there is very little that delights me more than a scientist who's decided they're going to stick up for some widely-reviled animal. www.animalcognition.org/2016/01/12/i...

just some stuff in the water 🦀🐚🌿 #art

All this. I don’t care if some people find flying out of downtown easier. We need to stop letting these people run Toronto like it’s the place people have to be when they’re not at the cottage. We live here, we like it. Park not planes, @liberalca.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social

This is a nuclear bomb to Ontario's democracy. The Ford government wants to obfuscate absolutely everything it does.

I quite like this photo I took of a tree on the U of T main campus the other day

It's been an awful winter, but soon it'll be April! and I'll go to a baseball game and it'll be 50 and gray and damp and the wind will cut through me and I'll be shivering and miserable by the third inning and my hot chocolate will already be cold and I'll think to myself, "this sucks so much ass."

So proud to be a part of this project, and to have worked with so many excellent writers. I hope you love it. Thanks, @sandyernestallen.bsky.social for having me.

the world economy is dependent on two things: 1. cheap, reliable energy 2. queer people with monster energy drinks and lord, donald trump is fucking up both

I remember taking a college class where the professor said before the world wars if you asked Americans what made their country unique they would usually talk about freedom, liberty, or the constitution, whereas Germans were likely to say “we have a really good military.”

Snow's gone!

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

We'd all be happier if we lived somewhere walkable (The Deep Space Nine space station)

In all of film history, there's never been a single instance of a movie failing because of audience bigotry, it's made up. Producers blaming censorship on a foreign country or "concerned parents" or whatever are always lying. They're not bending to pressure, *they're* the bigots. Get it right.

very excited for this to be out in the world: i wrote about repressed queerness in Elio, child surveillance in Inside Out 2, the post-Lasseter crisis, and the figure of the child in Pixar for The Baffler thebaffler.com/latest/probl...

Goodnight, Toronto!

Queen. Queen Station. (Doors will open on the right.)

Lily Brooks-Dalton Becky Chambers Amal El-Mohtar Nicola Griffith N.K. Jemisin Malinda Lo Emily St. John Mandel Arkady Martine Seanan McGuire Tamsyn Muir Malka Older Sofia Samatar Vivek Shraya Kai Cheng Thom Catherynne M. Valente Nghi Vo Tillie Walden G. Willow Wilson

Queen. Queen Station. (Doors will open on the right.)

Busy streets 🚶🏾‍♂️🚶🏻‍♀️🚗 🛵

“It’s insane because in the night it looked like day and in the day, it was so dark, it looked like a new moon night. So, so dark, just like our futures. I noticed there wasn’t a single bird in the sky and you know what they say? When the birds abandon you, you are truly on your own.”

Cosmically, there is something very darkly funny about spending an entire decade of American politics obsessed with repudiating the mistakes of the Iraq War, and then immediately doing it again at the first opportunity, but with even less justification, planning, strategy, or foresight.

Lily Brooks-Dalton Becky Chambers Amal El-Mohtar Nicola Griffith N.K. Jemisin Malinda Lo Emily St. John Mandel Arkady Martine Seanan McGuire Tamsyn Muir Malka Older Sofia Samatar Vivek Shraya Kai Cheng Thom Catherynne M. Valente Nghi Vo Tillie Walden G. Willow Wilson

This has to be the hardest piece of figure skating-related art in the history of figure skating

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%

Thinking about low res pikachu.

I really don't think I should have to verify that I am human to look at the Cheesecake Factory menu online. Dogs and robots should be able to look at 57 types of cheesecakes too.

Worse than the worst War on Terror drone strikes. By innocents killed, worse than multiple of the worst drone strike errors combined.

Me to my financial advisor 2 weeks ago: I'm financially secure, I can tolerate a little more investment risk, sure Donald Trump: So, you like risk, eh? Well, have all the risk in the world!

It's oddly reassuring to see war with Iran going exactly like how everyone has said it would for the last several decades

Cat! On the subway (It's in a carrying bag)

happy to report that Cincinnati zoo has an orphaned opossum named Ellie as an animal ambassador and she is adorable

requiem for vanished birdsong

Last week's pea-soup fog over the city provided some insane drone photography shots of towers piercing up out of the clouds (via Instagram photographer Kotsy: www.instagram.com/itsonlykotsy/)

Raytheon Executive: I know you’re skeptical about buying American again. But hear me out. The MIM-104 Patriot is the only surface to air missile system with a proven track record of success against the US Air Force. Danish Defense Minister: Continue.

we reached the “no WMDs” phase in two days.

Pundits loved telling you about Trump's "anti-interventionism" because it seemed contrarian and interesting, but he always represented neoconservatism's worst impulses shorn of any moral pretense or concern www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Things bad, dogs good

this cures what ails me every time

Opening AO3

Sometimes I feel like shit but then I read a few of @bransonreese.bsky.social ‘s transcendent Swan Boy panels and it helps.

i always get emotional about recovered lost films but you guys spoiler alert lol (it’s 45 sec if you wanna click thru & see) but seemingly the first robot in film is a clown, who then gets smashed into nonexistence with a sledgehammer this literally may have to be on page one of my dissertation

If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

took care of a boring but necessary adult chore this afternoon and rewarded myself by buying a Supergirl comic

Exclusive: Prior to Iran attacks, CIA assessed Khamenei would be replaced by hardline IRGC elements if killed, sources say reut.rs/4l9SCAs

Watching speeches on the news and getting distracted by how strange and interesting the mural is in the UN Security Council chamber

If I were a head of state, I would think setting a precedent that assassination is a legitimate tool of state competition would be unwise

Everyone who adores Trump signed up for other people to be humiliated and abused and they always manage to be shocked when they end up being humiliated and abused

If you're not a hockey person, what happened here is that one of the MAGA-est dudes in the NHL just got used and embarrassed by Trump because no amount of kissing Trump's ass is enough to make him respect you or hesitate to humiliate you for his own entertainment.