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Published: September 7, 2024 19:36

Inside of you there are two Waldos. You will never find them.

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Published: September 6, 2024 23:36

Let's all hope that instead of this being a case of human to human transmission, the patient is simply covering up that they're the notorious Chicken Bandit (aka Crook-A-Doodle-Do), wanted in three states for their daring daylight chicken heists. …

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Published: September 6, 2024 21:30

*Doc Brown voice* They found us. I don't know how, but they found us. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: September 6, 2024 21:24

Just based on the headline, it's impossible to guess which right-wing Canadian influencers this piece is going to be about before you read it because they all knowingly or unknowingly spout the exact same propaganda.…

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Published: September 6, 2024 21:04

Women and non-binary Canadian satire writers, there's this new satire award created by Sophie Kohn, check it out, there's a cash prize. And if you're not eligible to submit, good news, you can donate money to support future prizes for those who are!…

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Published: September 6, 2024 18:45

Wow. Trump's lost the "powerful evil men who've gotten away with shooting someone in the face" vote, which for most politicians wouldn't be a big deal, but for Trump is at least 10% of his voter base. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: September 6, 2024 16:32

This is such a deceptive headline. I assumed the story was going to be about a supposed curse that killed most of Japan's royal males before they turned 18, but it seems like there just haven't been any. You can't tease a curse and then reveal it's just a…

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Published: September 6, 2024 04:39

I think when you have a name like Nick Pickles, you either live up to it and become the most lovable dude ever, like the human version of Paddington, or you fight against it, by doing things like defend platforming CSAM at the behest of your fascistic…

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Published: September 6, 2024 01:33

What?!? Also... WHAT?!? https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/sep/05/common-food-dye-found-to-make-skin-and-muscle-temporarily-transparent

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Published: September 5, 2024 23:05

If there's one thing we all know about powerful judges the world over, it's that they love being publicly accused of harassment. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: September 5, 2024 21:54

JD Vance arguing childcare should consist of grandma and grandpa will appeal to the Republican base, because they're all desperate for their kids and grandkids to talk to them again.

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Published: September 5, 2024 21:18

We talk about how conservatives are a death cult, and they are, but we don't talk enough about how they're also a money wasting cult. Conservative governments will waste infinite public funds out of spite and incompetence, over and over, at every level of…

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Published: September 5, 2024 16:31

Because Singh is so bad at politics, rather than announcing the end of the deal at a press conference, which would've ensured headlines about the end of the deal, he announced it on X (the Nazi site), then held a press conference *a day later*, ensuring…

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Published: September 5, 2024 15:44

Helium is lighter than air? You sound ridiculous. There's something else going on here and I'm gonna get to the bottom of it. And if, one day, you look out your window and see me floating away, you'll know I found what I was looking for.

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Published: September 5, 2024 07:07

He also had a good feeling about Jeffrey Epstein. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: September 5, 2024 06:44

There's a Paramount+ commercial where a CGI goat says "Paramount plus your eyeballs equals entertainment". But he pauses after saying plus, so it's even stupider listening to it than reading it, because it sounds like he's saying "Paramount plus: Your…

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Published: September 5, 2024 04:14

I think I would be a great advice columnist. For example, I would advise this person to bring a spray bottle full of water to family parties and spray the child's parents every time the child does something bad and they refuse to discipline him for it.…

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Published: September 5, 2024 02:13

If you're wondering how people are responding to the announcement, right now the Beaverton article mocking it has more likes and non-quote-RTs on Twitter than the announcement itself, despite Singh having 4x as many followers and Twitter throttling posts…

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Published: September 4, 2024 21:51

Something to think about when Canada does eventually get the vaccines: https://www.statnews.com/2024/09/04/covid-booster-flu-shot-rsv-vaccines-seasonal-immunization-guidelines/

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Published: September 4, 2024 19:09

It says a lot about the highest level of the NDP that when Singh decided to do this, no one grabbed him by his lapels and shook him while saying "you stupid motherfucker, don't you do this" until he agreed to not do this.…

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Published: September 4, 2024 15:56

Health Canada has screwed up the timing of the new vaccines so badly I don't even blame Alberta and Ontario for doing this, especially since both those provinces are run by people who watch a lot of Fox News and probably thought the new vaccines were…

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Published: September 4, 2024 05:41

