alcina

That’s a shame. When I was a kid, we frequently visited the old Pierpoint Landing — loved feeding the seals! — and then we’d often head over to the QM just to gape at it. When Shoreline Village was built many years later, we made occasional visits to hear my aunt play music there on the weekends. Several years back, my sister and I spent a…[Read more]

Uh oh. Does that mean the US will soon be bringing democracy there?

@djean111, the man is clearly obsessed….

https://boingboing.net/2021/06/17/jeff-bezos-rocket-looks-like-a-giant-dick-and-these-australian-news-anchors-cant-stop-laughing-about-it.html

As for the Baker Act — yet another weaponized law to use against the masses. On the upside, at least the U.S. isn’t just burying those pesky non-Christian…[Read more]

The infinite-dimensional chess continues. We’re apparently just too naive or short-sighted to appreciate the sheer beauty of his long-range strategy. I’m sure many die-hard dems will take their hope and whatever to the grave, insisting all the time that we just need to be patient–incremental change is better than disruption. The rest will just…[Read more]

@mrdmk

I’m using ExpressVPN. It’s been pretty good for getting access from Canada to US Netflix, HBO, and a few other sites.

@Bernieboomer

It’s not quite global. I can still access it in Canada. And using my VPN, this morning I could access it in the UK, but no longer. Also blocked in France and Switzerland but not in the Netherlands. I wonder what tomorrow will bring.

With any luck, they’ve come to retrieve the alien infiltrators whose human patina long ago faded. I mean, they managed to blend in for awhile; but judging from recent pics of Musk, Gates, Bezos & Zuckerberg, clearly the synthetic epidermal wrappers are failing.

It was getting hotter.

Frank May got off his mat and padded over to look out the window. Umber stucco walls and tiles, the color of the local clay. Square apartment blocks like the one he was in, rooftop patios occupied by residents who had moved up there in the night, it being too hot to sleep inside. Now quite a few of them were standing behind…[Read more]

Great. Just fucking great. More dollars and baubles for the devotees of Mammon as they plunder and pillage our world.

In Toronto, we came close to 100F with the humidex for a week in mid-May and another in early June. Between those two weeks, we had a couple days of unseasonable cold, including a day of snow. I’ve given up trying to keep parts of my garden alive. Some of the native plants I’ve spent years establishing can’t take this heat and humidity, not to…[Read more]

You’d think they’d have learned after the teabagger fiasco. Then again….

Bravo, @zooka!

@kentankerous
At some point in the past, someone in authority made the assumption that the word stemmed from Latin and thus popularized the Latinized plural. The word octopus, however, is from the Greek oktopous. If one were a stickler, then octopodes would be a more appropriate plural. But in my many years working as an editor, I found a roughly…[Read more]

Cuz he’s a big boy now!