Eric Lotze

Majority of Albertans vote to be Canadian, racist

Ichthyosaurs were lizards pretending to be dolphins pretending to be fish. They evolved from air-breathing land reptiles (diapsids) that returned to the sea, shed legs & grew flippers. Being a swimming lizard with LUNGS has some surprising challenges elucidated by the fossil record.

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ok i think i’m calling it a day on this murmuration. #art

Not for nothing but PBS does election night coverage and we work really really really hard on it. Union shop as well!

I’m telling you that the extreme exposure to scams is a big part of the reason so many people are negative about our economic future.

It’s municipal election day in BC, and one of our mayoral candidates here in Kelowna has escaped the shackles of sanity and transcended to a higher plane of wtf

Hello #portfolioday I am Doug Wood, disabled comic creator. I recently was a Ringo nominee and begun to take on paying writing, lettering and coloring work. Please take a look at my portfolio and reach out to me if you want to hire me! www.jumpstartcomic.com

Think how much better things would be if simple intellectual curiosity were more valued. Wanting to learn new things just because you find them interesting and would like to understand them better! The opposite animating principle from AI, really. Anyway. Go to law school. For me.

wild to be living in a world with live-streamed state executions and legal daylight kidnappings, but every time you turn around some loser is saying, hey man, what if art were completely frictionless? what if we killed even the possibility of human connection??

I’m flying home to British Columbia right now and I promise you I will get to the bottom of these Canadian death panels upon my arrival. I mean, I would think I would have heard of death panels. That sort of thing usually makes the news. Maybe they call it something different in metric.

TODAY: @sarahweinman.com on the unanswered questions of “Slam Frank.” “Slam Frank is looking to deliver a different experience to its audience. But what, exactly? The musical seems to spend the entirety of its 110-minute runtime trying to figure that out.” flaminghydra.com/whos-owned-b...

The Beaverton does not miss. And a Patreon worth supporting, I think the staff is like ten people hiding in a broom closet so let’s make sure these people stay fed and can get a bigger closet

This piece is, and I don’t use this word lightly, transcendent.

I’m prepared to vote for this guy immediately

Friends, if you ever find yourself beginning a sentence with “I don’t mean to downplay sexual assault, but…” you must immediaty throw your phone into the fires of Mount Doom, and then follow it yourself

Hello! I was recently laid off from my game job, I also wasn’t given severance or any other compensation by the company, so to help cover my rent and expenses, I have my new brushes if anyone is interested : ( Shares would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your support!

doing some more scanning tonight, here are a few more photos that i thought were pretty neat

For the evening crowd!

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... The parallels between these two stories is honestly shocking. The settings are different, but none of the themes are, and both end the same way: with groups of pseudo-royal men only briefly inconvenienced, while the woman is forced behind a pseudonym and into hiding.

This site has completely overtaken my afternoon, which will now be spent moving around the world and being hypnotized by lighthouse beams for hours at a time

I read @fritinancy.bsky.social religiously, but I’m going to need a second coffee to steel myself before I open this email

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

THE COUNCIL OF ELROND Elrond: "Speake nowe, who will carrye the ring to Mordor?" Frodo [lookinge for place on the table to putte hys iced coffee]

Right, okay everybody, I’ve had a lot of meetings and talks this week and I have to share some top line thoughts. Things are quite a bit worse than i am usually willing to share with people because panic does no good. It’s kinda bad. The baddies have the wind at their back. No denying that.

Folks. FOLKS. I am reading this book RIGHT NOW and it is so freaking good. It is a magical science spy novel. What more do you want?? Premee is amazing at creating worlds that feel like characters of their own and Wickhills may be among my favorites of hers. GET IT. READ IT. LOVE IT.

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🎉 Acorn is officially open. You can now create a space for your community on the open social web - no wait required. acorn.blacksky.community

One of my favorite cases of someone being Wrong on the Internet was a very earnest, very confused vegan who was telling people how cruel honey is; and it eventually turned out they thought honey was made by putting bees in a centrifuge and spinning them around until they threw up.

My god this is amazing

The Ford app just added AI. This is the greatest thing ever.

This is among the most insane sentences to ever have been written. I mean I haven’t done an exhaustive search but it’s got to be up there.

@premeemohamed.com Wickhills enjoying prime shelf real estate at Mosaic Books in Kelowna BC. That cover is so good!

I just overheard a woman describe herself as “British, Scottish, and Irish, so a real mix!!” And I feel this woman does not understand what “a real mix” means

i watched the midterm convention so you didn’t have to! or maybe you also watched it and want corroboration of what you saw! I don’t know your life! anyway hope your saturday is going well www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

twice a year, a weird dude would get up on a stage in a turtleneck and throw a handful of new gizmos and doodads at us and we'd all lose our fucking minds now, some creep steps out and tells us that the new rectangle listens to you having sex and knows what your kids look like naked

The world is broken but the dik-dik is perfect

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

YOUR ENEMIES LAMENT YOUR VERY EXISTENCE. HAVE YOU TAKEN YOUR MEDICATIONS?

Because the internet is big and stupid (I am also both of these things so maybe that is deflection) I didn’t realize Pip and Gunko were on Instagram, but of course they are, and are great, and a delightful follow