You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

Lucille Teasdale-Corti was a gifted surgeon from Montreal who devoted her life to helping the people of Uganda. Through revolution, civil war and more, she aided anyone who needed help. Even as she was dying of AIDS, she helped. This is her story. 🧵 1/12

LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT: Kevin Warsh—expected to be Trump's Fed chair pick—is the son-in-law of Trump donor Ronald Lauder (billionaire Estée Lauder heir), who convinced Trump in 2018 of the need to annex Greenland (and then invested heavily there), and who benefits from the Ukraine rare-earth deal?

First Nations Chiefs are calling on Alberta’s premier to resign, accusing Danielle Smith of conspiring with separatists and violating Treaty rights “I hope you have your bags packed. When this referendum is defeated, I will gladly walk you to the border.” #fyp

“There’s no topping Premier Kinew” Carney says. Was not familiar with his game!!!!

"I realize that my late-'80s construction might not land me in the 'trending' section right away, but I asked my friend Shelly—who hosts occasional RE/MAX open houses—to vouch for me as 'having a lot of character.'" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/tin...

This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom: "If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."

Fact Check: Parody X Post Telling J.D. Vance To 'Go F*ck A Couch' Not From Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey's Actual X Account

Assembly of First Nations (Canada) travel advisory for Indigenous people considering going to the US www.instagram.com/p/DT-_SacDEHz/

Street art memorializing Alex Pretti in Seattle. Per r/Seattle, it was painted on a building facing Swedish Hospital in the First Hill neighborhood www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...

add in there that the last time a Republican Senate majority confirmed a Democratic Supreme Court appointee was 1895

In 2020, Vancouver Council voted to protect kids by making 30 km/h zones all day around schools. All the city had to do was swap out the old signs. Nearly six years later, they're still not done. Drop pictures of old 8-5 signs in the replies, so we can show council that they need to step it up!

Carney wants to expand trade to new markets, focusing on defence, technology, AI and innovation This is an experienced Canadian diplomat who got laid off this week. Make it make sense

It’s time to play, “Describe that Video!” This Hour Has 22 Minutes at its most blistering - and prescient. This was posted yesterday. But it couldn’t be more timely. Whether or not you can bear to watch “that” video today, you need to watch this one. #Minneapolis #CBC

The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect. /1

Turns out they didn't think all lives matter

"The remarks hit many of us at the Herald like a physical punch. Our dear friend Michelle Lang, a wonderful person and one of the best reporters ever to walk into that newsroom, was killed in Afghanistan by a roadside bomb on Dec. 20, 2009." calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

Increase the funding to this ministry in next year: *two* boxes of Timbits per month instead of one, *and* a Coffee Crisp bar!

Ok, we need one in red with a cobra chicken.

Shoveling 1" of snow many times is much easier than shoveling 6" of snow once.

“For weeks, Democrats have pushed to require ICE agents to obtain the necessary judicial warrants ahead of any murders they plan to commit,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said in a joint statement on the current Homeland Security funding bill

I just thought everyone should see this

This is such valuable advice and put plainly. Please take a moment. TY @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

Every Vancouver municipal party (yes we have municipal parties) has a name like "Common Ground Vancouver" and a tagline like "for a city that works for everyone" and you have to figure out whether they want to eliminate property taxes or implement full communism

457 UK armed forces personnel died in Afghanistan during the 20-year deployment. This is a fucking hideous thing to say. Even by his non-existent standards.

Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."

Residential school deniers will be speaking outside the Indigenous Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at UBC tomorrow. As Angela says about this cruel event: “This is not academic disagreement. It is an act of denial that causes real harm to Survivors, their families, and communities.”

This makes zero sense to me. Public money was used to create this database of historic places, and it seems dumb and a waste of money to throw it in the trash. Feels like something Trump and Doge would do, not Canada. Either keep it in Govt, or transition it to a credible new non-profit caretaker.

Great remarks from former Greenlandic MP: youtube.com/shorts/uLz1-...

This picture broke me, but the description of this kidnapping by a witness who says ICE referred to this precious child as “it” as they took him away fills me with an unspeakable, murderous rage.

If I were a PM who believed we were at a global rupture moment, upending decades of international order, and requiring totally new relations with the world, I probably wouldn’t cut my foreign affairs staffing and budget by 15%

Absolutely incredible. Someone submit this for a Pulitzer for Commentary.

To them, "what other people are saying, on the other screens" IS the world. It's what they know, it's what they write about. It's a sealed environment w/ its own natural laws & incentives. Utterly airless. Go learn something about the world!

we are going to be the WORST

It's being noticed everywhere. A change in government is not going to fix the relationships the USA is flushing down the toilet right now

There are still people who don’t know what the problem with substack is. There are also far too many people who think them publishing there doesn’t help substack get away with it more easily

The great Clarence Darrow line keeps occurring to me… "I've never wished a man dead, but I have read many an obituary with great pleasure.” (This is yet another quote often given to Mark Twain.)

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“ICE agents, get out now because historically, this ends with you hanging from a lamppost and your body paraded through the streets.” - the …we rate dogs guy

If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.

Daycares, cafes, restaurants, apartments… what else should be re-legalized in ‘single family’ zones ?

🔴 NEW VIDEO: Every stereotype collapses when you look at the receipts. www.youtube.com/shorts/dVniN...

The basic problem is that high-quality journalism is not a viable market product. If it is not protected from market forces, it will inevitably degenerate into the ragetainment that dominates these days. Ragetainment is what, measured on a pure impulsive will-they-click-it basis, the public wants.

I dunno guys… if I was a passenger in a bus and the driver was smashing into cars and running people over I wouldn’t wait for them to stop driving before grabbing the wheel.

Quite frankly, it’s outrageous that Mark Carney is cutting Statistics Canada. If he was Stephen Harper or Pierre Poilievre, I feel like this would be getting a lot more backlash. Carney of all people should know the importance of high-quality data and information about the country.

I’m also willing to put our ex-pm up against their president.

The irony is they're not even winning votes for ceding the ground to the right-wing here. It's the same as Rachel Notley trying to be the most pro-oil premier in Alberta. No one buys it.

Mister Rogers told us to look for the helpers but he also should’ve told us to keep an eye out for weak-ass quisling motherfuckers