Good analysis www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The last line is awesome. Mark worked on this so we’re going to a local cast & crew preview showing next week. Expectations are low after the last movie (which Mark also worked on), but as I said last night, “hey, at least Gillian Anderson’s in it”

A true icon - we shall not see her like again. I went through a phase in my early teens of wanting to be a field zoologist, and therefore read many of her books at a very impressionable age. One of my all-time heroes www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Ah yes, remember those classic "we accept the Canucks not winning" riots? “people [are saying] ‘we are never winning something.’ The Whitecaps are not winning, the Canucks are not winning. I have the feeling that Vancouver people, they accept not winning” said Müller dailyhive.com/vancouver/wh...

AI can take my em-dashes from my cold dead hands www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I finally got around to reading "The Trial" recently and did not enjoy it at all. Really, the only thing I got out of it is that I can now use the word Kafkaesque safe in the knowledge that I can reply "tch, of *course* I've actually read Kafka" if anyone challenges me

How is You Know Who still getting even worse? www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

US Ambassador threatens to tariff, annex, and bomb Canada if anti-American sentiment doesn't improve

Netanyahu calls Canadian recognition of Palestine the worst thing anyone has ever done to Palestine

Robocat User's Guide. www.patreon.com/posts/roboca...

Amazing! www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio... yesssss it’s so good! Really charismatic and creepy. Plus the best ovine acting performance since that weird Icelandic movie Lamb

WHAT A GAME!!! Incredible performance against a great Black Ferns side www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2...

"I'm disappointed that I came to Canada — a Canada that it is very, very difficult to find Canadians who are passionate about the American-Canadian relationship," Hoekstra said" OH I WONDER WHY, EH? Maybe tell your fascist boss to stop threatening to annex us www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Thanks, LinkedIn 🙄

I'll believe that Apple's new AirPods can translate from other languages in real time once my iPhone can at least detect that the language being spoken is not English and should not be transcribed as such

Huge thanks to the kind stranger who rushed over to tell me she’d seen a dog drink from my mug of tea while I was in the queue for food at my co-working office’s BBQ yesterday. I was about to take a big gulp

“I regret not knowing more," said commissioner Scott Jensen, who said the vote predated his knowledge that Rowling had funded legal cases challenging the definition of gender in Scotland. How on earth could any politician anywhere not know about this ?!?

I’ve covered events in this city for 20 years. They have ruined one of the best parts of the holiday season in Vancouver. - Removed an accessible, affordable holiday attraction (site entry always by donation) - Removed funds from 2 local charities that relied on this year-end boost - Funding JK

this is a perfect post. the sentiment, the tone, the structure. I can't stop laughing at it. I do not have anything to add I am simply quoting it so I can easily find it later to enjoy it again

This would have been an attractive offer in 2003

SEPTEMBER CARTOON: ivacheung.com/2025/09/witc...

Not fully caught up on Alien: Earth yet, but if that eyeball octopus monster doesn’t get its own franchise I will be very disappointed

Turned on my air purifier yesterday for the first time in ages to try and cope with this awful wildfire smoke. It immediately blew a year's worth of dust right into my face. That's the opposite of what I wanted.

Bluesky is for science! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Wavefunction Collapse xkcd.com/3134/

The alt-text is funnier than the actual comic on this one! xkcd.com/3133/

Typo of the day (not by my client: it was in the background materials provided): "infesting" instead of "interesting", in a document about a bacterial pathogen

Oh noes! However will us dumb hosers ever be able to understand what’s going on?! www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Super interesting article advocating for a Finnish-style “whole society defence” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So excited about this tourney! England and Canada are ranked #1 and #2, respectively; all the games are on a TV network I already have access to; some of the games are in my hometown; and when it's all over, it'll be time for NHL pre-season! www.rugbyworldcup.com/2025/en/matc...

Wta? Mind you I got an AI summary that insisted people who had been awarded PhDs were more likely to get Alzheimer’s. Perplexed, I looked up the original. It defined PHD as primary headache disorder. The AI took the statistically more likely abbreviation and came up with its idiotic response. Sigh!

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

"Employers should not ever think that government can bail them out" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Billionaire with doomsday bunker wants you to know AI great

Poilievre promises Battle River-Crowfoot if elected they will never see him again

I kinda wish the honeymoon fund contribution we gave our nephew and his fiancée as a wedding gift wasn't showing up on my credit card statement as "HONEYFUND.*[BRIDE'S FIRST NAME]". No wonder my bank asked me to verify the charge before processing it...

When the weather’s giving “hockey season!!!” but the NHL schedule says “lol no you must wait” and the PWHL schedule isn’t even available yet

Switched from Starbucks to Blenz because 🇨🇦 #ElbowsUp 🇨🇦 Good thing elbows are also an effective defense against creeps

It’s National Book Lovers Day! To celebrate, BC authors are sharing their must-reads.  First up, Eddy Boudel Tan, author of three novels, including The Tiger and the Cosmonaut and After Elias. He recommends Danny Ramadan's memoir Crooked Teeth. More below 👇

I think one of the things that pisses them off (read "them" however you want) is that trans women actually take joy in being women a lot of the time, and the one thing you're *never* supposed to do as a woman in western culture is actually enjoy being a woman.

I hate it when I agree with Harper www.cbc.ca/news/politic... (seriously, though, good for him)

Come on England! 🦁⚽️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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The new Jurassic World movie is *spectacularly* stupid. Highly entertaining, don’t get me wrong, but as my friend said, “I don’t think I’ve ever left a movie feeling that much dumber than when I went in, and I see a lot of bad movies”

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I *love* Skipper Otto! Not the cheapest way to buy seafood, but the quality is amazing and there's a lot less guilt involved thetyee.ca/WhatWorks/20...