Cartoon: Let's do the Time Lord again! With thanks to my friend @wjrucklidge.bsky.social for the idea :) Enjoy!

I quite happily live in a neighborhood where most people do not share my religion, where multiple languages are represented, and where people have come from a lot of different countries. Bigoted assholes always assume everyone else actually shares their bigotries.

He is a deeply mentally ill person, with the intellectual capacity of a small child, whose only goal is self-glorification, in the most important seat in the world. He will continue to destroy everything and everyone around him UNTIL HE IS DRAGGED OUT OF HIS CHAIR

I feel like the condemned man in the old joke: he claims he can teach a horse to sing, so the king grants him a year's stay of execution. "But you'll never manage that!" "It's a year. Who knows? Maybe the king will die. Maybe I will die. Maybe the horse will learn to sing" /1

This year's hot cross buns. A little late but no less tasty for it

I had better see a record number of reposts on this.

If it happens tomorrow, everyone's first reaction will be "yeah, right, pull the other one". But there will be no fool.

I just finished @tkingfisher.com's "Wolf Worm" and I have to agree with the consensus of the reviews, namely "OH GOD URSULA WHY." Would recommend for those who are not squeamish. For those who are, I would recommend instead a nice lie-down in a cool dark room.

To all my friends on the US side of the border: I hope you are able to show your resistance tomorrow. Stay safe and remember there's no rule that says that protesting injustice and oppression can't be fun too. You're doing something good, you should feel good. #NoKings

I'm freshly staggered at how the administration is led by hyper-privileged brats who've always had other people sweep in to clean up their messes. On some deep unconscious level they must think if they break the whole damn world, someone else will fix it, especially if they yell loud enough.

Eleven years since you crossed the black sands. I wish I could say that the world is better than you left it (although it will always be better for having had you in it) but at least there is a new Young Sam to help carry on the Pratchett name and ethos. Love you always ❤️

Simmons: i can't believe we're talking about consent Simmons: i thought we were past caring about consent as a society Simmons: but instead it's woke 2.0 >:C Simmons: why are you all backing away Barker: no reason Shelley: [sharpening shiv] oh there's a reason

Canadians always wring our hands and debate what makes our country different from the US when it was always this: a profoundly different attitude toward other members of society. Somehow this has always been obvious to me which makes me frustrated when the topic comes up.

Hurray, I'M BUSY by @michaelianblack.bsky.social and me launches today from @simonkids.bsky.social! Educators: Help us celebrate & I'll record a special video msg just for your students. More: debbieohi.com/2026/02/imbu... #KidLit #BookBirthday #Edusky #LibrarySky

Roses are red Beaches are sand

It doesn't matter if you're working for yourself - you still need a union

The full title won't fit; see christinelavin.com/songs/308/ "Regretting what I said to you when you called me at 11:00 on Friday morning to tell me that 1:00 Friday afternoon you were gonna leave your office, go downstairs, hail a cab, to go out to the airport, to catch a plane, to go skiing..."

There's a lot of STOP CARRYING OUT YOUR INTENTIONS in my head these days

AWU STATEMENT ✍️ In response to the increase in ICE violence across the country and in Minnesota, the Executive Board of the Alphabet Workers Union released the following statement: www.alphabetworkersunion.org/press/alphab... "An attack on any immigrant worker is an attack on all of us."

All the anti-war and anti-occupation protestors were right. All the far leftists were right. All the “woke scolds” and your friend who’s “too woke” were right. They were somehow even more right than they may have realized at the time. But really, it was always obvious they were right.

Solidarity with the forces of resistance in Minneapolis as they stage a day of action in protest at the harrying of their city by Tяump's goon army www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I just backed Girl Genius: Escape from the Island of the Rat Queen! on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/gir...

Cho's, a hole in the wall place on California Avenue in Palo Alto, serving amazing dumplings and bao (and not much else), run by one grumpy Chinese guy. If he was out of something, he was out, and if you didn't like that, that was your problem

If you have “sincere concerns” about trans athletes in sports, all it means is that you have given yourself a rationale for your bigotry that you sincerely believe exonerates you for aligning to a far-right tactic for marginalization and exclusion.

The rage that has to exist in the average Minnesotan to watch someone stuck on an icy hill and STAND BY AND TAUNT THEM

IT BEGINS AGAIN!! Avatars for Charity! Jan 2026 theme for caricature avatars is JAY WARD! If you're young think 'Bullwinkle and Rocky'. For your tax deductible donation to our MS Society of Canada fundraiser I will draw you in this iconic cartoon style. Details in jpeg. Link: tinyurl.com/mscure2026

I feel like letting every president of my lifetime get away with Unlimited War Crimes was a serious mistake

Achievement unlocked: spent entire year (so far) in jammies

It's Russian for "retired at the request of the president."

Talking with people at a holiday gathering here in Toronto last night, and when it came up, most of us nodded that we likely won’t ever visit the United States again. It’s a weird feeling, and weird to acknowledge in a group.

Unbelievably, it's been 25 years since we lost Kirsty MacColl yet the beauty of her music and her memory still resonate. Here's a song I wrote for her to sing in the 1995 movie 'Mad Love'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWjl...

Very sad news - one of my favourite authors ever since I got my mind blown by Titan as a wee nipper

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

Brush your teeth after eating these or else you'll get calculus.

A friend of mine got interviewed about aphantasia, the condition some people have where they have no "mind's eye", no ability to visualise images www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

National borders should not be barriers. It should be as easy to move to another country (and work there) as it is to move to another city. If this sounds absurd, read Open Borders openborderscomic.com (illustrated by @zachweinersmith.bsky.social)

He’s on a mission from God.

Just want to urge anyone in the U.S. eligible to vote for anything at all this election cycle to please do so. Shock everyone with the turnout. Make jaded pundits cough coffee out their noses. Make poll volunteers smile. Make voter suppressors nervous again.

Gizmodo article on next Murderbot novel Platform Decay: gizmodo.com/murderbot-pl...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

I'd tell you my most GenX complaint but you're not listening anyway so why bother

It is time for Canada to grant refugee status to trans people from the US @mark-carney.bsky.social

“Civility” is how the modern Right — and increasingly the modern “middle” — describes the attitude “thank you Sir, may I have another”

Apropos of nothing, some words from Elvis Costello Because there's one thing I know I'd like to live long enough to savor That's when they finally put you in the ground I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down

Chris Kluwe on Gavin Newsom and his treatment of the trans community: www.thehandbasket.co/p/chris-kluw...

If you're one of the people who hasn't fallen in love with Murderbot yet (but don't tell it! You'll make it uncomfortable!), what are you waiting for? Get all the books and more! www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

Health Canada has authorized the LP.8.1 variant adapted Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for individuals aged 6 months and older. The updated COMIRNATY® vaccine targets the Omicron LP.8.1 variant, one of the most recently circulating SARS-CoV-2 lineages. It will be made available this Fall across Canada.

Keep the two distinct in your head.

We won 🚲 www.cycleto.ca/cycle_toront...

The ML model and dataset that I've been working on for a couple of years (as part of a collaboration between Google Geo Sustainability and Google DeepMind) just launched to the public: meet AlphaEarth Foundations deepmind.google/discover/blo...