troyliss
@troyliss.bsky.social
Troy Lissoway. Graphic Designer. Ape seeking understanding. Albertan. He/Him. Product of Canada*
(*At least 98 per cent of the total direct costs of producing the item were incurred in Canada)
(*At least 98 per cent of the total direct costs of producing the item were incurred in Canada)
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Good to see that many Dem elected officials now want to be seen getting involved in the cases of immigrants who have been wrongly detained by ICE.
Let's spare a word for @vanhollen.senate.gov, who did this for Kilmar Abrego Garcia back when wise pundits said this was politically dangerous.
Let's spare a word for @vanhollen.senate.gov, who did this for Kilmar Abrego Garcia back when wise pundits said this was politically dangerous.
February 1, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Good to see that many Dem elected officials now want to be seen getting involved in the cases of immigrants who have been wrongly detained by ICE.
Let's spare a word for @vanhollen.senate.gov, who did this for Kilmar Abrego Garcia back when wise pundits said this was politically dangerous.
Let's spare a word for @vanhollen.senate.gov, who did this for Kilmar Abrego Garcia back when wise pundits said this was politically dangerous.
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So disappointing to read this headline and then look down and see a sculpture.
Watch: Giant rat leads floating parade to kick off Venice Carnival 2026
Watch: Giant rat leads floating parade to kick off Venice Carnival 2026
The grand opening took place on Sunday, with a variety of boats and floats making their way through the city's canals.
www.bbc.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:52 AM
So disappointing to read this headline and then look down and see a sculpture.
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leftists sharing ai memes are doing everything wrong
February 1, 2026 at 10:47 PM
leftists sharing ai memes are doing everything wrong
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reposting with alt text for accessibility:
Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)
Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)
February 2, 2026 at 1:56 AM
reposting with alt text for accessibility:
Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)
Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)
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Isaac Chotiner is like a living thought experiment of What If A Mean Girl Chose to Use Their Powers For Good?
![So is that because you don't believe the accusations, or because you think that it's time to move on?
I don't know. I'm not informed about the accusations. I wasn't there. I wasn't present, but I know his personality. I know his character. I can't tell because I wasn't there, and he might've made some mistakes, but he's a very good guy at heart. He's a very generous and human kind of person.
You told the Times that Brett "made some mistakes." Has he told you that he made mistakes?
No. No. No. Isaac, no. All I'm saying is that I worked with him twelve hours, fifteen hours, a day, and then everybody went their own way. Our age difference is wide. I could be his father.
I read that Roman Polanski is a father figure to him. So that role might already be filled. There are a lot of people who feel affection for Brett.
Yeah, yeah. Because he's a good kid. [In 2007's Paris-based "Rush Hour 3," Ratner gave a cameo to Polanski, who had fled to France after being accused of anally and vaginally raping a thirteen-year-old. He was later accused of sexually assaulting other teen-agers, which he denies. In the cameo, Polanski bas a comic scene where be prepares to do an anal-cavity search of Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oqtcrlljm4r6b6ybt6phx25u/bafkreidobkri2jaja6tf5ehldxl7dwsleem4ln72eyqsv75ux6msrxp44i@jpeg)
February 2, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Isaac Chotiner is like a living thought experiment of What If A Mean Girl Chose to Use Their Powers For Good?
Making the right guys angry for 14 years!
As an aside to the above note, just today I saw some dudes still seethingly furious about something I wrote in 2012, on how being a straight white dude in the US is the Lowest Difficulty Setting in the game of life. That's longevity in writing for you!
whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/s...
whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/s...
Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is
I’ve been thinking of a way to explain to straight white men how life works for them, without invoking the dreaded word “privilege,” to which they react like vampires being fed a …
whatever.scalzi.com
February 2, 2026 at 3:03 AM
Making the right guys angry for 14 years!
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As an aside to the above note, just today I saw some dudes still seethingly furious about something I wrote in 2012, on how being a straight white dude in the US is the Lowest Difficulty Setting in the game of life. That's longevity in writing for you!
whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/s...
whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/s...
Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is
I’ve been thinking of a way to explain to straight white men how life works for them, without invoking the dreaded word “privilege,” to which they react like vampires being fed a …
whatever.scalzi.com
February 2, 2026 at 1:57 AM
As an aside to the above note, just today I saw some dudes still seethingly furious about something I wrote in 2012, on how being a straight white dude in the US is the Lowest Difficulty Setting in the game of life. That's longevity in writing for you!
whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/s...
whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/s...
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I think this is what turned Matt Murdock into Daredevil and by extension, also created the Ninja Turtles.
Don’t worry guys, everything is very cool and normal at the Wegman’s parking lot!
February 2, 2026 at 2:14 AM
I think this is what turned Matt Murdock into Daredevil and by extension, also created the Ninja Turtles.
The headline and byline are causing my soul to leave my body
February 2, 2026 at 2:24 AM
The headline and byline are causing my soul to leave my body
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Bad Bunny at the Grammys: "Before I say thanks to God, I want to say ICE out. We're not savage, we're not animals, we're not aliens, we are humans, and we are Americans."
February 2, 2026 at 2:18 AM
Bad Bunny at the Grammys: "Before I say thanks to God, I want to say ICE out. We're not savage, we're not animals, we're not aliens, we are humans, and we are Americans."
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A fine is merely the cost of doing business. We need to be throwing C-suite level people in jail.
Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Google to pay $68 million over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users
Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.
www.cbsnews.com
February 2, 2026 at 2:22 AM
A fine is merely the cost of doing business. We need to be throwing C-suite level people in jail.
$68M isn’t enough to dissuade Google from doing this. Things like this have to start involving jail time for decision-makers.
Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Google to pay $68 million over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users
Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.
www.cbsnews.com
February 2, 2026 at 1:12 AM
$68M isn’t enough to dissuade Google from doing this. Things like this have to start involving jail time for decision-makers.
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framing software as "friends" seems deeply disingenuous, if not an insult to life itself — as the psychologist interviewed here puts it, "When you say you have fallen in love with A.I., you have fallen in love with a business product." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/o...
Opinion | Esther Perel on the Falsehoods of a Frictionless Relationship
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:40 PM
framing software as "friends" seems deeply disingenuous, if not an insult to life itself — as the psychologist interviewed here puts it, "When you say you have fallen in love with A.I., you have fallen in love with a business product." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/o...
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Being a proud Canadian is great, but it's so much more meaningful when you embrace our strong and unique identity.
Canadian pluralism (the "cultural mosaic") is core to that identity and it's more than just an idea. It's a set of values backed by strong legislative and institutional infrastructure.
Canadian pluralism (the "cultural mosaic") is core to that identity and it's more than just an idea. It's a set of values backed by strong legislative and institutional infrastructure.
February 1, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Being a proud Canadian is great, but it's so much more meaningful when you embrace our strong and unique identity.
Canadian pluralism (the "cultural mosaic") is core to that identity and it's more than just an idea. It's a set of values backed by strong legislative and institutional infrastructure.
Canadian pluralism (the "cultural mosaic") is core to that identity and it's more than just an idea. It's a set of values backed by strong legislative and institutional infrastructure.
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What do you MEAN the president audibly SHIT himself live on camera and they immediately cancelled the press conference and rushed everyone out of the room like it's a fire drill, and it happened two days ago, and I'm just hearing about it NOW?
February 1, 2026 at 4:00 PM
What do you MEAN the president audibly SHIT himself live on camera and they immediately cancelled the press conference and rushed everyone out of the room like it's a fire drill, and it happened two days ago, and I'm just hearing about it NOW?
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the year is 2026. I am watching a 15 second ad for the Winter Olympics in exchange for the privilege of watching a 79 year old pedophile, who is also the president, shart himself
February 1, 2026 at 8:56 PM
the year is 2026. I am watching a 15 second ad for the Winter Olympics in exchange for the privilege of watching a 79 year old pedophile, who is also the president, shart himself
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CTV didn't give Jeffrey Rath a platform. Danielle Smith did, and now we have to deal with the consequences.
"Don't you think that communist Ottawa is leveraging communist China against Alberta?" -- absolutely unreal CTV platformed this loon...
February 1, 2026 at 8:26 PM
CTV didn't give Jeffrey Rath a platform. Danielle Smith did, and now we have to deal with the consequences.
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We really have come a LONG way in a pretty brief amount of time as a culture on “oh, maybe it’s actually creepy and gross to incessantly perv on teenage girls everywhere all the time.”
there were multiple different countdown clocks until the Olsen twins turned 18
reddit had its infamous 'jailbait' community online until late 2011
all of this shit was just out in the open, it was awful
reddit had its infamous 'jailbait' community online until late 2011
all of this shit was just out in the open, it was awful
I feel like maybe it’s a function of everyone online being born in 2002 but I don’t think most people realize how openly and explicitly pedophilic american culture was until like… maybe 10 years ago
February 1, 2026 at 5:02 PM
We really have come a LONG way in a pretty brief amount of time as a culture on “oh, maybe it’s actually creepy and gross to incessantly perv on teenage girls everywhere all the time.”
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Worth remembering that something did happen: the journalist who revealed this died from a car bomb.
remember when the panama papers came out and we found out every rich person on earth was committing tax fraud and then nothing happened
February 1, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Worth remembering that something did happen: the journalist who revealed this died from a car bomb.
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I mean if you're going to sell a defective product, it's not a bad thing to have a customer base that consists of people who are inclined to represent themselves.
February 1, 2026 at 7:26 PM
I mean if you're going to sell a defective product, it's not a bad thing to have a customer base that consists of people who are inclined to represent themselves.
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A propos of nothing one of our areas of practice is legal disaster mitigation.
February 1, 2026 at 7:19 PM
A propos of nothing one of our areas of practice is legal disaster mitigation.
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Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...
February 1, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...
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Today's Low Quality Ad is for this UFO Sunset Blanket. Aliens and cowboys have a lot in common. They both venture through new frontiers. A tractor beam is essentially just an advanced lasso. And most importantly, they both smoke hand-rolled cigarettes because it looks cool.
collabs.shop/chfies
collabs.shop/chfies
February 1, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Today's Low Quality Ad is for this UFO Sunset Blanket. Aliens and cowboys have a lot in common. They both venture through new frontiers. A tractor beam is essentially just an advanced lasso. And most importantly, they both smoke hand-rolled cigarettes because it looks cool.
collabs.shop/chfies
collabs.shop/chfies
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He’s just describing The American Dream but you’re supposed to hate it for some reason
February 1, 2026 at 3:33 PM
He’s just describing The American Dream but you’re supposed to hate it for some reason
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Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent
February 1, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent