do you think anyone in the group chat sent an “omg” in it when the news broke? because I’m definitely that group chat member in mine

Our secret Canadian weapon.

I personally think at least as much attention should be paid to the systematic torture of vulnerable sick people that “health insurance” companies engage in through their denials of coverage and claims as the murder of the CEO of one of those offending companies.

I wonder if someone will be able to calculate how many deaths the CEO of UnitedHealth was responsible for

Having viewed hours of footage it's clear to me that the roadrunner is afraid of engaging in open debate with the coyote

This thread is the best kind of internet. Go ahead - look through, and tell them your favorite food and they’ll answer you with video about how they grew it

I recently got to try on a replica of an ancient Greek helmet and it was LOUD in there just with people talking, you really did need your noise cancelling headphones in battle back in the day.

Making masala popcorn in anticipation of Indian media/BJP meltdown

Erik Loomis (@erikloomis.bsky.social) on Sunil Amrith's “The Burning Earth: A History” for the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social #skystorians #history lareviewofbooks.org/article/chro...

Postdoctoral fellowship in Palestine Studies, at the University of Toronto! Apply by 6 January 2025.

Postdoctoral fellowship in Palestine Studies, at the University of Toronto! Apply by 6 January 2025.

We've known how to solve traffic for a very, very long time.

Just saw from a friend's post that Facebook is taking down the Yellowhead Institute's Treaty Map as "spam." The corporate internet truly is a wasteland.

It's giving Gone With The Wind

Founding scholar of York University's school of environmental studies (not a joke! at least, not intentionally!)

The scouring of Ontario Place - see some recent views of the site taken by documentary photographer Steven Evans up at @spacing.bsky.social this morning. spacing.ca/toronto/2024...

I just signed up for a beginner's class in woodworking through the amazing Learn4life program of the Toronto District School Board. Super excited for the winter session to start!

I mean, didn't Bill Clinton also call them Judea and Samaria a couple of weeks ago?

Demonstrators arrested outside White House as they ask Biden admin to uphold law & enact arms embargo on Israel. (Given the US letter 30 days ago suggesting policy "implications" if Israel didn't improve conditions in Gaza & that Israel failed criteria, Israel is therefore in violation of US law)

I don't know who needs to hear this but:

Doctors Without Borders in Gaza says 100% of the patients it has treated in the past 24 hours have been children

my body is not a temple, it’s this:

Feeling like Indian auntie just arrived from 30 degree weather to single digit Canadian fall. The temperature has plummeted a little too suddenly, even for me who loves the fall.

At this point, any western journalist that trots out the cliché that India is a democracy is failing basic fact-checking. Autocracies, from Porfiriato Mexico to Purim’s Russia, regularly use elections- holding elections doesn’t make India democratic. www.theguardian.com/world/2023/s...

reason for india's annexation of kashmir in a tearing hurry becomes more apparent

This. Also minor note: this is a sign of bureaucratic dysfunction. When state agencies aim to please a would-be king this is the kind of deeply stupid incompetence that happens. No IFS officer in the past would have been caught dead talking about, let alone getting involved in a RAW op in this way.

I see far too many Indians falling for the "Canada is now unsafe for Hindus" fiction that the government is selling insidiously through its social media arm, and I will only say to my fellow countryfolk, as someone who survived multiple kinds of violence in India: lol.

I have a few questions but I hope they find their eye.

PARC is announcing the 2024-2025 Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarship for women of Palestinian heritage pursuing a PhD in the humanities or social sciences. One-year awards of up to $25k for any expenses associated w/ pursuit of the degree. Info sesh 10/18, deadline 1/8: www.parc-us-pal.org/tanya-baker-...

DO NOT DRINK THE TUDOR MILK

The syllabus builder thingy my institution demands I use is going to drive me to drink. Forms, forms, more forms, and I actually have to fill them out in duplicate, AND the blighted thing lost one crucial page three times.

Thrilled to announce that soon, for the first time in years, I will be earning over minimum wage. That is what PhD stipends and adjunct instructor earnings look like. If you are tenured, you have to organize for better.

Intense cat

Ok, I have established that one show I can't make sense of if I try watching it with Spanish subtitles (for language practice) is The Bear.

People in Canada, do you have tips for job interviews (specific to nonprofit jobs)? Links to resources also welcome. Thanks!

You, a Conservative, know you've messed up REAL BAD when the Toronto Sun is mad at you.

Now we are being ushered directly into fascism.

Forgive the Bird App link, but please note Twitter is actively censoring political dissidents on behalf of the Indian government again

I see myself in this cat

Takes me right back to my former life as a copyeditor of academic writing. See also: Kurtosis.

Best decision ever: mentioning cats in my bio here. Cat accounts are now following me, so I am following them back.

Not for the first time, I thank my stars for giving me a creepily good memory for faces and names. Have I met you once? Sorry, now I remember you.

me: do you think he called himself T.S. Eliot so nobody would notice that T. Eliot is toilet backwards? librarian: stop talking

Folks in Bangalore, a quick reminder that my band is playing at this weekend's Homemade Sessions. If you like the blues and are free on Saturday evening, swing by Kalyan Nagar. We promise to entertain. Tickets here: https://sklbx.com/2l7cRQ1o

Found this copy of Em and the Big Hoom but then realized I've given it to everyone I know in Toronto who I thought would like it. Note to self: make more friends.

Seen folks struggling to process the latest climate emergency news so thought I’d reshare the essay I wrote about my struggle to reject apocalyptic thinking, how it feels to live in nested crises, and bluebonnets filling the space where a lake used to be. https://kenyonreview.org/piece/alyssa-harad/

It has been years but suddenly the orthopedic hardware in my ankle is hurting again.

i would suggest that the philadelphia airport has a raccoon *opportunity* karen

Things are really off. Maybe climate change is producing psychic effects too.