J. Mackenzie Graham

Actually combine these two things into one. Uber/UberEats/Amazon/Etsy. One thing. Call it Canada Send.

“What are you silly? I’m still gonna send it!”

Hell, do it to Uber too! Hire all the remaining taxi drivers into a nationalized, pay-per-ride “same hour” transit system. Profits make subways free.

@madeinca.bsky.social could be brought in to help!

What do we think? Why am I a naive idiot?

We should be demanding things like this from our government.

This is how we compete.

We beat them at their own game.

There’s no billionaire at the top of this network. All revenue goes to the delivery workers. Any remaining profit goes into our taxes, funding public good — trains, healthcare, infrastructure, social services.

They’d have to be Canadian verified, and their pages would be strictly moderated for fraud.

Anything you can buy from a Canadian company or individual, all searchable in one space.

When it’s time to buy, Canada post delivers it to your door for free. Subscription model available for same-day.

Create a website portal out of Canadapost.ca.

Just like Amazon or Etsy, vendors have their own pages directly on a marketplace-style website where all products are cross-referenceable and searchable.

Home Hardware, Canadian Tire, Well, Simon’s, Indigo, etc.

But also small businesses, artisans.

Canadians! Imagine with me.

A Canada Post completely transformed into an Amazon/Etsy clone.

Make billionaires mad, earn more money for public goods. Win-win!

steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back

"one day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this"

not found, account has been suspended

patton oswalt has been suspended from bluesky for saying that megyn kelly should be fed to a woodchipper for justifying the sexual abuse of minors

What if the Super Mario Galaxy Movie trailer had a joke or a moment of cleverness instead of just… gameplay footage?

Get to know your mutuals. List 10 random things that you like!

1. Calvin & Hobbes
2. Zombie movies
3. JRPGs
4. My Corgi
5. Skateboarding
6. Street Art
7. Vinyl Records
8. Ramen Noodles
9. A well-knit sweater
10. That electric feeling in the air every autumn.

HEADLINE: CREATIVE WORKS CAN NO LONGER BE MINED BY AI WITHOUT CONSENT IN AUSTRALIA NEW REGULATIONS PROTECT ARTISTS' RIGHTS IN THE AGE OF AI

See, look, U.S.A., it's this easy

(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)

Maxwell wanted a pardon.

Trump declined.

Maxwell released the birthday card to the WSJ as a shot across the bow.

Trump sent his lawyer to negotiate. She told the lawyer about the dirt she had.

She was moved to Club Fed, given a puppy and told to stand by for the pardon.

This day — shortly after the various world festivals of churning seasons and death — is an opportunity to remember that we too will die.

And to ask ourselves:

What are we fighting for?

The poppy poem’s less rehearsed verse goes:

“Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw the torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die, we shall not sleep…”

This doesn’t mean ‘Join the navy!’ it means ‘don’t let our deaths be in vain.’

The allies were right to step in during during the world wars. They were fighting nationalism, expansionism, manifest destiny, and ethnic cleansing.

But there is no “just war”, and now militaries and governments have invented all kinds of justifications for the military industrial complex.

The holiday was created after WWI, which at the time was called “The Great War” because no one thought there would ever be another war so devastating.

They were wrong.

And they’ve been wrong ever since.

Just a picture of a skull piggy bank in my hand with pink lighting.

Don’t forget!

Remembrance Day is for honouring fallen soldiers and the sacrifices made in order to fight facism.

It’s not a blanket “support our troops” day.

It is a day — no matter what conservatives or military tell you — to reflect on war as a part of global politics.

6 panel comic P1: An impossibly buff Garfield knockoff (with distressingly visible nipples) towers over Jon, who is cat-sized, and lying on all fours on a table surface. P2: Same, only now Buffield points at Jon with their right hand, and reaches for him with their left. They boom: "HUMAN" P3: Brofield lays their left hand on Jon's back with such force, the latter begins to deform. Masculinifield demands: "I PET YOU. INITIATE THAT SOUND WHICH PLEASES ME SO" P4: Crushing Jon even further, The Garf lowers their head menacingly to stare at their quarry. P5: Closeup on a panicked looking and sweating Jon, as he starts shakily singing the chorus from "Hero" by Chad Kroeger. P6: As Jon continues belting out that absolute tune from off-panel, we go to a closeup of Garry Field, their face dramatically underlit. They let out a satisfied "bueno"

Tweet by Joyce Carol Oates: "wherever he goes, he wants to leave"--that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation. QT of @avidreader1000 Wherever he goes, he wants to leave: SA, Canada, ultimately the U.S. in the long run, based on his behavior. This also includes Earth. A continuous disavowal of your home is odd, to say the least. He seems to have no c...

“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”

Really not into this new trend of using super wide lenses in film. Superman and Frankenstein are great, but they look fish-eyed.

Try our AI assistant to help with this workflow! It’s like magic!

(But also, about a tenth of its output is what we’re calling ‘oopsie doodles’ so instead of writing something you know is true, you’ll have to comb back through pages of bespoke lorem ipsum to double check every detail.)

It makes me really angry how Remembrance Day has been turned into a Support Troops Day.

It’s supposed to be a Never Again Day.

photo of vince gilligan with a quote from variety: "AI is the world's most expensive and energy-intensive plagiarism machine. I think there's a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit." - Vince Gilligan on why he hates AI

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I get that it’s convenient to not leave your house, and I get that COVID only worsened that…

…but it is actually wild that Amazon has succeeded off the idea of “buy today, get it tomorrow”, when I can just go down the street and have it in fifteen minutes.

Back in ‘03 I was moots with an artist who was doing an entire long-form story webcomic in the style of Egyptian hieroglyphics. Accurate poses and everything.

The creativity you could find in the pre-algorithm internet was truly amazing.

Losing that culture is a modern library of Alexandria.

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If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

Loved it. Had a great spooky time and the film was just gorgeous.

I loved the heros makeup and all the costuming, and that super16 was 👌

More movie monsters should be puppets. The Vourdalak was more unsettling than Nosferatu. Gave big téléfrancais Anana vibes.