it should be illegal to sell bags of ground coffee with full color images of coffee beans decorating the package. i'm a bad consumer and don't check so it's on me as usual.
George McKie
@promeritum.bsky.social
a surfeit of cynicism, a nimeity of negativity
I 100% believe that your sexy chatbot girlfriend can code circles around you. I just think that says more about you than it does about the chatbot.
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller August 09,1945
Taylor Farms salad is sold in Canada too. There was a...healthy amount left untouched on the shelf at my local Farm Boy yesterday I would appreciate a slightly more robust approach from CFIA, but perhaps they're still working out which of its 1,371 jobs to cut www.agrunion.com/jobs-cuts-at...
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last wk.Two people have died from cyclosporiasis in Michigan, marking the first fatalities in the largest U.S. outbreak of the intestinal illness
(Everyone's trying to decipher this as some 4D joke, but I was being for real, that is just the entire plot of S37 E4.)
Checked in on current Simpsons; the ep was: - All men of Springfield go to a male loneliness epidemic how-to-man camp - The teacher is normal & teaches them practical things - The women left running the town turn it into a perfect utopia - The men come back and are nice and everyone hugs THE END
I always wonder what percentage of hate email is sent from work accounts. Because I don’t understand how those guys will be stopped by the rest of us giving Google a copy of our drivers licenses so that Google can sell our browsing histories to the credit bureaus.
Pabàmàdiz@karynpugliese.bsky.social · 2mo agoElon Musk's Starlink clients must agree that Mars is a sovereign planet - Yes, there really is a clause in Starlink compelling clients to agree Mars is sovereign & no Earth-based gov't has authority karynpugliese.substack.com/p/elon-musks... #starlink #elon #Mars #C-34 #SafeSocialMediaAct
Napoleon Bonaparte made his servants break in his shoes before he wore them. His entire wardrobe was two different outfits repeated. When he arrived at St Helena he had a meltdown about the house smelling like paint. His stare was so unnerving other heads of state believed it was magical.
Angus Johnston@angus.bsky.social · 11mo agoTrump: "There are no autistic people over seventy." Me: "The first Nero Wolfe novel came out in 1934."
Paywalled, but I wonder how much exit tax the youngsters with school debt and no savings are paying.
Dr. Mike P. Moffatt@mikepmoffatt.bsky.social · 2mo agoMy latest at the Globe on the increased brain drain from Canada and how countries like Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Vietnam are now actively poaching our young talent. This will only escalate, and taxing the "leavers" only adds insult to injury. Read here:
"She would make sure that all 535 packets of letters and drawings were delivered to every member of Congress. She would keep telling the stories of the children she’d met." Keep going, Ms. Rachel. (gift link) wapo.st/4ecHKP2
Ms. Rachel goes to Washington, carrying letters from children in ICE custody
The children’s media star is urging lawmakers to end family detention and reunite the kids and parents who had been separated by ICE enforcement.
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This is absolutely unacceptable - for Canada or any country Contact your MP! dontsurveil.me/c22.html
Canada is about to end private digital conversation — Bill C-22
Bill C-22 would force every messaging app in Canada to build a backdoor — and track all your activity for one year. Apple says no. Signal says they'll leave.
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In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9
in case you're wondering why my posts always have the weirdest typos, it's because I have autocorrect turned off because I believe in personal responsibility and also constant self-humiliation
sarah jeong@sarahjeong.bsky.social · 4mo agoThr South Korean president criticized Israel, Israel got super mad about the mention of the Holocaust, and not the far worse reference. The president compared them to imperial Japan, which is like the worst thing a Korean can call anyone or anything www.theverge.com/policy/91358...
Here is an easy solution: Food stains are humiliating, as they suggest you're a little baby who can't feed themselves. Oil stains, such as those you'd get from working on your car, suggest you're tough, independent, and skilled. Thus, simply cover your food stains with used motor oil.
