Potatoes

Fine, bag of eldritch horrors, I’ll plant you

I think that's for strategic blocking and/or for observation of the level pedestrian crossings. Wherever there's a level crossing there's someone trying to be in front of a train these days. It's really bad downtown.

Juggling an assortment of golden temu-sourced "peace prizes"

#CTRiders some areas of the #RedLine are behind schedule due to a power issue in the NW. We are working to restore service now. Thank you!

The Human Cost of Failing to Name COVID ‘Airborne’ | The Tyee Safety laws are being sidestepped. One doctor’s nightmare shows how health-care workers pay the price.

“The Human Cost of Failing to Name COVID ‘Airborne’”

Excellent article worth sharing again and again!

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Happy The Fog day! I celebrate!

Yup and we'd scoff at the advice of our time-travelling elder selves.

Entrance of the Calgary Public Library in downtown Calgary featuring a wide tunnel lined in moulded wood paneling creating a large, visually striking arch

Every time I go to the downtown library I get to enjoy just how rad the entrance is

Canadian doctors obeying a U.S. executive order that doesn’t even apply to Canada is deeply offensive to both trans people and to Canadian legal sovereignty.

How much did the police make?

An exceedingly fluffy moth sitting on a grey cardboard egg tray from my moth trap. It's got a shape like a triangle with rounded mothy corners, and its wings are dark grey with tiny black spots. Its body is super fluffy like a plush toy. Its Legs are also super fluffy like it's wearing fur trousers, ending in little black feet. It also has long black comb-like antennas. It's a male muslin moth. Perfect fluffy moth pal, no notes.

Side view of another delightfully fluffy grey male muslin moth sitting on my hand. This moth has warm grey wings with little black spots, and a very fluffy grey body on top. Underneath, it's fluff is white and orange. It has orange fluffy legs that look a bit like its wearing fuzzy trousers, with little black feets, long black comb-like antennas, and big round black eyes. Perfect moth pal, A+, would recommend.

Important news update: it's fluffy-pants season.

Male muslin moths. They have excellent fluffy trews.

That is all, thank u for your time.

Yes I did all-nighters in my youth for both work and pleasure (mostly work, alas) and if I could I'd get in a time machine and tell myself to stop that!

Eh my parents would run through a list of names of their siblings, their children, sometimes including the dog, until they hit on the right one. I think it's just an adult thing and it goes together with the other adult thing: not sleeping.

AI has always been a political project first and foremost. The machines were never meant to replace all of humanity, just those that the Apartheid Industry deems undesirable or inferior. AI requires and reproduce racial and social hierarchy from data centers to decisionmaking. This is dystopia

I am picturing this as a collage graphic of a stupendous mecha/kaiju battle.

National Library Workers Day sign

Library workers are a special kind of civil servant. Our mandate is to give you and everyone else free access to some of the best things you can have: learning, self-enrichment, community, contemplation, fun, and simple peace and quiet. the best way to appreciate us is to come use us. 🙂 📚

Further #bloomscrolling

Panel from What If...? #17 (1990) Sergei Kravinoff aka Kraven The Hunter, stands naked in a room full of spiders that swarm around him or hang from the ceiling. The spiders cover his shame. He looks upset. Kraven: Why am I DOING this?

a grey "rectangle" within a larger cream coloured rectangle, it is a plan of a house on a municipal lot. The sides of the house rectangle are labelled with their lengths, which are cursed north: 8.39 m south: 8.28 m west: 5.82 m east: 580 m

a client gave me this "rectangle" of a building plan for someone who hates right angles, enjoy your cursed new home

Google is failing me in finding a campaign for Bran Flakes that William Shatner did like 15 years ago? Maybe only in Canada. There were TV spots but also I think his face as a mask like this that you could download and print out. The 2026 Raisin Bran superbowl ad is poisoning my search.

Once I got an ice cream cone and picked up an alt weekly newspaper. The ice cream ran down my chin. I had no napkin so I did my best with my finger. I passed a crew of firefighters who all smiled at me and I thought "aw how nice" then got home & all around my chin was black ink from the newspaper.

I just watched Weapons so I laughed heartily

An elephant hawkmoth looking slightly tetchy at you with a big round eye from under its wirey antennas. It is bright pink and olive green and very sleek. Magnificent moth pal, would recommend

(TBH if you don't like moths I'd have thought my name would've put you off, sooo IDK... 🤷🙃)

Further #bloomscrolling

I just assumed some kind of flying four-sided finger creature collaged from stock photos, USCPSC. You know, like normal.

Hey artists, if you see this, post a dog

Hey artists, if you see this, post a dog

So I am reflecting on AI as one does and I have come to realize that “learn to use AI” and “embrace AI” and “develop AI literacy” won’t fucking protect ua from existential and stochastic harms of AI, and my overlooking this as a vector for criticism is really something.

Hey artists, if you see this, post a dog

The first panel shows a crow with the title "How to live a good life". The second panel shows a crow cawing at itself in the mirror with the subheading "Make friends". The next panel says "Explore" and shows a crow looking into a commercial waste bin. The next says "Try new things" with a crow eating something vile. The next one says "Be curious" and shows the crow grabbing a hissing cat's tail". The final frame says "Get a hobby" and shows the crow looking closely at a book of matches.

How To Live A Good Life #oldknees