Jacob White

corporate mandated dissapointment engine

ummm thanks?

Some judge in Portland

i guess "everything" bagel is a lot more catchy than "4 random things" bagel

lol nevermind it started sleeting while in the water

last weekend of the summer, great time for a surf trip 🏄

all the crackpots that now have access to an llm that tells them how amazing all their ideas are will only make all this stuff more prevalent

in other news #gbbo is heating up in episode 2

"developer" sure is a weird way to spell grifter

from the secretary of shitty slam poetry

i didn't realize the plot to the movie idiocracy was actually a how to guide

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It's true, bigger numbers are indeed bigger than smaller numbers

As someone who grew up in Texas (was vegetarian then, am vegan now) I found the "vegan haters" to be the loudest and most annoying

"Oh you don't eat meat? iM gOnNa eAt 4 bUrGeRs tO oFfSeT yOuRs"

Also not citing anything for where they get their stats from. They could all be legit but hard to tell

he's right - penicillin, vaccines, GPS, and microchips have no benefit to the general public

NASA TECHNICIAN: *reading incoming transmission* This can't be right
NASA COMMANDER: What is it?
TECH: It's the Jupiter mission, sir. The female members of the crew are fine, but...
COMMANDER: What?
TECH: It's our boys, sir. If these numbers are correct... sir, they've gotten more stupider

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ok so marketing friend wants me to come up with a list of climate pods so he can pitch me to talk about our climate class

Anyone have ideas for me? I have been super into fiction podcasts lately . . . Welcome to Nightvale probs isn't what he wants.

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oooh we're up to 10 now

looking forward to hitting that sweet 16 come next tuesday

but like a real onion, they both make me cry

i was convinced there was no way he actually said this

he did, of course, so i guess my bar for him was somehow too high???

‘Fear and anxiety’: What our police FOI requests uncovered about Vancouver’s stranger assaults scare Internal emails obtained through Freedom of Information requests shed light on the Vancouver Police Department's media strategy related to stranger assaults ahead of the city's 2022 election.

Bombshell reporting by my @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social colleagues here

This reflects very poorly on the Vancouver Police Department, which isn't being forthcoming about questionable assault numbers continually promoted ahead of the last municipal election
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

sea lion I’m getting better at surfing. I've been doing it for a few years now. Every month or so, my partner and I drive and then ferry and then drive again out to Tofino for a quick surf trip. It's been long...

I got bullied by a sea lion a few weeks ago and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it, so I wrote about it.

i mean, he is authentically stupid

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New maps help decision-makers factor albedo into tree-planting plans Albedo can cause large reductions to the climate benefit of tree planting – but new science helps identify locations with greatest climate-cooling potential

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for some reason "you're being a real horses croup" just doesn't have the same ring to it

lol must have been a lot of demand for Port Alberni

actually, we do not #elbowsup

election can't come soon enough 😞