CANADA: 2 minutes for high-sticking 2 minutes for the right number of men on the ice

Question for newsletterers: Let's say you have a friend (let's call him "me") who is planning to move off Substack to either ghost or beehiiv. Your friend is functionally illiterate with all-things-code, so he should pick the option that is more total-idiot-friendly. Which site would you recommend?

Haven't been out in the public scene for one of my subcultures in over a decade, and...uh....times have changed

Happy new year everyone! Chúc mừng năm mới! Sức khỏe dồi dào!

Many other conservative futurists act this way in reference to Richard Feynman and a few other titans of mid-century physics. And it’s obnoxious when they do it too. But to treat Isaac Asimov as a scientific god-among-men? …Dude, this is just so embarrassing for you.

I suspect I may have some opinions to share about this next book I’m reading.

I want some of them thar fancy Paris horse d'ovaries, scallops and an eclair!

It's usually framed as middle aged white men being particularly adept (evidence: look how few women or black and brown people work here!). And that's the irony: if these clowns *had* taken a gender studies class, they wouldn't now be in the Epstein files or being MeToo-ed more generally.

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

No one has any right to be this funny. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rzH...

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

Every time I see "AI" being crammed into another consumer product I think of how in the 50s we put radium in suppositories because "the atom" was the snakeoil hype of the moment

Okay, some of you are gonna love this

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

An interesting thread.

Fatherhood is baseline pretty great, but then your kids start singing "once in a lifetime" *with you* in the car, or singing a rabbit-centric version to the family pet when youre not around, and thats just next level lovely.

I made a little comic celebrating something nice in the world that my family loves. It can also serve as a recommendation for those of you who are (or are considering becoming) parents. Finding joy where you can is a survival skill in bizarre and awful times. I ‘ll fix the typos (I just noticed!)

“The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.” ~Heather Cox Richardson

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

an incredibly thorough consideration of Gaiman and Sandman, well worth reading

Me: Hey while I'm out, you want me to get anything, like from Walgreens or Aldi's-- Sara: Al-deez-nuts

Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:

ME: yeah could i get the impossible burger with cheese. THE VIZIER WHO'S BEEN ADVISING ME: ahh, an excellent choice sire. an imitation of the genuine article. there are some "friends" of yours to whom it bears a passing similarity ME: you want anything VIZIER: [chuckles] what i want is of no import

Our lovely @rsagarcia.bsky.social is still going through a hard time. Please chip in if you can, and share if you can't. Every little bit helps xxx

Liam was taken from Columbia Heights, the town just south of my high school in Fridley and just north of the Arts district in NE Minneapolis. I spent a lot of time with friends there after extracurriculars. News of his abduction completely broke my heart. I’m glad he’s home. #Comics4Liam

the Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge is ridiculous and magnificent in more or less equal measure, but damn, if Hindi Sad Diamonds isn't a sparkling knife in the gut every time I hear it. ...and we all lose our charms, in the end www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TyT...

This lesson predates Trump. Realism itself works *much* better if one focuses on the interests of regimes and leaders. Restraint realists routinely fuck up their analysis of Russia when they impute "state interests" based on "objective" forces like Russian geography.

If you're like me and don't want the Google AI summaries but would like to not have 1,000 spam emails in your inbox the 👇🏻 will be a big help!

i am finally making another vegan tiramisu for my birthday soon, this is the recipe if you would like to bake and make along www.oetker.co.uk/inspiration/...

My Lyft driver said his friend, who works at a rental car company, said they're not renewing ICE's fleet contract tomorrow, because they have damaged every. Single. One. Of the rentals.

You’re laughing, I’m losing my religion and I thought that I heard you laughing

You should read this piece. Adam is right: the core theory behind the anti-ICE mobilization here in Minneapolis isn’t really a political ideology, but that neighbors are neighbors and must be protected.

Seeing two of my favorite old Canadian less-famous bands. At the age where the audience for a pop concert and the opera are indistinguishable.

I started rewatching The Good Fight yesterday. If you haven’t watched it, you should. It’s great. Delroy Lindo is great. Michael Sheen as Roland Blum is a literal madman in the best way. Plus the opening credits and theme are some of the best opening credits and theme ever created

Ha. Ha. Ha. I don’t usually laugh at my own country, but Trump has made it unavoidable.

Oui, c’est abject. Mais arrêter & placer des mômes en rétention car ils sont étrangers, la France fait cela aussi. Elle a même été condamnée 12 fois (!) par la CEDH pour cela. Et aujourd’hui encore, elle continue de le faire à Mayotte. L’inhumanité contre les étrangers n’est pas qu’américaine.

This is a gorgeous essay. “So much of politics is taking action but not getting what you want.”

La couv est trop trop belle, je crois que je vais craquer même si j'ai déjà le livre

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