Oscar the Grouse @brickgrouse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026the closing of safe injection sites has predictably led to an increase of needle debris in our parks 111
Oscar the Grouse @brickgrouse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026wild that they don't sell weed gummies in the airport 120
Reposted by Oscar the GrouseIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome 14780781989
Reposted by Oscar the GrouseCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026The truth was that if United Health had an AI that was accepting a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate, United Health would stop using the AI in about 0.2 seconds. 52131475
Reposted by Oscar the GrouseAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Well done to the picture editor who captioned this delightful snap of a black pig swimming off the west coast of Greece “swine-dark sea” www.theguardian.com/environment/... 72545501
Reposted by Oscar the GrouseA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The sort of thing you can expect to see in a society that believes that life must be earned. 724142
Reposted by Oscar the Grouseemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026DHS is stealing Haitians money while they deport them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/w...nytimes.comHaitians Deported From U.S. Are Left Broke and Stranded (Gift Article)Hundreds have been deported to Haiti in recent weeks, and some say they have been left with no money, no protection from gangs and no place to go. 12830991995
Oscar the Grouse @brickgrouse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026single car service on the weekends is not cute octranspo. line 1 is so fucking crowded today 100
Oscar the Grouse @brickgrouse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026meta glasses, flock cameras, ai, the whole fuckin white house; we're really living in a golden age of creeps and perverts 010
Reposted by Oscar the GrouseCaoimhe Deyn @empressofkashyr.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Do not stand at Dracula's grave and weep. He is not there. He does not sleep. 342090
Oscar the Grouse @brickgrouse.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Less frequent service and single car trains. You know that's how OC Transpo rides on the weekend. An expensive fare gives you a cheap experience 120
Reposted by Oscar the Grousejessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful 193126137999
Oscar the Grouse @brickgrouse.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I am obsessed with the BBC Archive account on YouTube. So many of those glorious Man Alive videos from the 70s 000
Reposted by Oscar the Grousedylan @pinkponysub.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I want 4 day work weeks, free universal healthcare, and a livable wage to meet my basic needs!! 310122411971
Reposted by Oscar the GrouseA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 28/07/2026“It’s very important that you believe me or my company will collapse and I might go to prison.” oh OK well you’ve spent your life telling self-serving falsehoods, so here’s another $500b, go put the global economy on what you claim is a flying bus and steer it off of that nearby mountain 738675
Oscar the Grouse @brickgrouse.bsky.social · 28/07/2026it's important to remember that sam altman is a fucking idiot who stands to lose a lot of money if ai doesn't pan out 010
Reposted by Oscar the GrouseHagai Palevsky (he/him) @dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him 138126482828
Reposted by Oscar the GrouseJ. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 25/07/2026you can’t say merry 9/11 anymore 1227524
Oscar the Grouse @brickgrouse.bsky.social · 25/07/2026ai is a promise to give children less while pretending what we're giving them is very cutting edge, actually www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.com‘Really inappropriate’: teachers decry plan for humanoid robot in New York high schoolRobot from company that acquired sex doll maker to be introduced in school with large Native American population 020
Reposted by Oscar the GrouseJezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Drake lost $1.5 million betting on Argentina to win the World Cup, but did he really? www.jezebel.com/why-is-drake...jezebel.comWhy Is Drake Boasting His Losing Bets?Drake lost $1.5 million betting on Argentina to win the World Cup, but did he really? 042
Reposted by Oscar the Grousesecondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · 20/07/2026Accidental jimothy in old Montréal. 686288
Reposted by Oscar the GrouseMaladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Would my anxiety like a salt lick? 219653
Oscar the Grouse @brickgrouse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026The reason games like Fallout have been able to last for so long and have people coming back to them again and again is because of the people that make them 030
Oscar the Grouse @brickgrouse.bsky.social · 14/07/2026one of my favourite unlivable condo styles is "2nd bedroom window has kitchen views" cos they can't call it a 2nd bedroom unless it has a window. $699,900 www.zillow.com/homedetails/...? 010
Reposted by Oscar the GrouseEthan Hein @ethanhein.bsky.social · 25/06/202650 country artists sing "cold beer" www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR2p...youtube.comI made a song entirely from 50 country artists singing "cold beer"YouTube video by There I Ruined It 75013
Oscar the Grouse @brickgrouse.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I think the key take away from this article which suggests in the first sentence that "more than half of Canadians say they'd consider moving to one" is the line "if they were able to find a job locally or work remotely" which is found halfway through the piece nationalpost.com/news/canada/...nationalpost.comMap shows Canada's 15 most affordable cities, according to a new report61 of 62 major Canadian cities saw improved affordability between 2024 and 2026, according to real estate company Royal LePage. 100
