Clutch Marner

“An LLM’s words shape our beliefs, decisions, and actions, yet no speaker stands behind them.” Deb Roy on how AI might be training us to “accept words without ownership and meaning without accountability.”

Bruce Springsteen releases song written Saturday, recorded yesterday, "in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good." www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKS...

The whole interview is worth it

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

New post: Which goalie can build the best all-time roster of players who scored their first NHL goal against him? www.nytimes.com/athletic/698...

This is one of the sharpest analyses of international affairs that I've heard from a Canadian leader - or any national leader - in a long time. And I suspect he wrote the main bits himself. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...

Jasmine tea beer and roasted tea beer from Japan - glad they survived the trip back to Canada. Delicious!

The Trump Regime Smear Machine is now a taxpayer funded venture that smears victims of state violence by justifying their killing. This should be familiar, it is a common practice in the aftermath of police shootings of black people (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I guess one thing I've learned is this... cruelty never produces good art. Crueulty never produces good politics. Creulty never produces good culture.

A very embarrassing moment for the FIFA Peace Prize committee

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

The 'tubs #ButtertubsMarsh #Nanaimo

Needed a relaxing Christmas Day! 🎄 Perfect afternoon for walks 'round Parksville

I kind of like this whole “We won’t buy your liquor but we will air your state-suppressed news stories” niche that Canada’s apparently carved out.

This is the full 60 Minutes segment on CECOT Bari Weiss and CBS News didn't want you to see. substack.com/@blueatlgeor...

Rick Steves rules Be a Rick Steves in any large or small way you can

Roasted tea French toast - one of the many great meals we had in Japan 🤩

Holidayyyyyyyyyyy

KINGS OF THE WEST 👑 #VWFC | #OwnTheSummit

Tech billionaires have an unprecedented ability—and incentive—to manipulate the public's perception of reality, Adam Serwer argued in February.

Now that’s a lede. Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social. Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

Great @toomanyzooz.bsky.social show in Errington (!) last night!

Here’s the thing with sports: when you’re in the high-pressure playoff spaces, it might feel like hell. But that’s the greatest thing about sports fandom: you get to feel it. You get to live and die. Feel it, live it, embrace it. You might never forget it, and how many things are like that?

In honour of Orange Shirt Day, CHLY 101.7FM in partnership with APTN, will air Remembering the Children: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a 90 minute commemorative gathering, live from Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Hear it from 4:30PM to 6PM on Tuesday September 30th on our station.

Today is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day – a time to raise awareness for the ongoing impacts of residential school and remember the children who never came home.

In which @adamserwer.bsky.social makes a useful distinction between "chickenshit" and "cowardice." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Met the moment

I wonder if Kimmel knew he would be that emotional in the monologue. I'm glad. He could have been a bulletproof smartass, but instead he was a human who was genuinely touched by the support he received in the face of actual authoritarian bullshit, and he was appropriately mad about the bullshit.

CBC’s About That w/ Andrew Chang does a really good job explaining the FCC’s role in the Jimmy Kimmel purge and why that is very bad here:

All for today's Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and David Letterman haymakers

Jon Stewart's Post-Kimmel Primer on Free Speech in the Glorious Trump Era youtu.be/_GXNJ3V9lzg

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

David Letterman on his career mocking presidents: “Beating up on these people, rightly or wrongly, accurately or perhaps inaccurately, in the name of comedy—not once were we squeezed by anyone from any governmental agency, let alone the dreaded FCC.” Watch more: bit.ly/4n0Uv2p

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Pretty happy to crack open this beauty from Driftwood after aging it for 10 years. Definitely worth the wait! #BCCraftBeer

Frog fountain at The Butchart Gardens

Sunsets are beauties from up here eh

Great tunes from Camille Miller and the OG Guilty Birds Band at the Nanaimo Bar

Ottawa Bluesfest! 📸 Olympus Trip 35 🎞️Kodak Tri-X 400 Developed in Nanaimo by Aviva Stein-Wotten

Shout-out to The Drake in Victoria for their Thirsty Chef celebration -- one of my favourite events of the year!

This Spanish buildup is something else -- entertaining game so far

Well, that was an awesome day

Nice evening for a walk 'round Rathtrevor Provincial Park #ParksvilleBC #VancouverIsland

This Friday: celebrating my birthday with great friends and some of the finest #Nanaimo musicians at Big Bang Cider! -Dan Marshall (Shakamoraine) -Scot Rounding (The Kiltlifters) -Dave St. Jean (Dope Soda) -Myc Sharratt & Anatol McGinnis -an opening DJ set with DJ Doc @chly.ca See you there! ❤️

love to see all of them showing up

Never in the history of prose has there been more evidence of joy while writing about pain

Hey mom, I made the photo album! Great photos, @residualimage.bsky.social -- hope you had a great time in Nanaimo 🙌📸

When ICE agents questioned a group of 11- to 14-year-olds who’d just finished batting practice, their coach, Youman Wilder, stepped in. “I’m willing to die to make sure these kids can get home,” he recounted afterward.