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@EricLDaugh Should have planted a few mines around it

🚨 JUST IN: Iran is STUNNED at just how decisively America exploded our own equipment just to keep them from salvaging it It’s so huge the aircraft shape is scorched into the ground! NO MAN LEFT BEHIND, no spoils for our enemies! 🇺🇸

One of the biggest tax scams in Canada is the tax on a private sale of a used car. Every time that car is sold it’s taxed. Why do Canadians put up with this? Only Alberta, Yukon, NWT and Nunavut do not charge this.

@Proper_Memes @JohnCleese I heard he wore his ‘Sadiq Aunt’ disguise

@JohnCleese To prove London is safe, Sadiq was seen earlier today getting a flat white.

No sign of the Mayor ? Maybe he has more important things on his tiny mind

First new photo from the moon:

@MinorityFinge Should we wear Yellow T-Shirts in their honour?

Is destroying and urinating in RCMP vehicles the natives idea of truth and reconciliation?

@Neccccy It’ll come in May

God I hope so !!!!

@Neccccy Fabian in Chief - he needs to be tried for treason

Thumbs up if you agree?

@LouDPhillips Shiner Bock in a frozen glass is simply heaven

Great writing requires the proper tools. #IAmWriting

Incredible photo taken by the Artemis space crew

@JeanHatchet ‘Independent’ and wearing that thing has got to be a parody, surely?

Seriously? Running for political office in the uniform of male oppression. Her man puts her in a fabric prison and she is able to independently represent other women? We believe this? Nah. Fuck that. Fuck him. This is not ok. (In Blackburn).

@JayGenXer I like Poilievre - he comes across as decent and honest. Trudeau appears to have nothing to offer beneath a thin veneer, and Carney just gives off the wrong vibe, akin to dogs not liking him. Plus he’s been tainted by the Fabians in the UK

Hey Canadians 🇨🇦 One thing that keeps coming up after Pierre Poilievre’s Diary of a CEO interview is his personal story — adopted as a baby, raised by school teachers in a humble middle-class home, his father later came out as gay, and he married Anaida, who came to Canada as a refugee from Venezuela. Yet a lot of people seem to really dislike him… while praising Justin Trudeau (raised with every advantage as the son of a former Prime Minister) and Mark Carney (the wealthy former banker). How did so many in Canada end up feeling that way? What do you think drives that difference in how people see them? Drop your honest thoughts below 👇 I’m reading every comment. #Poilievre #CanadaFirst

Canadians shouldn't forget First Nations cannibalism, human sacrifices, and inter-tribal genocides. Stone-age savagery happening for millennia until Europeans stopped those cultural practices. We have a Lake Huron, but no Hurons. Who ate the Hurons? Who ate Jean de Brébeuf? Look it up! Remember how Mohawk Chief Joseph Brant kept slaves including Sophia Pooley - his pretty little 12 year old Black slave girl who looked after his special personal needs. Just one of Brant’s slaves. Learn how the famous Chapel of the Mohawks was built by Brant's slaves. @GeoffRuss3 has the correct idea... If we are going to talk history - let’s tell it all.

A happy 100th birthday to🎂Portmeirion. Sir Clough Williams-Ellis' baroque folly village first opened to the public at Easter 1926. The architect would continue to add buildings to it over 50 years, often from salvaged and re-used materials. Delightfully eccentric bricolage. 1/

Some sad news to report, I'm afraid: Jeff Grant, director of legendary public information film Lonely Water, died on 13 March. He fought to include the film's horror elements, and they proved so successful that it opened the door to the shocking PIFs that we know and love. (1/2)

@anishmoonka Easily turned off - stop scaremongering

Every photo you take on your iPhone is quietly recording a 3-second video in the background. You never turned this on. Apple ships every single iPhone with it enabled, and they have a $109 billion reason to keep it that way. It's called Live Photos. Been around since 2015. When you tap the shutter, your phone grabs 1.5 seconds of video before your finger hits the button and 1.5 seconds after. Then it stitches that clip to your picture and saves both. The storage cost is where it gets interesting. A regular iPhone photo is about 2–5 MB. How-To Geek tested Live Photos on an iPhone 13 and found each one runs around 13 MB total, roughly 5 MB for the picture and 8 MB for the video riding shotgun. So every photo with Live turned on takes 2.5x the space. Apple gives you 5 GB of free iCloud storage. For comparison, Google gives you 15 GB. At 13 MB per shot, you burn through Apple's free 5 GB in about 385 photos. Photutorial's 2024 data puts the average American at 20 photos a day. That's three weeks before Apple's free storage runs dry and the little "iCloud Full" notification starts nagging you to upgrade. $0.99 a month for 50 GB. $2.99 for 200 GB. $9.99 for 2 TB. And it keeps coming back. I've seen this complaint all over Apple's own support forums and across tech sites. People disable Live Photos. Software update rolls in. It switches itself back on. Apple has never explained this. Zoom out to the business side and the math clicks. Apple's services business (iCloud, App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV, all of it lumped together) pulled in $109.2 billion in 2025, up 14% from the year before. December 2025 quarter alone crossed $30 billion in services revenue for the first time in company history. iCloud+ and Apple One subscriptions account for about 26% of that pie, which works out to roughly $28 billion a year in charges that auto-renew every month on a credit card most people forgot they entered. I'll be fair. Live Photos do have some genuinely useful tricks. You can scroll through the frames and pick the one where nobody blinked. Long Exposure mode blurs water in rivers and waterfalls without needing a tripod. And you can turn any Live Photo into a short looping animation. But honestly, for the vast majority of people, Live Photos is just a storage tax they never signed up for. It sits there on every iPhone, quietly eating space. And sooner or later, the $0.99 upgrade prompt does the rest.

@EmilyFarina5 @VIA_Rail It’s fantastic isn’t it? We did the reverse journey, loved every minute of it

My cozy roomette aboard @VIA_Rail Train 14 The Ocean from Montreal to Halifax. Before and after the nightly turndown service.

@bcbluecon So now they have police radios and laptops. Great move.

RCMP runs away from criminal natives. Natives damaged cop cars left behind. Taxpayers pick up the tab. Cowards.

@MLABrennanDay The long tail of this overburden will be seen in all the golden pensions and handshakes these greedy do-nothings will suckle at

My apologies. I got the B.C. Ferries directors number mixed up with Health Authority VP’s. The correct number is actually 60 Directors, and 37 boats.

@davepl1968 Sounds more like Thunderbird 2 getting ready to blast off

Spinning up one of three DEC RA60 disk packs. It's the size of a washing machine and rocks 205MB, but on the plus side, it sounds like a jet engine... have a listen!

@LucyTCWife Ha ha ha!😀

And your mother should have swallowed 🤷‍♀️