Mark Cook

Toronto Will Never Get Over This | Defector Baseball makes you feel bad. I don’t mean that in a literate sense ripping off Bart Giamatti’s lede, the sense of dreading a sullen winter spent longing for the sensory pleasures of the game. I mean…

Toronto will never get over this: defector.com/toronto-will...

Can anyone tell me why the Lorax was a popular costume this year? Or was it some weird local coincidence? #halloween #trickortreat #drseuss

As an intro? Honestly, it wouldn't be terrible given that it's about Dr Davendra Ellstone learning about the ilKhan Alaric Ward and how his new Star League will run Earth, so you learn setting details with her. (She and Alaric do plenty of other stuff, of course: it's a PG-13ish romance novel)

I like the Mustang better, because it was bad enough at high altitudes that RAF Fighter Command didn't use them... until they put a Rolls Royce Spitfire engine in it, and then it was one of the best.

So did Sony just give Lorne Michaels a big bag of money? #SNL

I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service.

Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.

@mark-carney.bsky.social please just pay for the post office. We spend many more times what Canada Post costs on the military and it doesn’t do Canadians nearly as much good on a day to day basis.

The way some people are trying to rehabilitate Charlie Kirk's image now that he's dead is fucking wild.

I mean, seriously?

I'm with Maj. Kirk would have cheerfully seen mixed-race folks like me rounded up and dropped off a cliff for being "impure."

Not to mention all his other bullshit.

Fuck him

Mike was a great MP, and I expect he will be again.

An update I’m excited to share: whenever the next election is called, I will run to serve as the MP for Kitchener Centre again.

This won’t be easy - but the sooner we start, the stronger we’ll be.

It’s why I’m asking for your help now - as a monthly donor, volunteer and more ➡️ www.mikemorrice.ca

The Google AI Overview for ‘Waid leaves legion of superheroes threeboot’ The text of the overview reads: “Mark Waid did not leave the Legion of Super-Heroes during the threeboot continuity; rather, he wrote the Threeboot series, which began with issue #1, later being renamed Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes and the The Legion of Super-Heroes, before he was replaced by Tony Bédard around issue #31.”

An illustration of how AI does not understand what words actually mean:

This is probably why my favourite thing they do is Blood Bowl, which I'm not sure would be possible to make serious.

Them: you cannot hold back progress. You must accept your new computational overlords who need all your water. New tech is everything

Also them: Ew not GREEN tech

That Hatamoto-Chi actually belongs to an old man who was left behind after a failed Kuritan raid on Apostica; he's the temporary hire available for the Apostica contracts in the book.

YouTube video by Hannah Fry Cooling down a hot car - with science

How to cool your car quickly from Professor Hannah Fry @fryrsquared.bsky.social

youtube.com/shorts/oKRcb...

An adorable stuffed Iron Man on a couch

Actually won at a claw machine

Wrong arms isn't really a thing with these guys. The blue one (Gargoyle) would have come with matching arms and it looks like one of them is on the red one (Executioner). But the thing is: these three mechs are meant to have swappable weapons, so in canon they would just be alternate configurations.

motherfucker isn't even sorry, that is the face of a guy who is totally gonna do it again

I think the Griffin looks superior, and you'd have to be quite unchrasimatic to disagree with that.

Miss Universe Philippines has a mythology theme going on this year, which is great for anyone whose interests contain both monster girls and mahou shoujo villains (like yours truly).

Well, that sucks. newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/fe...

(And hey, we might have to start talking about why gelatin salads were a thing, because they were a form of cold food safety. You blanched everything you wanted to go in the gelatin, so those all got clean, then the gelatin itself used boiled water. When the food’s inside the gelatin, it’s aseptic.)

Dragon Warrior III on NES for both questions. My younger brother got it because we were big into swords & sorcery stuff like The Hobbit and He-Man. Kept playing it despite barely ever getting anywhere because I was 11-12 and a little too impatient to wait for the levels in the included guidebook.

Welp.

Be warned, the record sheets in it have damage values for playing them against each other rather than against BattleTech-era equipment, and their weapon ranges reflect real life (like long range for a machine gun being somewhere in 36 - 44 hexes).

If I do check them I end up deciding I need them *for no good reason* because sometimes I also haven't actually looked at that tab since 2022.

I definitely thought his name was Zabi and it made me pay a lot more attention to him.

No, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinction Colossal Biosciences claims three pups born recently are dire wolves, but they are actually grey wolves with genetic edits intended to make them resemble the lost species

De-extinction company Colossal Biosciences claims to have brought back the dire wolf – it hasn’t.

Instead of believing the myth that three expensive, genetically modified wolves are “de-extinct” dire wolves, let’s look at animals humanity has actually brought back from the brink of extinction using proven science and dedicated hard work: 🧵/6

Where someone sits on a left-right political spectrum is even more difficult to agree upon. Is a pro-life communist more or less to the left than a pro-choice capitalist, and why? You can't rank them if you can't answer that, and you therefore can't have a median person.