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The one upside of having the tallest snowbanks on my block is a nice pedestal for my Ontario @ndp.ca sign for Sandy Shaw.

Snowbank next to sidewalk in residential neighborhood at night with an orange Ontario NDP election sign on top

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@morgthorak I think you might want to make sure you don’t follow me.

Because your “woke communist propaganda” comment makes me think you’re a moron of the first order.

I strongly suspect I am one of those “woke communists” you worry about. But you probably couldn’t actually explain what either of those words actually mean, could you?

I’m a card-carrying atheist, I think a woman’s right to choose is very important, I think that “well regulated militia” means that guns should be carefully licensed and not just randomly given to any moron with a pulse, and I couldn’t care less if you decided to dress up in the “wrong” clothes or decided you’d rather live your life without feeling tied to whatever plumbing you were born with.

And dammit, if that all makes me “woke”, then I think anybody who uses that word as a pejorative is a f*cking disgrace to the human race. So please just unfollow me right now.

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Apparently some tech bros are having to learn the hard way that the creator of #Linux is a leftist

Screenshot Reply from Linus Torvalds:

I think you might want to make sure you don't follow me.

Because your “woke communist propaganda” comment makes me think you're a moron of the first order.

I strongly suspect I am one of those “woke communists” you worry about. But you probably couldn't actually explain what either of those words actually mean, could you?

I'm a card-carrying atheist, I think a woman's right to choose is very important, think that “well regulated militia” means that guns should be carefully licensed and not just randomly given to any moron with a pulse, and I couldn't care less if you decided to dress up in the “wrong” clothes or decided you'd rather live your
life without feeling tied to whatever plumbing you were born with.

And dammit, if that all makes me “woke”, then I think anybody who uses that word as a pejorative is a f*cking disgrace to the human race. So please just unfollow me right now.

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#3037 - Radon

Comic with four panels:

Panel 1: Two figures. One figure, holding some handheld device in one hand and some kind of box in the other, says: "Radon levels in your basement are pretty high. When was the planet under this house built?"

Panel 2: The other figure replies: "Uh, about 4½ billion years ago, I think?" The first figure responds: "Oof. I was afraid of that."

Panel 3: The first figure continues: "This planet was contaminated with uranium when it formed. You really should have let it fully decay before building." They add: "Wait another 100 billion years and these rocks will be fine."

Panel 4: The second figure says: "But the Sun will burn out in 5 billion years." The first figure responds: "Yikes, you built around a short-lived yellow star? What a mess. Hope you have good insurance."

Hidden text: "A good ²³⁸Umbrella policy should cover it."

@adr I mean I did a lot of stupid things as an undergrad... Maybe nothing as overtly sexist and public, but lots of bad ideas.

Fortunately David Fincher has never made a movie including scenes about my bad ideas.

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So if I make a Tom Collins but with Ikea lingonberry soda and serve it in a champagne flute, does that make it a Swedish 75?

Picture of two champagne flutes with orange-red beverage in them, next to Ikea lingonberry soda bottle on a black table.

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A 57,000 square foot Temu warehouse in China went up in flames today. The total loss of inventory has been estimated to be as high as $56.19 USD. FOR UNITE CAREF TEHU TEMU

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AAAAAAAHHHH

@mrloislane erskine-smith's rising star is the only good news in here. But in a better world he'd be running the LPO right now.

@AlisonCreekside that gives the liberals 1 month to rush a leadership race. Hop to it.

@rzaichkowski.bsky.social honestly Trudeau should've stepped down when Freeland left. It's over.

@deborahh he thinks he can make gains against the unpopular liberals... and maybe another NDP leader could, but not an empty suit like Singh.

@winnipegguy

If the NDP had a better leader they'd be poised to make real gains now, but Singh manages to have even less substance than Justin Trudeau. And at least back in 2015 Trudeau had a team of smart people around him like Butts, Morneau, and Freeland to make up for his personal weaknesses. Singh doesn't even have that. There's just nothing there to vote for.

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What we’re discussing: is it okay to murder a CEO for causing mass suffering and death?

What we should be discussing: why does Brian Thompson get a manhunt while Jordan Neely is denied even the most basic justice?

The protection of wealthy whiteness is what should be on trial. Brian’s life was no more important than Joran’s. This is important.

#JordanNeely #DanielPenny #BrianThompson #LuigiMangione #ClassWar #EatTheRich #America #SystemicRacism

Bust shot of Jordan Neely dressed as Michael Jackson, with dapper curls and a white t-shirt, standing in front of a theater marquee on a busy downtown street at night. He’s a thin black man and his face looks of contentedness and comfort.

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At least a hundred people have told me to make a video about the bike lane law that was recently passed in Ontario, Canada.

But there's so much more behind this decision, than just bike lanes.

I hated making this video. Watching old PWIC meetings to dig up old info brought back SO many bad memories of being a safe-streets advocate in Toronto. I'm so glad I left.

https://youtu.be/KgFCQ7jEZxI

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New #NotJustBikes video about #onpoli bill 212 is excellent. m.youtube.com/watch?v=KgFC...

The World's Dumbest Bike Lane ...

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If you listened to the 1994 audiobook of #Neuromancer, the soundtrack might have made an impression with its "brooding and post-industrial electronic grind"

Today, for the first time, that soundtrack is available as a standalone album, re-worked from the original master tapes by Black Rain:

"Pieces emerge, like strange architecture, from one another forming a sonic environment that feels almost tangible."
https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/neuromancer

cc @pluralistic

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I can't believe a bunch of Ontario cities are asking to use the "notwithstanding clause" to address a homelessness crisis that *they* directly contributed to.

What did they think was going to happen when they jacked up taxes on small housing construction?