This is very cool! Also, if you’re interested in origami as art and more potential applications, check out the documentary Between the Folds. www.businessinsider.com/14-year-old-...

"The DOD Manual is clear because the law here is clear: 'Persons who have been incapacitated by . . . shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack.'"

To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.

Is the U.S. “great” yet?

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

The latest in my history of home computers is live. Covers the era of Commodore, Atari and Jack Tramiel. He was a brutal manager. But also an Auschwitz survivor, and that shaped him, and his legit drive to build a better world. This warning from him hit home, right now. every.to/the-crazy-on...

Toronto's planning culture is so broken. Every argument here is backwards. www.thestar.com/news/gta/law...

Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin put it bluntly: “To end the conflict, Russia must leave Ukrainian territory.” Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.

All cats are weird. Each cat is weird in its own cute little way.

These installations are beautiful. mymodernmet.com/chiharu-shio...

Is he still president?

Reporter Julie Brown who has been covering the Epstein story for years responds to @stephenasmith’s performative outrage about why Dems (and some Republicans) have made releasing the files an issue

Love this quote: “Acquiring another language is eminently doable. You’ll only get better. You can’t get worse.” montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu...

Two pages apart in the @thestar.com : 9 year old killed by driver of SUV jumping curb, and Ontario bans speed cameras. Yes they are related, because Doug Ford inculcates a culture that the world is made for drivers, but kids and cyclists? Too bad.

What a great day for finding out that a lot of things people thought were conspiracies are actually backed up by emails that are like hey pedo, let us pedo together in pedoland on the second day of the pedo month

This article is utterly damning for the New York Times and also for Vanity Fair and ABC, whose editorial teams were apparently intimidated into silence by a mix of legal and violent threats. Virginia Giuffre did not stand a chance against all this.

Now reading.

Alert: I will soon be buying a panettone. Just thought you all should know that.

Or don’t use AI.

Blood does remember blood—and causes untold damage—in ways we don’t always understand. Here’s a story for you to read in the lead-up to this Remembrance Day.

This is the best! As is this quote from his mother: “Life without art is not life.”

It’s hard to overstate the scale of death in Darfur. “These are people being shot in the back and shot while they’re trying to escape. It’s as bad as it could possibly get,” a former Africa analyst for the C.I.A. said. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/g4dHaA

Life is too short to drink crappy tea.

The Province kills Toronto's Green Roof Bylaw and is threatening the Toronto Green Standards. Removing cities' powers to set requirements above the building code is ridiculous... Ontario is huge and you shouldn't have the same requirements in Toronto and Kenora.

Reposting for the morning crowd. If there’s one thing you need to do this weekend, this is it.

More marble, less food.

I never heard of Farrell and her story before, and it’s brilliant. Also: Toronto!

Boo!

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

This is hilarious.

This is Minnie. She let out her first ever puppy bark today in an effort to bravely fend off her own reflection. 12/10 (TT: minnieandme11)

FFS! This is how democracy dies and kleptocracies take over. As I said on the OShow while Ford talks tough about Trump he sure acts like him 🤬🤬🤬🤬 youtu.be/JXRFfs-2SSQ?si…#Onpolil#cndpolili

I think about this a lot.

The escaped Cirque du Soleil acrobats living in the woods are building their winter nests, in case you're wondering what happened to all the wiring in your car.

I love polka dot woman.

Email Doug Ford and others about not ending rent control.

The Ford government already eliminated rent control for buildings built after 2018. They are now taking steps to eliminate rent control in Ontario altogether. This is shameful and disgusting given the affordability crisis that so many people are facing.

Within the Oxenham Arms in the village of South Zeal, Devon is The ‘Roman Pillar' propping up the roof in the restaurant at the rear of the pub. In the next room is an enormous Menhir built into the fabric of the wall too. One pub - two standing stones.

October Anne Savage c. 1920

The CN Tower as a giant sundial.

Shoutout to all the No Kings protesters today.

Untitled (2 Sparrows) Christi Belcourt ~ Métis 2025

"Safe Parkside" filed a Freedom of Information request to get top speeds from the ill-fated & much abused Parkside camera. The speed limit is 40km/h. Killers, all of them, with the ear & heart of Premier Doug Ford.

Went to search something on the Poetry Foundation site and came across this. Wow. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46061/...

Let me understand this: We don’t have enough doctors, so we want to make it harder to increase numbers in the field. Is that right?

USA is understandable. What's up with Canada?

This is awesome.

I ask you again: Why are you going to the United States?

Cat is vehemently protesting the fact that I am not going to bed yet.

“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.” The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.