John Benson

Congrats to Florida!

#1 in book censorship

#47 in SAT scores.

Way to go!

#floriduh

My 120lb mastiff thinks he’s one of the cats.

I finally watched the Beckham, Shaq, and Jordan (Last Dance) documentaries. So good. What other great docs am I behind on?!

Ok. Need some input from the Bluesky community. I need a new hobby. Something that won’t take up a ton of space and that I can keep up in the Canadian winter. Go!

My cat loves his dog.

I jumped right into socks when I learned. If you’re handy and understand the flow of the yarn in crochet, give it a shot with a good pattern. But switching colors can be weird so you could always do a few practice squares to try out the steps for switching.

Totally support you, Scalzi! I do wonder what you think about authors with iconic characters creating personality training content and selling that to these companies to use? Train an AI to respond like your own real life Skippy?

I’m personally curious to see how this effect influences the current policy models of many countries who regularly cite the critical need for high immigration to drive economic growth, like Canada. Maybe not at all, but this does feel like the turning point in a major evolution of the labor market

Same. Same.

The Dubai chocolate bar craze may have jumped the shark here. Much closer to a candy bar than a pastry, I wasn’t able to finish the very stodgy filled croissant. #foodsky

Global deaths averted by selected vaccines, cumulative 1974-2024 in millions

Someone posted this amazing graph on LinkedIn that I just needed to share because...wow

This is the content i’m here for.

Reason 863 that I love living in Toronto: Even the police were able to get into the Eras Tour spirit.

Woman told House Ethics Committee she saw Gaetz have sex with a minor, lawyer says | CNN Politics The attorney who represents two of the women who were witnesses in the House Ethics Committee probe into former Rep. Matt Gaetz confirmed on Friday that one of his clients saw the congressman having s...

The attorney who represents two women who were witnesses in the House Ethics Committee probe into former congressman Matt Gaetz said Friday that one of his clients told the panel she saw the congressman having sex with a minor.

This is the upside to my job at Amazon, too. My quality of work has only gone up since I stopped wearing a tie. 🙂

Three beverages is the normal baseline for takeoff during most people’s plane rides, right?