Benjamin Boles

this is actually how my cursed Online brain read the post

Octavia E. Butler said, “These novels are not prophetic. These novels are cautionary tales… The problems that I write about are problems that we can do something about. That's why I write about them.”

And “I hope they're not prophecy because I don't want to live in that world.”

It is completely insane that they are putting people's names into their paid product as "experts" without their knowledge. And Grammarly's response is to say people can OPT OUT?? There's not even a definitive list to see if you're on it.

i love to put my delicious fresh produce in the crisper drawer and never see it again 🥰

Just killed a man's whole family and accidentally installed him as leader of Iran. We created Super Vengeance Boy and are just assuming he'll leave us alone.

"His unique style of politics" is just riffing. He's adlibbing every goddamn thing

not included in this rage-bait story is the fact that most B.C. municipalities use zoning to restrict mobile homes, camper vans, tiny homes etc, which is why you find so many RV parks on reserve land. an easy fix by non-Indigenous governments. thediscourse.ca/nanaimo/regi...

Figurines of Brady Bunch and Partridge Family fighting each other

I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.

Jay: Guys, please don't let "skeets" stick The experiment in decentralized naming decisions has resulted in the worst possible term How about skoots? Can we bring back skoots? Bluesky OGs, help me out here, remember skoots? 10:45 PM · Apr 27, 2023

Say what you will about Jay, but she is solely responsible for Bluesky posts being called skeets.

If the Dems who win in the 2026 midterms get squeamish about prosecuting this administration, we'll need to elect a bunch of new people running on Nuremberg shit for 2028. This isn't a joke. It's the law. It's justice. Biden let Trump back in the WH and this happened because Joe didn't do his job

Schrödinger’s war

This explains why I haven’t heard them

Fetterman’s voicemail is doing a lot of emotional work for me these days

Punk icon Jello Biafra hospitalized following a stroke "I realized I had 'fallen and I can’t get up!'"

Sounds like he’ll be OK but damn

www.straight.com/music/punk-i...

Waiter, I ordered medium rare Psychology. This is barely cooked.

Home owners have been at the centre of political power for so long that merely shifting the focus to renters and their wellbeing is seen as an attack.

A bunch of rocks that are really worn down bricks and construction rubble

Here’s some of the Humber Bay brick rocks

People seem upset about this but congressional republicans are gonna be walking around in oxfords that are cutting off their circulation because the president thinks it’s funny, and for once he is correct about that

Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.

This is an active duty RCAF officer:

"For Armstrong, who is in his mid-40s, 'the ideal woman is childlike' ... Armstrong posted in a separate comment: 'The moment a girl has her first period, she is at her peak marriagability.'" [sic]

There’s also a lot of these construction rubble pebbles out at some of the beaches in Humber Bay Park. Didn’t see any sign there, so we took some home

Did yall see the finish to the 2026 LA Marathon?

"Cholera flaps" one of the great coinages of the Toronto civic sphere.

A phrase that anyone who's ever interacted with our cursed trash receptacles immediately & instinctively understands.

We won't be sad to see them go.

Bob Homme dressed as The Friendly Giant, seated and smiling toward the camera while holding a small string instrument and a recorder. He wears a simple costume with a brown shirt and a light tan tunic with a scalloped edge. Behind his shoulder is Jerome the giraffe puppet, painted in brown and blue with a wide mouth and visible teeth, wearing a harmonica. Rusty the rooster puppet perches behind him on the other side, with a red comb and patterned body. A small puppet theatre-style instrument setup rests in front of Homme, and the background is a plain light studio backdrop.

Bob Homme delighted generations of Canadians as The Friendly Giant.
While he was born in the United States, he adopted Canada as his home and Canada was a better place because of it.
Let's look up...waaaaay up...
This is the story of his life.

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the CIA orchestrated the 1953 coup d'état that overthrew the democratically elected Prime Minister, turned the functionally democratic constitutional monarchy into an absolute monarchy, which returned the favor by adopting strict anti-communist, pro-Western policies and ensuring the flow of oil

maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living

Elon Musk * x @elonmusk X.com True iamyesyouareno • @iamyesyouareno • 2d Tucker: "Every other group in the world has a right to its own homeland except White people? What? Explain how that makes sense." White people deserve a homeland. FATI rOCKeL: SHOW 12:43 AM • 3/7/26 • 21M Views

Seems bad that these two guys who have the ear of the US president are out here promoting Richard Butler-style white nationalism.

Parkdale

Really there are only two kinds of nostalgia.

Personal: "things were better when I was younger, healthier, less aware of the world, and with fewer responsibilities"

Impersonal: "things were better in this past I read about in a storybook"

Pompeii fresco find possibly depicts 2,000-year-old form of pizza Ancient painting includes fruit that looks like a pineapple – although it is almost certainly something else

Archaeologists at Pompeii uncovered a fresco depicting a meal of a flat bread round covered in herbed cheese (called 'moretum'). That's right, a PROTO-PIZZA.

But modern pizza, as served from Tokyo to Rome itself, was probably invented in New York.

Let's talk about the "Pizza Effect".