Canada Post “lost” 1 billion dollars last year? How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.

Carpenter Media, without consultation with our newsrooms, pulled this story from the website today. A heinous dereliction of our duty and a cowardly move from the company who says they’re so invested in local news.

The mainstream media continues to be absolute fucking willfully ignorant useless trash when it comes to internet culture and as a result is stoking partisan terror.

Kenai Peninsula friends: this is happening on Saturday in Homer. I saw the film on Sunday in Anchorage & it was powerful. This showing is a little more expensive bc it’s also a Pamyua concert (they did the score for the film) & fundraiser for this film non-profit that tells stories re. justice.

this says so much about the way corporate messaging about AI is landing with the general public every other podcast ad is about how it will change your life and save the world i don't see this wild takeaway as very surprising, given how it's being pitched

“Every period is a failed pregnancy” more like every period is a chance to regrow someone’s severed limb, you squeamish little cowards that’s a whole-ass human-producing chamber getting flushed

Anyway, scientists should get the fuck over being whiny little wretches who are scared of female bodies, because menstrual stem cells appear to be industrial printers compared to bone stem cell little desktop printers and you don’t have to drill into bones to get them. www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...

“Menstrual blood was messy, it was imprecise, it was difficult to collect, OB-GYNs told the pair. Why bother when the disease could be diagnosed with surgery?”

So, right now, the only reliable way to diagnose endometriosis is with exploratory surgery. But finally, real scientists (instead of male scientists), are on the job & of course they’ve identified multiple markers in menstrual blood that point to noninvasive testing. www.science.org/content/arti...

Should be a bigger deal how many of these people are in a cult.

Can someone with a widely-distributed podcast — @chrislhayes.bsky.social, anyone — please talk to LITERALLY ANY OF US about the actual issues facing higher ed outside of a collection of elite universities you could count on one hand? Hell, if you interview me, I'll even promise not to say bad words!

Ted Cruz wants you to stop talking mean about ICE because it leads to 'political violence' but Musk, Vance, Trump, and Nancy Mace wont stop inciting violence against trans people. Assailants in this story *cite Trump*. www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...

Republicans, Trump included, are zeroing in on transgender people and blaming us for the looming government shutdown. They are demanding that Democrats cave on transgender rights. Many of them are copying the same talking points in their messages.

this oughta be fun. tie down your beavers and otters (and other de Havillands)

My mom's been telling me horror stories from her work because she writes technical reports where precise word choices matter a lot actually, and has been running into the issue that those reports now keep being "enhanced" by AI that actually completely changes the meaning being conveyed.

this is the solution to the male loneliness epidemic I am 100% serious

I do a comic about ornithological vocabulary for every issue of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's wonderful Living Bird magazine. Here's the latest one, featuring the American Bittern.

There are too many tabs open in my soul

my new debit card,,, has no signature line. it's just gone. where now will i write "SEE ID" for nobody to read it

rough day. not much I can do. so here's a frog.

it's got to be weird to have acted in a film -- or, like, been an audio editor or mixer for it -- and find out what you helped create has just been overwritten to appease a government uncomfortable with the content

New - “Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work.” www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/p...

New theory: air pollution causes autism but plot twist: it's the world trying to heal itself by creating a subset of humans who love trains so we can have more public transit and less pollution

"Art is here to prove, and to help one bear, the fact that all safety is an illusion." James Baldwin forever.

On average Americans pay £480 per month for private healthcare. People should think about that before supporting a policy to deport immigrants with indefinite leave to remain, which would decimate the nhs overnight.

“I would like to remind everyone that the idyllic prosperity of the 1950s, that everyone seems to want to harken back to so badly, was made possible by a top marginal tax rate of 91% for the richest Americans.” ~ Ali Hormann Creative ➡️ Medicare for All & Remove Cap on Social Security Contributions!

interesting thread on curiosity (or "curiosity") vs information availability but also click thru and read the other thread she quoted to kick this one off, about how people just… don't… ask questions. and wait to be filled in. or ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

We need to somehow end this thing where people agree with democratic policies and hate republican policies, but vote for republicans anyway because…well honestly I have no idea why, but people need to stop doing it.

and we are EXTREMELY willing to talk about it

As Erin notes, it's clear that opponents of equality are trying to co-opt appropriations bills to codify anti-LGBTQ+ policies in law. These bills don't have a path forward before a potential Oct 1st shutdown. Less clear: What may happen around continuing resolutions to keep the government open. 🧵

Iditarod veteran Jeff King proposes changes that he says would support more finishers, reduce the number of dropped or injured dogs, and lower the burden on Iditarod staff and volunteers.

Miami Herald: Two-Thirds of Immigrants Held at “Alligator Alcatraz” in July Have Disappeared

growing up literally believing in the rapture fucks you up, man.  it was fear #1 for me for decades, and a guilty fear, because I secretly didn't want it to happen, and couldn't tell that to ANYONE

Seconding this. If you can live without Disney+ and Hulu, you can for damn sure live without Harry Potter. And Rowling is the international queen of anti-trans hate. She had a foundation, that she put her name on, dedicated specifically to taking away trans people’s rights. End it.

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

Amen

The fuck they are. You can turn off autopilot here: www.patreon.com/promotions/a...

Don’t resubcribe to Disney just yet folks. PBS still needs help! NPR still needs help!

Tylenol’s defamation suit is gonna make the $2 billion lawsuit from Smartmatic against Fox News look like small potatoes. They will destroy them.

go Soldotna go!

It's coming on Equinox I've found no balance for to speak of just salt on my shoes just recycled blues mariancall.bandcamp.com/track/equinox

March 1945, dog teams used to ferry survivors from a remote crash site on the Alaska Peninsula to a waiting bush plane. The backstory of this largely unauthorized rescue in my latest article (www.adn.com/alaska-l...). #alaskahistory #alaska

Tic tac crow

I genuinely dont understand it. In my lifetime (I'm 38) republican presidents have added 1.3 million jobs versus 50.5 million jobs under democratic presidents; it's genuinely staggering. Probably because the media doesnt tell people things like this.

i am really ready for a party that runs on the platform "immigrants are good, actually, and so is a low birth rate, having a white majority should not be a policy priority in our nation, taco trucks on every corner, let's goooo"

You’re much closer to becoming disabled or homeless than you are to becoming rich and wealthy. It’s not a moral failing. It’s not something you can “try harder” your way out of. We need robust social supports & safety nets to ensure everyone is properly cared for.

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