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Loved this show when I was a kid! And also saw Hyslop perform at the NAC during his first run in Phantom of the Opera. Probably still have the souvenir necklace somewhere.
For seven seasons and 122 episodes, Canadian children were transported through television to the world of a department store where amazing things happened. The show remains a high-water mark of children's entertainment in Canada. This is the story of Today's Special!
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Alternative rock, brainiac, cognitive science, air-kiss.
If you wanna look up words that were first used in your birth year, too 🙂
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Seems like the perfect time for the whole planet to go all-in on a questionable technology that is already causing a huge increase in fossil-fuel burning to power its insatiable energy requirements. Plus that whole pesky water-guzzling thing it also requires. /sarcasm/
Record temperatures come amid scientists’ warnings that climate change is causing more frequent extreme weather events.
Record temperatures come amid scientists’ warnings that climate change is causing more frequent extreme weather events.
I have somehow managed to injure my back while doing laundry. So much for the rest of today's "to do" list. 😑
(At least I got tomorrow's "back to school sympathy" cake into the oven before starting the laundry. Sigh.)
Can you blame her, though? 🤨
Still my favorite explanation of the difference between INT and WIS: int is knowing that Frankenstein is the name of the doctor.
Wis is knowing that Frankenstein was, in fact, the monster
Critical read. Seriously, you need to read this. Everyone does.
Just keep in mind that there will not be a "magic trick" to save us at the end. This plan will result in the destruction of all complex life on this planet, including these idiot techbros. And it is a deliberate plan.
“They advocate the removal of almost all public officials and services, increasing the numbers of the armed forces and police, building up the capacity for repression by the powers that be, no longer public, but corporate and business. [DOGE and militia-style police (ICE)] is a trial run of this.”
The techlords intend to bring humanity to the brink of collapse and then, in a magic trick, rise to power, saving the species or themselves as the last specimens.
True. This was a very specific subtweet, though. Still trying to wrap my mind around an actual journalist pushing an AI "book".
The Ford government is touting nearly $1B for new schools opening this fall, but the repair backlog for existing ones has swelled to $16B. “This isn’t record spending, it’s record neglect." #cdnpoli
"Please buy my new book, I wrote the prompt for chatGPT" is not only going to make me avoid your new book, it's going to make me avoid any other book you ever write and make me rethink your "journalism", too. 😑
