Dangerous animal keeps sliding out between the bars of its enclosure: problematic cage gap

If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”

Just an absolute banger of an animal family

“When you live in a forest, you have to be prepared.” What it took to face down a wildfire in a coastal mountain town. Lauren Watson reports. 🌳

I just pulled the data for Canadian provinces of the most common injuries by province, here they are:

Broken Record: You *cannot sustain* a functioning constitutional order if the general population is blasé about open violation of the Constitution. If voters don't care, your job is to make them care. This is not optional. If you don't, you lose even if you pick up seats in the next election.

With all sincerity, Elections Canada is a national treasure. - Voting typically takes less than 15 minutes - We make it easy for citizens to vote, without cumbersome registration hurdles - We have every reason to trust that ballots will be counted fairly, and results reported swiftly

yep. transphobia is the camel’s nose under the tent for the full panoply of right wing gender policing, for men and women alike

They really are the best.

This is a now or never moment. The way we respond over the next few days, as individuals and institutions, is crucial. And currently we're missing the mark. If we don't act now we will lose everything.

I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe." But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment. 1/

Colossal didn't make a dire wolf. This is not a dire wolf! Stop saying it is!! I feel like I'm going mad!!!

This is the best analysis of what makes these goblins tick I’ve seen yet.

Last week, I wrote about how explicitly and vigorously sociopathic this version of The Trump Experience is, and the urge to defeat or devour every other person and thing on earth. The tariffs literalize that in a way that's easy to see, but also it's everywhere you look. defector.com/kingdom-of-t...

Do yourself a favour and read this entire thread.

I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane. Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.

snacks for the frykorps

Striking how easily you can get millions of people to vote for a boot on their own face just by lying to them about the boot going on someone else's face.

IMTs are quietly talking about what the current political environment means for this year's wildland fire suppression efforts, but it deserves a larger and more public consideration. 1/

Art of War was a manual for 5th century BC noble failsons to prevent them from losing the entire army to diarrhea. This is why it appeals so much to oligarch failsons of the 21st century AD.

🇨🇦 mood

Saying that the political use of transphobia is bad while still arguing that gender-affirming care for minors should be subject to public debate is called "virtue Singaling" and if you do it you should be shoved into a dumpster.

wonder how much of it is the tariffs and how much of it is the “I think your country should be eliminated, I’m going to say that multiple times and emphasize that I’m not joking, Canadians shouldn’t exist as a nation” thing seems like one would provoke more emotion

i think the democratic party's paralysis at this moment is at least partially attributable to so many fucking lawyers thinking the rules are self-enforcing

A young girl copes with her anxieties about change and displacement by confiding in a possibly imaginary crustacean. ISOPOD, IT’S ME MARGARET.

“Who goes Nazi” from 1941 harpers.org/archive/1941...

Today in Milan, a student activist group hung a trash-filled effigy of Musk upside down on a gate outside of piazzale Loreto, where Mussolini's body was displayed in 1945. They left the message: "C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon" (There's always room in piazzale Loreto, Elon)

Funny what going all-in on justifying one measly little atrocity does to your soul, huh

grateful to Danielle Touma, a climate scientist at UT Austin, for contextualizing the dangerous cycle helped stoke the LA wildfires and will stoke the fires of the future defector.com/the-future-o...

well I sure hope so, or I made this for nothing

I will die on the hill that Tombs of Atuan is one of the 3 greatest fantasy stories ever to appear in print

A plague? Social and political upheaval? Resurgence of hatred over a small, vulnerable population? Panic over Venus in the sky? Baby, the mid-14th century is so back

Retro is in, even in the ocean. The orcas are once again wearing salmon hats www.newscientist.com/article/2457...

In case you are interested in seeing where US food imports come from, here's a helpful visual: www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/us-food-i...

This is one of my favourite popular history books of the last few years. Fascinating topic, very engaging and accessible writing without sacrificing substance.

Have we ruled out that the rise of Bluesky might be part of a viral marketing campaign for Tengrism?

I refuse to join Bluesky- I don’t want to become part of and Eco chamber

blogged it defector.com/what-the-fuc...