Michael Druker 🇨🇦

Smithers lies to Monty Burns that his boos are people chanting “Boo-urns.”

“Uh, no, when you were on the roof they were shouting ‘Trump! Trump!”

We also lost a huge international student population even more suddenly than we gained it

Satellite view of Hanover Street in Kitchener, a little stub off a roundabout that goes past a strip mall entrance, then has a turnaround, and a school driveway off the turnaround. There's a sidewalk going along the turnaround and also over it. It just looks weird

I don't really understand this mixed-media art installation but I think that's OK

I guess it's useful to have home staging, but where is the home production

To be clear I do want a regime of automated speed enforcement and to change the driving culture so it is attuned to the rules and not just the vibes.

But you gotta recognize that drivers _have been conditioned_ to drive according to the road design

I feel like you could predict 80% of speed limit enforcement backlash by mapping the discrepancy between road design speed and the speed limit

smart fridge: Open the Smart Fridge App to look inside!

smart alec fridge: So… that broccoli has been in here for a while. Are you waiting for _me_ to cook it or what?

MIT tool visualizes and edits “physically impossible” objects The “Meschers” tool from MIT CSAIL represents “physically impossible” objects commonly found in M.C. Escher’s illustrations by converting both images and 3D models in 2.5-dimensional objects. The tool...

MIT News today features a fun SIGGRAPH paper by GDP student Ana (@geometry.gay) collaboarting w/ students @yukaryote.bsky.social @kartikchandra.bsky.social plus us old folks. This work explores what it means to do geometry processing on Escher-like "impossible" shapes! news.mit.edu/2025/mit-mes...

Honestly TIL about preparing it in the husk. But I usually make sweet corn in an instant pot which is a lot less prep work

I don’t think I am. Here’s a thread that I think confirms that the norms for libraries have shifted quite a bit:

Madame Slush — selling slushies by cargo bike!

Dismissing your favourite dumpling’s contents as filler

I think it’s worth it if
1) you actually care about them and have had some prior positive engagement
2) they demonstrate some measure of humility and curiosity rather than certainty

I think the more followers the less likely those things are, but not impossible

The Biden administration had wire and securities fraud charges in motion against Musk for doing this.

Elon Musk bought the election for Donald Trump because doing this, lying about the current and future capabilities of the vehicles he sells, is the foundation of his entire fortune.

6 parking and stopping signs all on one pole with overlapping times and dates

Parking sign final boss (Vancouver West End)

Apparently there's a number of DM scams going around here lately, trying to phish you out of your account - some bots messaging you about impersonation or about your account being reported/suspended or stuff like that… be careful, folks 😒

I’m serious though, I know the norm you’re assuming here, and I just don’t think it applies to the modern library anymore? The library isn’t a rowdy place but neither is it a silent one I think

Though the farm stand corn (also cheap) is probably better than the chain grocery store corn

The best time to make silly posts referencing Europe is when they’re asleep of course

Big grocery store with bins of sweet corn on pallets. $0.20 each if 5+, big signs say it’s grown in Canada. People are gathered around it at multiple shucking stations.

[obvious bait]

The European mind can’t comprehend sweet corn being sold at 5 for $1 with people shucking it right in the store

Food Deserts - 99% Invisible Woonsocket, Rhode Island was once home to many locally owned and regional grocers. There were small stores such as Fernandes Produce and Big D’s. The city also had supermarkets from classic New Englan...

New episode! Reporter @jaysondeleon.bsky.social on the wonky, decades-long policy debate that helped create food deserts in America.
99percentinvisible.org/episode/634-...

Pizza saucing robot perfection at the Costco food court

I asked ChatGPT and it said not to trust what Claude or Gemini say

Anikin/Padme 4-panel meme: "I'm going to override municipalities" "to permit housing, right?" ... "To permit housing, right?"

Add some angry cats to a place with coin games, call that a claw machine arcade

Since people are talking about the razor thin margins in the restaurant industry, I would like to remind everyone of my bête noir, which is parking minimums for bars and restaurants. Off street parking mandates for places that serve alcohol are basically a subsidy to drunk driving.

Or even a left turn

Clear.

Is there a German word for the feeling of uneasiness from existing in a precarious layer between the cold vastness of space and the hot interior of our planet

1) Yes
2) If you get the WeatherCAN app, you’ll get handy notifications about it