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Scott 𐚁 Cataloochee Hogtoe 𐚁 Cave @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

lol lmao. It's literally just a type of palm oil

A fleshy fruit, obsessively sourced

Similar to fruit oils like avocado and olive, this unique antioxidant-rich fruit has primarily healthy, monounsaturated fats, but also has a cleaner taste preferred by chefs for hardworking fryers. Organic Fera fruit oil comes from a distinct South American palm tree, oleifera x guineensis, a relative of other palm trees that produce coconuts, dates, and acai berries. Just 1 ingredient - no seed oil, additives, hexane, or preservatives.

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the fact that emails find you suggests that they are some sort of guided munition

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GPT-Ern Malley @denam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This discourse definitely shows that there is a real audience, at least online, for weightless Tom Taylor stories. It's not even like he's an awful writer or anything, he just can't commit to conflict and has to end with "and then they all decided to go to therapy and volunteer to end capitalism."

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This isn't subtext or hyperbole. Bruce Wayne will literally look at the reader & say it.

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You can tell the people who haven't read a Batman story in years, or ever, by what they propose as fixes. "I'd have an arc where Bruce learns that the only way to address crime is through robust social programs."

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Ben, I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Gunpla.

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Ben, I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Gunpla.

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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 28/09/2026

Everyone's focusing on the car in the background, but can we talk for a moment about the graphic design of the sign in the foreground?

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This morning — following two investigations into Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford's use of an app that rewards supporters for posting AI-generated comments and sharing contacts — Bradford called our reporting "inaccurate." We're now releasing the recording that proves our reporting.

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Bradford calls CNO reporting of AI app rewards ‘inaccurate.’ Here’s the recording proving our reporting.

Canada’s National Observer has decided to publish the segment of the Zoom call that corroborates its reporting.

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Jordyn Marcellus @jordynmarcellus.ca · 28/09/2026

Sony's PS-Q7 is one of those things where I get what the point was and I absolutely love that they had the hubris to go through with it But also every time I look at it I wince, because there are just so many ways it can go wrong

A Sony PS-Q7 turntable.

The turntable itself is designed to sit on top of one of those compact stereo stacks, meaning the entire thing is smaller than a 12" record, and playing a record on it involves approximately ¾ of the record sticking out from under the top cover.

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> Toronto traffic is bad because of congestion caused by construction > Much of it caused by burying the Ontario Line > This would mean Douggy's at fault > It's bike lanes

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The most eyebrow raising aspect of Project South isn't the attempted hit that kicked it all off. It's the amount of completely unrelated crimes & corruption that they stumbled upon while investigating it. You can't read the articles on it & not wonder what else is there that nobody's looking for.

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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The problems on University were never the bike lanes. It's all the construction that keeps reducing it to 2 or even 1 lanes

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“What is certain, however, is that a vast sum of our money will be wasted, countless Torontonians will find themselves profoundly inconvenienced for extended periods, and, eventually, a cyclist will get struck by a car. But at least the congestion will be worse.”

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dame @dame.is · 28/09/2026

Flipping through historic Billboard Hot 100 charts and man, some of these years were cursed

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i really really REALLY don’t think you should respond to someone getting death threats by saying “this sucks, but it makes sense because the person telling you to KYS has material and mental conditions that are making them lash out” STOP MAKING EXCUSES FOR DEATH THREAT ENJOYERS

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And similar to that, my response remains the same: Should it be dismissed just because it's popular? No Should it be given deference for the same reason? Also no

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A lot of the Choosin' Texas discourse just feels like warmed over leftovers from the poptimism era

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Put on Somethin' Else while cooking and man, I had forgotten how absolutely stacked the line-up Cannonball Adderley assembled for this record was

Cover art for Somethin' Else by Cannonball Adderley

The other performers listed are Miles Davis, Hank Jones, Sam Jones, and Art Blakey

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When it comes to music journalism, Rolling Stone has at best spent decades only sporadically mattering There was a joke that you could tell a magazine's audience not by the articles, but by ads in the back. And even 25 years ago the ads in RS were mostly targeting middle-aged dads

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Ah crap. I lost the rewind button on my Contax. 😭

My mistress's eyes are nothing like the fucking sun. You idiot. You bird-brain.

