An interesting clip on the risks of Smith's push to get her own police force.

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If Mallory Towers & The Hunger Games had a baby, you’d get… The Quiet Girls #OneMoreSleep #TheQuietGirls #ThrillFestOnTour #DrKezLanyon

they didn’t even think they had to sell it and if that isn’t a scathing condemnation of our media I don’t know what is

Escape the madness of the world with a work of #fiction. "Five Fatal Flaws" is a #psychological #whodunnit with complex characters and past problems that surface to unravel the #mystery of a missing baby and a dead politician. #BookSky ➡️ mybook.to/FFFeb ⬅️

"People used to be excited about tech, now they dread what data you're going to steal next, they dread what violation of privacy or the environment will turn up next." this whole missive will make you want to stand on your desk and yell "O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN!," but that bit really got me good

Hegseth gutted offices that would have probed Iran school strikes

You know the best way to kill AI? Don't use it. Don't buy it. Don't share it. Don't give the people who use it your labour or your money.

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Turning war into spectacle marks a collapse of public ethics. When bombing raids are packaged as content and crowds react like it’s a highlight reel, the dead vanish behind the screen. A society that treats human suffering as entertainment corrodes its conscience.

I’m not a big curling guy, but I get the significance of this, and WOW it’s mind-blowing. Some are calling it the best shot in curling history! #TeamCanada at the #ParalympicGames.

Grok gets to take a bow. It got something right for once.

I hope they have this fire under control by now and that everybody in the area is safe.

When I saw this image of Jupiter, my first thought was that it looked like a @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca painting.

Today March 8th is #InternationalWomensDay Honor the survivors and the victims by demanding that all the #EpsteinFiles are released, unredacted. The predators, especially Epstein’s Best Friend, must be held accountable, in courts of law, and brought to justice ! #WomensRights #SheShed

Midway through Fahrenheit 451, we learn that the U. S. government has launched a series of unprovoked wars against smaller countries, just because it can, while the population is so hypnotized by amusements & devices that hardly anyone knows the wars are taking place.

MAGA and their conservative collaborators are the biggest threat to Canada right now. The Traitor Party of Canada

UPDATE: BBC Verify RT’s Bellingcat’s post with video of a missile dropping on the facility where the girls’ school was located - the missile matches 🇺🇸 tomahawks and “appears to contradict Trump’s claim” it was Iran 🤔

On this day in 1945, Janet Wright was born. While she is best known as Emma Leroy on Corner Gas, Wright was one of Canada's most acclaimed theatre actors and was a veteran of the Stratford Festival. In her career, she won a Genie Award and two Geminis. She died in 2016.

“Ecocide” means unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts - consensus definition for proposed inclusion of Ecocide as international crime in Rome Statute

Tarrio is, quite literally, a pardoned terrorist.

Wonderful afternoon in Bridlington with East Riding Libraries talking to @alexnorth.co.uk as part of the Springfest programme. Be rude not to have fish and chips afterwards...

A Zerene Fritillary (Argynnis zerene) high in the hills above Rock Creek on Fiva Creek Main. This is from August 3 of last year. #Butterflies

Happy International Women's Day.

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

#fivestarflashback ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ #BookReview: Blood Song by Johana Gustawsson (translated by David Warriner) #BloodSong #damppebbles ➡️ buff.ly/491SefV #whattoread #bookish #BookSky #skybrarians #bookrecs #bookrecommendation

Elena Collins has written about not one, not two but THREE witches Scottish no less www.thebooktrail.com/book-trails/... @boldwoodbooks.bsky.social

AD pr product: Tag team reading an ebook and tree book this weekend. My tree book is The Ossians by @dougjohnstone.bsky.social republished April 9th by @orendabooks.bsky.social. www.amazon.co.uk/Ossians-Doug... #books #booksky #teamorenda #theossians #amreading

Monday, 16 March 2026 There will be demonstrations at the constituency offices of Liberal MPs. The 2 tier health care disaster UCP's Bill 11 sets up is unacceptable for Albertans and all Canadians. We need everyone to stand up for universal health care & the promise of The Canada Health Act #CdnPoli

Local woman wakes up, traps some politicians in the literary worlds of whatever books are most apt for them (Danielle Smith in Handmaid’s Tale, Donald Trump in Nineteen Eighty-Four, etc), makes oatmeal.

Smith says she's cutting access to social support programs because she "heard that people were moving here just to be on social programs." This sort of hearsay framing is a dangerous rhetorical device employed by populists. Consider Donald Trump. +

In an article in the Atlantic, Vivian Salama and Jonathan Lemire argue that Trump is not making any claims on Iranian oil and gas. But that's not quite true, is it?

I think it's pretty important to understand that algorithmically-run platforms have long understood anger and argument drives much more engagement than just showing you stuff you like, and if you find yourself being made to despair at what a platform shows you, that is the system working as intended

The AI data center in Olds has been rejected for the time being… Among the reasons… “ The environmental evaluation is a draft document with missing information, including incomplete citations, missing figures & document mark-ups including highlighted text.” #abpoli #cdnpoli

These allegations of child rape are horrific. They back up the story of Jane Doe, another 13-year-old victim. The American courts, police, politicians and media know that the President of the United States is an accused child rapist and abuser. Horrifying. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

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Lucifer has a point

Today I'm joining the blog tour for Sharks by @ohneklippo.bsky.social Here's my review: portable-magic.com/2026/03/06/s... @orendabooks.bsky.social

Tickets are on sale now for the Glasgow launch of Quite Ugly One Evening on May 6th, which will be at the magnificent Drygate brewery, and chaired by none other than @callummcsorley.bsky.social. www.drygate.com/events/whats...

We've had almost 1,000 pre-orders this week. Unreal. Thank you to everyone who has pre-ordered THE END TIMES (hardcover). I'll be making my first donation to Neighbors Helping Neighbors (helping Minneapolis recover from ICE patrols) on Monday. badhandbooks.com/purchasedire...

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Matt Reuter. #NewYorkerCartoons

Sooooo…the only person to face consequences in the criminal administration of Felonious Clump is Kristi Noemore. And the only person to face any consequences of Epstein Island human trafficking and child rape is…Ghislaine Maxwell. But not a single man? Curious, that.

Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

Like Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

This thread is delightful.

Happy #WorldBookDay everyone. Thanks to my parents for always taking me to the library, giving me book tokens as gifts, taking me to indie bookshop Red Lion Books in Colchester (still exists!), all the books we read and shared on holidays. This is what you created 😂☺️🙌