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Published: February 18, 2025 07:51
THE SUBSTANCE is a horror movie about a woman who receives a mysterious USB key and plugs it into her smart TV, thereby giving it access to her entire home network.
And then some other stuff happens after that.
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Published: February 18, 2025 04:52
E.T. on Betamax.
As far as I can remember, I've never seen E.T., I'm waiting for the universe to provide me with a Betamax machine.
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Published: February 18, 2025 04:13
If I were a Canadian MP, I'd create a list of every American politician and media personality who's joking approvingly about or otherwise encouraging the idea of the US annexing Canada and ban them from Canada forever.
They won't care, but it would show…
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Published: February 18, 2025 02:36
If elected, I vow to wake Azathoth, the mad sleeping god whose dream contains all of existence and whose waking will end the world.
Until then, I vow to provide free daycare.
Just because you and your children are mere figments of an insane deity doesn't…
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Published: February 18, 2025 00:30
I haven't deleted my Twitter account because I truly believe there's a non-zero chance its current owner will fall out of a window, either with a little help from ketamine or a little help from something else.
But in the defenestrationless meantime, my…
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Published: February 18, 2025 00:07
Writer guy's reaction when producer guy asks him if he's okay absolutely killed me.
https://youtu.be/pPL7OZF1iI4?si=ptzU4ig3AEcuNBkA
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Published: February 17, 2025 23:35
I will not be setting my posts so they can only be replied to by my followers for the same reason I keep my DMs open: there's something wrong with me.
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Published: February 17, 2025 22:46
Not sure the "smol bean" defense works when the name of your company has become a common verb.
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Published: February 17, 2025 22:10
I'm guessing Adams will hold onto his position like grim death because his only value to Trump is in being mayor of NYC. If he resigns, Trump could punish him by reinstating the charges.
Also, he's a corrupt weirdo, being mayor of a major city is one of…
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Published: February 17, 2025 21:18
One day, I will be ready when the song asks "y'all ready for this?"
One day.
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Published: February 17, 2025 18:24
Lol. Even the US press have noticed how badly Poilievre screwed himself by trying to be mini-Trump.
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Published: February 17, 2025 17:30
The cybertruck hasn't achieved much, but it has demonstrated how well other cars are designed. The universal base level of competent car design was kind of invisible until the cybertruck.
It's like if a toilet came out that sprays shit across the room,…
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Published: February 17, 2025 16:20
I understand why some Americans are so desperate for Trump voters to turn on him that they're willing to welcome them back with open arms, but I haven't yet seen anyone actually say how that looks or what they think that'll accomplish.
https://bsky.app/profile/marygillis.bsky.social/post/3lidyljdh622c
Published: February 17, 2025 05:17
If anyone wants to have me on their podcast to explain how season 2 of SEVERANCE is only about 70% as good as season 1 because rather than a story unfolding (mostly) organically, the story is now being forced along in order to hit certain plot points…
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Published: February 17, 2025 04:26
Just saw an ad for the Liberals on YouTube where they splice footage of Trump saying something with Poilievre saying the same thing.
It physically hurts me to praise the Liberals, but yeah, they done good with this one. They've actually correctly read the…
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Published: February 17, 2025 02:39
It's interesting that two of the buzziest shows of the last five years, SEVERANCE and YELLOWJACKETS, are about people trapped in a strange place, while other versions of them are not trapped and live normal lives, and cults abound.
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Published: February 17, 2025 02:06
Oh cool, I've been hoping to hear Volkswagen's thoughts on how sketch comedy has changed in the last decade.
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Published: February 17, 2025 01:21
Getting an influx of new resistance followers, and I don't know why you're following me, but I am most definitely not the account you're looking for.
To put it bluntly, I think you're all (to varying degrees) members of a digital cult.
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Published: February 17, 2025 00:00
I've heard—and I have no proof of this—but I have heard from several reputable sources that if you're a regular at Taco Bell and you tell them you're having a bad day, they will take you in back and let you watch them ring the bell.
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Published: February 16, 2025 00:10
"I will make Canada great ag... um... I mean, I will, uh, restore the... the promise... of Canada!"
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Published: February 15, 2025 18:13
Making up a murderous woke robot to get mad at.
