#WorldPangolinDay #2026sketches Day 8 #art #illustration

Still have a few of these stickers left. No extra tariffs on them, just some whimsy and rage. www.feistywaters.com/merch/p/tari...

Every day there are new announcements from the Canadian federal government gutting science programs. I was just notified that the National Boreal Caribou Knowledge Consortium (NBCKC) is dead. Terrible shame to do this at time when boreal caribou are in real trouble.

the Laurentian Elite secretly control the Olympics to conspire against western canada

I gotta admit, before this NDP leadership debate I was leaning Lewis or MacPherson, but now I’m actually liking Johnston.

The French language portion of this NDP leadership debate is really painful to watch

They said it. We’re all thinking it.

The thirst trap commeth.

I'm going to actively begin the process of migrating off of Substack to Ghost. I have a bestseller Substack, in the top 50 for world politics, but I can't justify using this platform. Nothing should change for my subscribers except possibly those with iOS subscriptions. I'll keep you posted :)

Shut up everyone, New Olympic animal just dropped!

it is so embarrassing that we can’t get trump on the epstein stuff. After access Hollywood and Miss teen USA and the E Jean Carroll verdict, it’s like we let Jeffrey Dahmer go three times and then found him with a hundred human heads and we‘re standing there like are you SURE these aren’t yours

May Virginia Giuffre's memory be for a revolution.

The Best Time to have left Substack was 3 years ago, the next best time is right now.

30 years ago today, the words ‘embiggens’ and ‘cromulent’ were introduced to the world. “Lisa the Iconoclast” first aired February 18, 1996.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

every Olympic event should include wolf dogs

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

DOG AT THE OLYMPICS FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS

UK people! My new book THE CASTLE - my first in 11 years - is 25% off to preorder at Waterstones from NOW until midnight Friday night (Feb 20). Offer code FEB26. www.waterstones.com/book/the-cas... I'm being cloak and dagger about the story for now, but I like this Shortlist preview...

Nadine Navigates a Gullywasher #clearingaclog

Thank you for your service, sir. 🫡 🫡 🫡 🫡 www.popsci.com/environment/...

2026 basically

New 'elbows up' just dropped: Protecting our sovereignty by destroying our capacity to tell our country's history. Ask any Canadian historian and they will tell you that things were already extremely dire at Library and Archives Canada. Not sure it will even be functional after this.

This is appalling. This department has been getting by with minimal staff as it is. At a time when keeping record of the world before AI is so critical, this is so short-sighted.

Happy Lunar New Year everyone! This is the kind of Year of the Horse I want to see in the world in 2026:

Reskeeting AI is just as bad as posting AI. Had to unfollow quite a few people this week

seeing news about a "memory shortage." it's not a shortage. billionaires who hate you hoarded it all so they could make everything worse and stupider and more expensive, just like with most shortages

AI is becoming the black hole of resources. Money, energy, water, processors, and now RAM. Sucking us into the void. Next thing you know, it’ll be distorting time.

The blockade on Cuba is unconscionable.

Happy Lunar New Year everyone! This is the kind of Year of the Horse I want to see in the world in 2026:

Sounds like we should make this the most-watched Colbert interview of the year. The bad guys sure would hate that, but they keep forgetting about the #StreisandEffect, don’t they? Also, @jamestalarico.bsky.social is one of the most impressive candidates I’ve seen in the United States in a while.

I see that only a tiny fraction of you, my Bluesky friends, also follow @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social on here. Why not go follow right now? My guess is the more eyeballs we get here, the more attention we can give Bluesky relative to other social media platforms!

It’s the Great Backyard Bird Count this weekend. The first bird I saw when I stepped out of my home to record today was a bald eagle! www.birdcount.org

Bluesky is THE platform for science. It’s also THE platform for city-building and urbanism.

The ethical thing to do is to turn all the their research over to non-profits in other countries. If they can’t make money helping people, let others do it for free.

Holy moly: Seattle’s millionaire tax, passed last year, is expected to bring in $115 million in its 1st year, way more than the $50 million anticipated. The funds will go to the city’s new social housing developer publicola.com/2026/02/11/t... (Is NY Gov Hochul paying attention?)

BRAINS is my award-winning comic, now available for purchase in print, from Radiator Comics www.radiatorcomics.com/shop/uncateg... for $15 and digitally through itch for $6

Pretty much the most important thing happening in the world right now. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

It was less than 10 years ago that this was considered impossible. And from what I read there wasn't much dissent. Everyone accepted this was the reality. Time to update some assumptions.

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

"I hope to explore a poetry degree and devote myself to the practice of courageous speech," Mrinank Sharma wrote in his resignation letter. globalnews.ca/news/1166453...

Suck it, eh?