It's amazing fascists are such a dire threat to the world considering that they're so bad at everything.

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

Well now I wanna know what you're reading

My most inconsequential opinion is i hate how people use phones instead of lighters when they're in the crowd at concerts. They just don't have the same charm or light quality. It's just not the same.

I do like bluesky, but in the event that it shuts down I will not be seeking a replacement. I believe i will simply go outside.

I mean, to be fair, they do both have mouths. Coincidence?

And actually, if we feel like getting really spicy, can we maybe draw a line between Trump's belief that other countries are toys for him to use, and your belief that other countries are cute little mascots to comfort you? Benevolent ethnocentrism is still ethnocentrism.

If you want to know more about Canadian politics, by all means learn. But don't turn a real-life centre-right Canadian politician into your emotional support animal because he made a few politically expedient comments. That's what politicians do.

Gross. Weird. Insulting.

They did the same thing with Trudeau, the endless little, "look how CUTE he is!!" articles.

I think it's comforting to think of us as happy little hobbits keeping things positive up here in the Shire. But like. Do you get how infantilizing that is.

I do not like the way American liberals talk about Canadian politics.

You don't know our politics, you don't know our system, all you know is the guy you like said some mildly anti-trump things in a speech once and you turned him into your imaginary mascot.

Carney is conservative.

Can you imagine the dancing in the streets when it finally happens?

Ok, I'm not a lawyer but I don't think you can pardon people of crimes they haven't been charged with yet. And any charges for his lackeys would certainly be brought after he's out of office.

Am I missing something? Or is he telling them a dumb lie to convince them to keep doing crimes for him?

It's actually the responsibility of politicians to win votes.

Yeah, they got me this time. Way to go, grifters, I thought I could just enjoy the majesty of nature for one second of innocent whimsy, but fuck me I guess.

I'm so fucking mad I can't watch neat videos of birds anymore and just learn something cool about nature without being on guard of fraudsters lying to me for no fucking reason.

STOP MUDDYING THE WATERS. WITH FAKE BULLSHIT!

I've seen so much of this crap today it's looking like a deliberate Trump psyop at this point

Kapow! Your brain is working again! Time to take up 40 hobbies!!

I can always tell the ol' winter depression is letting up when I have a sudden urge to practice the piano and the violin and also learn watercolours and write a new story and knit a sweater and sew a new purse and....

Are the "tech sector" and "Startups" AI-based?

Because if so, we're gonna be seeing a reversal of fortune real soon.

When you flood media with AI you make the real story less credible. But at least you got your clicks 🙄

If you've never owned a bread maker, you gotta.

I don't care if you've never made bread before, it's so easy, it does everything. You can get them second hand for like $25. You can turn it on overnight and wake up to fresh, warm bread in the morning. It's so good.

When I hear people getting petty about audiobooks or genres or whatever, I remember a friend once said to me: "Liking books is not a personality."

You don't get an interesting person prize for reading only the right books the right way. The opposite, in fact!

I think it's both? Not sure. I don't want to discourage it in case it stops showing me cute animal pics, I just don't want to be reminded of pet death every single day!

I don't know why this is, but every time I log onto bluesky I see at least one memorial to a deceased pet, and while I sympathize I do NOT appreciate being reminded that my cat is not immortal.

A Futurama screencap. Fry is saying "What? Really?" and the robot responds, "No, I just thought you would enjoy that for a moment."

One time I went to meet a friend at the mall, but we accidentally went to opposite ends of the mall, so we wandered around trying unsuccessfully to find each other until finally we just... went home.

Ok, but are we *sure* he's alive and they're not just moving him around with a broom or something

That's how I got this gem. You can tell he's so clearly thinking, "wtf is wrong with you??"

If you make weird noises with your mouth, the cat will look at you like you've absolutely lost your mind and you can get great shots that way

I pen the following not because I was owned (for I wasnt) and not because I got mad (and let the perfidious newspapers say not that I was) but because the following tale may yet *save America*!