what exactly does the pasadena police department think horses do in their free time

1997 was the year I reported out my first big story. It went national and it was because a freeway had collapsed due to record amounts of rain

A WIRED investigation has found a day before a historic IPO that values SpaceX at $1.75 trillion, its Grok AI platform is still hosting sexualized deepfakes of celebrities and politicians. from @mattburgess1.bsky.social

What the Pentagon’s Snub of Mormons Was Really All About talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-th...

All true

There is an international attempt to incite racist pogroms, or carry them out with government powers

Today I learned that Jesus Jones still exist, and were recently performing in my country, in a nearby small city.

Watching the UK hurtle back to the 19th century is beyond depressing 😡

Incredible:

Alejandra doesn't complain much, (which I really respect), but this behavior by Ben Ryan towards her where he narrates everything she posts as if it's news is uncomfortable, unbalanced, and has a dark, menacing undercurrent.

Civil servants saying “fuck you” to billionaires and finding ways to work around them is my politics

Just found a 1928 photo of Louise Brooks flirting with Louise Brooks. Thank you, Santa.

The popularity of street festivals shows that there’s enormous public support for pedestrianized streets in Toronto. That’s why I’m bringing forward a motion to the next city council meeting, seconded by Councillor Chris Moise, who…

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

NEW: Our visual analysis suggests the U.S. hit two drinking-water facilities overnight in southern Iran with precision-guided munitions. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime. w/ @ckoettl.bsky.social @johnismay.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/w...

Model says as Kanye West sexually assaulted her, he yelled, 'This is art, I'm Picasso'

Fukuyama: We have reached the end of history. History: It's 2026, and an official branch of the Ukrainian armed forces is tweeting about how drone striking Andrew Tate while he's clout farming with the Russian military would be fun, but is sadly a war crime. Get bent old man.

I had no idea we had our own basketball league

One time I was hanging out at a friend's tattoo shop and a dude came in and said that he wanted "one of those cool looking As inside a circle, you know, like the Aerosmith logo but blocky and without the wings. That looks hard," and walk out with an anarchy symbol tattooed on his face.

I’ve been saying since last September that I don’t know any drug smugglers who would be happy at the prospect of splitting their profits 11 ways! It makes no sense to have that many people on a drug boat. It should have been a GIGANTIC red flag, but Pete Hagueseth ordered their murders anyway.

Big week for Elon Musk, instigating a racist anti-immigrant pogrom on Tuesday, set to become a trillionaire with the backing of all the biggest banks on Friday.

Until I did the questionnaire, I thought it was likely that Carney would put the brakes on jets on the island, but the wording is so incredibly revealing, making it clear they’re just trying to figure out how to sell it. The stink of this should stick to the federal Liberals as much as to Ford.

Recap of the Broadview 6 grand jury: — WEEK 1: Government tries to indict protesters for impeding a police car. Jurors ask why the cop isn't being charged for driving into them instead. No bill. — WEEK 2: Government presents same exact argument. Jurors aren't having it. [continued in next skeet]

The fascist internationale is real. We need to work across borders to defeat it.

Here I go again on my phone

wrote about meditation and psychedelic therapy helping me (in addition to therapy and psych meds) despite my deep mistrust of Wellness

UPDATE: The journalist explained and apologized, and I’m genuinely impressed. Here are his three Threads posts and my reply to them.

this should frighten you

Working on an archive project for my past council coverage and some of these old quotes from Councillor Brad Bradford are wild in retrospect. This was April 2022! Not that long ago!

In public health, you learn an awful lot about people willing to profit off of harms to children. But my jaw is on the floor. It never occurred to me that the sentence “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital” would ever be followed by the phrase: “But here’s the thing.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

Been a while since I’ve seen a poll so weighted. Every question is like “Do you support progress and happiness??” 🗳️ Yes, I would love you to do anything you want 🗳️ No, I am a monster sent from Hell

Another election rumor that we’re seen again and again. Let’s call it the “improbably old voter” rumor. It usually starts with an “investigator” combing through voter rolls looking for anomalies and then misinterpreting what they find there. In this case, it’s a missing date data error, not fraud.

This Billy Bishop survey is so perfectly Mark Carney in tone and substance, I have to wonder if he wrote it himself.

Liberal MP are continuing to bullshit the city they represent. You’ll have to write and call again.

Stuff like this and the annual weeks-long crush at the Christmas Market really shows the huge unmet demand for pedestrianized spaces in the city. The right answer is more, but I worry the city will opt for less. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Everybody look at this Turkish comic about a little guy who loves his humongous wife

The language in the federal consultation on the Billy Bishop airport expansion is interesting, especially since as the Toronto city staff noted last week, there is no public plan or business case. Consultation details here: www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

A couple of Heritage Foundation people wrote this. It's their tried and true strategy. They hate programs like SNAP, and by making the argument that more means-testing is needed "to better help only the poor," they can kick more people off. Stop falling for this. The answer is universality + taxes.

anyway it looks like the aliens are here so maybe nothing matters

Public consultations will run from June 8 to July 24. "The consultation will include an online survey and engagement sessions, as well as direct engagement with Indigenous Peoples, Transport Canada said." #CdnPoli #OnPoli #ToPoli

This is why video based social media doesn’t appeal to me the way text based ones do

Beautiful story here, reminding me of the day an elderly man asked me if we had “a section for transgender books.” I warily led him over and after reading a while, he said, “You know, I thought I might be transgender when I was young. But that was a silly idea back then…” and I suddenly understood 💔

This is absolutely wild in the aftermath of Tumbler Ridge.

"Pretty soon a bunch of kids are going to come along and change all this, and then no one will want to know about the Rolling Stones or any of us. It'll probably be three 12-year-olds with Moog synthesizers," Stephen Stills to the NME, October 1973

Waiting eagerly for the one with Bruce Haacke and Esther Nelson where they listen to electronic music, do interpretive dance and then Mr. Rogers goes off and just chills with a cat for a while. Hard to find clips where someone hasn't replaced the actual music with some dubsteppy thing.

The correct way to place sounds in the stereo spectrum is by political association. For example, conventional/traditional and macho sounds would be panned to the right, while transformational sounds that aim to undo entrenched sonic hierarchies can be panned left.

(A) incredible and (B) an excuse to post this

‘dear rax, my middle class parents are ashamed that i clean houses for a living’ www.patreon.com/posts/160262...

Anniversary of "Tommy Robinson" celebrating the D Day soldiers who needlessly gave up their lives by running into the sea.

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