If you are in the Edmonton area Fiasco is still missing - please check garages and sheds and engines! Let's get him home, please share x
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If you are in the Edmonton area Fiasco is still missing - please check garages and sheds and engines! Let's get him home, please share x
stared at this for so long wondering if this was real or if Rian Johnson is just really committed to the bit, idk, either way I guess we win
This is far from the worst anyone has been harmed by this But a while ago, Pokemon Go made it so you needed to catch 200 Pokemon in one day to advance past level 40 And I was gonna walk around the National Mall and do that as a reward for finishing summer teaching But now it's full of soldiers.
Doing pension stuff today, had to tell the call centre lady that I'd changed my name (and gender) since I'd taken the policy out. She insisted on updating my details and addressed me by my name from then on. It may seem like shit at the moment but that's the headlines, not the decent people
Behold, my field of fucks. Take note that it is barren.
Anthropologist here! A lot of the evo-anth people are two steps from eugenics and some are already there.
Any music journalists who want to look into this, here's the Reddit AMA where Mac DeMarco is asked: "do you remember the night you filmed your friend masturbate in front of minors?" And he replies "yes." link: www.reddit.com/r/indieheads... archived link: archive.is/ktJ64
I think it's up to like, 5 now, but it's still not a statistically significant number.
worth noting: you always die from rabies. there is no not dying from rabies
Analytical AI is doing amazing things in science and medicine. Generative LLMs are theft. Do not conflate the two.
This orphaned reply to a long-lost post deserves to be read and remembered.
Oh god, someone on a thread invoked āLight of the Worldā 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.
Hank Ketcham was, indeed, a gigantic piece of shit; this thread is a good primer on why. A little detail that wasnāt mentioned in the thread, but seems appropriate for Labor Day: he was vehemently anti-union while working at Disney and gleefully crossed the picket line. Again, trash human.
I know the #uglydogs will appreciate this #HowDoYouGetThemToRun?
Okay y'all, the full Baileys clip is up and it is my duty to tell all of you that Chuck Schumer's imaginary friends ARE REAL AND CAN HURT YOU. Please tell your (not imaginary) friends. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dijM...
Fuck. (Theyāre supposed to be playing at AoC on 9/11, but guess that isnāt happening)
No, we don't do that. When people have a panoply of poor decisions to choose from, we don't attack their disabilities. (We don't do it regardless of what choices they've made, but especially not when they have actual actions to condemn)
absolutely nothing lol
Hi did you move your newsletter away from substack? drop it in the replies so people can find you and subscribe! I am big on rewarding good choices
Aww man, I was just reading about him recently after seeing him pop up a few times in Northern Exposure. Also, I love his books.
She doesn't always get it right, but damn I love Margaret Atwood when she's on her game.
The only man i ever saw act absolute circles around Val Kilmer What an amazing career. Thank you for all the characters, and all their stories. RIP Graham Greene š„
I let out several different audible āNOās during this video incredible stuff, you gotta watch the whole thing
I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
I was definitely seeing it on Tumblr pre-tiktok. It's a weird offshoot of the whole purity culture thing.
Time to remind people about the Commercial Pattern Archive ā it doesnāt have instructions and search is a bear but thereās two hundred yearsā worth of clothing patterns in here including all the big names new and old: copa.apps.uri.edu
The one exception maybe being the MĆ©tis and the Hudson's Bay blanket, but that's a) complicated, and b) not really a logo, more a specific use of something that became a trademark later in its history.
Please keep keeping an eye out, Edmonton peeps. Fiasco (grey floof) is still out there!
Live your life in such a way that you get your very own ballads.
I was on a LeƦther Strip kick recently, but then I started listening to the official Sinners playlist, and I don't think I'm going to escape that for a good while yet.
Here's a picture of a wee coo to lighten ye heart.
getting ads for the concept of a straight bathhouse
Please be kind during these hard times for small businesses. I get that some people who made orders can't afford to pay the tariffs. Please don't lie to get me to cancel a pre-order. You could have just explained the situation to me & been honest. I would have helped.
non-exhaustive list of Things To Not Fuck With: - electricity - radiation - garage door springs - Lake Superior - mushrooms
Shenandoah Valley of VA too, along with millions of elk
Happy Independence day Trinidad and Tobago. There is no me without that magical place and it's brilliant people. š¤ā¤ļø
This is awesome of them to do, but also what an indictment of the way things are that it's a valid marketing tactic
Team #Chrysotile because there was a cabinet in the mineralogy classroom at one of my old institutions with a display piece of this that had fallen apart and therefore could never be opened again without an asbestos abatement team.
