Now this is a saint I can really get behind.

I don't think this is peculiar to this administration. It's been there since Ohio State (for white folks), and much longer for everybody else. What is different is the speed at which violence is resorted to, and the brazenness of its carrying out.

What? A billionaire lied to try to enhance his image? Why, I never...

Carrying a passport is no defence against a govt goon saying "that looks fake to me" and arresting you anyway.

Dammit, tech companies. The only think I need to know about your awesome AI feature is how to turn it off.

El pueblo unido jamás será vincido - and that's north or south of the 49th. Worth remembering.

Grand River, Brantford, Ontario

A good read. There is a paywall, but a kind I don't mind: you get good meat within what's free, and the wall is reached at a natural point where the reader isn't missing anything in the chapter they read.

Elected officials have to stop posting like bystanders who have no power.

What part of verifying citizenship and enforcing immigration laws requires chemical weapons? And why are chemical weapons items of first resort?

About 18 months ago, I had a special constable violate 2-3 sections of the Charter and 2-3 sections of the code of conduct in about a 5-minute span while he confidently tried to enforce something instead of listening to anyone or helping a person desiring help....

Okay, look: It's good that action is happening. However: That it took the murder of an attractive white woman is also a pretty grim referendum on whose lives lawmakers value.

Christmas hangover lingering? Not really ready for going back to work? Here's Dead Man Blues by Jelly Roll Morton. youtu.be/avU4rhb0OMk

When people this good tell you to turn yourself up, you must be doing something right. A great group to sit in with.

All these instruments were played today, and some also got new strings. The trumpet sometimes suffers from a sticky valve, but was surprisingly cooperative after having been ignored since November 11. The mandolin was stuck in a closet for the entirety of 2025.

If the US wants to insist on advancing Russian interests and 'joke' about invading allies, why do we keep thinking of them as any kind of friend whatsoever? They have never been what they claim.

'Let it Snow' with all the positive lines removed

At a pharmacy, and the assistant is asking me if I am aware of the price because "it's expensive" and I don't have benefits. It's about $130. Compared to brain meds, that's a bargain - especially when it's a single course treatment. One of my bipolar meds was $400/month last time I took it.

After some high-end classical shit of late, today was dedicated to rock and/or roll.

Looking at this will a piper plays Skye Boat Song from the balcony.

THE MAINSTREAM JEWISH COMMUNAL DEVIL'S BARGAIN WITH WHITE SUPREMACY HURTS EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE AND AS MAGA HAS MADE CLEAR IT ALWAYS BACKFIRES Solidarity is the only way home has always been collective liberation or bust loves

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

There is nog in my house. No stealing.

The Department of Unsubtle Metaphors continues to exceed expectations

These look like they will keep me on the road.

People in 1952 never thought that in the 21st century, humans would struggle to find staplers and other simple tools that just worked. Products get shittier every time the price increases.

My new Hammond stage organ. Early review: this thing is fucking incredible. Because Katie is marking, I have so far only played it through headphones. Tomorrow morning, however...

No Lancaster flight this year, but the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum's B-25 Mitchell just flew over my house, with one of their WW2 fighters following.

I was improvising on the new piano today, and came up with this. youtube.com/shorts/q4GNo...

Is there a way to buy a peerage these days? Because I would contribute cash money to get Sean Dunn named the Earl of Sandwich

So I just found out that Albert Camus and I have more in common than I thought. We have both written things and we both played goal in soccer. The bastard was undoubtedly better at both. But I have lived longer, so I've got that going for me. And just like that, I am a character in a Vonnegut novel.

Picked up my new ride today. It moves like it's supposed to so far. I usually take the train into Toronto on Wednesdays, but I think for tomorrow I will make an exception.

Why don't we have sportswriters like this? I didn't hear any post-game interview questions, but I know they were fawning and inane.

So a whole lot of elected officials (whose job it is to pass laws) are showing that they don't really know how laws work - or if they do, they just don't care. Which is why constitutions exist.

Netflix seems to have moved to subtitles on by default every time you open the app, and it's really fucking annoying. They are absolutely needed by some, and enjoyed by others. It shouldn't be hard for an app to remember a user setting.

Doug Ford asking the US ambassador to apologize instead of something like "I'm recommending that the PM tell you to get the fuck out of our country, you fascist bootlicking fuckface." Of course, I am also not surprised that current Republicans find Reagan's actual words insulting and outrageous.

Alexa explodes after Canadian replies to query with, “Oh, yeah, no, for sure.”

Join ICE, you too can mess yourself while being so panicked you feel it is necessary to shoot an unarmed person in the face with anti-riot weapons. This should be the recruitment poster.

I highly recommend both these items if you can get your hands on them.

Katie's back, and she brought presents!

I was telling people recently about one of my profs (William Renwick) whose advice on sight-reading *and* improvisation was this: If you make a mistake, make sure to do it again. For the audience, if it stood out and it happened again, it was intentional: it was supposed to be that way!

Except this is exactly how it is supposed to work. It is a language model, not a 'correct answer machine'. Oh, did somebody hoping to monetize its use tell you it is a correct answer machine? And you believed them?

I saw some cool things in my one afternoon in Marseille - may have to go back and see what else they have cooking!

I think the only thing I can like about baseball is that a team that is swimming along can suddenly come up against a different team and be one of the suckiest teams that ever sucked.

New "inventions" are not incentivized to solve actual problems as much as they are incentivized to attract money. If those goals overlap, cool, but it's not required (see NFTs). If modern society invented the wheel, it'd be accessed via a subscription-based proprietary plan with multiple tiers

Capitalism is a funny thing, because GenAI/LLM technology is considered successful not because of what it does, but because of its ability to attract venture capitalist investors

Made for Harold Pinter, I'm pretty sure.

This is why I am hoping all my friends and relatives are able to leave that country.