Tony, Supervisor at Nubby's Number Factory
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Making sure the Sun doesn't explode, one Nubby at a time.
Not the developer of Nubby's Number Factory.
Not the developer of Nubby's Number Factory.
An added bit: if you're a kid and you don't adhere to these things, like I didn't, you're set up for a childhood of bullying. Solnit's "straitjacket with a gun" is foisted on the little ones from the jump.
So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
An added bit: if you're a kid and you don't adhere to these things, like I didn't, you're set up for a childhood of bullying. Solnit's "straitjacket with a gun" is foisted on the little ones from the jump.
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People think "politics" is what you say, but politics is in fact how you wield power. In that sense, driving a car is one of the most profound ways to reveal what your actual politics are.
How people drive reveals the sickness at the heart of our society: wanting power, but not responsibility.
How people drive reveals the sickness at the heart of our society: wanting power, but not responsibility.
It just needs to be way easier to lose your license and your car for reckless driving, because a few months of major societal disruption 5 years ago taught people that driving in such a way that kills others or themselves is nbd
so uhhhhh is anyone going to do anything about the epidemic of drivers just blasting through red lights these days? @timdonnelly.com investigates: nygroove.nyc/why-does-no-...
November 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
People think "politics" is what you say, but politics is in fact how you wield power. In that sense, driving a car is one of the most profound ways to reveal what your actual politics are.
How people drive reveals the sickness at the heart of our society: wanting power, but not responsibility.
How people drive reveals the sickness at the heart of our society: wanting power, but not responsibility.
Working at Starbucks in downtown Ottawa 15+ years ago to help stretch the money at the end of the month was a more physically and mentally exhausting job than my current one and it isn't close. And Starbucks is *designed* to be as seamless as possible!
it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet
November 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Working at Starbucks in downtown Ottawa 15+ years ago to help stretch the money at the end of the month was a more physically and mentally exhausting job than my current one and it isn't close. And Starbucks is *designed* to be as seamless as possible!
"Sacrifices" for everyone except the wealthy and powerful. A more avowedly radical NDP promising a wealth tax could probably claw a lot of turf back once the elbows up crowd realizes that they got got by Mark Carney.
I missed the detail that Mark Carney ditched the luxury tax on private jets, yachts, and vehicles over $100,000 in the budget, though I also can’t say I’m surprised.
The banker-in-chief is serving his Bay Street buddies.
The banker-in-chief is serving his Bay Street buddies.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:34 AM
"Sacrifices" for everyone except the wealthy and powerful. A more avowedly radical NDP promising a wealth tax could probably claw a lot of turf back once the elbows up crowd realizes that they got got by Mark Carney.
At this rate you could show up to your campaign launch announcement wearing nothing but tattered boxer shorts and say "yeah, my opponent, uh, whatstheirface, uh, they suck ass. Go me!" and probably have a floor of 20% in voting intentions among Democrats.
pretty sure you could launch a challenge at one of the senators up in 2026 and get an absolute groundswell of early donations, even this late
November 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
At this rate you could show up to your campaign launch announcement wearing nothing but tattered boxer shorts and say "yeah, my opponent, uh, whatstheirface, uh, they suck ass. Go me!" and probably have a floor of 20% in voting intentions among Democrats.
Chuck Schumer's next post on this website might well be the most ratio'd post to ever exist here.
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Chuck Schumer's next post on this website might well be the most ratio'd post to ever exist here.
This reminds me of the Australian consumer affairs show The Checkout. It was on ABC and I saw it through YouTube. Very Leslie Knope-kinda thing (affectionate) that taught people about their consumer rights. It was cute!
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This reminds me of the Australian consumer affairs show The Checkout. It was on ABC and I saw it through YouTube. Very Leslie Knope-kinda thing (affectionate) that taught people about their consumer rights. It was cute!
Great and correct observation. This is part of why I think I am more skeptical of "angry progressive" candidates (Fetterman comes to mind) than I am "earnest progressive" candidates (Mamdani).
The first rule of organizing is to listen. Most politicians (or would-be politicians) are not interested in organizing. They're interested in *ruling*.
October 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Great and correct observation. This is part of why I think I am more skeptical of "angry progressive" candidates (Fetterman comes to mind) than I am "earnest progressive" candidates (Mamdani).
I feel like doing "if you don't like LLMs you're bigoted" is a pale horse for the entire slop machine industry. This is the last stand of the desperate.
