Without downloading any new pics - where are you mentally

AI images are getting harder to spot, but physics still gives them away if you know where to look www.techspot.com/news/112338-...

It didn't really hit me until I saw this, but I don't have any desire to see movies in theatres any more.

1. Boy, Amazon is in a heap of trouble. Evidence made public yesterday by California AG @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov shows blatant price fixing. And there are so many examples. Here's Amazon scheming with a pet food supplier to get Chewy to raise its prices.

"How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead" #Spain #USA #Democracy #Oil #Iran #TrumpWar #PedoWar #Espstein

While making an affordable housing announcement in Brooklyn Wednesday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani addressed a nearby heckler, saying he wants to make the city "affordable enough to yell at your politicians.”

Glad people are settling on the term "pervert glasses". Bonus points if you also say it while posting a picture of Mark Zuckerberg or call them Mark Zuckerberg's pervert glasses.

a good combo of plugins (and I think I maybe got these from Cory Doctorow, so thank him) is "Right Click Borescope" (it lets you see everything included in the page where you click, making recovering actual images easy) and "Save as PNG" (which uh saves files as pngs, including webp)

JFC Not even pretending to have our priorities straight

Maybe the snow clearing topic is overdone, but it’s been weeks since the storm and I can’t help but be aghast at Toronto’s abysmal service standard. This is unacceptable. Plain and simple.

Please sign the petition (3rd post in this thread)

Since we’re doing a discourse, let me explain how Signal works and how it doesn’t.🧵

One day, saner heads will prevail and US governments will look back on this time and admit that a fascist US government encouraged its authorities to murder its own citizens. For now, those in charge will continue to lie, but the rest of the world bears witness and none of us are fooled.

🤷 “Last year [2024-25] was our worst flu season in almost two decades, and I was hoping we might have a mild flu season this year. That does not appear to be the case.” www.aamc.org/news/10-thin...

We have entered a new era of threats to Canadian sovereignty. Old alliances will not save us. Safeguarding our freedom and our democracy is up to us. To that end, you are invited to a virtual town hall discussion of civil defence on Thursday, Jan 22nd, at 8pm Eastern. RSVP here: bit.ly/cd_meeting

I'm often late to the party but some things are hilarious when you only come across them after the fact

In the next generation teachers will spend all of their time correcting the wrong notions children have about every bit of general knowledge.

This is so cool

Where did they learn this? From Canadian police? The return of the "Starlight Tour".

Scooch Tit

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to: Eurythmics Level 42 Spirit of the West Rickie Lee Jones Toad the Wet Sprocket

What’s in…and what’s out in Canadian Medicare.

These days I'm appalled when people I speak to don't at least know about AI's environmental impact.

A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor @nickhunebrown.bsky.social to investigate their past work. In the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, removed articles from their sites. thelocal.to/investigatin...

Share a TV series you've watched from beginning to end more than once. Firefly

Also: I'm not terribly wild about masked men in unmarked vehicles kidnapping people of colour off the streets

gofund.me/5e9f3fea3 SEND A PIZZA TO TRANS KIN! We are raising funds to send 350 pizzas to trans kin across Northern Turtle Island/Canada in our eighth year of Trans Pizza Day. Can you help us out by sending funds for a pizza? Thank you!!!!

They’re still at 75/560. Please share and help them if you’re able to. Anything helps them toward their goal. They’re desperate right now. They might get evicted in a couple hours. Donate if you can.

I wrote an op-ed on what I think about the fight for local neighbourhood retail (and the grousing about Badiali's) means for the urban vision of Toronto. Gift link here: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

There's a 24/7 corner store in Regent Park with trays of food from fried chicken and beef patties to chicken tikka and biryani The best shawarma in the city is in a 24/7 Hasty Market in Davisville. From food trucks and corner store foods to more 24/7 stuff we need to actually act like a big city.

Hey - was anyone keeping track of all the pre-election promises? Cuomo also has to move to Florida I believe

Jays lost but I'll settle for Zohran winning.

have they ever had to change the clocks at a baseball game

Over on Twitter, I bet they are also all watching the game but every time something happens someone blames it on Jewish people.

sports was a mistake

I’m sick of sharing this link so help me bury the NIMBY opposition to cute neighbourhood shops! They just put a petition with a measly 209 signatures into the record to kill—not modify, kill—this small step towards maybe having corner stores again Let’s tell them what we want: c.org/fYSGWfvYJv

This is encouraging not one lie, but a whole sets of lies, and I truly don't get it. What drives people to fabricate entire scenarios about their lives? How satisfying is it to impress others when the supposed admiration is undeserved?

I thought this was a joke, but Mercedes actually posted this video to Youtube 2 months ago. Talk about fuct up.

The other word for objections to diversity, equity, and inclusion is "racism"

hey canadian friends you can tell the govt what you think about AI (🚮)! survey closes at the end of the month. it's a tad long but worth it. #CanPoli ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en...

Mark your calendars: Oct. 27

I made this:

time for the tweet again

THERE ARE FOUR LIKES

Nick Valencia, who has been doing amazing reporting, just wrote about this: “These Are Abductions.” Newlywed Husband Says Wife Taken During Green Card Interview open.substack.com/pub/nickvale...

Gustavo the Gamer had better steer clear of the US for now, because you *know* any attempt to visit will result in a minimum 12-hour detention at the border while CBP/ICE/DHS scratch their heads trying to figure out if having the same name means there is somehow a genetic predisposition to terrorism