You might have heard that "the best revenge is a life well lived." But that's because your school was underfunded and you had old textbooks from before scientists invented the Revengerator.

I've been rambling about this for a long time. Transport Canada abdicated responsibility for defining (and thus importing) e-bikes to the provinces and now we have this absolute wild west where it's legal to buy and import virtually everything. 1/3

He was a Communist, Elmo.

Yes, but humans lose like 300,000 points minimum for inventing social media.

One thing I've struggled with teaching lately: balancing parsimony in my assignment instructions against the desire to explain everything to avoid misunderstandings.

A greeting card for my Bluesky friends

Someone pointed out that influencers use serotonin/dopamine/cortisol/oxytocin like they’re the four humors and now I can’t stop seeing it

"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace."

my name is bari and I’m here to say I’m unpredictable in a major way

Getting ready for one of my favourite and most challenging weeks of teaching in sociology of the family, theory. My students often struggle with social reproduction theory at first, but by the end, I see the dawning of recognition and can almost hear the brains clicking.

Of all the purely evil things Trump has done--that we warned would be done, that we said repeatedly were the alternative to electing Harris--an invasion of Greenland would be among the vilest and most catastrophic. There are no justifications for this, but Trump's are uniquely stupid.

Republicans believe the stove isn't hot and an unfortunate number of Democrats believe third degree burns can be fixed with a band-aid

Got so intensely focused on the potential invasion of Greenland that I briefly forgot about Trump grabbing Maduro. Granted it's late, I'm tired, but JFC...

It's worth noting that the St. Paul Doubletree and Intercontinental are both owned by the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe's hospitality group. ICE has been harassing Native people in the region and tribal governments have taken notice.

Average Ontario discourse:

one may ask if this is voter intentions on Federal levels why the CPC doesn't sweep the House of Commons and that reason is because (for better or worse) young Canadians don't vote in practice while older Canadians do

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

Deep--but entirely fair--cut.

This is probably also an anti-liberal, anti-modern thing. Yearning for the days of a hegemonic milk. Unable to cope with the fact that modernity will milk anything. (I'm partial to unsweetened soy myself, as befits a soyboy.)

Nuanced take: I think it's really important to give *normal citizens* who supported Trump and off-ramp and *professional writers, pundits and politicians* who supported Trump should have to wear it like a scarlet letter for the rest of their lives

This is literally what I've been writing and podcasting about for years. I was planning to do an essay on this, but here's a 🧵. The main reason is psychology. Due to personal, family, and cultural histories, some people are inherently scared of the world.

“Those were alarms, you just didn’t want to listen,” is very good.

Signing into ChatGPT for the first time in months to output sample assignments (as comparisons to help me figure out when students have used it) and see that it now gives you options to choose different "personalities" 😑

I wrote book reviews for a while for the WSJ well over a decade ago, and Bari Weis was my editor. One of her special tricks was to try to insert a sharp rightward slant into my essays *after* it had been copy edited, as a way of slipping her viewpoint in at the last minute.

One of my goals is that in the near future Bari Weiss's name will be used in derision as shorthand for pathetically arrogant incompetence, like "New Coke." Like you'll have a new boss at work who's totally out of their depth and you'll say "looks like we've got a Bari Weiss" and people will laugh.

Overheard at McDonald's this morning (paraphrasing) Old Guy 1: Trump isn't a warmonger! Old Guy 2: Yes he is. Old Guy 1: He hasn't had any charges stick. Old Guy 2: He's still guilty. *He starts to leave* So did you hear so and so died? All very affable and jokey.

yes, ICE agents need more training—they should learn to do useful work like installing solar panels or planting trees

excellent work by @theonion.com this month

We’re visiting a high-school friend of my wife and LOOK AT THIS PAINTING HER DAUGHTER DID

Me going to the pharmacy, getting home, and seeing the course of antibiotics my doctor put me on.

once again saying: our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse.

Things are bad when you're an atheist like I am, and yet terms like blasphemy and antichrist are the best words to describe what's going on.

this site seems to genuinely have an issue with viewing explanation as a form of endorsement

Imagine looking at this and thinking "we need to bring back beautiful coal" or going on a rant about wind turbines. You know who I'm talking about.

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

I'm not a fan of Foucault and ever since two of my English major friends joked that they call him "Fucko," that's how I always read his name.

It’s the weekend. Treat yourself, America. Your luxurious $3 meal comes with one whole M&M tonight.

eat shit

On my walk today, I saw two crows driving off a fluffy red tailed hawk. When the hawk landed in the trees, the crows did too, and kept cawing. Soon, reinforcements arrived, two more crows. The hawk soon flew away and the group of crows continued to chase it away.

We’re getting close to a homegrown version of the old Scottish lady who celebrated Thatcher’s death

There are many ways to help.

Seems to be a certain mood in my reading so far this year.

*Not seeing a high protein salad dressing at the grocery store* And I thought capitalism was supposed to be INNOVATIVE.

Canadian city populations (CMA) for 2025 are out. Big growth over the past 4 years. Toronto over 7 million. Vancouver over 3 million. Calgary nearing 2 million. Winnipeg so close to 1 million! Halifax over half million. Victoria almost half million. Saskatoon pulling away from Regina.

Aware that he only had a few months left to live the great Mike Davis gave one of his final interviews to the Guardian in 202. "You’ve been organizing for social change your whole life. How do you deal with a future that feels so bleak?" Lois Beckett asked.

We are being lazy and staying cozy today.

Whenever you see Elon post white supremacist, antiscientific garbage, you're seeing a little flash of self-awareness ("there is no good reason I should be a centibillionaire"), followed by crude justification ("actually, my Western psychology proves I deserve what I have").

Toronto today

Quite frankly, it’s outrageous that Mark Carney is cutting Statistics Canada. If he was Stephen Harper or Pierre Poilievre, I feel like this would be getting a lot more backlash. Carney of all people should know the importance of high-quality data and information about the country.