R.B. Fairchild

man tell me you wouldn't instantly pony up fifty cents to read about a space robot laser blasting a guy at his own wedding. we used to have proper comic book covers in this country.

There is little known about Alice Clark. Her music career was a mere 4 years. A couple of singles and an album. She lived and died in obscurity.
But what a beautiful soul album.
What a soaring talent.
Keeping me warm during a snow storm in Ottawa.
Thanks to Old Town Records in Lunenburg.

important reporting that we should not minimize, ignore, or forget.

DO NOT EAT THE "SOUP"

This is so much funnier now LOL

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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

This is such a beautiful and moving film!

United States skips UN review of its human rights record US joins Israel as only other country to not show for mandatory process scrutinising rights record of UN member states.

US joins Israel as only other country to not show for mandatory process scrutinising rights record of UN member states.

Cowichan Tribes decision: What does it really mean? - APTN News

A B.C. Supreme Court ruling on Aboriginal title being granted to the Cowichan Tribes in B.C. has led to a lot of anger and misinterpretation in the province.

To clear up the facts, APTN News spoke with an expert on Aboriginal title cases.

One way of thinking about Twitter, especially in the Elon Musk era, is as the latest and most sophisticated version of the mailing lists that have powered the conservative movement, and the various scams and cons and schemes that constitute it, since the 1960s--in other words, as a huge and immediately accessible collection of suckers, waiting to have their avidity and paranoia exploited for cash. The predictions markets here are happy to play the same role with heavy X.com users as crypto scams and meme-stock hustlers did on the same site a few years ago, or as cash-for-gold ads did with Fox News viewers a decade before that, or as direct-mail get-rich-quick schemes did with Goldwater voters deep in prehistory.1 But the demand for dumb money created by the increasing annexation of our everyday social and cultural lives into casino-market hybrids like predictions markets (or, arguably, social media itself2) isn’t going to be satisfied solely by a pre-existing population of Birchite suckers. We talk a lot about the “male loneliness crisis” but in my estimation we don’t talk enough about the “male suckerfication crisis”: The process by which young men are continuously cultivated--by politicians, influencers, podcasters, sportscasters, and the very structure of social networks--as dupes and suckers, both for the enrichment and empowerment of Trumpist politicians and movements but also in service of the profits an ever-expanding roster of gambling and gambling-adjacent industries, among them app-enabled retail day-trading, crypto speculation, predictions markets, and of course, actual sports betting.

we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...

Just like grade 8 dances, then! I like it.

‘Sandwich Guy’ triumphs over ham-fisted charges Sean C. Dunn, affectionately nicknamed the “Sandwich Guy” after lobbing his Subway footlong at a Border Patrol officer, will not spend time behind ...

Turns out, a Subway footlong isn’t a deadly weapon—it’s a symbol of resistance.

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This is a brilliant idea, and I can’t be alone in saying that I would go to a wistful sad sack dance with you any day.

I heard a Mazzy Star deep cut today when going to a coffee shop and I’ve been feeling wistful ever since. There should be gymnasiums adults can go to awkwardly slow dance with other sadsack adults.

aloof wife / mayor boyfriend

My only dream is to one day be the aloof and beautiful cartoonist accused of orchestrating a mayoral campaign

Lady in the streets, but aloof in the sheets

(approaching a couple) so which one of you is mayor and which is aloof wife

America’s Dumbest Billionaires Fail to Stop Zohran Mamdani - The American Prospect It’s encouraging on many levels: New York City didn’t submit to a campaign of flagrant bigotry from disgraced two-time loser Andrew Cuomo, and Americans, particularly young ones, can still be politica...

"What we see, I think, are a bunch of rich guys who have been comically out of touch with normal people for many decades, and more recently have blowtorched their brains into a smoking pile of ash on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X and in various group chats." prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...

It's actually insane that the feds are promising to put more than double the amount of money they're putting into childcare, into AI.

Why not just set it on fire and dance around it hoping to sway the gods to our favour?

Out of budget lockup. I recently wrote: "Ottawa imposes a 10 percent luxury tax on yachts... yet a family buying a semi in Scarborough pays the equivalent of 15 percent in [DCs] and land transfer taxes."

Today the gov't addressed this by eliminating the luxury tax on yachts.

Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???

Can't denounce racism when you yourself are Islamophobic. That's the bottom line re: both Gillibrand, Schumer and many other Democrats.

Even in Canada, never give your money to Intuit and TurboTax.

Me to my friend’s cat: lol. it’s almost like you like the box better than the toy! haha! that is so funny. what the heck.

Cat: If you loved a joke as much as the laugh, the sun as much as its warmth, your lover as much as their love, you too would love the box as much as the toy, two-legs.

Spending too much time online will have catastrophic effects on your mental & emotional health. You need to be taking walks and talking to other people. You need to feel grass under your feet and wind on your face. You were made to live an embodied life.

halloween is the best holiday because it’s the one that’s the most community focused. also because it’s the horniest

AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats Some AI papers have a finding so good you just want to quote it everywhere. But many turn out to be trash. They’ve got bad statistics, they’ve got bad methodology, they’re really sales pieces, or t…

AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/15/a...