Kong & Applesauce

Longshot, there's a scent sport for dogs called barn hunt. Not sure who runs it in the US, maybe the AKC. The rats go in safe little tubes & are hidden for the dogs to find. They're treated with great respect & rewarded for their work. If there's a local org, you might be able to hang with them.

This is fun. As a colour-blind guy on the wrong side of 30, I surprised myself.

The world will only say enough to rogues (nations, individuals) that they have the capability to punish: those less powerful, or those from whom they don't stand to gain.

1 Inquiry for New York Times Good afternoon, My name is [REDACTED] and l am a reporter for the New York Times. I am researching how much money the Palestinian diaspora community has sent to support Gazan families since the war in Gaza began. Does your team track this figure? I really appreciate it. With gratitude, [REDACTED]

Palestine Diaspora Movement Hello [REDACTED] We do not collaborate with The New York Times. Your email asks about money sent to Gazan families "since the war in Gaza began." Let us first correct the premise. This is not a war. It is a genocide. Calling it a war is part of the problem. It obscures the reality of a colonized people being massacred by a military machine backed by the United States and defended, sanitized, and rhetorically softened by institutions like yours. The New York Times has spent far too long parroting Zionist propaganda and laundering Israeli state narratives while Palestinians bury their dead. That kind of coverage does not merely misinform. It helps create the political climate in which Palestinian slaughter becomes explainable, defensible, and forgettable. So no, we will not be sharing any figures, internal data, or community information with a paper that has so thoroughly damaged its credibility on Palestine. Quite frankly, we would rather chew jeans than help The New York Times extract from our community while continuing to fail it. Do not contact us again for this purpose, The Palestine Diaspora Movement Team

“Quite frankly, we would rather chew jeans than help The New York Times extract from our community while continuing to fail it”

lmaooo GET EM

This is a good analogy. Very useful in carefully controlled settings for specific usages, but unfortunately being widely inserted into everything and used without training or PPE and poisoning a lot of things and people and we’re going to pay a tonne of money to remove it safely in the future

Footage from the non-political video game? In a war crimes propaganda video?

Silmarillion is a good read! Its opacity is overstated.

Firing 20 NSCC instructors to pay for slightly worse traffic lights.

Besides, the axed civil service & NSCC & other slashed unis workforces' withdrawal from the economy will counterbalance a 1% HST cut.

Conservatives are historically much worse at stewarding the economy than Liberals, but this is beyond even mismanagement: this is intentional & ideologically-driven.

We know that international law, the U.S. constitution, and just human decency are supposed to mean something, are supposed to matter. But the powerful just push that away, and then the sycophants try to tell us why it doesn't matter, actually.

It does matter. We should fight for that.

Broke: Pirate Hearts making a new game.
Woke: Pirate Hearts making a new engine tool! 🤩

Are university professors still assigning take-home essays and assignments? Time to break out hand-written pop quizzes and oral testing.

A screenshot of a dragoon in comfortable cloth armour.

#FFXIVSweepstakes #GlamourItUpSweepstakes

Passengers that do not board the Titanic could be left behind, says Atlantic CEO Ice Bergman.

there's no decline. they just don't make good shit. they're just sort of dumb. you have to be to be radically right wing.

The thing is, this isn't out of left field. He's not blundering into this. This was his intention.

The most important roll of all: getting a PF that can reclear in fewer than 10 pulls.

A broken Tim Horton's drive-through sign whose original message is illegible.

Happy "Pl gooo dorase b neig" to those who celebrate!

Shouldn't have made an awesome game based on an excellent concept if you didn't want to sell a bajillion copies smh

This is a post about abolishing ICE.

Donkmaxxing

Bad Bunny #Superbowl

He'll be remembered among the people as the most despised president, but the USA as a sluggish & conservative institution, both dominant parties, and corporate-owned media will rehabilitate him ("don't speak ill of the dead") and leave his name on stuff unless activists & protesters keep up pressure

"Out of politics" is one way of saying it...

He appointed himself as Energy Minister so he could use NS Power as a smokescreen to start fracking (without actually doing anything about NS Power).

Yep that sounds like something a totally-not-fascist who was just there to *checks notes* "protest against Mark Carney's economic policies" would say. I'm glad the majority still sees through these clowns.

"For decades, libertarian thinkers had argued that free markets, left unrestrained, would naturally outperform any system of government. But what if the problem wasn’t just government interference in markets—what if the very concept of democracy itself was flawed?"

graph tracking democratic backsliding is occuring more quickly in the US than elsewhere.

New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries.

This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...

Ruin a movie by replacing one word in the title with "Sausage"

My Sausage Totoro