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Vancouver is pretty in pink and feeling like summer

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Right? People do seem to like it but it’s a bad product

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Never.

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Eat the rich (‘s cars)

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Imagine being the biologists and having to say this out loud

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The harder something is pushed the more suspicious we should be

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“In China bats have long been considered lucky creatures because the written symbol for bat has the same pronunciation as that for happiness. Consequently, bats are frequently featured in textile patterns and porcelain designs in both China and Japan. Since the perfection of the full moon is also viewed as an auspicious occurrence, the combination of a bat and the moon suggests exponential happiness.”

color woodblock print of a black bat flying in front of a full moon

“In China bats have long been considered lucky creatures because the written symbol for bat has the same pronunciation as that for happiness. Consequently, bats are frequently featured in textile patterns and porcelain designs in both China and Japan. Since the perfection of the full moon is also viewed as an auspicious occurrence, the combination of a bat and the moon suggests exponential happiness.” color woodblock print of a black bat flying in front of a full moon

Happy International #BatAppreciationDay 🦇!
Takahashi Bihō (Japan, b.1873)
#Bat and Moon, c. 1928–30
Woodblock print (shin hanga / kachō-e), ink & color on paper
Sheet 10 3/4 x 11 3/16 in. (27.3 x 28.4 cm)
MIA P.77.28.46 collections.artsmia.org/art/91665/ba...
#JapaneseArt

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Then Spider Sax, who always makes me smile

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Well that was a first. Busker singing Neutral Milk Hotel

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Got my first email in 95 and I could’ve had one in 94

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The Luddites were right anyway

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Uhhh socialism isn’t a dirty word in Canada

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Massive Attack / Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground
Massive Attack / Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground YouTube video by Massive Attack
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LNG Canada exceeds estimated 2024 global record for burned gas | The Narwhal LNG Canada in Kitimat, B.C., burned more gas in 2025 than any other liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility on record in 2024

SCOOP: An investigation by The Narwhal and Point Source shows LNG Canada burned 350 million cubic metres of gas in 2025, making it one of the worst polluters for flaring emissions globally and undermining Canada’s environmental claims. @writermjs.bsky.social #lng thenarwhal.ca/lng-canada-b...

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AI Use Appears to Have a "Boiling Frog" Effect on Human Cognition, New Study Warns A new study claims to offer the first causal link between AI dependency and cognitive erosion. Researchers warn of long-term implications.

NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty.

"People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.”

futurism.com/artificial-i...

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I block liberally over it

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62. 62M. The scale of this. I cannot

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I thought we already knew about this.
Is there another instance of him chopping off an animal’s penis, or is my opinion of him just that low

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Ugh oh no

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It broke me forever

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I’m with you. It’s just not a fixable problem - unless they go down a different route somehow

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Not only can they not feel bad, they can never even know they made a mistake

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Ahhh I’m almost old enough to get the vax

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I swear that movie caused my first bout of depression

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I don’t think it will ever get accurate enough to get over the “hallucinations” problem

I agree that that is only 1 part of the issue though

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I’m tired

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bell hooks book title stealer and six year Catholic JD Vance lecturing the pope on theology is surprising if you’ve never held seniority over a white guy as a not white guy.

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I don’t know what it will take to get people off substack, but here’s yet another reason

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Fair. No need to apologize

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The fury I feel, particularly about the AI shit

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