mélanie daigle
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Character animator with a passion for acting and an eye for design • Director • Author/Illustrator (#amquerying!) ✎ https://melanie-daigle.com (she/her)
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The only thing that anyone ever needs to know about Bill Ackman is that he once joined a group of avid long distance bikers from NYC to Montauk and back without training or preparation, arrogant in his ability to "lead the pack" and ended up screaming in agony
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We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...
Bit extreme, but walking the Camino de Santiago. It’ll even renew your faith in humanity. Somehow.

“Solvitur ambulando.” St Augustine. “It is solved by walking.”
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We'd better build more AI data centers, AI will fix this problem for us --

*waits five years*

The oceans have boiled and the drinking water is gone but at least all the intellectual property has been stolen and now I can use AI to create a really accurate representation of Batman fucking Pikachu
The information booth lady giving out stamps today, in spanish: “And where did you start? Sarria?”

Me: “No, in Saint-Jean.”

Her: 😮‼️👏

Me: 😏
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A lot of people wonder how companies like IBM, Ford, Coca Cola, and General Electric got away with supporting Nazi Germany in their genocidal war.

This is how. Companies have always taken profits, wherever it comes from, no matter what atrocities they are enabling. Fascism is built on corporations.
Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.
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vancouver planning in the 21st century is developers and the city patting themselves on the back for a sustainable mixed-used community that pays homage to the industrial past while using modern best practices where a two bedroom condo costs a million dollars and there are no schools
cool, awesome, inspiring, just one question where are the schools or buses or community centres
I was warned about pilgrim manners going out the window starting in Sarria. Thought we hit jackpot because the city was basically dead today.

Ding dongs are setting up top bunks at TEN PM. In JEANS.
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This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)
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Fun fact, you can answer all of these questions by talking about how much you want the government to protect you *FROM* "AI" rather than how much you want them to fund it. Give it a try!
Jesus Christ… 🤦‍♀️
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The economics of AI (LLM) data centers continue to be utterly unworkable. This whole thing is going to crash sooner rather than later and leave a giant smoldering crater where a big chunk of the economy used to be.
“She has a pretty good lifestyle. She doesn’t have to work. Of course, if we split up I’d still support her.”

🚩 Now might be a good time to mention that I’VE JUST MET THIS GUY. Buddy’s mind is clearly already made up and he’s just looking for excuses.
“If my wife doesn’t let me do the whole thing on my own, maybe that’s a sign we need to split.”

🚩 Jesus Christ.
“I’m with a buddy and we started in León, but I want to do the whole thing alone too.”

🚩 You’re already doing it. How ‘bout you focus on that buddy? And, there is no “whole thing” on the Camino. You qualify for the compostela or you don’t. Is it bugging you that the ladies are “beating”’you?
“I have kids and I miss them dearly, but it’s different if you’re a female.”

🚩 Female 🤨
“That woman is amazing. She has a husband and kids and is doing the whole Camino alone!”

If a dude does it it’s whatever, and if a woman does it, it’s “an inspiration” isn’t the compliment you think it is.

🚩 Number one.
Met a woman on the Camino who got caught in this mess (on the international development side of things.) Real people’s lives are getting upended because of insecure and incompetent psychopaths.
Federal employees across the government are now receiving layoff notices, a devastating outcome of Trump’s political games. It’s outrageous that he would use people’s livelihoods as pawns to “score political points”.
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Cover of L&NER’s Wandering On The Continent booklet, 1937
“I ain’t playing no damn bed race shit!”

My (Camino vet) friend’s advice about the Saria - Santiago rush. IYKYK 😂
The monk blessed us after complines with holy water, and just then it starts POURING outside.

Randomness.