After a chaotic 2025 that required deferring my dream gig, I'm excited to announce that I will be (re)launching @athenascca.bsky.social on January 6, 2026 (aka Epiphany or the Twelfth Day of Christmas)! 😎

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"We may think of ourselves first and foremost as citizens of nations and participants in national democracies. But when it comes to the breakdown of planetary ecosystems, we are all first and foremost inhabitants of this shared Earth." -Sally Rooney via @irishtimes.com

There’s a small bookshop “adult scholastic book fair” at a local brewery They vastly misunderstood the demand

Knew about @hcrichardson.bsky.social for a while as a historian writing one of the top Substack newsletters. Recently added her "Letters from an American" to my stack as an act of Canadian support and solidarity. 🦫🦅 Here's her excellent account of Jimmy Carter's funeral at the National Cathedral.

this choice of photos by the Carter Center is shadier than a Georgia peach tree in summer

I love my Toronto Public Library! 📖💙🙌 Fun Facts (as of 2023): 🥇 #1 neighbourhood-based library system in the world! 📍 100 branches across the City of Toronto! 💥 10.5 million items available to borrow! Including books, CDs, DVDs, audiobooks...and instruments! 📚💿📀🎧🎸 www.torontopubliclibrary.ca

To all of our honourable members of parliament: Please stop fighting with each other. There’s real work to do. Call out the ignorant Flaming Cheeto who doesn’t know basic geography. 🗺️ Step up and defend the peace, order, and good government of our true north strong and free. Thanks! 🇨🇦🍁🦫 #cdnpoli

Jimmy Carter spent his childhood on a peanut farm and returned there after serving in the Navy. His political career took him to Atlanta, the White House and beyond. We pulled together a list of objects that show a snapshot of his life and legacy. nyti.ms/3ZQCWYw

🎇 TONIGHT: Free transit for New Year's Eve! 🫡 TTC, Toronto Police & the City have a Union Station strategy! ⛔ Subway access only via Brookfield Place @ Front & Bay 🧍 Be prepared for orderly lineups ⬆️ Alt routes: Enter subway via King/Queen/St. Andrew/Osgoode www.ttc.ca/news/2024/De...

Not So Fun Fact: Food banks were originally meant to be temporary. 🤨 The fact that they’ve become permanent, and continue to grow, is a policy failure. It’s not about expanding food banks. It’s about ensuring that everyone has the income to buy and has access to fresh food.

our VP of technology wrote about a thing you can do to make your home internet safer (using an alternate DNS)

I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world. This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵

Jimmy Carter, on Death. In a culture where death as a subject is often taboo, fthe former President left behind a compilation of observations about the end. Here is a selection of those writings. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... via @nytimes.com

What Period Products Are Best for the Environment? You’ve got choices, from menstrual cups to washable pads. Here’s how they stack up, by @eabrown18.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/c... via @nytimes.com #menstruation

Some year-end roundups, a list of free transit rides on New Year's Eve and more headlines as we wrap up 2024. usa.streetsblog.org/2024/12/30/m...

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at the age of 100, left his mark on the federal judiciary. In his four years as president, Carter appointed more women and people of color as federal judges than the 38 presidents before him combined. bit.ly/4iZCgJg

Toronto Public Library FTW! 📚🖥️🖨️💿🎧📰📖⚖️🎨🎙️

Because The Muppet Christmas Carol is the best Christmas Carol. 🎄💚 Have a restful and relaxing holiday season! ☃️🕎🍽️🍹🍊

If you don't feel like cooking on Christmas, support your local Chinese restaurant! They will definitely be open because Christmas is basically their Super Bowl, aka one of their busiest days of the year. 🥢🍚🍜

Shout out to all the local Pakistani and Chinese restaurants and their staff who will be working Christmas. As the manager at Royal Kabob told me, "Brother, we're always open. Even on the Day of Judgement, we'll be open." Respect.

I share it every year, and boy, this was a bad year for kindness, and journalism, so maybe it matters more, I don't know. Get the kid his peaches. www.dailynews.com/2011/12/25/a...

Hong Kong national security police have issued a fresh round of arrest warrants for six people living overseas, including self-exiled activists, a former pollster and an ex-actor. A reward of HK$1 million has been offered for information leading to their arrests. In full: https://buff.ly/408b8jL

Chinese propaganda seeks to divide Hong Kong-Canadians over the territory's pro-democracy moment. Read the report from @marcuskolga.bsky.social, Sze-Fung Lee, and Sarah Teich: www.digitalpublicsquare.org/insights/com...

CHRD condemns Hong Kong govt's act of reprisal against defenders of democracy & human rights: the National Security Police in HK added 6 more people to their wanted list and issued a HK$1 million bounty on each of them. We stand in solidarity w these brave activists. www.thecfhk.org/post/second-...

Cast off by the Nazis, but heralded by curators, van Gogh’s 1890 painting of his doctor Paul-Ferdinand Gachet, made just before the artist's suicide, has not been seen in 34 years. Its whereabouts have become one of the art world’s greatest mysteries.

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

@dianacmcnally.bsky.social is a fierce advocate for harm reduction and a BAMF. She and I are allies in the fight for the right to housing, and we object to the abhorrent abuse of notwithstanding clause to clear encampments. You don't use the Charter to take away Charter rights. Sign the petition!

I'll be Ron for Christmas You can count on me Please have wine and tarts divine And records near the tree Christmas Eve will find me Drunk or high again I'll be Ron for Christmas So you be you my friend RS

Two years ago today we were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for protecting The US Capitol on January 6th 2021. Almost 4 years later the efforts to downplay, whitewash and minimize what happened appear to be succeeding. I won't ever stop standing up to them.

The United States of Broligarchy: How Billionaires Took Over Our Government and Rigged the System thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-united...

Blocking anyone who is mildly sus immediately and without particular emotional engagement is obviously the best way to go but once in a while it would be nice to have a block option that ALSO produces an animation of the profile being flushed down a toilet or maybe the text melting gruesomely away

Let's fucking go, @the-democrats.bsky.social! 💙😎🙌

📣 Rocket Riders! 💥 Episode 021: What is York University Station? 🎧 bit.ly/4fa3j26 🙌 We visit @vincentturonno.bsky.social alma mater of York University to check out the cool subway station right on campus.

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having exactly (1) day out of the year where every amateur chef in America attempts to cook a giant bird and not fuck it up is, honestly, a wonderful and hilarious tradition

‘Gentlemen shared their tattoos over dinner’: how our taste for tattoos started with the rich

Spending a month on Bluesky has created a whole new model of a fight we need to be having right now. Not liberal vs. conservative or whatever, but respect vs manipulation. I am tired of being manipulated everywhere I go. That’s why I like it here, I feel like I’m in charge for once.

James Bond movies never show the part where the supervillain collects government subsidies to build his death tech.

Starting the gradual migration of @thenextstoppod.bsky.social to @bsky.app. 🚌🚇🚈🚆 @vincentturonno.bsky.social and I are happy to be here! 😎💙🙌

COMING SOON: Let's fucking go save democracy...in Canada! 😎

This is your reminder to get a library card. They have so many services and basically all of them are free.

Note for the upcoming holiday season,,, some of us are on a sobriety journey and mocktails or non-alcoholic beer options make a big difference 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

It’s exhausting to hear reporters lazily referencing the “unpopular carbon tax” while giving up on informing us that the reason it’s “unpopular” is the successful conservative misinformation campaign ignoring that it’s better than price neutral for people & is a bare minimum tool for climate action.

Alternatively if you can't punch them, leave their Social Media sites.

Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like