I like a good grip; I like to feel something in this slippery world that can hold, man.

Janice, the implication that if I kill Kyle that I'm depriving you of your husband is kind of silly. There are billions of men in the world! A lack of husbands is not one of the many real threats to American women.

the worst thing that can happen to the kind of American who takes business trips is an insult

RETVRN but for hypnospace

I will say that people in Canada instantly clock me as an American because of my voice. One of the nice things about Canada is that women don't have to drop their pitch to get taken seriously in public.

I attempted laser hair removal once and ended up with an adverse reaction that I like to call "hamburger leg." It reminds me of how some cultures adopted rules that forbade men from shaving, presumably because until antibiotics were invented you might die from nicking yourself with a razor.

An artistic rendering of the Shaman of Bad Durrenberg:

Would any Toronto area punk/weirdo music acts be interested in appearing on a bill with my band Anti-Spectacular on for a May 10 Handlebar show? If so, please reply below!

at last a flatgame engine for making simple walkable zine-type games! muhahah

Weird how Doug Ford just Keeps Showing Up in cases of random Ontario corruption and self-dealing elites, like in this story about a construction union head who got the union to buy him a 4-million dollar home. Gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/8363bd6... (via @loanseyjonesy.bsky.social)

does dreher think that he will die instantly if he sees a Black person

no matter how long I live in this country I still find myself saying "I'm going to CVS to pick up some neosporin."

working from home

mfw right wing idiots are being critical of antidrepressants

i used to have a job where I was travelling 6.5 days per week and I have never felt so seen. 100% accurate

I want to make fuck

It's really hard to explain to people that I have the kind of hearing impairment that means they need talk more quietly

#birdbot

Teaching humans to write text that sounded like it was written by a machine (and was, indeed, only read by machines in many cases, e.g. SEO) made the task of making LLM-generated text that could plausibly sound human-generated much easier.

Local man decides governing by the seat of his pants will be faster in $29M jet.

there are two phrases that will instantly manchurian candidate every Canadian even if they are people with big glasses who choose fonts for a living: "51st state" and "Pete Buttigieg"

Voice calls are fine! they are way less time-consuming than texting. Also, every video call that you have at work could be a voice call with screen-sharing as needed.

all crustaceans

imo the ideal video game should first and foremost be a dark pattern casino hell trap facilitating an upward wealth transfer from a struggling and economically depressed proletariat audience

Kaneda Kazuo- Cat on Peach Tree

fine

uh Vinegar and Oil Lives Too Far Away. I don't think we've got solid branding here

Standing in a crowded, noisy room when I'm about to have a seizure—call that aura farming

honestly I think it is good that no one respects the PM. he is always just some dude. It is good for democracy when the people cyberbully the PM

the guy who Mark Carney appointed as the "Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation" (lol) is a disgraced CBC tech journalist who was implicated in a scandal that Carney was also involved in. Canadian politics is such a joke lol / c'est de la foutaise

when I hear that a prof is sleeping with his 19 year old student

this reminds me of the time I was about to apply to a job for a company whose line of business was unclear but they did have a link to a Modern Slavery Statement on their homepage

I guarantee you that that student was That Guy. Perhaps we should keep these centres running so we can reduce the number of That Guys in normal classrooms.

lmao bro that won't save you. if you financed a boat you are cooked

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Montréal does not have fluoridated water and everyone I know from mtl who js over the age of 30 has periodontal disease.

i think we tend to view spaceflight as something very normal and boring when in reality it is insanely dangerous. we don't give astronauts enough credit for their bravery.

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

I am once again asking

imagine having the honour of being the head of a state that has accomplished this unprecedented achievement of science, engineering, imagination, and courage. imagine looking our small, fragile, and beautiful planet, and thinking that 90 million people on it need to die.

this is, definitionally, an emergency of the highest order. you'd be hard pressed to see anyone in authority acting like it. this, definitionally, cannot stand. this, definitionally, cannot happen. that it is, unimpeded, is incontrovertible evidence that our system is broken beyond repair

Even if AFT leadership are the greediest fatcats (and idk what the leadership is like, I'm not a member), this is dumb. Do you want to shrink your dues base? Do you want to spend your funds on grieving AI-motivated terminations? Do you want mgmt to leverage the threat of AI in bargaining?

I think we need to just start having names like characters in Jacobean drama again. I want to read the news and see phrases like: "state senator Tinnitus Blowhard" "former MP Sir Jobsworth Lickspittle" "wellness guru Anorexia Nervosa" "serial entrepreneur Ripoff McSociopath"

Earthset from Artemis II. I am overcome.

sometimes remember JG Ballard’s prediction that if human civilization survives another 50,000 years the only person from our time who may still be remembered then is Neil Armstrong. an immensely comforting thought to me, personally

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable. Earth and Moon in one NASA photo. ht @astrokatie.com