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@pxtl.ca

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · Nov 10

Introduce yourself with

One Book 📚 - Protector, by Larry Niven
One Movie 🎥 - The Fountain
One Album 💿 - The Downward Spiral
One TV Show 📺 - The Expanse
One Videogame 🎮 - Armored Core

Aranock, 4 of Ravens @aranock.bsky.social · Nov 8

Introduce yourself with

One book 📚 — Harrow the Ninth
One movie 🎥 — Matrix
One album 💿 — I Saw The TV Glow official soundtrack
One TV Show 📺 — Sense8
One Videogame 🎮 — Pathologic Classic HD

Jenna @aconstantwip.bsky.social · Nov 8

Introduce yourself with

One book 📚 — Carrie by Stephen King
One movie 🎥 — Scream
One album 💿 — Worlds by Porter Robinson
One TV Show 📺 — Fleabag

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 6m

Fight Club. A character whose defining moment is getting the crap beaten out of him.

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Norm Di Pasquale🇨🇦 @normsworld.bsky.social · 1d

Hospitals & police chiefs agree: speed cameras save lives. So why is Ford banning them?

Ford is putting kids & pedestrians at risk just to let reckless drivers off the hook.

Tell Ford to keep speed cameras & enforce speed limits. Sign here: www.progresstoronto.ca/petition-pro... #topoli #onpoli

Tell Ford Keep Speed Cameras: Protect Kids & Pedestrians — Progress Toronto

Doug Ford announced plans to ban speed cameras—making it easier to speed. This move puts children and pedestrians at risk. Tell Ford and Queen’s Park: keep the speed cameras and keep enforcing speed ...

www.progresstoronto.ca

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 1d

That is not a bike lane that is an expressway with some paint on it.

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 1d

Dalewood g8 girls just took all 4 top spots in #HamOnt cross country meet. We have some amazing athletes here in Westdale.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 1d

WWJDeport?

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Adam P. Knave @adampknave.com · 1d

Why didn't Starscream get any of Megatron's messages the other day? He was in airplane mode.

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 1d

You'd need a bunch of state governments to work together to arrange the game of Habeas Corpus Hide the Ball.

Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 1d

If I ran the world, we'd bring back e-tests and also have it include checking for illegal mods. Because there's no way those screaming pipes are legit.

Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 1d

Veggie burgers have been an established product for 50 years. The description is very clear.

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Tabatha Southey 🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 2d

And if you’re not buying a shitty off-brand hard candy to give out to anyone dressed as anything Harry Potter related, you’re not doing Halloween right.

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 2d

A happy chihuahua respectfully observing a moment of silence for a white nationalist podcaster

An angry barking chihuahua reacting to O Canada

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 2d

@samtlevin.bsky.social did a really lovely profile and interview with Miss Major in June of 2023:

"Her doormats say “Welcome bitches”, “Fuck off”, “Come back with a warrant” and “Home, where the ho & me come together”."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 2d

Cattle farmers are better and more important types of humans than you or I.

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 2d

The European Parliament voted today to ban plant-based and lab-grown products from having meat-related names such as “burger,” “sausage” or “steak” on their labels.

EU lawmakers back ‘veggie burger’ ban

The European Parliament slips prohibition of plant-based “burgers” into wider farm reform, sparking NGO outrage and political splits.

www.politico.eu

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 2d

I wonder if portlandites can figure who he's getting this from and, if it's a private citizen, sue for defamation?

They wouldn't win but it would be funny to watch lawyers discuss the "reasonable person" standard with respect to PUSA.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 2d

ohhh.

I hadn't heard that one yet.

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yeah, that's super bad. Using a term from a kids' cartoon at least had a sort of ironic cuteness to it.

Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 2d

a man in a striped shirt is looking at a menu while a woman looks on

Alt: a man in a striped shirt is looking at a paper saying "mm hmm yeah I know some of these words"

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 2d

Isn't the slur from a Star Wars cartoon show?

Anyhow, hatred is bad for the soul, even if the people pushing the tech are doing evil. If SV psychos ever make real AI people instead of just glorified LLM autocomplete, they're totally going to abuse them and we're conditioned to be okay with that.

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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 2d

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 2d

Laws only matter if they're enforced.

This includes the US Constitution.

Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 2d

I can see the argument for "steak" but the idea that something other than beef can be a "burger" and something other than pork can be a "sausage" has long-since sailed. Those foods are defined by their form-factor not their ingredients.

Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 2d

FFS... a Beyond Meat is more deserving of the title of "burger" than non-beef meat burgers like chicken or salmon or turkey. They banning that too? Or is this just singling out vegetarians?

I mean I can see the argument for steak, but words like "burger" or "sausage" are more about form-factor.

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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 2d

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 2d

Welp, this is happening.

Hey #HamOnt NIN fans, those seats are going *hella fast*. It's now or never.

Screenshot of snippet of ticketmaster page saying "Martin, You Are Going To Nine Inch nails - Peel It Back Toor 2026".

Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 2d

Seats were vanishing under my mouse cursor as I was clicking around looking at options. Going *fast*.