I don’t know if Canada actually has any regulation about the fairness and accuracy of news; it’s mostly just that different countries very clearly tailor their news — and their “facts”! — to their audience, so when you regularly get news from three different nations, it really highlights what’s being said and what…

I remember fifteen years ago being a teen and watching Fox news alongside Canadian and British news — in Canada we get all of it. The difference in what was being reported was incredibly stark. It was one of my first lessons in biased news reporting and people basing all their facts on a single source.

Look, I’m on the fence about ghosts (I usually prefer a little more evidence and fewer debunkings, and this video has a few hoaxy hallmarks, as enjoyably eerie as it is) but I lived in Cork, Ireland for a year and if anywhere has some actual hauntings, it would be that city. I knew someone who lived in the renovated…

Glad the see this pointed out; it was the first thing that popped to mind when I saw the IQ thing. Maybe we should replace it with a simple test: “do you still believe in IQ tests?”

Oh, I’ve definitely got a few of these from Marshalls and Winners (the Canadian names for the stores). Though I don’t love all their scents, they have some great ones that don’t give me headaches and they have a nice look. Their tobacco and vanilla is my favourite.

Oh, I’ve definitely got a few of these from Marshalls and Winners (the Canadian names for the stores). Though I…

That’s why I love Paddywax too — I can easily get a headache from a strong synthetic smell, but their candles are almost all safe and also lovely!

That’s why I love Paddywax too — I can easily get a headache from a strong synthetic smell, but their candles are…

Paddywax has my vote — they have a whole bunch of really fantastic lines which have great scents and great looks. They’re especially good for people like me who are sensitive to certain scents — because they’re both mostly naturally scented AND have a lot of unusual scent combinations, I’m able to find candles I love…

Paddywax has my vote — they have a whole bunch of really fantastic lines which have great scents and great looks.…

I don’t know if I ever loved the interface for itself, but this was THE hub of my online social life in my teens and early 20s. I haven’t touched it in years but in a way, it’s sad to see it go.

I love the phrase “Extemely Online” because it inherently proves to other Very Online People that you are, indeed, Extremely Online.

My workmate just discovered that the camera in iOS 11 auto-saves in a new format, .heic. Pros: takes up 50% of the space. Cons: literally nothing can open this new format.

This was my favourite movie as a kid; somehow I got a taste for creepy things from a young age and l o v e d this movie. I found out as an adult that the reason I never got to watch it is because my younger brother kept vetoing it because it scared him.

I know this is an ad, but I got this bluetooth speaker based on recommendation from Gizmodo and I love it. The play time between charges is insane and it’s super loud, good quality sound for the size and price.

I know this is an ad, but I got this bluetooth speaker based on recommendation from Gizmodo and I love it. The play…

Between the political climate and the way anthropogenic climate change is speeding up every time we model it, I’ve been buying more and more into serious disaster preparedness. Right now I’ve been calming my “post-apocalyptic society” anxiety with things like foraging classes and stockpiling manuals, but I think it’s…

Toking for a job while living overseas, I accidentally ended up in a recruiting session for a make-up related pyramid scheme (or possibly a legal, but still very scummy version). It was rough: even knowing a lot about these scams, I felt a lot of pressure to accept. Thankfully I did not! If you’re prone at all to…

This is a very responsible and reasonable approach to someone spreading hate speech. It literally does not matter what this guy’s personal beliefs are — it is his actions he is being judged by. Good for YouTube.

Additional comment: the ability of straight people to see everything through the lens of straightness is wild. It’s like how Xena and Gabrielle were “just pals”. Talk about a special interest group (straight people) forcing their sexuality on everything, right? Straight people need to stop seeing straightness…

Something else that this movie and the first Lego Movie really manage to do well, in addition to the excellent humour, is capture the magic of playing with Lego as a kid. Their dedication to using the blocks as much as possible, such as for fire effects; the realistic tiny scratched, cast lines, and fingerprints on…

I am... SO disappointed I can’t buy Baze and Chirrut and Bodhi in this style.

Did he just... say that Attack of the Clones was the best... “most poetic” of the Star Wars movies????

Those aren’t paint markers, they’re alcohol based art markers. They don’t do white on skin. I’m not pronouncing for or against the paint/oil thing, just mentioning about the markers.