See, if I were going to fire him I wouldn't have waited through an international break and two games Forest was never going to win first But of course I lack the leadership and personnel management skills that have brought Evangelos Marinakis success in so many entirely legitimate business ventures

I say this a lot but democracy means the demos have to kratos at every level, if you, personally, do not take up any of that burden, even a little of it, then you're accepting what the people who DO show up to wield that power do with it in your name which is FINE, if one can be honest about it

cheering on the balcony squirrel as it scampers away holding an entire Farm Boy Thanksgiving cookie in its mouth that it got from... somewhere? (Maybe one of the neighbours had their dinner outside, it's been unseasonably warm this week)

this thread is a heroic effort, i will probably try to formulate a "dodge the math entirely" variant of this at some point

Combined with the fact that tech bros are trying to use Generative AI for warfare, and that many ancient love goddesses were also war goddesses, there's *something* going on here.

On top of everything else: there's an obvious answer to questions like "why didn't indigenous nations unite against European invaders" and you can see it if you just flip the question: why didn't European and West Asian nations unite against the Mongols?

Just received a Tor marketing email about this book and I have to say "The Godfather meets The Magicians" is something I didn't know I needed to read until today so I'll definitely be giving it a try at least

I am so lapsed that I apparently suffered a debilitating allergic reaction at the prospect at going to another Catholic Mass (sorry, Mom, but also happy birthday?) but this is Very True here, two millennia of learning and employing root exploits for the human brain is being used for good

It’s kind of hilarious that “RIP to Númenor, but I’m built different” is the ideology of the world‘s most influential and powerful Tolkien superfan.

1994: don't believe everything you read on the internet 2007: don't believe everything you see on the internet 2016: Misinformation crisis, don't believe everything on the internet 2022-Today: OMG the internet as a source of truth has been obliterated this is so bad for Our Democracy

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. This is nothing new, people were doing this with Onion articles, tabloids, and North Macedonian agitprop (including doubling down when called on it) for decades. Even here, it was common for people to say "but that it's believable tells you something, right?"

Much that I love about this chart, but my favourite is the teeny tiny bit of tax revenue we get from child actors, models and the like showing up in '0-9'.

still enjoying this BTW, also delighted at the very positive cite for the work of a local academic of my unfortunately brief acquaintance

CK3: All Under Heaven, Football Manager 26, and Europa Universalis 5 all dropping within a week of each other is a conspiracy of sabotage against me, personally

my one remaining professional ambition is to make enough money to not blink at the cost of a Financial Times subscription

Does Canada have serious racism problems? Yes. Does Canada do a better job of building a society that integrates non-white immigrants than France does? Also yes.

this is the skeleton key for so much annoyance I'm currently feeling with so many people I would otherwise agree with

we barely even got the cool parts of Mankind Divided, we just jumped straight to the bigotry I am, despite myself, in awe

Something that got almost universally elided from Woke v1 is that being cruel is viscerally rewarding. It feels really good in a pre-rational sort of way. And, paired with the hedonic treadmill, the natural tendency is for any "safe" outlet for cruelty to erode whatever borders we place around it.

well this makes them signing Reguilon for next year make way more sense, though as much as I love him I'm not sure he's much better as a defensive LB than 2025 Alba. There's a reason nobody has signed him in three months as a free agent! meanwhile Suarez endures, the soccer gods are unjust

as a bonus, if US doctors somehow stopped making as much money the financial pressures involved in staffing Canadian health care systems would massively decrease

"and I want ONE such places with everybody I want to talk to or yell at on it or reachable from it, because opening multiple apps is annoying but it needs to be moderated strictly according to my specific ideological/emotional needs or I'll get very upset" PLEASE just stick to group chats

a brief meditation on what we have lost in the Supreme Court of Canada's recent robe change

what on Earth have #VWFC been feeding Seb Berhalter this year, my word bangers for days

bad people who believe bad things will continue to have the vote in any plausible future of the Western democracies, and an outlet must be available to them that is not actively opposed to tolerant coexistence and the constitutional state

