The United States threatened to invade and destroy Canada. The United States unlawfully detains Canadians, even those with the proper paperwork. Why would any Canadian visit the United States?

How the US lost the propaganda war to Iran. The BBC and New Yorker have been speaking to the creators of Iran's viral Lego-style and rap-style AI propaganda BBC: www.bbc.com/news/article... New Yorker: www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

En recherche des Clubs Super-Sex perdus

'Je ne pense pas Club Super Sex est dans la foret.' 'Tabarnak'

Canadian sci-fi: These plucky heroes with every personality disorder you've ever heard of are going to bring down the futuristic totalitarian dystopian fascist state

Russian sci-fi: a team of scientists land on a midieval planet that grants wishes but also make you insane

Japanese sci-fi: two robots in space, yearning American sci-fi: man gets the author's beliefs on polygamy confirmed by the aliens of ramalama IV french sci-fi: two horny bounty hunters visit the Galaxy of Breasts British sci-fi: nuclear war. Everyone dead. America's fault

Truly incredible. When the writers put this in, we all said no way. And they did it anyway.

Never heard of a Pope being called "weak on crime."

Hey Vancouver! Madeleine Peyroux plays the Centre tomorrow night. Steely Dan lead guitarist Jon Herington plays in her touring band & co-wrote half the songs on her most recent album. Previous MP albums feature collaborations with Walter Becker & Larry Klein, & she's a great selector of covers.

As predicted, as soon as Orange Julius and his couch molesting VP showed up to support Orban, it sealed his fate. Viktor Orban is out, everything Trump touches dies

woah there's a cat in the alley and the cat is brown and fluffy and GIGANTIC

I’d like dental care and to not have to wait in line for 36hrs to get a passport, but you do you. I guess.

Today's peer-reviewed thread

Great news from the wonderful Pat Cadigan: “In case you couldn’t hear me partying here in London, I beat terminal cancer. I kicked its ass down the stairs, took its lunch money, and threw rocks at it as it ran away crying. I don’t have cancer any more.”

the real estate agent to podcaster pipeline in Vancouver is particularly strong because we have a surplus of confident men who have way less homes to sell than in the past and excess money from said homes they’re almost as common as a dentistry on the ground level of a mediocre mixed-use condo

cc @theharderline.bsky.social

Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today. One for the history books www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

If you haven't read DeWitt, this is a great and short intro book: bookshop.org/a/88357/9780...

Helen DeWitt is a genius writer whose books everyone should read. That's my only contribution to this discourse.

Every Triscuit ranking that doesn't have Dill at the very top is just wrong.

Email: "We will pay Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) eco-fees at the rate of €0.0302 per unit on your behalf to a qualified Producer Responsibility Organization (PRO) for all your 2025 sales into Spain. The fees we pay will be reflected on your sales this week. Total eco-fees: 0.03 USD" 🙄

In the year 2026, Americans are watching short LEGO propaganda films produced by the IRGC in order to better understand the outlandish cover-up engineered by the President and his administration to avoid accountability for an elite network of sexual abusers.

Tonight's soundtrack. Tried very hard for tickets last November; these shaky audience clips are the next best thing.

my best guess is that a Trumpian Pentagon official, high on his own supply as they all are, thought "get your boss to play ball or we will do an Avignon on him" would genuinely intimidate AN 80-YEAR-OLD CARDINAL FROM FRANCE, which is perhaps the funniest thing anyone has ever done at the Pentagon

The Vancouver Board of Trade is hosting Mayor Ken Sim for a “state of the city” address and these are some of the questions from the audience #vanpoli

Paratexts, motherfuckers.

If you develop a decentralized conflict waging organization in response to the conflict repeatedly killing identified leaders... don't be surprised if an agreement with identified leaders to stop the conflict, doesn't?

1. Genocide incitement all up & down my timeline & here's the NYT: "The first lady made a statement in Ralph Lauren at the annual egg roll--" Nothing about this moment is normal or moral. So-called American "democracy" just a beard; a slobbering Hungary/Israel/Russia stan account in a trenchcoat.

Earth sets at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, over the Moon’s curved limb in this photo captured by the Artemis II crew during their journey around the far side of the Moon. Orientale basin is perched on the edge of the visible lunar surface.

Because Vance is a living node in a Russia-funded propaganda machine; everyone should please notice that there is nothing American about having to fly to a foreign country to try to influence its election so that your own career can continue as planned.

A rare public appearance by yours truly, wearing all three of my photographer, curator, and bookseller hats. Event celebrates UBC's acquisition of a truly world class photobook collection & what its presence in Vancouver might mean for young, working-class artists.

I’ve been meaning to tell you, my essay collection How to Look at a Volcano will be released by Book*hug in 2027. The book explores instability through personal, cultural and geological lenses. The title essay comes from a trip I took in 2024 to visit an eruption near Grindavik in southern Iceland

a true ally and retail strategist

DM from my sweetie: "There is one of those two sided shelves at Shoppers with Easter chocolate on sale. And the better chocolate is on the far side, so don’t stop at the first side of the chocolate shelving."

"JBS" by Chaz Bundick and the Mattson 2. Had just ordered from a busy Chicago cafe & stood frozen in the middle of the room vacantly clutching my rapidly cooling espresso for the next 6 minutes & 42 seconds as the soaring song unfurled.

Incredible

"This isn't how any of this works!" posts liberal defence columnist on Bluesky while stuck in traffic waiting for the fighting between rival MAGA militias for control of the checkpoint fees at Dupont Circle to subside

Queuing this one up a propos of nothing

Just had this from Planet Labs, the US government have asked satellite imagery providers for "voluntarily" restrictions on access to satellite imagery. Given a lot of them provide satellite imagery to the USG we can probably guess the outcome of not acquiescing to that request.

If anybody's out on a bike in Burnaby this weekend, they seem to be pretty unserious about keeping people off of that brand-new-totally-finished-but-still-not-open bike/pedestrian bridge over highway one at Burnaby Lake. It's a nice bridge!

It's kind of amazing to me that this tree is not only still here, it pretty much looks exactly the same, despite people belaying off it and using it as a top-rope anchor for going on sixty years 🧗🏾

browsing easter books and found this one about the very first easter bunny who watches jesus get crucified

April 1st at our cloud-software purveyor

Every right that conservatives claim to care about were won through civil disobedience–peaceful and otherwise. These people are hypocrites and clowns.

for those asking:

i swear this gov is a TV show. the head of intelligence got hacked and used his real name for a porn account. the head of dept of war accidentally texted war plans to a journalist. and now former head of homeland security grappling with husband's secret cross-dressing double life in anti-LGBTQ admin