My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

oh baby

News outlets are reporting on a letter to PM Carney, signed by 190 former diplomats, about sanctioning Israel- and none of them actually link to the letter. Does anyone have a link? I cannot find this letter anywhere.

"I have cryogenically frozen my penis and filed it down to a fleshy icicle to replace any feminine roundness on my body with a masculine point."

i'm really not sure how wearing MJ's glove is supposed to help Drake shake the pedophile accusations

Drake dropping albums like a streaming service dropping all the remaining episodes of a show at once because they know they're canceling it

My (trans) girlfriend has just been suspended on Bluesky for mocking the moderators by stating a fact. It's a "serious violation" Fucking hell

i genuinely don't understand this take. maybe it's age but i don't enjoy the constant arguing over there, especially when so much of it is in bad faith. the entire platform incentivizes blue checks to say dumb, out-of-pocket shit so they'll get paid more.

my dad would rather have a 5 minute long sneezing fit than try to blow his nose, i don't get it

more bizarre errors from the @nytimes.com Canada desk: there are no "overlapping ranges" of grizzly bears or polar bears in Saskatchewan, even in the "far north" of the province. where is this stuff coming from? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/w...

"One Last Victory for the Most Dangerous Woman in the World" "She was an old woman now, but she was still as defiant as ever. She leapt into action, asking her friends and allies to support Bortolotti's defence. She organized meetings, raised money, hired a lawyer."

i'm so tired

🐛 NO JOY @nojoy.bsky.social BUGLAND video was released 1 year ago! 🦋 www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHs7...

check it out someone's selling a dataset of your posts

Hello adventurer! 👋 I'm Ramona - an illustrator drawing book covers, character sheets, handlettered logos, page decor and more. ✨Particularly love drawing intricate, ornate & vintage inspired things. ✨Especially love working with indie designers & authors. ✨Incredibly hateful towards all things gAI

This is actually true, imo. And also, COVID reminded people of their own vulnerability, the porosity of their own skins and bodies, their mortality and they HATED it. They still hate it. Thats why they scream about masks, about COVID and any reminder of that vulnerability.

just made my first purchase on @subvert.fm! congrats on the public launch today! we love to see a cooperative alternative to bandcamp. 🤝

Our first Reading Group in over a year is happening in exactly one week! May 19th, 7pm ET. This discussion of the World Metal chapter from Ian Christe's history of heavy metal will be led by @danielgwilson.bsky.social and take place on Google Meet. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

NEW: xAI appears to have added more than 500 MW (!) of unpermitted gas turbines to its Colossus 2 campus in a matter of weeks, according to internal emails between the company and regulators

Check out this great conversation we had about one of the world's most reputable newspapers publishing a fake quote by a Canadian politician with seemingly no consequences.

Four Pillars Gaming published hundred of AI-generated profiles over the past four months and when people asked to be taken down, they doubled down, defended their process, and refused. The ramifications of hallucinatory LLM "histories" threaten to erode truth and destroy the historical record.

I’m lettering this! I can’t wait for y’all to read it. I’m beyond honored to be working on this project with this creative team 💖

feels like a good time to plug my book, A NATION OF TINKERERS, out on August 11th via @invisibooks.bsky.social. in it, i chart the early history of electronic music in so-called Canada, using the informal practice of "tinkering" as a lens to think through our relationship to music technology.

Today @subvert.fm opens to the public, and supporters are asked to buy an album and tell three friends about the cooperatively owned digital music platform. Reckon I've got three friends here… I opted for Catalan electronic bliss by Isadora Yara, found in the collection of @rvngintl.bsky.social.

it's always a little lovecraftian when I cut open a pepper and there's another little pepper growing in there

feels like a good time to plug my book, A NATION OF TINKERERS, out on August 11th via @invisibooks.bsky.social. in it, i chart the early history of electronic music in so-called Canada, using the informal practice of "tinkering" as a lens to think through our relationship to music technology.

🎉 Check out other members of the "Class of '96" - the websites & organizations that launched or expanded in 1996 ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/05/07/c...

read the room! www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

ANNOUNCEMENT After two years of accountability failures, nine of us are suing the Calgary Police, City of Calgary & University of Calgary for brutality & Charter violations suffered May 9, 2024. We will provide a public statement at UofC TFLD Quad, 12:30pm today. drugdatadecoded.ca/for-immediat...

Yes, if you get over the illusions of 'speed' and 'growth' and start thinking about sustainability, integrity and humanitarian values instead

*laughs in archivist* It always amuses me at how little historical material is actually not only digitized but also made available online compared to what lay people think.

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

late, but wow this is a profoundly stupid piece that misreads "poptimism", @carlzoilus.bsky.social , and the ideological underpinnings of both jacobin.com/2026/05/popt...

Unwound themed bakery called Loaves Turn Inside You

extremely funny take here, because “no AI” would have fixed the problem of inserting fabricated quotes into a piece of reporting & the NYT does have a policy that permits their journalists to use AI if they do so responsibly, with disclosures

Koji Suzuki—the intensely talented and influential author of RING, SPIRAL, DARK WATER, and many other novels and short stories—has passed way at the age of 68. Too young. An enormous loss. The reverberations of his fiction will continue to be felt for years to come.

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Capt’n Canada 🫡

Why did they call it Bluesky and not…

“Despite the rapid growth of generative AI, Canada currently has no legislation specifically designed to address its implications for copyright & the rights of creators.“ So it’s weird that SOCAN is “creating a framework for these technologies” before advocating for better creator protections.

We’re kicking off my Toronto City Council Ward 4 campaign with a launch party & fundraiser on Saturday, May 9 at Toronto Style! 5pm to 10 pm (and beyond!), with DJ sets by me and Castelvi, emceed by Andrea Werhun! All are welcome and entry (as always) is free: www.dianachanmcnally.ca/launch

a song with one uncleared sample can be a legal nightmare for an artist. a song made with AI models trained on millions of unlicensed songs? increasingly acceptable. my latest for maisonneuve on generative AI music, ownership + who actually benefits. maisonneuve.org/article/2026...

me sleeping seven hours vs. me sleeping six hours and 42 minutes

Subvert launches on Tuesday 12 May. We are now just days away. If you are a Member of Subvert, check your email for more details on how we will launch together next week. Not a member yet? These are the final days to join as a Founding Member of Subvert. Join the co-op at subvert.fm

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

a song with one uncleared sample can be a legal nightmare for an artist. a song made with AI models trained on millions of unlicensed songs? increasingly acceptable. my latest for maisonneuve on generative AI music, ownership + who actually benefits. maisonneuve.org/article/2026...