It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly

Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

ME: i’m so sick and tired of being set upon by the baron’s hounds
HER: Maybe stop hopping the fence into his estate?
ME: sympathy not solutions plz
HER: I’m so sorry, that sounds very painful. I know you’re trying really hard to get The Baron’s priceless egg.
ME: it should be *my* egg :(

A flatscreen display on a "smart" water fountain, demanding to be reconnected to the internet.

In 1999, I was playing a decker in Shadowrun, and tried to distract a guard by hacking a water fountain to overflow, and my GM said "why would a water fountain be on the network? That's fucking stupid. No you can't try."

Well it's 2026 and I just want you to know, Phil, that I FUCKING CALLED IT!

More than 38,000 women and girls were killed in Gaza between October 2023 and December 2025 – UN Women | UN Women – Headquarters Six months after the ceasefire, and as regional developments shift global attention, UN Women warns that women and girls in Gaza remain at critical risk.

Israel killed an average of at least 47 girls and women per day in Gaza.

A new analysis published by the United Nations shows that more than 38,000 girls and women were killed in between October 2023 and December 2025.

Shot from ground level, a round ceiling mural that echoed Metis embroidery. On a black background, we see a wild rose in tjr centre, surrounded by flowers, berries, birds and butterflies.

The mural in context - on the ceiling, surrounded by lights and blond wood ceiling tiles. It hangs above the soaring atrium of the University Commons

I was on the @ualberta.bsky.social campus today for the unveiling of this remarkable art installation by Metis painter Christi Belcourt. It’s called In My Grandmother’s Time, and it blends traditional motifs from Metis beading and embroidery with digital technology. And it’s gorgeous. #ualberta #yeg

Alberta Prosperity Project Faces Court Date over Separation Referendum Role | The Tyee Election commissioner alleges the organization has stonewalled investigations into potential referendum petition spending.

SCOOP - Elections Alberta has been investigating the Alberta Prosperity Project since Jan. for failing to register as a third-party advertiser.

Alberta Prosperity Project Faces Court Date over Separation Referendum Role via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

equivalent to half a million spotify streams for those keeping track

They’re calling him the wealthiest independent musician of all time

Me: [idly looking up info on popes]

Wikipedia: This list is incomplete; you can help expand it.

Me: wut?

Wikipedia: [lifts eyebrows suggestively]

You can snag a cassette version of “Born & Buried” from the band directly or visit slouchpotato.ca if you’re interested in supporting my little record label / music shop (you can also pick up some other CDs, cassettes, and merch there).

Support local bands!

xoxo Jon

Hello! Today you can find On My Side’s “Born & Buried” out wherever you get your music! Here’s a cool little thing I made using live footage of D & Bert playing at their release show at The Aviary.

the nonbinary rapper who frequently gets misgendered as a man: Mx. Sir-a-Lot

Call or write the Premier and Minister of Justice and tell them to stop cheating and accept the majority map from the independent commission.

Premier Smith:
780-427-2251
premier@gov.ab.ca

Minister of Justice:
780-427-2711
ministryofjustice@gov.ab.ca 2/2 #abpoli

If the hardcore band’s guitarist looks like this you’re about to die in that pit

Alberta funds private school students at 70% the public rate 🙃

Alberta is pressuring provinces on involuntary treatment – but some are pushing back A conservative provincial government is writing off Alberta's Compassion Intervention Act as a violation of disability rights, favouring community-based treatment over residential rehab. However, a tr...

SCOOP
Alberta's UCP government appears to be a laughing stock inside of other conservative governments discussing the unconstitutionality of its involuntary treatment legislation.

Find out who's trash-talking tough love:
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UCP GOVERNMENT REVEALS PLAN TO CHEAT, RIG ELECTION MAPS Engaging Albertans to build an economy for the future.

Today, Danielle Smith and the UCP caucus unveiled plans to rig the next election:

A new motion indicates the UCP's plans to manipulate the election maps for the next election in their favour, and without any requirement to consult the public.

This has never been done in Canadian history. /1

heated chivalry

the best dinosaur is clearly Iguanodon, because of all the dinosaurs it most resembled a middle-aged Sicilian-American dock-worker with a switchblade

trudeau was willing to smile with fingers crossed behind his back, carney is just bulldozing over all of it

The oil industry is making billions from the Iran war—it should be taxed - CCPA The current windfall could be Canadian oil's final boom—so the proceeds must be reinvested into economic diversification and industrial planning

Last week, @policyalternatives.ca put together an urgent call for Canada to tax the profits that the oil and gas industry is making off the war in Iran. Yesterday, the best Carney could do was removing tax on average people, further defunding the state.

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Editors and newsrooms, be on notice: if this Alberta government demands a correction from you, they may very well be lying. They were lying here. Do not grant them a correction on the weight of their words alone.

Stats cited by Danielle Smith’s office to kill story on EMS overtime contradicted by government’s own data Government attempts to influence story raise concerns about transparency and accountability

What McKay and the IJF detail here is very concerning. There is a certain professional courtesy between government communications staff and journalists—abusing it to demand a false correction is a serious ethical breach.

Alberta’s government asked media to edit or delete our story on Edmonton EMS overtime. We filed access to information requests and fact-checked them instead.

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Study measures housing insecurity among Black youth in Edmonton A study of the housing experiences of Black youth in Edmonton has found some alarming vulnerabilities and a need for further research.

Study measures housing insecurity among Black youth in Edmonton edmonton.taproot.news/news/2026/04... #yeg

Alberta health system leaders disciplining doctors caught in dispute over hospitalist contracts | CBC News Doctors and hospital leaders are at loggerheads in Edmonton, with disciplinary action, legal threats and staffing confusion in the wake of expired contracts that changed how hundreds of doctors across...

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Edmonton hospital admins are filing disciplinary actions against some doctors, revoking their hospital privileges and filing complaints to the regulatory college in the fallout over a contract dispute. Lawyers and the AMA say it needs to stop. #AbLeg

Littke something to pin on Insta after the wave of A/I slop from this weekend

Striking that the Liberals and Conservatives offer the same response to pain at the pump: siphon money out of the public purse instead of Big Oil’s profits.

U of A taken to court for breaching Palestine encampment protestors' Charter rights The university is accused of violating the freedoms of expression, association and assembly of its faculty and students by ordering police to tear down the People's University for Palestine in 2024.

NEW: Two Palestinian-Canadian students and a Jewish faculty member are taking U of A to court for ordering police to disperse a pro-Palestine encampment in its Main Quad in 2024.

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