What the heck do I do with THIS (presented to my great-great? great? grandfather, presumably when he retired, in 1899) Contact the Montreal Museum? I genuinely have no idea. Feels wrong to auction it.

Editorial cartoon: Don't bread on me. Enjoy :)

No thing is just a tool; all tools construct us as their subjects.

if the wrapper didn't split you must acquit

I was one of the four people who got canned. In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com

OH MY GOD

capybaras taking a bath in a fountain

This Norwegian stabbur, ca 1700, one of the oldest buildings in the region. Used to store foods & other things off of the ground, away from animals. I'm not OK, for all the Crone reasons. We know where her house came from! Its origins, most likely! imma go get my evil mortar and pestle now brb

The rant I'm about to link to was inspired by generative AI (GAI? o.O) cover art, but also ties in VERY STRONGLY to what Skyla's saying here. THERE IS A LOT OF DECENT-TO-VERY-GOOD cover art available for NOT MUCH MONEY, FOLKS. bsky.app/profile/cemu...

Whether or not you want to admit it, whether or not it was a joke, whether or not you want to do your personal deep dive you are still spreading it, normalizing it, & ARE part of the problem. Even those who are telling us how to identify bad AI vs good have done so w/o giving how-tos & spreading it.

Stop sharing AI slop. It's one thing if you don't know or just made a mistake. No need to breathe down someones neck b/c its harder to tell nowadays. But if you do know (ESPECIALLY IF YOU DO KNOW) even if you're posting it to make fun of it or sharing it unironically... consider not doing that.

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

Among the things about this that's so preposterous is the idea that men have some natural tendency to accept criticism from a superior without taking it personally. Like. Is this a joke?

It's so vitally important to our entire national politics these days to just pretend that nobody on the left feels, or is allowed to feel, a really deep hatred toward the tyrants and war criminals who have spent the last twenty five years destroying the future

Condé Nast contact details for subscribers to any of their many magazines who want to complain about senior management firing journalists for being <checks notes> too good at journalism. www.condenast.com/contact

This is a really hard day and I want to just add as WIRED's politics editor -- WIRED's politics reporting isn't going anywhere. We are very much here and won't stop. Please continue to read and support us - canceling your subscription to WIRED is not standing in solidarity with our journalists.

The “conservative feminists” and the anti-feminists have exactly the same theory of what gender should mean and imply but the “conservative feminists” think if you say “and it’s so beautiful” after explaining the obligation to pump out as many kids as possible, that means you’re pro woman.

Fabulous counterpoint to the Douthat + two self-loathing women “have women ruined the workplace?” thing this morning. Look at him! The ultimate alpha male! A strong leader! A protector! A warrior!

Anyways. That's why every woman you know is bloodthirsty. Here's the moon.

Patriarchy only works if we fear men, and we now know that not a single powerful man on earth considers themselves to be more fearsome than Donald John Trump. Not one. THAT is the best the Patriarchy has produced?

Hundreds of people packed the Hillsboro City Council auditorium to decry the escalation in immigration enforcement in the community, following weeks of reports of federal agents in unmarked vehicles detaining residents and dragging people out of cars. www.oregonlive.com/washingtonco...

I love how the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the guy in charge of our national well-being, runs away like a cartoon character the moment somebody needs medical help. The other Trump gargoyles at least attempt to look concerned. Kennedy sprints off camera.

Next week's pieces on the New York Times' Opinion Page: "Was Major League Baseball Ruined by Allowing Negroes to Play?" "Critics Complain about RFK Jr's 'National Leeching' But Here's Why They're Wrong" "Only Cucks Fly Commercial" "Democracy: Is It Really Worth the Hassle?"

A couple weeks ago a friend was telling me about someone she knew who had been on maternity leave, and said she had taken "the full year." I said, "A whole year? Wow, what kind of fancy job does she have that gives her a YEAR of leave?" and my friend looked surprised & said, "... welcome to Canada?"

ICYMI 🚲🧶

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

Douthat also seems to, improbably, grasp that this has gone completely off the rails.

THIS IS WHY WE ALL HATE EVOPSYCH. Can we please fucking discredit this pseudo-naturalist bullshit at last?

Okay yeah lets do it, because it is an interview with two conservative women, which I think is getting missed in some of the drive by dunks. This isn't just Ross's normal crankery, its a window into a specific conservative project aimed at getting women to buy in.

New favorite portal just dropped.

This is who your subscription dollars are going. For the New York Times to launder conservative talking points designed to limit where and how women work to force dependency on men. They want us back to before women could own their own bank account. But sure.

My mother was the breadwinner in the family, first to get a college degree in the family, and when she was pregnant with me her boss came into her office, told her that she'd never be the same accountant again, and fired her on the spot. That was in nineteen eighty two

I read it; it’s so so dumb. The say “woke” or “wokeness” - I am not joking - 25 times. These people cannot conceive of the idea that while society teaches us gendered behavior & there are observable differences between the genders, people are wonderfully diverse & never neatly filed into boxes.

At last we are recreating the Mad Men office environment from the hit TV show “don’t recreate the Mad Men office environment”

women, are they bitches?

All of a sudden for no reason I am thinking about the days-long Twitter fight about calendar management, chiefly between tech types (“just look at the other person’s calendar to see when they can meet!”) and academics (“fuck off, just because my calendar shows free time doesn’t mean I’m available”)

Autumn in Chicago #dogsofbluesky

[P] still thinking about that festival back in 2002 when Books was on the same bill as Another Ferret

Would everyone please send me your favorite art, literature, etc. about or mentioning chickens I need it for a thing THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

Can't wait for the researchers we attract to realize that research in Canada is ALSO woefully underfunded.

I dont know who this person is, i dont know why i was following them, but you might want to check and see if you are too, because jesus fuck Mamdani is really pulling the weirdos from the wings even on this site.

Reading We Breed Lions by @rickwesthead.bsky.social is hard and necessary, and might even make you look at hockey a little differently. And especially in a country that rarely wants to hear bad news about hockey, it should be a reminder that we need to do better. www.thestar.com/sports/hocke...

Alternate framing - People learnt the impact of transmission during the pandemic and now are less likely to come in and get everyone else sick.

listen, if you're ever despairing about your art or whatever, just ask yourself "is anything i ever make going to be as stupid as a cybertruck?" ✨

Hey RPG and board game fans: I have an adult family member dealing with trauma that has made her regress and who is terrified of being wrong. I'll add more details, but I'm looking for games that will help her get comfortable with making choices even if they're not perfect. Thoughts?(🧵)

Mr Measured just ran in here to tell me he saw a video that said all the little girls dressed as Rumi, Mira, and Zoey on Halloween last week sealed the honmoon so things can get better now so if you need me I’ll be sobbing in a corner 😭

An Antarctica story. Once upon a time in Club 90 South, an inebriated apprentice from Wyoming revealed a family fact. One that, at other times, might be an amusing "degrees of separation" bon mot. However the key to wit and humor is not just timing, but reading the room. He did not.

Oh my god, I love this. Probably one of my top 5 all time songs and I think it's because it's so spontaneous and raw and simple. Those kids knew what's what.

I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.