The load-bearing myth at the heart of UK politics is that the politicians and media are tolerant and decent and working people are knuckle-dragging bigots, but it's actually completely the other way around.
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The load-bearing myth at the heart of UK politics is that the politicians and media are tolerant and decent and working people are knuckle-dragging bigots, but it's actually completely the other way around.
IKEA furniture is cheap—but convenience comes at a cost. the world’s largest furniture company has been linked to the razing of old-growth forests, Indigenous rights violations, and even assassination hits placed on land defenders 🧪🌍 maia wikler for @atmosmag.bsky.social
About to go to bed. I will let you know the brand name of ours after I get upstairs, which we bought at London Drugs. It's lowest setting (next to Off) is perfect.
The country is being informally ruled by a woman who once handcuffed herself to the door of Twitter HQ in a way that allowed everyone to walk right past her through the other door.
What the - and I can't stress this enough - ACTUAL FUCK is this moronic maniac babbling about?
Highly recommend a projection clock with a dimmer to put on the lowest setting so it isn't too bright. It's on my wife's side of the bed and sometimes in the middle of the night I need to know the time and don't want to climb all over her or check my bright phone so I can just look at the ceiling.
Number 98 is where we would have preferred to be. #PandemicPlaylist www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEES...
This is a good answer.
Oh god, someone on a thread invoked “Light of the World” aka the Piss Christ and I am really tired and just got off a plane but my impassioned screed on it was on Twitter and as some of you know, I have FEELINGS ON THIS TOPIC.
they’re all this guy
The quest to make darker petunias led to a 2006 Nobel & a fundamental tool of modern molecular biology. In 1986, Richard Jorgensen was trying to make a darker purple petunia to get some VC funding. So he inserted additional copies of the pigment gene into petunias. Instead, they turned WHITE.
Number 97 is the awareness of what we shared. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsS_...
A polar bear in a zoo, a hotel balcony overlooking elephants, a tree mural shrouded by haze: They're images from the new book The Anthropocene Illusion, about the way humans are remaking Earth.
When the day comes, I hope the family of Colin Powell has a fitting obit queued up.
On board with this.
Such a loss. Lots of great roles being mentioned, but I’ll single out the hilarious chaos of his character in the TV movie MEDICINE RIVER, based on the book by (and co-starring) Thomas King.
Number 96 is what happened to society. To civil society, specifically. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNtj...
I took the Amtrak from Vancouver to San Francisco many years ago for the Confrancisco Worldcon, not in a sleeper car but just leaning back and sleeping. Highlights included having to bus between Vancouver and Seattle, a chicken bone in my veggie lasagna, and the most irritable waiters ever.
Why are their old Vancouver Canuck colours on the bottom?
Not a classic, but worth watching. Fun.
Number 95 is where so many of us were stuck for so long. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7aP...
A friend with a TBI after her car was t-boned can no longer drive so 2 or 3 times a year she rides Via from Edmonton to Saskatoon and then a brother picks her up to drive her to Melfort so she can see her mom. I guess she doesn't mind it, but those are two of the worse train stations in the world.
I find it extremely telling and stereotypical that on this most Laborist of Days, it is impossible to find "Matewan" streaming anywhere. Corporations, your fear is showing and delicious.
Also a delightful video for one of the songs from the album. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOER...
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
Still (as much as is humanly possible) not buying American shit, nor visiting the US. There. That was easy. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Been a busy long weekend and so harder to catch up on new music, but damn, such a delight to listen to the new @ronsexsmith.bsky.social, Hangover Terrace.
These would be even better if they were double-lined and filled with Kool-Aid (but not lemon-flavour). Imagine putting them in the fridge on a hot day, or the microwave on the cold day. Would make me want to just burst through a wall.
Yeah, Jo and I are more sour about northern winters with each passing year. So far we're mostly lucky about the heat, although the past week has been a bit of a scorcher.
I remember going as the +1 for 5 different women at the same wedding, including two in the wedding party. I also have a vivid memory of three of them out in the parking lot rubbing my back while I puked. And then 2 weeks later the bride sued for divorce. Eventful times.
Interestingly, scrolling down a short distance leads me to a New Zealander welcoming the first day of Spring.
One of the happy features of the movie is how each supporting part gets a chance to come in hot with a real (and sometimes real weird) character. Smith definitely included.
Have I told you about the first time I let my daughter walk alone to piano practice? She had to cross a (big-ish) street, so I told her I would walk behind her and observe. At the zebra walk my daughter, like a boss, puts out her palm to signal the oncoming driver to stop. And Björk stops her car.
Still more comfortable than that watch he took home and still hides up his ass.
Lest you say "it's not like that in the United States," I am currently representing a person facing criminal charges for - and this is true - saying "protect trans kids" during a school board meeting
Here I am moaning about my oldest having turned 29 this year.
Stephen Miller: “What do we do?” Ivanka: “There are no bad ideas.” RFK Jr.: “We could eat him.” Ivanka: “There are some bad ideas. Where’s JD?” Miller: “He’s… in the den.” Don Jr.: *snorts a rail* “Bump, anyone?” Eric: “Well, I watched this movie last weekend called Weekend at Bernie’s, and…”
This way we know it's him. Because otherwise we'd all be speculating. And hoping. But now he's shut that down for real.
Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
Number 94 is where we all found ourselves. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2he...
Was going to suggest this. Also, it isn't a football movie, but the football sequence in M*A*S*H is brilliant.
This article is... something else. “'I think your daughter could possibly be a promiscuous little slut and you don’t know about it,' a person says in the recording of the meeting. 'I think you need to get a real handle on some of that.'" www.chronline.com/stories/oreg...
Number 93 could also fit in with how things are going today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqfh...