Reposted by Oscar the Grouserob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Small press and anarchist book fairs in the Glebe! interview with rob mclennan by Greg Macdougall, / @caitlinpress.bsky.social @ualbertapress.bsky.social @ucalgarypress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/06/smal...robmclennan.blogspot.comSmall press and anarchist book fairs in the Glebe! interview with rob mclennan by Greg Macdougall,Greg Macdougall recently interviewed me on tomorrow's ottawa small press book fair event, and an abridged version appeared as an article in... 0157
Oscar the Grouse @brickgrouse.bsky.social · 03/06/2026I love when it's clear the couple on an hgtv show hate each other 220
Oscar the Grouse @brickgrouse.bsky.social · 02/06/2026one of my all-time favourite jokes from The Simpsons 010
Reposted by Oscar the GrouseBassano @bassano.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer 130198284938
Oscar the Grouse @brickgrouse.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Breaking News: Recent reports are finding when you give a man fish he eats for a day but when you teach a man to fish he eats for a lifetime time.com/article/2026...time.comIs AI Making Our Brains Weaker?Relying on AI to lighten our cognitive load may potentially undercut our own capabilities. 110
Reposted by Oscar the Grouselauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 20/05/2026might be time to reconcile with the fact that fascists are preternaturally good at reality tv 511943205
Reposted by Oscar the GrouseTyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 18/02/2026I love this so much 322501766
Oscar the Grouse @brickgrouse.bsky.social · 10/05/2026correct me if I'm wrong, but a busted elevator for the west going platform at rideau station means you can't get up from or down to the trains heading toward tunney's on the rideau side, you've got to use the William's Street elevator 😬 110
Oscar the Grouse @brickgrouse.bsky.social · 08/05/2026I hate those familyfluencer videos that are like "you only have 2 summers with your baby, 3 Christmases with your toddler and 12 first days of school make them count" Thank you so much for making the countdown of mortality all that more acute Brenda 220
Reposted by Oscar the GrouseJerf Blerkman @jeffblackman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026*unfathomable creature crawls towards me, clawing the ground with its eyes, leg becoming genital becoming snout, moaning a rotting scent* Me: Wh-- what. What is this!? Director, Strategic Planning: IT IS AN EVERGREEN STRAW DOG. WE CAN CHANGE IT WHENEVER WE NEED 021
Oscar the Grouse @brickgrouse.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Nah, they're fine. it's fun and funny to think about ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 100
Reposted by Oscar the GrouseSpokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 16/08/2025Simple Boxes with Ornamentation are better than One Box Pretending To Be Lots of Boxes 321029175
Oscar the Grouse @brickgrouse.bsky.social · 29/04/2026549k, 1 bedroom, one corner of that bedroom is a glass wall/glass sliding door right next to the kitchen. Good thing the closet has a sliding door because there is not a lot of space in there 100
Oscar the Grouse @brickgrouse.bsky.social · 22/04/2026"Ontario Premier Doug Ford has reversed course on the purchase of a $28.9-million private jet for his travel, saying the province will sell its Bombardier Challenger 650 "as quickly as possible." I wonder how much of a loss we'll be taking on that 28.9 mil price tag www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caWe asked Canada's premiers if they fly private. Here's what they said | CBC NewsOntario Premier Doug Ford has reversed course on the purchase of a $28.9-million private jet for his travel — a controversy that has raised questions about how often Canada's leaders fly on private ai... 120
Oscar the Grouse @brickgrouse.bsky.social · 22/04/2026648k. Oof the 2nd bedroom. Certainly, it is a room where a (probably double) bed could go and not much else. Sliding frosted glass door for extra privacy. The Floorplan calls it a den, but the listing counts it as a bedroom 😒 200
Oscar the Grouse @brickgrouse.bsky.social · 21/04/2026every time I see a new story about the condo market in Toronto crashing I pop onto zillow or any real estate app to see how many listings it takes to find an awkward/cramped or close to unlivable unit for sale. It never takes more than three listings before you see why the condo market is in trouble 120
Oscar the Grouse @brickgrouse.bsky.social · 17/04/2026we can't have city-run grocery stores, we can't get a ban on surveillance pricing in grocery stores but we can get a private jet for our Premier. Doug Ford is not working for the average Ontarian. www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/poli...ctvnews.caDoug Ford nixes idea of grocery surveillance pricing ban in OntarioOntario Premier Doug Ford lamented Thursday that grocery store prices are sky high, but nixed the idea of banning so-called surveillance pricing and slammed a pilot project for city-run grocery stores... 010
Oscar the Grouse @brickgrouse.bsky.social · 17/04/2026so what if all of these satellites are complicating the ISS and other scientific missions. it's worth it so long as countless cruise vacationers are able to pay through the nose for wifi in the middle of the ocean 🫠 time.com/article/2026...time.comThe Looming Risk of Too Many Satellites and Debris in SpaceAI is spurring ever more data satellites in space. How humanity plans to deal with the clutter is still an open question. 100
