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“Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security.” Well. For those of us wondering if he’d walk the walk of the Davos speech, this is a pretty big answer. Nope.

Noticed this too. Manosphere men are being highlighted and platformed on many dating shows with references like “traditional man”, “masculine energy”, “provider and protector”, “the 80-20 rule” as short-hand

By the way, if you're in TV or film, have pitched Warner or Paramount or really any studio, & believe that the Warner-Paramount deal will harm your ability to work or diminish your pay, go to this website and share your story. That's the evidence needed for a state AG case: blockthemerger.com

It’s here!!! I’m so proud of the work we’ve all put in on this project, and thank you everyone who came to our launch party panel! Getting to speak about my comic and why I care about anti-censorship was so meaningful to me, and I hope folks who read it get a little catharsis <3

It feels surreal that we’ve finally met this goal! I’m so proud of my cofounders who worked hard everyday to push us forward to make this happen @itsnero.com @reimenayee.com @joandark.com @aaronlosty.bsky.social are the best leaders and I’m excited to shape the future of comics with our membership!

Happy 3rd anniversary to us! With a new year, we have a BIG announcement 📢: we are now incorporated as a nonprofit organization and are changing our name to CARTOONISTS UNITED! Full changes will be rolled out by late summer. Read here for the full statement: cartoonist.coop/journal/cart...

Our Anti-Censorship Comix Anthology is live today! Check out this collection of protest comics centering taboo topics. Available online or as a downloadable PDF. Co-op Members are invited to our launch party tonight at 5 PM ET! VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED. cartoonist.coop/acj2026

So the BBC promised Davidson and StudioCanal (who made I Swear) that any swearing tics would be edited out from broadcast, and instead they left them in despite a two hour delay, and even put a fucking microphone right in front of him to ensure they picked it up - he was sat at the back of room.

The BDS movement launches two new tools for ethical tourism. If you are a hospitality host, pledge to make your B&B, hostel, or hotel a Sanctuary of Peace - sanctuariesofpeace.org If you are a traveler, pledge to drop Booking and Airbnb from your travel plans - loom.ly/ZdTnKaI

I'm calling it right now, the new X-Files with two Black leads is going to be amazing and subversive to its source material the same way that Lovecraft Country was to Lovecraftian horror. White people are going to struggle to get it and insist it does a disservice. It will suffer for that.

Tell them about Canadian Tire money, Ryan

Yes, I remember when I had my first child and had to build 30 data centers to feed them.

It feels like we’re no longer in the “scrappy” cultural era like we were in for a while in the 90s-2010s, and I wonder what it means to have lost that. There’s less of a sense of possibility that individuals with limited resources can create things, and less interest.

🌼My new game is here!🥀 "She danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died." alienmelon.itch.io/flower A game poem and interactive fiction about The End. You play the very last flower left on Earth, bringing peace to long dead soil. #IndieGame #VideoGame #GamePoem #Game

So archive.today (archive.is, archive.md, etc.), the archive site that is frequently used to bypass paywalls, added javascript to their site that causes unwitting users to DDoS a blogger they don't like... Not good gyrovague.com/2026/02/01/a...

From the Star’s Jennifer Pagliaro, @fxplante.bsky.social and me: www.thestar.com/news/investi...

When a hacker named "Waifu" and "Judische" began posting death threats against security researcher Allison Nixon, she had no idea why he targeted her. So she set out to unmask him. The quest led her to Connor Moucka, a 25-yr-old Canadian who was ringleader of infamous Snowflake/AT&T hacks. My story:

Would be nice if people stopped restating the false claim that Waymos have live humans driving them. That was based on a misleading Futurism headline that was debunked in its own article. There is way too much hype about AI tech but it does no good to misrepresent the state of things the other way.

An update on the man who was murdered by the RCMP. His partner contradicts the story told by the police--and the story is a shooting in cold blood. Content warning for this one: the story is a difficult one.

Will those anti-capitalists ever learn?

Do you dream of revenge on billionaires? THEN WE HAVE THE GAME FOR YOU. Back our indie game made with rage + love on Kickstarter NOW and play our BRAND NEW DEMO on Steam www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe...

Featuring appearances by Flock, Amazon Ring, ShotSpotter, Evolv, Axon, Fusus, and more.

Here's a Youtube link to the massive annual CCTV Chinese New Year Gala 春节联欢晚会, for those who celebrate. If you don't need to watch the entire 5h53min music, skits, and national unity, you can cheat and skip directly to Faye Wong, at 3h 20min. www.youtube.com/live/dKC5XWD...