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Wait. We're pretending the VMAs, an awards show that once had an award for Ringtone of the Year, have integrity now?

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"Honey, I don't mean to alarm you but the stuff you're buying for decor is getting a bit... nautical"

Andrew. @g026r.leftblank.org · 26/09/2026

"We do not share the specific number of closures" means it's likely one of either "oh, that's a BIG number" or "really? that few?"

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Andrew. @g026r.leftblank.org · 26/09/2026

#RandomGameSaturday ChuChu Rocket! It's always weird to remember that no, this game was designed for the Dreamcast — a showcase for its processing & networking capabilities — and was exclusive to it until the console was discont inued. Because the single player experience is such a portable one.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Jackie Jackson died two days ago. His death did not get the fanfare that the big celebrities get but I assure you he was no less than any of them: a titan astride the earth. In this thread, a few of the songs he played bass on. You know these songs. You know their bass parts. youtu.be/DKVB_CtU8XQ

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Pressure Drop

YouTube video by Toots & The Maytals - Topic

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 25/09/2026

Three teams in the AAA Pacific Coast League and eight teams in the AAA International League would be leading the AL West if we had promotion and relegation like a proper sport.

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On the other hand, Arrested Development is at #12 and Game of Thrones is at #6. So there's clearly a lot of "we judge the good seasons and pretend not to see the other ones" going on here

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"City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak, meanwhile, said in June 2024 that the Premier League should adopt a more “balanced approach” towards its financial regulations." Oh, they *guilty* guilty.

As someone who loves apples but hates most of the varieties that grocery stores have narrowed themselves to carrying: I want to eat the ancient apple

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Man, I think Rupar is really out over his skis on that photograph post It's not "based on" the Getty image. They're photos of the same scene taken at slightly different times. (Check the angle of Trump's head.)

Andrew. @g026r.leftblank.org · 24/09/2026

Sure. Why not. (Are these the actual games? I dunno. It's what came to mind when I tried to spread them out across an extended period instead of clustering in one era.)

Zork | Gradius | Super Mario Bros
Metroid II | Chrono Trigger | Command & Conquer Red Alert
Fallout | Flower | Dead Cells

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Ian Austen @ianausten.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

An abandoned Ontario tourist information centre on Hwy. 417/The Trans-Canada Highway just west of the Quebec border. This was shot in the spring and the phone then had a dial tone. The power was subsequently cut to the building. (Leica M4-P, 75mm f1.4 Summilux M, Fuji Acros 100)

A pay phone is mounted directly to a concrete pillar that also supports a triangular overhang. In the background is a building with a curved wall made of vertical bands of metal. The paint is coming off a metal roof to the right and behind the wall all three skylights.

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Andrew. @g026r.leftblank.org · 24/09/2026

The real solution would be getting Metrolinx to make GO trains service frequent & convenient outside of small windows. But GO trains are visible, which makes them undesirable, and Metrolinx doesn't view their mandate as serving anyone other than office commuters.

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

so politico got a direct quote from the sitting vice president and instead cited it as an anonymous source? That’s a bigger story than JD ratting out his boss because let’s be honest, he’s obviously a rat, that surprises no one.

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Andrew. @g026r.leftblank.org · 23/10/2025

"You know what they call a Fruit by the Foot in Trois-Rivières?" "They don't call it a Fruit by the Foot?" "No, they got the metric system there, they wouldn't know what the fuck by the foot is."

A "Fruit O-Long" box, which is what they call Fruit by the Foot in Quebec

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC

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John Coltrane's Albums Ranked from Worst to Best │ Exclaim!

The top 5 are mostly what you expect. (Ascension at #4 maybe the only thing most readers might disagree with.) It's the bottom half of the chart that's more interesting to argue about.

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To mark what would have been his 100th birthday, we're counting down through the jazz legend's prolific decade of output

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SIU announced earlier that being pushed off a bicycle, tackled by multiple police officers, and given a TBI is "reasonable force" for rolling a stop sign If we extend this logic, what's the reasonable force for a car rolling a stop sign? Whatever you're thinking, SIU would probably be OK with it

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"Just what is it that you want to do?"

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