An ideological commitment I have is to be suspicious of totalities. I saw someone on here claiming the strikes on Venezuela were purely ideological and resource grabbing wasn't part of the equation which feels like a great time to remember no motive is ever that pure and singular

Is this an appropriate time time to bring up the fact that the US last declared war in 1942?

Back in 2016, I interviewed @markfallon.bsky.social, who predicted (based on his experiences at Guantanamo) that without fully documenting and punishing war-on-terror abuses, the US under Obama had only managed to hit pause on some of its atrocities and was destined to continue as a rogue state.

Starting 2026 with some unknown birthdays: 🐡🧪👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623 – 1673), 17th-century English aristocrat, philosopher, poet, scientist, writer, with her imaginary world from her strange sci-fi novel ‘The Blazing World’ which she appended to 🧵

Since 2021, the Multi Unit Residential Acquisition (MURA) Program has provided $165 million to 21 community housing providers, helping safeguard more than 1,000 rental homes in 34 buildings across the city. A Request for Proposals for new acquisitions is now open tinyurl.com/2esuup26

Crisis Group had a good write up here: www.crisisgroup.org/latin-americ...

It's weird being a from the War on Terror generation because a Wikipedia article refers to a war in the 19th century as "long and costly" and I'm expecting 20+ years and it lasted 6

It's of fundamental importance that we develop the clearest picture possible of what Time is it

The Wikipedia bug has me bad. I stepped into the Reference Library and as I rode the glass elevator up was struck, as I almost always am, by the grandeur of the place but this time I thought, "I could do so much research here"

They renamed the subway station, which had been named after a prominent slave owner, and used the shorthand name of the proximal downtown university, renamed to something four fifth meaningless, which was previously named after a prominent designer of Canada's school systems, residential and public

One of the most unforgettable images capturing the vibrant promise of the new year, by the great Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy: 7 A.M. (New Year's Morning), c. 1930 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

January First - Octavio Paz trans. Elizabeth Bishop with the author Happy New Year's everyone!

fun science fact! it is impossible to be "down bad". down is not a real direction

(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne

This feels especially important given that Albertan elections are often determined by the Calgary suburbs and the ANDP is going to be unusually strong in Calgary this year

Cis comedians making great trans jokes is always such a treat

expanded edition 📽️

I knew a thinker on the other site who talked about trying to always keep a meaningful amount of capacity available so she could be ready to surf when the perfect wave rolled in That swems impossible some (most) days but I've missed some good opportunities because I wasn't doing that

A New Year’s Resolution for ALL of us: stop posting shitty X screengrabs of shitty opinions from shitty people. Yes, I’ve done it too and probably will again but The Spice Must NOT Flow 👇🏼

A reviewer once described me as "The Little Prince drawn by El Greco"

"new order" v. "boring old farts" in Sounds, 6 Nov 1976.

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Also, do we mean people with a million dollars in liquid cash or people with more than a mil in assets? Most people who bought property in Toronto in the 20th century are paper millionaires

Inauspicious places to approach cuties: The baggage carousel at Pearson at 1:07 am on a Tuesday

"Annoying 8 year olds keep wanting to walk and bike to school despite city's best efforts to make it too dangerous." creativebyrovelo.com/therovelorecord

If you're in Toronto and looking for good folks to run with, hit me up!

Lots of community care in the quotes and replies of this. Ppl finding what they, specially, can offer a better world

Grandpare, what were the 20's like?

Grandpare, what were the 20's like?

The Lord of The Rings movies were rated PG-13. By current rules that means that each film could contain one use of the word "Fuck". Which line are you altering to insert the most useful swear word? "I can't carry it for you, but I can Fucking carry you"

Meu Wrapped 2025

Car traffic is a DDoS attack on cities.

If people want to see a Christian holiday that has *actually* been completely conquered by capitalism and divested of meaning they should look at Valentines Day There are no Valentines services, no popular Valentines Day hymns, no cultural Christians attending their once-a-year V-Day service w mom

Being the child of a nurse has prepared me to spend Dec 25th posting on a niche microblogging site safe in the knowledge that Christmas, like heaven, according to the Hold Steady, is whenever we can get together (tomorrow because both my sisters are busy today

Learning now that by opening a Waymo’s door as you walk past it you can take it out commission AND create $20 of profit for a gig worker. Sounds like a win-win

It really is about the notes you don’t play

It’s high time we put the isthmus back in Christhmus.

Merriam Christmas

Why Christmas is a Christian Holiday A thread for Nittel Nacht ♟️

"We are resolute in our support of Palestinians’ right of self-determination" We are using our boldest typefaces, our most strident cliches. If nothing improves, we will be forced to escalate our rhetoric from half-hearted to three quarters-hearted. For the sake of all, we pray that's not necessary

The economy is a paranormal entity that our greatest dimensional scholars (macroeconomists) understand only superficially. They have induced a variety of changes in it by manipulating arcane forces like "money supply" with some success. But it remains protean and unpredictable.

In the dark depth of winter, I wish you the coziness of a dog snoring softly by a fire place Sound on

I felt really connected to my queer ancestors when I saw this image of a transmasc priest doing a handfasting for this transfemme polycule

The autistic Serenity Prayer: Grant me the Courage to explain myself when it would make things better The Fortitude to stay silent when it would make things worse And the Wisdom to know the difference