For the record: no, you can't be bigoted towards a calculator, whether it calculates words or numbers.
For the record: no, you can't be bigoted towards a calculator, whether it calculates words or numbers.
i’m completely serious when i say that much of the dismissive ai discourse on here fires the bigotry neuron
October 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I feel like doing "if you don't like LLMs you're bigoted" is a pale horse for the entire slop machine industry. This is the last stand of the desperate.
For the record: no, you can't be bigoted towards a calculator, whether it calculates words or numbers.
For the record: no, you can't be bigoted towards a calculator, whether it calculates words or numbers.
Holy shit is this guy washed. "You deserve better than dying" is about as inspiring a sentiment to rally around as cottage cheese.
If the Democrats can't primary and turf this bum, they might as well walk themselves to jail.
If the Democrats can't primary and turf this bum, they might as well walk themselves to jail.
Republicans are forcing hospitals, nursing homes and health clinics to close.
People will die.
You deserve better.
People will die.
You deserve better.
September 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Holy shit is this guy washed. "You deserve better than dying" is about as inspiring a sentiment to rally around as cottage cheese.
If the Democrats can't primary and turf this bum, they might as well walk themselves to jail.
If the Democrats can't primary and turf this bum, they might as well walk themselves to jail.
Being labelled as "Antifa" (whatever that is) and stomped out of existence by nervous executives may be the only way that SNL could be relevant in the 21st century.
On that note, why is our society run by craven mediocrities whose power comes from craven institutions?
On that note, why is our society run by craven mediocrities whose power comes from craven institutions?
September 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Being labelled as "Antifa" (whatever that is) and stomped out of existence by nervous executives may be the only way that SNL could be relevant in the 21st century.
On that note, why is our society run by craven mediocrities whose power comes from craven institutions?
On that note, why is our society run by craven mediocrities whose power comes from craven institutions?
Please, for the love of God, primary and bin Chuck Schumer. Dude and his imaginary friends absolutely do not get it, and at this point it has to be willfully so.
Schumer: "We need to have a bipartisan bill ... we are asking them to sit down with us and negotiate."
September 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Please, for the love of God, primary and bin Chuck Schumer. Dude and his imaginary friends absolutely do not get it, and at this point it has to be willfully so.
The French took four tries to get to a modern republic. No shame in starting from scratch. True for both Canada and the United States.
The Supreme Court is illegitimate.
Not just because it is stolen, and it is, and not because it is corrupt, and it is, but because it is wrong and it does not represent the interests of the people.
We have to get comfortable with unchaining ourselves from tradition, norms, and decorum.
Not just because it is stolen, and it is, and not because it is corrupt, and it is, but because it is wrong and it does not represent the interests of the people.
We have to get comfortable with unchaining ourselves from tradition, norms, and decorum.
June 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The French took four tries to get to a modern republic. No shame in starting from scratch. True for both Canada and the United States.
"See the primitive wallflower freeze/When the jelly-faced women all sneeze/Hear the one with the mustache say, "Jeez, I can't find my knees""
- Bob Dylan, Voices of Johanna
Dunno why but it reeks of "we live in a society" to me. Not a Dylan guy, I guess.
- Bob Dylan, Voices of Johanna
Dunno why but it reeks of "we live in a society" to me. Not a Dylan guy, I guess.
All right, what are the worst song lyrics you've ever heard?
June 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
"See the primitive wallflower freeze/When the jelly-faced women all sneeze/Hear the one with the mustache say, "Jeez, I can't find my knees""
- Bob Dylan, Voices of Johanna
Dunno why but it reeks of "we live in a society" to me. Not a Dylan guy, I guess.
- Bob Dylan, Voices of Johanna
Dunno why but it reeks of "we live in a society" to me. Not a Dylan guy, I guess.
I saw Gordon Lightfoot in a cafe in Ontario some 15 years ago. Walked up to him and said, "hey, you're Gordon Lightfoot!", to which he responded "I sure hope so". Didn't have much more to say, but he was a lovely fellow in that brief interaction.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I saw Gordon Lightfoot in a cafe in Ontario some 15 years ago. Walked up to him and said, "hey, you're Gordon Lightfoot!", to which he responded "I sure hope so". Didn't have much more to say, but he was a lovely fellow in that brief interaction.
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The robot ticketing everyone is good because it’s going to modify behavior in a way that a cop doesn’t and doesn’t want to. Now you have to obey the speed limit instead of the speed of traffic.
