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Is there any phrase so beautiful to read as "everyone else declined the event"

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Imagine you sit down at a chess board for the first time in your life, and even though you have no idea what you're doing and keep losing, millions of people pretend every single move you make is some sort of genius gambit. Imagine that went on for Nine. Years.

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Google AI summary gives the best advice

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Can we just skip to the part where he signs a few new agreements that don't change anything, declares victory, and stops crashing the world economy?

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It probably shouldn't be my main takeaway from @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social's excellent book Everything is Tuberculosis, but I can't stop thinking about how in 2001 the head of USAID confidently said on record that African people don't know what clocks are.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

I will occasionally try to make coffee without water when I'm kind of out of it, but today I very nearly tried to make coffee without water OR coffee grounds, so we're firing on all cylinders today

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

My partner and I have recently gotten into watching Jet Lag which means that I am currently waiting with an unreasonable amount of anticipation to watch two people probably not be able to buy a particular flower in Amsterdam. #JetLag #JetLagTheGame

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Sometimes when I remember that Trump became president because Hillary Clinton stored her emails in a somewhat incautious place I do feel like I've gone mad www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Fun fact: if #megabus screws up and leaves the station without you while you're waiting at the gate to board, and all the other buses that day are fully booked, they won't even give you your money back.

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At some point centrists are going to have to let go of the notion that modern conservatism is even good for the economy.

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Fingers crossed for Doug Ford's lead being a massive, catastrophic systemic polling error today

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Sounds like everything is going great over there www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/c...

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Tinder adding AI summaries to profiles that are about as long as the bio was to begin with is probably the most ridiculous LLM cargo culting I've seen so far.

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This is like Kendrick and Drake if both of them were Drake.

submitted 118 days ago • 80 comments

Spare a thought for the backs of LCBO workers, straining under the sysiphian task of alternating between removing and re-shelving US liquor until the end of time.

submitted 118 days ago • 1 comment

new meme format just dropped

submitted 118 days ago • 26 comments

Yes please!

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We should just have this conversation in public. What is the Green List in violation of exactly? @safety.bsky.app @aaron.bsky.team

submitted 123 days ago • 20 comments

not trying to minimize the harms being done but please believe the country supports trans kids your enemies are made of paper

submitted 124 days ago • 33 comments

Flying from Canada to Mexico today feels very funny. Hang on, I just need to go ask them if they can believe this shit either.

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I've seen enough reels of people goofing on that terrible "vaginoplastia" song from Emilia Perez that it's actually stuck in my head now, send help

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When people ask about your job and you're a SQL database engineer youtube.com/clip/UgkxyNO...

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To me the funniest thing about the MacOS security dialog when you open unverified software is how it makes "Move to trash" the primary option. "Oh it looks like you tried to install something outside the App Store. Do you wanna put it in the FUCKING GARBAGE where it belongs?"

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Canada’s response to Trump tariff threats risks unintended consequences. As @heatherbone.bsky.social explains in this article, there’s no easy answer. However, the most likely Canadian actions have all proven ineffective in the past. Read here: policyoptions.irpp.org?p=115227

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It is a bit comforting to know the supreme court is not ENTIRELY Trump's butt monkey

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Archaeologists’ Discovery Of Skeleton From 2.7 Years Ago Sheds No New Light On Anything theonion.com/archaeologis...

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Me: Hey, I can't find this thing in my kitchen. Brain: Ah, okay, let me turn off the filter that makes you not see clutter. Me: The wh-- OH GOD Brain: Did you find it? Me: NO! HOW DO I LIVE LIKE THIS Brain: I dunno, anyway here's the theme song to The A-Team again

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