This is likely happening in Ontario, and you wouldn't be informed. The OPP has been using Palantir for a number of years now. Remember, the president of Palantir Canada is on Carney's council for Canada/US relations. notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...

Some people improve the world only by leaving it.

I'm interested in finding alternative custom domain email hosts - any recommendations? Google is being really annoying about verifying my identity (as in, I cannot get into my email account right now because of that) and I don't want to do this again.

Nominating this for a Hugo.

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1765

A very important thing for you to know about Icelandic is that the word "rassgat" (butthole) is used as an endearment about cute things. So if you say someone is "algjört rassgat" (a total butthole) it means they are VERY cute. If the cuteness is overwhelming we say "rúsínurassgat" (raisin asshole).

F/NB WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT Everything fell apart when the human came aboard. Instead of nice meals and quiet cargo runs, Tai's stuck with bickering crewmates, sinister criminals, explosions, and worse, a human who wants to be friends. #BluePit #BluePit📖 #SF #A #Q #R #LGBT

I've handmade a lot of cards in the past few years but I feel like spending the time wasn't worth it at all. I think they probably just ended up chucked with all the other cards, and any care and attention was generally meaningless to the recipient. So guess who isn't making cards this year!

Writing isn't easy and fun! It's more like a long drawn out death where the only positive thing anyone says is at least the will is still there! Sit up and write that book you were meant to! What are you even doing here? Doomscrolling for the answers? The answer is survive to tell the story.

I too, miss the days back when the police were polite. At traffic stops they would say gentle things like “ma’am, your empty hand is a deadly weapon” before killing you.

Shocking. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/12/n...

Louise Adler is the child of Holocaust survivours &used to be a convinced Zionist until she visited Israel... “European Jews stamped my passport, Middle Eastern Jews manned luggage carousels while Palestinians swept floors… entrenched racism underpinning the establishment of the State of Israel.”

Sunday scaries but it's Monday at ~2am.

I’ve decided we’re going to talk about Australia and the Tawny Frogmouth at bird nerds this week. Normally I get the kids to vote on a bird, but it’s been a few weeks since our last meeting so I’m picking the easy choice for high interest, weird little guy vibes. Look at these muppets

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time

it is also really quite healthy and fine to be mad that people didn’t show up earlier. your feelings are valid. what comes after them though? can you sit with the hurt a bit? and after that, think. what have you learned in your time here? where can you point people just showing up?

I’m enjoying watching all the signs of life in our sleepy forest - I suspect this is some kind of Flammulina (probably velutipes, but I’m still not going to eat it.) I’m pretty sure I startled an owlet when walking by a nest hole in a tree yesterday. (we were both quite startled.)

My little game made me forget about the world for a while. But now the world is back! Why! Melatonin, take me away.

Yeah, fuck you Bryan.

I really like the StoryGraph‘s daily January book logging thing. I often forget to log books until I completely finish them (and still have forgotten to log books this month too…) but it helps build the habit for some people. Not me, but I can see the benefit for others. 😆

skillful news writing www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

This is so incredibly heart-breaking. To Jay Bhattacharya and Matthew Memoli at NIH--you have betrayed the entire scientific community. Deeply committed staff are leaving in droves--because you are destroying the institution. Shame on you. www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...

Flip the disk to side 2.

I get stuck trying to decide whether I want to highlight currently living artists doing bird art or talking about famous people that have done bird art. So I tend to do both. But in doing so, I don’t know if I do either justice. I might be trying to do too much in an under an hour.

If you are anxious and sad about the state of the world, that's fine, and there are plenty of strategies for dealing with that. But I think you already know that drive-by online dooming isn't a strategy. It's selfish and adolescent. It's a contagion that only spreads the worst of you, not the best.

I got the Polish edition of Murderbot today and learned about (new-to-me) gender neutral conjugation in the process. Kinda neat. The Polish language generally has grammatical gender for nouns, verbs, & adjectives, so gender markers are often everywhere. It’s a little change, but I like it.

anyone that didn't delete twitter 2 years ago when i did is morally lesser to me by exponential degrees

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

Why Greenland? "Peter Thiel, who wants to set up crypto-empowered 'network states' on undeveloped territory, has invested in Praxis, a start-up that aims to do just that and which has scouted Greenland. Trump’s ambassador to Denmark, Ken Howery, was a co-founder with Thiel and Elon Musk of PayPal."

I think this might be Tremella mesenterica, some type of Parmelia, and a delightful little blop of moss.

Once again, I am asking myself not to stay up an extra hour to read about all the worlds horrors right before I go to bed.

What if you just loved the body you have instead? What then?

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." — George Orwell, 1984.

Their union was recognized on December 18th, studio closed just over two weeks later. Transparent punishment, just like what happened at Rockstar. I hope Ubisoft gets dragged over the coals too.

the kid‘s last codes and cyphers class was last night and I don’t think I had been as well versed in Fermat’s little theorem when I was 9, and I certainly don’t know anything about RSA, but access to information was vastly different in my youth. I wonder what he’ll think of these times when he’s 40.

We have this cat Lego set and now apparently we have the opportunity to do something especially amazing.

i've been at conventions that got sadder and shitter and emptier year over year run by people who had no idea why nobody wanted to keep showing up and the reason was entirely always "yeah we just didn't think it was worth escalating to banning him" about at most 20 regulars

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

Duck and cover.

my gender reveal party

When you've been on social media for much of your life but are only just now reading Pratchett

One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years. Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.

If you understand that the modern patriarchy really objects to women owning themselves every other policy makes sense.

I am convinced in the future we will look back and realise the sheer unimaginable folly of letting a virus that can cause immune dysregulation and cognitive dysfunction in humans infect and re-infect the global population over and over again. Worse still, that we encouraged it.

Five years ago.

I need a book where everything works out in the end that isn't a romance. I need a guarenteed HEA but for like... sci fi.