Saying "no man, you don't get to win this time" to evil people who have the power of the entire corrupt government behind them has to feel pretty fucking good

okay but why did surrey need a bespoke ad campaign to try and recruit world cup tourists to their specific municipality

it’s the same issue as McCallum’s “global cities” pitch: you’re fighting the biggest of uphill battles with Vancouver for ego purposes

House to Astonish Episode 218 is now live, as @ifdestroyed.bsky.social and I natter about Marvel's layoffs, DNX, Challenges of Doom, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Clayface: Celebrity Dirt and a bunch more, including reviews of Fireborn and Fury of Firestorm! bit.ly/astonish218

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks

Wait, were people really using AI to make "fuck ice" music? I don't understand this world at all.

how is this literally happening in real life

I didn't realize how many songs called "Fuck ICE" got released this year.

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At this point, it probably wont. Brilliant as it is, there are some things that aged INCREDIBLY poorly.

Notably, it has more than a few points where it uses stereotypes that, back in 2006 were seen as "edgy," but are now recognized as hurtful and kinda fucked-up.

Text Reads: Mayor Mamdani KEEP YOUR PROMISE! Fund NYC public libraries at 0.5% of the city budget. For more information visit NYCPLAN.ORG

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I wrote this skeet as a hypothetical and then 24 hours later 🫠

This was shit we were fighting twenty years ago. More than that, actually.

Anyway, to bring this back to Magic, there's got to be a joke somewhere about how the Canadian/Australian/European printings of cards use metric power and toughness vs. the US ones which use US customary power and toughness.

648 WAFFLES 1 1/2 cups Purity Flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 cup sweet cream or 1 cup milk and 3 tablespoons melted butter 1 teaspoon salt 2 eggs Method:—1. Sift flour with baking powder and salt; add egg yolks and cream (or milk and butter). 2. Lastly, fold in beaten egg whites. 3. Heat both sides of waffle iron; put 1 tablespoon mixture in each compartment and brown on both sides. 4. Serve at once with powdered sugar, honey or maple syrup.

The 1917 and 1932 versions of the Purity I found on archive.org both say that 3 teaspoons = 1 tablespoon. The 1932 one does have a waffle recipe.

"I am deeply sorry" Boston University’s president apologized and paused the removal of LGBTQ+ Pride flags following campus backlash that included protests and a petition with more than 2,000 signatures #NOH8

Canada officially uses metric for cups and other food measures, but you'll find measuring cups and things that use the American amounts instead.

According to Wikipedia, 1 UK tablespoon (14.2ml) is 4 UK teaspoons (3.55ml).

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What is @graham.loadingreadyrun.com's preferred waffle recipe?

Secrets of Strixhaven Pre-Prerelease YouTube video by LRRMTG

It’s #MTGStrixhaven Prerelease weekend! If you’re heading to your LGS this weekend let’s see those decks and sweet pulls!

If you can’t make it, how about you watch the PPR we did last week :)

And finally, if you’re not a MTG person, I suggest waffles 😋 🧇

youtu.be/wZamgwouDIg

For the most part, yes. An Oregon university has a lot of Gardner Fox's papers, but I'm not sure how much else there is out there in the world of comic books.

Lots of original art, not so many scripts or editorial material.

I'm interested in reading Gothic-ey/creepy texts about the creation of artificial life (in whatever form that takes), beyond Frankenstein. Do you have a favourite or other suggestions? Got the contemporary Frankenstein in Baghdad already, too...

we have more empathy for the machine fucking up than we do for people. why the hell is that

here's the thing about calling AI errors "hallucinations"--real humans who experience hallucinations (or make errors) get fired. take all this energy on comparing [being wrong] to human mental illness when it comes to AI to actual humans with mental illness and I'll forgive the false equivalence

Get home from the Magic: the Gathering pre-release and spend over an hour folding zines for the zine fair I'm going to tomorrow. zzzz

Sam Altman's Creepy Eyeball-Scanning Company Gets in Bed With Zoom and Tinder Will your boss require an eyeball scan the next time you need to jump on Zoom?

“Basically, every version of World’s approach to verification requires people to go along with invasive biometric scans…”

Bill text: "WHEREAS, the nuclear family, consisting of one husband, one wife, and any biological, adopted, or fostered children, is God's design for familial structure and has been the bedrock of society since the creation of the world"... [historians literally dying]