I'm writing about free speech US vs Canada and it seems like there's a hypersophisticated legal-distinctions angle and also a commonsense who can say what where one, and they may not land the same place.

What if I sat out Coates vs Klein for boring second-wave feminist reasons

USB Arthur

Canadian elementary school of the 2020s is one worthy special day after the next, none of which were days in 1990s American elementary school, so I'm hopeless at explaining it.

Do you eschew nail polish? You can only get credit for this most impressive of feats if you document it in the NYT comments to a story about manicures. phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/nailed-it

So I LOVED Emma Forrest's novel 'Father Figure' and wrote about it for @thecjn.bsky.social here! thecjn.ca/opinion/pers...

Sad to hear that Eric Adams left the race just after wearing my favorite jacket ever He was a terrible & corrupt but unfortunately entertaining mayor

On “luxury beliefs” open.substack.com/pub/phoebema...

There’s this wide range of parenting philosophies and anxieties I only know about from Substack.

Intrigued by a forthcoming book's keywords in a search: "goats, farming, bissexsuality, western massachusetts, cheese-making, animal husbandry, small town politics, lesbian relationship, birth-and-death of animals, solar energy, solar panels, farming, milk production"

Blueskyism is when there's a Canada Post strike and you can only imagine posting about it from a worker's rights issues perspective while privately thinking it is sad that the underwear you ordered weeks ago was *about* to arrive but now, no.

Would you trust an esteemed French academic to educate you on the significance of "Seinfeld"? This and more in my @thecjn.bsky.social Scribe Quarterly review of Michel Wieviorka's THE LAST JEWISH JOKE. thecjn.ca/arts-culture...

There are specific moments when I think I would professionally benefit from having the PhD in my professional handle or signoff or whatever, when someone I don't know writes to me like I'm an uppity tween intern or some such, but more moments when it would not make sense at all.

Is MAGA still claiming it's doing stuff in the name of fighting antisemitism or was that last season's style?

Bringing this photo of Carla Bruni to the hairdresser

Why is 'men and women are different' presented as bold truth-telling when it is literally all we've been hearing across the political spectrum for different reasons for the past 15 years?? phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/men-and-wo...

Why is 'men and women are different' presented as bold truth-telling when it is literally all we've been hearing across the political spectrum for different reasons for the past 15 years?? phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/men-and-wo...

French President Emmanuel Macron called President Donald Trump after being stopped at a New York street blocked off for his US counterpart's motorcade during the UN General Assembly reut.rs/42acMSC

Someone into AI (I barely know what it is) needs to make an AI that can Chotiner Chotiner himself.

Epic straight-ladies ep of @dansavage.bsky.social Lovecast. The horny basic woman told she’s not really a woman because of gender essentialism!

Shanah tova indeed

The frames (well dot ca sale Le Specs); the inspiration

I blogged about the 'I like nice expensive things for myself' school of preservationism phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/the-mceco-...

Distracted man with two women meme, his girlfriend is recognition of Palestine, the other woman is autism attributed to Tylenol

We have always been at war with Tylenol

What if all the Tylenol I took both times is actually why my kids are so much more social than I am?

My @thecjn.bsky.social is on yeah what else: free speech stuff. thecjn.ca/opinion/pers...

have more babies than you can afford, but like in the cute way where you're white and still rich at the end of the day

One reason I do not think Trump is going to create a 1,000 year reich is because he failed to cancel a middling funnyman and immediately pivoted to trying to outlaw not having a headache.

There should be a word for that cognitive situation where you need to search backward to figure out what news story is leading everyone online to talk about (for example) the rapture

My @thecjn.bsky.social is on yeah what else: free speech stuff. thecjn.ca/opinion/pers...

phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/the-mceco-... Some thoughts on the people definitely saving the world with their enormous eco-houses. With shout-outs to @alexbozikovic.bsky.social and @lloydalter.bsky.social

If I anxiety-posted here it would just 100% be about the defunding of medicine / removal of vaccine requirements, and despairing over all that, the rest is interesting culture wars but does not have me thinking doom on at all the same scale.

phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/the-empero... Why so much polyester in Gwyneth Paltrow's new clothing line? That and fear of mortality and fear of being just another boring straight lady and more, in my latest blog.

Tucker Carlson to the cultic mob whose leader pretends his bonfire of the universities is about protecting Jews: "I can just sort of picture the scene in a lamp-lit room with a bunch of guys sitting around eating hummus, thinking about, ‘What do we do about this guy telling the truth about us?’"

phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/the-empero... Why so much polyester in Gwyneth Paltrow's new clothing line? That and fear of mortality and fear of being just another boring straight lady and more, in my latest blog.

So a caregiver (grandfather?) just randomly filming little girls at the playground who don't know him, this is now something happening? Phones, maybe not the best invention huh

Seinfeld; Yes, Minister; Mary Tyler Moore, All in the Family, Blackadder, W1A, Schitt's Creek (despite moronic title), Cheers, Arrested Development, Get Smart, Fleabag.

Friends??? Friends!!! Who filled this form out? Are You Being Served? On the Buses Monty Python Blackadder Doctor in the House Keeping up Appearances Steptoe and Son Benny Hill Up Pompeii Spitting Image Yes Minister Absolutely Fabulous Red Dwarf Dozens of better choices!

Booksale haul.

With alt-text

Frasier is the only acceptable US one. And at least Fawlty is in there because the rest are missing!

Big bang theory? We used to be a country

My unpaywalled but you pay in other ways ie by reading it holdingsforth about Gwyneth and Woody and search-of-lost-time New York phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/you-can-ta...

You know, I’m not sure that’s true

My unpaywalled but you pay in other ways ie by reading it holdingsforth about Gwyneth and Woody and search-of-lost-time New York phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/you-can-ta...

The problem with reviewing fiction for me is that while I enjoy reading it and can say whether/why I liked it, I always have this nagging feeling that I will have missed that the story is OBVIOUSLY the retelling of a classic work I happen not to know.

The targeted ads that imagine, erroneously, that I am in the market for dye-free socks.