Dear Ottawa tourism: Don't let the Mayor get his hands on tourism promotion for the city. Poor sad Xmas tree.

An amazing post, amazing to see the photo, but boy oh boy is it ever ruined by that last sentence. Not Juliet's fault, I know.

Two absolute shit moments of news in quick succession (family matters, nobody dead, but feeling more than a little overwhelmed) bring to mind the Mountain Goats. I lean on things like this when these sorts of days roll around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7fB...

When Kristy Paniptchuk took her small jet-boat out in rural Alaska in 2020, she probably didn't expect to see the Moos-iah (Mooses?) performing a miracle. Real vid, but the water is <5 in. deep in the channel & Kristy is in a boat built with very shallow draft.

A new 225-meter (740-foot) crater appeared on the Moon while nobody was looking. NASA's lunar orbiter imaged the dramatic aftermath. Such large impacts are once-in-a-century events. This one happened in the spring of 2024. 🔭🧪 www.sciencenews.org/article/moon...

🖕

One of those pictures you can smell.

Most honest reporting in the past few weeks.

An amazing photo by Jaafar Ashtiyeh. Alt text has the caption.

A story: About 4:45am, summertime, so it was light out. Mom and Dad were awakened by a loud BANG! from outside. Dad jumped out of bed and looked out the window, saw two guys leaving the garage with his (expensive) bike over the shoulders of one. "Call the cops!" he said to Mom, no explanation...

This movie came out not long before my youngest, Brennan, went away to play university soccer. Different time, different sport, different people, but it still hit me right in the feels. Way too underrated for a Linklater film. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

Yes those are real clouds. on Mars. 250 million miles away from us. Not just any clouds, these are extremely rare Iridescent clouds seen for the first time ever on an alien planet.

This Year's Snow Drought is Etching Itself Into Utah Forest History Without winter snowpack to turn into spring runoff, trees will grow very little, leaving narrow bands in the tree-ring records. In really bad years, there is no growth or ring at all. #tree #drought 🧪 www.usu.edu/today/story/...

Christopher Holcroft: Prime Minister Mark Carney’s ambiguity about the role of international law regarding U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran is more than an excusable stumble by an inexperienced politician. #canpoli #uspoli

Valerie Perrine has left us. @sethabramovitch.bsky.social wrote this beautiful story about the Superman, Lenny and Slaughterhouse-Five actress a few years ago. Well worth your time.

Do not pander. Do not dumb down. Trust your audience to be smarter than you. Trust them to be curious. Don’t erase your own voice for spurious bowing down to factors that bring nothing to the stories you need to tell. #Writing

Here's your moment of zen: A "holy" cat named Coco stands at the entrance of a church in Mexico, seemingly blessing everyone who walks in 🐱

So, about those Eid prayers in London... "What's the highest thing in Trafalgar Square?" "Nelson's column, innit?" "And the highest thing on the column?" "Nelson." "And on Nelson?" "His hat." "And the highest thing on his hat?" "That bit that sticks up." 1/8

Horrible news, and with everything going on at US airports, in air traffic control and beyond, I see even fewer reasons to travel to the States. www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...

Today they were following the sun.

St. John’s guard Dylan Darling had two points all game against Kansas. It just so happened to be the game-winning basket.

It gets more interesting than this. Every business in town has a custom Weevil statue outside their business and that's how you get Ronald McWeevil outside the enterprise AL McDonald's.

Hell, Canada and Mexico have a free trade agreement with the US that was signed by Trump, that he wanted pushed through so he could feel like he had the upper hand. So even his own signature isn't enough if the mood suits.

This makes it sound like the cast of Mormon Wives harbor grave doubts about Bahrain’s offensive capabilities

Mood for 2026, (the artist is Ainsley Drew, on Instagram)

Also why would Iran go for it now, given we bailed on the last deal then bombed them twice?

Seen tacked to a community board on my walk

by Shari Vincent

I'm here to remind you, to help control the Bigfoot population, always spay and neuter your Sasquatches.

Thank goodness. I was SO worried I wouldn't be able to.

An older person just told me with a straight face that 12.30 on Sunday afternoon was the perfect time to have sex in an English village. I couldn't tell if she was pulling my leg, but this is the kind of older person I aspire to be.

Trump is paying the country he is fighting

good grief!

Reader feedback indicates the author of our Joe Rogan/Pierre Poilievre article was insufficiently "masculine". We would like to correct the error with a more "alpha male" photo:

This horrific story gets worse when you find out how this young woman originally came to the US: as a 17-year-old on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane

The new Tedeschi Trucks Band album is playing on the stereo and I could bathe in Susan’s voice and Derek’s guitar all day. www.loudersound.com/music/tedesc...

"They will want to look into President Trump's eyes as they thank him, but they must not. They must not. They must not cast their gaze upon his glory, for they are not worthy. They should look to the dirt and the worms and count themselves blessed to be embraced by his watchful eye. ALL HAIL TRUMP!"

Standards really slipping at the Telegraph. Really basic typo in a column headline today.

Okay those first two things are deeply newsworthy but to be fair I've seen many a Waffle House patron in my life who did not appear to know how they got there.

Really thinking we need to make pigeon milk and its products (ice cream, butter, cottage cheese, more...) the next big MAHA thing.

Making Catholics cool again

Waiting for everyone upset about Bam surpassing Kobe to call on LeBron to immediately retire.

PM Carney is cutting half of WAGE funding mostly born by program spending. At a time when violence against women is on the rise and the manosphere is ascendant: www.canada.ca/en/women-gen...

Ingo the Belgian Malinois and his buddy, rescue owl Gandalf. by photographer Tanja Brandt

Holy crap, hotel prices in Vancouver during the World Cup are nuts. Could have stayed with friends but distance was a factor, but the good news is UBC has some hostel-like facilities and I can handle that. Of course, every other host city is going to be an overpriced shitshow, so ignore my whining.

Earlier today, I heard a podcast about the Julius Caesar assassination in which I learned that he was the first Roman to mint coins with his portrait. For 300 years, no coin depicted a living person, just gods and historic figures. The coin was issued in 44 BC, the same year the Senate got stabby.

Prairie Farm in Late Light Robert Newton Hurley n.d.

This is Hank. He is incredibly invested in this plumbing project that does not require him in the slightest. 13/10 (TT: compound_interest_)