Still listening to this wonderful piece from a 94-year-old John Williams.

I love how the boosters of AI are now saying “critical thinking” courses are the solution while they’ve been defunding the schools and academics working for exactly that. Scams upon scams from our “leaders.”

I've been thinking a lot about what I like most about I Love Boosters, which is that it's far less a movie in which Boots Riley turns to the camera and says "Do communism like this!" than a movie urging us all to pick up "cameras" and redefine the world through art

The maple leaf and all flag-based Canadiana is Hamas now. We are a serious country and our media prints responsible stories about antisemitism and not inflammatory garbage.

The really unhinged thing about all this is that the one could reasonably argue the Israeli flag is actually a direct signifier of genocidal horror and the Canadian PM does photo ops in front of it and it is going to be marched all over Toronto tomorrow with police protection.

ON D-DAY 😡 Fuck this fucking fuck. Hegseth is the guy we were fighting.

Darcy bought Taylor Swift’s “Elizabeth Taylor” single but played it on the wrong speed and we’ve discovered that she is actually Dan Smith from Bastille 😮

People want stuff that just works. My boat's engine is actually older than the boat. It's an old single piston diesel engine, it has like 6 moving parts total, and it's going to outlive us all. I hope the move for more permanence and actually owning stuff continues and we see more stuff like this.

It's actually a very good moment in history to work on divesting yourselves of the emotional investment you've made in various politicians. They're not your friends and they're not here to save us, they're here to do their job of upholding the system.

This is the first thing I’ve seen that makes me want a cat 😍

I haven’t seen OBSESSION yet but it just seems to me that its massive success is due to a public *absolutely starved* to see a dreadful man suffer terrible consequences. True escapist entertainment right now 😬

We Will We Will Rock You... 🌈

The Americans are getting Wiser 👍🏼

This story has been consistently reported, but seems not to have really broken though - it’s ASTONISHING. An asylum policy that caters specifically and essentially exclusively to white people from a country in which they’re safe.

Israel is attacking Lebanon with banned chemical weapons. Horrific on its own, extra so when Toronto is hosting a parade for them tomorrow 😡

It’s obviously a smear campaign but one *he has handed all the ammunition* to. I know it’s a thrill whenever a straight white guy recognizes what we’re all up against (I was excited by him too) but Platner is a toxic fake and there are other Democrats to support. You all should’ve pivoted a year ago

Susie Wiles seems like the only member of Trump’s admin with half a brain but now she’s quitting. Was it the corruption? The murder of American citizens by ICE? No, Trump was rude to her. Real “Profiles in Courage” stuff 😐

The answer is no, but the CBC is already doing its best to force a yes.

Hero of the Day 👑

“Americans must connect the dots between the earth’s climate crisis and the resurgence of Christian nationalism and white supremacy, according to activist and theologian Brian McLaren.” United Methodist Insight: um-insight.net/in-the-world...

Among the more useless opinions are those of soft millionaire's sons/Harvard grads telling us what "real men" are. If he's so insecure, Matt should quit his think tank job give away his assets and go live his truth as a roofer or a delivery driver. Then maybe he will realize Platner is also a fake.

oh the thing we've been called crazy and alarmist for saying is coming

Today @ilanaslightly.bsky.social and I were agreeing that this is the maybe the best thing about Deep Space Nine: Benjamin Sisko just being a good dad.

Privatization and a failure to invest in grid upgrades/expansion is what has led to this. Just in case anyone is of the mind that privatized service delivery leads to superior outcomes vs public.

“We’re not Nazis, we’re just really ignorant!!” is *a* defense, I guess, but still not one requiring that Maine elect this jerk, come on now 🤷‍♂️

Perhaps accelerated by their affinity for AI women, the right has lost all sense of genuine desire for real people, they can only express disgust & repugnance. They have inhabited a sexuality of revulsion: their rejection of the humanity in others reciprocates the loss of their own humanity.

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The people who did this to him will never love this country one millionth as much as him

Scott MacFarlane at the Kennedy Center: There are cameras nearby, ready for the moment they literally chisel Trump’s name off.

No Star Wars. No Star Trek. Name a favorite sci-fi franchise. Killjoys was the wild west in space show that Firefly wished it could be. I said what I said.

Amazing how THE MAN SHOW diverged: Jimmy Kimmel grew up and became a well-liked voice for good while Adam Carolla became…this 🫤

happy pride

I feel like I've never heard a single story about him either from other actors or from fan encounters that wasn't basically "he's the loveliest human being you have ever met in your life" the Ted Lasso cast joked about it because his character is SUCH A DICK and the contrast was very funny to them

sending love to all the other lesbians who thought Giles was the hottest man on this show does everyone know the story about how the musical episode came about because he randomly just did "Rocket Man" at Joss Whedon's living room piano one night at a party and the entire cast lost their minds

Another crucial scoop from @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social. His reporting should be getting a LOT more attention.

On the thankfully rare occasions I get fooled by “news” online, I delete the post. But so many don’t! It’s bad and getting worse, as Daniel describes in this thread 👇🏼

ANTHONY STEWART-HEAD HAS DIED AND THIS WILL NOT DO *AT ALL* 💔

one thing we've learned throughout history is that capitalists are willing to accept short term financial losses if it means that their exploitable labor market is weakened over the long term

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Recency bias: Every single story on the post office’s woes should include a paragraph explaining that no one thought it needed to break even until Reagan came along. It’s a public service. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...

Want a terrifying gay horror story? Of course you do, and Canadian novelist Michael Rowe’s OCTOBER is only $1.99 on the ebook platforms today 💥

For all their talk of fiscal responsibility, conservatives see taxes as a bottomless slush fund they can dip into for their goofy vanity projects like a separated Alberta or White House ballroom. You want tax money spent wisely? Elect leftists who understand the finances of ordinary people.

My buddy's entire team at the airport was axed for AI. When you are not an Amex traveler with NEXUS and can't find your missing low budget flight... complaints will involve a soothing do-nothing AI app 🤣

Also, one of the best moments in a person's life is when they realize the stock market is just a giant ponzi scheme constantly getting pumped and dumped and you don't have to see the world through a perspective that can only be achieved by bashing your head with a very large hammer over and over.

"I would encourage Liberals to stop the divisive rhetoric and work on uniting Canadians." Pierre Poilievre

When protests are held against the Walk for Israel this weekend in Toronto, they will be called 'antisemitic' and confronted with police violence, but they will be absolutely right. It is depraved for Canadians to parade in solidarity with a genocidal state and it is always righteous to say so.

Is it a sign of a functioning country that every time we hear that the SCOTUS is going to issue an opinion, we know our lives are about to get worse?

When real estate agents think it’s too dangerous to take the TTC but hundreds of school children take it everyday with no issue

Rupert Murdoch is evil but was always smart enough to keep his FOX News weapon very separate from his FOX film and TV divisions that made money with liberal shows. David Ellison is not that smart, letting CBS and Paramount collapse as he curries favour with Trump.