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I grew up liking some cop shows, but I also grew up in a time where The Starlight Tours were nightly national news here in Canada.

Nothing snaps you out of the copaganda quite like the callous brutality of real world police being reported on extensively by a healthy news media.

When I played chess seriously people (ie teachers) always said the reason I stunk is that I didn’t really get that my opponent had his own plans - they weren’t just a foil for my own plans.

Anyway, this observation seems somewhat relevant these days.

An opinionated Golden-browed Chlorophonia at Paraiso Quetzal Lodge #CostaRica

#birds #nature

Remember the Reason for the Season

Sad to see the Ides of March becoming commercialised like this. I really feel like we're losing track of the true spirit of the holiday. It's not about how many knives you can stick in a tyrant all at once, it's about the whole community coming together to stab the tyrant as many times as possible.

The Removed DOGE Deposition Videos Have Already Been Backed Up Across the Internet On Friday, a judge ordered those who uploaded the videos to YouTube to remove them. By Saturday, a backup of the videos was available online as a torrent and on the Internet Archive.

Videos included DOGE members unable or unwilling to define DEI; discussing how they used ChatGPT and terms such as “black” and “homosexual” to flag grants for termination but not “white” or “caucasian,” and acknowledgements they failed to achieve the stated goal of lowering the government deficit.

republicans are in charge of everything and they are getting everything theyve ever wanted and doing everything theyve ever wanted and the world is on fire and the global world order is collapsing. is there a correlation? who can say

"A Resume.org survey of 1,000 hiring managers found that 59% say they emphasize AI’s role in layoffs because it “is viewed more favorably by stakeholders than saying layoffs or hiring freezes are driven by financial constraints.” Only 9% said AI had fully replaced any roles."

/3

#IdesOfMarch

Annual classic from @josephscrimshaw.bsky.social

Reverse "evil advisors" TTRPG where everybody has the same objective, but nobody wants to be seen taking steps to achieve it; your win condition is to manipulate your rivals into being the ones holding the knife while you make pious noises about how you agree with their goals but not their methods.

Ah shit. An absolute titan. My favourite story about Hoare: he needed a sorting algorithm while working as a student in Russia the fifties, so he quickly wrote something that seemed to do the job. It’s now called Quicksort and it’s so elegant and powerful it’s still taught and used today.

I'm deadly serious with this. A huge reason we're in the mess we're in is because the media treats evidenced policy like housing the homeless and decriminalising drugs as absurd, outrageous nonsense, and "you can't even say blackboard any more because of woke" as serious and meaningful.

It's like a twisted version of the credit card ads:

'Cost of Cass Review: £3m
Cost of Pathways "trial": £10m
Cost of Levy Review: £undisclosed
Cost of Sullivan Review: £undisclosed
Cost of NHS England "Reviews" of hormones £undisclosed

Hurting the trans: Priceless'

folks if the LA times is acknowledging covid as an ongoing mass disabling event it is definitely an ongoing mass disabling event

Happy Ides of March.

Autistic woman receives Mother’s Day cards from everyone she has ever dated An autistic woman has received an influx of Mother’s Day cards from every ex who treated her like a surrogate mother, according to sources. Siobhan Moorton, 36, has never had a child of her own - yet…

An autistic woman has received an influx of Mother’s Day cards from every ex who treated her like a surrogate mother, according to sources.

Stress Break, perpetual murder kitten

“woke zamboni” is, objectively speaking, the coolest possible vehicle

trump saw how much you guys loved Big Boat Stuck and tried to join in by doing All Boats Stuck and now suddenly its not funny anymore? make up your minds

Less confident that I could evict a housecat from the premises than that I could evict a golden retriever, tbh. I can't assume a bookshop has any blankets to swaddle the cat, while a medium-large dog is still bred to be man's best friend.

Women always worked.

Hard labour, farm work, construction, manufacturing, hunting, whatever.

In medieval Europe, there were more jobs that men didn’t do than jobs women didn’t do.

Even progressives get this wrong.

Women always worked.

Waffle House level concern

what is the largest animal you are confident you could expel, singlehandedly, from a medium-size bookshop?

RULES:
- you have no resources beyond what is available in the shop
- you must remain more or less uninjured
- bookshop has 2 floors; animal is on ground floor, you can choose where you begin

Happy Mothering Sunday!

It's striking how much mental health advice directed at kids and teenagers boils down to saying "you have to be okay with people treating you like you're not fully human because they're right, but it's okay because one day you WILL be human", then being genuinely surprised when it doesn't help.

Re the Hormuz, not saying I'm an expert on the sitch, but are we really too proud to try historically vetted measures like sacrificing a high ranking member of the royal family to propitiate the sea god