the coffeeshop AU fanfic version of Moby Dick would, of course, be set in a Starbucks. Ishmael would go on for chapters and chapters about coffee beans and steaming milk. Ahab's quest would be to get revenge on a nightmare customer by making their half-caf tall skim white mocha fully decaf, he's […]

So @mayintoronto asks "what's the nerdiest dinosaur" and the replies are just roasting ten thousand extinct victims while present day birds catch strays

happy retirement Paula Fletcher (gift link), i'll always remember how you were once head of the Communist Party of Canada in Manitoba and how you killed the University Ave. bike lanes by accidentally pressing the wrong button in a tiebreaker vote (gift link) (via @wohali) #TOpoli #TOcouncil #news

Toronto councillor Paula Fletcher is retiring from city hall, scrapping her plans for re-election

Toronto-Danforth councillor Paula Fletcher is retiring after 23 years at city hall. Read our exclusive interview on her decision.

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The most popular pattern on ravelry right now is simply called The Garment

idk if i mentioned it but i'm currently reading _moby dick_ for the first time. i don't really have any thoughts worth sharing publicly, but i will say that the taxonomy chapter is hilarious and if you don't get it you just need to read more taxonomy papers

have had one (1) phone call

📎 Hi! It looks like you're invoking Karl Popper's falsifiability criterion as the dividing line between science and pseudoscience without engaging with the subsequent 90 years of debate and evolution of the demarcation problem in the philosophy of science. Would you like help with that?

I have signed up for an Event so I will be unavailable for #Monsterdon, have fun all

these are the worst bird pics of all time but I think this heron totally ate it while trying to fish, with a bunch of passersby looking on

overdid it a _wee_ bit at Biidaasige today, got vertigo and it was a hard ride getting home, but I did it 💪 ngl the Badlands playground looks extremely fun. The children yearn for the ~~mines~~ waterworks

i would love1 to stay on the internet and be mad but i have been promising myself a nice day out and then not getting around to it for like weeks now so I am going to go look for bugs bye * * * 1. i actually don't love it ↩︎

unsolicited media opinion: I absolutely hate "character is stuck in a dream/drug trip experience that tells us about their psyche/backstory" episodes. I guess it feels bullshit for the same reason "it was all a dream!!" surprise endings do. Some of my favourite shows/podcasts have done this and […]

> Ontario’s highest court ruled Friday that tearing out Toronto’s main downtown bike lanes does not violate Charter rights, clearing the way for their removal. Star story (gift link) #ONpoli #TOpoli #bikeTO #BikeTooter

The Star: "The councillor conceded that in 2023 he voted to build the [Bloor bike] lanes he’s now pledging to remove." (gift link if paywalled) Note: the former City planner's pivot to conservatism puts him in the awkward position of advocating for bad urban planning and undermining staff's […]

Emailed asking for update on cat I immediately wanted to adopt (but am not quite ready for yet); got back reply "he has been with [rescue] since April and has had very little interest" 😭 💔 oh poor li'l buddy (but i'm of course relieved that by the time the apartment is ready he'll probably still […]

tbh it _would_ be very funny for a government agency to have a pornhub account but also, a marmot lab is on OnlyFans due to funding cuts https://mastodon.social/@leanderlindahl/117089361208583550

have sent one (1) email

#dlws

I know someone (perhaps not intentionally ironically) vibe coded an "is this vibe coded" site but I'd like to announce I am now offering artisanal "was this website made by Claude" detection upon demand, using my eyes, because it is a skill I apparently have. (I can also tell the difference […]

[re: LLM brain worms, Linux kernel & whatnot, inside baseball] At this point so many fundamental software projects are allowing LLM commits that just using something else isn't practical or sometimes even possible, but I guess it can be mitigated by going with long-term support releases instead […]

also if you haven't read ScreenRant's "oral history" of how HACKERS got made, today is an excellent day to change that. it contextualizes why such a goofy movie nevertheless has some pretty legit systems stuff in it https://www.slashfilm.com/541326/hackers-oral-history/ #HackThePlanet #ZeroCoolDay

How Did This Get Made: Hackers (An Oral History) - SlashFilm

In 1995, MGM released a stylish, cyberspace thriller called Hackers. Two weeks later, the film was gone from theaters. Here is a Hackers oral history.

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Learned that Philly's principal riichi club is called Mah-jawn and I'm terribly jealous of them now

All new trails, ponds and bridges in the Lower Don Lands. #Toronto #topoli Location: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1277934920

Monday (August 10) is #ZeroCoolDay btw. Celebrate accordingly. ☎️

That little indentation is the storm sewer grate. #onstorm

when is it going to rain already #dlws

archaeo.social is seeking two volunteers to help liven up our little corner of the fediverse! Specifically, we're looking for a community moderator to help draw out more active positive engagement among our members, and someone to support with more technical sysadmin-type work. Both roles will […]

#Monsterdon morning-after reflection: I appreciate how Sam Neill's character in _In the Mouth of Madness_ (1994) is an insurance investigator instead of just being a cop like a billion other movies. The suspension of disbelief that would otherwise be required to buy that a cop is actually a […]

a little troop of young raccoons just shuffled along the chain link fence out behind my window which i think is a cue from the universe i should take a night walk, back later all

OH BOY tonight's #Monsterdon is John Carpenter's _In the Mouth of Madness_ (1994), starring the late and dearly missed Sam Neill. Tune in at https://miru.miyaku.media at 9 sharp. Some of my favourite movies involve Sam Neill losing his fucking mind so I am very much looking forward to this. 🧵

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