"If google searches suddenly became useful again, how would you feel? Checkmate, nerds!"

Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 8h ago

My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.

Something something tragedy plus time something something.

CSketch@csketch.bsky.social · 22h ago

Oh my god I think I found the video.

That's two great plays in a row (keeping Straw to a double, and catching Lukes's would be hit) by Varsho. Had either of those not happened, Straw would have reached home this inning. I miss him.

Yeah, I'm not going to say no to a book thing.

Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago

1 like = 1 book question 📚💙

@bsky.app continuing to think that Strikes are Whose Line is it Anyways? points.

sloane lysbeth@slainelysbeth.bsky.social · 2d ago

absolutely ridiculous platform.

What have they done to my boy? He looks so lost.

Keegan Matheson@keeganmatheson.bsky.social · 2d ago

First look at Daulton Varsho with the Astros. He was hitting in the cage today when he was asked to come to John Schneider’s office. #BlueJays

While every other team this trade deadline is playing Checkers, Atkins is playing Parcheesi. I don't know if that makes it more or less strategic, but gosh, it looks like a whole different board.

Rivero is going to be so disappointed when he discovers that Anaheim's team isn't just a bunch of guys named Angel.

Keegan Matheson@keeganmatheson.bsky.social · 2d ago

The #BlueJays make it official: Toronto gets: RHP José Soriano Angels get: SS Arjun Nimmala OF Eddie Micheletti Jr. RHP Angel Rivero

As good an excuse as any to suggest watching Who Framed Roger Rabbit? to anybody who hasn't already seen it.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d ago

Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

Well, I guess I'm a Cubs fan this postseason. Gaus, a ring would look great on you.

So apparently my toddler is familiar with the works of Queen. He has a book titles "We will miss you" and I sang it to the beat of 'We will rock you". Kiddo then looked at me and said "We will we will rock you". (We then read through Brown Bear by singing "We will, we will Brown Bear" etc...)

The idea that God takes more joy in the repentant sinner than in the innocent is a recipe for prioritizing reintegration of abusers over care and protection for their victims. I think Jesus was a dude who was trying to get people to be nice to each other and also was not a systems thinker.

Mayor Chow, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!

Matt Elliott@graphicmatt.com · 6d ago

"Do you believe a private individual should be able to construct a structure without all the necessary permits, partially on public land, and, in addition, put a chill on the councillor representing the area with a lawsuit?" asks Councillor Gord Perks. "My answer to that would be no."

You love to see it. A world cup without European teams or North American viewers is going to be... not the world cup.

Philippe Auclair@philippeauclair.bsky.social · 6d ago

CONCACAF (41 federations) join Uefa to reject Gianni Infantino's proposal.

In which @mark-carney.bsky.social continues to be a mealy-mouthed coward who lied about being elbows up. Every other one of Canada's energy destinations would understand that it isn't Canada being unreliable, but responding to attacks. www.thestar.com/business/bei...

‘Being a reliable supplier is important’: Carney on using energy in U.S. trade talks

RED DEER - Prime Minister Mark Carney suggests Canada's reputation as a reliable supplier could take a hit if the country started leveraging energy exports in trade talks with the

thestar.com

Hey Dems? Get fucked.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · last wk.

The Senate voted 86 to 12 to advance a bill that cedes tariff authority to Trump. Thank you to the 11 Democrats who voted against moving it forward: Blunt Rochester Hassan Hirono Kim Markey Ossoff Padilla Sanders Warren Welch Wyden

There's biting off your nose to spite your face, and then there's this, which is more like trying to dig your nose off your face with a rusty spoon. Doug just hates Toronto that much. What an epic asshole.

Sean Marshall@seanyyz.bsky.social · last wk.

We live in the dumbest timeline www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

When Little is coming out to play saviour, you know you're in trouble.

@mark-carney.bsky.social needs to be more direct. Not the weasel-worded 'pause' or 'for now' statements. Say it with your full chest, Mark - there will not be a Billy Bishop airport expansion on your watch.

