the democratic rank and file is being arrested for posting newspaper articles and getting 50 year sentences for distributing zines and democratic leadership is more concerned with their friends getting primaried than any of it

Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your slack pings

It’s the 400th anniversary of a book being discovered in a Cambridge market, which would be unremarkable except it was found in the belly of a fish (which had been caught off King’s Lynn and gutted that morning), and consisted of three essays by a Protestant martyr (and was republished. Obviously) 🧵

What's funnier is that I'm not sure which province the poster means (New Brunswick, which is an Irving fiefdom, or Nova Scotia, which is almost literally owned by the Sobeys).

I’m reading Scalzi’s Interdependency books right now, and while the man makes Lee Child look subtle, I will say it is exactly the kind of reading I need this week.

🧵“What she did…was to make me think why capitalism is not only efficient and practical, but also moral” - Alan Greenspan, speaking about his guru Ayn Rand in 1974. It's worth understanding the role that this partnership played in unleashing the savageries of the modern market.

lmao got their asses

🙄 It’s 40 degrees in France right now. They would’ve had to stop play if it was being held there, too. Weather happens.

I was about to say these ads make me irrationally angry, but my anger is not irrational. It’s not irrational to be angry that our government dismisses, dehumanizes, and even actively harms our struggling neighbours.

“Friendship, however, has always depended on a certain irrational generosity. .…It resists the transactional logic modern life rewards everywhere else. Because a real friend offers something profoundly rare: unoptimised presence.” Bittersweet short essay. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/civil-...

Language is mutable blah blah blah listen idk how you can listen to people refer to every fictional couple as a “ship” or use the term “unalive” or “grape” in complete sincerity without wanting to peel your own skin off but I find that shit wack and always will

Agreed. Call me a curmudgeon but the lexicon of fandom (and social media shorthand/euphemism more generally) leaking out into wider online vocab is one of the most tedious things to contend with as a working artist today, and I think it genuinely detriments audiences’ mindsets when engaging with art

This poem from Robert Priest is good: newpoetry.ca/2026/06/08/i...

I love this project. The fish doorbell: a crowdsourced system for helping fish pass through a sluice gate in Utrecht. visdeurbel.nl/en/

I don't own a vehicle, but I rent one fairly frequently and had a work vehicle for several years, and the A-pillar blind spot problem is also present in modern sedans and smaller vehicles. It drives me crazy.

#TodaysPoem #Haiku by Luminita Suse from Ikebana Moments

every two words is an entire Dickens novel

He has not and will not be criticised by me. It’s just a game. Being a good partner and parent is an order of magnitude more important.

The coach for Ecuador looks like someone tried to draw Rick the Temp from memory.

This is important to say as a matter of both truth and political messaging: There is nothing less manly than being obsessed with other people's genitals and trying to police who's manly enough. The proper response is not "That's not appropriate." It's "Get lost, you loser, you creep, you pervert."

Research confirms that the more skilled professionals like doctors and software engineers rely on AI, the more their skills degrade. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

If a billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, a trillionaire is the equivalent of a rogue state, and other nations should work together to constrain it in the same way.

"why do the youth all boo us at commencement"

Cousins and Demoss - Poor Mourner [Primitive / Folk] (1897) One of the oldest black American recordings https://redd.it/86g2s0 https://youtu.be/IvyYx2LQU7Y

I could watch this fucker get punched for hours. It’s deeply satisfying.

McSweeney’s on the economics of the AI bubble. This description of AI driven layoffs is excellent satire.

Governments are chasing AI investment, even as their publics turn against the technology and the data centers that power it. Canada’s Mark Carney has chosen a shameless approach: to cast the opposition as a lack of “literacy” as he sets out to (re)educate Canadians about the benefits of AI.

@nataliezed.bsky.social Front and centre at the Eaton Centre’s flagship Indigo.

Dispatch #10797 from NROL-82 (EXPERIMENTAL) 1. Omniscient Fountain of Magick

This is the Ford ad that enrages me the most, why do we have encampments? Because he cut back social services and safe zones, and supportive housing. He made this bed.

Man oh man. Canada really is a couple telecom companies and a grocery chain in a trenchcoat. We've totally forfeited this country over to the capitalist overlords and it's such a shame.

I am currently reading The Cloud of Unknowing, an anonymous 14th century book on Christian mystical meditative practice, and an early apophatic text. First, I expected to be weirder. Second, I did not expect it to be so much like contemporary Buddhist and secular transcendental practice.

If Waffle House doesn’t make this their new slogan, then capitalism has failed

It's almost like there's a moral imperative against paying an actual person who knows what they're doing regardless of the effect on quality, efficiency, stakeholder satisfaction, etc.

Great first step! The next step is to convince them that Canadians actually know what they're talking about re: the cold, and that insulating their homes properly will help them in the summer, too.

computer enhance

i'm not sure any tech criticism i could put forward rn would be more effective than the totality of this screenshot

this is the best video i've seen today

I haven had a chance to listen to it yet, but somebody wrote a tribute album to Burning Chrome. music.apple.com/ca/album/bur...

Whenever people talk about not talking to cops (or feds), I think of this scene from "The Documentary" episode of Homicide: Life on the Street (directed by Barbara Kopple). In case you need to hear it from Andre Braugher, Kyle Secor, Clark Johnson, Richard Belzer, Reed Diamond, & Melissa Leo.

Cabo Verde just completely shutting down Spain's offence is wonderful to see. When I have no skin in the game I always root for the underdog, and it's especially good to see African teams have success on this stage.

consider, if you will, “the fish”

giant footprints on the beach, washed clean by the tide long before morning

The AMOC collapse has always been the one potential event that, for me, would signal not just the likely end of modernity, but perhaps even the end of our species.

Ian Fleming might have made the world’s first trillionaire this evil, but only Philip K. Dick could have made him such a pathetic drug-addled loser, desperate for attention and adulation but incapable of human relationships, and now terrified to go out in public.

We have no money. You know this. Why do you keep asking why we’re not doing things we used to do? It’s because we have no money. We. Have. No. Money. We have no money. There is no money left. It’s all gone. None of us have it. No money. Nope. Money gone. We don’t have it. No.