My baseball knowledge is way out of date and I'm only as much of a Jays fan as the median Canadian, but are the Yankees actually "consecutive double digit playoff losses" bad this year? I feel like I'd have heard way more schadenfreude before now if people had been expecting this weekend at all

Your ability to survive the next three years, of which next year is likely to be the worst in some ways, is going to depend on your ability to filter your input based on what you can meaningfully do things about, and look away from the hellscreen at strategic moments in order to preserve your sanity

hoping this "the price disappears shortly after loading a book page on the Kobo store" thing is a mobile rendering bug rather than a deliberate choice because it's rather annoying while trying to decide what's a deep enough discount to jump on (I don't adblock on mobile Chrome so it isn't that)

Madame decided to watch Clear and Present Danger this afternoon entirely coincidentally; she is blessed to be less Online than me that said it's really interesting/depressing to watch/compare/contrast it against the insane remastered fanfic version we're seeing these days on the news feeds

I resent myself every time I get involved in LLM discourse because it always throws a gigawatt spotlight on the extent to which many if not most people aren't significantly better about "reading for comprehension" or "not making shit up because it would feel/work better if this false thing was true"

I will never, never, stop rolling my eyes at this sentiment coming from HER of all people sis, where do you think this ends?

This is why if the Whitecaps couldn't pull off the Shield this year I'm glad it's the Union we lost out to

Madame (who doesn't watch this show) has nonetheless been updating me on this drama for weeks but now I'm invested because the idea of spending $25K on a newspaper ad demanding answers about why one's favourite show recast their lead is FASCINATING to me halifax.citynews.ca/2025/10/03/s...

"messing with your soldiers' cheap food to enrich your cronies" is famously part of all the authoritarian regime consolidation handbooks it is REMARKABLY difficult to be as afraid of these people as I probably should be given that I live and work inside several relevant blast radii

The Bluesky theory of moderation is one of those “I’d really like to believe in this, but I am dubious”, but I will put that aside for the iconic reply to “people who have convinced themselves that they are the boss of people they don’t give any money to“, a curse of social media.

society can't promise people will like you, that's not a thing they can do what society can do is *include you*. being included and tolerated by people who dislike you *is the purpose of having a society*

unsure I agree with all the conclusions but this is a valuable lay-of-the-land on the "decentralized" part of this whole project

every time I worry we've somehow lost the ability to learn from our mistakes I'll remember this stat I recall the debates over legalizing single-game sports betting up here and the liberal in me was all "fine, your vice isn't my vice but that doesn't mean it should be illegal" well THAT backfired

okay Jesper, you've had your fun, now start subbing more people plzkthx #VWFC #CanChamp

look, I _get_ that much of the audience for this stuff does not have adulthood situations ENOUGH better than being a child that yes, lacked autonomy but ALSO lacked responsibilities But SOMEONE always had to deal with the piles of bills! Your parents weren't going to do everything forever!

This is a great thread on the fundamental tension of All This, except that people don't really seem to even WANT it both ways Bluesky wanted to make the former, but because Twitter got hijacked it was suddenly flooded with users who actually wanted the latter and hope to yell their way towards it

an extraordinary person with an extraordinary legacy who nevertheless didn’t take herself too seriously when Gary Larson published this cartoon, she was in Africa and her institute was horribly offended and drafted a complaint the whole thing was defused when she returned - she found it funny

not sure what it says about me (or them for that matter) that Amazon Prime Video is recommending me "Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS"

despite the best efforts of the Alberta government, the kids may be all right

It's probably not appropriate to review the hotel we just came back from as "like if you upscaled/very slightly updated the motel from SCHITT'S CREEK and dropped it staff and all in Edmonton, would definitely stay again" so y'all get this version while I revise for a differently unhinged audience

so by now all us hatewatchers know better than to celebrate Inter Miami trailing before like the 90th minute, yes?

Cleverly tying their work to current events is one of my favourite ways to run across the authors of my youth on social media

North Americans will someday stop turning everybody their ancestors conquered and assimilated into Forgotten Realms elves