Toronto Star@thestar.com · last wk.

Blasting the federal government for listening to “a small fringe group in Toronto,” provincial Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria insists the Billy Bishop expansion is not dead.

I continue to be unable to read the abilities on this card to anything but the tune of Jolene.

Medusa, Sphinx Administrator@thelovelymedusa.bsky.social · last wk.

Day 9 of posting one big guy until Kamigawa: Titanbreach It's so simple, yet so powerful. I really hope we see more strong chimeras in magic eventually. It's kind of a green version of Breach the Multiverse if you really squint.

Aside from everything else, the whole 'Billy Bishop for Alto' thing is just bonkers. Hey, if you do something that we want, we'll let you do this other thing that benefits the province. What the hell kind of pork barreling is this?

Andrew Lewis FC@andrewlewisfc.bsky.social · last wk.

So the jets at the Island airport fix WAS in until massive public resistance forced the federal Conservative Party of Carney to betray Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. Another reason we have to remain vigilant to keep the zombie private jet dream in its always shallow grave

Amazing. Well done everybody. A federal survey clearly designed to manufacture consent with leading questions and "tell us why you support this" type answers. Nevertheless, the survey came back overwhelmingly negative. It's not over, but it's over. We did it. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Federal government grounds Billy Bishop airport expansion

The just-concluded public survey suggested strong public opposition to the project, according to a federal government official.

thestar.com

Honestly, at this point, just throw the whole council out. As a city we seem unwilling to actually treat ourselves like a city or care for our denizens. It's not even shocking anymore. It's become quotidian and banal. We're never missing opportunities to hit the brakes when we need to be moving.

Damien Moule@damienmoule.bsky.social · 2w ago

Can we stop trying to undermine every single MTSA? secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

Also apparently in The Odyssey, Nolan is rubbing people's face in their transphobia as well www.pivot-club.com/p/actually-n...

Actually, Nolan IS kind of making a point about trans people

And I have the (ancient) receipts

pivot-club.com

I still wish that we had played hardball and threatened to close the Ambassador bridge until they allowed Howe to open. Yes, that's probably bad, but fuck it, I'm tired of Carney letting Trump push him around over and over and over and over.

Anna Mehler Paperny@mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 2w ago

I am going to use this construct whenever I am questioned. "Could I have explained it better on a Sunday morning at Stampede, with a cowboy hat on? Yes, I could have explained it better," he said. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

As your resident nonbinary Italian Jew, I approve this message.

Haus of Decline@hausofdecline.bsky.social · 2w ago

So it's going to be in Greek, right?

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

Elon Musk says Grok Imagine will make ‘historically accurate’ AI adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey

Single best way? Crisp.

Tolarian Community College@tolariancommunitycollege.com · 2w ago

Hot take: an Americano may not be the singular worst way to enjoy coffee...but it still sucks.

Danny Oleksiuk with Abundant Housing Vancouver had some great comments about it on the CBC yesterday! He's exactly right: using people living in apartments as human buffers for people living in houses on the interior blocks is terrible policy! bsky.app/profile/ahva...

Abundant Housing Vancouver@ahvancouver.bsky.social · 3w ago

CBC On the Coast: "Vancouver's 'Villages' Plan" Danny Oleksiuk describes the two biggest advantages of the plan: 1. Allow apartments on quiet streets. 2. Spreads growth around instead of concentrating it, including some slow growth areas. www.cbc.ca/listen/li...

First off - great cover, amazing album. Secondly though - it feels like an affront to the temporal order of everything that Frente!'s cover is four times more distant from the present day than it was to New Order's original. (it came ~8 years after the original. It was released 32 years ago)

Silversprite@silversprite.bsky.social · 2w ago

Oh - forgot about the lovely cover of New Order's Bizarre Love Triangle by Frente! in 1994. Now remembering I had a copy of Marvin the Album years ... decades ... ago. Wondering what happened to Angie Hart (hopefully still singing out there, somewhere). www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISKQ...