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"Reformation is necessary and despair is criminal." Computational biologist; US-Canadian (Team Canada); he/him. Vancouver is unceded land. present day. present time
One thing a lot of ppl don't realize is that most of the free world has liquidated the material basis for a creative slacker class, and this is a large part of why mass media has become so sterile. Your art has to pay your godawful rent from Day 1 and you can't take risks with the rent money.
NeoTiamat@neotiamat99.bsky.social · 3d agoWhat made so many cultural centers of the past - interwar Paris, 70s NYC East Side, 90s Seattle - was that young artists could live and feed themselves on a pittance, leaving them time and energy to work on their art.
"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." -Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925)
Every time I walk up Keefer St I'm newly grateful for our wisdom in preserving a CULTURAL ASSET (parking lot) instead of letting CAPITALIST DEVELOPERS erect a soulless MONUMENT TO GREED (housing and community amenities). It would be terrible if, for example, there was a seniors centre there!
I haven't fully recovered from my early-life exposure to the Architect of the Capitol, which is responsible for the physical plant of the complex and of course is universally abbreviated AOC
SE Gyges@segyges.bsky.social · 4d agoit should be illegal for a politician to share a three letter initialism with an encryption algorithm, or indeed any of the 50 to 100 or so abbreviations i personally actually know by heart
starting to take UUism seriously has really moderated the tone of my posts
Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency@bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 5d agohumans aren't naturally particularly good or bad. the great labor of each of our lives is to *make* ourselves good, and help the people around us do the same so that someday together we can build a better world. Being awful to random people online constantly just drags you & the world the other way
trying to kick off an initiative when the two layers of management above me are on vacation might not work out very well unless
claude rolling its eyes at me when i give it little encouraging interjections in my prompts
Another death in ICE custody: Prisciliano Trejo Ricano. He said this before he died:
INDY Week@indyweek.bsky.social · 6d agoPrisciliano Trejo Ricano began feeling ill while detained at a Georgia detention center, where he had been for three weeks. He reported that he had not received medical attention after experiencing severe symptoms. He died on Wednesday, July 22.
After she lost, a lot of people were saying “oh I hope she learns from this, she still has a lot to give” etc. I hope these people now notice that she has instead refused to endorse the candidate who beat her and begun spewing lies blaming AIPAC, who actively opposed the winner!
i don't know if it's a matter of bad faith or reading comprehension but watching someone ask "is X an effective way to achieve Y" and get dunk-mobbed by people shouting "lol this chud doesn't believe in Y" challenges some of my hopes for democracy
Oh my god? This guy was convicted and spent a year and a half in jail on the basis of a typo? What happened at trial???
Mistaken Username Sent Man to Prison for 18 Months, Court Finds (Gift Article)
An appeals court in Canada acquitted Brandon Klayme of child pornography-related charges. His Kik username had one less underscore than another account that was involved.
nytimes.com
just remembered the time I took someone on a date to a documentary about nuclear annihilation. I asked the director a really annoying question. It didn't work out but Sarah I hope you're doing well
okay. this is cool. but I need him to stop smiling like that
Acid Rain@bearysweet.bsky.social · last wk.A cook from the Egyptian establishment "Am Shaltat" (Uncle Shaltat) having fun preparing Fiteer Meshaltet, a traditional flaky layered pastry, by spreading dough on a table. They're often filled with ghee and honey, or savory toppings like basturma and cheese, and then baked until crispy. #foodie
Rails fork! Rails fork! RAILS FORK mastodon.me.uk/@Floppy/1169...
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This is actually happening; we're building a community to execute a bigotry-free #Rails fork (29 people and increasing at time of writing). Come join us, we need your help and expertise. https://mat...
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I have nothing to add that hasn't already been said but this is an act of abject cowardice. All the endless hand-wringing about towers and concentrating development on existing rental areas, and when the opportunity comes to do something about it everyone except Lucy votes for the status quo.
Peter Waldkirch 華彼德@pwaldkirch.bsky.social · last wk.Ok, they severed the SES part, so this is the vote on the main part of it: A-J. And, the Villages Plan is dead. This hurts. ABC, COPE, and the Greens are all unwilling to take even quite modest action on expanding low-rise apartment areas.
This is Mike's partner Sylvia Fuller - I am so sorry to say that Mike was found unresponsive while mountain biking yesterday and died despite the best efforts of other riders and Squamish EMS. Thank you to Squamish Search and Rescue for carrying him out and taking care of our dog. We are shattered
If you want to talk deterrence, consider the likely nature of the threat - interference, influence operations, the spillover of violence and extremism from the US, up to military intervention and invasion. In all those cases, rebuilding conventional strength is our best and most achievable bet.
Get in, there’s a new secret political influence campaign paying people to post. This time, a network targeting people in Michigan. First paid to post about how hard it is to afford groceries and gas, the accounts have gone hard in recent days, supporting Haley Stevens. www.ms.now/news/haley-s...
Secret paid influencer campaign backing Stevens floods Michigan Senate race
Rep. Haley Stevens and the Senate Democratic PAC said they were not involved in the effort to pay for user-generated content endorsing her.
ms.now
“Canada, which produces all of its own uranium, would be in a strong position to divert fissionable material undetected if so inclined, say the experts.”
ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️⚧️@ellenteapot.ca · last wk.CBC News analysis: We can build nuclear weapons anytime we’d like, thank you very much
Vancouver council last night, where the hotel union president is asked yes/no if she asked Americans to call in again: "Well, first of all, I'm not under the court of law. I'm not under oath, and you have no legal, judicial responsibility. So I do not respond to questions with malicious intent."
well look, when they're right, they're right
Once seeking Senate reform, Alberta now ponders voting to be ‘rid of the darn thing’ | CBC News
Unlike the triple-E movement of decades past, Albertans are being asked to consider a more dramatic gambit as part of October's referendum: abolishing the Red Chamber entirely. That would be no easy f...
cbc.ca
tim (auto mode)@tds.xyz · 3w agoShould Canada have a Senate?
liang thinks i'm naïve but the magnitude of the employment effect was really surprising to me
NBER@nber.org · last mo.GLP-1-induced weight loss increases single women's partnership rates by 29 percentage points and non-employed women's employment rates by 27 percentage points after 1.5+ years, from Rebecca Diamond www.nber.org/papers/w35387
That's a sharp challenge, and you're right to press it — let me be honest.
"Intensify, intensively, relentlessly" seems like a message to someone but I couldn't tell you what it would be
Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 2w agoMy statement on the United States administration’s intention to impose new tariffs on Canadian goods:
