Indiana state fair merch 2013, presented without comment

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 8h ago

coastal pundits who have never lived in a red state should have to go to a benign-seeming food festival and be confronted with a booth selling Confederate flag bikinis.

>new station doing piece on local resident feels Elora secrets overlooked > created audio guide > one of the stops is the stairs down to the gorge (least hidden gem) damn why didn't I think of monetizing this 😅

yeah, and as someone who did work in a lab where I was for a time the only native English speaker, I was always happy to review manuscripts before submission. Usually the issue isn't grammar, it's more that the way in which something was said being unclear which an LLM may not fix (and may worsen)

Danya Glabau@allergyphd.bsky.social · 9h ago

The next time someone tells me we need to allow LLMs because it levels the playing field for international students and scholars, I will be ready with this footnote. And I'm going out of this high note for the week. Happy Friday everyone!

students of the laïcité case law may recall that the movement has actually done some good things on the front of freedom from religion (mostly freedom from imposed Christianity, btw)... so when people are acting like the Mont Royal cross or grandfathered in school names are a gotcha, no, it isn't

lol (OQLF complaints incoming due to lack of font size difference?) www.reddit.com/r/montreal/c...

From the montreal community on Reddit: Seen at a few IGA stores. Maybe a little more proof-reading on the French part would have been good.

Explore this post and more from the montreal community

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when ppl be like "bike lanes silly because half the year is unbikeable" I gotta wonder what location in Canada they are talking about this year aside, as a cross-country athlete our champs are outdoors on grass at the end of November and most years there isn't snow (or, just a dusting)

> plans to clear all my "phone call activities" from my to do list > Telus network outage, cannot make outgoing calls 🫠

"more rural lawyers are needed!" yeah, not in my experience lol

TIL I am much braver than MS in two ways (just got my Covid booster, willing to walk down Bank by myself)

Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 4d ago

Conservative MP laments state of affairs in city run by a conservative mayor in a province governed by a conservative premier

"But here's where things get interesting." I sincerely doubt it that the LLM writing beyond this point is getting more interesting lol.

Cool thing I discovered - local retired chef has a website where he posts weekly shopping (based on local sale flyers) and then create a meal plan out of this. Recipes are down to earth/accessible for people who don't have a lot of time or skill. bobsrecipes.com

Bob's Recipe Collection

107 farmhouse recipes from Bob's kitchen — breads, cookies, cakes, and more, with metric and imperial measurements.

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idk man, what disproportionately happened with private LTCs in the peak of the pandemic suggests that "not costing more" isn't the only concern lol

Canada Healthwatch 🍁@canadahealthwatch.ca · 3d ago

Private for-profit hospitals are part of the solution to Canada’s health-care woes, Nadeem Esmail and Mackenzie Moir write. canadahealthwatch.ca/2026/11/04/p... #CdnHealth

my obscure Strava segment in the District of Parry Sound will be relevant again?

Dale Smith@journodale.bsky.social · 3d ago

Hilarious.

stratospheric irony: getting lectured about how my life would be improved with less hedonism by someone very wealth/powerful who is personally deeply entrenched in biohacking

I personally love Snigkes,Skitturt, and Tods

no fun to watch tv shows involving lawyers/courts anymore

if I were a renter who did not know whether the installer anchored this properly or the load rating I would not put my bed up there...

Near me is often ranked as Ontario’s most haunted and I am contributing

I love this whimsy. Halloween needs more of this, and less mass produced candy assembly line between subdivision houses you parachuted into because you assume your neighbours won't give out candy (for no reason).

Tamara Hughes@mamamonkey.bsky.social · 6d ago

Potatoes as a Halloween treat: a thread. (Feel free to mute)

good thing I spent all this time decorating and carving a pumpkin for the only kids to show up so far be our immediate neighbours :(

yeah... this is why elite athletes who are subject to doping testing are advised over and over to NOT take supplements that aren't third party certified (e.g. NSF for sport). A lot of them contain banned substances such as hormones or diuretics (masking agent)

Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)@jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 6d ago

Other examples just (similar to the example from OP) straight-up have undisclosed prescription meds in them. I think i remember one in particular that was a "women's health" blend that just had estrogen in it?

on cats being smarter than dogs (mostly): returned home looking like attached photo, cats who didn't see me like this when I left unbothered and demanding pets/food 😅

so uh, in case you were wondering about the Vanier dog drama I lived around the corner from this place and if I saw them, I was changing my route. Grateful to Charlotte and Shirley for speaking out. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Vanier residents ask what took so long after city seizes aggressive dogs | CBC News

Some residents of Ottawa's Vanier neighbourhood are questioning if more could have been done to prevent a series of reported dog bites that have left some afraid to walk in their own community.

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infinite regret every time: making a post in a lost pets group cue: onslaught random middle aged women whose sole mission in life seems to be to be a know it all lol

nice (lol)

bad argumentation 101: "people who want perma DST could just shift their work hours rather than oppress every body else" ok, if it's that easy for workers to dictate their own work hours, why don't early birds do the same lol. Ask your boss if you can start at 10.

evergreen lessons: - don't pick a fight with someone who has nothing to lose - don't forget what your company is "about" to its most loyal consumers

404 Media@404media.co · last wk.

SCOOP: Proton CEO Andy Yen to his staff: “Stop lovingly handcrafting all our code and use AI more.” 404 Media saw these internal messages, in which he also said it was "loser thinking" to an employee who urged the company to at least take a few days to test newly written code before going live.

I got one of these (programmed oopsie at the beginning to make it seem human) but it was in fact for a legitimate charity Don't think the chatbot's strategy of demeaning me when I said I was unemployed/had no money to spare was very effective lol

Comfortably Numb@numb.comfortab.ly · last wk.

Fucking AI spam calls trying to sound human "Hello! *sneezes* excuse me, hehe, did you get our final notice, or did it get lost in the mail?" "All mail burned in an inferno fire" "So sorry to hear that, you're understandable upset"

RIP. Never met him, but genuinely seemed like a good dude who cared about athletes as individuals, even those who weren't stars or who were off their game. Didn't know he played in the CFL! www.runnersworld.com/news/a742478...

Frank Gagliano, Legendary Coach of Olympians and Sub-4 Milers, Dies at 89

A former football player, “Gags” became one of track and field’s most prolific coaches over a career that spanned 60+ years.

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not me accidentally causing celiac group drama for repeating the official Canadian physician guidance for celiac diease monitoring, which directly states that elevated serology after a year generally mean continued gluten exposure lol