god willing and the creek don't rise

Mekka Okereke@mekka.mekka-tech.com · 6h ago

For uneducated Americans only (because almost everyone else in the world knows this already): "Inshallah" is not a Muslim phrase. Inshallah is an Arabic phrase. Christians that speak Arabic, say inshallah. "Allah" is how you say God in Arabic. "Inshallah" is how you say "God willing" in Arabic.

Also, Big Yech is a winner typo.

Andrew J Douglas@ajdouglas.bsky.social · 12h ago

There’s no way to spin this. “Big yech”—actually a nice typo (slip?) in the article—was able to buy off the leadership of the nation’s second largest teacher’s union for a paltry $12.5 million.

Because, as we all know, pedestrians are the reason why Spadina Avenue is jammed every afternoon. Not the motorists all fighting to get on the Gardiner.

As some attempt to legislate trans people out of public life, we stand firm in our values and will continue to advocate for, celebrate and protect trans people at every opportunity. Check out the Good Law Project for more detailed updates on the EHRC guidance: goodlawproject.org/were-support...

We’re supporting a legal challenge against the code of practice | Good Law Project

The government’s transphobic statutory guidance is now up and running – we’re fighting back

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small, single corridor shopping centre in Stevenage Old Town. Called the 'Magnet centre' after the family that owned the land. odd nik-nak and dress shops... ...and in the mid-90s briefly, hidden at the back, the town's first comic shop. we discovered it as teens. it was like finding heaven /1

ashley fairbanks@ziibiing.com · 21h ago

tell me about your town’s weird mall

"Next time I won't follow a moose."

Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁@minibubbly.bsky.social · yesterday

German man (Henri) in #Ontario #Canada discovered real quick how dangerous Moose are, he was lucky this was a juvenile Moose, they will kill you if given half the chance, give them a lot of space danger Will Robertson ⚠️ Credit to wildsightings.cpm

Not sure if everyone appreciates the difference. Rooftop solar hardwires into your main panel via a dedicated breaker, so it requires a permit, an installer, an electrician, and a utility agreement. Balcony solar just plugs into a wall outlet, sharing an existing circuit with no permits or rewiring.

A new deal on balcony solar just dropped in the US

Plug-in panels can lower your bills. To boost the American market for the tech, nonprofit Bright Saver is selling kits with no markup, starting at around…

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Flat shark origami!

Boing Boing@boingboing.net · yesterday

Sailors passed these off as basilisks, the mythical creature that killed anyone who looked at it, so no one could describe what one really looked like. That made the fakes an easy sell.

Ah I remember this one; used to be one of my go-to examples of the dangers of “doing your own research”: A bunch of dimwits with bad reading comprehension stumbled on a protocol for containing disease *in refugee camps* and fantasized a nationwide coercive quarantine campaign.

Mike Masnick@masnick.com · yesterday

The funny thing is that even Grok is like "yo, this is bullshit." But then the replies to that are "you can't trust Grok, it's too woke." Being on X melts your brain.

Hundreds of Guatemalans were moved to shelters as Volcan de Fuego erupted, prompting authorities to declare a red alert in the region.

My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.

“Uber’s strategy recycles an old and ugly script: If a woman drank, if she rode alone, if it was late, if her memory is imperfect, then maybe she is to blame,” Ms. Engstrom said. “But those are precisely the circumstances when Uber told consumers its service was supposed to protect them.”

David Bixenspan@davidbix.com · yesterday

Fucking hell. (Gift link/no paywall.)

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

I feel like at least some of this self corrects when you stop giving yourself mental medals like "ally" and just act normal with other people who are in fact for the most part, also just normal people

Kathryn Tewson@kathryntewson.bsky.social · yesterday

A PSA to my fellow cis people who are (or want to believe they are) trans allies If you are getting pushback from trans people and your reaction is to be all “no! not me! I’m one of the good ones!” please remember that “being one of the good ones” is something you DO, not something you ARE

Grey County is slowly reintroducing some of its transit services as a four-county study (with Bruce, Dufferin, and Wellington) continues. Route 5, connecting Owen Sound and Wiarton, will resume in Fall 2026, and the Guelph-Owen Sound bus will continue. www.grey.ca/news/interim...