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Published: February 15, 2025 17:18
It's fascinating that the article mentions and links to the "it's like Kendrick-Drake if both of them were Drake" Bluesky post (and was potentially even inspired by that post)... and yet completely misses the point of that post.
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Published: February 15, 2025 02:29
I admit, I heard the "let's get rid of internal trade barriers" rah-rah talk and was like, yeah! let's do that!
Because I had no idea what they were.
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Published: February 14, 2025 22:06
Has the Canadian government prepared for when the US food supply becomes far less safe? Because we eat a lot of that.
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Published: February 14, 2025 17:16
Gotta love that even the people defending Musk (either because they're being paid to do so or are just the world's saddest volunteers) make it look like his mom is his wife.
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Published: February 14, 2025 16:46
Look, no one can ever really know what's happening in someone else's relationship.
But, out of the thousands of photos I'm sure they took, posting the one where she looks great and he looks like that... well, it's a choice.
And it isn't exactly making me…
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Published: February 14, 2025 16:13
A giant account *with the word alt in its name* just did this. Admitted they were using a meme someone else made, and didn't even bother to alt text it. It's just so lazy. Drives me nuts.
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Published: February 14, 2025 04:12
My god this scene was spectacular.
Having the male hero of a tv show sob with guilt and shame because he was a victim and was forced to victimize others would be a remarkable, progressive storyline if it came out today.
This was 35 years ago.
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Published: February 13, 2025 21:39
Not believing in anything should make Poilievre a nimble politician, but sadly, for him, the one thing he does believe in is being an absolute asshole.
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Published: February 13, 2025 14:59
I assume they saw Musk's Nazi salutes and liked what they saw.
That's how I'm interpreting the timing on this.
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Published: February 13, 2025 05:21
Just found an account here that's following 133k accounts. They have 40k followers and I estimate their posts get about the same amount of engagement as someone with 5-7k organic followers.
You can game the system here for followers, but you can't game it…
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Published: February 13, 2025 04:48
I saw an ad for an AI assistant where a woman tells it to reschedule an appointment, but we don't actually see the appointment being successfully rescheduled because that would probably be false advertising.
https://bsky.app/profile/marygillis.bsky.social/post/3lhzmfgjt5s26
Published: February 13, 2025 02:12
It's exactly what happened to Twitter.
The world's unfunniest man bought the joke factory, and now it's the place where humour goes to die.
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Published: February 12, 2025 06:12
That'll show him?
It's funny how the actions Canadians are taking on their own, like buying more Canadian products, will actually be helpful going ahead, meanwhile 5 people who literally led this country couldn't come up with anything more impressive to…
https://bsky.app/profile/marygillis.bsky.social/post/3lhwy7asxfs26
Published: February 12, 2025 01:05
A few times on here, someone has been belligerent in my replies, we argue, and then they straight up try to lie to me about what was said during the exchange.
I assume this tactic works for them IRL and they're not intellectually nimble enough to adapt to…
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Published: February 11, 2025 18:04
It'll never cease to amaze me that so many people consider it less rude to waste someone's time by sending them poorly written AI slop than to simply send them the bullet points that were used to generate the slop.
I understand the preference for…
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Published: February 11, 2025 06:04
LOTR, the movies: oh my god, Frodo has been stabbed, we must run with all haste to get him to safety
LOTR, the books: oh my god, Frodo has been stabbed, we must run with all haste to get him to safety in like four days and Sam's gonna sing a little song in…
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Published: February 10, 2025 23:46
Look, I'm as glad as anyone that all that compost has been diverted from the landfills, but I just don't think we should be using it to cover Vancouver's downtown.
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Published: February 10, 2025 23:06
If Google wasn't an evil coward company, "Gulf of America" would be in Comic Sans.
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Published: February 10, 2025 18:12
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Published: February 10, 2025 03:43
Eagles love eating garbage, is that applicable to current events?
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Published: February 9, 2025 23:25
She's back! In shirt form.