Sorry, I can see how it would come off as flippant. It was a 4am commentary on the cruelty of making it even more difficult for people to access things that are already hard enough to access due to their being outdated tech, while simultaneously *requiring* people to use said outdated tech.
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
Make no mistake, everything thatās happening in the United States is being significantly enabled by the right wing oligarch capture of media. Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are. Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.
trying to imagine firefighters getting dispatched to this house and the absolute nightmare that would be
Get the hell off Substack before you literally canāt anymore without blowing up your business
The White Earth Nationās bison herd welcomed its very first calf, marking what tribal leaders call āa new chapterā in returning mashkode-bizhiki (bison) to Anishinaabe lands. Bison are being reintroduced through a partnership with the InterTribal Buffalo Council. buff.ly/XMsVVPs #ShareGoodNewsToo
And, of course, itās the 28th anniversary of the greatest of all newspaper corrections (with apologies to @seamas.bsky.social who traditionally posts this, but itās 10.39, and I can only wait so long)
If I encounter one more person making blanket statements about how your partner should always be gentle and soft with you, sex should never hurt under any circumstances, and if either of those things aren't true, they are deeply fucked up and you need to leave them, I'm going to scream.
Next you're going to tell me they aren't allowed to send faxes.
Sometimes weāre unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when itās done we know all the things that it isnāt, but we canāt see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. šļøš¦
Philip Gourevitch is implicitly buying into the Nazi lie that fascism is efficient and intelligent, and thus saying, "This is WORSE than fascism because it's so STUPID and CHAOTIC" My brother in Moses, don't make me astronaut-meme you
Me at 2 am: hey, we're still awake, did we take our drugs before going to bed? 3:45 am: Right. Should probably go do that. Maybe toss in some Benadryl just to be sure. S'not like I have anything pressing to do tomorrow. Princess bitch better not try to wake me up early for breakfast though...
The only thing that saved me from this fate is having parents who read a wide variety of books to/with me well into my youth.
Iām gonna push gently back on the ācomplicated and precious geniusā bit and say: embroidery sampler patterns like this and the more common map samplers were used to teach many, many girls about science and geography and needlework all at the same time. She wasnāt alone, this girl!
This
the reason I know āfiscal conservatismā isnāt real is that most fiscal conservatives, when you explain this to them, are willing to pay extra just so people who donāt ādeserveā a benefit donāt get it
Anyway at least the City of Edmonton Shelterbuddy links are validated and live now! edmontonacccpets.shelterbuddy.com/animal/anima... edmontonacccpets.shelterbuddy.com/animal/anima...
Funny story related to the Pizza Index: from about 2004-2006 or so, we could anticipate major bad news for the Kremlin about to become public because there was always a massive DDoS that started about half an hour before the news hit.
AND help your kids (and yourself) keep in mind that Fun is not a synonym for Side Hustle. Nothing _must_ be monetized, the more you can refuse to monetize, the better. Keep things that you love for yourself to the best of your abality. You will come to hate them if you have to sell them.
Tag yourself, I'm Expensive Doxy.
Friends, if you have candy corn you don't want, I know a guy who can fix that for you. The guy is me. Your candy corn is delicious to me, and I will make sure it goes to a good home (my face).
Excellent news!
AI's best use case will always be scams. It's scamtech, top to bottom. Everything about it is crooked. Its bedrock is theft and its legacy is the destruction of the environment, both physical and virtual. Even most of its 'legitimate' uses are a form of lying. "I wrote this." "I created this."
Learning curves are a lie. This is a totally normal and healthy approach to take.
In addition, try to encourage kids to do things just for fun, with no pressure to get better. Too many kids drop out of things because "they aren't going anywhere with it" and lose out on what could be lifetime hobbies. Especially sports and other types of physical activity.
