This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com Altria Group Inc. Amazon Apple Inc. Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp. Caterpillar Inc. Coinbase Global Comcast Corp. Hard Rock International Google HP Inc. Lockheed Martin Corp. Meta Platforms Inc. 1/3

If you see this, quote with a vampire who isn't Dracula.

Number one in the American League. American League Pennant.

Prisoners should be treated well. Other than being separated from society, which is their actual allotted punishment, they shouldn't be subject to any discomfort that isn't an unavoidable part of that separation. They shouldn't be kept in luxury, but not in squalor or danger either. 1/

"COVID-19 and flu vaccines are one of the most effective ways to protect yourself from serious illness and complications,” said Dr. Trevor Arnason, Medical Officer of Health. “We encourage everyone to get vaccinated as soon as they are eligible this fall.” Read the PSA: ottawa.ca/en/city-hall...

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Around 4,500 people die by suicide in Canada every year. That’s 12 people dying by suicide each day. These deaths are preventable. If you’re thinking about suicide, reach out for help. Call 9-8-8 or reach out to a trusted friend. Visit 988.ca

Oooh. Tricky. Both Mega Maid and the Megazord earn honourable mentions here. But in the end, there's only one answer.

Slightly diminish a book: The Grapes of Frustration

Canadians! There is a petition to sign to protest Mastercard and Visa's control over the purchase of legal adult content. This is specifically about the Steam & itchio situation, but language protects adult creators. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... #nsfw #censorship #canpoli @acvalens.net

Don't change the title but make it a porno: An American Tail

Cynicism is poisonous. It creates really shitty kneejerk reactions to things as innocuous as a parent asking for recommendations in maybe (big, big maybe) a slightly too earnest fashion

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Slightly diminish a band: Scantily-dressed Ladies

Fecking brilliant. @natogreen.bsky.social

A good crew to have rescuing me, I'll admit. Although if they're the ones rescuing me, the idea of who (or what) might have kidnapped me is worrying. The Sanctuary team only gets involved when things get Abmormal.

One important point in today's column: telling someone that they ARE "good enough" for you or DO "deserve" you often ends up reinforcing the idea that love is "earned" or goes to the "worthy". Better to reject the premise entirely and say "I don't care about 'good enough', I love you, period."

Quote this post with a picture of the airplane you'll accept as a bribe.

Don't expect much from me this week. It's going to be a very busy week, so I'm not going to have much time to goldbrick about on social media. On a related note, if you're in or near Ottawa, ON, come out to Carleton Place to see Groundhog Day: the Musical (yes, based on the film) May 1-4, 8-10!

And that makes three! One more until the next round! #GoLeafsGo

Two down! Now let's go to Ottawa and close this series out! Go Leafs Go!

The Trevor Project has a 24/7 Suicide Hotline for LGBTQ+ Youth. Please support them if you can, and please promote them. www.thetrevorproject.org/get-help/

NEW POST: What do the federal campaign platforms say about democracy and governance? emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/what-do-th...

Go Leafs Go!

This article sums up what the stakes are in this election for queer and trans folks. It is hard to maintain a cordial relationship with anyone who would support a party that denies trans people’s existence and previously voted to try to annul marriages like mine. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A movie that takes place where you're from

No voting on who gets to be people.

I thought I had a Euridyce joke, but when I looked around for it, it wasn't there.

Repost with an image of your favourite James Bond (wrong answers only)

“History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce.” — Karl Marx

One person on Reddit suggested that Canada vote for the Conservatives in the upcoming election, because Poilievre will be able to talk Trump into getting rid of the tariffs. I asked how, given the fact that his tariffs aren't rational (e.g. the ones on penguins and US bases). Never got a reply.

Okay, Americans, you've had your fun. Tremendous joke: months of set-up, building the tension and whatnot. Today's the payoff, right? When you cry "April Fools!" and reveal you haven't, in fact, elected a fascist who threatens to annex Canada? I promise I won't be mad if you come clean right now.

Today, March 31 is the International Trans Day of Visibility. Thank you to the trans community for all you’ve contributed to Ottawa.

Recommended. The transition of the US from a "no kings" republic to its current form already felt very Roman to me, and I'm not reassured that someone who actually knows Roman history can draw similar parallels. Nor by how violent Rome's transition was. The podcast ends on a hopeful note, though.

Because trying not to be was ruining my life, and I'm done with it. I get in this cycle where I become obsessed with someone to the point of mania, and then that inevitably doesn't work out and I fall into depression. The mania is nice, but the highs aren't worth the lows. 1/

I wrote about the practical strategic necessity of doing "impossible" things, the moral and strategic emptiness of making the middle your destination, and the way persuasion requires vision, and vision requires standing for something. www.the-reframe.com/the-unmovabl...

Without downloading any new pictures, where are you mentally?

"The animating principle of representational democracy is to protect the rest of us from the whims of deranged rich people, be they kings or oligarchs. Everything else is wainscoting." -John Rogers (@johnrogers.bsky.social)

Cynicism is corrosive to democracy. We're becoming more cynical, as a society, and that's why we're sliding into authoritarianism. We don't believe things can be better, so we don't demand it, and things get worse. Fuck that. See the world the way it could be. And then help make it a reality.

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Saw my first CyberTruck today. Not as weird as I expected. Don't get me wrong, it's ugly as sin and is going to start rusting in the next snowstorm, which is in ~6 hours... But I was expecting it to be seriously weird, and it's just ugly. But then, I grew up in a city with its own Batmobile.

Hard to say. There have been a lot of dicks with my first name. Spencer and Cheney have to be near the top for living ones, but historically, I don't know. Nixon? III? Ewell? Hegener? Oof. I just hit the part of the Wikipedia list with the "Crime" heading, and I give up. Too much awful to choose.

I borrowed an ebook for a few weeks and never got more than a couple of chapters in at most in that time. I just didn't have the urge to pick it up. Given that I wasn't really invested in the story after six books, and I'd heard that the next few were a slog, I decided to give up there.

Advertise your Bluesky account in three words: Snark Pedantry Inability to follow basic instructions

Those poor kidnappers.

Post your favourite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.

On the one hand, "pregnant" seems unlikely. On the other hand, "rich" is almost certainly accurate but not likely to represent much of a change; I've been Rich all my life.

Already happened in October.