South African activist Kumi Naidoo, the former head of Amnesty International, says the U.S.-backed plan for an international "stabilization force" in Gaza risks entrenching the status quo of Israeli occupation. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/18/cop30_africa_climate_crisis

If you want to understand Halifax's municipal government, you just need to know that in 2018, after years of folks complaining that the transit system was outdated, specifically requesting card payment options.. The city announced that they were making bus tickets the size of a five dollar bill.

Finally some actionable advice.

New Job alert! Hi from Max Inferno! 👋🏻

Tonight Carla tried to tell me she "doesn't know how to make popcorn" because she wanted me to do it.

Once just before I moved to Toronto, it came up that a co-worker was also moving there. Another person was like "Oh fun! Are you guys gonna be friends in Toronto?" & he was like "Well it hasn't happened in 3 years here, so I don't see why it would happen in Toronto". I think about that a lot.

AI and the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge This article has been making the rounds on social this week. It's not an easy or pleasant read, but it sure is an important one. When you have a few moments, please take the time to read and process this. www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

Carla's 88 year old aunt is coming to her band's album release show tonight which is incredibly sweet because she's going to hate it.

Something I couldn't have told you before now is that drawing one old-timey Wright brothers-era airplane is pretty fun, but drawing many old-timey Wright brothers-era airplanes is a real exercise in diminishing returns.

I have to get an epipen because apparently fully blacking out is a thing that happens to me if I accidentally ingest gluten now, so that's pretty cool.

A weirdly specific thing that I'm just starting to be really mad about re AI is that more and more we're all going to experience people we love sending us videos, news, etc, & then we have to decide how to tell them nicely that it's not real, or if it's even worth it to do so.

The hold music for my doctor's office plays terrible new country music, but today something weird was happening with the sound so that all the low end & quieter parts were filled with these constant deep, demonic growl sounds like in Kate Bush's Waking The Witch & it was honestly a huge improvement.

Just learned that a friend of mine who is a doctor is on her way to Gaza right now, and I'm honestly overwhelmed with admiration and feeling really emotional. ❤️

My friend's youngest kid recently asked her when they were going to a housewarming party "Is Paul going? The guy we all like?" And now I'm pretty sure that's what I want written on my tombstone.

The perfect joke doesn't exi...

My awesome/talented wife Carla & her awesome/talented sister Lynette just released a new music video & it's making me emotional. ♥️♥️♥️

How would you, in the friendliest way possible, ask a client to stop sending you AI generated images to communicate their ideas as "inspiration" before you start on concept sketches.

Told my team of brand new coworkers in a presentation about myself that “gluten is my enemy" and then I proved it with great gusto by getting extremely glutened and having to leave in a real mess. 🙃 That's dedication.

"I swear, I have the worst pillow in town!" is one of the funniest lines I've heard in a long time.

Most (maybe all?) of these are also available through Halifax Public Library on Hoopla & Kanopy by the way! Great list so far!

We have a little chickadee in a box in our kitchen, who flew into our window. I think he's ok, but he's chilling with us for now until Hope For Wildlife gets here to take him to what I imagine is the chickadee hospital.

My subway take is that gender-swapping covers of love songs, if it's done to maintain hetero lyrical content is cowardly and uncool.

FanTASTIC news let’s get this done

Hell yeah now we're talking

Big Shannon & the Clams fan over here, and even I can't believe how much I love this song.

The New York Times continues to prove itself to be a conservative propaganda machine wearing a "progressive" hat.

Carla just described a song as sounding like "music I'd hear at a store".

I know I'm 45 because the most upsetting part of the movie Weapons (which ruled) was watching the little kid struggling to use a can opener.

Uh Oh, I can feel another Ramones hyperfixation period coming on. (I'm not mad about it)

I don't want to brag, but when you order enamel pins from my shop (no US orders still, sorry) this tiny pizza box is what they ship in (inside an envelope).

Working on a huge book project that involves drawing like, a million different things. One of those things is the oldest cat who ever lived, and the reference image I was given, after a quick bit of research, is straight up a fully different cat!

Niche post but "Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie" ruled so much more than I expected it to, and frankly I expected it to rule.

Carla went to the paint shop to get some paint mixed, & the person working asked her about the Peace Worm pin on her jacket. Then asked "Wait is it wearing a hat?!" So she said "My husband makes them, & sells them on his website" to which this awesome person replied "WHERE IS THIS FUCKING WEBSITE?!"

My new way of shipping enamel pins (within Canada) involves these small boxes designed to fit as lettermail that look exactly like tiny pizza boxes, and I'm really into em.

@billmckibben.bsky.social says although “this is as dark a moment as there's ever been in our democracy,” a surge in renewable energy is an "untold story" with huge potential. "It's so big and so good that it might help with both the climate and the authoritarianism crisis.”

Trying to convince my dad to go see the second Jonathan Richman show with me.

You might think there's only so far you can go in terms of soft-boiling an egg wrong but you probably didn't consider "grenade egg" as an option and neither did I until just now.

Check your books against libgen if you can and are able. Bankrupt these mfers

in a Neil Young voice to my kitten as he inspects random objects in my room: 🎶small cat take a look at my stuff🎶

Nobody 2 is pretty fun but the best thing about it is that there's a very silly 25 minute section where it basically turns into Home Alone with weapons.

I keep texting Carla a pizza emoji. Crossing my fingers that my subliminal influence campaign is successful.

Hello, I opened up and repaired our couch which had a side rail of the interior frame collapse, and I hate to tell you this but I'm so close to becoming unstoppable.

I've had a few people ask me about this Big Suit (So Making Sense) pin recently, which I'm sold out of. Keeping in mind that at the moment I'm not shipping to the US, should I make more of these? (I'm still looking into options for shipping small things lettermail to the US if possible)

Decided to go full middle-aged hobby-guy and bought a diamond sharpening stone & strop so I can learn to hand-sharpen our knives. I promise not to get weird about it.

In a hundred years, if we survive to write about it, historians will look back on this period as a snake oil boom for AI while fascism burned everything down.

Watched Alien Romulus last night and it was fun, but I can't stop laughing about how much the human-xenomorph hybrid looked like it was designed by the Chris (Simpsons Artist) guy.

"If you're not finding ways to bring the planet-burning, art-stealing, mistake-riddled fascism machine into your workflow, you're going to get left behind."

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.