Simply amazing that there are deadly heat waves all over the world and climate scientists predict that future summers will get progressively hotter, killing vast untold numbers of people, but there are still people who believe that trans people are the biggest contemporary threat to humanity

B: See, it matters that Cousin Ritchie is getting up early. By showing respect for work, he's learning to respect himself. CHILD: THERE ISN'T EVEN A BEAR IN THIS SHOW

a fun thing i just realized recently is because the french word for sunglasses, lunettes, basically translates as moonies, sunglasses (lunettes de soleil) are 'moonies of sun'. every time someone in french says sunglasses it's like 'ok put on your sun-moons' 🌞👄🌝 and i love that

a fun thing i just realized recently is because the french word for sunglasses, lunettes, basically translates as moonies, sunglasses (lunettes de soleil) are 'moonies of sun'. every time someone in french says sunglasses it's like 'ok put on your sun-moons' 🌞👄🌝 and i love that

*nodding solemnly with full comprehension* yes, I see. there’s a special kind of kid who can’t play sports or go to the bathroom

Trans people, I am hereby ordering you to live. Let us spite our foes with our continued existence

While everyone's "all the love to trans folks" posts are nice and it is good to see support We have been getting them for a decade now. If you want to support trans folks, hire us. Support GFMs and asks for mutual aid. Put yourself between trans folks in public if you see harassment.

you guys like being slowly cooked to death, right

This, not polar bears, is what climate crisis means. Cascading infrastructure breakdowns. Can't get around coz roads have buckled; power plants shut down coz rivers are too hot & shallow Never forget that the "economy" is a wholly owned subsidiary of nature phenomenalworld.org/analysis/glo...

“You can get fairly far without knowing all kinds of really basic stuff about how to build a [writing] career, and so it's felt important to me as I've moved along and as I've had successes to be open about some of the details that are less glamorous.” @alexicon.bsky.social #canlit

A word for journalists : When describing a man convicted of multiple sexual assaults, you need to label it as such. The article describes heinous violence then says "He then continues to have sex with her." That's not sex. That's assault. This isn't semantics. Words matter.

last night as i was falling asleep a thought came to me. which was: "what if there was a sufjan stevens 50 states album, but for quebec." so this morning...

The most dangerous thing about AI is not that the machines might one day think. It is that we are being trained, by men with enormous financial gains riding on our acquiescence, to stop thinking for ourselves.

I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...

have you seen any memes in the past few years joking about wanting to be small woodland creatures? after i’d seen a few dozen i started to get curious about why that seemed so appealing to us these days. i wrote about the phenomenon, which i’ve dubbed FROGPOSTING, for @hazlitt.bsky.social

four years ago i wrote about the intersection of queerness and hockey for @thewalrus.ca — if you've been loving (or feeling a certain way about) Heated Rivalry lately you might find this interesting!

There's an icky magazine that's exploding on social media -- and it's basically Cosmo for tradwives. This Peter Thiel-linked magazine is posting short-form, relatable videos. But when you look at the narratives it pushes, you realize those videos are a pipeline for something way more bleak:

folks when we find a guy who's saying a bunch of dumbass shit can we get back to blocking them instead of screenshotting them and talking about their dumbass shit? these losers are not worth our time & when we let them waste it we insult the revolution

if this is making you angry too then maybe you'd want to read something about the history & political valences of jaywalking/how public spaces became car spaces? idk thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

I’ll say it again: The folks in our public life most vocally obsessed with the idea of masculinity all very conspicuously act like an adolescent boy’s idea of a man, not an actual grown ass man.

Liberals

I’ve stopped treating my TBR as a task list and started treating it as a reservoir of future joy.

I appreciated this conversation, which offers a great reminder that not everything you write can be your most commented-upon piece of work. It certainly sucks when you publish something and it’s not really responded to in the way that you hoped or imagined it might be. But it’s also … fine.

Spoiler for tomorrow’s episode. WHAT HAPPENED NEXT is presented by @thewalrus.ca @alexicon.bsky.social @arsenalpulp.bsky.social @ecwpress.bsky.social #canlit Find it at all the podcast places. thewalrus.ca/podcasts/wha...

a fun writing exercise is going into your settings and enabling mandatory image alt text—you get to warm up your descriptive abilities AND help make bluesky more accessible

Molly Peacock Nonfiction Prize submissions open until June 30, 2026. #CanLit ghp-pql.com/collections/...

fun to find myself and so many pals & peers on this list 🧡

The lake-shaped excuse, my third collection of poetry, is out Oct 6 2026. Pre-order available now! A conversation between mother and daughter beyond death; an elegy, a prayer, a regret “Brilliant and painful” —Mikko Harvey bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/the... @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social

fun to find myself and so many pals & peers on this list 🧡

Over the weekend, Cannon by Lee Lai won the Doug Wright Award for Best Book. Read our coverage here:

This is horrific and unconscionable

These guys always get so close. "it's men that die in the wars, it's men that work in the mines" yeah man they do those jobs because they fucking suck. But who gets rich from it? It's not the fucking women, man.

"It is obvious that the intent is to privatize water in Ontario, and this, as we know from countless international examples, is a disaster in the making." Avi Lewis responds to the Ford govt’s move to strip municipalities of control over water infrastructure, handing it to newly created water corps

Annals of AI fuckups: an author forwarded me the email below, in which the book club scammer mistakenly sent the AI output instead of the intended email pitch. Note the "strategic analysis", which illustrates the scammers' boiled-frog approach

The creator of the capybara article is on bluesky! Here is a great supplemental thread she wrote that addresses a lot of frequently asked questions I've seen. bsky.app/profile/vero...

totally love how carney is trying to sovereignty-wash the bullshit machine. generative ai does not suddenly become acceptable and free of all its drawbacks because it’s notionally “canadian.”

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I can't find a single word in here about protecting Canadian artists from having their work stolen by AI companies, or compensating them for that stolen work. Why is it that people who create Canadian culture don't deserve accountability or control?

Seeing people stubbornly clinging to Nazi Tattoo Guy reminds me of this

The more and more I think about AI, the more that it's clear that it's older people imposing a new order on young people who have not had the chance to learn the skills that AI wants to steal from them, while older people are asking what the big problem is, knowing how to do stuff is overrated.

“Did the virus itself cause some kind of change in our brains? Because *something* happened & for some reason it's not being talked about enough.” Yes, it did—& importantly, it continues to do so bcs the pandemic didn’t actually end. There are other factors sure, but it’s the virus, too. #COVID

1/ Cuba is out of fuel, strangled by the US fuel chokehold. People are dying, systems are breaking down. This is collective punishment against a people who have done absolutely nothing except live their lives under hard conditions imposed by the US blockade for decades.

The correct—minimum—response to "that’s an AI image, you got duped" is, "&$%&!" and taking it down. Any variation of "well, it’s amusing so…" is saying you’re okay with plagiarism theftware making slop and shafting actual artists. It’s really not difficult.

New: Regretful cities are literally covering their Flock cameras with black trash bags because they cannot figure out how to immediately exit their surveillance contracts or get the cameras taken down: www.404media.co/cities-are-c...

IT HAPPENED TO ME: I Built My Entire Society Around Fanatical, Slavering Adherence To Gender Norms and Now My Own Life is Unpleasant

a friend seemed surprised earlier this month when i said i wasn't travelling to the states anymore. how is anyone supposed to say, yes, let me visit this country?

They're referring to immigrants, to human beings as "it"