Interim bus service expanded as four county regional transit study continues

The counties of Bruce, Dufferin, Grey, and Wellington, together with Saugeen Mobility and Regional Transit (SMART), are expanding interim bus service across the region while work continues on a lon

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“the issue is whether I can be trusted as a steward of CNN” no that was easy, what’s next

Steve Herman@newsguy.bsky.social · yesterday

"While I was silent, others were happy to write my story for me. No more." - David Ellison, chief executive of Paramount Skydance www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/op...

Everyone's neurodiverse and stressed and I'm just turning up to carry furniture and make cups of tea and tell them I love them all.

I tend to feel that it is polite to refer to people (and countries) in the way that they prefer. www.npr.org/2026/08/04/g...

Nauru, the world's 3rd-smallest country, changes its name to Naoero

The Pacific Island country of Nauru has changed its name to the Republic of Naoero, its president said, matching the spelling and pronunciation in the national language.

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Well, actually, kinda, yeah, close to what happened. It's not for nothing that Jack Dorsey, who started the place and was on its board, basically ran away when the trans folks and furries scared off all the crypto bros he assumed would be the natural demographic here (they went to Nostr instead).

jack@jackalltogether.bsky.social · 2d ago

Bluesky often seems like a project run by tech people who place great value on its architectural differences from Twitter, which nobody cares about, while not understanding how they walked ass-backwards into having a userbase (whomst they fear and despise)

They think they're being clever eugenicists by saying that people with "underlying health issues" don't matter, but >75% of U.S. adults have a chronic condition (including 60% of age 18–34). So what they're really saying is "nobody matters, it's okay if everybody dies from inadequate regulation."

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

Earth Drummers Leah Dorion ~ Métis 2011

Another study on youth transition that find that about 97% of all youth who says they're trans turn out to be. Only 1.1% who start HRT stopped it for any reason whatsoever. This is, like, the fifth youth transition study that I'm aware of, and all of their results have been identical.

Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 3d ago

Canadian researchers found that 97 percent of youth who seek treatment for gender dysphoria still identify as trans years later.

It requires expertise to be able to say, “I do not know the answer to that question, and that is becauae thus far scholarly consensus is that we do not have the knowledge needed at this time to answer that question.” Sometimes “I don’t know” is a far more rigorous answer than people might think.

I'm a full Professor of Immunology and fully vaccinated. I didn't get vaccinated out of obedience, but after decades of studying the immune system and evaluating all evidence. Calling that "lack of critical thinking" is not an argument. It's ideology masked as pretend intellect.

This (These) campaigns are designed to kill youth sports programs for women/girls. They are designed to ensure professional and even non-professional sports are for men only.

"Kate, you're just weird for finding "back" and "forward" ambiguous when talking about days, everyone knows what it means, there's no opportunity for confusion." Uh huh. Just say Earlier and Later; it isn't even hard.

I’m feeling a way about this because my dog got attacked on a walk today too, by a dog that ran out of its yard and tried to bite him. Luckily Bruce only got scratches. But let me tell you THE most important thing to know about breaking up a dog fight: (1/2) (imma also tell you some legal stuff)

Farel Dal@farel.bsky.social · 5d ago

my older sister and her sweet dog Starry were viciously attacked by a neighbor’s dog that got under the fence in their yard. my sister is a single mom who also takes care of our elderly mother with dementia. they need some financial help. gofund.me/e5dffb87f

It continues to fuck me up that we stay thinking about 9/11 but want to memory hole Covid so bad we're destroying the entire concept of public health in the US.

This is frustrating, because they keep having variations on this conversation: Q: okay, can you pretend to think about these things the way I do? A: no. Q: okay but you have to. A: okay but I can’t. Q: look just pretend that I’m right for one — A: but you aren’t. You’re wrong AND stupid.

Officials from Washington State and the city of Spokane confirmed that hundreds of homes and structures had been lost to raging wildfires and warned the blazes had not yet been contained. reut.rs/3TxDIKE