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Chronically insufficient. Karateka. Dog person. Educator. Pro Oxford comma.
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I'm at the dog park in shorts and a T-shirt and there's someone here in a knee-length puffy coat.

We talk a lot of shit about the state of the world these days, but one unequivocal boon is the variety of apples that are available to us. Used to be Macs, red delicious, or Granny Smith. This morning I'm eating something called a red crisp or something. And don't get me started on Pink Ladies.

Katy Perry failed up so hard she made wound up in orbit.

I just watched In A Violent Nature, and I'm afraid I did not care for it.

@ifbookspod.bsky.social I'm behind on all my pods, but you guys got name dropped on episode 135 of The Faculty of Horror podcast!

"...the misguided tearing down of our great leaders..." These great leaders committed genocide... "While fascist politics fetishizes the past, it is never the actual past that is ftishized." Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works. nationalpost.com/opinion/tdsb...

theintercept.com/2025/04/08/t...

Me watching my laptop restart and install updates without asking: Well damn I hope I saved everything.

Happy Rex Manning Day to those who celebrate.

I hate that Canadian Tire in French is "Canadian Tire", just with a little French flourish.

I get that generally we don't like rats, but why do we refer to "rats abandoning a sinking ship" like a pejorative? Why should rats go down with the ship? They're making good choices! (These musings inspired by my career.)

Have these people not been outside? All roads are bad. www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7494417

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Honestly, I find it hard to believe that they'd bother with an election. He won't need a third term. If he survives this whole term I expect they'd just extend it.

Why do subtitles say "speaking foreign language" instead of identifying the language?

I realised a few days ago why I liked Spiderman and Encyclopedia Brown when I was a kid. They were both gifted boys who found their own enrichment activities.

"Spidey sense" is just useful anxiety.

Just got an ad for an online recipe for "twice-baked potatoes" and honestly I'm wondering what secrets there might be. You bake it twice, no?

Are you really an introvert or is it just undiagnosed neurodivergence?

I swear to fucking God the US government is going to delete the webpage on the NASA website that explains drag because they think it has something to do with queens.

Watching liberals deal with incipient fascism reminds me of cavalry charges into machine gun fire in WWI, except in this analogy the cavalry helped with the gun placements and set up ammunition dumps.

People sure were excited about Carney. Though I wonder at the kind of person who looks around at the world and decides that we should put a Goldman Sachs banker in charge. This bank is so gross its scandals have their own Wikipedia page. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman...

The answer is 7. I had 7.

All I'm saying is, if you ran a campaign on democracy being at stake and democracy lost, isn't it time to be massively freaking out instead of doing this

I've got 30 grade 11s in fifth (last) period and they know we're playing a game; it's the Friday before March Break. What's the prediction on actual numbers?

How do people decide which words to pluralise with apostrophes? One of the people in my online course wrote a lot today about "student's" in "classes" and their "emotions". Why that one?

I saw a blue Cybertruck today and it looks even worse in person. It looks even worse than it does in silver. It looks like it was drawn on a desktop computer in 1988.

This is also fuckin gross. Even more so. apnews.com/article/iowa...

This is fuckin gross. www-cbc-ca.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.cbc....

What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.

Just voted, along with probably about 30% of the province. 😑 You should do it, too , and make me wrong about that number. #OSSTFd11votes

How’s this WSJ take aging

Why the hell did "Harry Warden" kill the bartender guy? They're on the same side! He was the harbinger!

1997

Libs, in victory: see we didn't need the left, fuck them, they get nothing, they ARE nothing Libs, in defeat: we needed the left and they betrayed us, time to call the cops on anne frank

Given the nature of what we already know about the richest and most powerful people, I am DYING to know what leverage Leto has that keeps getting him cast.

sorry, pronouns in bio triggered us so hard we had to become a fascist dictatorship over it

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