aleXmas 🎄
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November 26, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Thinking of all the art I have loved in many galleries in different countries throughout my life, my imagination sparked and my emotions stirred, transported to other worlds and planes of existence, in silent conversation with the intentions of the artists.
AI “art” will never be able to do that.
AI “art” will never be able to do that.
November 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Thinking of all the art I have loved in many galleries in different countries throughout my life, my imagination sparked and my emotions stirred, transported to other worlds and planes of existence, in silent conversation with the intentions of the artists.
AI “art” will never be able to do that.
AI “art” will never be able to do that.
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I will be the first to admit I couldn’t understand why anyone would oppose Assisted Dying… and then I became disabled and had it “offered” to me.
It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion.
It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care.
Listen to disabled people.
It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion.
It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care.
Listen to disabled people.
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I will be the first to admit I couldn’t understand why anyone would oppose Assisted Dying… and then I became disabled and had it “offered” to me.
It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion.
It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care.
Listen to disabled people.
It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion.
It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care.
Listen to disabled people.
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Share a '90s movie you think deserves more love.
Definitely the Mary.
Definitely the Mary.
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Share a '90s movie you think deserves more love.
Definitely the Mary.
Definitely the Mary.
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Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
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We need a better geographical characterization of Alberta and Saskatchewan because when there is reference to “western Canada” it almost never means Canada’s westernmost province.
As frustration in Western Canada deepens over decisions handed down from Ottawa, one writer says the country’s survival may depend on scattering the federal government far beyond the capital’s bubble. https://macleans.ca/politics/how-to-fix-western-alienation/
How to Fix Western Alienation - Macleans.ca
Ottawa feels out of touch. Spreading the federal government across the country would rebuild trust.
macleans.ca
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 AM
We need a better geographical characterization of Alberta and Saskatchewan because when there is reference to “western Canada” it almost never means Canada’s westernmost province.
This is Elon Musk
November 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This is Elon Musk
Elon desperately wants to make someone really laugh. Real laughter, not sycophantic tittering. He wants to be funny but he will never be funny.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Elon desperately wants to make someone really laugh. Real laughter, not sycophantic tittering. He wants to be funny but he will never be funny.
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Has this pairing ever been flipped? Where a man falls in love with a monster?
November 24, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Has this pairing ever been flipped? Where a man falls in love with a monster?
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The only thing you can do is extend kindness to *everyone*.
November 24, 2025 at 5:13 AM
The only thing you can do is extend kindness to *everyone*.
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Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
November 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Apparently Tears For Fears’ video for “Head Over Heels” was filmed at Emmanuel College Library, University of Toronto. Who knew? youtu.be/CsHiG-43Fzg
Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels
YouTube video by TearsForFearsVEVO
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Apparently Tears For Fears’ video for “Head Over Heels” was filmed at Emmanuel College Library, University of Toronto. Who knew? youtu.be/CsHiG-43Fzg
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this photo is too powerful, aura off the charts
November 23, 2025 at 6:48 AM
this photo is too powerful, aura off the charts
I don’t remember where I saved this from but this woman rocks
November 23, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I don’t remember where I saved this from but this woman rocks
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75 years young 😍
Happy Birthday Tina Weymouth, born on this day in 1950, Coronado, California
One of the greatest bass line ever:
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer - Old Grey Whistle Test
#punk #punkrock #postpunk #newwave #tinaweymouth #talkingheads #punkrockhistory #otd
Happy Birthday Tina Weymouth, born on this day in 1950, Coronado, California
One of the greatest bass line ever:
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer - Old Grey Whistle Test
#punk #punkrock #postpunk #newwave #tinaweymouth #talkingheads #punkrockhistory #otd
November 22, 2025 at 7:47 AM
75 years young 😍
Happy Birthday Tina Weymouth, born on this day in 1950, Coronado, California
One of the greatest bass line ever:
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer - Old Grey Whistle Test
#punk #punkrock #postpunk #newwave #tinaweymouth #talkingheads #punkrockhistory #otd
Happy Birthday Tina Weymouth, born on this day in 1950, Coronado, California
One of the greatest bass line ever:
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer - Old Grey Whistle Test
#punk #punkrock #postpunk #newwave #tinaweymouth #talkingheads #punkrockhistory #otd
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“After I put on my bathing suit, you must not look at me until I get into the water.”
“Why not?” asked Frog.
“Because I look funny in my bathing suit. That is why,” said Toad.
“Why not?” asked Frog.
“Because I look funny in my bathing suit. That is why,” said Toad.
November 22, 2025 at 8:37 AM
“After I put on my bathing suit, you must not look at me until I get into the water.”
“Why not?” asked Frog.
“Because I look funny in my bathing suit. That is why,” said Toad.
“Why not?” asked Frog.
“Because I look funny in my bathing suit. That is why,” said Toad.
My Christmas cactus is blooming 🌸
November 22, 2025 at 4:35 AM
My Christmas cactus is blooming 🌸
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this.
also, if you care about disability justice, hope you’re also pro-fat liberation.
do you know how many people have gone to the doctor for troubling symptoms, been automatically dismissed and told to lose weight, and then developed late-stage/severe chronic and acute illnesses?
also, if you care about disability justice, hope you’re also pro-fat liberation.
do you know how many people have gone to the doctor for troubling symptoms, been automatically dismissed and told to lose weight, and then developed late-stage/severe chronic and acute illnesses?
It also fucking sucks that so many people on the Left(s) refuse to understand anti-fatness as a system of oppression, and fat liberation as a legitimate anti-oppression movement.
It sucks, because it's all connected, and if you don't see this part, you don't have a clear understanding of the whole.
It sucks, because it's all connected, and if you don't see this part, you don't have a clear understanding of the whole.
November 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
this.
also, if you care about disability justice, hope you’re also pro-fat liberation.
do you know how many people have gone to the doctor for troubling symptoms, been automatically dismissed and told to lose weight, and then developed late-stage/severe chronic and acute illnesses?
also, if you care about disability justice, hope you’re also pro-fat liberation.
do you know how many people have gone to the doctor for troubling symptoms, been automatically dismissed and told to lose weight, and then developed late-stage/severe chronic and acute illnesses?
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Gonna check in on Canada, where politics is more normal... I see there is a convoy headed to Ottawa to avenge a flock of dead ostriches
November 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Gonna check in on Canada, where politics is more normal... I see there is a convoy headed to Ottawa to avenge a flock of dead ostriches
Here’s baby me as an immigrant to the United States. Thinking about how the fact that I and other immigrants were/are labelled “aliens” might be linked to where the US is today with all the xenophobia, ICE raids, etc.
That’s probably too simplistic but language matters. Human beings are not aliens.
That’s probably too simplistic but language matters. Human beings are not aliens.
November 21, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Here’s baby me as an immigrant to the United States. Thinking about how the fact that I and other immigrants were/are labelled “aliens” might be linked to where the US is today with all the xenophobia, ICE raids, etc.
That’s probably too simplistic but language matters. Human beings are not aliens.
That’s probably too simplistic but language matters. Human beings are not aliens.
Found this while deleting 42,567 screenshots from my phone hahaha
November 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Found this while deleting 42,567 screenshots from my phone hahaha