The fictional band HUNTR/X from the hit Netflix film KPop Demon Hunters went from a group no one had ever heard of to one of the biggest pop acts of 2025. Now they have five Grammy nominations. n.pr/4a14BLp

Them: We are the strong! The mighty! Also them: oh my god not a whistle no no no that's too much

TIL the star of Blue Clues, Josh Dela Cruz, is a Canadian permanent resident and one of the celebrity advocates on this year's edition of CBC's Canada Reads: www.cbc.ca/books/canada...

Now that the White House is using AI to edit photos of their political opponents to create fascist propaganda I’m wondering if anyone could have seen this use of AI coming. Okay I’m hearing lots of people did and they were forced to watch corporations smother the masses with the technology anyways

Mind you, it's bitterly cold out right now. -10 F (real feel of -24 F) For any non-Americans, that's -23 C (real feel -31 C) Minnesota is not playing around

flying pikachu ⚡️🎈 #art #pokemon

Tens of thousands of Minnesotans marched in downtown Minneapolis Friday in a negative 30 degree windchill to protest the federal government’s continuing surge of immigration enforcement.

Anti-ICE protesters fill the streets of downtown Minneapolis during an "ICE Out" rally on Jan. 23. 📷️ Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune Continuing coverage: bit.ly/3ZsrBxQ

I am begging people to just imagine for a second talking as if the lives of the people in Greenland are an important part of what is happening in Greenland.

fantastic piece from my colleague @polgreen.bsky.social that gets at something i have been thinking about. what, exactly, is the administration's strategic goal in minnesota? what does "victory" look like for trump and miller?

In December, I traveled to Montgomery to visit the Legacy Museum, which traces the story of Black America from slavery to Jim Crow to mass incarceration. I wanted to understand how the museum & its affiliated sites were operating in a moment where so much of the history they present is under attack.

Just because two people are (metaphorically) on opposite sides, doesn't mean there is (in reality) a tenable middle position.

It's been cancelled! @melodyschreiber.com with the good news!

Re-upping this. Thanks again for making it, @ziibiing.com. www.standwithminnesota.com

Granted, comics is a small industry, and my sample population definitely skews Fuck-The-Man in general. But artists, as a whole, aren't high-income. They pinch pennies. And Adobe is over here going "THAT'LL BE $500 A YEAR, ASSHOLE." when CSP regularly goes on sale for $125 for a perpetual license.

A lot of artists I work with regularly ditched Adobe for Clip Studio Paint and other art programs when Adobe began to deny them the ability to purchase Photoshop outright. In my creative circles, it went from the thing everyone uses to the one no one does in less than three years.

Data is correct, causal agency is (IMO) incorrect. The vast majority of ppl who use AI to make images and video have never touched and would never touch Photoshop/AfterEffects/Illustrator/etc. The issue is Adobe trying to squeeze its users with subscriptions, and other customer-hostile behavior.

I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.

Abolish ICE. A little journal comic from South Minneapolis. #iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls

月火水木金 #sailormoon

These are totally awesome, and I don't for one minute believe in my heart that Toronto has the capacity to follow through on this kind of strong aesthetic choice.

Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...

How on earth could they not make this work?! This would print money!

Remember, when Vance was caught spewing racist lies that Haitian immigrants were eating people's pets, he admitted that "if I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do." Proudly, openly a liar.

“Avelo Airlines, the primary commercial air fleet that has carried out the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda, canceled its contract with the federal government on Tuesday.” newrepublic.com/post/205070/...

Becca Good, the wife of Renee Good, has released her first public statement since the shooting “We were raising our son to believe that no matter where you come from or what you look like, all of us deserve compassion and kindness. Renee lived this belief every day.”

It’s easy to think that schools in Minneapolis are closed because the Feds murdered someone in the street but no, the actual reason is that while that was happening, the Feds were busy doing other heinous shit across the city like tear-gassing a school

I don’t find it productive to shame people for ‘showing up late’ wrt to social awareness. We all show up when we show up. But I strongly encourage new people who show up to do so while assuming a listening posture. I promise, we’ve heard your ideas & opinions before, back when we were less informed.

Hot off the press! My final long-form piece for the LearningGuild Talking about L&D practitioners in an AI world. What if "instructional designer" isn't what the future holds for you? #LandD #ID www.learningguild.com/publications...

It is equally easy & possible to write, "Trump weighs violating US treaty commitments under the UN and NATO by seizing the sovereign territory of one of our closest allies" You don't have to normalize & sanewash reality. Other purely factually accurate, more serious choices remain readily available.

Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

The ‘Putinization’ of US foreign policy has arrived in Venezuela www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

"For too long those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty." - Mayor Mamdani.

bluemoon weed #frieren ##フリーレン

I don't know how many times it needs to be said that you absolutely should not let fucking "AI" anywhere near your legal contracts, either in creating them or evaluating them, but apparently it needs to be said at least one more time, so allow me to say it again, here, right now

Anyone who insists the epitome of art is that it’s apolitical and available to everyone is either willfully is trying to mutate what art inherently is or has been exposed to very little art throughout their existence.

Heroic Dog Saves Family Of 5 From Herb-Roasted Chicken https://theonion.com/heroic-dog-saves-family-of-5-from-herb-roasted-chicken/

happy holidays from the prince of all cosmos! 🎄🎁🌟

"The 38-year-old condo manager said he used to volunteer at the Toronto Railway Museum" Rail nerd FTW

I used to adore Pinterest. Now it’s completely unusable for about 80% of what I used to use it for because of AI slop. Such a disappointment.

A surge of AI-generated content is frustrating Pinterest users and left some questioning whether the platform still works at all. www.wired.com/story/pinter...

The Sound of Music is on TV tonight, so we must point you, yet again, to this all-timer by Melinda Taub from our archives.

please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it

This is a petition to help protect trans rights as minority rights, specifically due to things being done by the Alberta and Saskatchewan governments. The Charter exists to protect the rights of Canadians regardless of residence.

To err on the cautious side...

You’d better take a Tanooki suit, Mario. It gets quite nippy in World 6 this time of year.

Doctors and children's hospitals say nothing in the evidence has changed to justify the Trump administration's efforts to ban gender-affirming care for teens and tweens. n.pr/4pMl0tF

Canadian friends: here's a petition to stop AB and SK from Notwithstanding their anti-trans-healthcare legislation (this will make sense to Canadians). Don't let them shield their bigotry from Charter scrutiny! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...