This is definitely going around my world as well. “If you aren’t building 17 things right now you’re going to be left behind and broke in a year.” “Tech as we know it is going to be obsolete, the only role is the product designer” etc. it’s exhausting and my stress has never been worse.

i didn’t think this would be an unpopular opinion but wuthering heights is about racism, and it’s ridiculous that it keeps getting made into movies with a white actor being cast as heathcliff 😑

For LitHub, Harriet Murav and I wrote about translating Holocaust literature in these our genocidal times — to share some of the thoughts that have accompanied us during our work on “In the Shadow of the Holocaust” in the last few years, the years of Ukraine and also Gaza. lithub.com/translating-...

So uh Ars Technica ran an article that had a bunch of fake quotes in it and now seems to have taken it down rather than issue a correction? web.archive.org/web/20260213... Page is now down: arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/a...

A Tel Aviv-based group that describes its mission as going on the "legal offensive against Israel’s enemies" says it is trying to "shut down" Canadian news organization @readthemaple.com Shurat HaDin is lobbying Canadian police to arrest a Canadian journalist www.readthemaple.com/a-mossad-lin...

Me, having lived through 2002 and 2003: Nickelback was the worst, played everywhere and their music was cookie cutter and generic YouTube 20 years younger than you: It was actually a psyop created by music critics Me: You weren't even born yet when we lived through it, sit the hell down

New issue of my anti-social media newsletter coming soon! (It's an edited digest of my social media posts from the last few months, for those of us who wish to be Less Terminally Online.) buttondown.com/jason

It’s not every journalist there but I personally know that the New York Times has in recent years published lies without any fact checking And I know this with complete confidence because the lies were about me and I know that no fact checkers contacted me This is a huge problem

New issue of my anti-social media newsletter coming soon! (It's an edited digest of my social media posts from the last few months, for those of us who wish to be Less Terminally Online.) buttondown.com/jason

Strong contender for best subhed of 2026

Do we have any real identification of the shooter yet, or is the hon. member for Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream using one of our nation’s worst tragedies to incite hatred based on nothing at all? #bcpoli #cdnpoli

The existence of application fees for open calls reveals something deeper than cost. They expose how the art world has come to understand access as something artists should pay for in advance.

Fullbody otter commission for Loial Otter on TG, who also requested that the design be made into a sticker for my ko-fi shop!! Thank you so much for commissioning me! 🦦🌆 #formline #telekitneticart #indigenousart

Running practice #Agott #WitchHatAtelier #TheAtelierofWitchHat #Animation

Sometimes it takes a book to remind us of how all-encompassing art can be. Our favorite reads this month include a history of Parisian artist hub Montmartre, a colorful monograph by Yankunytjatjara artist Kaylene Whiskey, and more.

I will reiterate one more time I don't think this was the inevitable outcome of generative AI's development, there is an imaginable world where this stuff is creative-driven and augmentative. It's just impossible to miss the current ethos of "put those uppity artists in their place" in tech.

The Cartoonist Co-op is proud to announce the Anti-Censorship Comix Anthology; a collection of protest comics in the face of ongoing censorship against erotica, horror, and transgressive art. Available Feb 25th. Viewer discretion is advised! Art by Kewpie @kewpieart.bsky.social

I posted this in the replies to @jimacosta.bsky.social’s original post about the Epstein survivors ad. Please make it do numbers. Not enough people are aware of how thoroughly astroturfed the world of anti-sex-trafficking nonprofits is.

One of my favourite foreign policy photo games is 'count the women'. Because it's a visual representation of how much the entire discourse has changed in just a year Nine women, 47 men, if you're interested

I understand why non-public servants in Ottawa are rolling their eyes at public servant complaints about the return to office mandate. But as Luke points out, what is the point of going to a building where you have no office and are spending the entire time on MS teams video calls? It's ludicrous.

Powerful photo series on display at Native Arts Society (photos by @joshuabest.bsky.social) about their Indigenous Led Winter Night Outreach initiative. Support them by going to torontoindigenoushr.com and tapping donate.

My latest indie game roundup featuring experimental tabletop and video games, and just other games that I thought were cool virtualmoose.org/2026/02/06/i...

Brockman had to have INTENTIONALLY avoided inviting non-white scientists to these events where Epstein would show up because Epstein didn't believe in the intellectual equality of non-white scientists to white ones If you're a white scientist in an all white space, ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT WHY

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"The museum would prefer, it seems, to see the persecution of the Jews as a singularity beyond all comparison... But this idea threatens the universal standards it is meant to protect." www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...

If you’re curious as to how rough it is, in these fantasy streets?