And hey parents: Remember: doing a thing badly is the start of learning to do it well. Your kidās having problems with school? Donāt punish, find help thatās not you (because you are tired and will get frustrated because beginnerās mind is a hard state to get back into). Sports/art/music? PRACTICE.
17 year old Jackie Mitchell struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in 1931. Ruth's fee fees were hurt and threw a tantrum on how women were too delicate to play baseball. Due to his toddler like antics, women were banned from being signed in the MLB 1992.
Deeply fascinated by the new wave band Trent Reznor used to play with in the 1980ās and how everyone looks so incredibly 80ās except for Trent Reznor who looks exactly the same as he always has to the point where he might as well have time traveled
That is A Lot to be happening all at once. I hope they find their way back home soon. Take care of yourself in the meantime. šŖ²š
I especially miss this lake. People in SK simply do not understand what I mean when I say the lakes here are too small and they don't feel right.
I don't do mornings, but I miss the water.
Not quote posting, but the one making the rounds about radical gen z librarians acting like this profession hasnāt been radical (sometimes) is making me alternately laugh and get kind of sad for my old lady colleagues who didnāt live through Reagan for this shit.
Thus why I'd rather find an unexpected walrus on my front step. I know about walruses. Who knows what's going on with a fairy.
This.
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
The hottest of hot takes: A blog post that compares a conservative backlash against abstract art in the 1920s to a more recent conservative backlash against literary speculative fiction. Come at me bro, if you take umbrage at technological determinism. Post: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2025/08/hot-...
And the accuracy was pretty close to the same
picture this: a whole day and your body doesnāt hurt even once
This sale ends Monday!
When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary stops on by, speaking words of wisdom: all men die.
Doomscrolling is a lot more fun when you're rooting for the doom
okay my friend in the White House press pool says heās going golfing today, everyone stand down, good practice run great job team we can get a few more drills in before the big day
Just in case you need a little joy today: here are some lovely llama costumes from the 4-H costume contest at the State Fair šø: Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune
If you are wondering what happened in Indonesia yesterday, this is the whole summary. I don't care if you dislike politics, but it's about humanity. It would be greatly appreciated if my English speaker friends here try to educate themselves and share this as a form of spreading more awareness.
My favourite Native-owned moccasin company in Canada canāt ship across the border due to tariffs- they expressed regret over the consequences of āan imaginary line drawn by colonizers.ā Indeed.
And not even necessarily "was offensive". I just got the Blu-Ray of Graham Chapman's film The Odd Job. The best they could do for a pull quote for the cover was someone saying it "works quite well".
Report: Entire world refreshing newsfeed for no particular reason
This one is only for Blueskyers of a certain age.
Hey Firefox users.
Re-upping this again, please spread far and wide:
technically i should be saving these for episode 499, but tell you what: if you post a donation to palestinian mutual aid and/or the Sameer Project in the replies, I'll tell you one card.
Seems like a good weekend to find one nice thing to do for others, and one nice thing to do for yourself. Rest up if you can. Mask up if youāre in a crowd. Watch some birds. Fix something with your hands. Look at something beautiful for a while.
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It genuinely melts my mind how so many allegedly smart people are willing to simply discard the utterly crucial differences between the embodied, organic consciousness of human beings (and bees, and dogs, and fish) and the networked, disembodied simulacra of such that is an LLM.
EDMONTON: HELP Mayday mayday SOS: both Fiasco and Franca have gotten out of the house through a busted window screen and the back gate was found open by my catsitter I am VERY FAR AWAY! If you are in the Highlands region can you keep your eye out
And so part of the foundation of my political thinking is the sense that I am not demanding radical change - I am demanding the country that, when I was a kid in the late 80s, early 90s, the kind of country you told me *we already had* (but we didn't, really, in key ways).
Good week for video essays it seems. I found this one spoke to something I'd been feeling - the grotesqueness of the disconnect between the values we want to communicate to our kids and the values in our politics, esp. MAGA politics.
I know buy Canadian and yada yada yada, but the minute those tariffs drop on Monday I'm ordering Spouse a new utilikilt while I still have the opportunity to get one for a not entirely unreasonable price. Maybe if I'm nice I'll even give it to him before his birthday.
It's surprising how little pushback it actually takes.
When I say Iām tired I donāt mean I need sleep. I mean my jaw has been clenched since y2k and I am TIRED.