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It started with a question from Gideon Haigh's daughter: who's the world's oldest prisoner? The Guinness Book of Records had the answer, and it surprised them both. The oldest prisoner on record is Bill Wallace, a Victorian! See what else Gideon found out: prov.vic.gov.au/about-us/our...

"Krissss!" I hear you say - "What do you mean 'on the way to work', I thought you worked remotely!"

I am still working remotely, but for the next little while I am doing that from the museum instead of from home.

This is not how I found out (radio in the car on the way to work) but I did open bsky just to see how many posts I'd have to scroll through to see this (10).

A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control

New awareness campaign

It's very wet but it's definitely snow. And starting to collect.

Blech.

Normally I love the first snowfall of the season, but after last winter, I was not in a hurry for this (and the cold sucks for the kids).

more classic 'ween bullshit! Sorry I didn't make more new stuff this year. I was busy doing the spookiest thing of all, existing under capitalism.

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Extremely not impressed by how much snow is happening outside right now.

At least it doesn't appear to be sticking on the ground... yet...

But every so often, someone pisses me off to the point where I have a dream about kicking the ever-loving *shit* out of them.

I had one of those dreams last night, and it was very cathartic.

And I have punched one person in anger: my high school boyfriend, who cheated on my with a mutual friend while I was in England. We're friends again (I mean, sorta) and he has long-since forgiven me (they are now married with kids, which probably helps).

I am not a violent person. I have never been in a fight. I was punched once (in the stomach, by a girl in grade 3 who wanted to name our reading group "The Iron Maidens" and I, in my innocence, preferred something stupid like "The Smurfettes"; I admit, I had that coming. I'm glad she punched me.

HOW DOES IT KEEP GETTING STUPIDER?!?!?!? 🤦🏼‍♀️

Federal funding cuts to pediatric brain cancer research ‘taking away hope’ from families Brain tumors are the leading cause of pediatric cancer-related death. In August, the Trump administration announced it would stop supporting a federally funded network dedicated to researching these d...

No money for pediatric brain cancer research, $200 million for a new Trump ballroom
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I don't know if my humour was primarily shaped by early exposure to The Far Side, or if I just naturally gravitated to it because it fit my developing sense of humour. Either way, this is amazing news. I am 100% here for new Far Side.

Holy shit, and also, great blessings upon the family of the human recipient mentioned in the article for allowing their loved one with no remaining brain activity to be a test candidate to determine if their body would reject a treated kidney.

Not the first time a tyrant has been plagued by frogs.

The world needs more bollards. It's just a simple fact.

I'm not really sure what I'm worried about. That I'm colloquially known as an afficionado of novelty taxidermy? That I have a thing for pole-dancing rodents?

It's a fucking mystery, my friends.

A taxidermy stripper squirrel dances on... I dunno, is that a pencil? Who knows. Looks like a ram's skull in the background. Maybe on a wooden table. Some plants. Text says "the answer to my problems probably isn't a taxidermy stripper squirrel. but i better double check."

I have now had two separate friends (who do not know each other) send me this and I'm starting to worry.

*looking to the sky and cupping my hands to my mouth*
"psp psp psps"

I have been told that saying I'll just have a gin and soda for dinner is "an unhealthy stress response" so I'm going to make KD first and *then* have a gin and soda. That's better, right?

Forgotten Toronto: How a dead lawyer kicked off a baby-making frenzy — with horrific consequences The “Great Stork Derby” may have begun with whimsical intentions, but it soon evolved into something much darker.

Meet the biggest asshole in Toronto history (🎁article).

And this is why I need to remember to mute my mic before scrolling bluesky during a meeting.

I have to assume this means he keeps everything hidden behind fabric and just thrusts wildly as she runs past.

When we posted this a couple of weeks ago, we had some AI enthusiasts insist that this diagram was the result of poor prompting, or that the prompt that the original poster made was to generate a funny, bad diagram. So we decided to test ChatGPT's capability...

A local man says "Hi everyone, Doug Martin's broccoli decided to all "pop" at once. He's got lots so if you are looking for delicious fresh broccoli his farm is at [redacted], Fenelon Falls. Thanks and have a great day!

Most neighbourhood Facebook groups are piping hot garbage fires, but the Fenelon Falls group is exceptional. This is literally the most wholesome thing I've seen on Facebook in ages:

Ask the Canadian government to take action against Indigenous identity fraud through this official House of Commons petition (which closes tomorrow so get cracking!)

Me: It's always fun when fans have a special little name for themselves, like Trekkies or Whovians or Thundercats Hoes Luigi de Guzman: Wait what raising kane: whovians

I do love this site

This reminds me of a conversation I once had with a good friend at an afterparty, where we (mostly he) decided that lasers are spirit guns.

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