This monstrosity is the curse, take it down and give the artist some run support

The lowest possible bar - "denounce and distance yourself from the guy openly threatening genocide" - but Carney is incapable of clearing it

Blue Jays are oofmaxxing this April

The nightmare is always the same, doc. I hear this deep velvety voice in the distance saying "Brendon Little is getting loose in the bullpen"...

There's a strong argument that Trump and Israel have set into motion a catastrophe that will imminently transform all of our lives, for the much worse.

Seen tacked to a community board on my walk

Never thought I'd be sharing anything written by a Yankees fan, but this gets it absolutely right: www.pinstripealley.com/yankees-edit...

thinking about the hero of this game for Team Venezuela, Eugenio Suárez, and his comments about ICE’s effect on Latino baseball players just last week

Empires always begin by telling themselves that they are bringing the light to the dark corners of the world. The reality is always the opposite.

Lost among the many other horrors of 2026, Israel is attempting to create another Nakba in Lebanon, no one is even attempting to explain or justify this, they're just bombing and killing and taking

Get ABS in the WBC so I don't have to watch the Americans win on a "strike" that's a foot low

Tragic to watch Canada knock Cuba out of the WBC even while -in real life- the Canadian govt is helping Trump commit mass murder against Cubans. Watching baseball in Cuba is one of the most joyous experiences of my life: no ads, no luxury boxes, just incredible baseball played by normal people.

Can't imagine why Carney would be eager to protect data centres in the region. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

This is a guy who has Nazi-affiliated tattoos on his body and whom the US military itself (!) flagged as a potential 'insider threat' for his far-right politics. A guy who has draped himself in the idea of a Christian crusade against Islam. I'm seeing a lot of "this will be evidence at The Hague..."

"What happens to Iran's nuclear weapons" is that they'll continue to not exist. For anyone who doesn't know, his father the Shah was one of the most hated despots of the 20th century. He was installed to rule Iran by the CIA after they (CIA) overthrew the government elected by Iranians in the 1950s.

Israel and the United States is bombing elementary schools in Iran and, by the way, the heroic Ukrainian resistance supports that

Trump does it more explicitly, but this is the same death-cult logic as we are witnessing south of the border. Billions of dollars into a stalemate war where both sides are fully captured by far-right forces, but no money for libraries and hospitals and schools and culture.

Man someone's gotta do something about cheese packaging, I shouldn't be this banged up from trying to access a block of marble cheddar

Truly a society humiliating itself, completely enslaved to a logic of capital (which it doesn't even fully understand because it is too terrified of its critics to actually read and understand them). Language models will (obviously) write garbage and (less obviously I guess) not support profits.

Liberals are so hard-wired to follow the rules that Trump says anything and they just do it, "stop measuring presidential approval" "ok" like they are constitutionally incapable of saying "nah fuck you man" no wonder they hate protestors so much

Speaking of acquiescence, Canadian airlines are now cancelling all flights to Cuba, obviously at the direction of the Carney govt. Other airlines are making fuel arrangements, but Canada is going the extra mile in helping Trump starve Cuban people and destroy their revolution.

The United States - with acquiescence and support from Canada and other allies - is seeking to murder millions of Cubans and destroy the Revolution that has carried and embodied so many of our aspirations for a just world. This is effectively genocide and must be stopped.

Crazy thing about learning the French language is needing to know if a telephone is a girl or boy

The big tech founder whose 417-foot, $500 million superyacht needs a 256-foot, $75 million superyacht to "shadow" it -- because the bigger yacht lacks a helipad -- had to cut his paper's newsroom almost in half, for reasons

All this disaster, just so students can cheat on their assignments

I'm sure there's some heinous shit I don't know about Firefox, but don't tell me right now because I'm switching all my browsers

Absolutely bloodcurdling headline. This is the Canada they want to protect; you ought to be disgusted by it.

A memo for anyone who thinks Canada is standing up against Trump's fascism

I'm excited to hear Mark Carney's speech about the importance of standing up to this flagrant colonial intervention in a foreign country's sovereignty

The irony of everyone fawning over how Mark Carney is 'standing up' for Canada is that he is simultaneously eroding the few institutions that actually distinguish the Canadian state from the US, and those which theoretically could be used to shield Canadians from the disaster area to the south.

Yeah no shit the "rules based international order" is a lie, it always was, and those of us not in kindergarten always knew it. Carney built his whole career pretending it was real now he wants to play hero for saying it's not. Oh and his solution? "Suck it up, you fucks, this is gonna suck."

Canadian banks feeling great about attempted US overthrow of Venezuelan govt. This gets reported as news, because apparently we should all share in whatever joys Scotiabank is feeling. Elbows fly wherever and whenever the Canadian elite want to make money, an evergreen lesson.

Paul Singer dropped $5.9 B on Citgo right before Trump’s coup in Venezuela, after bankrolling his campaign with millions. Now he’s set to rake in billions as U.S. forces seize control of Venezuelan oil and industry for U.S. interests. buff.ly/k1tPzgY #HandsOffVenezuela

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

empire wants a war, drop those elbows to the floor

Hundreds of my colleagues at Conestoga just got fired after submitting their grades for the holidays. Meanwhile, the President is enjoying his raise to over $630k. opseu.org/news/hundred...

Mark “Elbows up” Carney’s $83 billion military spending spree has to get funds from somewhere: today it’s stripping libraries of mission-sustaining cost controls. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Least bewildering development

'Watchlists' are used to harass and target marginalized people and community organizers. On the 'bright' side, AI is such garbage tech that it will inevitably make false identifications and lead to more arrests of random people who look a little bit like the targets (a bit of eugenics for a treat).

Will soon be digging back into offering non-credit courses without assignments or assessments, as a spiritual antidote to all of this

One of the worst things about do-called AI is that it pits my students against me. Over decades of teaching, I have built relationships of trust with my students, where I don't bs them about the world they live in, and they don't bs me about the work they do for me about it. "AI" interrupts this.

Anyone who trusts AI is a mark. It's no different from crypto in the sense that it is both idiotic and dangerous, a technology that exists to help people be more wrong more quickly

One of the hardest periods in history to teach properly is WWII, because - for one strange but significant moment - the Anglo-American powers turned against fascism. The war subsequently became a pillar of the self-image of those powers despite it being a complete anomaly that they opposed fascism.

The NDP just propped up the most right-wing budget Canada has seen in, arguably, decades. Ask yourself why the NDP exists at all if it's going to do that. Just join the Liberal Party and stop wasting the energy of activists who want desperately to believe it is something better.

Canada actively supported the British war against the people of Kenya, supplying F-48 Sabre fighter jets and a host of military and police supports. A Winnipeg cop named John Timmerman tortured Kenyan prisoners in Nairobi earning the nickname "the Himmler of Kenya."

Stumbled upon this very fair and kind review of Canada in the World today. I don't know the reviewer or the publication but I'm glad people are still finding the book and getting something from it. www.itsallgeekto.me/2025/09/revi...

Love to see this!

Always love to hear this!

You're allowed to just say nothing, Wab