Abbie

I take an Uber to work every morning because OC Transpo consistently doesn't show up in time and I can't be late every damn day. Paying an increase in property taxes to fund a working transit system would save me money. You are increasing my financial burden by refusing to do the job.

I read this to S, who nodded sagely.

It's so distracting! Put the screen off if you must.

yeah sorry folks I am not watching that shit.

And: anytime you're watching something because you believe you have a Moral Duty To Be Informed, I encourage you to interrogate--what are you going to do with the information?

Will it change your perspective? Your behavior?

If no...you can simply not

Here’s the thing about folks speedrunning the creative process with AI:

I could go to the beach every morning and put a grain of sand in a cup. They’d take their cup to the beach and fill it one day; but the point isn’t to have a cup of sand. It’s to fill my life with a thousand trips to the beach.

I feel I should remind you that one of my wife's favorite things to do is discuss the vibes of Saskatchewan...

I told my coworker I think Mary Simon should invite them for a tour.

Consider it Practice.

Also makes use your furnace vents are clear!

It was definitely more. Drifting and compression.

Bon chance, mon ami.

Ooh French toast alert is in full effect.

Other people might worry but for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor this is no sweat.

We just rewatched it the other night so I was reminded, again, of how wonderful it is.

My wife (the morning person) woke me up by pounding up the stairs and into the bedroom to gasp "Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested!" and let me tell you what a nice way that is to wake up.

I *cackled.*

Name a film you would call PERFECT. Any genre. 🎬

#filmsky 📽️

My comprehension of this is entirely against my will.

I mean, what are they going to do? Fire him?

Real talk,I love Stephen so much and I truly hope he has a plan to get out when they decide to make an example out of him.

Gung hay Fat Tuesday choy

Literally made this just last night. I do extra marinade and drizzle it over cabbage and roast that on the side.

I gotta say, I never thought the quiet kid who sat next to me in AP American History was gonna end up so famous but every time I see his name I'm delighted for him all over again.

Given the scrutiny Mamdani is under, and the ability of bad actors to find people's entire identities from just their face? My queer self is not mad about it. Any visibly queer couple would be at risk of being put on blast. That video was *very* thoughtfully cut.

Spouse and I are out for an early Valentine's lunch because we are now comfortably middle-aged enough to not want to be bothered with the dinner crowd nonsense. Hardly anyone is at this (popular) Greek restaurant so we chose well.

"I say! Are you Georgina?" The child in the opposite bed sat up and looked across at Anne. She had very short curly hair, almost as short as a boy's. Her face was burnt a dark-brown with the sun, and “Famous Five 01 - Five On A Treasure Island” By Enid Blyton 7 her very blue eyes looked as bright as forget-me-nots in her face. But her mouth was rather sulky, and she had a frown like her father's. "No," she said. "I'm not Georgina." "Oh!" said Anne, in surprise. "Then who are you?" "I'm George," said the girl. "I shall only answer if you call me George. I hate being a girl. I won't be. I don't like doing the things that girls do. I like doing the things that boys do. I can climb better than any boy, and swim faster too. I can sail a boat as well as any fisher-boy on this coast. You're to call me George. Then I'll speak to you. But I shan't if you don't." "Oh!" said Anne, thinking that her new cousin was most extraordinary. "All right! I don't care what I call you. George is a nice name, I think. I don't much like Georgina. Anyway, you look like a boy."

To give you an idea of how deranged the UK has become about gender stuff, here's Enid Blyton - the absolute avatar of classic English conservatism and a huge fan of racist "gollywogs" - casually describing a gender non-conforming kid in the 1940s and having their friends be totally cool with it.

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

I've been finding myself super overextended lately, mentally and emotionally. I've been carving out space for the tasks I need to do but not the rest. I know you were not posting this to call me, personally, out, and yet... 🤣

You just unlocked something for me. Wow. Thank you.

well i for one couldn’t be more excited for the possibilities of AI. finally a technology that answers the age old question ‘what if clippy was wormtongue’