Well I'll be damned. It's all the same song. https://youtu.be/5pidokakU4I?si=e-6e61VC5pX9buf5

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Published: September 4, 2024 02:37

Those Who Walk Away From Omelets

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Published: September 3, 2024 22:14

The people who think it's a good idea to shove AI into their products seem to be bad at making every other decision regarding their products too. https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/3/24234698/canva-price-increase-300-percent-ai-features

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Published: September 3, 2024 21:45

Shocking. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: September 3, 2024 16:25

Look, scams are everywhere, bots are everywhere, but if we can just create personhood credentials so people can prove they're hu- ok, um, so, the scammers have already gamed the personhood credential system. It doesn't exist yet, but it has been…

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Published: September 3, 2024 15:27

The phrase "human writing assistants" kills me. Because we're not talking about editing, this is in regards to the act of writing itself. They're talking about ghostwriters. "Every writer (even the poor ones) is entitled to ghostwriters" is just a…

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Published: September 2, 2024 19:34

I'm not surprised the first school board in Canada to embrace AI in the classroom is religious. "Let someone/something else do your thinking for you" is basically the whole point of religion. Encouraging kids not to develop their own creative or critical…

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Published: September 2, 2024 18:16

KOLCHAK. A reporter in a struggling newsroom that's just been bought by an asshole billionaire finally starts investigating all the weird stories her editor would never let her write about before, because the editor hates the new boss & is pretty sure…

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Published: September 2, 2024 17:00

It'd be a far bigger story if the sunken ship that's been sitting on the bottom of the ocean for over a century wasn't decaying. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: September 2, 2024 04:16

It's so embarrassing when you're staring into the abyss and you think the abyss is staring back into you but it's really staring into someone standing behind you.

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Published: September 2, 2024 01:33

Who is watching these movies? (rhetorical question, I know it's the deeply stoned) https://gizmodo.com/peter-pan-screamboat-slasher-public-domain-2000493721

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Published: September 2, 2024 00:13

The problem with 6-10 episode tv mysteries is they usually don't have nearly enough suspects. The casts are way too small to camouflage the killer. Who could the murderer be? Could it be that one character who's been hanging around the periphery in almost…

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Published: September 1, 2024 18:52

Imagine a mummy shuffling towards you in a dark and empty museum. A little scary, but it's old and dessicated and not very spry, surely you can get away. Ah-ha. Not so fast. Now imagine the mummy coming at you is on cocaine.…

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Published: September 1, 2024 18:04

There are 2 types of Musk Twitter investors: dolts who thought he'd grow Twitter, and authoritarians who knew he'd destroy it. The latter weren't investing in Twitter, they were investing in Musk killing it, or at least its utility as a site for sharing…

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Published: September 1, 2024 17:03

Companies building AI systems layered upon AI systems rather than just letting a person do a job feels like the capitalist equivalent of geocentric astronomers having to create incredibly complicated models to predict and explain the strange,…

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Published: September 1, 2024 04:40

THE HUNGER is the only horror movie that has ever dared to ask the question: what if Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie picked you up in a bar... and that was a *bad* thing?

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Published: September 1, 2024 03:52

I wish there were more GHOSTBUSTERS movies. Not more sequels and reboots, because they all suck to varying degrees, but more movies that are GHOSTBUSTERS. Like, GHOSTBUSTERS again. But somewhat different, obviously. That would be great.

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Published: August 31, 2024 23:51

Hear me out. We convince Sony to release MORBIUS for a third time in theatres, and to pay for a giant metal poster on the Eiffel Tower, which would then be made permanent because that's apparently what Paris does to things temporarily erected on that…

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Published: August 31, 2024 23:25

I would say this is sea witch shit, except even sea witches don't just steal voices. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: August 31, 2024 23:00

It's always wild to me when a religious person says atheists/agnostics have no innate values, because it reveals that they themselves have no moral or ethical code outside of their religion. It's like someone admitting the only thing stopping them from…

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Published: August 31, 2024 19:20

I love that some Agatha Christie titles are absolute bangers like "Towards Zero" and "Appointment With Death", while others are like "Murder at The Place" and "The Murder of This Guy"

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Published: August 31, 2024 17:12

I don't think billionaires should have human rights. They've removed themselves from humanity and should only have the same rights as, say, corgis. Like, you shouldn't be allowed to torture them, but you should be allowed to make weird legal decisions…