Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha lulz

Slightly diminish a book. Managed Expectations

It is the year 2006 and Canadian policymakers expect baby boomer downsizing to close the housing gap It is the year 2016 and Canadian policymakers expect baby boomer downsizing to close the housing gap It is the year 2026 and Canadian policymakers expect baby boom www.ctvnews.ca/business/rea...

Holy moley www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

The lack of charging infrastructure is, you guessed it, a policy decision made by Donald Trump. Other countries are WAY ahead of the US in terms of charging availability and charging standardization. It's common in the US to go to a charging station only to find none of the chargers operable. 11/x

Ok there's a lot of incorrect information going around on this, so I want to be clear that the problem with the Big 3 and EV's isn't that the Big 3 didn't want to make EV's. The problem, as with so many things, is Trump. I'm gonna do a little thread on this because people don't seem to be aware. 1/x

Meanwhile in England, the only Jewish party leader was accused by the supposedly ‘Christian’ leaders of three far right parties* of antisemitism because he questioned police tactics. The use of antisemitism as a weapon against left wing politicians & Jews is a classic far right trope.

Give me a candidate whose pitch is "The government should be run like a government."

Where go you With bats and clubs?

LOL Banda

LENYN AND VLADIMIR ARE SEIZING THE MEANS OF RUN PRODUCTION

Who the hell is Some Worry, the fretful conservative voice who shows up in NYT headlines all the time?

Biggest bait-and-switch I’ve seen for a while

Why must I be a fan of a team with multiple curses on it

I read a history of early 20th century socialism and it's crazy how much of it is just clubs doing art or reading books and trying to get miners and factory workers to do art and read books.

I mean, if Saginaw Valley State really wants to humiliate itself like this, I guess it can, but 🤷‍♂️

Oh, so this is why he wanted a private jet.

I’m just floored by the contempt than many in tech have for the humanities. They don’t even try to understand or appreciate what it is we do before arrogantly assuming they can do it better with a non-human machine.

And as we say at the end of this piece. hyperallergic.com/how-scientis...

In 2020 @yaelrice.bsky.social and I authored this article to dispute this kind of pseudo-scientific research, which regularly gets press attention, precisely so that others don't have to cope with the tedium of refuting it. Here's the refutation you need! hyperallergic.com/how-scientis...

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only The Twilight Zone Doctor Who The Prisoner Cosmos (Sagan) Connections Firefly Cybersix Futurama Buffy the Vampire Slayer Battlestar Galactica Jeeves and Wooster Star Trek TNG The Muppet Show The Avengers Monty Python’s Flying Circus

Waiting for Godot and Grogu

He finally got around to believing in the Watchmaker

I just want to point out that he calls it a “journey” because he doesn’t know the difference between an incursion and an excursion

Wowwwwwww

Right wing domestic terrorism -- by every measure, the overwhelmingly most common kind of domestic terrorism -- cost a legislator her life and the national press did not give a shit. Barely covered it. Read this lovely tribute.

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still think about how somehow a bunch of people were able to park their giant trucks in Ottawa for weeks even though none of them looked like they were independently wealthy

Watch their next step be the removal of what are practically the last remaining benches in the downtown.

My God, the City of Toronto. Transportation Standards has just phoned *me* to complain that the benches on the sidewalk outside the church, which are City benches on what they have made very clear is City property, are "spraypainted and in disrepair."

UTM / UTSC / UTSG (If you know you know)

Happy International Day of Struggle of the Working Class, everyone!

This is kind of the thing when it comes to the Americans in my mentions and yours who want to make it clear that they didn’t vote for him. It’s no longer people like me that you ought to appeal to. That time has passed. Your beef is now with history.

He pronounces “low IQ” with a hard R

It's just percolated into my consciousness that when I went to the meeting about Copilot to ask for an opt-out, the chair had summarised my detailed justification using Copilot. And put it in the Teams chat with a straight face

🧵

The brazenness is amazing even now

That’s annoying, but at least it’s innocuous compared to all the hypocritical bullshit of the skeptics of the 2000s. My God. That was a nightmare time.

The news I'm getting from the University of Sussex is that the overwhelming majority of the students are delighted and consider it a victory. Maybe the "Office for Students" might like to take the actual students into account.

Oh man

Maybe voluntary language guidance documents from the HR department were not the top threat to free speech after all?

A person who says “I voted for mass deportations but I thought it was just going to be criminals and I thought they were going to do it in a nice way” is a person who hasn’t yet recognized what they should actually be sorry for.

There’s an argument to be made that there should be a path back into the fold for Trump voters who realize they made a mistake, but it seems like a lot of those people are “I thought I was voting for a different kind of Trump” people, which means they still don’t fully understand what they did.

I feel like Bill Maher saying "cancellation is when I don't win an Emmy" should just ... end that entire discourse.

An important update: Texas courts created such an unprecedented situation in an emergency filing last night, no one knows who is in charge of InfoWars, and therefore no one can pay rent. Since no one controls these assets right now, it does appear InfoWars will shut down tonight at midnight.

This is not justice. You never have to listen to an Ontario Progressive Conservative talk about law & order again. Put this back in their face. Every minister, every back bencher. They all voted for secret govt.

Something else very important to add on top of this is simply that the data centres themselves are being used to VERY significantly worsen the reach, efficacy and spread of the most deadly pseudosciences in existence (through social algos + AI disinfo), and the companies *actively love that*