I don't know if I can back this up, but I feel like the answer to both these questions is "Requiem for a Dream".

"I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview!"

this is a great thread on the role of translation and humour across time, and how history, like social media, is often derailed by people who don't get the joke.

"working class" is when a white man

Anatomy of a Regime Propagandist:

We quite literally have a whites only refugee program and somehow the media won’t call the Administration white supremacists.

So, this is Nazi shit. Hegseth is doing Nazi shit at a D-Day ceremony.

what if we kissed by the load-bearing tuna column.

This is an interesting one. The pitch is to use an existing underground salt cavern to store compressed air as grid-level green energy storage. That makes more sense to me than similar proposals to use underground caverns to store natural gas or hydrogen, from a safety and environmental standpoint.

Fuckin' love the Food Pickup Ensotaray. Best damn bread line in Canada.

Liberals: "We need education on AI to help Canadians avoid being scammed or manipulated." Conservatives: "We need to scam and manipulate Canadians."

A story I love about Anthony Stewart Head. Thank you to this person for sharing it on Tumblr. What a mensch.

in Anglo-American common law it’s called “false imprisonment.” early modern legal scholars considered it to be one of the gravest injuries one can inflict on another human being that does not involve physically striking them, because freedom of movement was considered a fundamental human right.

There's a pretty funny moment here at around 47:15 where a kid comes up to Carney and starts grilling him on Liberal Marijuana policy. I admire the chutzpah.

Resource projects require Indigenous consultation, which affirms Indigenous sovereignty, which Conservatives oppose, so they don't consult, which gets projects cancelled by the courts, which Conservatives then blame on Liberals, so they can try and elect more Conservatives. Lather, Rinse, Repeat.

I think that Avi Lewis is profoundly lacking in self-awareness if he thinks that what he's been doing as NDP leader doesn't count as "rage-harvesting".

please....my recession narrative....he is very sick.

I feel like the central operating principle of Trump / MAGA boils down to a modern rehash of: "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

I just wrote the MPs for the Annapolis Valley about this, to ask if there are any federal funding streams or programs that could address the shortfall here. Like for instance: - Libraries as solar / EV charging hubs - Library-adjacent affordable housing - Library-funding tax on data centers

At last! A robot that can fondle balls.

Man, this sucks. Jacobin sucks, Platner sucks, and the idea that abdicating morality is fine as long as it sticks it to the rich really, really sucks. This is why everyone warning about Platner was right. Running him as a candidate severely weakens the Dems moral argument against MAGA abusers.

I am not seeing a lot of discussion about the fact that the federal government will ban surveillance pricing in upcoming data governance legislation. Seems notable to me! ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en...

I am once again requesting that we go back to a time when the internet was downstream from culture, instead of culture being downstream from the internet.

Hell yeah, take that...*checks notes*....One World Trade Center.

Four Words: Character Actress Margo Martindale

NightHawkInLight, one of my favourite Youtube inventors, just put out a new video on electrolysis, and it is *blowing my mind*. Did you know that in addition to breaking water down into hydrogen and oxygen, with a few tweaks electrolysis can produce a strong enough acid to dissolve rocks? I didn't!

"The Capricious Whims of Provincial Budgets" is my favorite Joni Mitchell album

People in the Valley are *pissed* about this, and organizing to save the threatened branches. The municipalities seem to be stepping up as well. Hopefully this leads to a funding model for these libraries that isn't dependent on the capricious whims of provincial budgets.

The central issue with the US trade talks is that free trade a la NAFTA/CUSMA is basically win/win/win, but Trump needs it to be win/lose/lose. So time and time again, when it looks like we're close to the actual obvious solution that everyone wants, he blows it up with some new nonsense.

👏 Build 👏 more 👏 blimp 👏 based 👏 housing 👏

a living witness! looks like this cold case is heating up.

Blaze of Glory.

Instant QP fix: Turn off the cameras. Text records only. Maybe artistic renderings. Treat Parliament like a courtroom instead of reality TV.

The Smash & Grab Presidency is running out of smash.

Watching this movie in the middle of the night on a half-garbled analog channel when I was like 8 years old did some very strange things to my early psyche.

Today I introduced legislation to ban me, specifically, from getting dumped.

today is the last day to vote in the california primary the big races: for governor, steyer, who may be (ugh) a billionaire but also seems genuinely committed to a lot of good policy stuff including the billionaire tax for la mayor: nithya raman, an actual progressive who can beat bass

math is my passion

Probably best to just stay home and watch Thor: Ragnarok again, instead of checking this one out.

no nationalism but civic nationalism

A lot of folks want to scoff at a basic paean to multicultural pluralism from a gov’t that is at best imperfectly pursuing those ideals, but this is in fact *way* better than full-throated embrace of exclusionary national identities.

Dire scenes h/t @leftoutside.bsky.social www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/ukra...

The people who wanted you to hate immigrants, Muslims and trans people will never be ‘happy’. There’ll never be a point where they say ‘great! The country is a perfect amount of racist and transphobic!’ They always require a scapegoat. It’s disabled ppl and Sikhs today. Tomorrow it could be you.

“In Canada, state neutrality does not empty the public square but ensures that no conception of the good – including humanism or atheism – is privileged by state power, and that every Canadian has the freedom of conscience to live as they believe.” A very deeply thought out speech. Worth reading!

If you're someone whose immediate reaction to this is hostility, and the impulse to deny that antisemitism is really a problem, or to say that they basically deserve it because of the crimes committed by Israel; let me just say that you're going a long way towards proving the PMs thesis here.