Your oxygen mask first, Folks. Given *gestures at the JESUS FUCKING CHRIST OF IT ALL* your health needs to be guarded. Block and mute. You don’t need a reason behind annoyance! Seriously! I just blocked a beloved internet commenter because of it! Block or mute me if you need to! It’s fine!

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i completely agree that this is the key problem with Bluesky discourse right now: The Circumstances are genuinely toxic right now. log off. go scream at an inanimate object. dig a hole. continue digging until you've got a burrow. hide in the burrow. do not bring your phone

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*extreme discourse-starting voice* Writing letters and postcards to your friends is nice

If you understand that the modern patriarchy really objects to women owning themselves every other policy makes sense.

Kate is right—Carney hasn’t done the obvious thing and called BS. Sure, Maduro was/is a huge dick, but bombing Caracas, murdering people, essentially going to war without Congressional approval breaks both International and U.S. laws. Those are facts he should have the stones to speak aloud.

WE DID IT! 🌟 By deadline, we received a whopping 911 new recurring contributions. More than 1,600 readers chose to support us through one-time contributions. And, more are *still* trickling in. That’s nothing short of incredible. Thank you for helping us fight disinformation this year. 🗞️

If you are submitting AI slop to a publication that does not take AI slop, you could at least remove the prompt you gave the AI before submitting the slop. 🙄

I probably shouldn’t admit this... buuuuut you get 50 free short stories with your first pledge. Really. www.patreon.com/kameronhurley

Did you catch Carol reading The Left Hand of Darkness?? Rhea Seehorn spoke about Carol's literary tastes, and this is just, you know, kind of our area: #Pluribus

Good morning “We are in the hands of men whose power and wealth have separated them from the reality of daily life and from the imagination. We are right to be afraid.” Grace Paley

In 2021 the UN's independent expert on Venezuela Alena Douhan wrote a report in which she said US and western sanctions on Venezuela had been the primary factor in reversing the progress made under Chavez and had been deliberately designed to cripple the country

A new year, new dates for the Anvil! It's our ongoing UnConference for Creatives of Colour and their Allies Feb 28 and May 23 Reserve your spot now dreamfoundry.org/the...

This site: udm14.com automatically appends a bit of code to your search term that yeets the AI summary on Google.

second degree murder, and specifically depraved heart murder, wherein the accused doesn't actively plan to kill a specific person or people but acts with callous disregard for human life - like firing a gun into a crowd or driving drunk - should apply to decisions made by CEOs and heads of industry

I will reiterate that if you are an independent journo/hobbyist I will happily set up your ghost install and host it for a few quid above cost price. You set up your own stripe and mailgun accounts, and you get to keep ALL your revenue. And post migration from wordpress/substack is pretty easy.

Most people living in poverty in Canada are working or live in families where someone works. 👇👇👇

Premee is a great writer even if I'm not allowed to read her stuff and the struggles of artists trying to make a living are so so real. (Also I am now her PATRON which I believe means she will regularly attend at my VILLA to make me look cool in the neighbourhood and receive DIRECTIONS.)

I have a policy where I always repost this. (That I just made up.)

Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.

Here’s Carney’s statement which he posted on X over an hour ago but still hasn’t posted here, for some reason

Mark Carney now the only G7 leader not to issue a statement directly. The leaders of Canada's other major federal political parties have, as well

Sometimes people are like 'Evan, why do you still like Star Wars, despite all the times they've fucked it up?' and really the answer is just that sometimes I do like stories that remind us that it is always possible to resist evil.

They can’t even stick some pasties on this naked fucking graft.

I’m at Times Square, where an emergency “No War On Venezuela” protest just took to the street. Easily a thousand people here in real-feel 20°F weather. “No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!” “No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”

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Noontime supplemental cat picture: Smudge stares into your very soul

I will post extra photos of my dog, for morale purposes, and because he doesn't have the curse of literacy

Mark Carney turns off geolocation on phone just in case

Do you think the Slack app is going to change its icon to the colors of the Venezuelan flag in support of that country’s people being unjustly attacked by a rogue country, like they did for Ukraine?

It’s 11 AM. Do you know where your prime minister is?

Resonates w/ Machiavelli who (thinking of early Rome & Milan’s short-lived Ambrosian republic) reminds us that removing the tyrant usually leads to bloodshed & a string of new tyrants, unless enormous groundwork happens to change institutions & mobilize all social levels to implement & defend them.

Seems like @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is knocking it out of the park with his first messaging. #NYC

I'm hiding from the cold, but have to bundle up and do some snow shoveling soon, including wearing a mask to keep that cold out of my nose and lungs (along with any stray germs or other air contaminants that may drift by). #FaceCosy #FaceCozy Grab some on sale here: canadastrong.ca/products/vit...

As Canadians, I think it is our civic and collective duty for our 2026 New Year's resolution to simply be striking far more fear into the hearts of the politicians we elected than we currently do when they do stupid shit

Important thread if you care about Livejournal or still have stuff there. FWIW the tool to import LJ posts into Dreamwidth still worked well for me as recently as a year ago (after Kevin died, I imported his LJ into his Dreamwith since he hadn't done that yet & I wanted to preserve it).

It's the Post. "Doesn't Melania look ravishing in her $80,000 Louis Vuitton coat sewn from freshly slaughtered orphans, emblazoned with the mysterious words THE POOR HAVE IT COMING" meanwhile "How dare the wife of the mayor wear boots from a real store and not an H&M like you fools? Unrelatable!"

Liberals and conservatives alike refuse to understand that democratic socialism won’t eliminate rich people (lots of millionaires in Canada) but it would limit billionaires. No need for any one person to have THAT much money, come on now. But of course their masters scream and the Post prints it 🫤

If @thetyee.ca continues to publish excellent articles like this in 2026 - addressing an #OngoingPandemic of an injurious #AirborneVirus - I'll renew my subscription (cancelled a couple of years ago, when the 🇨🇦 #Media outlet began to ignore #COVID) - @crof.bsky.social 🙏 thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

THIS PEASANT DIDN'T GET HER CLOTHES FROM SHEIN, HOW DARE SHE

Psst. Hey, come closer. No, closer. I have a New Year’s secret for you. It’s this: If you care about people you don’t even know, and try to live your life that way, you are absolutely beautiful no matter what you look like.

Happy New Year friends! If you’re so inclined, join me in paying attention to the first bird you see on the first day of the new year, something I started doing 6 years ago amalelmohtar.com/a-new-years-...

Many beautiful things on sale. Go buy them before I ruin my budget.

Ok team, we can bring these words back into usage! 💪 Overmorrow = the day after tomorrow Ereyesterday = the day before yesterday We ahould have been using such excellent words ereyesterday, but if we start now we’ll be glad overmorrow!

Fountain pen doodle from a couple of years ago that I stumbled upon the other day and still very much like. “rare blossoms”

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Said best right here,”This is not moral poetry. It is constitutional law. Section 35 of the Constitution Act does not offer Indigenous peoples sympathy. It recognizes and affirms their rights.” grandmothersvoice.com/when-david-f...