards the end, b/c kid) #yyc

UPDATE: Boil water advisory in place for communities around NW Calgary water main break, stage 4 water restrictions in place. #yyc #calgary buff.ly/w8uoWxE

Boil Water Advisory declared for parts of Calgary "portions of Parkdale, Montgomery and Point McKay communities" - drinking - brushing teeth - cleaning raw foods - preparing infant formula or juices - making ice, etc. All the info: newsroom.calgary.ca/boil-water-a... #Calgary #yyc

It's New Year's Eve so I want to take this opportunity to wish everyone a very happy 2028.

"Boil water advisory in effect for several areas of Calgary after major water main break" *another* one? jesus christ, what the hell is with the water mains in Calgary

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if i had a chance to have any of these kitchens i'd be so excited to never change a thing

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Statement from Mayor Jeromy Farkas on the water main break along 16 Ave NW.

Thread up and down

All of a sudden, the whole Blanket Rezoning thing won’t be front and centre in Calgary City Council… instead it’ll be water infrastructure. #Calgary

I love this. (It reminds me of Morgan Morning, one of those Serendipity picture books. 🦄)

NEW: 16 Avenue is shut down between Sarcee Trail and 49 Street NW due to a significant water main break. Awaiting more details from the City of Calgary.

Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

I have to admit, I also always had kinda the wrong idea about Norman Rockwell until I saw the piece "Murder in Mississippi" as a teen in art history class

Actually this kind of reminds me of the time Schneider took out full page ads in Variety and the Hollywood Reporter to be gigantic dick to a critic who had said something negative about him, leading Roger Ebert to write the most devastating review of his career. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/deuc...

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I mean, the entire Manhattan project was underpinned by immigrant researchers, and the reason why America got the nukes and Germany didn't is because the Nazis adopted the exact vile, boneheaded blood-and-soil bullshit that Miller is spouting and drove out all their smartest guys.

Pierre Poilievre pictured yesterday travelling back in time to the middle ages to try to get people there to vote for him.