The Telegraph obituary of Patrick Stewart is, as usual, extremely good, not least this detail about how his brief, pre-acting career as a journalist on the Dewsbury Reporter came to a sudden end.
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Remember, dear ones, the reason it feels like so many more good people die than bad, is because there are so very, very many more good people than bad people I'm sorry we can't keep them forever
ME: What’s the first rule of bite club? DRACULA: Is it biting? ME: That’s right, Dracula, it’s biting. RATTLESNAKE: [quietly to himself] I was gonna say biting.
I love to support local movie theaters. If you live near Mayville, North Dakota, please visit The Delchar Theater! Would love to see this guy have a packed house!
we should send angine de poitrine to eurovision. we’re not going to win with normal pop. australia is going to sink us unless we send someone wild.
bethany: “i can’t believe how eby just made everything materially worse for people.” ben: **points to hindu epic poems about how you can’t get the good ending unless you were good the whole time** (in reference to how bethany hated eby because he cheated in the leadership race hillary style)
David eby shifts bc into the bad timeline. Good job, chodes. You cheated to win the leadership and then fumbled power so hard, and wasted a once in a generation opportunity. Id throw a rock at your car if I could.
Editor: You get those photos of Abdul El-Sayed? Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked. Editor: what
Chris Grace@chrisgrace.com · last wk.Here's a photo the Wall Street Journal is using for a story about Abdul El-Sayed. Oooooooo... it's SPOOOOKY season
voted in the bc election. likely result will be the literally maga conservatives taking power, after an election campaign based around saying absolutely nothing. fucking david eby. i have a lot of mean things to say to that man. big “drop the turkey dinner on the floor energy” from our lad.
A special place in hell for the self-appointed disability means testing police
Karen K. Ho@karenho.bsky.social · last wk.Someone just chastised my mother and I for parking in a disabled spot at Costco despite having a valid placard. "You can walk," he said. "You're not disabled." My mom will also get a knee replacement in several months.
Harper denied climate change and other science facts so much that he burned books from a government scientific library and scientists went on strike. How bad do things have to be for scientists to strike? Now, scientists are preparing to do the same. pipsc.ca/press-releas...
Press Release – Federal scientists prepare to fight for public science as bargaining begins - PIPSC | IPFPC
Ottawa (Ontario), June 1, 2026 – Federal scientists are entering a new round of bargaining, warning that continued cuts to public science are weakening
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well, on the one hand AI has made things significantly worse for everyone in almost every capacity that it has touched. But on the other hand, the dumbest guy you know can send emails nobody reads really fast now. So it's impossible to say whether it's good or not
WHY THE FUCK WAS THIS INFO SITTING IN A DATABASE TO BEGIN WITH look, I never trusted Crime Stoppers (ACAB, too preoccupied w/ boomer paranoia cases, etc...) but plenty of good faith calls were placed AT GREAT RISK TO THE CALLER. Every1 w/ a hand in managing this data needs to be drawn and quartered
Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 2w agoThis is very, very bad: “Information from more than 1.5 million other tips submitted to Canadian Crime Stoppers programs over the last 25 years — was exposed in a massive data breach, an exclusive CBC investigation has found”
Seen this story all day today. Every headline says "27 year old Minnesota man..." I have yet to see one with the headline that the man was Somalian. The most maligned and denigrated group in Minnesota www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/2...
27-year-old man credited for saving kids, driver in runaway school bus
A 27-year-old Minnesota man is opening up after he saved nearly 20 children when their school bus driver suffered a medical emergency.
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A 4 TB hard drive that I bought a few years ago for $250 is *on sale* for $1000 part of what GenAI is doing to us is creating a situation where we *have* to use the cloud and the data centers where it lives because individual storage is becoming unaffordable
my stance on john brown is this: i saw a black scholar on a documentary say something like--we really have to pause and think about why we call a white man that thinks black people should be free crazy.
Someone realized the Manitoba workplace safety regs refer to CAN/CSA-Z94.4-11 (and have since before COVID started), which requires N95s as the minimum level of protection for COVID. MB IPC leads should face charges under s217.1 of the criminal code IMO, I cannot imagine any plausible defence.
Mark Ungrin@mark-ungrin.bsky.social · last yr.Here's what you'll find at the other end of that link. Now think about the roles those signatories hold, the decisions they've made over the last 5 years, and the fact that hospitals *still* choose not to practice good infection control for bioaerosols. laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-4...
They don't let you smile in passport photos because they want you to look the same as if you were standing in line at customs for 2 hours!
One wild thing that not a lot of people are aware of, is that we don’t actually have to let these companies do any of this.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 3w agoI keep trying to think of any historical example where a given technology's PROMOTERS AND TRUE BELIEVERS were like 'we are absolutely going to ruin your fucking life so be prepared like it's the end of the world'
I assume @hankgreen.bsky.social conceived and wrote this video completely independently from my post but the timing is nonetheless suspicious 🤨 (It’s good, you should watch it)
The Productivity Lie
YouTube video by vlogbrothers
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Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 3w agoProductivity as an adult is just an endless process of applying new psychological tricks and operant conditioning to yourself until an acceptable number of tasks are completed.
If you praise the Confederacy, everyone knows what you're doing. If you praise Rhodesia, though, you still get that little frisson of naughtiness, the little tingle of rebelliousness that can power you through the drudgery of your eight-hour shift at your dad's car dealership.
How a defunct white supremacist state became a cult favorite on the Right
From battleground candidates to Elon Musk, Republicans can't stop posting wistfully about Rhodesia.
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What time of year is it? It's kinematics midterm time! Time to illustrate my exams with helpful diagrams!!!
My heart is a salish apple I was so happy when someone in Creston started growing them. They are harvested late, and not ready yet; and they stop being amazing after about three months in storage. But so good. Slightly tart. Slightly sweet. Crunchy. Not huge. Great flavour! Oh my.
Laura Helmuth@laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 4w agoLots of things are bad right now but apples are *good*. What's your favorite variety? Mine is Ever Crisp. www.scientificamerican.com/article/appl...
The increasing need for people to content farm over providing context to people is scary
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 4w agoI saw a video that’s getting a decent amount of circulation on Instagram that insinuates that a new Nobel laureate might have had some dealings with Epstein on the basis of the fact that his name appears in the files because he attended the World Science Festival. THIS IS AN UNHINGED CONCLUSION.