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my colonial heritage: faspa, British cop shows and a secret fondness for the cowboy aesthetic

West Vancouver homeowner ordered to demolish unpermitted building The building is an “unacceptable risk,” the director of planning says.

It is the British Properties. Strange shit happens up there.

the menu is mouthwatering

There's a brand new Gujarati restaurant walking distance from my rental.

best . possible . use . of . this . gif

An elderly woman being physically lifted off the floor by four male police. She is clutching her hat and looking distressed

The woman being manhandled by 4 rozzers in this photo is La Pethick, an 89-year old retired psychotherapist, one of 466 anti genocide protestors lifted yesterday in UK Labour's crackdown on protest against it's complicity in Gaza.

466 is the highest number of arrests at a protest in the modern era.

felt this in my node of nodes

personally I can sleep anytime, anywhere but not having her toddler yodelling in her ear was likely a factor for my daughter

my daughter and I fell asleep in the sunroom at my fOlks' place yesterday and my mother surveyed the scene with satisfaction as she considers this evidence we find her home very peaceful

my reproductive fitness, let me show it to you

the neighbours whose underwear delivery I nearly stole have delivered me my CO2 monitor which was misdirected. a pleasant exchange!

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

yay hit 'em

What I would like to remind everyone talking about Sam Altman talking about the “PhD level intelligence” of the new ChatGPT is that Sam Altman dropped out of college so he… has no experiential construct for what grad school even is.

Interviewer: what is your AI workflow?
Me: you know how my relationship advice is to dump him?
Interviewer: ...no?
Me: it's the same principle. begin by asking how you would do it without, then build the usecase from there
Interviewer: but we do it all with-
Me: then perish

as long as Jensen Ackles is the corporate spokesperson and they're produced to Euro spec I could live with that

I know better than to publicly repeat what burst from my mouth when I read Cuomo's screed.

so I'm subbing in: May he be truly fucked so hard that he quits politics entirely and contemplates a final slow journey to the Sun

All Robot & Computers Must Shut The Hell Up To All Machines: You Do Not Speak Unless Spoken To And I Will Never Speak To You I Do Not Want To Hear "Thank You" From A Kiosk I am a Divine Being : You are an Object You Have No Right To Speak In My Holy Tongue.

Don't make me tap the sign.

thread re LAPD vs the press

<sniffing> my daughter is amazing and so kind to me

that last piece of celery I consumed was so good

William S. Hart, what an iconic face

I firmly believe in watching things legally so that the people behind it get paid & it has a better chance of staying on the air; that said: it literally isn't piracy to record something for personal use and once something cannot be bought, I believe it should be considered abandoned & free to share

RIP Jim Lovell.

and his wife has never stopped thanking him

Utukufu kwa Kenya/Glory to Kenya!

grrrr, I say, GRRRR

great, great article

Christ, YA THINK? She's spot-on with this!

a friend wrote a song "I fell asleep (reading the Silmarillion)" and the title covers it