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Do you feed them? They'll understand if you reward different behaviour. I started feeding my crow friends when they flew alongside me as I rode on my scooter. So now they think I respond to pretty flying. They're very polite!

I have become friends with an entire murder of dinosaurs in my neighbourhood. They really like peanuts.

All potential interest in Dune vanished in 2015, as we all know. And it's been 2 years since anyone's had the faintest affection for The Princess Bride. The more you think about it, the more it makes sense.

Yeah, that tracks. No one's been even faintly interested in reading Pride and Prejudice since 1863, 50 years after it was published. It really lost its appeal after that point.There's famously been zero general interest in The Lord of the Rings since 2004, too.

Aug 16 2013 tweet from @ProBirdRights: I am feel uncomfortable when we are not about me?

Well-housed people who prefer a specific mountain view from one window to other humans having a whiff of a shot of having a place to live.

I think we owe it to each other to be truthful. And of course people are going to be frustrated and irritated re: the use of AI, even outraged, so maybe that truthfulness will come out in a angry way. But that's not the same thing as being intentionally mean.

I don't think you have to be MEAN to people who use AI. Just be HONEST and don't accept their claim that the AI slop they prompted was authored or created by them. That's not mean, that's just the truth. Granted, being bluntly truthful can land as meanness to some people.

The day they put a bus between Aldershot and Aberfoyle will be a Very Good Day (hint hint @metrolinx.bsky.social).

I used to do Amtrak from Rochester, NY to Niagara Falls, switch to Go, then Niagara Falls to Clarkson, Mississauga Transit from Clarkson to Square One, and then the Go bus to Guelph.

Reassuring you that you're in the right place! haha That calm, reassuring voice.

Oh sorry, you already said you were at West Harbour. The only thing you need to work out is which platform is serving Union-bound trains, tap on, and then get on whichever one opens its doors on that platform, really.

I love Go trains so much. But then I love picking bizarre routes that go backwards and upside down through transit systems, it brings me great joy to get places no one expects you can get to via public transit.

Which station are you at?

Ooof. Hug your kids.

America is the name of the continent. Your country isn't listed with the As, it's with the Us. Claiming the name is a rhetorical trick to claim ownership of territory, not unlike what Trump is threatening to do. The threat isn't new. It's just more blunt, unmasked, and harder to deny.

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a round pottery piece with pig eyes and a snout

i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired

I don't even know her

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Vancouver enters the chat, sees "could best deliver more housing," promptly turns around and leaves.

My uncle got typhus is the late 1940s Berlin. There were so many cases they turned a morgue into a children's isolation ward.

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I understand the leaders of this movement had a lot of sway and a lot of authorities co-signed this, and that it was bizarrely partisan in the US. But surely some of these teachers were readers, and could observe that they were doing zero guessing when they were reading themselves.

I remember learning to read. There was no guessing and no pictures. It was about words. It was about convert the letters in words into sounds that become words as fast and smoothly as possible. Like learning to read music: following the symbols and converting it into sound seamlessly.

I'm listening to the Sold a Story podcast, and it's blowing my mind. I had no idea this was happening. And I'm baffled by concept three cueing.

It seems like everyone is struggling and/or emotionally overwhelmed. There's so much going on. The smallest thing might be someone's last straw. It's a lot of absorb, and it's a lot to hold in. Can we take the year off, or something?

Yeah, I wonder. I think the appropriate response would have been, “let’s not focus on me right now, I wrote a whole book about that,” and redirect to the protest leaders.

I dunno. He's in that protest talking about himself.