Here's a fun fact about Elon Musk: in 2020, his (nominal) net worth was $20b, and today it's $1t (nominally). But *that's* not the fun fact; *this* is: everything he's done since 2020 was a flop. 1/

The war on metaphor is over and we lost. defector.com/promises-mad...

1990: National Gallery of Canada purchases "Voice of Fire" for $1.8M. 2026: Donald Trump purchases "Mumble of Algae" for $14M.

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

genuinely inspiring.

No more Hockey Night in Canada? Fuck you, you corporate fucks! STOP MAKING EVERYTHING WORSE. I am so mad I don't know what to say.

Hockey Night in Canada has been a rental space for some time, but it was still Hockey Night in Canada in terms of reach, and for the most part, in tone. The death of HNIC was inevitable as soon as the big telecoms going into sports broadcasting: the money was too big. But it's a true national shame.

it's pretty on the nose for modern american life that a company that doesn't really do anything at all is on track to be the biggest company in america

The president's announcement that the July 4th event in DC celebrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence will be a "TRUMP RALLY" completes the MAGA takeover of the country's birthday that started last year. www.motherjones.com/politics/202....

If January 6th was violent projectile vomit then the UFC's Freedom 250 event on the south White House lawn this weekend was the miserable subsequent spew of diarrhea from our sick electoral body. Here's what my weekend in DC was like. www.garbageday.email/p/my-horribl...

If you cannot support LGBTQ people you do not deserve to represent San Francisco. Full stop. hangingsliders.beehiiv.com/p/the-giants...

People like Hokit (and everyone involved with this cringey waste of taxpayer money) get so offended when people think they're stupid and bigoted and then they repeatedly confirm that they're both. What a horrible person.

"we ran 125 million barrels of oil through the Strait" is a classic "large number dummy" trick because under normal circumstances, 20 million barrels passed through the Strait of Hormuz every single day. "we've gotten 125 million barrels through" actually means transport has slowed to a trickle.

guys i think the science world soccer ball is a hit

I mean it’s all out there in the open. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

The gods of metaphor have been putting in OT lately.

I've long shaken my head at the waste of money involved in the federal government having to auction things off rather than just toss them in the recycling. Case in point, some old statistics textbooks. But then I see stories like this and it all makes sense. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"I immigrated to one of the most diverse countries in all of human history, and now I'm sad that I share a country with people who don't think exactly like me. The obvious solution is to deport all the other immigrants--but not me, of course."

The world has moved on. Nothing works. Everything costs too much. No one can help. No one knows how to fix anything. The beams were broken by the Crimson King and his economism-crazed minions. The Dark Tower might fall. 81/

The kinds of activities that I used to fill in a single short form to accomplish now requires ten lengthy forms, created by different people in the same organization, all asking for variations on the same information. Through AI, we have democratized bureaucracy. It's Kafka-as-a-service. 70/

So it's not just me, an old man yelling at the cloud. The world is getting *shittier*. The latest Customer Rage Survey inspired *The Guardian*'s Heather Timmons to launch a new investigative series looking at how *fucked up* everything is. 9/

The reason times seemed simpler during your childhood is *that you were a child*, and if your parents did their job, they shielded you from a lot of the complexity of *their* adulthood so you could enjoy *your* childhood: pluralistic.net/2025/04/24/h... 5/

these assholes didn't deserve this many words written about them

WORLD CUP: Canada ties with Bosnia-Herzegovina, reignites WWI

Again, the Hurricanes but with finishing ability is a scary, scary thing

🚨Funding for 2yr postdoc w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social on landslide-tsunami-jökulhlaup project, but (this is the ridiculous part) I need to select someone NOW or I lose the $. If you're NOT in Canada (can be any nationality) and interested, send me your CV and transcripts by midnight MT, June 12. 🧪⚒️

Mayor of NYC, actual Knicks fan, pays for shitty seats while Trump, who could not give less of a shit, sat in the owners box while disrupting real fans.

Just a disgusting, inhuman way to talk about war. We must never get used to this

Driven by Musk, fuelled by Restore Leader Rupert Lowe and whipped up by the fear mongering rhetoric of Reform and their media outlets. This is what happens when you stir hatred against migrants. It end with burning homes and cars and children fleeing for their lives

Tetanus is making a comeback. The U.S. just recorded its highest annual death rate in two decades. Experts attribute this 'comeback' to declining vaccination rates and warn that cases could rise further, by @meryldl.bsky.social www.nationalgeographic.com/health/artic...

"Woke created white racism" is a take that multiple editors at the Atlantic saw and okayed. I mean, TCW is what he is, but this institutional failure. Where are the adults?

Our ongoing national embarrassment . . .

"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).

Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot

At the risk of stating the obvious: when reactionaries say elections are "rigged," what they mean -- in their hearts, in their guts -- is that their opponents are illegitimate and it only counts if they win. That's what they've always meant.

We quite literally have a whites only refugee program and somehow the media won’t call the Administration white supremacists.

"Gish Gallop" is a debating term for an opponent who makes so many claims that "it's impossible to address them in the time available" (it's named for Creationist Duane Gish): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_ga... I think about the Gish Gallop whenever I'm asked to comment on AI. 1/

First day on the job and you want respect? Go right up to the most recognizable and respected guy in the newsroom and have him yell at you until you cry. Then it's time to send him a weepy email telling him how disappointed you were that he did all that. Shouldn't have any trouble after that.

Maple syrup is amazing because it’s just a socially acceptable way to drench a full plate of food in sugar water. Outstanding work Canada.

Congrats, John Roberts! You ended the three-branch method of governance!

Important, read:

“I’m Kid Rock.” “I’m Naomi Wolf.” “I’m Kanye West.” “I’m Matt Taibbi.” “I’m Catturd. Those stories, plus Rob Schneider, tonight on 60 Minutes.”

We took it for granted, we let it be killed right in front of us, and now we're going to find out what it's like to live in a society where there's no way to reliably know what's going on. History suggests it's not going to go well.

"Mr. Pelley also wrote that senior managers at CBS News had pressured him to insert bias into stories for “60 Minutes” this past season, though he did not provide details about specific segments." Pretty important part of the story re his firing. Maybe *the* most important part. CBS = new Fox.

This video camera study showed that less than 5% of people on bikes broke traffic laws while riding bikes, yet 66% of people did so while driving. And perhaps even more importantly, if you REALLY want even MORE bike-riders to obey laws, build more protected bike infrastructure. Via @carltonreid.com

This will break many Blueskyer's brains, as it's the publisher of the NYT (Boo! Hiss!) delivering a straightforward and damning takedown of big tech and AI (BOOOOO! HISSSSSS!)

I'm old enough to remember in 1998 when First Lady Hillary Clinton referred to a "vast right-wing conspiracy" and was roundly mocked by all the VSPs in Washington. Well, guess what? It was real then, and it's even bigger and more powerful now.