When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Are we grinches or can we just no longer afford to subsidize the failure of social programs because too many of us have now been failed by our tattered and often non-existent social safety net?

Global airing the censored 60 Minutes segment reminds me of when Gordon Lightfoot's civil rights anthem "Black Day In July" was banned across the US. people in Detroit were still able to hear the song on the radio though thanks to their close proximity to Winsor, Ontario.

cemented in history now god bless the torrent

i love how they just always pair anna and josh together now

Simply Having A wonderful

New: Canadians are now officially streaming 3 billion songs a week. When I started writing about streaming economics in 2013, things were dire. Now? Despite more money flowing to music, most musicians I've talked to over 12 years don't find things better www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/a...

Today!

if cracking the windows open in the winter time is wrong, i don't want to be right

“The Robins deposited some groceries in a public square at the foot of a Christmas tree on Tuesday evening, adding that the rest would be distributed through community food banks. “Don’t forget – the hunger justifies the means, Merry Christmas!” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

"Substack and similar services expanded because layoffs and consolidation created a vacuum. What appeared to be freedom often isolated workers with the same risks and bills that newsrooms once shared."

Nine Inch Nails "Love Is Not Enough" live at rehearsals, 2005. Directed & edited by me. Filmed on the glorious Panasonic DVX100 MiniDV cameras.

i've been thinking a lot about how much easier it is to go off and start your own newsletter than build something collectively. 'independence' is structured this way intentionally, and i think it's crucial for journalists to resist it and work together.

Bernice shared a new holiday song "Poisson Noël”

beautiful stuff. i've watched the clip every time it has crossed my feed.

Again, I truly *loved* this week’s episode of Heated Rivalry, but IT IS A WISH FULFILLMENT ROMANCE. The success of a gay hockey romance TV show, largely watched by people who are neither hockey players nor hockey fans, is not “proof that the world is ready and all we would do is love you”

fuck these evil nerds and their penchant for naming their evil companies after things in Lord of the Rings

she absolutely does not have the sauce pitchfork.com/news/st-vinc...

one of my elementary school teachers was a children's novelist, he frequently bent the rules around curriculum to prioritize writing and storytelling. in high school writing was the only thing i was good at, and by university became my default mode for self-expression.

MY 4-YEAR OLD: *calmly, while coloring a picture of the Grinch* If baby grinches die, we can eat them. If they’re clean. That’s ok

oh ok so Absolute Batman is just bonkers. volume 1 has been lots of fun so far, with a contemporary political POV but filtered through a heightened 90s sensibility... big swings, loud silhouettes, and everything is a little over-the-top.

Coming soon -- Dimension 20: Gladlands! ☀️😃 Join Brennan Lee Mulligan and the Dusty Do-gooders (Ally Beardsley, Kimia Behpoornia, Vic Michaelis, Oscar Montoya, Zac Oyama, Jacob Wysocki) for a feel-good apocalypse adventure! Dimension 20: Gladlands premieres Jan. 7th, 2026!

too funny. the Victims of Communism memorial now won’t show any names because too many of them could be linked to nazis. this thing never should have been built — and should still be removed!

that's my president 🫡

I just want to once again congratulate every business and media outlet who tripped over their own dicks to take right-wing outrage in uncritical good faith and ruin peoples’ careers over extremely tame internet comments about Charlie Kirk 48 hours before immediately forgetting he ever existed.

A lengthy and detailed story on problems in ticketing and the live music industry, by Anya Zoledziowski, featuring a few quotes from @vassb.bsky.social and myself: www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

Thank you, Rob Reiner ✨

"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace

i don't think this is even a real statistical anomaly anymore. it seems like there's someone in the crowd at every mass shooting who has been through it before. this doesn't have to be our shared cultural experience.

in our latest issue we played with writing shorter profiles of artists we want to spotlight. i think the results speak for themselves! this was a fun exercise and i hope we get to do more of it.

NEW: Behind Italy’s beauty (and parmesan) is a radical tradition of cooperatives. In some areas, they make up nearly a fifth of the GDP. We went to Emilia-Romagna, one of the richest regions in the country, to investigate how Italy’s workers built a more democratic economy.

the majority of my day as a beekeeper is spent giving each of the individual bees a kiss

it's easy to apply to join the co-op... we're free, there's a library of member resources and discounts, collaboration opportunities on our forum and much more... if you've been hesitating, now is the time to start the new year fresh! cartoonist.coop/join/

Since I was laid off, I have seen so many other layoffs, and heard directly from friends and other people I know about their layoffs. So many people will pivot to other careers besides journalism. They repeatedly sacrificed time with family and friends, their health, and sleep. It didn't matter.

the canceled TV show you'll never stop thinking about

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

wrote about @lalouverouge.bsky.social’s new book and the necessity of full personhood for children, who should receive both support and have agency in ways that even liberal society seeks to deny (and that the christian nationalist project is explicit about trying to control)

i cannot stop laughing at this

How accessible is age verification technology to trans users? For @techpolicypress.bsky.social, we tried to figure that out. www.techpolicy.press/age-verifica...

Canadian company run by an ex-IDF member celebrates reaching 2,000 armoured vehicles sent to Ukraine since 2022. The same company has been trying to sell to Israeli police and more recently sold vehicles to ICE in the US.

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Like @prisonculture.bsky.social, I've been worried about the ways popular myths of the civil rights movement make it hard to see how to struggle today. On the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the things we get wrong & what a fuller history shows us: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

hard to believe this record is ten years old. still slaps! youtu.be/3492o3pfEWI

This digital map and archive of Italian punk zines from the 1980s has been blowing my mind all day. Some of it is weird to load but it's worth the effort. Tons of energy! Some interesting art zines too. paolopalmacci.it/capitmundi/b...

Once a loser, always a loser

Sabrina Carpenter: Braver and more powerful than Nintendo and Microsoft combined.

upgraded my 5G chip today, if you're in Ontario here's where you can get a booster www.ontario.ca/vaccine-loca...

i love them