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once again, queer people made something seem hip and culturally trendy until it eventually trickled down to homophobic conservative heterosexuals, and now we all have to watch their awkward and cringeworthy approximations of it in public: the polyamory edition

I got a few minutes backstage in Vancouver with @jay.bsky.team to talk about Bluesky and her ambitious vision for fixing social media She has a compelling blend of optimism and realism and I’m so interested to see how she charts this path www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

he looks like a doll brought to life by magic

god how are these losers dating more people than me. insult to injury.

Highly recommend living near a fjord, if at all possible

you can lie to your dentist that you’re cisgender; it’s free

US tariff policy changed today? Wow, I didn’t know that. You’re telling me that now for the first time

what if we had a day that was sunny but not overbearingly hot?

yeah

Been a gloomy day in payments around here, folks, let's pick up the mood by remembering when Citibank tried to send $8m to some accounts and accidentally sent them $900m, and wasn't allowed to recover about a half billion of it.

I got a speeding ticket from an automated camera but my lawyer got it dismissed by proving I was stationary at the time of the photo. Thank you to the fine attorneys at Zeno & Associates

odds of Canada PNG’ing US diplomats just went way up

"men's rea"? Your Honor, I don't think we need to gender rea like that. My rea is enby.

Our Dumb Cyberpunk Future: My US bank accounts get frozen because I drove through a toll cordon that somehow uses a blockchain for payment to work around OFAC sanctions

Dressing like a guy in Andor now. My shirt collar is also part of my jacket somehow. My tie is some kind of strap. I have two capes on.

I get nervous sending money to *myself* across international borders

MORBO’S UNDERWORLD CONTACTS REFUSE TO ALLOW PUNY HUMANS TO ACT AS MONEY MULES WHEN EVADING INTERGALACTIC SANCTIONS, ONLY GENUINE MULES WILL SUFFICE

gorgeous woman whose song lures you into the fallout shelter (air raid siren)

I am officially on the Oilers bandwagon

someone add the You Spin Me Right Round music

Truly a launch vehicle that will replace all of the existing ones and go to Mars.

y’all I think the Canada Line is over the design capacity *today*. like if they somehow magically got 50m trains overnight, they’d still be crush-loaded at peak

>type of person who’s anti-Macron because he’s not anti-Thatcher because she agreed to hand over Hong Kong

hey gock did the latest starship launch explode yet

Tech tip: Five nines of availability gets a lot easier if you just stick another digit in between the nines.

i want a black comedy spinoff where Dedra Meero is freed from prison and immediately hailed as a hero of the Republic because her charging documents accuse her of everything Lonni ever did