Kitties enjoying a snowy Sunday

It’s also downstream of the fact that British politics is no longer permitted to talk about the genuine source of the country’s ills, which was that Brexit was a profound, mistaken act of economic self-harm that will have consequences for decades.

Eco's THE NAME OF THE ROSE (read 5-6 times) and Pikkety's CAPITAL IN THE 21ST CENTURY (gave up 10% of the way through)

On catching up to China's significant headstart on green industries (esp. solar and EVs) there is definitely an air of "we gave it the old nine-month try and it was hard, so how about we just give up instead?"

the astonishing thing about this wave of denialism is that we have more or less decidedly hit the point where clean energy is the *cheaper* option by some distance

Stephen Holyday is like if Jorge of Burgos was a municipal councillor instead of a blind librarian. Just misery and spite all the way down.

The libertarian wing showing up with "akshully it's ephebephelia" right on schedule.

[Liberation Theology has entered the chat]

At some point we need a national conversation about why so many Canadian mayor are so bluntly bad.

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence! Real conspiracies: To: conspirator From: famous person Attachment: evidence.png

marx was anti-capitalist in the sense that he longed for what (he thought) would come after; these days it seems many anti-capitalists are anticapitalists insofar as they long for what came before

Every time the @justinwolfers.bsky.social and @sassermodestino.bsky.social working paper on the gender dynamics of Econ seminars gets brought up, everyone in my econ circles automatically thinks of Larry Summers being a Category 5 Asshole to everyone (& especially to non-white dudes) within earshot

Everyone in America: Wow the Bears are winning all these last minute games in wild comebacks, it's miraculous, how are they even doing it Pope Leo in the Vatican: *smiles*

[Considers own TV viewing habits in 2025] Not thrilled by how accurate this is.

Endlessly screenshot-dunking on Twitter idiots is annoying your followers and keeping the idiots famous. Whenever you feel like doing it, you should take a minute, breathe, and then approvingly share something I've written instead

And many of the means of decarbonization (esp. rooftop solar) reduce their control over the underlying drivers of the economy (which is the argument Andreas Malm makes in Fossil Capital)

"I can't spare this man; he fights."

National democratic leadership is getting so bad that it is becoming a self censoring fact in the same way that Trump’s evil and incompetency becomes self censoring

Not my political circus, not my political monkeys, but lord alive what a fucking quisling.

I note that this winterized unicycle was forced to illegally ride on the sidewalk because @en.ottawa.ca cleared the road and sidewalk but not the bike lane on Scott Street

I bet if you told Angus King "gullible" wasn't in the dictionary that he'd check.

Good morning to the person who passed me on a winterized unicycle (?!) as I was walking to the LRT this morning.

Can't say I'm surprised by the result of today's Lansdowne 2.0 vote, but that doesn't stop me from being disappointed and frustrated by it.

My sympathies to everyone who was champing at the bit to yell at Democrats, better luck next time

It has been extremely satisfying to watch Sylvan Adams' vanity project collapse under the weight of his own ego and terrible political views.

Every time I see a story premised on the presumably surprising idea of rotund, happy-looking whales holding their own against mean, scary-looking sharks, I feel compelled to remind people that orcas WEAR A DISGUISE. The orca is the ONE WHO KNOCKS.

If the sub don't hit, you must acquit!

The problem with a lot of pop leftism is it doesn't give the impression it wants to be part of a victorious bureaucracy, it gives the impression it wants to be part of a perpetually frustrated and powerless counterculture simmering in resentment in decaying flats.

Friends

Every detail is more absurd than the last

I'm once again encouraging all of you to join me

Ian Kershaw continues to be furious that his discipline has changed from History to Political Science.

ICE won't allow communion to be given in detention centers because demons quail and shiver at the divine presence in the Host.

I read "96-point swing to the Democrats" and nearly fell out of my chair that is a barely-comprehensible number.

THE PEOPLE TRUE TO LIBERTY. NEW YORK REDEEMED! SHE REPUDIATES CUOMO. AN AVALANCHE OF FREEMEN. SHOUT BOYS SHOUT, VICTORY IS OURS, FREEDOM IS TRIUMPHANT.

New York’s greatest impediment to winning the “Greatest City in the World” Final 4 has long been its inability to elect mayors who aren’t cretins and/or weirdos. Honestly really glad to see them kick the habit.

Currently rereading Battle Cry of Freedom, and while I really don’t care for how familiar the 1850s feel, I will take all the “we are waging a holy war against tyranny and oppression” energy I can get.

I will admit that I didn’t have “Bill Kristol is Lisan Al Gaib” on my bingo card but I’ll take it.

LET THE HERO BORN OF WOMAN CRUSH THE SERPENT WITH HIS HEEL

Gen Z men are normal young men, Gen Z women are feminism’s Orbital Drop Shock Troops, you’re hearing it more and more

Mood so far

Woke 2 is gonna hit like Earl Thomas

And His truth? Fuck yeah bud, it’s marching on.

What happens when you distill 2025 into a single social media post? This. This is what you get.

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kinds. Look on my works, ye mighty, and have comments back to me by COB!

My impression of Mark Sutcliffe when he ran in 2022 was that he was an empty suit filled by Ottawa's business and development interest who hate(d) Catherine McKenney, and nothing he has said or done during his mayoralty has convinced me that I was wrong.

there was a time i never thought i could hate a politician more than i hated that guy. in retrospect, very naive of me

Gang, is it good when federal prosecutors describe your business as "a years-long house of cards"? www.ft.com/content/a6e7...

Dick Cheney caused needless death and suffering to millions of people, and played a key role in laying the groundwork for the current era of American fascism. Rest in piss, asshole.