Really wishing Bluesky wouldn't refresh the second I pause writing a post to grab a link or image. The minds behind this site have all the time to get into pissy little squabbles with users for legitimate complaints about heavy-handed moderation for some accounts, but they don't have drafts yet.

Archivists/librarians please share the coolest thing in your collections that will never be digitized.

It's so sad to know how many mid-career+ journalists who have been laid off and/or burned out are going to leave the industry because of how bad everything has become, not return, and journalism will suffer from that level of experience, skills and perspective walking out the door forever.

For my last Buying Power of the year, I wrote about one way to think about the divergence in consumer sentiment (bad) and behavior (free-spending) this year: It’s the YOLO economy, typified by the expanding popularity of services like Klarna and Affirm. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

On god I am going to keep posting this quote everywhere until it gets some traction. These movies are horrifically racist TO THEIR BONES and the general inability to recognize that is proof to me that non-natives still dont take us seriously

Kevin with a nice thread about going where the archives lead you

People in the northwest with rat terriers and other high prey drive dogs are about to get very popular with friends and neighbours

I can't wait until it crashes and the skills I've hung onto because I haven't atrophied my brain with AI will be in demand.

Being even baseline literate in the 2020s is like never working out but slowly becoming the strongest person on earth as everyone around you eats shredded newspaper and chugs poison

Canadians, please sign! #TransRightsAreHumanRights We need compassion and community, not ideological cheats. Link to sign: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... More details from the petition in image, if you need it. Please sign! 🇨🇦

I'm in marketing. It's definitely not the strongest pitch.

Heated Rivalry is a Crave production, from Canada. HBO is just a distributor. I really wish people would stop attributing anything in the production of this show to HBO.

The thing is, nobody with good politics is interested in defending Bill Clinton or his FBI www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

If I won the big Lotto Max jackpot, I'd figure out how to get my winnings to make more money soI could spend the rest of my life and beyond doing stuff like this.

Happy #DecemberSolstice! 🌞 Understanding seasons - a look at the hourly incoming solar radiation during the two solstices (23.5°N/S). I've added a red marker for ease of viewing. Dashed line shows the equator This graphic can be found at zacklabe.com/arctic-clima...

See what happens when you don’t listen? You lost your woman to a karate man www.tmz.com/2025/12/20/t...

Keeping a family Christmas tradition alive by madly working to finish the gift I'm making for someone. A gift I started a week before Christmas despite it requiring I learn a new skill.

I find research just as gratifying as the writing itself - whether it's for fiction or essays. I like seeking & learning, I like it when one piece of art illuminates another. I love when the process makes me feel like a detective cracking the case. denying yourself this pleasure makes no sense to me

Last commission I did, my friend send me stick figure drawings on lined paper to express what they wanted and it's still in the final PSD because it was helpful and I used it to do my own sketch. I'll take a stick figure and conversation any day over a piece of generated AI art.

Re-reading @daviddemchuk.com's RED X for a fun reason I can tell you about soon, and man this thing is a heater. A mosaic of pain and anxiety and loss, sprawling but tight, mysterious but immediate and frightening. Banger.

How come when the children put a hat on Frosty and he comes to life it’s cute and kitschy, but when I write “emet” on this lump of clay and it comes to life suddenly I’m “bringing destruction on the whole village” and I have to “make it stop??”

I will never use LLM for anything to do with my writing. Even my research is driven by good research practice, not AI. Why would I? I like the work. If you don't like doing the work, ask yourself why you're not actually doing something you do like to do, instead.

sorry i'm obsessed with other people's delusions about this issue. see: 2023 nhl pride tape ban AND the ban on all themed jerseys (such as pride-themed jerseys) on the ice, even during warm-ups. still in effect! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_N... www.cnn.com/2023/10/25/s...

this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Does anyone wanna see a really good Getty image of Rita Moreno and Sam The Eagle having dinner in 1979?

I’ve spent the past two days as pediatric ward attending and frankly we need both more and even better vaccines not fewer

my 12yo had to do her first “research paper” this year so i was explaining how if the article/book you have isn’t quite what you need, you can often find what you do in the citations, and that’s, like, the foundation of knowledge. this sucks

This is how I survive. This is how I write. And it is something I consciously practice. If you are at the point you’re like “hey busted-ass magic 8 ball that kills people, give me an idea”, you need a year in the woods or up a mountain reconnecting with your own goddamn brain.

I just saw someone yell “they’re just using it to generate ideas!” And I hate to say it But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas Quit.

"I was trying to capture the spirit of the thing."

"To be alive is to sort of discover. So hang in there. You never know what the next discovery might be."

Every now & then something reminds me of the differences between Americans & Canadians. We ended pennies in 2012 to a resounding "ok." Maybe because we'd already gone through the switch to $1 (1987) & $2 (1996) coins & polymer bills started in 2011. I recall ending $1 bills was a big deal.

Does this mean I get to be a "heritage American"? Because a few branches of my family came from England and Germany to what is now Massachusetts and New York in the 1600s before making their way to Canada.

“Every billionaire is a policy failure” means we should tax the rich enough so that they are not billionaires and use that money to help us all, it does not mean “anyone who made money for any reason is inherently evil because they made money” You fucking dumbass

In Romanian we have a rather crude but very eloquent expression, which translates roughly as: "Why does the concern fu¢k you?".

There's an old boardroom at my work that hasn't been redecorated since the 1990s. It smells like an ashtray. My younger coworkers didn't recognize the stink of years' worth of smoking residue. If you're Canadian, you know what I mean when I say it smells like a Legion.

I do love that a year that began with Trump asking Canada if they wanted to be the fifty-first state ends with their Canadian cable gay hockey romance show pulling us along the floor like Ilya’s chair and we don’t want it to end—and it got tax-payer arts funding to boot.

My students' versions based on Wally Wood's classic 22 Panels that Always Work. It's always fun - and this term, a lot of students clearly made use of it in their final projects - with silhouette scenes, closeups, lots of things they'd learned doing this. Fun & valuable to them - a win all around!

Buddy in the black jacket can't even focus his eyes, but he can really deliver his message.

I'm so disappointed in @sfwa.org for this. I understand that by requiring disclosure of partial LLM-created works, as their announcement states, means SFWA's letting "nominators and the voters" make the final decision. BUT YOU'RE STILL ALLOWING SUCH WORKS ON THE NEBULA AWARDS FINAL BALLOT! 1/

There's a bit more than 12 days left for that one thing that'd turn this terrible year around to happen.

“Love it or hate it it’s here to stay” is a crazy thing to keep saying about a technology. If people don’t like using something it doesn’t have to stay we’re not talking about bad weather here

Finally finished this guy! I had a lot of fun integrating (and then oxidizing) so much copper into this bird, and I think I really got a good silhouette going on with this one 💝

Canadian economy rallies as #1 export now Heated Rivalry

the real difference is that *we were told self-driving cars would be safer* not just for the driver but for everyone around them. if all they are doing is automating the current level of danger then they are just a convenience, not the major social good they were pitched as

I take it all back we should absolutely let AI run the vending machines

We need all levels of government to commit to sustainable & equitable levels of healthcare funding. One reason women can't get care? It's literally not worth it. "[procedures] involving men are often reimbursed at higher rates than comparable — or even more complex — procedures for women..."

My Bluesky Wrapped results made it clear I need to be offline more. I'll take the hint and head out for a holiday season break now.

Our national forests are such a treasure and it breaks my heart to see them sold off for parts.