turtle time 🐢

His account on here always makes me smile.

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How Dare You Embarrass My Esteemed Guest, Jason Voorhees “President Trump assailed an American journalist in the Oval Office on Tuesday for asking Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, about t...

"Look, things happen. And what happens at Camp Crystal Lake should stay at Camp Crystal Lake. We can’t hold everyone accountable for every little thing they’ve ever done."

Carney's 'very sneaky' push to weaken Canada's pesticide laws The Carney government is quietly proposing to eliminate a key pillar of pesticide health and safety evaluations as part of the 2026 budget. The change will stop the government from doing periodic eval...

In a bid to eliminate "red tape," the Carney budget just stripped away one of the few ways Canadian regulators review the pesticides that go on your food.

Without exaggeration, Carney’s AI policy is so absurd — mindless boosterism, rushed Potemkin consultations, no attention to regulating its myriad demonstrated harms, AT THE HEIGHT OF A FINANCIAL BUBBLE — is so utterly misguided it should cast doubts on his overall policy competence.

Hello Kitty peacefully sleeping in her bed

"hey can you jump on a quick call?"

Andy is so lovely

Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Forge Ahead
Billie Rae Busby
2017

Mom had no friends before high school, skipped a grade, and memorized everyone's account number when she worked at a bank. Dad was supposedly a genius (lol) with a tic that had to be symmetrical, and a crippling bicycle and motorcycle obsession. They thought I was normal.

Diagnosed auDHD nearly 20 years ago. I've eaten the same breakfast every day for years except for the week at Christmas when I visit my family (and feel grumpy about the change in routine)

A jar of buttons on a shelf

Oh no!

your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️

that's me! a family member spent 5+ weeks in hospital due to covid so when the push for rto started I committed to not patronizing downtown lunch businesses out of spite.

I'm so fucking sick of everyone tangentially related to the NYT always responding to every obvious fuckup with main-character huffiness about how everything they ever did was 100% principled despite constant overwhelming evidence to the contrary! I shouldn't have to know any of your names!

oh no! delicious food in my neighbourhood!

Post by Matt Elliott (@graphicmatt.com) Councillor Holyday worries about retail stores that "sell some zany thing that has very little value." He wants to know if council could define a list of what stores can sell. Staff say they can regulate things like size, noise and property standards, but generally not what stores sell. November 13, 2025 at 10:54 AM

Post by Matt Elliott (‪@graphicmatt.com‬) Councillor Shan moves to exclude three streets in his ward. He worries the retail spaces created won't just be small shops selling ice cream to locals, but things like "beef patties that are so popular that people from the 905 will come to get it." That'll just add to traffic problems, he says. November 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM

I nominate Councillor Shan, of Toronto City Council for the "dumbest thing said today" award. Second place goes to Councillor Holyday, also of Toronto City Council.

Crime survey for England Wales, showing strong decline since 1996. Source: Office for National Statistics. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/crimeinenglandandwales/yearendingjune2025

UK prison population, showing major rise in England and Wales during the period in which crime has fallen. Source: House of Commons Library https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn04334/

1. Placing these two graphs side by side shows why we have a prisons crisis. They can also be seen as a kind of Authoritarianism Index, showing the trend in state attitudes.
On the left is the Crime Survey for England and Wales.
On the right is the UK prison population.
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The third one looks like it would fit my weird body.

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

It’s very enervating to watch intelligent and educated people play dumb about this amidst the ascendance of a far-right reactionary movement driven by antisocial Silicon Valley psychos and Miami crypto scammers who all treat women as status symbols on the same level as NFTs and Labubus.

he’s a provider of access to money, connections and beautiful women and girls — everything that these people need to affirm their own status. being rich and powerful is a grift which requires other to bolster & buy in. That’s the service Epstein provided.

It's gonna turn out that the TSO burned a lot of goodwill for like $50k

The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.

The "orchestra's fee" was $337,000, maybe that includes some profit but a standard call for a rehearsal is an instant $25,000-$30,000 in musician pay, and Mahler 2 requires a lot of extra musicians.

I can't give details without doxxing myself but I used to hang with pro musicians and I would love to hear what they had to say about this. I bet it would singe my eyebrows off.

Reddit posts gove the impression that ticket sales were through his own website. Certainly wouldn't be the first time an arts org management had a poor understanding of finance if this is how it went down.

I used to work in fundraising and your event has to raise more money than it cost to put on. If he only paid the cost of the orchestra, venue, advertising for the one concert then the TSO is no further ahead for having done it? Did the TSO get the revenue from ticket sales?

I'm reading about the Mandle Cheung TSO concert earlier this year and I gotta ask: did the TSO turn a profit from this concert? Management portrays it as a way to diversify revenue, they need the money etc. But the coverage says he covered the costs for the performance.