There is a lovely, loud protest outside the Harry Potter experience in Oxford Street today.

#JKRowlingProtest

Madness.

#climatecrisis #cdnpoli #abpoli #oil #pipeline

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/11/03/investigations/routing-pacific-link-pipeline-through-roberts-bank-poses-unacceptable

Y'all enjoy your electoral win today. You can have that as a treat. Tomorrow motherfuckers we still need to be against this entire fucking system. In a few years, people will be fucking pissed at the Dems and looking for fascists again, because fundamentally *the systems in place create the problems* and Dems are not gonna tear those systems down and replace them with things that work better.

#Anthropic warns that it’s very close to #RSI capability, aka self-building #AI - https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/02/anthropic-warns-that-its-very-close-to-rsi-capability-aka-self-building-ai/

"Selling #coal to poorer nations ..... is unconscionable".

#cdnpoli #abpoli

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/11/03/opinion/canada-coal-exports-thermal-electricity

@thenewoil he has israeli spy tech in his sports arena. Hes a psychopath. The NBA is guilty of ownerwashing this scumbag during the Knicks championship last season.

What am I talking about? I'm talking about things like eliminating the concept of a Prescription. Eliminating charges for routine medical care. Eliminating the concept of a corporation. Eliminating the tax code entirely in favor of a flat tax and a UBI. Eliminating voting in favor of sortition.

Like, shit doesn't work at a deep fundamental level, and Dems aren't gonna be there creating a new world. They are stuck in the old one.

@blackmosquito ooooch, glitzer! 🥰

Chuck Jenkins,
the notoriously anti-immigrant Maryland sheriff who boasts of having helped deport 2,000 people, was wiped out in Tuesday’s blue wave.

Voters in Frederick County,
a fast-growing and increasingly liberal area north of Washington, D.C.,
denied his bid for a sixth term.
They opted for his opponent,
Democrat Karl Bickel,
by a margin of 56 to 44 percent. 

https://boltsmag.org/voters-oust-notorious-pro-ice-sheriff-in-maryland/

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#StarTrek #BlueWave

Hawk Hill Manor
Tutorial
Intermissions
I'm running out of ideas for what to put on the "Take a Break" pages!
I know this means it a V Long tutorial, but I'm trying to detail each section properly
But what would provide some light relief from GameDev?

https://maddwarf.co.uk/armouredwizard/hawkhillwiki/doku.php?id=tutorial_toc

#gamedev #godot #gdscript #roguelike #tutorials #rougelight

@fname Buried in this story is a lesson on willful ignorance.

Using the perceived "authority" of a well established voice to establish an ignorance, that will accepted and built on by others.

""I think people should watch for the folks who were most active in question period, the most active in doing public speaking, the ones that have really gained a subject matter expertise," Clark said."

That expertise? The Tyee:

"Only six B.C. Conservative MLAs have three years of experience in the legislature. Only three served prior to 2020. Only one, Teresa Wat, has ever been a cabinet minister. Nearly half of all Conservative MLAs are entirely new to the job."

I expect more from the CBC, a publicly funded broadcaster shouldn't let misinformation pass unchecked.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/11/02/Seven-BC-Conservative-MLAs-Watch/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/what-s-next-as-the-b-c-conservatives-transition-from-opposition-to-government-9.7407834?cmp=rss

@rolle olet ollut tuottelias jo silloin! Mulla sivut oli enemmän kuorta kuin sisältöä. No, onneksi se muuttui ajan myötä.

Third person dies of #birdflu since virus started jumping to livestock - https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/11/third-person-dies-of-bird-flu-since-virus-started-jumping-to-livestock/ this is not good...

TURNABOUT

Another Thorne Smith novel. This one significantly more risque.

Comic fantasy. An ancient Egyptian god swaps the bodies of a bickering married couple, Tim and Sally Willows. The resulting chaos includes social disasters, workplace mix-ups, and (while Tim is in Sally’s body) a pregnancy.

Later adapted into a 1940 film and a short-lived 1979 TV series.

Published: Original hardcover 1931 (Doubleday). This Pocket Books edition is 1947.

In better condition, I'd ask $15, but this copy has a cracked spine and pages that will (but have not yet) come detached.

$5 + shipping

https://www.readthemaple.com/data-indicates-more-canadian-jews-in-idf-than-canadas-army/

1,524 > 680

Really? Yeah.

#cdnpoli #canada #fascism #antifa #antifascist #bcpoli #vancouver #burnaby #canlab #bcgreens #bcndp #ecosocialism #freepalestine #genocide #palestine #imperialism #colonization #colonialism #EthnicCleasing

You should hold anger for Democrats, who just a heartbeat ago gave Trump everything he wanted. Who just before that passed the Laken Riley Act (signed by "less evil" President Joe Biden) that empowered ICE to do a lot of what it's doing right now.

Like, Democrats aren't "good". They're just the less worse option.

It's okay to be happy,

But snide? Running victory laps around "doomers" and "non-voters"? Same "non-voters" who *fueled this election?*

@Vivaldi is Vivaldi working on a search engine alternative? Or ensuring independent SE's are in the defaults? Just curious 😊 (DDG with AI answers off by default, or AstianGo which is AI-free)