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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 9h

Pierre Poilievre says he wants to “restore merit.” He needed to be handed arguably the safest, most impossible to lose conservative seat in all of Canada after losing his own seat.

Seems like the opposite of merit. #Poilievre

(oh, and he still refuses to complete a check for a security clearance)

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bikehounds @bikehounds.bsky.social · 10h

Looks like someone is planning a canasta night!

bikehounds @bikehounds.bsky.social · 13h

-My house is on fire!

-Looking into it

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bikehounds @bikehounds.bsky.social · 13h

Lalalalalala until you’re thirty

a group of men are sitting in a car and laughing .

ALT: a group of men are sitting in a car and laughing .

media.tenor.com

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bikehounds @bikehounds.bsky.social · 13h

He’s the cop-iest guy in the province but even the cops all hate him because he’s making more work for them on a daily basis. What an oaf.

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 13h

Doug Ford: on behalf of this nameless man I will fight you any time, and place, any set of rules you wish to set out. You wanna disco dance? Let's go, honeybake

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Premier Ford says he told Home Depot shoplifter, 'I'm going to kick your ass' | CBC News

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he threatened to beat up a Home Depot shoplifter over the summer.

www.cbc.ca

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bikehounds @bikehounds.bsky.social · 13h

More like “don’t hear anyone”

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bikehounds @bikehounds.bsky.social · 1d

One, two, skip a few

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David Brace @davidbrace2.bsky.social · 1d

If you're looking for a weird little holiday gift, or a treat for yourself, hit me up.

David Brace @davidbrace2.bsky.social · 6d

🧵Small works. Prices, titles & descriptions in alt-text. 1/3 #art #sciart (note: delivery for sales of these works will be delayed until after the resolution of the Canada Post strike. Union strong.)

"¿me amas?", oil on Strathmore watercolour paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4", 2025- $125(Cdn). A small painting of the bottom half of a torn & crushed Pepsi can, black, white, blue & silver, with only the letters "SI" of Pepsi showing. Above the can is a Plecia nearctica, a love bug.

"RED (scare)", oil on Strathmore watercolour paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4", 2025- $150 (Cdn). A painting of a crushed red, silver & white Red Bull RED watermelon energy drink. Above the can is a wandering red and black spider.

"botbot", oil on Strathmore watercolour paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4", 2025- $150(Cdn). A small painting of a boxy green toy robot with a square coppery head. Beside it to the right is a bot fly.

"Monster (crush)", oil on Strathmore watercolour paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4", 2025- $150(Cdn). A painting of a crushed black, green & white Monster energy drink can with a crab crawling on it from the top.

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bikehounds @bikehounds.bsky.social · 1d

Cake covers Sad Songs and Waltzes

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David Brace @davidbrace2.bsky.social · 3d

"Sleight (of hand)", oil on map, 10 1/4 x 14", 2025 - $450(Cdn) #art

A map of the Canada/US border in Manitoba on which there's a painting of a silver dollar straddling the border, the top half is a Canadian silver dollar showing the word CANADA with a voyageur & an indigenous man in a canoe passing an island with 2 pine trees. The bottom half is an American silver dollar with the lower half of the eagle grasping arrows and the words ONE DOLLAR.

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bikehounds @bikehounds.bsky.social · 2d

This is awesome

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bikehounds @bikehounds.bsky.social · 3d

Oh darn protecting lives costs too much time and money

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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bikehounds @bikehounds.bsky.social · 3d

And now they’ve achieved their greatest creation: a set of “intelligence” machines that consume each others hallucinations as “truth” to be used for future hallucinations. Apt.

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 3d

Either way, you get tech CEO's producing more crackpots, whose gibberish they they consume in their abundant free time, which produces even more crackpots for them to listen to and throw money at.

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bikehounds @bikehounds.bsky.social · 4d

Definitely seeing old articles with weirdly current “update” dates, presumably to stay at the top of search results. The internet is so shitty now

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bikehounds @bikehounds.bsky.social · 4d

And stop adding “last updated one day ago” to ten year old articles because the banner ad or something was updated

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bikehounds @bikehounds.bsky.social · 4d

“Just say yes and we’ll move on“

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 5d

real

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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bikehounds @bikehounds.bsky.social · 5d

Ai will never “write” clean python code either

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bikehounds @bikehounds.bsky.social · 5d

Better to wait til their thirties or fourties

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5d

"Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman eight months pregnant—she is an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School—and she is saying 'eff Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta."

gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-compl...

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bikehounds @bikehounds.bsky.social · 5d

Holy shit

bikehounds @bikehounds.bsky.social · 5d

The baby has already been provided with the latest version of WordPerfect for the essay requirements of college