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I have complicated feelings on NDTR and its status as a paid holiday for federal workers in Canada. but as it happens today is also my anniversary with my partner and so that part of things is always very nice for me

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 20h

Loved reading Gillian Anderson's thoughts on Camp Miasma's Billy. "obviously everything takes a turn when Kris seduces her. From that point on, she realizes what they can both give each other. She knows what she wants to give Kris, and I think at the same time, what she’s receiving."

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Gillian Anderson Can Haunt Us Anytime

"My happy place is usually where it's quiet and there's nobody anywhere."

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/09/2026

DraftKings has argued that its ‘responsible gaming’ system provides adequate safeguards to protect customers from spiraling out of control. So I decided to find out: If I bet like a compulsive gambler, would DraftKings stop me? by Jake Pearson

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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.

Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...

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D. Delorme @michifott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Unfortunately I need to write emails this evening and I don'tttt want to

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 28/09/2026

We've also pulled all three stories on this out from behind the paywall.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026

It really doesn't make sense to attribute those job losses to AI-the-technology, because if that were the case we'd be observing AI outputs displacing conventional entertainment products, and they're clearly not. Rather, the impact of AI is that AI-the-business is crowding out other investment.

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

tbh just do what I do: follow @countryuniverse.net and keep them in the background of your feed so you can read their capsule reviews and you’ll regularly get opportunities to check out singers with diverse viewpoints and incredible talents who you probably haven’t heard of

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Laura J. Smart @ljsmart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Utterly unsurprising to metadata librarians who have documented the propagation of errors and their classes for decades. This is why orgs with central stores of metadata have regular processes to catch, correct, merge dupes etc. Too bad Amazon doesn’t.

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D. Delorme @michifott.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ok hang on i'm gonna post both. i just ate dinner and these are not performance quality but still tell me which u like better. this is Ash Grove

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D. Delorme @michifott.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fortunately I have to decide on what a cappella folk song to sing for an audition tomorrow, so that's one way to dislodge it

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D. Delorme @michifott.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Dolly show went great, really glad I could be part of it. Now the real challenge, which is to prybar the song I performed out of my head so I'm not idly humming it all day every day.

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Dolly Parton Day! For this 9/25, the Bitter Kitten Movie Club is diving deep into "9 to 5," with a podcast talking about its queer influences and liberal polemic and a costume post outlining all of the tropes and motifs you might have missed: tomandlorenzo.com/2026/09/bitt...

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Bitter Kitten Movie Club: 9 to 5 (1980) - Tom + Lorenzo

9 to 5 (1980) Directed by: Colin Higgins Starring: Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Dabney Coleman Costume Designer: Ann Roth Happy Dolly Day,

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D. Delorme @michifott.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is such a funny and clever way to weaponize the astonishing number of Tony-winning musical theatre actors in this cast

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is a real fuckin problem with journalism. This piece seemed mean spirited, unkind, and not really the sort of thing I would dedicate thousands of words to when people are being snatched off our streets. But the industry will go towards this kind of shit because they want the money it brings

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D. Delorme @michifott.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Listening to the new Poozies record and while it is not my favourite of theirs, I have so much respect for any group that can maintain ANY degree of sonic continuity over thirty-five years and seven different recording line-ups

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Not Vex as in 🏳️‍🌈 but Vex as in 🏳️‍🌈 @theterroirist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If an industry is so vital to the national interests that we need to protect the owners from fair bargaining and allowing their employees the right to strike, then it is an industry that is too vital to the national interests to be held by private owners. Nationalise them.

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Rook @boxen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I am enjoying this podcast and you almost certainly will too

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D. Delorme @michifott.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Looks like I'm going to be singing a number in a queer Dolly tribute show next weekend c:

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John L. Walters @johnlwalters.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Whenever someone smart says, ‘I asked ChatGPT and it said xyz,’ I’m reminded of Baldur Bjarnason’s excellent article ‘The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con.’ softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme... #quitgpt #TheAICon @baldurbjarnason.com

The intelligence illusion seems to be based on the same mechanism as that of a psychic’s con, often called cold reading. It looks like an accidental automation of the same basic tactic.

By using validation statements, such as sentences that use the Forer effect, the chatbot and the psychic both give the impression of being able to make extremely specific answers, but those answers are in fact statistically generic.

The psychic uses these statements to give the impression of being able to read minds and hear the secrets of the dead.

The chatbot gives the impression of an intelligence that is specifically engaging with you and your work, but that impression is nothing more than a statistical trick.

This idea was first planted in my head when I was going over some of the statements people have been making about the reasoning of these ‘AI’.

I first thought that these were just classic cases of tech bubble enthusiasm, but no, ‘AI’ has both taken a different crowd and the believers in the ‘AI’ bubble sound very different from those of prior bubbles.

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D. Delorme @michifott.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

thrilled that my prediction was correct and that someone has designed "The High Winter Elves of Girlville" following the onion article about Olivia Rodrigo's game of that title drgwenmarshall.itch.io/high-winter-...

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High Winter Elves of Girlville by Gwen Marshall

A satirical game based on an Onion article about Olivia Rodrigo making a TTRPG!

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sarah macdonald @sarahsmacdonald.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

i interviewed THEE carly rae jepsen! we talked about her new double album, finding joy again in making music, and my break-up, which if you can’t tell that stuff to the artists who’ve soundtracked some of your most emotional moments then who can you tell? www.socanmagazine.ca/features/car...

