I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.

[UK: what you doin'?] Palantir hosts party for MoD to celebrate £240m defence contract

It is the stupidest situation imaginable. You may think 'surely that can't be true' and yes it is.

Robert Lepage’s Macbeth: adapted into québecois French, with all the characters being Hell’s Angels. Sounds horrifying, and was the best production of Macbeth I’ve ever seen. youtu.be/hj4utAfylAw?...

Sue the Pope for malpractice is what it shows.

Canadians have a clear preference for political monotheism, with one big omnipotent power to be mad at rather than a multitude of smaller squabbling ones.

how the fuck did i miss him saying this at the goddamned national prayer breakfast?!! hate how funny he is.

Alcohol bottles have NO warning labels. Not ONE WORD about serving sizes, calories or health harms Information saves lives …so how long will government policy take to catch up? www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

The word don't is censored. Don't, or Don T. If you're looking for just some fun proof they're doing control+f censoring

Venn diagramming into the abyss

Fantastic news, kudos to New Brunswick for leading the way here.

Such extremely important work being done by @nextgenmen.bsky.social. Of course girls need this education too, but pitching it for uptake by boys is essential. All of our kids need this education to stay safe and healthy.

Amazing instance of the dizzying 'is it in outer space or deepest ocean' viewing experience.

A great explainer on vagueness and the significance of this senator saying something rather than nothing: "I have never known Wyden to point to smoke that doesn't emerge from a five-alarm fire."

Maybe this is a sound policy move to build social cohesion in addressing hate/bias? But I've been so impressed with the wisdom, authority and cross-cultural solidarity @amiraelghawaby.bsky.social has brought to her challenging role--and hope the govt continues to draw on it.

A guy who watched the Saddam-statue-tearing-down video and thought 'it'll never happen to me'

wow

dawg you have Jean Chrétien talking like Mao

Jfc why is this not from The Onion. A harm reduction maxim forever ruined.

Wow so it turns out you can just… use the coercive power of the state to try to protect people from tech sociopathy

It's senseless to make policy premised on the idea that social media harms end at age 14. We all--individually and collectively as a society--need regulation of social media companies.

Forgive me, Jesus, because I genuinely deeply enjoy how perpetually unhappy and desolate these losers are.

Recommended reading: @taylorowen.bsky.social's final report to Canada's AI Task Force Strategy Report. His governance & regulatory recommendations are important--not least for ensuring academic/civil society access to AI data platforms for research & monitoring purposes.

Yes, they did and they are. And note here that Epstein says, “Brexit, just the beginning.” It’s all part of the same piece.

Does Chotiner hypnotize these people? Every horrifying door he opens they walk straight through.

“All over my neighborhood we keep finding empty cars, the glass shattered into diamonds on the snow, the people missing. Tiny private automotive kristallnachts, everywhere and ongoing.”

It’s not unreasonable to want a bit more substance from some of the govt minsters that might put some oomph behind the hockey homonationalism stuff.

I know 2m20s is a fairly big commitment for a Bluesky video - but I do think this is top 0.001% output from a local news station. I watch it at least once a year, every February. Take a look.

Chotiner: Tell me what you found interesting about these vampires. Documentarian: Well, it's just -- the group dynamics, I guess. Chotiner: I can see that. I can see finding Nandor, Laszlo and Nadia entertaining. Documentarian: Exactly. Chotiner: So. How many people did you watch them murder?

I'm starting to worry about Chotiner. Moral injury type of worry.

For those commenting on the agents' surnames.

Canada's Public Safety minister and every member of cabinet including the PM should say publicly what Manitoba premier Wab Kinew says here. bsky.app/profile/saro...

Larry Summers complaining to Epstein that his kids admire Bernie Sanders too much

Every word of this by @mendelmatt.bsky.social & @jonshell.bsky.social is true. There's immense potential for Canada in uniting w other democratic middle powers against US coercion. Resisting the self-interested short-termism of Cdn business sectors is our biggest challenge.

Good analysis by @aaronwherry.bsky.social. One of those pieces that seems maddeningly simplistic at the outset, then showing depth & nuance as it unfolds at length.

One of the things that emerges from the Epstein disgustingness is that actually the world is not full of beautiful women just itching for the opportunity to have sex with men just because they're rich. Hence the need for middlemen that can simulate the fantasy.

What a grim set of setbacks for BC sex workers' well-being since CPHA released our position statement on a public health approach to sex work two years ago. Kudos to @thetyee.ca for this piece.

Through a U.S. joint venture with the Oneida Nation, Edmonton's Stantec had contracts to do facilities inspections at ICE detention sites. The deals, done in late 2025, broke up when the Oneida Nation government found out what its business arm was up to. thelogic.co/news/stantec...

Netanyahu's former Defense Minister from 2013 to 2016 says Yeshayahu Leibowitz was correct in predicting that the continuing Israeli occupation of the West Bank would eventually lead to the rise of "Judeo-Nazis." His words not mine. x.com/bogie_yaalon...

In this long post in Hebrew, Moshe Ya'alon, Israel's Defense Minister from 2013 to 2016, compares the ideology of the Israeli right to Nazi racial ideology. His words, not mine. Under the IHRA definition of antisemitism, this makes Israel's former Defense Minister antisemitic. x.com/bogie_yaalon...

Not just a student problem. Learned today of a major Cdn research grant application that just received back three sets of reviewer comments, *two of which were entirely AI-written*.

Why

We've heard that these cuts are justified because of bureaucratic bloat (maybe some) and AI efficiencies (really?) but we're due for more accounting of which roles are being cut and with what impacts on operations.

Article quoting @stewartprest.ca & myself discussing whether or not what is happening in Alberta constitutes "treason". I am coming from a very legal/natsec understanding of the term & Stewart is talking about the need for clear language in this fragile political moment - which is absolutely fair.

It's a relief to sense that PM Carney has started to come around publicly to this position (even if official and business interests on the F35 and many trade files can be counted on not to).

Werner Herzog's nihilistic penguin has really gone places, omg.

outfit has the same colors as the crying emoji 😭