For Vogue, I talked to Ramell-Correen Frederick, aka Cheeks, who embroidered Knicks gear in the streets of Brooklyn after Game 5. He uses a 104-year-old hand-crank, chainstitch embroidery machine that he named Jessica.

Noah Smith/noahpinion has to be in the top five most stupid American pundits in a very crowded field. When even J.J. McCullough is calling you out for your garbage takes, boy I don't even know.

love the way these iron balusters work with the stone of Thomas Fuller’s Carleton Place Post Office, the oxidization of one referring to that of the other, the ovate form echoing the eroded corners, touching the smoothed surfaces and then the rock-faced walling

Give a nerd a chart or a map and they will waste a day. Teach a nerd how to make charts and maps and they will waste the rest of their life.

"Working class" in 2026 means a blue haired barista with they/them pronouns, a Asian immigrant nail technician, and an undocumented hotel cleaner. And we are going to keep having the same fights until we let the midcentury illustrator mirage of the white guy in plaid with the lunch pail go.

Oh him? No that’s just Misogyny Dave, he’s actually a good leftist and a great comrade. Yeah everyone likes him and all his ex girlfriends said nothing bad to me, his best friend, when I asked them about it while he was, oh, several feet away.

No manual entry for voters

I honestly don't care one way or another about the third storey addition, but those replacement windows are terrible.

Real Nathan Thurm stuff.

The restaurant falls within the Picton Main Street Heritage Conservation District and required a heritage permit, which the Built and Cultural Heritage Advisory Committee endorsed and was approved by #PEC Council earlier this month. #LocalEats Details: www.kingstonist.com/news/rosetta...

Oh man, this is becoming a children’s treasury of nope. By the time we hit the event we’ll be down to Vanilli.

Morris Day and The Time responds: "Contrary to rumor, Morris Day & The Time will not be performing at the 'Great American State Fair.'"

DOCTOR: The great Pagliacci is in town! IAN BOGOST: Commedia dell'arte is formally deficient DR: BOGOST: Clowning robs from us the purer joy of watching balls roll down a ramp DR: Ok— BOGOST: The circus is riddled with kids & narrativists DR: Get out. Here's a scrip for lexapro just get the fuck out

Genuinely disappointed with Young MC and The Time for taking this gig (especially The Time given everything that's happened in Minneapolis this year). Half of C+C Music Factory and Milli Vanilli are dead, and the rest might as well be.

The Big 8. CKLW lives large in the legends of Canadian radio. When I was a young broadcaster, bootleg airchecks from Windsor were treasured things. www.heritagetrust.on.ca/heritagematt...

I was told by a CBC employee there that the breezeway to the parking lot (not pictured, streetview link below) was so the Motown girl groups regularly visiting the station would not risk their hair dos ruined if it was raining. Good lore, anyway. This building played Motown when US stns wouldn't.

The City of Windsor is debating whether to designate the former CBC/CKLW building as a heritage property. This mid-20th century modernist structure has deep associations with radio broadcasting history but is at risk of demolition. Attn: @shawnmicallef.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The Great Vancouver Island Land Grab explores the history and legacy of the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway land grant of the 1880s. This travelling exhibit looks at what happened, who was affected, and why the story still matters today #BCHistory #VancouverIsland youtu.be/xJ7P0rP95d8?...

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I don't know how old this joke format is, but it definitely existed on Usenet over 30 years ago.

Going blind and/or dying after drinking a jar of your grandpappy's homemade hooch? Still issue.

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

The Ansel Adams Trust (apparently on here as @ansel-adams.bsky.social) has spoken out against a gallery selling an unauthorized AI-generated and enshittified version of one of his images. However, the quoted thread speaks to the aesthetic issues involved, and the specific failure of the technology.

please remember: the flag on the left is the flag of the conservative and reactionary Ontario Occupation Regime in Toronto. the true flag of Toronto is on the right. thanks

“Signed, sealed, delivered, we’re yours — but for how much longer?” Toronto’s First Post Office is “Canada’s oldest purpose-built post office still in operation …. We need your support, urgently.” Full story on page 18 of TheBridge’s May issue: thebridgenews.ca/home/latesti...

Someone should give Danielle Smith a citation.

Just as Mark Carney muses about privatizing publicly owned infrastructure such as airports and ports, the British government is reestablishing public ownership of the UK rail system following privatization in the 1990s, which led to increased costs and deterioration of service.

It's the blimp, It's the blimp, Frank! www.cnn.com/2026/05/20/p...

Neither Toronto nor any other Canadian city is going to get charter city status or get out from under the thumb of their respective provincial governments without a constitutional amendment. So, good luck with that.

Prudence, justice, temperance, fortitude, faith, hope and charity.

MTH Electric Trains can kiss my ass.

Okay, I kinda want to go see this.

In this week's Scratch, @maggiemertens.bsky.social asks why writers remain on Substack—as a user of Substack herself—and interviews three writers who've left the platform for Beehiiv and Ghost. We know how hard Substack makes it to leave; we also think writers should still try do so.

Frances Widdowson and Lindsay Shepherd say they were set up for a reality show using fake interviews, fake premises and a fake talk show called Wake Up Canada lol. lmao, even nice work @theyesmen.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/karynpug...

Ball butts

Slightly increase a band A Perfect Sphere

New on DFTR: the SEU isn't really about the deficit, it's about a framework with quiet wind-downs hidden in the closet, a "don't panic" defence with no towel attached, and 3 governments all pretending they have a path to balance deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/s...

I ain't ever gonna find that thing.

"Would I shotgun a beer with this politician?"

Absolutely incredible that all these publications are busy screaming and pissing the floor about how antisemitic the Green Party of England and Wales are supposed to be while simultaneously getting out the Big Book of How To Draw The Hated Jew for their editorial cartoons

A nice cinco de mayo sunset this evening at Britannia Beach in Ottawa, where there is still significant flooding.

I can't stop looking at this photo by @bdmclarnon.bsky.social taken at Britannia Beach during tonight's mesmerizing sunset. Beautiful and violent, peaceful and threatening. Sigh.

"Listen, when I trained those leopards to eat people's faces, I had no idea..."

yes you can follow the lines of the pointed arches to either side and extend those label moulds till they meet in an acute salient prone to damage or you can stop them with a chunk of stone and then maybe carve a birb

If the Klein be Naomi you know she’s got you, homie but if the Klein be Ezra it’s like brain influenza

Will Stancil the human ablative heat shield.

I'm starting to think that maybe there should no longer be such a thing as the "family farm." Maybe agricultural land should all be owned by publicly-traded corporations and worked by unionized farm workers.

I know Tanya Moodie works all the time, but it's always nice to see her name appear on a poster for a cool-looking movie.

Let's hope his tour is full of magic and mystery.