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YML is the trigrammaton for the deity Yam-el, which I use out of respect for my more conservative friends

Neither of my kids will eat anything that isn't ultraprocessed voluntarily and it's actually really bothering me

I dunno if this is doing what you think it's doing

If MongolZ can show up, not fall apart, keep that headshot aimbot thing going, there's a decent chance they beat Vitality. Also why is this not a Bo5? Weird format.

People are just now figuring out that Clinton is a centre right neoliberal, a politic that is inherently and fundamentally opposed to progressives?

Just watched Black Bag, really solid movie and not at all what I expected.

My walking onions have started walking #gardening

Guess it's time to turning on the AC in the house. Honestly pretty late in the season, it's been a fairly cool year thus far.

I don't hate a lot of things but cabbage aphids, those things I hate

Quebec and BC seem cool

It's easy to forget now but we had decades of steady advancement on trans rights. The 2016 bathroom bills invited huge backlash! It was only after the media constructed sports and youth medications as 'debates' that opposition moved from the far right to the polite center.

Shishito peppers are popping off #gardening

Spirit v MOUZ - such a fun series to watch, honestly it could have gone either way 99% of the time, of course MOUZ come from behind, that's what they do FURIA vs paiN - also a fun watch in a different way, very loose brand of CS, it would be super fun to see paiN against MongolZ tbqh

going to keep saying: a society that would like to maintain its basic functions has really got to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by people in positions of authority

The only reason Republicans have a reputation as "fiscal hawks" is that the press refuses to tell the public basic facts about what they do when they are in office.

No they do not, New York Times! This is like writing that Santa Claus has IBS.

This kind of consent manufacturing is so gross. Not only is it delusional, supported by no reality except the one elites generate by assertion. Of the banal evils this seems to me the most banal and most evil. Nice men in nice clothes with nice words shoveling folks under the bus. And for what?

The thing I take away from the Cruz/Carlson interview isn't that Cruz is an idiot—we all knew that already—but that Carlson has squandered his skills in service of evil. Genuinely, we need more of that kind of pointed interviewing, and not just when daddy Russia's interests are at stake.

thinking again about this 2018 cover

Absolutely incredible that we are still getting mainstream denunciations of "trans activists" when the far-right fringe has far more odious views and sits much closer to power.

In 2003, we had to watch the war on CNN and scream obscenities at the rear-projection TV. "But Iraq doesn't have any weapons of mass destruction," we'd yell as the president Bush struggled to pronounce words in English.

I have a keybind on my keyboard for an emdash—this is how you know I'm actually an LLM

It's nice to know that in an age of fake crisis and performative outrage Israel can always be relied to to provide a real crisis

I've been watching a bit of the Austin major, some thoughts on the teams that remain:

I am wondering why Lisa Leher from the @nytimes.com did not discuss the data that suggests political violence in the US in the current era mostly comes from the right. Seems like a strange fact to ignore. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...

I cannot get over how good amaranth greens are, and they love the heat and grow like there's no tomorrow

Japanese sweet potato, calalloo leaves stewed in garlic and red onion, poached haddock, and zucchini on the grill this evening

shoutout to every idiot who believed that trump would "end the wars"

Newsletter: We are in the era of the Business Idiot, where middle management has seized power, breeding out true meritocracy and value-creation in favor of symbolic growth and superficial intelligence. This piece ties together everything I've ever written. www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...

Can someone please help me understand why the Toronto Star is quoting someone who travelled hours to record me on a private night out, an incident of harassment that prompted condemnation from the CAJ, as a serious, objective “independent journalist?” This is egregious.

A little bit of fermented bean curd goes a long, long way

Durian burps are no joke

Yes I would like a slightly heavier mouse if it means another week of battery

The flower place at Main & Ottawa has native prickly pear cactus for sale for $40, I've been looking out for these for a while! Just happened to stop in this morning and have a little looksee. #HamOnt