I'm back in the pages of National Geographic with a piece about wolfdogs — why people can't stop loving them, despite their dangerous qualities, and why they trouble conservationists working to keep the wild wolf alive. www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Lots of nostalgia for the golden age of magazines/expense accounts/travel and decadence. But whenever I take a spin through the Atlantic's archives, I yearn for the days of magazine writing where people were literally like, here is simply a piece of food/geography that exists

Well it certainly seems like everyone's worst expectations of Carney's cabinet have been confirmed, looking forward to the liberal doom spiral of the next 2.5 yrs

The Catholic Church has been undergoing a long, slow shift, playing out on the timescale of centuries: a shift to distance itself from the popular enthusiasms of its most devout parishioners. Read @johnwlast.bsky.social on the tensions within sainthood: longnow.org/ideas/saints...

look, I made a podcast about cod codcast.transistor.fm/episodes

Pope Francis is probably going to be fast-tracked to sainthood, so this time I want GOOD miracles, people. No random healings — I want translocations, exorcised demoniacs, strange odors!

[letting a demon possess my body] sorry about the mess

Been a while since I've been in Canada but are people really living in terror??

Surprised to see this article fail to mention arbitrary search and detention as a reason for falling travel. Surely outside the minds of the California tourism board that's the biggest reason, no? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

I swear to God people are so fking stupid we're not making it out of this decade alive. "What are your sources" and he just asks a different habitually wrong AI (this one from Elon Musk ffs!). Meanwhile TWO WEEKS AGO there was a full factcheck from the public broadcaster: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I don't really have anything especially profound to say, but yeah man this is it. They won't obey even the most milquetoast SCOTUS orders and are talking about sending US citizens to foreign gulags. It's happened here.

White Lotus S3's ending is the most depressing and unedifying possible from all its many storylines and I'm not sure why I sat through a whole season for it.

Google maps needs a route option called "See the most cows"

This is a very satisfying read: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

[at the front of a bread line] uh yeah, uh. uh, i’ll have the uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. huh. i’ll uh, i’ll. oh you know what? here’s what i’ll do. i’ll get the uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Got a close friend's wedding coming up. Half of the party is Moroccan, and half the party is from the Midwest. I don't envy him in this moment.

You know, one of the main threads running between Trump, Musk, and El Salvador is cryptocurrency, and if I’m a country who’s concerned about preventing what’s going on in America from happening there, one of the steps I would take, and quickly, would be making cryptocurrency illegal.

Genuinely thought this was satire

This is from Goldman Sachs, predicting the next US recession. Let no one tell you boycotts are not effective!

It is 2008. I am starting my first career and watching the stock market tumble double digits in a single day. It is 2020. I am making a career change and watching the stock market tumble double digits in a single day. It is 2025. I am making another career change and watching the stock market tumb

Opportunistic price gouging in Canada?? Hard to believe.

Lol called it www.cbc.ca/news/politic... NDP I'm available for hire as a strategist just give me a call already.

You just know some overfed "strategist" has told them that people don't vote for parties they don't think can form government. They're wrong! For the love of God, get new staff!

I've never understood the NDP tactic of pretending, in the face of all evidence, that they are campaigning to run the country. Why not say explicitly you want to control the balance of power, offer policies that pull the liberals to the left, and focus on a few dozen winnable seats?

If I were rich enough to live anywhere on the planet, but didn't like Italy, Italian food or the Italians I would consider simply not moving to Italy. I wouldn't do lavish photoshoots disparaging Italy before moving there! (Times)

This is just how the economy’s gonna work from now on.

Four years ago I went looking for videos about remodeling a kitchen and found this PSA from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. youtu.be/2N9RCQjPqh4?... I was blown away that the U.S. government produced something like this. What the hell was the "Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics"?? /1

“For an administration that campaigned on making America ‘great again,’ there is remarkably little curiosity about what version of government, exactly, elicited such widespread acclaim.” — @johnwlast.bsky.social #government #consumers

Truly if my government banned every social media app there would be like a week where I was bored or frustrated and then everything about my life and society would be improved

Your tariff rate is your star sign divided by the number of boys you've kissed, multiplied by one

my new theory is that once you have a certain amount of money and wealth you start to go crazy and detach from reality. that number is different for everyone. for me it's $20

I confess only to God and the giant glowing skeleton bigthink.com/the-past/cri...

going to start calling myself a centrist and then listing all my leftist views as proof, just going to start moving the overton window by force

As Canada faces unprecedented territorial and economic threats from the United States, it might find support in its ties to the British monarchy, @johnwlast.bsky.social writes.

"When economic miracles don’t happen, the right resorts to culture war." How Italy became the blueprint for the new "center" right: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I genuinely believe many Americans do not understand this.

ELI5 but why is Bluesky so purist about alt text??

We're rapidly heading toward a complete social bifurcation between smart watch guys who can't spend 30 seconds without the dopamine hit of a notification, and analog watch guys who are being radicalized toward Butlerian Jihad.

Italy wants to treat user data as a taxable asset. Why haven't we been doing this all along? www.reuters.com/technology/i...

listen this is very interesting, but maybe we shouldn't draw attention to the one essential product that has not been growth hacked to death by VC vampires, my poop needs a home

#GoldenAgeOfAmerica 🥇

That AI art is the aesthetic of modern fascism is an undefeated argument.

This New Yorker piece about the Irish Famine has several paragraphs I found literally jaw-dropping (positive). This is a book review!! Good god!!!

Me to the good people of Catan:

I understand this is a wire story from an American service that CBC did not appear to add to at all, but this is as clear an example you'll find of Trump trying to manipulate Canada's election. To lend an uncritical megaphone to it in this climate is kind of irresponsible! www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

Light weekend reading

"If it could be proven that the church was built on the foundation of holy fungi, not only would figures like Allegro be vindicated — psychedelics, too, could no longer be considered so taboo." @johnwlast.bsky.social for @longnow.org:

Easy to lose this in the noise of the day, but the prime minister of Canada just said the US president, leader of the global hegemon, wants to soften us up economically so he can annex us. That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.

Was Jesus a magic mushroom? The answer is, perhaps surprisingly, a longer and more complex story than it may first appear. In Long Now Ideas, @johnwlast.bsky.social goes deep into the intertwined histories of psychedelics and spirituality. longnow.org/ideas/is-god...