Incredibly sad to see that Catherine O’Hara has died. I rewatched Schitts Creek a couple of months ago and she was just so brilliant. Hilarious and vulnerable at the same time.

Resistance is not futile

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

TikTok has been doing this since the very beginning, the new ownership just involves a change of venue that means they have to put it in the privacy policy now. The app has always been spyware with some short videos on top; it's why all their IPs are blocked at the DNS level on all my devices.

Today is a good day to remind people that it’s possible to stop videos from playing automatically on your feed. iPhone: Profile -> settings -> content and media -> toggle off

All this impending snow. Reminds me that now we enter into the 24th of 24 micro-seasons: “Greater Cold” #大寒 - the coldest period of the year. Yet also, a period anticipating the beginning of spring and the warmth of the coming lunar new year. [Kawase Hasui, Evening Snow at Terashima Village, 1920]

Today’s tarot spread is entirely just the text of Mark Carney’s speech from yesterday.

Are you fucking kidding me

Ideally before the Olympics start on 6 February.

Idly trying to pinpoint when Stranger Things jumped the shark and now I have the Happy Days theme song in my head.

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Accordian Bear Blanket. Look at him. Just minding his own business, vibing to the music. Not shooting any women in the face. No wonder women chose the bear. collabs.shop/9wovqa

Took me a minute to realise but the payoff is glorious.

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There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it. We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics. What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.

Trump's insistence on seizing Greenland is contextually bound to his obsession with the genocidal legacy of Andrew Jackson. Danish territory or not, this is foremost an assault on indigeneity. He believes he has a right to the land *specifically* because the population is overwhelmingly indigenous.

Danes are on the right course here

I feel obliged to share this masterpiece from my brother:

Besides the substance, the blue hoodie is exquisite.

The people I manage were born in the 1990s and I’m really struggling to come to terms with that.

The suggestions in the replies are so much better than the actual title

“Ottawa’s preference for disgruntled American academics deemed stars may seem clever, politically satisfying even, but it could very well turn our biggest research universities into U.S. intellectual branch plants at our expense.“

This is a good article about the history of Parkinson’s research & the influence of genes & the environment on the disease. If you teach biology this is a good article to share with your students to discuss not only research priorities but the need to understand our environment as well as genetics

Can anyone recommend a good iPad app for Bluesky? I’ve been using Graysky all this time but it was updated recently and now I can’t reply to skeets.

i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs

This poem really strikes a chord. Reposted with alt text so that everyone can read.

Today is a good day to remind people that it’s possible to stop videos from playing automatically on your feed. iPhone: Profile -> settings -> content and media -> toggle off

Also every time this comes up, folks from Australia and the UK say they're very glad they don't have rabies in their bat population: you actually do! It's European bat lyssavirus/Australian bat lyssavirus, not "classic" RABV, and it's lower prevalence, but there have been fatalities from both.

This thread has lived rent free in my head for almost a decade. In fact, I think I pay it rent.

My cat just tried to reply to a post in the latest Food Discourse but sadly replies were disabled. Probably for the best.

I saw an exchange recently where someone was slamming the use of CSAM so articles like this are very needed.

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written

Pretty sure this would work for geologists as well as archaeologists.

British people: trifle as a Christmas dessert, yes or no? When I was growing up it was strictly a summer food so it doesn’t feel quite right to eat in the dead of winter.

Well, Canada is certainly delivering on the traditional white Christmas.

Happy Solstice. In Canada this truly is the start to winter: two to three months of relentless cold and snow. Here in the UK, we’re all excited that the days will now start getting longer, and the first flowers will start appearing in a few weeks. And yet London so much further north than Montreal.

Twas ever thus

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Three days ago. No more words.

So I was checking out an address for friends who have moved to a newish estate... and all the names of the streets are tv detectives.

Just watched Mazes and Monsters, a 1982 film the Duffer Brothers were obviously very familiar. Tom Hanks plays a college kid who suffers a mental breakdown which his mother kindly tells his friends definitely has nothing to do with their fantasy roleplaying gaming habit.

However small weak or insignificant you might feel right now, it’s amazing how powerful you really are. Even a bumblebee has a sting in its tail. Conversation with a bumblebee is painted on 23 carat gold leaf, laid on an antique Italian panel.

This really was a lesson in remembering to read the full sentence

My timeline is full of things to be very upset about. But let’s not forget that it’s the time of day when my cat comes to sit on top of me and purr.

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“The new measures — if approved in a confidence vote that could come as early as next week — would allow a cabinet minister to exempt the testing of any product or service from almost any law, in order to encourage innovation, competitiveness or economic growth.” What the actual fuck.

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport