So the future of the Straight of Hormuz is picking which side you want to pay protection money to? Amazing.

The most important aspect of the deal to open the bridge -- and what's conspicuously absent from this story -- isn't the terms of the agreement. It's that the US government interfered in a done deal to extort further concessions. So, no. This is not a "good deal" for Canada. It's a portent.

RIP to the incomparable Sam Neill

RIP Sam Neill

Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.

The next time anyone wants to finger-wag about how you speak of the dead, point to the difference between remembrances of Lindsey Graham and Sam Neill, and remind them that there are ways to live out a human life such that nobody is speaking ill of you.

Dipped my toe into the AI generated nonsense engine around Doomsday and it is amazing what people will fall for. There is a "unfinished" clip that it literally Endgame shots redone by AI that people are falling for

RIP KING. Dead Calm rules

This one sucks real bad.

Just sharing this again at a time of what's happening in Australia. In Event Horizon Sam Neill requested that the Australian flag on his character's uniform remove the Union Flag from the corner & for it to be replaced with the Aboriginal flag, the way he thought it should look in 2047

Look at how people react to Sam Neill's passing. Look at how people react to Lindsay Graham's passing. It's a pretty easy object lesson. Live your life in a way that leads people to talk about you the way they're talking about Sam Neill right now. So much love. So much shared joy.

Not entirely sure why CBC is describing this as "foreign interference" and not "espionage" but new case here: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Laughing at these "real men" continually gnashing their teeth because Trudeau has always liked to dance and have fun. Stay mad, I guess.

US: punches Canada Canada: defends itself from US Hoekstra: There's issues on both sides, but what we really have a problem with is Canada not just letting us endlessly punch it in the face.

There is an appeal process through EPEA. EVEN IF the UCP government is doing its darndest to minimize the regulations restricting the development of the actual datacentres, natural gas power plants are regulated by EPEA and can be fought.

Hey Chicago! An ICE contractor is trying to buy our parking meters — and City Council decides whether that happens THIS WEEK. We've got time to stop this, but we need as many people as possible to fight back: tinyurl.com/icepark

What a great picture—a reminder that every piece of art you love was scraped, cobbled, and kit-bashed into existence by creative rebels who thought outside the box.

Inside of you there are two wolves

The AI lipsync in the English dub of the Furious is super fucking annoying

This merger is a goddamn travesty www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Carney is an endless embarrassment.

EPS saw the doc trailer said it could ID officers. Filmmaker says the footage has been online for two years, but decided to blur it rather than fight in court.

The president wrote this at 3:16am. “Instead of writing inaccurate, false articles, for over 10 years now, shouldn’t it be time that they say, ‘We give up, we can’t beat him, there seems nothing we can do.’ The pressure seems to be working, keep it up. He's starting to crack. He knows he's losing.

Ok this is a little funny…

Some "AI" fluffer on the Internet explaining how I don't really understand "AI" because I just write Star Trek fan fiction, meanwhile, here's "AI" incorrectly explaining why I dislike black currants by attributing a quote to me that was made by someone else Yeah, I get "AI" just fine, thanks

Congratulations to our American friends who are minus one PoS this morning.

Now he’s deleted but his statement lives on forever.

@edmontonpolice.bsky.social are fascists who fear accountability

An Edmonton non-profit says it faced an “intense and rapid legal challenge” from city police just days before screening a documentary about Mathios Arkangelo, the man fatally shot by an officer in 2024. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

for fuck’s sake, just say nothing

Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.

They are not my stories to tell, so I won’t share them here, but Lindsay Graham earned every bit of ridicule he’s getting today. Not just despite his death, but especially in death. None of you should feel guilty for speaking out. I assure you, Lindsey wouldn’t.

Carney calling Lindsey Graham a defender of democracy and freedom when the man made jokes on his official X account about taking over Canada is just the last straw of many last straws for me.

The thing about being ruled by a gerontocracy is that cohort mortality is a probability density, meaning all these fuckers start dying around the same time -- in clusters. The same Weibull Distribution "bathtub curve" explains why batches of light bulbs and hard drives all die in the same month.

I talked to Lindsay Graham for twenty minutes this morning. He was hanging out with Mitch McConnell next to a lake of magma with sixty-six demons making sausage out of their entrails. He was in good spirits.

This statement alone is cause to remove the POTUS. The President swears to uphold our Constitution. An honest & strong Congress would have removed him when he said “l don’t know”.

Thinking how at the end of the Star Wars trilogy an entire galaxy celebrates the death of the emperor without a finger wagging coda where a sad-eyed long haired scold in bespoke clothing warns that this reduces everyone to the same level as the genocidal tyrant who got tossed into a laser shaft.

i will say lindsey graham being asked by a reporter how mitch mcconnell is doing, answering “i don’t know, i’m going to check right now” and then dying is hilarious

Graham and McConnell embody the banality of evil. They caused infinite harm during their lives. It's ok to celebrate their deaths

For all the conservative pundits gnashing their teeth and lecturing us about our reactions to Lindsey Graham's death...

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

The demonic entity known as Lindsey Graham departed his mortal form at 71 human years old. Graham was one of the biggest warmongers in the US Senate. He never wasted a moment to get on TV and promote senseless atrocities. May the ghosts of his victims haunt his soul for eternity.

Corrupt immoral coward Lindsey Graham has died after a sudden illness and history will remember him as an insurrectionist who did everything he could in public office to help a vile deranged treasonous felon commit election fraud and sedition against the United States.

Lindsey Graham was a simple, tragic man to understand. He lacked a moral core. The great empty spaces of his life were filled with an insatiable need for “relevance.” He found it as a cast member in the most malignant reality show ever made. steveschmidt.substack.com/p/lindsey-kn...

Brooklyn craft beer packaging goes hard

at the press conference Dana White getting asked if McGregor stepped in the ring with an injury to ensure a pay day. now being asked if UFC has a wellness program like WWE for folks like Poirier. this promotion has turned into such a misery circus in the past decade.

welcome to the Age of Diarrhea

he actually did the meme