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Booooo! BOO!
(I am a bit salty about this, despite my love for Neneh Cherry)

Dick Cheney dies, Zohran Mamdani wins, a beaver moon shines in the sky… I just know the Etsy witches have been busy.

Not the ceremonial headgear of a new initiate into the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster/Pastafarian?

Also, that's really kind of brilliant a interpretation of fireworks, 2yrs old or not. I like it.

Sydney J Van Scyoc was a sci fi writer in the 60's onwards who wrote some really great stuff. Sure expanded my young brain in the 80's.

Fun fact: if you're looking for space opera novels written by cisgender women, trans, and non-binary authors, I've got a handy spreadsheet just for you!

I've maintained this list for several years, and it's still growing! #sciencefiction #books

Give it a look. Bookmark it!

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Agent Lairmore is done with his testimony. Prosecution asked further about the condiments and he said there was mustard on his uniform and an onion hanging on his radio antenna. Don’t think defense was going for a pun when she called him a “seasoned officer,” but you never know…

That's my favorite image to illustrate the concept. I will haul it out whenever I get a chance!
The comments I see about people struggling with sleep issues saying they won't take melatonin now is sad because it's likely the sleep issues and/or what's causing them that cause the higher cardiac risk

A screenshot with 4 panels showing pictures of cats relaxing in the middle of destruction- one lying in a large pothole in a cobble street, one lying in huge dent on a corrugated iron roof, one sleeping in the centre of a smashed car windshield and one in a circle of broken concrete. The image has the text "This keeps happening. How heavy are cats?"

Correlation does not equal causation.

Hey everyone! Can I get 50 reposts for this program? It would mean a lot!
www.jccsf.org/event/michae... #RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth

I was stoked to see a Trailer Park Boys reference! Hysterical stuff.

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how the CBC forced me to resign over COVID

and why we’re all worse off for it—especially our kids

a 🧵

(on the occasion of my son’s [5th] and the CBC’s [89th] shared birthday, nov. 2)

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I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees
And this here AI junk is just worse NFTs

Who did this?

Petty me would A) talk to the manager, and B ) if unsatisfied, report them to Consumer Affairs Canada

A few people wish him well in that endeavor.

A black and white English setter with a concerned expression sitting a safe distance away from two candle-lit pumpkins with very pleasant expressions carved into them.

An extremely cheerful golden retriever sitting directly in front of two candle-lit pumpkins- dog and pumpkins share the same goofy smiling expressions.

Neither of my two are fans of costumes, but did pose nicely "for grandma" in front of our pumpkins before being tucked away inside before the fireworks start.

Pure chaos there
I had an 8 hour layover there once and I still felt anxious about making it from one gate to the other
If there was ever a place that was cursed, Heathrow is it Nothing EVER goes right there. They need to dismantle it, bless the land, give it to nature and start over somewhere else

Our local morning radio show had a segment the other day talking about the price of groceries and families struggling. The expert they had on to make recommendations about how to manage high costs included in her list "Get a better paying job." Which, yes, that would be good, but also, c'mon lady.

Black and white photo of two men standing in front of a vintage car. The person on the right, identified as Babe Ruth, is wearing a New York Yankees jacket, knee-high socks, and shorts, typical of early baseball uniforms. The person on the left is dressed in a formal suit and tie.

Babe Ruth was one of the greatest baseball players in history.
He revolutionized the sport with his homerun hitting but he may have never found his way to baseball immortality if not for a priest from Cape Breton.
This is the story of Brother Matthias.

🧵 1/8

Unrelated to anything, I was just reading about AI induced psychosis.

My friends are aunties and uncles to my kid. I am an auntie to my friends' kids.

It's like they've never heard of the auntie/uncle traditions of so many other cultures. A respectful title for anyone over a certain age within the family orbit or with social ties. It's a way of keeping community.

A search of that user's other posts turns up some oddball stuff. I see the seeds of the first person to possibly go on a rampage at some AI developer headquarters because they "murdered" his family.

My mother wore a little lapel pin that said "Hinkley had a vision" for quite some time after, so...

To be fair, Ireland hasn't had a female president since the two they had before the last one.

He's likely run into many women who are Trek fans but none of them bothered talking to him about it. Why subject yourself to a lecture/one sided conversation about a thing you love by an insufferable self proclaimed "expert"?

Floofy grey lynx spider being a lump with her legs neatly folded around her, big black eyes peering ahead. She's a lump of floof on the metal railing

Side view of the creature on the metal, just a roughly right-triangular shaped lump of grey floof

Floof Lump 🥹
#FloofLump #Arachtober #EmotionalSupportSpood
(Hamataliwa grisea)

For Vancouver friends!

Harold couldn't have found a better place to land in this here life, really. Congrats to Harold's dad, who has the perfect fellow to dote on.