I would be more impressed with this speech if his domestic economic policies weren't marching in lockstep with the very neoliberal priorities that created the very destabilizing crises he's referring to.

Well now… the pretentious shite of our discipline will continue hand in hand with AI shite… perfect.

Alarmists say the emperor is building a “Death Star”. Even if he wanted to, I’m sure he’d be stopped by the Imperial Senate.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

What Europe and Canada need to do, months later than they should have done, is decide how to deal with a US that's an adversary not an ally, that has a predatory approach to them, and that can't be negotiated with in good faith. It's encouraging that France, at least, seems to understand this.

New evidence shows US aid cuts will kill one child under the age of five every 40 seconds That’s 4,537,157 child deaths by 2030 Utterly monstrous www.rawstory.com/ghastly-new-...

Carney’s speech sets out a new doctrine and high expectations. The question is now how policy changes. It’s not true Canada was first to recognize this new world order. We ducked it for some time. So what changes will we now make, and what cost are we willing to bear for those changes?

Carney’s speech talks about rights and interests but says little about the interplay between the two, other than rights can only be advanced when you are safe enough. Given Canada’s history of advancing rights, how do we avoid selling out our and other people’s rights for economic resilience?

I worry this ‘ad hoc, pragmatic, issues-based coalition’ approach to international relations, plus declaring the rules-based international order dead, is a serious blow to the United Nations and to agreed norms and modalities we use to conduct ourselves

Reading Carolyn Dean’s terrific new book “Inside Abstraction: Interpreting Inka Visual Culture”. I love her exploration of this All- T’uqapu Unku (a textile like made for the Inka ruler) as a Gell like “mind trap” with all sorts of “unfinished business” given its carefully non-pattern chaos.

Perfect, keep it up folks

Affordability crisis in a nutshell.

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

Huh... www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/u...

worldwide measurements of “you’re not getting Greenland, bitch” forecasted to rise to levels unheard of in the next 12-24 hours

This is pillage. It’s piracy.

Hamilton trains 📷Leica m2 with ecktachrome slide film #believeinfilm

Not a very deep thought, but it is amazing that not enough 🇺🇸 realize their country is going to ***absolute shit*** domestically and internationally for a mad king, and so few politicians realize that in history books they will be the actors that let it happen or sycophants that encouraged it.

This should absolutely happen.

The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

Get ‘yer shine on 📷Leica m2 #believeinfilm #streetphotography

Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals"

Putting on my best Vivian Maier look. #Believeinfilm

to despair and embrace cynicism was to hand powerful weapons to the enemy

London tourist snaps. 📷Leica m2 Kodak Gold #believeinfilm #filmphotography

You can't make this up. Seriously. Consider #DryJanuary over. 🫩

Something that’s not nearly being talked about enough is the detention by ICE of Native Americans. It is something that has been continually seen as ICE has terrorized neighborhoods and families

Snow dogs living their best lives this morning in #HamOnt

The stench of a mad king.

Need a balloon? 🎈 📷Leica m2 #believeinfilm

Sad news that Deborah Poole has died. I really liked her work on Andean memory and affect. hub.jhu.edu/2026/01/08/d...

Guys, I'm happy to stipulate that the Poilievre Conservatives are the worst choice. I voted Liberal in 2025 to avoid them too. But the threat of an immoral government doesn't mean having an amoral one is a good thing.

I haven't done this for previous cabinets, so can't say for sure if it is historically high. I suspect at least one Lib ministry in the post-93 era would be pretty close to this if not higher. Pretty sure most of those cabinets had at least one scientist or engineer in them, though. This one? Zero.

Back in December I chased the man in red through a London 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 train and a train station. 📷Leica m2. #believeinfilm #filmphotography

"Calling the discovery the 'clearest proof yet' of how the U.S. government was originally designed to function, archaeologists published new evidence Thursday that suggests the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., may have once been used for legislating." 🏺

We are making really good progress here. Thanks *so* much who have kicked in to help. We still hope to get a little further to get Lourdes through some urgent surgeries. A little goes a long way!

You're allowing crime to proliferate by acting like a deer in the headlights when it comes to Nazi-run deepfake porn factories in Canada. You're actively financing crime by continuing to post government communications on the site. You wrote a book called "Values". Where are yours?

Art.

A bunch of 2025 music I forced on the kid on the way to soccer practices this year. tidal.com/playlist/760...

Hell yes.

The British (Brutish) Museum. Rolleiflex 3.5e #believeinfilm

I know everyone is spread thin but, if you can, please donate to this Go Fund Me for Luis Callisaya’s wife, Lourdes. Archaeological colleagues, including @aroddick.bsky.social , are raising funds for the medical care she needs after a devastating hit & run. More details on the Go Fund Me page. 1/5

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

Caught at Heathrow last month. 📷Rolleiflex 3.5e. #believeinfilm

they've got Raffi calling for regime change. something has shifted.

This week a Bolivian archaeologist colleague is in the hospital with his wife. She was left for dead in a car accident. We are trying the best we can to help with medical expenses. We hope a little will go a long way if anyone can help. Either way, appreciate a Blue Sky share. gofund.me/f71f7d9e5

This week a Bolivian archaeologist colleague is in the hospital with his wife. She was left for dead in a car accident. We are trying the best we can to help with medical expenses. We hope a little will go a long way if anyone can help. Either way, appreciate a Blue Sky share. gofund.me/f71f7d9e5

A couple from the streets of York 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿. 📷Rolleiflex 3.5e 🎞️ Kodak Gold #believeinfilm