James “DELENDA EST GLACIES” Harbeck

I’m at the window counter of Black Canary looking onto Sherbourne; a small IKEA lamp provides local accessory illumination

Pleasant office makes light work

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks.

Still, one less R senate vote.

"He competed in mixed martial arts (MMA)—which is like wrestling but for people who killed bugs with a magnifying glass as children" 🤣

Can someone who knows tell me: If a sitting US senator is appointed to a cabinet position, does it vacate his senate seat?

The US knew that the Iranian submariners were unarmed and present on a trust agreement. The attack betrayed them and their hosts. And it has badly undermined the US's reputation and presence. Mafia gangsters have more honor than this. It is pure perfidy.

treachery, n. Deliberate, often calculated, disregard for trust or faith.

ICO writes to Meta over 'concerning' AI smart glasses report Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

I want the set

Drivers should be more careful and more aware of what's happening outside of their vehicle, also keeping their eyes on the road, not their phone or other screens!

It's a shared responsibility

#streetsafety

via @tomflood.bsky.social and @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social ⤵️

Boy, compare the US and Canada on this.

Kanwal Sibal @KanwalSibal • 6h X The Iranian ship will not be where it was if we had not invited it to talk part in our Milan exercise. We were the hosts. I am told that as per protocol for this exercise ships cannot carry any ammunition. It was defenceless. The Iranian naval personnel had paraded before our president. The attack by the US submarine was premeditated as the US was aware of the Iranian ship's presence in the exercise to which the US navy was invited but withdrew from participation at the last minute, presumably with this operation in mind. The US has ignored India's sensitivities as the ship was in these waters because of India's invitation. We are far from politically or militarily responsible for the US attack. Our"responsibility" is at a moral and human plane. A word of condolence by the Indian Navy ( after political clearance) at the loss of lives of those who were our invitees and saluted our president would be in order.

Some context to the Iranian boat that was targeted by US off Sri Lanka coast

Former Indian FM: “US was aware of the Iranian ship's presence in the exercise to which the US navy was invited but withdrew from participation at the last minute”

Today's comment to an academic author: "Be wary of crossing the border between luxuriant prose and prolixity."

i'm not an economist but if 900 people can afford to fund $3,000 checks to damn near everyone else in america and still be insanely fuckin rich afterwards maybe they have too much fuckin money

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.

Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

One thing that worries me about these glasses is that there are a lot of other glasses that look somewhat like them, and I have two such pairs. I don't want to be assaulted on the street by someone who doesn't look closely and thinks I'm wearing creeper glasses.

They must refresh the paint every so often! It's still there (the picture I posted is from last year or the year before, but I walked by it recently).

Additionally what so many of the "No one's talking on Bluesky" people are actually saying is "I am lost and confused when there's not an algorithm to shove content into my eyeballs with no effort on my part"

graffiti Come see my etchings. Well, not literal etchings. I just mean the epigrammatic epigraphs and autographs not so much engraved as gruffly roughed in on walls and other standing surfaces with spray pa…

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Graffiti on a brick wall in colourful stylized letters that say CECI N'EST PAS GRAFFITI

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Yellow transformer box with the words "peace soap" written on it simply in black spray paint

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Concrete seawall (lakewall, I guess) at the boardwalk on Toronto Island, with long text written on it about fighting for sex workers' rights

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Side alley off Spadina with sign over door saying it's the customer parking for Paul Magder Furs, but the door is painted with a human head in profile in grey

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Garage door painted with monster face; looks like it has vomited leaves onto the alley; there is other graffiti nearby. Look up near the top and you see the CN Tower in the background.

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Painting of a face surrounded by various graffiti, with the word SHROOMS obscuring some of it; Spadina Avenue, Toronto

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The heavily graffitied men's washroom in Sneaky Dee's in Toronto

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PAINT I’ve made a book. It’s a book of photos, but it has words in it, because they’re photos of graffiti. Not clever or funny graffiti, just graffiti that I find very visually attractive: the colours an…

And some graffiti is vibrant and lively and a welcome addition to derelict buildings, longstanding hoardings, and sometimes the walls of people who have invited the artists. A few years ago I put together a book of my own photographs of that kind. Here are a few of my favourites. 13/22

some graffiti—especially washroom writings—is witty: Nigel Rees put out five books of collected graffiti in the 1980s, and I bought all of them and read each multiple times, and have gotten some of my favourite witticisms from them. 12/22

Now, I don’t blame you if you’re not so fond of graffiti. Not all of it is that great to look at, and if you’re the owner of the building affected and you didn’t ask for it to be there, you have a right to be disgruntled. But 11/22

And so its use for more modern impromptu illicit mural inscriptions followed naturally. 10/22