Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)

Doing my patriotic duty

A Christmas card made to look like the character select screen from a fighting game with Santa on the left and Frosty on the right. The characters are Santa, Dr. Eidel, Ginga, Frosty, Slaybelle, and Nutcracker.

The final Season's Beatings card:

Dear MAGA:

You can goad Canadians with this “51st state” bullshit and get our goobers all frothy & aroused, and we’ll just roll our eyes.

But if you continue to fuck with Franklin, we *will* unleash the squadrons of cobra chickens.

Govern yourselves accordingly.

We’re not fucking around,

Canada

Photo of a magic 8 ball with a 'goatse' version of the OpenAI logo and the words ChatGPT on it, next to a white box that says "ChatGPT offline version". Inset are photos of the 8-ball responses such as "That's a great question", "You're 1000% right" and "Too many requests try again later" and then another photo from the back of the box of a holographic authenticity sticker that says FAKE.

After much research and development I have made an offline version of ChatGPT.

Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.

Sadly, this appears to be AI. There are some tells throughout (hands disappearing, the people in the background staring like collective zombies, some weird configurations on the walls) but overall, this looks pretty real -- it's getting harder to tell what's real and what's not. Which ain't great.

Trump just called Canada a vassal state and a national security risk to America. Its and lie and Trump and MAGA can F all the way off. More on the OShow youtu.be/9-S9OZ32hlo?...

It really is this simple, and these people really are that dumb and deluded.

I saw this play out in miniature on Twitter with Musk's Blue Check Debacle. These chuds thought the Blue Check -made- you respectable, and didn't understand it was the other way around.

What an interesting coincidence.

::raises an antifascist flag::
::Weird Al salutes?::
::Weird Al salutes🤘::

Dan Wineman (@dwineman@xoxo.zone) on Masto: "You're absolutely right — you are Pagliacci. It would certainly be difficult for you to attend your own performance! I should not have given such paradoxical advice, and I apologize deeply for the error. There is no excuse for my failure. Nevertheless, comedy is a powerful healing force. My recommendation is to seek out live entertainment. For example, great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up. Sponsored Reply (Great Clown Productions, Ltd.)"

1.) My 83 year old dad had his first brush with AI this week He's a lawyer -- longtime readers know he got laid off in his 50's and got his law degree at 58, which is relevant because of proud he always was for getting that degree.

Not the 51st state but a vassal state: What Donald Trump’s national security strategy envisions for Canada Released Thursday, the 2025 National Security Strategy is also a window into the dramatic shift in America’s official world view under Trump.

Trump has *always* intended to make Canada a vassal state. Trudeau warned as much when he said that the US wants our minerals into a hot mic.
But I don’t think it’s fully appreciated, not least by our PM, what exactly that implies: that US-Canada relations are now a zero-sum game.

OpenAI Sora has a lot of bullshit to answer for.

Mild thing
You make my heart sing
You make everything
Pleasant
Mild thing
I think I'm fond of you

"Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the Constitution"

What will the children think if Bugs Bunny no longer strictly conforms to heterosexual masculinity

Lol

This is all very complicated, but Jazz is the most American thing there ever was. A pure blend of influences from numerous parts of the world that occurred IN the US (which arose from oppression, disenfranchisement, poverty) over the course of decades. In a way, Jazz as an art form IS America.

Montreal to honour 14 victims of Polytechnique massacre at ceremony | CBC News A total of 14 women were murdered in the mass shooting on Dec. 6, 1989. Thirteen others were injured in the attack.

Lest we forget. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Norman Rockwell man standing at a meeting meme.

“If you really respected our warriors you wouldn’t order them to commit murder.”

There's an SF novel from the 60s called "The Cosmic Computer" about a small group exploiting belief that a sufficiently advanced computer will solve a planet's economic problems & put the money where it actually would help. Very dated in places but the investor gullibility is remarkably on point.

Heh. The forbidden advent calendar.

Not many people outside Canada know about the Ecole Polytechnique massacre on Dec 6, 1989, when a “lone male shooter” murdered 16 women - because feminism.

I attended a moving remembrance event in Wolfville yesterday evening during which we were also reminded of the ongoing violence against women

A list of the slain of the Montreal Massacre: Geneviève Bergeron (born 1968; aged 21), civil engineering student Hélène Colgan (born 1966; aged 23), mechanical engineering student Nathalie Croteau (born 1966; aged 23), mechanical engineering student Barbara Daigneault (born 1967; aged 22), mechanical engineering student Anne-Marie Edward (born 1968; aged 21), chemical engineering student Maud Haviernick (born 1960; aged 29), materials engineering student Maryse Laganière (born 1964; aged 25), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique's finance department Maryse Leclair (born 1966; aged 23), materials engineering student Anne-Marie Lemay (born 1967; aged 22), mechanical engineering student Sonia Pelletier (born 1961; aged 28), mechanical engineering student Michèle Richard (born 1968; aged 21), materials engineering student Annie St-Arneault (born 1966; aged 23), mechanical engineering student Annie Turcotte (born 1969; aged 20), materials engineering student Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (born 1958; aged 31), nursing student

i am levitating

… and he SERVED ✨

weirdo @JackPosobiec reacts to netflix possibly buying warner bros: “They're going to make Looney Tunes gay They're going to make everything gay”

bugs bunny was literally the first guy in drag i ever saw but ok

Put pretty things in your feed.

Something you like.

Cats, cars, naked people, food porn, landscapes, birds.

Find folks who don’t talk about the state of the world (or who mix it up with other stuff).

Remind yourself that fun exists, that Joy persists.

You can’t fix everything.

Some schmuck tried using these to film in our court.

So now I have to put my belt and watch and jacket thru the security scanner because Al Qaeda.

And my eye glasses because Zuckerberg. 🤬

There's a joke to be made there with the "end-to-end" line but I can't quite land it.