really wonderful terry riley bliss-out on san francisco public television, april 1969, with the just exactly perfect visuals you might imagine for san francisco public television in april 1969. many orbs!

Rest in Power, Teresa de Lauretis (1938 - 2026). 💔

Please take 2 minutes to take action on the police budget increase of $93.8 Million dollars even in the midst of a corruption scandal. Anothertoronto.ca

Stray thoughts from occupied Minnesota: After 30 years in the workforce, I can tell you the volunteers in my community defense groups are the most dazzlingly hypercompetent coworkers I have ever encountered. Just thunderous excellence 1/x

and finally (maybe), this is why I think the next step of any #othernetworks project, mine or yours, needs to focus on TECHNIQUE, PRODUCTION , and CURRICULUM rather than technology itself: "More radically than any good intention, more lastingly than existential flight from one’s own class, [1/3]

This is very good, about very bad people.

This photo is funnier than it has any business being people.com/hairdresser-...

In a few weeks, if you're in Toronto, stop on by... This is different from the other two talks I've given at U of T this year on stray thinking... www.cinema.utoronto.ca/events/le-te...

Unlike the USA, Canada has only one source of federal funding for archives, the DHCP: www.canada.ca/en/library-a... The Carney Liberal government just cut the DHCP permanently. I can't even begin to say how disgusted and angry I am. There is NO OTHER SOURCE of program funding for archives.

hindsight is 20/20 but maybe selecting university presidents on their willingness to debase themselves for private donor money is related to the current difficulties in defending academia from fascism

For every retweet I will make Zuckerberg’s creep glasses 5% thicker

Emergency kitten

Hatted Ravelry

Megyn Kelly after hearing Peter Bjorn and John’s “Young Folks” for the one millionth time in 2006

Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame. -W. H. Auden

I just thought everyone should see this

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

"clean eating" is a euphemism for orthorexia imho

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...

Unfortunately it seems I cannot directly comment on this post, but were I to do so, I’d like to point out that this most recent wave of American tech hegemony has been baked into secretive binational trade agreements for years, trading sovereignty for access. www.flowjournal.org/2019/11/sect...

the old connectors are dying, and usb-c struggles to be born. now is the time of dongles.

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:

This is Minneapolis elementary school pick up: The alert also recommends: "Bring your whistle & wear your hat. If you have a respirator or goggles bring them in a small backpack. We don't want to show up looking alarming for the kids but chemical weapons are being used widely in the area." 2/2

The Cardiff Lions do an annual Drag Rugby charity match for children’s charities and it’s as beautiful as you imagined

Having some thoughts about the nature of my fears as a Canadian that I want to try to express in deep solidarity with everyone in Minnesota and elsewhere fighting our common enemy. This thread will not be in the "Canadian asshole" genre. (The opposite, I hope). Still, mute if you want.

A computer cannot have the mental illness, therefore a computer cannot make art

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

Somehow tonight we managed to ring in a very queer new year with Wolf Parade at midnight timed perfectly to neighbourhood fireworks. HNY! Be queer, do chaotic good.

23 seconds of blissed out baby cat

Echoes of bullshit ACORN "exposés."

Also, protecting yourself while we’re running into the flu involves… masking. Which ~nobody thinks is still on the table. I hate it here.

A real "Wow, Canada Is Small" moment here: the casting director for Heated Rivalry is... Naomi Klein's sister-in-law!

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

When I think about the Canadian TV that has broken out south of the border in the past decade (Schitt's Creek, Sort Of, now Heated Rivalry), not only is it interesting that queerness a key constant, but there is also this unifying theme of human decency at the core of all three.

Adam the Golem was a calm, reflective soul With his chiseled jaw And his sculpted abs And two eyes made out of coal. Adam the Golem was a fairytale they say. He was made of clay But the rabbis say That he came to life one day.

Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918

These ridiculous mega-projects like "datacenters in space" (doomed by thermodynamics) make a LOT more sense when you realize they're massive Ponzi schemes designed to transfer wealth from pension funds to VC's through "fee stacking." It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.

Benjamin: "The logical outcome of fascism is an aestheticizing of political life.... All efforts to aesthetics politics culminate in one point. That one point is war. War... makes it possible to set a goal for mass movements on the grandest scale while preserving traditional property relations." 1/2

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

"are you enjoying duo mobile" does a hamburger enjoy being made of quarks. does a fish enjoy linear time. does the mountain enjoy the first taste of a cup of hot chocolate when you get back to the ski lodge. your question means nothing to me. i couldn't enjoy duo mobile even if i tried

This is an astonishing piece. I thought I had fully donned my cynical armour, but parts of this just astonish, in the worst possible way. I ended up literally slack-jawed through much of it. I find myself increasingly frequently fantasizing about alternatives to higher ed as currently constituted.

🫠 I am become the Joker,,,,,

I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.

chat are we cooked

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?