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Social media news producer. Recovering “Twitter guy.”

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He’s taking up curling. It’s all about the angles.

04.03.2026 22:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Definitely bouba on the left but trending towards kiki at the right.

04.03.2026 22:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

After 900 years and a galaxy-wide cataclysm, I think we can forgive a typo.

04.03.2026 18:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“You people have stood in my way long enough! I’m going to the Bard’s College!”

04.03.2026 16:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Unless you’re looking away. Then it’s “yak yak yak.”

04.03.2026 14:23 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How did cow even pronounce those symbols? It might sound like some unearthly terror. I’d call to complain, too.

04.03.2026 14:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Well, there is the innovative retelling Rocket Robin Hood…

04.03.2026 13:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“… unlikely to see the same performance twice”… as many of the performers are murdered on opening night. Mysterious!

03.03.2026 18:05 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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a man and a woman are standing next to each other . ALT: a man and a woman are standing next to each other .

How dare you.

03.03.2026 17:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That’s… uh, that’s kinda how we do it in many Canadian provinces.

03.03.2026 01:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Over on X, someone asked Grok if a (real) wire photo distributed by Reuters was fake, Grok said yes, and it's being presented as a trending topic with a bunch of people talking about how MSM lies.

Truly a brainrot platform

02.03.2026 02:43 👍 56 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 1
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8 common Japanese loanwords and their history Discover how Japanese borrowed words from many different languages and what they reveal about Japan’s history.

Ha, no. And by “something” I meant the Duolingo blog. blog.duolingo.com/japanese-loa...

28.02.2026 01:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I read something about Japanese loan words and the traders who brought them. Japan had a word for beer, but biru from the Dutch supplanted it.

28.02.2026 01:05 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I gasped for real.

27.02.2026 22:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Leftover rhymes include "fork (two-tined)" and "dork, d'you mind?", if anyone requires them.
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Description: A Far Side cartoon depicting 4 people in surgical scrubs surrounding a patient from whom one surgeon is removing what appears to be a live porcupine. The caption reads "Well, I guess that explains the abdominal pains."
Above the comic, two rhyming lines have been added, with another rhyming line added below, so that all the text adds up to the following limerick:
In acute pain was Benjamin Horkubind.
A treatment, he went to New York to find.
"Well, I guess that explains
the abdominal pains,"
Said the surgeon, as Ben was de-porcupined.

Leftover rhymes include "fork (two-tined)" and "dork, d'you mind?", if anyone requires them. ---- Description: A Far Side cartoon depicting 4 people in surgical scrubs surrounding a patient from whom one surgeon is removing what appears to be a live porcupine. The caption reads "Well, I guess that explains the abdominal pains." Above the comic, two rhyming lines have been added, with another rhyming line added below, so that all the text adds up to the following limerick: In acute pain was Benjamin Horkubind. A treatment, he went to New York to find. "Well, I guess that explains the abdominal pains," Said the surgeon, as Ben was de-porcupined.

Yesterday my crack team of undergraduate limerickologists and I discovered the remains of a lost limerick within a Far Side cartoon, so we've reconstructed the full poem. Peer review is hereby invited, as we plan to formally publish our findings on a prestigious bathroom stall door later this year.

19.02.2026 13:05 👍 142 🔁 28 💬 3 📌 2

@cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social That’s AI generated.

26.02.2026 15:42 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Where did little Keiko appear from there???!!!

26.02.2026 05:04 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Poor B’Avi. The first time I yelled “NoOOo!” at Star Trek (or any show) in a long time.

25.02.2026 18:14 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Penny is your classic brown tabby cat. She has a little mousy face.

Penny is your classic brown tabby cat. She has a little mousy face.

No.

25.02.2026 17:45 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Made me think of the SNL fake ad. “I taste delicious!”

25.02.2026 16:14 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh wow! The show came out during my Lego Dark Age so it was always just a strange-looking theme for me. Nothing personal!

25.02.2026 00:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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ANALYSIS | Danielle Smith says court 'skewed' to Liberal donors, but UCP picks have political ties just as often | CBC News CBC analysis suggests about one-fifth of federally named judges match with Liberal donor lists. About as many judges picked by the province likely gave to UCP.

When Danielle Smith claimed 80% of federally picked judges had donated to Liberals, that was way higher than any figure I'd researched.
I dug into it. Could confidently write here:
"It is not true. The single media source Smith got that fact from has since corrected it."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

24.02.2026 22:54 👍 516 🔁 245 💬 32 📌 30

I understand why chatbot cheating happens but every time I read about it I want to gently remind everyone that the point of schoolwork is not for the submission to exist. Teachers are not just greedy for more essays or solved equations. The point is to do the work WITH YOUR OWN BRAIN, FOR LEARNING.

24.02.2026 19:37 👍 3711 🔁 862 💬 100 📌 49
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Lego's Smart Play Bricks Sound Awful Lego's controversial wave of tech-enhanced 'Star Wars' sets are getting into people's hands, and showing the premium being paid isn't quite worth it.

The more that comes out about what these things do, the more I'm convinced smart bricks may be one of Lego's worst ideas this side of the turn of the century

23.02.2026 23:26 👍 22 🔁 4 💬 5 📌 0
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I don’t know, man. Galidor was 2002.

24.02.2026 17:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you for this learning.

24.02.2026 15:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Richard Scarry drawings of animals in cars that look like a corn cob, an apple, a pickle and so on.

Richard Scarry drawings of animals in cars that look like a corn cob, an apple, a pickle and so on.

Like some kind of messed-up Busy Town thing.

24.02.2026 01:08 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

The gold medallist in men’s figure skating is skating in a panda costume.

22.02.2026 18:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I was actually wondering how the descriptive audio was different than the play-by-play. Interesting.

22.02.2026 18:22 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

He thought about it.

22.02.2026 16:34 👍 1686 🔁 245 💬 29 📌 37