sharing this... for reasons

Well this is enormously enjoyable youtu.be/NZx9fAk22Qg?...

I stumbled upon this wonderful, extremely niche essay about poetry, close reading, odd fads, T.S. Eliot, animal imagery, and the infamous cryptic crossword setter Torquemada: publicdomainreview.org/essay/beastl...

I think it would be pretty fun if, whenever someone would write "THIS" underneath a post they vociferously agreed with They instead wrote "Quite."

"Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps." - Emo Phillips Just been thinking about this line more and more, recently...

This article for @thetyee.ca is fantastic and wonderfully timed as I have just been thinking about how Vancouver seems to be afraid of standing out, fashion-wise--and yet whenever I'm out and about in period dress after a tour, so many people enjoy the hat & bow tie. Wear what makes you smile!

I am genuinely offended that Spotify's discovery playlist keeps recommending me electroswing no matter how much I don't listen to it

I genuinely think the reason execs were so certain AI could replace other workers is that they know it could replace them and they just assume everyone else does as little real work as they do.

Oh hey, a petition to save one of vanishingly few independent cinemas in the Vancouver metro area: chng.it/HmbZ8pzrYV The Hollywood 3--previously Harris Road Cinemas--fuckin *rules*. A local, independent, second-run house with cheap popcorn! Guess what?

I really like this article by Ashima Shukla in SFU'S student paper, The Peak: the-peak.ca/2025/06/the-... It captures one of the things that I fundamentally dislike about AI

I think, from now on, every time someone mentions "AI" I'm gonna go "oh, fancy autocomplete?"

I love a headline that can be responded to with just "Good." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

An idle thought on the way to a haircut: If you like everything, you have no taste.

"Big breakthroughs, big changes, always come because at some moment you are taking yourself out of your comfort zone, and this will never be an optimization process. Optimizing everything results in missing opportunities sometimes." - Alessio Figalli

I have an essay in this week’s @bloomberg.com Weekend Edition about ticket stubs and memory and how the ways we catalog our own pasts have been changed by the internet. I’m really proud of it and I hope you’ll read it. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Ew who even uses Google anymore futurism.com/the-byte/goo...

How doth the welsh-cake function? The welsh-cake functions thus: t'is fried in pan upon the hob, with a minimum of fuss.

In 1890, the Tariff Act came into place in the United States. It placed tariffs on imports of up to 50%. While touted as a way to build American industry, there was also the hope it would force an annexation of Canada. It backfired. Let's learn more. 🧵1/10

Actually, while we're on the subject, Matt Disero had some stuff to say and he's bloody right. There's an incredible amount if homegrown talent in Canada. "Buy Canadian" isn't just for groceries.

The arts in Canada have a marketing problem, argues Max Wyman in the Tyee: thetyee.ca/Culture/2025... "Right now, nobody cares."

The caption for this photo just said "Man and owl, 1920's, Sweden," but I know a warlock when I see one.

Oh my goodness this is wonderful www.flashgamehistory.com And interactive love letter to a gloriously creative era of the internet. Tools that make it easy for anyone to make things and share them are good.

"... in the age of AI. Unique ideas and critical thinking are more valuable than ever. The craft of writing looks like it will go the way of cursive based on our current trajectory. People who can uniquely and independently articulate their own ideas have an advantage." pjonori.blog/posts/own-wh...

Message to the grifter king from Canada: "We will have no parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst and we will do our best. We do not expect to hit without being hit back, and we intend with every week that passes to hit harder." - Winston Churchill

Dangit the @thebeaverton.com got me again

STOP. ASKING. CHATGPT THINGS. TO OWN IT. We all know it's bad and it can't count the number of Rs in strawberry. Quit boiling the planet with your fucking dunks

Uuurgh why did I have to look at my phone this morning. Waking up to another even worse round of credible evidence that Neil Gaiman is a psychopathic rapist is a hell of a way to start the day.

If you don't enjoy the difficult process of making art then you'll never be an artist. The gratification of art doesn't come from money, fame or awards. It comes from doing the work and realizing a vision. If you have to circumvent that process then you'll never know what it's like to make art.

The last one like this that comes to mind was when I kept thinking about how game components store varying amounts of information: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/storing-in...

This is legitimately good advice and we should take it seriously

Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025⁠

Right we have a fresh new year now don't fuck it up this time ok?

You know bluesky is a good place of the old internet when people are talking about hamsterdance

every year around christmas time the ballet dancers who play the rats in the nutcracker come out with a series of unexplained banger tiktok videos and anyway this is my favorite part of the holiday season

Oh what a surpriiiise I'm so shocked www.npr.org/2024/12/17/n...

There's something uniquely frustrating about spending over an hour getting cancelled on by multiple uber and lyft drivers for a journey that would take only 25 minutes.

On my way to perform mingling magic at my last Christmas gig of the season. I spent 4hrs earlier working through descriptions of Card Thru Handkerchief in like 12 different books. Guess what I'm gonna perform a lot tonight? JUST KIDDING I'm gonna do tricks about fake pirates, weed, and dumb jokes

Ooooh shit you got me. I got got. Wooooff

Overhead, trudging through the rain downtown: "Look, I didn't know it was unethical..." OOOOO THE INTRIGUE

love actually is kind of a fucked up movie when you think about it. a lot of people dont realize this but its set in england

I have 214.6K followers, and I figure at least some of them are looking to gift books this holiday season, so: HEY AUTHORS OF BLUESKY: In the comments to this post, tell us (briefly!) about your most recent book, and put in a link to where people can learn more and/or buy the book in question. Go!

The Amazing Kreskin died! Who could have predicted that variety.com/2024/tv/news...

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After a full day and a half of gutting my old computer and building a new one with more modern parts, I can finally play the most advanced game ever produced

What the fuck the Gastown steam clock just played a song that wasn't the Westminster Chimes Have I sideslipped into a different reality again

There are 2 types of people in this world: Those who will click on a video entitled "ATTACKED BY SASQUATCH IN THE HAUNTED WOODS" and those who are afraid to learn the truth.