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exasperated by nimUBIsm
The left opposition to Universal Basic Income is accelerationist.
I meant to post this on Facebook, but I do want to get some work done in the next few hours...
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Pronoun/title/adjective check!
Meme: Pronoun/title/adjective check ( Read more... ) -
Employment Insurance redux
After actually starting the process, roles reversed and my mother was the one lighting a fire under my ass, but eventually we bumped into the "we need to send you a code in the mail, it'll take a week" step for first-time registrants. I tried all kinds of ways around it (you can log into/create your Service Canada account through a bank account ( Read more... ) -
work
I'm procrastinating way too much, but I finally bit the bullet and bought a 27" 4K monitor. Way too much money... and it's bloody worth it. So gorgeous, so much space. I basically have it split in 2 screens so with the laptop, I'm back to my office's 3-screen setup.
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Picard
I was skeptical, but holy moly! They're blending in lots of good things... Won't skip that.
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Elementary!
Whoa, haven't watched Elementary in a year, but the other day I saw commercials for the current season on Global and they're in fucking LONDON with pixie-what's-her-name who looks like
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hurdy gurdy vs. accordion
As much as I like Bear McCreary's soundtrack, I think Blackbird Raum would have done an excellent job...
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a good Kurdish time was had
Yesterday was the Kurdish Peace and Culture Festival. There was a HAILSTORM but thankfully it happened before the festival really started. It was a lot of fun, there was some pretty good music (Mikail Aslan was amazing), some too shouty (Sayda Perincek), and I made a bunch of friends. Met with one prominent Kurdish journalist who had travelled ( Read more... ) -
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My aunt had two children with her Haitian refugee partner, but she's still sharing some stupid islamophobic meme of a green-eyed, white-skinned veiled woman with the headline "Is the the future that we want?" and a subhead of "Our people first". JFC.
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