After a friend told me things aren’t that bad, I remembered my father’s colleague in Germany who, with a sweeping gesture in a lovely restaurant, said 1930s Germans sat here happily refusing to see the rise of evil because they had no stomach for fear. He taught me to develop a stomach for fear.

I had never heard of Jim Pattinson before but if Jim Pattinson doesn't want to be considered a notorious traitor in his own country, this Jim Pattinson may want to reconsider.

I'm not going to ask if you're doomscrolling. Everything is hard right now. But you still need to eat some food, drink a glass of water, as well as time to rest and recover. Try not to stay up too late tonight. Sleep deprivation will make everything you need to do harder, including helping others.

A good concept to deal with current times is "pendulation", where you let yourself observe events & feel those feelings, and then you swing away to what makes you feel grounded, secure, yourself. By allowing ourselves permission to move from state to state, we can hold steady, balanced in ourselves

“‘Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you – Ye are many – they are few.’”

Do we know what hotel chains are hosting ICE & CBP in Minneapolis? It's wild that business schools don't teach "There are still people who don't buy Volkswagons bc of World War 2." But there's no time like the present for a refresher, I guess.

I know we're all seeing 87 unhinged things per day, but "guys if our multi billion dollar product doesn't start being useful for something, literally anything, the people might not appreciate us wrecking the planet over it anymore" is a truly bananapants thing to say out loud

Canada’s AI conversation is mostly about growth and productivity. What’s being missed is how algorithmic management is reshaping workplace expectations and power.

Honestly I'd rather deal with freezing temperatures.

'1970s canned goods label designs, from The Art of the Label by Robert Opie.'

Shoji Yamasaki // LITTERED MVMNTS

Autocorrupt is a tiny drunk gnome inside your phone that is doing the best it can.

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Transphobia is a cancer of the heart and mind. It is a useless fear, based on ignorance and cruelty. Trans people are not responsible for a single one of the problems we face. Do the world a favor and grow the fuck up.

Minnesota, you are inspiring!

When I was young I had to wait for a Teen Beat to come out every month, but Connor and Hudson just dropping 🔥 every day.

True Halifax wilding on the road tonight as I drove near not one, not two, but THREE people driving with their lights off, all in the same stretch of Quinpool, at 6:30pm.

When I was young I had to wait for a Teen Beat to come out every month, but Connor and Hudson just dropping 🔥 every day.

Carney today in Davos: "What would it mean for middle powers to 'live in truth'? It means naming reality. Stop invoking the 'rules-based international order' as though it still functions as advertised... "We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn't mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy"

I thought this was a metaphor.

Gaza is not a breaking news headline, nor just a statistic in the evening bulletin. Gaza is an open window despite the rubble, a voice insisting on life when the world thinks silence is easier. Gaza does not ask for pity, but for recognition: that life here still loves, and is still worth living.

I thought this was a metaphor.

Now this is intriguing. Ulli Lust's exploration of prehistoric humankind, focused on the role of women throughout history. #ComicsIn2026 #comics

I worked on a simple website today. I can't believe how good the tools are from the last time I did this... ...ah shit like 18 years ago.

me on January 1st 😺🥳🎉 me on January 18th

It's patently insane we need to cajole the feds into banning a child sex abuse/revenge porn/hate speech machine but it's up to all of us to try and turn this dumpster fire around.

I just signed a petition demanding the federal government Ban X/Twitter in Canada. Join me in signing here: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ba...

HRT does have dangers, though. Like it’ll make you want to keep living, forcing you to do stuff like *shudders* come up with a ten year plan or clean off pile full of clothes chair

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

flirting with people so I can get them to read my work

Welp. Guess I'm rescheduling tomorrow.

"If you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. For the first thing a writer should be is—excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms." -- Ray Bradbury #scriptsky

A Nazi (2026)

An Iranian official says verified deaths linked to the protests have reached at least 5,000, Reuters reports.

In a just world, Meta would go under paying out restitution for the harm caused by their products.

Halisky you probably heard about the pedestrian being hit by a car in Eastern Passage this morning. Preeti is my grandbaby's daycare teacher, and GB loves her. Preeti's parents are in India and want to come to support her while she recovers. If you can, please consider giving.

On the ground here in Minnesota, it’s hard to reconcile the immense bonds of community that have been built in a week with the fact that we live in a country whose government appropriated billions of dollars to an unaccountable paramilitary force whose sole purpose is ethnic cleansing.

🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️

That psychopath is going to kill so many people.

When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me Speaking words of wisdom, eat some cheese

The increasingly common habit of screenshotting the AI summary of a Google search and presenting it as evidence must be nipped in the bud immediately. That is nothing. That is not anything, it is not a thing.

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

Apparently pigs CAN fly, lmao.

One basic lesson from political research is that secret police generally rely on mediocre men willing to do the dirty work of authoritarian regimes in order to advance their careers. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...

##HeatedRivalry fans if you are looking for a delightful episode recap from a bunch of guy hockey players who are excited to watch the show, respectful on content and absolutely hilarious, may I suggest the Empty Netters podcast.

Extremely unusual that the Bluesky team is working late on a Sunday night to verify Canadian political parties and elected officials who are rumored to be mulling over a coordinated X ban with Australia and the UK. When there's smoke, there's fire.

Thread on Iran

Interesting fact. Make of it what you will. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi’s visit to Beirut today was not wholly business. He brought his whole family with him. He’s expected to remain in Lebanon for the foreseeable future.

The scale of the protests in Iran are absolutely unbelievable. Hard to quantify, but I've seen some speculation that this uprising is more significant than the 2023 protests (themselves the largest challenge to the regime since it came into power in '79.) (Video from @AmirMiresmaeili on Twitter)

The third act was even better than I expected.