Aidan

Surprising in the broader context of Anglo-American business attitudes towards their customers, but perhaps less surprising from the firm whose founder threatened to murder his successor if he ever raised the price of the $1.50 hot dog.

[Considers own TV viewing habits in 2025]

Not thrilled by how accurate this is.

Fat and studded tire, balls (be they literal or metaphorical) the size of a fully inflated balloon

And store-bought jars of sauce that, if served in Italy, would result in the restaurant's patrons burning it to the ground.

A compelling entry in the "war is about being better at math than your opponent" theory of strategy.

Endlessly screenshot-dunking on Twitter idiots is annoying your followers and keeping the idiots famous. Whenever you feel like doing it, you should take a minute, breathe, and then approvingly share something I've written instead

And many of the means of decarbonization (esp. rooftop solar) reduce their control over the underlying drivers of the economy (which is the argument Andreas Malm makes in Fossil Capital)

"I can't spare this man; he fights."

Between this and the largest market for bourbon getting nuked from orbit (Canadian liquor boards' boycotts of American booze), I'm not sure anyone has been as committed to shooting themselves in the dick as Kentucky voters.

Hey @mayormarksutcliffe.bsky.social Scott Street's cycle tracks are a) in the winter cycling network, and b) in the "ploughed within four hours of accumulation stopping" bracket of your organization's snow clearing timelines. Get on it, pal.

National democratic leadership is getting so bad that it is becoming a self censoring fact in the same way that Trump’s evil and incompetency becomes self censoring

Yet another edition of "Ottawa has twelve people"!

Not my political circus, not my political monkeys, but lord alive what a fucking quisling.

tbh I have such low standards for the City's early-winter snow clearance that I was amazed the sidewalk had been cleared at all.

I note that this winterized unicycle was forced to illegally ride on the sidewalk because @en.ottawa.ca cleared the road and sidewalk but not the bike lane on Scott Street

I bet if you told Angus King "gullible" wasn't in the dictionary that he'd check.

Good morning to the person who passed me on a winterized unicycle (?!) as I was walking to the LRT this morning.

Can't say I'm surprised by the result of today's Lansdowne 2.0 vote, but that doesn't stop me from being disappointed and frustrated by it.

My sympathies to everyone who was champing at the bit to yell at Democrats, better luck next time

The Fraser Institute putting out shoddy research? Well now I've seen everything!

#FreeTheGee

It has been extremely satisfying to watch Sylvan Adams' vanity project collapse under the weight of his own ego and terrible political views.

Sperm whales make repeated hour-long forays into the abyss to fight Lovecraftian horrors and then eat them. 0/10 would mess with one.

Them and octopuses, which are the closest we're likely to come as a species to encountering alien intelligence.

Every time I see a story premised on the presumably surprising idea of rotund, happy-looking whales holding their own against mean, scary-looking sharks, I feel compelled to remind people that orcas WEAR A DISGUISE. The orca is the ONE WHO KNOCKS.

It's quite an active debate in German History circles as to whether (and where) authoritarian or totalitarian is a better descriptor for the Nazi period.

I have attempted to play RDR and RDR2 multiple times and given up after two hours because the control scheme is the fucking clunkiest thing I've ever encountered in gaming. The Darksouls games are more new player-friendly.

And completely ignoring that the filibuster's current structure was largely an accident during the post-Watergate reforms of the Carter era! The Senate stumbled backwards into the filibuster being the thing it currently is!

If the sub don't hit, you must acquit!