Zelensky’s strategy remains to agree to things so as to show Trump that he’s playing along, - knowing Putin isn’t going to accept any of this anyway - hoping that will finally convince Trump to turn on Russia. Putin’s will watch and see what Zelensky gives up - and then keep fighting regardless.

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate. Be more patient with your enemies this year. It will drive them crazy

Can I despair-post on main for a minute or is it not the time

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

you have entered the

I hope Mustapha Kharbouch, the Palestinian student who was wrongly accused by many conservatives, sues the hell out of every one.

I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.

The one way I relate to Trump is that whenever I learn an interesting fact, I too am driven to eagerly natter about it to anyone that comes within earshot. Of course mine isn’t talking about bombs at a Hanukkah dinner, but I’m open to party invitations

don’t know if the dry humour of this sign on the Guangzhou metro line was intended but I’m laughing at it anyway

Full-time AI hater career continues

“The spaces where art thrives carry value beyond money, but without money, they cannot exist. The more they bleed away, the fewer places there are for art to thrive, and the more it slips out of our lives.”- @doubleemmartin.bsky.social Many fond memories-let’s support WECC to hold many more.

Tales from going to visit a loved one in China, stopping for the night in Japan to break up the flying, passing out in a hotel, waking up just after 11 pm to a commotion + all my walls shaking, falling back asleep for a couple hours, then waking up and checking the news

right. an extremely vocal subset of GOP voters are motivated by pure grievance + desire for punitive moves. Those folks are happy with the Trump GOP. but the electoral decision was held by less-engaged voters who just vaguely disliked Biden/Harris and the price of eggs, and they’ve got nada.

besides the raging Nazi infestation, I realized what else makes Twitter so bad now: no more dunking. dunking on bad tweets used to be fun. Now you can’t dunk, because there’s an extremely high chance any bad tweet is rage bait for monetized engagement and you don’t dare reward it

“too many sinks” is the new “too many fingers”

that essay could have been arguing that puppies are cute, and if it had the same total absence of critical thinking or reasoned argument, I would have failed it too

This is an incredible work of combat journalism. The most raw, real and terrifying testament to what it’s like to fight this war, and its cost. Difficult to watch, emotionally and visually, so bear in mind. (Nothing I would call overly graphic / gory for those sensitive.) youtu.be/Nf4Cgy56slU?...

Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen

an editor at @thelocal.to unravels a freelancer pitching, and successfully selling, AI-generated stories — including in some notable publications. this is a must-read thelocal.to/investigatin...

I can’t open twitter right now without losing my marbles but please know that 90% of replies to any Tweet about Ukraine and especially Donbas are absolute propaganda bullshit spouted by people who have never spent a second there or know anyone from there

this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics

perfectly summarized by Vincent

Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.

Who else is watching Pluribus because I just finished the second episode and this show rules

Just the president of the United States rationalizing that a Washington Post reporter was basically asking to be murdered and cut to pieces with a bone saw because of his reporting. As he sits next to the thug who ordered it.

This is ten times funnier due to the venue

I keep saying this, but: with empathy to those who’d want this in their grief, a key part of healing grief is coming to accept that there will be no new interactions with that person. It really isn’t healthy to feed this to people who are emotionally vulnerable.

I had a nervous breakdown this week and then the spirit of grey cup healed me and I wrote about grey cup fun!! this is not even a joke www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

This makes me homicidal

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

my audio transcription software deciding that “Grey Cups” must be “break ups” is very funny to me

I don’t want to brag but the recent commanding general of the United States Space Command wants to take me on a date and get to know me pretty better

A year ago we ran this piece, on the links of sacrifice and memory between Manitoba and Ukraine. Then I was in Ukraine; today I get to visit @prairiecatgardener.bsky.social and her family on this side of the ocean.

in today’s @winnipegfreepress.com: as we look to Remembrance Day, a reflection on the most viscerally unsettling memorial I’ve ever seen, and how it showed me why — and what — we need to remember. www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/colu...

It continues to appear that the people with all the world’s money have gone completely insane

lol she got his ass and he knows it

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

in today’s @winnipegfreepress.com: as we look to Remembrance Day, a reflection on the most viscerally unsettling memorial I’ve ever seen, and how it showed me why — and what — we need to remember. www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/colu...

Just shut this whole company down, man. Image 1: www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u... Image 2: www.404media.co/openais-sora...

The danger of how sensitive social media algorithms are is highlighted by the fact that yesterday, I idly clicked on a random Tweet that crossed my feed and saw the OP was part of eating disorder Twitter; and today, my feed is totally inundated with “thinspo” pro-anorexia posts.

I tend to agree with this. If AI works like its cheerleaders claim/hope it will - replacing whole swathes of human labour - then they need a real economic plan for dealing with the consequences of that. This can only mean heavily redistributing the profits.

there will come a day when there are no more presses, and I will miss them. beautiful machines, beautiful to hold a newspaper in your hands. digital isn’t and has never been the same.

not like that

well that’s devastating

People on here will post anything. 'Baseball games have 9 innings.' No they don’t. That isn’t true.

I’d like to go back in time to 2013 when I was moved to sports and assigned as the Goldeyes reporter and so had to learn the sport of baseball, and not do that