There are already studies showing the brain will delete memories of things that are easily looked up. It’s so depressing to realise how quickly and willingly people cede their own brainpower to untrustworthy machines.

I included Darwin in my “quirky Toronto animals” coaster series, along with the leucisitic squirrels from a downtown park, the capybaras which escaped from a zoo and went on an adventure, and the dead raccoon shrine, which is worth recognition on its own!

Btw I drew him as part of a “quirky Toronto animals” coasters set I made. (I’ve since added Bitchy the Hawk and turned the TORONTO in the roundel right side up!)

Wonderful. Thank you for sharing.

Just realised people of a certain age were primed for Wordle long before the internet existed.

Calling it clickbait in this context is extra hilarious: “How dare you block me from reading this shit that isn’t worthy of my time?!”

You should do a long thread on how you managed this. It’s needed by a lot of people on here whose loved ones are stuck in the morass of Trumpism.

Your phrasing made me realise this is probably a misogynistic popular reaction; Men praising the films that make them feel roused but mocking the ones that make them emotional.

It's more likely he's just been mispronouncing his bar order all this time.

There's a terrific movie about him called My Boy Jack, starring Harry Potter and Samantha from Sex and the City, of all people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dMS...

Freedom may be
Only an idea
But it’s a matter of principle
Even to a dog.

(This was from a "poetry on the go" transit ad when I was in university, to enlighten commuters. It absolutely worked on me. I still remember and love it 30 years later.)

Wonderful photo.

It’s actually not. I have a friend who was in and out of hospital for a year and a half before a doctor asked if she smoked regularly. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabi...

Counterpoint: no he hasn’t.

(Kevin O’Leary was always a piece of shit.)