This is right, and I would only add that references to mental illness, no matter how correct they happen to be, miss the mark too.

We’re not here yet but the trend lines are painfully clear and utterly predictable.

Evergreen skeet IMHO.

Wait until SCROTUS gets a chance to rule on this.

Frank Sinatra: lyrics should be performed conversationally, as if the singer is a character delivering the lines ABBA: JUST ONE LOOK andicanhearabellring

Do I need to tap the sign www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Slightly increase a band: Modestly Complicated Minds

Drum Phil*

Looking at how all the recent court cases are shaking out in the US, I’m reminded again of Wilhoit’s Law: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

Freshly painted ladder crosswalks on Aberdeen Ave at Spruceside and Mapleside #hamont #thelittlethings

The best way to make people obsessed with what’s in the report is to block its release. Someone should tell @kenmartin.bsky.social about the Streisand Effect.

Strange nerds flying on Gulfstreams distributing money is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aeronautical ceremony.

“The long-forewarned impending LRT construction contract was seen skulking around the corridors of Hamilton City Hall, lurking behind corners, creeping toward its unwitting and imperilled victims in its unquenchable thirst for positive or at least neutral media coverage.”

Safe consumption facilities are the worst policy option aside from no safe consumption facilities

Best magnolia in #HamOnt

Really? Does it “loom”? Spec headline treats LRT construction contract as an ominous impending threat

GPT 5.5 before they added that second system prompt youtu.be/NjNc79O8eIk?...

In broad terms you could juxtapose the economic output of fossil fuels with health costs: Crude oil exports were $138 billion in 2024, health impacts from air pollution, $146 billion in 2018. But in other ways it’s tough to quantify: there’s a ripple effect of consequences that go unaccounted for.

When Canadians talk about affordability, the discussion often revolves around the cost of fuel. While we pay for gasoline and diesel with our credit cards, in study after study, scientists have shown we also pay with our health. We should talk about it more. thenarwhal.ca/climate-chan...

Pick your 5th Ninja Turtle: Bronzino

So much for ‘keeping men out of women’s sports’

Mashup of Urban Cookie Collective and Animal Collective singing “My Girls Have Got the Key, My Girls Have Got the Secret”

Gonna start an AI band called Ellie Lem & the Em-Dashes

This isn’t just interesting journalism—it’s also clever, self-referential writing. techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/a...

I see a million tech moguls complaining that media coverage has become "anti-tech" like some kind of spontaneous vibe shift, and regrettably few wondering if, maybe, the issue is that a bunch of the tech industry became less worthy of being positive about over the past several years.

It has begun.

The replies are >chef’s kiss<

The thing where voters don't believe republican policies could be as evil as they are apparently extends to the republicans actually in charge of the government just mindlessly implementing them

“Just as there is a blueprint for destroying democracy, there is also one for rebuilding it.”

Somewhere in the buffet tables of Mar-A-Lago / A shape with walrus body and the head of a Sumo mandarin / For some reason gazing blankly at a solar eclipse

Since Trump became US president again, voters around the world have rejected the Trump-aligned party in Canada, Australia, Romania, Hungary, and arguably France. Nothing like seeing right-wing authoritarians wielding actual power to remind voters that their populist message is a scam.

It’s a bitter irony that when far-right authoritarians recklessly disrupt the global economy, one of the knock-on effects is to embolden other far-right authoritarians to exploit the disruption in order to destabilize their own countries even further.

This entire thread is a freaking masterpiece. I could have quote-posted any of at least a dozen absolute bangers along the way, but please do yourself a favour, jump to the start and enjoy the full ride!

Oil is as volatile as it is in part because the supply is so brittle and vulnerable. The Pax Americana that Trump so resented provided the very stability that allowed for an oil based economy for so long. Trump may well have the unintended effect of accelerating the transition to renewable energy.

Whoa 🤯 The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

“I walked into this building expecting to see electric cars. I walked out understanding why the global auto industry is running out of time to respond.”

The oil industry breeds fascism. Oil executives fund anti-democratic campaigns. The leaders of oil countries almost always turn into fascists - Putin, the Gulf states, and, yes, Trump, who won in part because oil executives poured hundreds of millions of dollars into his campaign. 1/

“Citing artistic differences, the band broke up in May. And in June reformed without me, and they got a different name.” Ben Folds Five sing a story about Trump invading Iran and rage-quitting NATO, only to discover NATO was already sick of him. Let’s hope he doesn’t nuke grandma’s apple pie…

I can’t think of a city where this applies more forcefully than Hamilton, ON #HamOnt where the culture of excuse and fear and whataboutism is pervasive and corrosive.

After watching Trump’s historically shambolic response to COVID, 49.9% of American voters gambled that there would be no global crises in the next four years - let alone global crises of Trump’s own making.

A reminder that the more an economy invests in renewables and less dependent it is on fossil fuels, the more resilient it is against geopolitical supply shocks. And that’s without even considering the enormous positive externality of reduced air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

Tristan Harris to Kara Swisher: “What happens is the incentives dominate the psychology, meaning the system selects for psychopathic tricks, because the only people who continue to propagate this incentive of the race to the bottom of the brain stem for attention and hacking kids' attention…

WTI has nudged past $100/barrel. Is the market finally starting to take the magnitude of the oil shock a tiny bit seriously?

This epistemological divide exemplifies how MAGA is an anti-democratic movement. The impulse to try to understand (even if critically) one's political opponents is democratic...we share the country, we should try to understand each other. The impulse to dehumanize is anti-democratic.

This whole essay is a poignant reminder of @jamellebouie.net’s observation that Trump et al. seem incapable of understanding that other people have agency.

Yesterday I reposted an article positing that gender studies turn out to be important and valuable after all. This is a corollary of sorts: an argument that history and literature and the humanities also turn out to be valuable in the face of technocratic myopia.

It’s no coincidence that prominent men are devaluing and disparaging higher education just as it comes to be dominated by women.

One of the great policy wins of our time. Undisputed at this point.

My copy of Enshittification by @doctorow.pluralistic.net just came in and I’m excited to get started reading it!

NYT quoting AOC when she says “um”: This dumb girl can’t talk NYT quoting Trump after sticking a fork up his nose into his brain and rambling about sharpie pens: Doth thine lion howl with instincts known not learned by man, or sound his sonorous roar as prophecy to gaze back upon history itself?