In a recent TTRPG campaign, I played an evil necromancer. A demonic hivemind threatened to cut into my profits, so I arranged for the entire city to be sanctified as holy land to a minor god after quick but careful negotiations with a paladin of that god. I'm still laughing.

Mark Carney’s investment summit could pave the way to a corporate carve-up of Canada breachmedia.ca/mark-carneys...

Mark Carney’s investment summit could pave the way to a corporate carve-up of Canada ⋆ The Breach

Bay Street has been on a full court press for the government to privatize Canada’s public infrastructure. The Prime Minister might be ready to do it

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NEW: A Utah mother posted what she felt was an innocuous family video to IG/FB. Later, she noticed a Meta AI prompt encouraging her to investigate her own family -- and watched as the AI drew on years of social media posts to compile intelligence about her and her kids. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Mother Horrified When Meta's AI Scours Instagram and Facebook for Invasive Information About Her Young Daughters

Kalie Robins shared a video of her and her daughter singing. Meta AI started prompting her to investigate information about her family.

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NEW: Do you live in Canada? Are you impacted by pro-landlord policies? Want to know if your MP is a landlord or invested in real estate in some way? I’ve released the 2026 version of my landlord MP database. Find out if your MP is a landlord now! www.readthemaple.com/mp-landlords/

Find Out If Your MP Is A Landlord Or Invested In Real Estate

The Maple examined and analyzed MPs’ disclosure forms and compiled the results.

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Decluttering and estate planning, much to my surprise. Watching my parents rush to downsize as my dad's health fled, then watching my mom deal with the bureaucracy of my dad's death, combined with a new understanding of how my mental health conflicts with housework, and this is how I end my 40s.

Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · 4d ago

What are you doing with your midlife existential crisis? No wrong answers. Just trying to see something, as the kids say.

I'm reminded of when I got the Pooka kithbook for the Changeling TTRPG, and it had a merit that allowed you to change forms without losing or destroying your clothing. But before that, there was no mention anywhere that changing forms caused you to lose or destroy your clothing. That wasn't a thing.

We've become so inured to being represented either by openly malevolent assholes or at best ineffectual stooges that when someone uses the government as-intended and does basic politics it's a revelation

Singing telegram. Sears duster. Factory strudel conveyor. Unofficial telemarketer. Birthday clown. Working the 4pm to midnight shift on a construction site without training or experience. Automotive service advisor who knew nothing about cars (didn't even have a driver's licence). Odd jobs aplenty.

SarahJSloat@sjane.bsky.social · 6d ago

Happy labor day (USA). What's one of the oddest paid job you've had? Mine was probably as a reader for a medical professor at Rutgers, whose eyes were failing. I read him many academic texts, as well as Samuel Butler's "The Way of All Flesh."

We keep discussing ”strategies” for teaching in the age of AI to avoid talking about resources. It’s so boring!! The strategy is invest $ to hire people, lower class size, support research-engaged learning & stop measuring the worth of disciplines in relation to # of enrollments and majors.

We know how to teach books in the age of AI: small classes, close reading, research-engaged learning (which is how you ’let students see you struggle’). The issue is nobody will hire and pay the requisite # of faculty to offer this.

CANADIANS, this petition to regulate data centers in Canada is open until September 24, please sign! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Today, in "People are begging to help you make that game you keep thinking about" news: The Universal LPC Spite Sheet Generator. Got some specific ideas about how you would want the characters in a theoretical game to look? This is hella comprehensive. liberatedpixelcup.github.io/Universal-LP...

🎧🤘 I put the September 2026 playlist out on NINE music services so everyone can listen. Find yours here: shiveryourtimbers.com/blog/schmutz... #NewMusic #MusicSky #NowListening #Music #Playlist

Schmutzie’s September 2026 Playlist | ShiverYourTimbers.com

48% of the original 60-song Apple Music playlist is from 2026, and it covers 18 genres across 9 decades on 9 platforms: Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, Qobuz, Deezer, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Last.fm...

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You can't simply fall back on statistics to claim that a past event didn't happen. A lot of weird shit happens all the time. You just have to like, look at the past.

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I've lost a favourite pendant. It's probably at home, somewhere, but I have this persistent fear that my body went through one of its "I can't handle this touching me right now" phases without engaging my conscious mind, and I removed it somewhere random.

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20? I know some great movies came out that year, but for some reason, my favourite is not coming to mind.

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Ian Elliott (he/they)🤘🌈🎲@thatianeliott.bsky.social · last wk.

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20?

I'm at that weird balance point in my mental health where I'm feeling the urge to do something interesting, while not being interested in anything.

FYI Outlier players—since they deleted their whole bsky account just now in an attempt to stop people from noticing this

Clare@anywhereclare.bsky.social · 2w ago

The deleted post was the founder of Outlier explaining how Outlier uses AI.

“Trump’s move to rename Lake Ontario may be forgotten by Monday and is more evidence of a dying presidency, but the fact Carney used an Indigenous name to argue for Canadian sovereignty carries far more weight than most may know.” 👏👏👏 #cdnpoli

Niigaan Sinclair@niigaanwewidam.bsky.social · 2w ago

In this weekend’s @winnipegfreepress.com column, I openly wonder if Carney understands the implications of what he actually did. www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/2026/0...

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

A reminder for my fellow creatives: if you do not take breaks, your mind is going to take them for you. And you're not going to enjoy how it does that.

“Why didn’t scientists warn us?”

Introduce yourself with 10 acts you've seen live: It looks like this just means musicians? Bryan Adams Bruce Springsteen Weird Al Great Big Sea Keith Kitchen Geoff Moore and the Distance Sharon, Lois, and Bram ... the local symphony? Probably some other local singers and choirs I'm forgetting?

z.@zanadu.bsky.social · 2w ago

Introduce yourself with 10 acts you've seen live: (Artists that predate my birth edition this time) The Mamas and The Papas (reformed) Three Dog Night Herman's Hermits Flo & Eddie The Grass Roots Paul Revere and the Raiders Monkees Larry Graham Robert Plant Paul McCartney

It's not easy. Labels are confusing, if not actively misleading.

Vanelle 🦋🇨🇦 🎹🎤 & Buy Canadian Warrior@vanellemusic.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Canadian GRADE, whether for beef, frozen berries, or whatever, is NOT the ORIGIN. It's a 'GRADE" system. Check packaging CAREFULLY — they're getting SNEAKY. Look on the back, the bottom, the sides, wherever… And if it doesn't specify, IT'S USian. Guaranteed! ➡️ Put it BACK, UPSIDE DOWN. 🫡 🤣

7/10 words, I was the first to find, today. That doesn't happen often. 917 points · 10 rare words. Only 28 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 7 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/X6YFEB

OUTLIER · Day 102

player-0579 scored 917 on Day 102. Can you beat them?

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Surprising no one actually working in education, the answer to many if not most of our issues is "hire more people and pay them fairly."

Matt Salomone@matthematics.com · 2w ago

Good teaching is very scalable but you’re not gonna like the way to do it (hire way more teachers and pay them fairly)

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"

#MythAugust 30 The first story I tried to write in this world was set just after the martyrdom of a religious visionary, as her followers tried to decide what to do next. The second story I tried to write was set in the midst of a religious war. The first TTRPG I wrote of this setting used 1/2

🫜Prof Emily🫜@professoremily.bsky.social · 2w ago

#MythAugust 30 You've been chatting about your fictional gods & religions all month, but how much do these things play a role in the story you're trying to tell? Is it just cool worldbuilding flavor, or is it essential to the plot & characters? Maybe all of the above?