@urbandragons.com I want to know what the other beers on that menu are!

I have a dojo buddy who's a surgeon. He says my scans are grossly normal. I'm offended.

Creeptastic. That's what you get when you turn a lumbar MRI upside down. Ew.

If you didn't know what this was what would you think it was?

Mondelez, parent to Cadbury and others, has partnered with Celleste Bio to manufacture bioengineered "chocolate". The bioengineered chocolate part doesn't especially bother me, but the Celleste Bio part sure does. That's an Israeli company. Fuck you, Cadbury.

One of the pluses of being born a Canadian is that I will never have to swear allegiance to any member of the British royal family. I feel badly for anyone who does have to do it, and apologise to newly minted Canadians for it.

That was the fastest MRI I've ever had. 12 mins all in.

Dear New/Not Canadians Tiger Tail (Tiger Stripe, Tiger) ice cream is a good reason to be here. An orange base with black licorice stripes through. This is Kawartha brand.

Adaptive reuse of ottoman. There is still room for my feet. A bit.

The very clean tramp was a pleasure.

We need a word for that thing you have to do when the entire bag of frozen peas is stuck together and you have to bang it on something to whack off enough of a chunk for dinner.

Another occasional reminder that if you're stuffed to busting with shopping bags, please donate them to your local food banks. They will be appreciated.

You know that people will disappoint you. But it's still deflating when you find out someone you admore is seeminly not on the same moral footing you are. No more Nick Cave for me, it would seem.

Pruse be. I got the short census.

I love the idea of the chatelaine, but I'm not sure what I'd put on a modern one.

I love the idea of the chatelaine, but I'm not sure what I'd put on a modern one.

Today's loud music from a passing car. https://youtu.be/pjbNLVQ_Iwk?si=iIOQ4Dq5Y6Ck1i24

Gawd forbid you should want double loop binding coils that are 2". Is it so much to ask?

This is what it looks like when you lose your phone and someone drives over it before you find it again.

Watching people regret their Liberal vote during the last federal electiion because Carney isn't who they thought he was, and complaining they got played. You were warned. To quote De La Soul "You played yourself".

In the interest of set completion, I watched "The Devil Wears Prada II" last night. The best thing I can say about it is that it was an incredibly good example of something that felt like a contractual obligation.

This is the map the African Union has chosen to replace the Mercator Projection, a thing that's long outlived its usefulness. Time to move on, friends. Mercator won't care. https://equal-earth.com/

I really wanted to sort them around in ripeness order ... but I didn't, because I don't work there, and I should keep what passes for OCD(ee-)lite in my wee noggin to myself.

I really wanted to sort them around in ripeness order ... but I didn't, because I don't work there, and I should keep what passes for OCD(ee-)lite in my wee noggin to myself.

Sometimes, I really, really want some ruby grapefruit ... but I cannae have it. Bum.

For those sensitive to perfumes and scent, I can confidently report that this hand soap (which can be applied to other non-hand parts of the body no doubt) has absolutely no scent at all.

Our new sign at the food bank.

I thought today was an appropriate time to reshare, along with the ones I wrote. Roses are red False scarcity is dumb People should have A basic income Roses are red Let's avoid desperation By sharing what's needed Through nationalisation Workers of the world unite!

I'm not sure who's more morally bankrupt: the Israeli government, or the governments that sit back and do nothing to stop them.

Someone elsenet was asking what things we're good at that we take for granted. For me, it was writing. I don't know that taking it for granted is quite the right way to put it. But it is something I certainly appreciate a lot more, along with reading, after encountering /1

#Dollarama has, I just realised, shrinkflationed (tacky) my favourite hardcover coil notebook A5(ish) cover size by a full centimetre(ish), from the old version, on the short side, meaning it's no longer properly covering the paper. Time for a new favourite, I guess.

Sometimes you just want to eat a whole box of doughnuts.

For the record, there isn't enough filthy lucre on this planet that could induce me to make use of the Chunnel ... ... or get in a submarine, go down into a mine, get in those boats that go under the polar ice cap, ior go into a house's crawl space.

It's like Wordle, only it's for colours! I approve! https://colorfle.com/

Do you think random Shakespeare quotes popping up in your head counts as an earworm?

Crunchy is the superior of the peanut butters. I will be taking no refutations at this time.

I was looking at getting a new keikogi - because I actually do need one - and ... suffice it to say it won't be happening. Holy crap. There's no $75 (but likely more due to shipping and if I have to get it altered) extra floating around up in this joint. I might have to sell a kidney.

This is, without a doubt, the oddest job title I've ever seen.

I knew this, but it never percolated, that (according to Richard Wolff) the US expanded so rapidly and strongly after WWII because the other nations that could have been economic powerhouses had all been decimated by the war - Europe, Japan, etc. /1

Today's bus ride to the dojo playlist: Aus der Zeiten - Einsteurzende Neubauten Trilobiten - Einsteurzende Neubauten Nobody's Fault But Mine - Led Zeppelin Waitinh Room - Fugazi Kool Thing - Sonic Youth To Hell With Poverty - Gang of Four That's When I Reach For My Revolver - Mission of Burma

I booted into Windows for the first time in months to update it out of boredom and saw that the malicious software removal tool needed installing. If I do that, will it remove Windows?

I am (unreasonably) annoyed by the use of the word aesthetic when people mean pleasing, pretty, good, attractive, or the like.

I didn't hear them until they were almost out of sight. At least they were going the right way this time. Sometimes they don't.

Best multi-band tour idea I've ever had was every group Vince Clarke was ever a member of.

I think the best thing the show "Lost" ever did was truly usher in the era of super short/nonexistent show openers (*) - a thing I hadn't enjoyed since the show "Tour of Duty". A show I never actually watched. I just liked the theme. * And introduce me to the concept of numbers stations.

Apparently, the "what's in my bag" thing is going around again. This is what goes in my dojo bag every week One of 3 keikogis, obi, one of 3 headbands, slippers, shiny bag for all the small things, deodorant, sword oil, oil cloths, band aids, lint roller, shorts, tank top, zekken, hakama.

I hope the people of Kingsville let up on the anti-body farm protest. I don't want to have to spend extra to ship myself to Quebec when I kark it.

https://banpredatorypricing.ca/

It's even money on whether or not Doug Ford's comments regarding surveillance pricing are him deliberately misleading or him not understanding that it is not competition between businesses, but charging multiple customers different prices for the same items. /1

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