This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom: "If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."

Every day benne tries to go somewhere to relax and jimmi pickles just inserts herself into his space so he will pay attention to her

Emily Bender’s thread trashing The AI Doc is a must-read before you take other critics’ raves for this film at face value.

Scoping out Stephen Graham Jones's website today and came across this piece. It's one of my favorite things he's written. I hope you enjoy. Why I Write by @sgj.bsky.social #booksky pikespeakwriters.blogspot.com/2012/10/why-...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

"What kind of life is worth living?" is more of an open question than you thought it was. It's worth reconsidering what *you* think the answer is, instead of just holding to the answer you absorbed as a child.

A thing you sort of have to explain to folks that think being Democrats and opposing Trump is enough: the reason you didn’t hear about ICE as much in Biden and Obama’s terms is because they were smart enough to NOT do the shock troop routine bsky.app/profile/edit...

Cheetah cubs at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, D.C. experiencing their first snow day. They don't seem too thrilled about it.

This is… ✨incredible✨ Watch the whole thing. Stop what you’re doing.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone."

It’s absurd to turn my criticism of the Democrats on restoring the status quo into a claim that I don’t care about Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s deaths. This is how antagonistic pile-ons against marginalized people who are dissatisfied with the Dems get manufactured without being overtly transphobic.

One thing that will always remain a mystery about Jane Goodall is what was she doing with those primates? Was she studying them? Teaching them how to play backgammon? We may never know the answer

I haven't seen all of the movies in that image, but at least three of them end with the death of the protagonist, so...

It's good to have things to look forward to. Movies, video games, and junk. But right now, I'm hyped for women's pro baseball. Go look at their website, it's great. Not a single straight player in the bunch.

More than 100 Palestinians from Gaza have been accepted to Canadian universities. But the government refuses to let them enter. Important story by @ericwickham.ca

"We want to see de-escalation on both sides. The side that is murdering people should de-escalate to just beating and kidnapping people. The side that is calling for transparency and accountability should stop doing that."

This beautiful print from @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social just arrived! Now to figure out where to put it...

It's wild to me that, within my lifetime, "climate change" has gone from something 'controversial' to something everyone I talk to takes as a given... and yet that change didn't seem to effect *any* political will.

This is the risk of a "unlinear" conception of social progress. People harrumph "well, you shouldn't complain, things aren't perfect, but they're better than they've ever been!" ignoring the evidence of the ways that things *have definitely been better in the past and could easily be again*.

We ALREADY saw a version of this in how the Biden Administration kept many of the Trump Administrations first terms changes to immigration and border policy.

Transcription Tuesday everyone! Can you palaeography lovers help us out with this word? It should be a duration (of illness) - usually along the lines of 3 months, 4 years, instantaneous etc. Could be 'unknown' but we have to squint reeeaalllyy hard! What do you think? #TranscriptionTuesday

Heck, I *am* a real Canadian, and I consider that a bot/troll warning.

Demanding that we stop talking about climate change while climate disasters are killing people is the actual politicization, actually

ICE being extremely professional

I don't keep doomers in my feed but since apparently some folks do: "celebrate each and every win, loudly" is Organizing 101

Holy shit, jump on the Humble Bundle Fierce Women bundle right now! @seananmcguire.bsky.social in her Mira Grant skin @cheriepriest.com @kateelliottsff.bsky.social Elizabeth Bear Andre Norton and a bunch of others!

It's true, there are a zillion books in this thing, too. I own half of them and it was still a good deal.

"Amazon is owned by Jeff Bezos, a billionaire backer of the president," writes Neil Young. “The president's international policies and his support of ICE, make it impossible for me to ignore his actions.” He also announced that anyone in Greenland can access his entire catalog for free at his site.

A few little tips for how I usually go about my writing day:

there are only two moods as an artist

they saw this and decided to write a whole article about it

this is a very weak piece, for multiple reasons. its claim about Gen Z is based on a couple of comments, not actual sales. it is also extremely normal for kids not to be *that* into a series from two decades ago. And there's minimum mention of Rowling turning into a fervent bigot.

Don’t forget Keith Porter

The left is so unfriendly to former right-wingers. I said I was sorry! I said I was wrong and they were right! I said I'm now ready to take on a paid leadership role where I help them decide which of their little causes are just weighing them down and alienating normal people! and still, no respect

For Canadians horrified by ICE's campaign of terror in the US, here's something to do: demand #Roshel not be permitted to export armoured vehicles to ICE. Contact your provincial & federal reps, including Minister Anita Anand. @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...

Because when a white dude does it, it's a shining example of the endless possibility of the "American dream". When a woman of colour does it, it's evidence something nefarious has happened.

"Here's my question for the press" is just wild. Like... no dude, that's not what the press are there for. They ask *you* questions, not the other way round.

Australia is doing absolutely everything to protect its most iconic ecosystem—perhaps except the thing that matters most.

If you thought the Canadian poll response to the "51st state" thing was bad. Just wait until you see the response to calling it "Ice Hockey".

May I interrupt the horrors to show you pictures of my sister's chickens in cowboy hats

During the Arab Spring, I used to say to my online friends who were being subjected to state domestic terrorism in foreign countries, “Wishing you safety if possible and courage if not.” I now wish the same for the people in Minnesota.

"AI is the inevitable future and nothing can stop it! Submit or perish! ...but also, if you don't say enough nice things about AI it'll all fail forever!"

You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.

about a week left in janurary! please share!

Wanna pre-order Radiant Star and also get it signed (by me)? www.left-bank.com/book/9780316...

Readers... this AI shit in Amazon ebooks is something authors can't opt out of and it's frankly illegal, but when did that stop tech companies? The only thing they respond to (sometimes) is customer backlash — don't use this feature and tell Amazon you hate it. kindlepreneur.com/amazon-ask-t...

“When any sector cries about labour shortages, it’s labour shortages at the price of what they think should be the price of labour in their sector.” #canlab