You think you're an alien intelligence beneath the seas, challenging humanity's self-perception? Get sponged, you three-hearted stooge.

Heading into what might be BC's last seasonal time change, it's the ultimate example of how social constructs are important and how facts do care about your feelings.

Happening in Canada too. Used to be different flavours of weird in small town AB, SK, or MB. Whole different ballgame up north and on reserve. Now there's confederate decals in Prince Albert. Inevitable, but still a loss that everyone's the same kind of asshole from Fort St. John to Thunder Bay

A parochial spin on this: What harm was done to concrete US interests with Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal? How does that compare with Trump losing Canada's trust and allegiance? Pretty faces who call themselves journalists dont think it counts as foreign policy unless there's sand & cholera.

The wine has bubbles inside it. Very good folks, its all very good.

He is quite possibly the human being most solely responsible for both the greatest amount of life and the greatest amount of death on this planet

I quibble, but this is kinda true. @dsquareddigest.bsky.social has written a couple of great books about how the optimal level of fraud and failure is not zero, and Canada does shockingly well for our degree of fraud.

A spectacular opening day for Canada at the Paralympics. Three medals. Two team victories. And we’re just getting started. I’m at para snowboarding bright and early Sunday where Tyler Turner looks to defend Paralympic gold. Starts at 5am ET. Good night sports fans.

If there was a surface, Maud Lewis painted on it. She turned her small home into a colourful work of art. While she was born with birth defects, she never let that stop her from capturing the beauty she saw in the world. This is her story. 🧵 1/12

On the other hand, have other parents noticed how much better playgrounds have gotten? Here are three that we like to visit, they blow anything from my childhood out of the water.

I just had a conversation with an expert on shipping and the Strait of Hormuz that brought into sharp relief just how completely messed up that situation is. Y'all, 20% of the world's oil / natural gas, plus 15% of all container shipping passes through there, and almost no ships are now transiting

mainichi.jp/english/arti... This is gonna be a recurring theme for a lot of places in Japan as the population shrinks. Lower wage jobs like bus drivers, teachers, etc. are all gonna face manpower shortages. The obvious solution is to 1. Raise wages and 2. Increase immigration, but…

Younger colleague skewered me this week with the millennial big screen/little screen meme. Got me thinking, does anyone else have certain things you'll use an e-book and others you want hardcopy? I usually want hard copy for nonfiction but e-book for fiction.

I have heard back from Canadians and am now convinced more than ever I am correct because one person said the French party is liberal, one person said they are extremely conservative, and then one person yelled at me for even bringing it up

where are the nimbys explaining how oil prices aren't actually about supply constraints

Iqalutsiavak (Beautiful Fish) Kenojuak Ashevak ~ Inuk 2005

This is probably fine and bodes well for our future, right Canada?

And in addition to younger people who did form households owning at lower rates than their peers across time and space, younger people are forming households (of any tenure) at lower rates. @lausterna.bsky.social and I decomposed this into a dual measure of housing frustration.

The recent talk about splitting the Canada sub contract: foreign policy alliance management, or worries that the industrial benefits were more concentrated than is politically advantageous? Cp. Icebreakers being built in both North Van and Levis.

If shit generally starts falling apart, I think an underappreciated potential conflict is Egypt-Ethiopia over Nile flows. Especially with GERD filling and both countries needing to keep an eye on Sudan.

This is a great stat. Most people will look at it and say 'only two? We're doing great!' But I'd suggest it means we don't take enough risks and lending/entrepreneurialism/growth are constrained. The optimal number of bank failures in a century is >2.

I always drop this or something like it in front of my students and as them what this tells them about the economic paradigms present and how operations in Africa might be effected.

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

I am wondering what the Chinese are thinking seeing the US and Israel systematically dismantle Iranian air defenses over the past year using stealth fighters and stand-off munitions, particularly about the survivability of their Mainland-based A2AD (Anti-Access/Area Denial) assets.

Was it fun clocking a few billable hours Friday night? God no. But the wife was out, I had to be at home with the kids anyway. And when we go to renew the mortgage, there will be 18 years left on it, not 25.

If you’re looking for a good “oh no I need to know more about Iran” book, I’m really enjoying Abbas Amanat’s “Iran: A Modern History” thus far.

If Carney gave a shit about protecting children or any other Canadians from online harms, he'd start by banning X for creating and distributing CSAM and non-consensual porn. But he won't even stop posting there.

Reminder that northern canada is extremely desolate but also filled with genuinely absurd fantasy terrain

I'm starting to read it, thank you for the gift article. My wife has mentioned wanting the print delivered so I decided to check out subscriptions and I get digital and print for $7.50 a month? I find it difficult to believe that people can complain about pay walls. Digital only is less.

Yes, there literally *was* a naval Civil War battle fought off the coast of France. Naval wars are wild like that. Shit happens where you least expect. militaryhistorynow.com/2022/09/22/t...

2/2 that American strategy poses a greater threat to their territorial integrity than Iranian retaliation does. That conclusion is Tehran’s most valuable strategic asset — and Washington is handing it over for free.

Dr Albert B Wolf, who knows Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraqi Kurdistan etc very well: Washington should abandon the Kurdish gambit. Every day it remains on the table, Turkey, Iraq, and Pakistan edge further toward the conclusion...1/2 via @warontherocks.bsky.social warontherocks.com/2026/03/why-...

"[W]orking with working class people" is a bold new formulation in the deeply weird softhander infatuation with white guys who know what different pliers are for. Here's a game: who else is working with working class people: MacDonalds franchisee Structural Engineer at site visit Factory owner

Technically it was the cigarette afterward that got me in trouble.

Let he who hasn’t gotten in trouble for fucking on a rooftop cast the first stone

Thinking about this a bit more, corollary is motivation for Ukraine to hit Russian exports. Might get some deniable help too, as seemed to be the case with Nord Stream. Norway and Canada should start a group project. I bet the Poles & Balts will have good advice.

Ok, what is the term for people who are tankies for the Islamic Republic? In the real world, normals have no issue simultaneously believing: good riddance to the Ayatollah; US doesn't seem to have a good plan; and we're praying for the civilians.

"Uniformed members of a military on a warship are noncombatants actually"

Something has really changed here. This type of long term military commitment and indifference to the stock market are new behaviours.

One reason this works so effectively is Cook's horrific description of the Battle of St. Julien, where doctors helplessly tried to diagnose and treat gas cases and whole columns of men dropped dead along roads and in fields coughing up bits of their lungs. Virtually the entire CEF was exposed to it.

One of my coworkers, who is retiring at the end of the month, left work an hour early saying he didn’t want to lose an hour on the weekend so he was springing ahead now. Apparently he has been doing that for years.

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

Carney, please double/triple the Chinese EV cap so we can import those bad boys

An oil shock would be a real good time for Canada to import an absolute ton of cheap EVs, but how? HOW?

there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it). the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.

Ok, several of you told me to put down the lathe of heaven and step back. In retrospect, I should have listened.

Like to imagine that goon behavior is a product of incredibly Byzantine unionization. Indoor guard responds to INDOOR disturbances. Firefight outside is handled by a separate bargaining unit.

"[W]orking with working class people" is a bold new formulation in the deeply weird softhander infatuation with white guys who know what different pliers are for. Here's a game: who else is working with working class people: MacDonalds franchisee Structural Engineer at site visit Factory owner

Slow Horses was a great surprise. Delightful concept, well-drawn characters, quick and breezy plot. Zipped through it and going to pick up the next one. Strongly recommendation.

When people justify this stuff it basically comes down to "they are fascists, they're not people, they don't to be protected like people" You should really think about what other people think you include in "they"