Today's pure Canadiana: going to Niagara on the Lake and playing the Herb Ertlinger ad from Schitt's Creek before we drive into town.

Due to climate breakdown, the orgy dome has become uninsurable

Adrian Daub@adriandaub.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Mad Max: Beyond Orgy Dome

when you know you've made a good game

A strong and correct opinion

Colin Dickey@colindickey.com · yesterday

Society really started going to shit once restaurants normalized calling sandwiches “sandos”

I'm pro soak the rich because you need every tool at your disposal to control their excessive power, but that's not a get out of jail free card for financing a robust social democratic or socialist society.

It does feel like the single biggest shift in the US economic policy consensus over the last thirty years has been the near total victory of the anti-tax right, whose premises are now adopted all the way to the most left-wing Dems

Someone's snacking on my parsley.

One thing I wonder about is how to pull apart strands from a complex situation. Consider my sister: doctors dismissed her struggles with Lyme disease for years, but she's also recommended apples for their pectin to my partner and a friend who has Wilson's disease.

Snowden St.@snowden.st · 2d ago

Folks get pissed at me, and I’m a pro-science doofus, but I stand in for “you’re gonna have to talk respectfully to some kooks in order to get the coalition we want”, so folks vent all their anger about MAHA at me.

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Covid Lockdowns were bad for kids’ learning. I care about education and the health of children everywhere in all other ways and not just this one specific instance by the way.

I'm a man with a plan to can (salsa, relish, apricot butter)

This feels like a text version of a math "proof" a high school teacher did where you end up with an equation like 1 = 0

Dylan@dyl057.bsky.social · 3d ago

well then I guess that's that

This seems plausible. If you are hunt and peck typing, it interferes with your ability to think at the same time. I am curious if typing programs (like Mavis Beacon teaches typing) are still available.

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 3d ago

I wonder if students today would be less likely to lean on AI for writing assignments if schools had made sure they could touch-type (at least 60wpm) before having them submit all their assignments online. 1/🧵

His plan is to let it rip through the population, kill the undesirables, and strengthen the gene pool. Because he is a eugenicist, a bigot, and a crank.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

BASH: How do you prepare for next pandemic? RFK Jr: We did almost everything wrong B: But what about now? K: We need to protect our rights B: ? K: During covid we dismantled our rights B: But I'm asking what *to* do K: You were part of the problem B: You want to sit here and attack me?

Doing some therapeutic work on myself and literally wrote down the "get confident, stupid!" line from The Simpsons.

POV I'm being asked to make basically any decision, no matter how trivial:

French New Wave Memes@fnwave.bsky.social · 4d ago

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The Simpsons debuted in 1989, which is closer to the mid-1950s than it is to today

On This Day in Simpsons History@dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 4d ago

Lisa Simpson’s wedding, which took place 15 years in the future at the time it aired, now takes place 16 years in the past. #TheSimpsons

When I did my BA and MA, I had a monthly stipend from my reserve that I qualified for simply by progressing through my programs. It was lifechanging, as it let me focus on school and get two degrees. We need to generalize and expand this principle.

Curtis 🏳️‍🌈@soccurt.bsky.social · 4d ago

"What if...." What if no? Just give people money.

It's funny to me that a therapeutic perspective would claim a radical notion of selfhood when it's sociological social psychology 101. Also funny that this same perspective keeps quoting bits of Buddhism while upholding an idea of a true self.

Knowledge of this reality has helped spawn two new denials: the bunker fantasy and the AI solves money fantasy. The biggest proponents of those fantasies are rich a-holes and their hangers-on.

Timmons Roberts@timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 5d ago

"This is not some kind of a flower-power, tree-hugging exercise. This is core economics. This is core financial stability, core price stability.” --European Central Bank senior official "Duh" --Me www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The structure of thought is the same: Covid is a fake problem that, if we accept it, allows China to "win". To the right, so is climate collapse.

John Brooks@johnbrooks.bsky.social · 5d ago

At its core, the reason the right needs to villainize Fauci and push the lab leak conspiracy is that in reality Covid was the inevitable consequence of climate change-fueled ecocollapse, and it is Republican heresy to acknowledge the existence of such a thing.

New woke restaurant idea: Seitan 'N Shake

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I hear there was a "war on protein"? yeah, well, seitan won it and must be greeted as a liberator

Whenever I get asked about my views on climate change, the energy transition, etc, I always stress that whatever pathway lies ahead, the public have very, very good reason not to believe the motives of many if not most *energy* companies…

Center for Climate Integrity@climateintegrity.org · 5d ago

In June 1966, scientist James Lovelock warned Shell in a confidential memo of “the almost certain fact that the climate is worsening and the probability that the combustion of fuel is responsible.” Shell would later become "a founding member of the denialist Global Climate Coalition." 😑

it is very important that we have independent media and I am again tapping the sign for you to find billionaire free, worker run news to support how and when you are able

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

That was fast. Google sent me a statement saying it is now “rolling back“ this AI feature after our demonstration and others from OSINT researchers www.404media.co/google-earth...

This must hit so hard if you're stupid and evil.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 5d ago

Wait does this mean you can leave hell?

I'm going to call it now - Peterson will soon publish a "Climate change is unstoppable - the left should accept this" take

Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · 6d ago

That’s certainly one way to frame it

Ok so this lady says solar panels are getting built on "the most productive farmland" in her area. Which just ain't true at all. It ain't true here in NC either. Where I ALSO hear that talking point over & over again. Smells like astroturf! So let's get the dirt on solar farms & dirt ✨

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 6d ago

I genuinely don't know what to do about this. In our diseased information environment, one MAGA-adjacent "influencer" can do more to shape public opinion than mountains of studies or facts. Where are the pro-clean-energy influencers to counter this shit?

Technology is cool, too bad they made it evil

This is going to make it very difficult to know which sports we should ban them from.

Kat Kerlin@katkerlin.bsky.social · last wk.

Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. This helps them avoid self-pollination. How do they do it? A @ucdavis.bsky.social study explains. www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/st...