The Lion in Winter. Come for Katherine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole acting the hell out of one of history's great failed marriages. Stay for the unbelievably young and beautiful Timothy Dalton and Anthony Hopkins as wistful exes.

Monthly Halloween 29 December 1987

thomas chatterton williams is like those troops who have to be found after the war is long over except instead of trying to win a war he is trying to get on the epstein plane

Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.

i've been weirdly invested in this dog's sweater alteration IG roodabeguh

(Energy transitions can happen faster than we think): In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark’s electricity was from fossil fuels, but in 2024, that number was a mere 10%. No addition, just transition. Jan Rosenow buff.ly/TERHqrF #ShareGoodNewsToo

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'The Angels' Kitchen' 1893 Eugene Grasset

just thinking of white liberals who insist everyone left-of-center has to be accommodating/accepting of everyone to "win" it's clearly bullshit when the people the Right hates most still go crawling to them

Diego Reading Jack Chambers 1971

Christmas Tree Paraskeva Clark 1941

This was written by someone who either who really loves RPF and can't see why some people have concerns about it or they really hate RPF and decided to lob a chaos grenade. Either way 😬

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

great follow up in the comments too

BlueBooks, physical copies, and notebook assignments this semester not only stopped AI use but also increased class participation and discussion tenfold.

A Canada Post appreciation post (lol): please take a look at these stamps honouring Canadian Graphic Novelists, or, as we also say, artistes de romans graphiques. (Yes, I am posting my Christmas cards on Christmas Eve. What's your point?)

Today is the first day of Quviasukvik (ᖁᕕᐊᓲᑎᖃᕐᕕᒃ), the first day of the year for the Inuit. Quviasukvik runs until Jan. 7 and the festival celebrates many things within Inuit culture. This is the history! 🧵1/7

google's been deploying a "feature" where it rewrites headlines in search results (presumably using AI?) instead of showing the actual ones, and in this case i must admit, let the AI cook

There's just so much fucking money on the anti trans side. They stuff the pockets of anyone willing to be their stooge. It's hate for pay. www.erininthemorning.com/p/chloe-cole...

I'm going to do a deep dive into the last 15 years of traffic data and publish a full analysis, because it reveals some very interesting trends, but here is my initial takeaway: Bluesky in 2025 was more effective at driving traffic to our marine science website than Twitter. Ever. Was

Canadian treachery is campaigning from the left and governing on the right

The point of writing crap is not that you should barf out anything. It's that you should be aware as you are writing it what the flaws are, and you need to get through it the first time, because the act of doing so informs you what is wrong.

Just a thing about this: a common statement in writing is that you can fix crap, but you can't fix a blank page. I have heard AI apologists claim that this is why it's fine to generate a first draft. Now, to be clear, fuck this. But also: an AI draft is a fucking blank page.

Someone You Can Build A Nest In popped off in large part because it dropped right when Romantasy became a thing. But I wrote it before that moment! And my intentions were to explore feelings of asexuality, disability, and monstrosity in Fantasy. I didn't write to the market. I lucked out.

Hoverboards are the future, segways are the future, betamax, laser disc, Google glass is the future, 3d tvs are the future, curved screens are the future. Like do we have to traipse through the whole graveyard of tech to get these people to understand just becauae you say it doesn't make it true.

Just saw a poster for these losers on the community event board at my local grocery store. Talking to mgmt tomorrow. Keep your eyes peeled in the #londonont area for these posters. They look innocuous so management of the businesses where they're posted may not know it's white supremacists.

Right? Speaking as a CUPW union steward, Canada Post's "woes" are actually just investments in vehicle fleets and a new parcel facility. The rest is lost pay equity lawsuits and funnelling parcels to Purolator. Also... policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

I will donate a shitload of money (within reason) to whatever conservancy organization sues the fuck out of this corrupt decision to keep the exploding rocket trade going. Laguna Atascosa is not only a crucial butterfly/bird migration crossroads but the home of OCELOTS.

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

Who is writing the story about the haunted Victorian underwater shoe factory?

like, "trump bought a teen pageant so he could creep on girls in the dressing room" is an established thing he just said on the radio but all the fancy people are like, "i'll pretend i don't know that," because they live in an epistemic bubble where no one's *really* a rapist til they're cast out

In the past week, I've seen stories of AI: - being used by middle schoolers to make porn of other students - calling innocent people sex offenders - shutting down highways with busted-ass self-driving cars - emitting more CO2 than New York City What the fuck are we even doing?

Me five years ago: I wonder if I'm going to be a luddite about any new technology someday. Me now: SMASH THE DATACENTERS.

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

Every tech bro in unison seconds before turning into gollum

The way I screamed! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Mitt Romney, Nazi tattoo guy, Gavin Newsom, and the Cheneys walk into a bar… …and the bar is apparently the new Democratic Party and you’re all high fiving and giving a standing ovation while chanting “perfect is the enemy of good!”

“Just about wherever you go in this country — if you pay attention to history — you can find a spot where the U.S. government decided to incarcerate a group of people without any kind of trial or judicial process based on that group’s identity.”

Superb piece on why “AI” is bad user design from @sifu.tweety.fish - and why AI proponents and skeptics so frequently seem to be talking completely past each other. buttondown.com/apperceptive...

"I had planned to send [the children] to boarding school, since their education at the moment seems to consist mostly of marching around Salzburg singing scales. I think it would have been particularly helpful for the eldest daughter, who seems intent on losing her virginity to the mailman."

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.

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! 🇨🇦