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This is Shadow and Ollie. Shadow can be seen here attempting to eat his brother. And based on Ollie's reaction, this is not the first time. 13/10 for both

Liberals promise anti-democratic components of Bill C-5 will be used sparingly as long as Conservatives never get in power again

Still recovering from shock of having just read a large grant application with made-up reference list. Familiar authors but most refs don’t exist. ChatGPT written all over it Must sound familiar to those marking student essays. But, really, in a grant application? Who do they think they’re kidding?

The most important part of republican fascism is the demand you must be nice to them.

Anyone still want to argue that John Roberts isn’t the worst Chief Justice in SCOTUS history?

Well at least it didn’t blow up like the rockets

I got a new Cypriot cookbook, so I decided to try a few new dishes. I made a potato, onion & halloumi bread. I also made a watermelon & halloumi salad. I made a Spanish version of Gazpacho from the latest Cook’s Illustrated magazine, and strawberry & haskap berries in balsamic vinegar for dessert.

The United States never has enough money to keep people alive at home but always has enough money to kill people overseas.

Not sure why I need to continue repeating this. Rule of law? Dead. Rights? Gone. Executive power? Entirely unchecked by Congress, subject to a judiciary with a corrupt top court. State sanctioned kidnappings and renditions. What democracy?

The Ontario Science Centre 1 year later: The cost of a new site has escalated, its opening date has been pushed back, there is no sign of a temporary location, and the old building’s roof appears intact. #OnPoli By the superb Canadian Press team globalnews.ca/news/1125207...

the beaverton is cooking www.thebeaverton.com/2025/06/cana...

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Presently legitimately means both soon and now, and fulsome legitimately means both greasily excessive and simply abundant. I think that most people hear the former meanings, but when in doubt choose different words.

If you’ve never seen one before, this is a strawberry finch.

I just pulled the data for Canadian provinces of the most common injuries by province, here they are:

Jets confirm the signing of NHL free agent Jonathan Toews with the team confirming it is a one-year deal. Toews in the release: "It's very special to come home and play in front of my family and friends in Manitoba" What say you about it? illegalcurve.com/winnipeg-jet...

"AllTrails has a new generative AI feature that can be asked to 'shorten my route' or 'make this more scenic.' But the people in charge of searching for lost hikers say the feature is going to exacerbate an issue they’ve been warning about for years: hiking apps providing false information."

This is both political—they judge how the wind is blowing—and practical. There is real worry across the league about them turning up for players, especially Venezuelans and Cubans. No club wants them anywhere near the ballpark. And if they should go after fans? There’s business in the toilet.

Feels like quite a few people have been waiting their whole lives for the moment when being openly racist in print is no longer career ending and are determined to make the most of it.

Important context to the Supreme Court ruling is that Tennessee only has one gender clinic for kids and it performs 5 top surgeries per year. This entire "debate" is about a phenomenon — large numbers of kids being rushed into hormones and surgeries — that doesn't exist. apnews.com/article/heal...

Dress it up in progressive language but you're cheating yourself by not doing the work. This is the worst thing about AI: millions of students refusing to learn, taking zero interest in the world around them, empty in mind and heart. Your punishment is the person you will become.

Watching the new season of Somebody Feed Phil. Now I need to add the Basque region to my travel wish list. And this show always makes me hungry!

Policies like this (and sports bans too) create this spectre of a massive gang of violent trans people targeting vulnerable cis women that must be kept in check for everyone's safety. But so often we are talking about like, one lady in one prison who didn't do anything to anyone.

There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

Spending the afternoon at the Forks with a new book my sweet pea bought me.

The Panthers are the kid who is really good at headlocks, and occasional noogies

You’ve been gone three months today.

The answer is in ICE's selection of targets: * Democratic politicians in public * Immigrants attending court hearings, at work, or at schools None of those people will be armed. On the flipside, ICE is scrupulously avoiding raids on cartel affiliates, drug dealing sites, etc. They might be armed.

“They're missing the whole point in that we're seeing more fires, a longer fire season, more intense fires, more severe fires, because the climate is changing due to human activities,” said fire expert Mike Flannigan. “It's a serious omission, and that's being very polite.”

“It should be illegal for you to be mean to me and legal for me to kill you” is basically the Republican platform.

This is horseshit. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...