neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now

lmao

Personal accomplishment: I have a new paper, just published in the journal Ergonomics! 'Vibrotactile feedback using exposure variation analysis to reduce musculoskeletal risk in surgical simulation' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Al Gore loudly booing a US Commerce Secretary at a bankers’ forum should be a Futurama joke instead of real life.

Canada's EV deal with China shows how U.S. belligerence is driving allies away. It also is stranding the once-powerful U.S. auto industry, now doomed to make domestic gas guzzlers and exist as a footnote globally. @ryanlcooper.com reports: prospect.org/2026/01/20/h...

It is even worse than it looks

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

I gotta start drinking my tea and eating a biscuit *before* I open my computer, because stuff like this can't keep being the first thing I experience each morning

I uh, un-recommend Best Bus

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

Seems unfair that you only get to use the bouncy slide to get off a plane when things have gone wrong. The bouncy slide should be a treat they give to the best passengers who did the flight correctly.

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

High Tide 🌊

honestly a straight-history book about WWI that's just the telegrams everyone was furiously sending each other during the July Crisis plus some very light start-of-chapter context would be incredible

as a black comedy, someone should write a version of WWI leadup that has social media. Don't bother about incongruity of fitting 21st century social media tech into early 1900s. Just imagine what it would have been like

"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

trump and his republican party are infected with the same death cult imperialism that brought the world to cataclysm twice in the twentieth century. there's no reasonable sane sensible foreign policy way of dressing up this "strategic logic." history is explicit: this is madness.

The most powerful man in the world has gone insane

Every Caleb Williams play

thinking about the pope pacing back and forth in his apartment at 3:30 am yelling at the tv

there are hail mary's and then there are Hail Mary's

friends, on this most tram of Tuesdays, let me take you on a little journey into a tale of two new tram systems here in Ontario, just 80km apart as the crow flies but a world apart in operations: the Kitchener-Waterloo ION tram, and the brand new Toronto Line 6 Finch West tram

The Chicago History Museum apparently doesn't do Blue Sky, so I'll share their Bears vs Rams poster. @chicagomuseum.bsky.social

Jarrett Stidham rn:

West Coast winter fog 🌫

I have a pretty debilitating mascot phobia at the best of times, but the denver broncos' horse mascot is a true "kill it with fire" creation

As a Canadian, my advice: do it anyways.

This from @pkrugman.bsky.social made me lol open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

I was recently chatted up by a friendly guy at a bar. When he asked what I "do," I told him I've been working on a book about how fake "self-driving" tech is killing people to make Elon Musk the richest man alive. He frowned. "People like fun stories," he said. 'You should write about Sasquatch."

Stanley Park sights 🏔🌲🌊

really can’t overstate how fucking insane this is

Had a very strange experience this morning where I had 'Danger Zone' by Kenny Loggins stuck in my head all morning as I was getting ready for work, and then I walked into my local subway station and the maintenance crew were playing 'Danger Zone' on their sound system Of all the songs!

And, the word of the day is now "perfidy." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

In the shadow of clouds and mountains, there flows the mighty Fraser River (aka. Sto:lo)

What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?

2026’s refresh rate is wild I go do some chores and like 14 major world events have happened

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

Joshes Allen like Attorneys General

alright, time to watch football until my eyeballs bleed

Ripples on the water 🌊

Amber Glenn is the best www.womenshealthmag.com/sex-and-love...

skillful news writing www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

Things are grim right now but as a reminder of who we are and why we fight, this is the US Women’s figuring skating champion.

You can always go downtown 🏙

Hey, you can't park there

Sunset Beach, Vancouver December 29th, 2025, 1:52pm

You can always go downtown 🏙

"White supremacists would have you believe that they’re trying to protect people like Renee Good from people like George Floyd. Instead, Floyd and Good were both sacrificed to the same false god." publiccomment.blog/p/the-poison...