New substack on why being Liberal in deep-blue Alberta is less weird than people think — and why it might actually fit the place better than expected.

Sir. Take my taxes. Use them to build housing for my neighbours because they’re people who need it! Use them to help my city fund civic life because we’re more than just customers! Use them to pay for new safe lives for refugees getting settled. Then tax the rich so they can do the same x1000.

Today, I had to spend $2000 on new glasses. Now would be a great time to buy my cookbook for disabled people written by a disabled person. I've earned so I get royalties. Pass it on! julessherred.com/crip-up-the-...

Working on a q&a lecture for a class today: The story of robots is always a story about slavery. The story of LLMs labeled as AI is a story about class, and which humans pay the cost, including the physical toll on their bodies/minds, and the lack of water and electricity, so data centers can exist.

The Tyee is proud to have published this important investigation by @rachelgilmore.bsky.social. We condemn this egregious harassment of a journalist for doing her job, and have offered support as she deals with this disturbing situation.

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

Why does the entire industry look like they had a logo drawing contest and the only rule was “eat this acid and draw a butthole”?

Look, you may blame The Writers for really going overboard in an already crazy year, but who among us has not struggled with fucking clearances on character names.

I'm kind of embarrassed for them, the Alberta budget must be really bad. calgary.citynews.ca/2026/02/19/s...

I made a tool that turns PCB designs into 3D-printable molds. you sandwich copper tape between the parts, sand the ridges, and you have a real working PCB. no etching, no chemicals. I am losing my mind castpixel.itch.io/pcb-forge

When BC's consumer carbon tax was first introduced, it was accompanied by tax cuts to both personal and corporate taxes to make it revenue-neutral. But when it was eliminated last spring, these tax cuts were not reversed. The result is a $2 billion hole in BC's finances. #BCBudget

C. S. Lewis tried to warn us about AI

And if you have an iPhone and you have the sinking realization as the federal agent is bearing down on you that you forgot to disable biometrics: hit the right-side down button 5x very quickly to enter the power down menu.

A must read thread of what is going on. It is triggering because reality is triggering right now:

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I think this is in the wrong city to be convenient for you but this still made me think of you, @dontfuck.men

WE GOT A LAMBO!!! #WorldBollardAssociation

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

CBC should hire her right now. On the spot.

Tonight I watched Prime Minister Mark Carney take the actual Heated Rivalry Canada fleece from Hudson Williams, slip it on and say: “This is true soft power.”

This is genuinely very funny and sweet and the staffer who wrote it should get promoted

There is an old word to describe going to a foreign power and asking for their assistance in breaking up a sovereign country — it’s treason. Canadians are standing together in defence of this beautiful land. 🇨🇦

I will simply never recover from reading this sentence: "Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

Yeah you can't cool easily in space. I designed near-future spaceships to explore the solar system in quite a bit of detail for a SF role-playing game. You have to hand-wave away cooling because even though space is cold, the only way to cool is by radiation.

Alberta Health Services docs obtained via freedom of information request show that up to 85 percent of provincial EMS dispatches for drug toxicity were not reported by the Alberta government, @drugdatadecoded.ca reports: drugdatadecoded.ca/up-to-89-per...

Someone should write a story tallying all the times that Poilievre, Smith and other conservative politicians compared Alberta vs BC drug poisonings using false numbers. Here’s what was actually going on:

After the World Trade Center was attacked (just four miles from Trump Tower), more than 40,000 Canadians in uniform fought alongside their U.S. allies in Afghanistan. More than 2,000 Canadians were wounded. These 158 didn't make it home. And now this guy is giving lectures on gratitude.

Entire Swan Lake ballet is available for free on YouTube just fyi

“The collapse of the AI bubble is going to be ugly…AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector & tech monopolists run amok.“ Read this article by @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy. Whether you agree with it all or not, it’s important.

I'm looking for someone who can clean up the group blog of which I'm part, Crooked Timber. All of the old hyperlinks have been borked so that <a href = URL>text</a> becomes "text":URL/. There's also a problem in the comments, where quote marks have been replaced by –

Valentina Vee is a cinematographer and director and her shot breakdowns of heated rivalry are among the best and really show the degree to which Jacob Tierney & co put a lot of thought and planning into the show.

The UK is in talks with Canada and Australia for a coordinated response to X, including a possible ban. #canpoli

S-Tier gif.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” — George Orwell, 1984

Re-upping this column because the idea seems to be gaining traction. But I think I didn't go far enough in this: the government should obviously be deleting its accounts so as to not have their tweets appear next to CSAM. But it should also be pursuing charges against X and banning it in Canada.

Crypto casinos have become a multi-billion dollar industry. One of the ways they've grown is with an unusual marketing strategy: paying millions to internet celebrities to livestream themselves gambling for hours. New from me, @neilbedi.bsky.social, and Jenny Vrentas. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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OMG 😭 Huntington's is an inherited disease that's like Alzheimers + Parkinson's all in one. NOW: "once the gene therapy has been delivered into the brain... [it] injects a piece of DNA to reprogram the neuron to become a factory for its own cure." LIFE SAVING! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhEx...

I am honoured to announce I’ve been appointed as a member to the Order of Canada. Thank you to everyone for the support! I dedicate this to my late Mom who taught me so much about history, local independent media & research. I know that she would be, like me, screaming with joy! #orderofcanada

'Twas Komasnacht Eve And the forest was thrumming With whispers that Koma Just wouldn't be coming... "He died when the sky broke, Before the Tree burned. Phyrexia took him: He won't be returned."

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And i can see you your bronze helm shining in the sun you're writing laws out now that apply to everyone and i can tell you that Babylon will still be strong after the boys of Sumer have gone

TIL the original lyrics to Deck the Halls are awesome and “don we now our gay apparel” is temperance movement bullshit

Happy Hogswatch!

An animal sanctuary in the Okanagan had avian flu detected in some of their birds. In contrast to Universal Ostrich they complied with the CFIA rules, culling some of their animals and quarantining the rest. Today they have learned their flock of peacocks will not have to be culled

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen: FRACTAL PATTERN GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR THE DUHKS THE LONGEST JOHNS WARSAW VILLAGE BAND

Hey @dontfuck.men looks like the Pope’s throwing down the gauntlet for RDP, might have to up your game for DB 2026 to keep up