Number 92 is that realization that this isn't a seasonal thing like what these days we call the flu. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwt6...
Agreed. The problem with some, though, is the delight they take in the cruelty. Although I imagine enough are pleased just to see its results, don't need to perform it.
Honestly getting the feeling that a lot of them would be happy to pay for the chance to go in and kick butt* in the name of MAGA. *Where "kick butt" = "pick up trash"
The season is still so young, only three games in, but I'll gladly accept Manchester City sitting in 12th place.
Griffin’s definition of fascism as palingenetic ultranationalism—specifically a reactionary nostalgia for a lost history of the nation that never existed—remains undefeated. A nostalgia for a type of bread that is ubiquitous, created in the 20th century, and rage towards bread as old as civilisation
Gary’s had naps in a lot of beautiful places
Not in the UK, apparently. My son is there finalizing things before presenting his Master's thesis in the morning.
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This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
They're mercenaries, flown in because of their expertise.
Thanks. I had a very bad few days just over a week ago, but was likely to do with visit my parents and having to help Dad in his wheelchair when we were out. Going backwards down steep slopes is not advised. But the past four or five days have been really good.
Number 91 is a status we wish we could put on all age groups, not just the one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcPT...
A reminder: I started this list during the pandemic, where the titles mean something regarding our situation but not necessarily the song. So let's carry on, months later.
Planning on getting back to this tomorrow. I had hoped I'd recovered from the knee replacement, but of course the infection jumped on in there and made a mess of things and then I forgot. But now I remember, I promise. This here is a placeholder.
“I was going to kill a man. This is much easier.” Watching SORRY, BABY, and at the moment this is my favourite line of the year.
Weird flex to brag about not spraying your child with pesticides as if that's an uncommon thing.
Pink just guarantees harsh words on away missions.
One is mapped out but sitting in the queue right now.
Apparently the two children killed were not praying hard enough. "Christian Tweets" my ass.
Only time I saw him was way back in the late 80s. Tremendous show.
This is the worst thing a banana company has ever done. Hang on, I'm being handed a note...
My older son is doing his student teaching practicum so on days when he doesn’t go to daycare I dog sit Banjo. The knee felt good enough to take both Banjo and Zevon to the off leash park yesterday, and they had fun.
If I ever get to that sequel to NAPIER’S BONES you can be damn sure I will include this.
The hand bruising is not uncommon. My dad has it (and then some) and that’s the least of his worries. Still, hope springs eternal.
Antony Fantano made his first comments about beating a lawsuit from Falling In Reverse’s Ronnie Radke (who initially sued the wrong Anthony Fantano)
I knew nothing about him until I stumbled across Anthony Fantano's video. And I don't watch Fantano, but my son does sometimes when he comes over to visit. Long story short, even old farts who normally wouldn't care one way or another about him think he sucks.
I do miss him.
Looking forward to Trump's team arguing that because it's an executive order it's unenforceable.
Political cartoon from 2015. Washington DC in 2025.
#WhereIsTrump
Also, I would be tilting this thing over as loudly as possible the second it bumped into me.
New Mario Kart level just dropped.
GOOD Remember when I did "watching US news talk about Canada" for a while there? They interviewed the Jack Daniels spokesperson who said he only expected a 2% impact because Canada just wasn't that big of a deal to such a massive company. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The Party was a New Year's Eve staple at the local repertory cinema for several years until one year it wasn't, and it was like everybody woke up and realized what it was at the same time.
I'd be curious to know what's on the final list, and what the parameters are. Based on the title alone and not knowing anything else, Jim Sheridan's IN AMERICA comes to mind.
Drives me up the fucking wall when people get upset about athletes making a shit-tonne of money but don't see a problem with the team owners who pay them, who get public funding to build their arenas and stadiums. Yeah, there are problematic athletes, but for other reasons.
Ah, the bad old days.
An old Facebook friend sent me this--something I posted on this day 5 years ago. Seems appropriate to the discourse on aggressive #cycling. #bikesky
Imagine it raining oily droplets over approximately ≈1256 square miles surrounding any major city or vacation destination on August 22 Idk feels like it would have been a big news story
Glen Hansard in The Commitments and more so in Once (for that matter, Marketa Irglova in Once). Also had a small singing part in Cyrano.
“The government has voted to lock out teachers ahead of a potential strike, CTV News Edmonton has learned.” For clarity, this doesnt mean that they are locking them out yet, only that they’ve given themselves the power to do so. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
shocking
And if you invade Persia, a great empire will fall.
Saw that after. Good taste shared is always nice to learn about.
Truer words, etc.
At my age even the singular of sex is rarely heard of.
I really worry they'll push even harder towards the Trump playbook, perhaps even take over running the city because they don't like this. There are many people who can't afford vehicles but can afford bikes. Let them be safe, and an equal part of the community.
So what you're saying is my collection of Asterix books is Asterices.
He was great leading The Guess Who, but Burton Cummings solo really knew how to work it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tchw...
Some good answers. I would also suggest that refugees stand out more and therefore must be hidden away so voters don't get upset. Unhoused people are invisible to so many of us that it's safe for the government to also ignore them.
As just today I finished listening to @originstorypodcast.bsky.social on Enoch Powell's "Rivers of Blood" speech (delivered on my 5th birthday. Yes, I share a birthday with the most evil man of our time AND a special day for weed fanatics), this seems unhappily timely. And embarrassing.
Because you start with scapegoating international students - and you end up here, with people at a government rally in Lloydminster baying for the mass deportation of new Canadians. Let’s stop being mealy-mouthed. This is disgusting. It’s unCanadian. It’s unAlbertan. It’s unacceptable. #AlbertaNext
