Happy New Year, Reds! #LFC #YNWA

As we step into the new year, may we carry forward the commitment to show up: to listen deeply, to act with courage and care, to speak truthfully, and to remember our interconnection with all beings.

A Late Bicycle Ride. 3°C on the Wolds with a frost to come. Fieldfare.

Happy New Year’s Eve. It’s been almost 2 weeks since these opened and they smell like spicy citrus fruit. Rhyncattleanthe Exotic Angel (Cattlianthe Tropical Aurora × Rhyncattleanthe Burana Angel) #orchid #flower #gardening #bloomscrolling #photography #naturephotography 🌱🌴🪴sky

Charles le Coeur https://www.wikiart.org/en/pierre-auguste-renoir/charles-le-coeur-1874

BRANDON INGRAM, WE ARE ALL WATCHING THAT REPLAY.

This is a lovely piece about an extended family member (by marriage, post-Holocaust “cousin”) who I was honored to have a few transformative professional conversations with: Anna Ornstein

C. Alcantara and C. Anderson on this problem, from August: "Yet this relentless push for STEM education has come at a huge cost ... We have produced a generation of citizens trained to build powerful tools but not to question their use or recognize the fragility of democracy and social cohesion."

Show me the lie.

Unlike the headline suggests, the piece doesn't even discuss "what" the value of higher education is. It simply presupposes that the value should be a "positive fiscal return", entirely disregarding the societal and economic benefits of, for example, skills like human, civic or data literacy.

“I feel like I’m a conscientious objector,” said Cheung, an anesthesiologist for 25 years... As a supporter of public health care, Cheung said he objects to a policy that requires him to work in one of Alberta’s private, for-profit chartered surgical facilities..." #abpoli #ableg

I have a bucket full of picked over flowers from, um, Metro. Let's see if I can make a half-decent New Year's centrepiece out of it. Thisssss...is my happy place.

I call @isaaccallan.bsky.social 'master of the FOI'. If you follow #OnPoli and aren't yet following Isaac, 2026 promises to be filled with more investigative journalism from his @globalnews.ca Ontario team with @colindmello.bsky.social.

The ceiling of Shah Mosque in Isfahan, Iran (1611)

Feels like there's a lack of chatter about what a strategic disaster the US forcibly annexing Greenland would be for Canada.

For friends who like poetry, recommendations. "As 2025 winds down, we’ve selected some poetry to accompany you through the last days of December. Each collection speaks to a different wintry mood, but all are worth slowing down with before 2026 brings the return of longer, busier days" #GiftLink 🎁

I have so many questions about the baby doll. Like, what was the brief? "Make a baby doll, but make it a jaundiced and colicky baby doll."?

"Some drive cars with manual transmissions..." Wut. I never stopped driving a manual transmission because it's FUN.

Classic Gothic Gloucester Cathedral, South West England Groundbreaking in 1089, it was completed in 1482, 393 years later!

“But all my life—so far— I have loved best how the flowers rise and open, how the pink lungs of their bodies enter the fire of the world and stand there shining and willing—the one thing they can do before they shuffle forward into the floor of darkness, they become the trees.” ― Mary Oliver

More Christmas leftovers.

Reckless and dangerous rhetoric from Toronto Sun columnist, Brian Lilley. Vigilantism is completely unacceptable.

"This flu season is no longer just severe. It’s historic. New York is now facing the worst flu surge on record... More than 71,000 positive flu cases were reported in New York in just seven days — the most since influenza became a reportable disease in 2004" www.rochesterfirst.com/news/health/...

The problem is that the Democrats called Trump a threat to democracy but *treated* him like a normal candidate. Voters saw the difference between Dems' words and actions and concluded all the fascism stuff was just normal campaign rhetoric, and therefore nothing to be alarmed about.

Saw this; sharing because this relates to everyone I follow on here..only follow accounts that inspire, and make you think, in a good and beneficial way..👇

Three of these were indeed among my favourite magazine spreads of the year. The gallery walls of a gallerist. Those bookshelves. Jorge Parra's singular murals.

“The FAO estimates it will take an increase in spending of four per cent growth a year — more than quadruple the province’s estimate — just to maintain current services. As a result, “efficiencies” will have to be found if growth is kept to 0.7 per cent a year, flags the FAO.”

Gotta love the anonymous accounts who think that they are entitled to *both* (1) dictate how someone else posts, and (2) consume journalism for free.

Not just Hamilton, but across the province. Ontario already has the second-lowest number of hospital beds per capita in Canada, and some of the lowest rates of public investment. www.thespec.com/news/hamilto...

Ford's crony capitalism is gutting healthcare. “In order for hospitals & other providers to live within that kind of budget envelope, some pretty significant trade-off decisions would have to be implemented.” - Anthony Dale, OHA #GiftLink 🎁 #OnPoli www.thestar.com/news/gta/ham...

I regret to inform you we have to reduce the character limit to the point where they have to say “racist.”

These health workers have all the goodness and decency that Trump and his fascists lack. #GiftLink 🎁

“After hospitals were acquired by private equity, the number of full-time employees fell by an average 11.6% compared with non-private equity facilities, the research found, and salary expenditures in the emergency departments and intensive care units declined by 18% and 16%, respectively.”

‘It’s a killer’ "The Reds have struggled at set-pieces throughout the campaign and Van Dijk has underlined how they can save their season by eradicating a worrying trend extended in the victory against Wolves" Set-pieces should be the New Year's resolution for #LFC, I tell ya.

as an aside i am fascinated by this whole effort to make katie miller a thing. she’s incredibly off-putting and totally vacant behind the eyes!

No fun.

A different type of Christmas leftovers. (Gosh I love David Austin roses.)

The photos here are lovely, but the alt text really makes it.

Oh this sounds delightful.

At least 3 kids have died in Ontario this influenza season yet our CMOH, Kieran Moore, remains invisible. No appearances to encourage vaccination. No tips for protecting kids. We don't hear how many times the media has contacted his office about an interview. Dozens, I guarantee.

You all: I have lots of groups & workshops scheduled for Jan, Feb, March - All by donation. All with 3 or 4 free seats for those in hardship I just want to get tools in hands, tools in hands Building community, discernment, solidarity and courage www.whatashrinkthinks.com

Zamboni time at City Hall!

Happy for the win, but an #LFC New Year's resolution must involve set-pieces.

⚽ Two of Diogo Jota's children were mascots at Anfield on Saturday as Liverpool and Wolves paid tribute to their former forward. ➡️ u.afp.com/S8ec

Canada has spent more than $78 million deporting over 18,000 people in the 2024-25 fiscal year, the most since the government of Stephen Harper, according to data obtained by the Star from the Canada Border Services Agency.

Florian Wirtz has opened his scoring account for Liverpool. He thought he might have had it a few weeks ago, at home against Sunderland — but it was given as an own goal. This one won't be taken away from him. Liverpool lead Wolves 2-0.

GOAL! WIRTZ! Lovely goal, that. Great run from Ekitike down the left before threading it through to Wirtz to finish one-on-one. The wait is over! A week after claiming his first Premier League assist, he now has his first Liverpool goal! #LFC #LIVWOL 🔗