On this day in 2019, Jackie Shane died. Born in 1940, she was a pioneering transgender performer who helped develop R&B in Toronto in the 1960s. Her 1967 live album Jackie Shane Live was reissued in 2015 and was shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize.

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

To help unpack the linguistics behind Heated Rivalry, we talked to the hit TV show’s Russian dialect coach, Kate Yablunovsky, on Science Quickly. spklr.io/6046DZbdq 🎤: Kate Yablunovsky ✏️: Allison Parshall, Kendra Pierre-Louis 🎞️: Kylie Murphy 🎵: TripleScoop Footage from Heated Rivalry (HBO/Crave)

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

Go to, sir, you were beaten in Italy

Joe Fortes saved over 100 people from drowning along the coastal waters of Vancouver. He taught hundreds more how to swim, on his way to being declared Vancouver's Citizen of the Century. This is the story of a man who loved to swim. 🧵 1/8

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🎶If you want to mark a snowman 🎶

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Based on nothing but hope, I believe that as you slip from this world into the next, you get to see yourself as those who love you see you

Dr Glaucomflecken, an actual ophthalmologist, with helpful instructions for dealing with pepper spray to the face. youtube.com/shorts/z4dy0...

By artist Carlie Pearce. linktr.ee/carlieartist...

6 years ago today, Dolly Parton created a viral meme that shows off four sides of her personality, as represented by LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and Tinder.

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On this day in 2007, Denny Doherty died. Born in Halifax, he was a founding member of the Mamas & the Papas. He later released two solo albums. From 1993 to 2001, he was the Harbourmaster and narrator on Theodore Tugboat. He also played Charley in Pit Pony.

Starting to think it might be a mistake to have both Shoresy and Heated Rivalry in my "Coninue Watching" playlist.

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. The word for "ice" in this context translates the same as "kidnappers" or "body snatchers"

Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star

King Charles Seeks to Restore British Rule Over U.S.

Please enjoy my cartoon for Tuesday's Toronto Star

I'm here to banish the darkness, if only for a moment. A vaccine for chlamydia in koalas. Developed in Canada by a global team, with help from the family of Steve Irwin. It reduces mortality, reduces disease severity, provides protection for baby koalas. Turning the tide on a deadly disease.

I’m writing this as a mother with a sixteen year old son, standing right at that age where freedom starts to stretch past your reach and trust becomes the thing you hold onto instead. 💔 open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

orcas have the chance to do the funniest thing

Buffalo Drive, by William R. Leigh, 1947, 📸 by @sickoscommittee.org

I kind of like this whole “We won’t buy your liquor but we will air your state-suppressed news stories” niche that Canada’s apparently carved out.

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

2025 has been so shitty but at least it gave us two iconic images of unmitigated joy. Taking down pedophiles. Taking down Nazis. *chef’s kiss*

for every one hundred likes [within reason] i’ll put pam bondi in some form of trash receptacle.

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

A story I found about Haiti: In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."

Fun way to rack up hours of flight time: www.youtube.com/shorts/IHCAT...

When a few Canada Post employees in Vancouver started answering letters to Santa in the early-1970s, it eventually led to the most famous postal code in Canada. H0H 0H0. Each year, thousands of letters to Santa from around the world are answered. This is the story. 🧵1/8

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Bringing an actual pull-up bar to the airport press conference to demonstrate your pull-up form on TV without being 1000% sure you can do a bunch of really cool pull-ups first is the perfect demonstration of the Trump administration's approach to literally everything

32 years ago today, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, and Ryan Gosling join J.C. Chasez and Keri Russell in the cast of The All-New Mickey Mouse Club.

50 years ago today, Nov. 10, 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank beneath the waves of Lake Superior during a massive storm. The sinking took the lives of all 29 men on the ship, and became immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot's song. This is the story of this terrible tragedy. 🧵1/20

Did you know that in Canada, if a budget doesn’t pass the government doesn’t shut down? Federal workers aren’t furloughed. Funding for social services doesn’t dry up. Failure to pass a budget triggers an election. It puts the politicians jobs on the line. They get the budget passed.

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

A look back at the CDC's 2011 graphic novel on a "zombie pandemic." As the agency's systems are dismantled, the idea of a coordinated national response to a health emergency seems as fictional as zombies themselves.

Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario who ran the ad, is a member of the Conservative Party (as was his brother, the late Rob Ford who was mayor of Toronto).

N.I.C.E. Agents on the #Halifax waterfront #NovaScotia #Canada 🤣🍁 youtu.be/S1yYGb1U31o?...

Things that are awesome in real life but never good in scary movies/tv shows: white sheets on clotheslines…. children and anything to do with children (especially tricycles, rolling or bouncing balls and nurseries)…. claw foot tubs and shower curtains….. decorative wooden boxes…. small towns...

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.