saw a truck for a company called Absolute Chimneys and I can’t stop saying that to myself as if I’m an English soccer announcer calling a free kick that sailed over the crossbar

I CanCon (And You Can Too!) || A Hand-Curated Weekly Canadian Music Playlist || 2026 - Week 27 "Kilimanjaro or bust" #ICanConPlaylist #CanadianMusic #Canada 🧵 - (1/9)

new romantasy dedicated bookshop is opening in Oxford today and 10/10, no notes

Take Medieval Mr Blobby with you everywhere with this handy sticker pack. 12 themed stickers include: friar, knight, Queen Elizabeth, King Henry VIII, Shakespeare, Braveheart, Sutton Hoo, Bayeux Tapestry. tephraarts.etsy.com/listing/4532... #MrBlobby #BlobbyBlobbyBlobby #bayeuxtapestry #medieval

This Canadian is getting philosophical on the Fourth of July. I am not you. I reject your whole thing. The Revolution was a mistake, and you are suffering the consequences. You deserve this. I love you. You are my neighbours and siblings. You do not deserve this. ...it's complicated.

Hey, Americans—you deserve better. Happy Independence Day. Happy 250th. Sincerely, from your neighbours.

Sitting in a Greek take-out place, doing my French and Japanese exercises on Duolingo. Anyone who says multiculturalism isn’t great is wrong.

Wanted to capture the full exchange

Bluesky not loading images properly for anyone else? Vibe-coded garbage…

Ever play a game that is so perfectly for you, then it’s over, and you spend the rest of your life trying to find another game that scratches the same itch? Pentiment is my (Holy) Roman Empire.

Got a new PC recently. I've now played two games with upscaling available. The ghosting and artifacts are terrible. How is this better? Seriously, I'm playing Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and it's genuinely uncomfortable to look at. This was supposed to be mind-blowing good. It's bad.

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

Hm. Bluesky doing weird things to posts for anyone else?

Ah, I see that the traditional Canada Day "severe weather event in Ottawa, where everyone is outside for the party" has started. Genuinely, I can't remember a Canada Day where it didn't rain a *lot* before clearing up for the fireworks.

PM just announced Canada is officially in Eurovision. Happy Canada Day!

I just met you and this is crazy but I’m selling shoes that were for a baby

Also... Bluesky stopped including playlist album artwork in Apple Music embeds... and that's new this week? Cool. Great. Anyway, have an album cover I made special for this week.

I CanCon (And You Can Too!) || A Hand-Curated Weekly Canadian Music Playlist || 2026 - Week 26 "How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now" #ICanConPlaylist #CanadianMusic #Canada 🧵 - (1/20)

Bleh. Learned some negative things about Bluesky's threading behaviour just now. Nuts. Please hold on playlist.

I continue to object to American political commentators conflating monarchy with absolutism or authoritarianism. Monarchy: Sweden. Non-monarchy: Russia. Squaring this circle is not hard.

Playlist will be delayed a bit this week due to trying something new...

Look, it's very simple: you can't build housing in the city, because that's gentrification. You also can't build housing in the country because that's destroying the habitat of the native swamp gopher. Above all you must not build housing in the suburbs because we don't like suburbs.

I don't get the appeal of hockey.

You’ve Panicked at your last Disco.

Every day that goes by is another day I wish Americans would watch CBC news instead of their own networks. I guarantee they would be better informed about US and world affairs. The US news media landscape is…. not good.

yes it can

easiest way to leave earth

Garffeld

I've been enjoying the US having a good time with the World Cup—the Yanks need a win, and the cultural mixing is wholesome. But let's not forget it's happening in Canada and Mexico, too. That seems to be getting missed as the Americans work themselves up into a patriotic fervour. Again.

If places which previously did not need air conditioning are now routinely hitting 40C+ due to climate change, two things need to happen: 1) Governments need to pay to retrofit AC into existing buildings. 2) People need to get over their cultural aversion to AC. Otherwise people will die.

superb journalism, thank you aftermath

I CanCon (And You Can Too!) || A Hand-Curated Weekly Canadian Music Playlist || 2026 - Week 25 "Eat the apple, fuck the core" #ICanConPlaylist #CanadianMusic #Canada 🧵 - (1/7)

Rough day, so have a poem about the Jar of Moles in the Grant Zoology Museum in London that everyone has regarded as too thoroughly batshit to publish

Last and least, FWIW, my current AI policy for students. Subject to revision. Recommendations welcome.

I CanCon (And You Can Too!) || A Hand-Curated Weekly Canadian Music Playlist || 2026 - Week 24 "I keep a journal full of notes and observations I fill the margins up with poetry and patience" #ICanConPlaylist #CanadianMusic #Canada 🧵 - (1/6)

One of my biggest hatching work yet ! Pretty sure it's gonna follow the "20h drawing, 20 views vs 5min sketch hit tweet" law but oh well.

grabbing every small business owner I can find by the shoulders and yelling directly into their faces that IF I DON'T HAVE AN INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT I CAN'T SEE ANY OF YOUR SHIT GET A FUCKING WEBSITE

Oh no, this sounds like one of those cases of bosses looking at greyboxing and thinking it looks bad, so the devs are being forced to spin up the plagiarism engine to show them something shiny because they can't conceptualize what it'll look like when it's done. I feel terrible for the devs.

The computer lost the mandate of heaven when the humble, helpful "program" was replaced with the insidious "app"

You know, if you tell your partner enough times that you might just break up with them, their response is eventually going to be “Good - pack your bags.” This post is not about romantic relationships.

Alone in the office, dreaming of shawarma…

Listen, I've got a steam library that's like 80% unplayed. I'll go back to the Gameboy roms first, you watch me. Fuck, I'm less than 20 hours into Caves of Qud; don't threaten me with a good time. Ai in videogames is the new Atari Crash, clear as day, and if that's how they wanna go out, fuck em.

This is dire. (Thread)

On the other place, Hugh Laurie just delivered a Death of Expertise smackdown for the ages

I CanCon (And You Can Too!) || A Hand-Curated Weekly Canadian Music Playlist || 2026 - Week 23 "Yeah-ah-ah Woo-ooh-ooh" #ICanConPlaylist #CanadianMusic #Canada 🧵 - (1/7)

Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.

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You know, I've been seeing a *lot* of US plates on the roads the last couple of months. Really outside the norm. I wonder if that's dual citizens returning home instead of sticking it out down there?