staring blankly into the abyss
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Settler historian of food, health and colonialism | hapless area man | amateur squirrel theorist | against fascism | sometimes make music: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/thrums/vast-spaces-without-reprieve
Everyone in my family just occasionally singing out "with Candlebox!" for the past week, confounding passersby @themountaingoats.bsky.social
Carney vows to fast-track West Coast Pipeline before entire West Coast burns to the ground
Carney vows to fast-track West Coast Pipeline before entire West Coast burns to the ground
OTTAWA - Mark Carney has officially given notice that his government will be designating Danielle Smith’s West Coast pipeline a project of national interest, allowing the massive oil and gas project t...
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Jumping off a pier into the smoky ocean like
Our friend is tending our garden while we're away. We told them they can eat whatever they want. Their teenager popped a Wiri Wiri pepper (~250,000 Scoville) in their mouth thinking it was a tomato. It was not a good choice.
"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.
File under: unambiguously good news.
the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d agoI don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"
Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
Desperately searching for even a single Jays fan sad to see Hoffman go
ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil
The 2026 Blue Jays died as they lived: playing like absolute dogshit
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
I’m astonished by the ability of my fellow humans to forget the events we all just lived through. Folks remember the masks and the remote school. The million US dead are rarely mentioned. Folks, we lived through a plague.
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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"I was unavoidably moved before I saw it was the work of a group I don't like... and now let me use free association to tell you about 𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 group I don't like"
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d agoIt was inevitable that reactionary centrists would turn against harm reduction and call for a return to mass incarceration
These businesses aren't just wasting billions - they're replacing skilled workers with defective chatbots. As I've written before, AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our technological society. 79/
As ever, the most important fact about a given technology isn't "what it does," but "who it does it *for*" and "who it does it *to*." 77/
An officer reported other cops for using racist, sexist and homophobic slurs at work, filed an Internal Affairs complaint & submitted recordings of the other cops being bigoted as evidence b/c otherwise nothing would be done about it. He’s now charged with 16 felonies & could get 13 years in prison.
Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · 5d agoLAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping
huge deal
Anna Mehler Paperny@mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 6d agoBC's Mental Health Act violates Charter rights (sections 7 and 15), court finds: You can't assume an involuntarily hospitalized person lacks capacity to consent or withhold consent to treatment. Win for disability rights activists: www.bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/sc/2... ht @ivacheung.com
Am a huge fan of little trees growing out of bigger trees and this one might just be one of the all time greats.
In Vancouver and saw Nathan Fielder walking around like a regular guy and not one of the greatest comedic minds of his generation.