whenever we ask the toddler where characters in books are going it's like a window into his mind: usually the answer is some variation of "looking for a digger", "looking for a garbage truck", "going gardening" ❤️

the CPC's whole political strategy is basically saying no to everything the Liberals do

saves them from having to come up with ideas I guess

out there raw-dogging real life like that...

*shudders*

This is one of those things where if you don’t know anything about Bob Dylan you go “yeah fine whatever”, and if you know a little about Bob Dylan you go “how could Bob Dylan do this?” and if you know a lot about Bob Dylan you go “yeah fine whatever”

gonna start using this when people ask what kind of music I like

isn't "weirdo" here just code for "just doing what they want"?

tea is the perfect drink for when you've run out of coffee

care to expand?

not sure you can argue that it was a safe play when he is a) much farther left than the general public b) comes with premade problems with the provincial wings of the party c) hasn't really proven he can win anything else

I think MacPherson would have been a much safer choice

interested! I was playing around with some ideas for this but definitely needs more brains involved

Hey quick question does anybody know what the fuck?

Khazad-dûm’s Wonders: How Did the Dwarves Span Those Massive Openings? Dwarven engineering unleashed: How Khazad-dûm’s colossal halls carried impossible loads, why the vaults still stand after 3000 years, and…

Can fantasy architecture actually survive real-world physics? 🏛️📐

As an architect, I’ve spent some time analyzing the structural integrity of Khazâd-dûm.

A thread on the engineering of Moria... 🧵

#DwarvenEngineering #Architecture #Tolkien #Moria #WorldBuilding
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right? there's "don't play to the audience" and then there's "let's spend our energy on things that our audience actively despises"

we all know the NDP isn't going to be forming the government anytime soon so we may as well stop pretending that conservatives are going to vote NDP and shoot for the things that would actually improve society

likewise 🤝

You can safely ignore all pundits and pollsters who are already saying that Avi Lewis needs to run to the centre and be pro-oil, anti-immigration, etc. -- basically, Liberal/Conservative Lite -- or else he can't win. No, he needs to live up to being a real progressive and you'll see what happens.

i find it slightly irritating how software folks have replaced "we're doing work in the background" with goofy nonsense like "shilly-shallying the dimmy-dams...". it was cute the first time someone did it, 15 years ago. if i want whimsy i'll go read a webcomic or something, thanks.

/grump mode

In a Lonely Place (novel) - Wikipedia

can't remember who recommended this but it was great, fantastic writing

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#booksky

everything.

It insists upon its own toughness but can barely make it uphill.

I know that every car attracts that car's "type", but I've never seen a car so expertly satirize its drivers.

The Cybertruck is a perfect work of art.

Has any vehicle ever so fully captured the failure of performative American masculinity? It takes up way too much space everywhere it goes, it's tauntingly ugly as if to say "yeah what bro?" to every set of eyes, and functionally it's kind of bad at ...

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nice and concise, gets the point across

a+

One thing these guys seem to share in common is that they all insist that they are totally Sigma Chad Males Who Obviously Don't Care What You Stupid And Worthless Peasants Have To Say About Them but then they spend all day scrolling the Peasant Opinion Machine and getting mad at it

yeah it was hilarious when Musk was talking about how much he doesn't care about other people's opinions

you mean you *wish* you didn't care

Still one of the greatest troll-jobs in history.

30% of GDP should be spent on defense? that sounds insane to me, where does that number come from?

I lol'ed

it's a different scale for sure

so quaint

corporatocracy/oligarchy or whether they elect a leader that drags them kicking and screaming into the future. Sadly, given the state of the leadership of the sack of wet mice they call an opposition party, I think the answer is fairly predictable.

IMO the Fascism USA project is going to fail, and will be at least in part because DJT is a) incompetent b) going to die and c) so transparently such a sad little loser of a man that anyone paying attention can see. The real question is whether the US reverts to the previous state as a

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