CHOTINER: So you're delivering toys to *all* the good boys and girls? SANTA: Yes, I check the list twice. CHOTINER: The list...that you make yourself?

Very Ottawa. No infrastructure survives winter intact, despite everyone knowing about winter.

Shameful. I cite CCDH’s work constantly. Imran Ahmed is a leading voice raising the alarm on online harms, algorithms, and accountability. This is fascism, censorship & authoritarian overreach. They Seek to Curb Online Hate. The U.S. Accuses Them of Censorship. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/b...

This is exactly what you'd learn from reading @margaretatwood.bsky.social's new memoir. 🤩🇨🇦

I do love music studies bluesky 😂🥰

Hard to overstate how bad this is. The people doing anti-hate and anti-disinformation work are now being sanctioned by the United States of America. This is really, really, really bad.

Canada is one of the eight countries that today expressed its solidarity with the people of Greenland and Denmark in the face of threats to their territorial integrity from Trump and his newly appointed Reichsstatthalter for Greenland, Jeff Landry.

AI researchers need to understand that folks working on safety, bias, transparency, and audits could well be next. We urgently need to prepare for when it comes to our communities - hoping to stay at arms length will not protect anyone in the long term. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/t...

This is what Canada's up against as we must address rising online disinformation, propaganda, extremism and hate. After barring physical entry the US will go after individuals' online activities, including financial ones. We've got to hold out and support advocates of online regulation.

This is where the "free speech" talk was always headed. Free speech for Nazis and rightwing bullies, censorship for the rest of us.

The stars are converging weirdly and Wagnerianly as 2025 winds down toward an untold future of norm-shattering. Happy holidays to all and @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social @katewagner.wehwalt.net specifically.

True! My mother used to say "if he hadn't been prime minister he would have been in the psych ward". Everything old is new again.

starting with Carole Cadwalladr on the AI bubble broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-great-...

"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/canada-impac... @uoftdlsph.bsky.social

Looking right at you from 1446: a Carthusian monk with mesmerizing beard on his chin & fly on his frame. By Petrus Christus of Bruges, whose day is today.

This is good. It'll be seen as a win/lose thing vis-à-vis women's/girls' health but it's not. Better ways of reaching men & boys re mental health, addictions & other health behaviors are truly needed. And better outcomes for men & boys are better for women & girls too.

"apparently failed" 🥸

'tenor' never used before as such a high-calibre insult 🔥

“At a moment of profound humanitarian need and regional instability, this policy further restricts already limited avenues for lawful travel and engagement, compounding harm to civilians while doing nothing to advance security”

She’s like 👀 and I’m like 👀 and she’s like 👀👀 and I’m like 👀👀 and she’s like 👀👀👀👀 and I’m like 👀👀👀👀 and she’s like—

yeah I mean it’s genuinely sad that the “reasonable old school” Republican (who Dems eagerly and unanimously voted to confirm) is out here doing pressers blatantly geeked out coke and it’s not subtle

One of the things science does, when it is working, is correct its own faulty assumptions. Sometimes when that fault opens, earthquake-like, lots of things we thought we knew tumble in. That’s how science is supposed to work. This is a big'un! Gonna say 7.1 on the Richter scale of sci-quakes.

Seeing Canada's just-retired Ambassador to the UN @bobbyrae48.bsky.social muster this map to explain the seriousness of Trump's Greenland ambitions is attention-grabbing, ack.

“Soft Power” bsky.app/profile/mjmb...

"Microsoft are protectors of Canadian sovereignty" is astonishing mental gymnastics and it gets worse the more you think about it

However, the open question is whether the EU will go to war to defend Denmark's sovereignty or will it leave Denmark to its own devices? With Russia on its eastern flank, the US is counting on the latter. It's almost as if Russia and the US are working together as a tag team in Europe.

Maximum light extra important this year.

There’s something despair-inducing about a former professor of mine (& Larry Summers’s wife) being asked to get Epstein yet another copy of Lolita and saying oh hey check out Willa Cather if you’re looking for literary novels

Holy hell, my kids told me yesterday that this year's Hannukah gelt was bitcoin but I didn't look until tonight.

Very funny for the pope to be American and the anti-pope to also be American. But where shall we hold this Yankee Avingon papacy?

Annual reminder that this is the only acceptable version of Baby It's Cold Outside www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPNF...

Quality geopolitical-aesthetic-affective analysis for Canadians to enjoy. 🇨🇦🏒🔥

This is the thing: they've now created a Schrodinger's edifice that both is and is not a memorial.

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A beautifully eloquent piece by my friend Sheema Khan. Her perspective on who gets celebrated and condemned in the name of religion and ethics extends to the need for parallel conversations among Jewish and other Canadians too.

This is truly awesome

Wow, what an in-depth story re alleged CAF informant to Ukraine linked to former MP Chris Alexander's allegations to Parliament re reporter David Pugliese's alleged ties to Russia. Bananas undercurrents going on.

But seriously, give the man his Pulitzer already! bsky.app/profile/diew...

No dean in the history of academia has ever told a job applicant they were being blocked be side they were white because (a) that never actually happens and (b) if it did there would be a massive lawsuit. But thank you, Naomi Wolf, for confirming that this is something the Crazies believe.

This kind of ritual self-humiliation would entail spontaneous combustion if duties to self were real.

Wasn't this traditionally the lead-up to a ritual mass sacrifice of golden youth.

In this matter alone I am post-truth.

One might expect someone purporting to be gripped by a normative question at the cliff's edge to have credibly shown previous behaviour of engaging with normative questions.

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

Everyone's a political theorist in a crisis.

Everyone's a political theorist in a crisis.