Mr Sinister is an interesting X-men character because his entire thing is being manipulative but you’d probably have better luck fooling people about your intentions if you didn’t come up to them and go “hello, my name is Mr Sinister”

oh god. oh no. ⚠️⚠️⚠️

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One more for #Caturday !

"Canadians should be concerned because this is their information...We're now going to have what has been a Canadian data-processing company that has access to everybody's purchasing habits available to other governments." Why are Canadian banks selling out Canadians? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

A Canadian payment giant is being sold to U.S. private equity. Is your digital privacy at risk? | CBC News

Royal Bank of Canada and Bank of Montreal are selling payment processor Moneris Solutions Corp. to San Francisco-based investment firm Francisco Partners. Some analysts are raising concerns around wha...

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Whatever happens, it has been a great few years, easily cycling down Yonge and then sometimes down Bloor, without having to plan out a bespoke, less stressful route to every new location. Life-changing, as someone in midtown, to just hop on my bike and know the best route there.

Well fuck

Shawn Micallef@shawnmicallef.bsky.social · yesterday

Ford wins.

A cinema in Canada never received their Spider-Man Brand New Day posters so one of the employees drew his own and it is one of the greatest things I have ever seen

I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam"

I keep coming back to a point @edidin.bsky.social made in his testimony to @council.nyc.gov about "A.i." in the schools: The "A.i." companies have stolen from thousands of artists and writers. Why should we believe any promise such untrustworthy companies make about their products?

In 1924, the son of the president of the United States, with access to the best medical treatment, got a blister on his foot playing tennis, it got infected, there were no antibiotics, and he died of sepsis.

Patrick Chovanec@prchovanec.bsky.social · 2d ago

Yeah, see, the thing is, a lot of them didn’t. Survive, that is.

Thought I often have: evicting someone ends up costing way more $$$ than keeping them housed. It's just that the cost is born by society as a whole rather than the landlord.

If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:

It's the best kaiju song since "The Gamera Song"

The Gamera Song, MST3K

YouTube video by Rann Stegman

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Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 3d ago

🎶🎶 Why are there so many Songs about Mothra? And why she has friends in a clam She’s Queen of monsters That live on an island Shoots webs from her Diaphragm So some will say and Some call them titans I know they’re wrong Can’t you see? 1/

This isn't "global town square" social media. This is "hanging out in front of the 7-Eleven til the cops get mad at us and then we have to go hang out in front of the Dollar Tree" social media.

Snowjob@snowjob.bsky.social · 2d ago

People keep wanting to recreate the "global town square" vibe of Old Twitter and I think that is neither possible, nor actually desirable for most users.

Well, this is creepy as hell. "Unbeknownst to Crombie, the Progressive Conservative Party had sent someone to Jamaica to surveil her, according to two other sources familiar with the plan who spoke on the condition of anonymity."

SCOOP: Ontario PC Party’s spending on Jamaican resorts was to surveil Bonnie Crombie: sources

The Progressive Conservatives spent $3,000 at two five-star resorts in 2023, including one where Crombie vacationed shortly after winning the Liberal leadership race.

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rad rad rad rad rad

Pᴜʀᴇ Dᴇᴀᴅ Gᴀᴍɪɴɢ@puredeadgaming.bsky.social · 2d ago

The results of the video I posted earlier was this iconic shot 👏 Danny León and his crew smashed it.

You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose.

So much harm is done in service of "... But what if that guy doesn't *deserve* care and common courtesy?!" Human status ladder thinking is my least favorite cognitive bias. Look at Wilhoit's maxim about conservative thought. If you are sorting people into "good" and "bad" you have lost the plot.

Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE)@shengokai.blacksky.app · 3d ago

The problem isn't the able-bodied people, the problem is a world organized around them, a world that sees granting accommodations as some how unfair or an unearned advantage. In such a world, concerns about able-bodied people taking advantage of such a system become paramount in ways they shouldn't

We could, and just hear me out, not give a fuck about able bodied persons receiving the benefits of accommodations. This is actually what we should do about it: nothing. Not a fucking thing. supposed "grift" is only a problem in a world looking for an excuse to deny accommodations.

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.

Fundamentally, Piketty argues that the cheapest way to stop people from building a guillotine on your lawn is to build hospitals and schools; this is cheaper than paying for guards and prisons to lock up would-be guillotine builders. 43/

Even before the TERF parts, morality in HP bothered me - a very conservative Calvinist identity politics where who you are matters more than what you do when assessed as a "good person". So I guess it's not surprising that people who have made the franchise part of their identity struggle with it?

Kaldrenon@kaldrenon.bsky.social · 4d ago

Because there are people who need to hear this: You are not bad for *having liked Harry Potter* as a kid or even as an adult. You are not bad if things about it really helped you shape your identity! You are being a bad person *now* if you're *still* all in, when it's a transphobia incubator.

if someone organizes all the crowdfunding and producing for this, i’ll make it my third movie. i need 500K to pull it off

Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman@josie.zone · last yr.

8) I want Vera Drew to do an ALIEN(S) movie where a trans girl really, really wants to get impregnated by a xenomorph

Fascinating detail.

daniel sieradski@self.agency · 5d ago

private equity is destroying everything and must itself be destroyed

Of course, his full name is Countagar Binfaceagon

It's a centaur-shaped teleoperated robot "designed to aid humans doing dangerous jobs that expose them to injury, death or extreme conditions." a) Minotaur-shaped or GTFO b) Can it be ridden? If no, GTFO c) Why isn't it named "Chiron"? GTFO d) How long before it's used to kill people?

People clamor for term limits for scotus and such but term limits for tech CEOs would be an absolute game changer

Louis Peitzman@louispeitzman.bsky.social · 5d ago

We need to be saying this loudly and clearly: These people have lost their fucking minds.

Anyway,

I heard Spider-Man 4 was the best MCU movie in a while and it turns out it's because Spider-Man learned what a script was and shared this discovery with his coworkers.

katsian andor@dogunderwater.bsky.social · 4w ago

popping it in here because it makes me laugh every time. he also talks about how spider-man got six months of extra time to work on the script (and hire a director lmao) bc of the odyssey schedule www.gq.com/story/matt-d...