I quite liked the Avatar Aang movie. I get the impression the internet vibe about it is kinda negative, but I thought it was a good time.

Something that I'm realizing as I bike a lot more this year is that I think I pretty much value good bike *crossings* over a lot of bike *lanes*. I feel like these get conflated into one project a lot, but honestly intersections scare me more than side by side traffic.

But I was thinking about this seeing people on tumblr use "goomba fallacy" to refer to "thinking that a group of people have hypocritical or contradictory beliefs because you are conflating the opinions of two different people or subgroups that do not agree with each other, flattening it to one […]

Lmao matchbox car movie. Mattel really learned all the wrong lessons from The Barbie Movie. Like, impressively so.

Maybe someday we can have a trailer for an action movie that doesn't make it look like it's in the Taken Extended Universe again. And maybe I'll be interested in seeing action movies again then.

Gonna go to a local trans-people swim night put on by pflag tomorrow night. I miss swimming regularly, and Swimming While Trans is just like.. this whole complicated thing. So this should be nice.

Hey people who know Montreal, if you were gonna stay in Montreal with your partner for a fall weekend, and you'd mostly be intending to get around by transit, where in the city (that there are hotels) do you think would be a good place to stay? Assume we're mostly interested in foodie kinds of […]

Expanding my "local world" through figuring out routes to bike more places is great for getting me out more, but it comes with the caveat of encountering decision paralysis when I have an opportunity to get out and do something lol

My central computing conspiracy theory is that "general computing for normal people" was largely a solved problem by the 90s, through things like Excel, visual basic (and HyperCard before it), Flash, and comprehensible html (along with web design tools that were deeply flawed but extremely […]

Lmao Brilliant Minds ended with one of the most BS cliffhangers of a cancelled show ever. Kinda liked this show though. I think it kind of couldn't decide how much it wanted to invest in any of its conceits (Wolf is faceblind, which comes up a lot at the start but by the end really only matters […]

millennial culture is just being disappointed over and over again that genre fiction from the early 90s is an unfortunately reliable predictor of geopolitical and socioeconomic phenomena but NOT of aesthetic trends

Sometimes the corporate social media I still check in on from time to time throws me people complaining about infill and it is wild to me how many people just cannot fathom the idea of any household having less than two cars. "How is this 7 unit complex going to have parking for 14 cars […]

Imo a discipline that self-hosted web software desperately needs but also completely lacks is that the software should be able to operate as completely static for non-authenticated users. You should be able to completely firewall off any parts of the site that can write anything and only expose […]

It's the end of an era: no Lingnan at Taste of Edmonton this year :(

https://tickets.fringetheatre.ca/ The physical guide (my preferred way to browse) doesn't come out until the 29th, but Edmonton Fringe show listings are up on the website now! If you go to some shows I might be the one scanning your ticket! :) #yegfringe #yeg

The only thing worse than bad, unvetted, ai subtitles is bad, unvetted, ai subtitles that have been burned into the video itself.

Is there a good way to manually make point by point directions in a shareable way with open street map? On the osm website I can't figure a way to do it other than gps tracking and in comaps I can draw a route but can't see a way to save or share it.

OH: - What does "EBITDA" mean? - "Earnings Before Iran, Tariffs, and Donald Announcements".

A weird tangential shift that's happened with the rise of people in my sphere using llms to do work is that I've gone from being at times the *most* gung ho about rewriting something to being the *least* without actually changing my position(*), because overnight everyone else suddenly thinks […]

The fact that the entire power base of the baby boomer generation can't figure out that "if I fall I might be in the hospital incommunicado for multiple weeks and might get pneumonia from it" means "it's time to retire" is wild. I hope the rest of us learn from this generation's greed for power.

This sgdq was pretty peak entertainment overall, and it's so nice to see them go all in on social justice... Really loved watching it in a way that finally fully outweighed my sadness at no longer being comfortable going to the us and feeling so disconnected from the community...

Ahhh there's the classic 5 minute prairie evening thunderstorm I know and love....

Begun, the squirrel-magpie war has.... #yeg

The last two days have been full of a lot of unexpected physical labor but at the end of my work day I nailed pitching a compromise on a controversial plan (doin real staff swe shit) and now I'm on my way to eat street food at a street performers festival so that's nice :)

In chess, are you still in check if the piece that can "see" your king couldn't actually make the move that would take it? Like because it is itself pinned to protect their king for e.g.

On a larki decided to watch this gender/body swap movie that came up in another search called "It's a Boy|Girl Thing" and I expected it to be terrible but.. Honestly it was pretty good? Like it's extremely 2000s-brained in a bunch of ways but leans way less into gender stereotype or the obvious […]

[Being kinda negative about Star City, the Russia-focused spinoff to For All Mankind] Imo Star City is such a deeply cynical show, but it's cynical in all the ways that are perfectly suited to go under an American audience's radar. It's just plain not a show about space at all. It's a spy drama […]

[Nintendo video game rumors] Well, if a Metroid 6 comes out exclusive on switch 2 I guess that'll be when I start thinking about getting one. Kinda sucks it'll be after the price hikes.

Been thinking lately about how zoning policy, of the simcity-like "commercial and residential shalt only touch via roads," has probably contributed to nimby attitudes about density. Like yeah if all you're doing is cramming more people into a small area and they all still need a car to do […]

City: "don't get drunk and drive on a party holiday! Take a bus or train instead!" Also city: "no one would ever want to get anywhere by transit on a holiday. Put all the routes on their worst possible frequency."