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Carly Rae Jepsen feels it all - SOCAN Words and Music

I don’t mean to talk to Carly Rae Jepsen about my break-up but I do it anyway. It’s late August and we’re on a Zoom call, with Jepsen at home, her cantaloupe-coloured hair radiant in the sunshine, and...

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D. Delorme @michifott.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Scrolling up from this post is a whole, delightful, live-listening reactions thread - but here is where Kysan starts summing up his review of the album as a whole. Album's good! Thread's good! I need to listen more to really take it in - 24 songs is a lot to digest - but first impressions are great

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ontario's police governance is custom-built to obscure oversight and accountability, perhaps the single example of our institutions functioning precisely as they're intended, indeed at a very high level.

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D. Delorme @michifott.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

saw a job listing today that would make for an incredibly funny, but inadvisable, career move and i'm not gonna lie i am tempted to apply solely for the bit

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MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So there is in fact a "magic money tree", but it's not for fighting climate change or for public services.

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D. Delorme @michifott.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

given that i'm only half-listening to this (very good!) album, genuinely embarrassing how quickly i clocked this as a xanadu cover

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Magic by Queen Esther on Apple Music

Song · 2026 · Duration 5:54

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Jack de Quidt @notquitereal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

i don't remember where the idea of the magazine that kills you came from but i do know that there's an integer percentage part of my brain dedicated to thinking about the magazine that kills you at all times

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Tomoyo Bombadil @corposant.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

fleggbot is everything to me #friendsatthetable #perpetua

ink doodle of fleggbot wearing cool sunglasses sitting at the helm of an airship

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D. Delorme @michifott.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

not too many people out there thinking to cover both kesha and rodgers & hammerstein on their country album but perhaps there should be music.apple.com/ca/album/roa...

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Roadrunner! by Kaitlin Butts on Apple Music

Album · 2024 · 17 Songs

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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A WHOLE LOT of trans people are citing to the last decade of UK politics as a reason they think anti-trans Dems winning is worse FOR THEM than anti-trans Repubs. And a whole lot of US liberals aren't engaging with that example at all while pontificating about why trans people are wrong and stupid.

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D. Delorme @michifott.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

read and adored both kalyna books by @elijahkinchspector.com this weekend. also appreciated the inclusion of bibliographies and how interesting some of the works cited sound

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 08/09/2026

If you look at the 2020s MAHA and RW wellness space, and ask "how much of this movement encourages me to eat a Cow Product?", it's a bit of a shock, to some people. Collagen, Bone Broths, low/no carb diets, all the red-faced HGH users, etc.

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D. Delorme @michifott.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

mybad knee is not happy with me after the hiking today, i will say that. i used my cane and everything!!

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/09/2026

I know this'll ruffle feathers but I agree with this Food/Water watch analysis. Diverting renewable energy away from fossil phase-out and climate adaptation and towards melting graphics card to power chatbots is the formal end of moral purpose for clean technology.

Data Centers With Renewables Aren’t the Answer
So all these power plants and “temporary” turbines are raising power prices and polluting our communities. Why don’t we just power data centers with renewables?

Many data center companies are pledging to (eventually) do just that. But even if these pledges weren’t just empty greenwashing promises, powering data centers with clean energy is utterly unrealistic. It also threatens the progress of our already dangerously slow energy transition.

Continuously powering a 1 GW data center would require nearly 20,000 acres of solar panels or 185,000 acres of onshore wind power. We cannot afford to waste the time, space, or money to build renewables for Big Tech’s profit machines.

Already, data center growth is outstripping available renewable energy supply and redirecting renewables from other industries. It’s drawing urgently needed renewables from existing technologies and resources. We need to focus our renewable energy resources toward thos

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D. Delorme @michifott.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

beautiful day to go hiking and then nude sunbathing with a bunch of gay people. and as it happens that is what i have planned!

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D. Delorme @michifott.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

couple of people made wildly inaccurate guesses at my age today, strengthening my impression that many simply don't know what people in their mid-thirties look like

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D. Delorme @michifott.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

one more day of work before the weekend, then one day of regular work before four days of union stuff which is at least a change of pace. i can do thissss

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James Hamilton @jameshamiltonwriter.com · 10/09/2026

ANNOUNCEMENT: I have decided to rate the dancing of every character in Mario Kart World

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D. Delorme @michifott.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GS is straight up the ttrpg I have played the most of and it's not particularly close, so I was always going to be in on the ground floor with this one I just backed Good Society: A Jane Austen RPG – 2nd Edition on @kickstarter.com

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Good Society: A Jane Austen RPG – 2nd Edition

Navigate the pitfalls of romance, reputation, manners, and marriage in the sumptuous new edition of this award-winning regency rpg.

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D. Delorme @michifott.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

saw a poster for a local olivia rodrigo/sabrina carpenter drag show, and i even remember some of the queens, but i didn't note the date/location and can't find it again and am losing my mind

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D. Delorme @michifott.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

wish i was still at the lake rather than doing Work Things On Sharepoint

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D. Delorme @michifott.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

lakeside long weekend :)

me on a beach towel on a dock, wearing a colourful speedo and sunglasses

a low-angle shot of the water and hillside beyond a wooden dock. on the dock is a book, tashan mehta's "mad sisters of esi"

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D. Delorme @michifott.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

though if i were to actually write the joke rather than do it off the dome in conversation, i think the repeated activity would have to be closer to something done in sissification, tighten the narrative link a bit

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