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Published: February 9, 2025 22:18
We don't have football in Canada. We have a game called "grass hockey," which is not field hockey, soccer, rugby, American football, or lacrosse, but a secret and terrible game. You have to wear ice skates to play it. Every game results in at least three…
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Published: February 9, 2025 21:10
It's not surprising someone like Trudeau is all in on AI, a hollow technology that's all about appearances over substance and supporting corporations over workers.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11011068/trudeau-paris-artificial-intelligence-summit/
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Published: February 9, 2025 15:48
If someone has already replied with the answer you were going to give, you like that answer to show that you agree.
When you reply to a post with a reply that's already been given, you're not contributing to a conversation, you're spamming it.
Unless…
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Published: February 9, 2025 02:38
I use a Macbook for work and updated it yesterday. The update automatically turned on Apple Intelligence and I had to turn it off.
I can't think of any other product in modern history that has been so sweatily shoved onto customers by companies.
Is there…
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Published: February 8, 2025 22:49
The thing that struck me the most about this article when I first read it like ten years ago was how he kept pushing her to be blonde.
He is such a basic bitch.
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Published: February 8, 2025 17:09
One thing I really like about Mastodon is you can make notes on someone else's account that only you can read. I wish Bluesky would include something like that.
I'm a vengeful person with a bad memory, I need a reminder to know exactly why I'm holding a…
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Published: February 7, 2025 23:41
Nothing makes it hit home how far sweaters have fallen in the last 40 years like this image.
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Published: February 7, 2025 17:11
Most 30 second commercials don't require a deep dive into their plot holes and inexplicable writing, but this one definitely did and this is a good one.
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Published: February 7, 2025 15:47
This is a long read but it's important Canadians know this evil shit is happening here, and if Poilievre wins, it'll accelerate.
And we have got to start calling adults who are obsessed with policing the gender and sexuality of children by the proper…
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Published: February 7, 2025 03:57
There was a semi-viral post here a while ago about how once his voters realize Trump is hurting them too, they should be welcomed with open arms.
I just can't stop thinking about someone, in the midst of all this, deciding the most important thing is…
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Published: February 6, 2025 16:46
Ha, and might I add, ha.
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Published: February 6, 2025 15:17
Europe's great hope for AI is a company that is going to constantly be misspelled and mispronounced as "mistrial" and whose flagship product is called "Le Chat," which sounds like a parody of a European AI.
Or like a sex chat app you have to pay $9.99 a…
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Published: February 6, 2025 03:44
Okay, turns out Canada's defence minister is stupid as a box of rocks.
If one of my parents said something half as senseless as what this guy is saying I'd petition the courts to make me their legal guardian because anyone this easy to fool is going to…
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Published: February 6, 2025 02:52
There's a ghost town in the mountains of Colorado called Gothic which also functions as a biological laboratory.
I just... I can't even with that.
That is so extremely the location of a horror movie that it's horseshoed around to being the least sinister…
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Published: February 5, 2025 06:14
They have to stop putting singers through this. Have the US anthem be a recording everyone can boo, and have the person who was supposed to sing it sing a song Canadians love.
Like the DEGRASSI JUNIOR HIGH theme song.
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Published: February 5, 2025 04:58
Interesting story and damn do I love this art.
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Published: February 5, 2025 00:56
I guarantee every single one of them has used their new access to look up celeb info and stalk old crushes. Every single one.
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Published: February 4, 2025 21:31
I don't think this is AI slop. I think humans made this & unintentionally edited it so badly it looks like AI slop, which is just funny.
Zoom in on the 3-fingered hand on the left holding the flag. It looks like the index finger was there behind the metal…
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Published: February 4, 2025 21:07
A MAGA troll who may or may be a bot followed me and I was curious to see how their troll operation is going so I looked at their account before blocking.
They have 3 followers: a romance scam, a photography bot, and a resistance account with…
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Published: February 4, 2025 18:17
My first thought reading this was the fiance (who should've been an immediate suspect) must be a cop but I couldn't find anything about his job.
Then I found an article saying the fiance's uncle was allowed to remove the victim's belongings from the crime…
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Published: February 4, 2025 17:02
It must be so weird to believe in nothing and be willing to say or do anything to trick people into giving you power.
It must be like the mental equivalent of having no heartbeat.
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Published: February 4, 2025 16:15
I don't think Canadian politicians fully grasp how quickly we need to disconnect our economy from the US as much as is humanly possible.
Not just because their demented pervert president is trying to invade us, but because their other demented pervert…