The system clocked me at 81 in a 65, resulting in a $160 ticket.
It was night and traffic was light. I was in the left lane going roughly the same speed as the cars ahead and behind. Doesn't excuse the speeding! The difference is one of expectations. A human cop can't ticket all of us. A robot can.
It was night and traffic was light. I was in the left lane going roughly the same speed as the cars ahead and behind. Doesn't excuse the speeding! The difference is one of expectations. A human cop can't ticket all of us. A robot can.
May 28, 2025 at 2:56 AM
The robot ticketing everyone is good because it’s going to modify behavior in a way that a cop doesn’t and doesn’t want to. Now you have to obey the speed limit instead of the speed of traffic.
Nothing screams sovereignty like having a foreigner open your government and buying into a foreign defense project on your soil!
Charles III is a tourist spouting platitudes. A sovereign Canada, one that doesn't double down on colonial extraction, does not need English royalty.
Charles III is a tourist spouting platitudes. A sovereign Canada, one that doesn't double down on colonial extraction, does not need English royalty.
May 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Nothing screams sovereignty like having a foreigner open your government and buying into a foreign defense project on your soil!
Charles III is a tourist spouting platitudes. A sovereign Canada, one that doesn't double down on colonial extraction, does not need English royalty.
Charles III is a tourist spouting platitudes. A sovereign Canada, one that doesn't double down on colonial extraction, does not need English royalty.
The apotheosis of technocracy--the message doesn't matter, it's a matter of how you feed an unwanted ideology into the electoral algorithm. Reactionaries are odious and evil, but they're honest about their intent to do ill and cause harm in a way technocrats and liberals are not.
Liberals (in basically any western country) think that the political victory of the right is due to messaging: "We just need to get the messaging right".
No. Your politics are shit because you are adopting the narratives of the right (austerity, racism) and provide no meaningful alternatives.
No. Your politics are shit because you are adopting the narratives of the right (austerity, racism) and provide no meaningful alternatives.
May 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The apotheosis of technocracy--the message doesn't matter, it's a matter of how you feed an unwanted ideology into the electoral algorithm. Reactionaries are odious and evil, but they're honest about their intent to do ill and cause harm in a way technocrats and liberals are not.
Unbelievably hype for Opening Night for the Chatham-Kent Barnstormers.
May 16, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Unbelievably hype for Opening Night for the Chatham-Kent Barnstormers.
Two days. That's all it took for Mark Carney's Liberals to betray Canadians based on arcane projections and detached wonkery.
May 16, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Two days. That's all it took for Mark Carney's Liberals to betray Canadians based on arcane projections and detached wonkery.
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The absolute narcissism of thinking your most important job as an elected official is to get re-elected.
May 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The absolute narcissism of thinking your most important job as an elected official is to get re-elected.
People know when they're being sold pablum and they check out accordingly. Can you imagine anyone volunteering for Chuck Schumer for reasons outside of cynical career-boosting? I can't.
That’s the key to AOC’s popularity. She acts and sounds like a normal person, not a focus group/consultant created politician. The Dem base is begging for authenticity and emotion.
May 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
People know when they're being sold pablum and they check out accordingly. Can you imagine anyone volunteering for Chuck Schumer for reasons outside of cynical career-boosting? I can't.
MarkGPT named an AI minister, and it's hard to see this going any way other than the Starmer regime. The question upcoming is which reactionary lunatic Carney is keeping the PM's chair warm for.
May 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
MarkGPT named an AI minister, and it's hard to see this going any way other than the Starmer regime. The question upcoming is which reactionary lunatic Carney is keeping the PM's chair warm for.
The real Papal announcement is the stealthy news-drop from a major sports franchise.
Derek Shelton has been relieved of his duties as Pirates Manager.
Pirates Bench Coach, Don Kelly, has been named manager.
Pirates Bench Coach, Don Kelly, has been named manager.
May 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The real Papal announcement is the stealthy news-drop from a major sports franchise.
Have we talked about how the neoliberal university is perversely incentivized to maximize student intake regardless of a student's ability to demonstrate the kinds of skills that a university student needs to have?
In only two years, ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
James D. Walsh writes for @intelligencer.com: nymag.com/intelligence....
James D. Walsh writes for @intelligencer.com: nymag.com/intelligence....
May 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Have we talked about how the neoliberal university is perversely incentivized to maximize student intake regardless of a student's ability to demonstrate the kinds of skills that a university student needs to have?