This guy is getting FAR more flack for not speaking French than he got for delaying the flights of half a million travelers when he expected flight attendants to continue to work FOR FREE and didn't expect them to defy a governmental back-to-work order, which again, required them to work FOR FREE.

Hahaha, ok, that's pretty good.

It is increasingly clear that Viktor Orbán is afraid of losing next month's election and is pulling out all the stops to rig his victory. euobserver.com/208735/inter...

More progress on the Empire Army! Did a pretty basic job on these handgunners. In ranks they'll look perfectly fine without being fine-tuned to perfection 😁 #WarhammerCommunity #Warhammer #Painting #Miniatures

To fail a call and response once may be seen as misfortune. To fail it twice, in under a minute, looks like carelessness.

This recurring line on "purity tests" around the Left - Harry Potter, BDS, etc. - are ultimately calls for the Left to have no values. To have no hard lines. So the Right is allowed to shift the conversation to where their hard lines are acceptable discourse, and ours are considered "extreme."

Carney has some explaining to do: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Wow. What an amazing talent Katherine Rundell has.

Days without a weird mediocre white dude crashing out on BlueSky and claiming it's the fault of the userbase somehow: 0.

Easiest block of my life.

Of all the institutions hijacked and gutted by the fascists, NASA hurts me the most. An organization that dreamed, collaborated, and sought deeper understanding of the universe. Now a plaything for broligarchy childish fantasies, pouring wasteful vanity into the black holes in their hearts.

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

Paging @rachelgilmore.bsky.social - Ghost is now offering podcast integration through Transistor.fm. Hoping this might be the tool you were looking for to move away from Substack! www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBV8...

Going to keep banging on this: it is stupid and arbitrary as hell to assign %GDP as the metric of a healthy armed forces, particularly when we have zero clarity about what our foreign policy is. Not knowing who we are as a country means we're arming up for a potential fascist-allied Canadian gov.

Oh my god fuck off and die already.

people on bluesky may be annoying but people on threads are braindead

What's especially fucked about this is that Israel would likely claim that they can't support it because they want to reserve the Holocaust as "the gravest crime against humanity." Norm Finkelstein was absolutely right: it's become vital to their identity that they be The Greatest Victims in History

YouTube is kind of the only open platform out there if you want to do video journalism. And that's too bad, because Google pretty clearly hates journalism and wants to discourage it wherver possible.

VicPD announces they "will no longer provide traffic control or related police resources for the street portion" of weekly marches for Palestine in #yyj VicPD stopping "to protect the health and well‑being of its officers." This topic comes up in criticism of VicPD's budget. Not touched on here.

On a completely unrelated note: the live action One Piece is terrific, and I'm delighted to say that at least two of the lead cast are absolute gems using their platforms for good.

This recurring line on "purity tests" around the Left - Harry Potter, BDS, etc. - are ultimately calls for the Left to have no values. To have no hard lines. So the Right is allowed to shift the conversation to where their hard lines are acceptable discourse, and ours are considered "extreme."

1. "Death of the author" is an intellectual exercise about reading a work's themes and messages independently of the author's intentionality, not about moral relativism of the author's values in a real-world context. 2. Therefore, calling on ppl to own their own moral decisions is not unreasonable.

It is very, very funny that he refutes none of this.

One of the best follows on BlueSky is @hideokojimaen.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp because he just randomly hops on, spams a bunch of cool shit with no explanation at all then vanishes again

Discworld is especially great because it is largely unfilmable. There've been some decent enough tries - Wyrd Sisters by Cosgrove Hall is probably the best - but the fact is so much of what makes the books is Pratchett's incredible language and humour, which can't be captured in any other medium.

Tomorrow is an excellent day to pick up and read the first book in a series about wizards and witches and magic and the intrigue and machinations of a magical world with a disproportionately important magical school. That's right, I'm talking about The Colour of Magic, the first Discworld book.

Israel has been attacking Lebanon and violating its sovereignty since at least 1968, when Israeli commandos landed in helicopters at Beirut airport and destroyed 12 passenger planes belonging to Lebanese airlines

I'm on the CBC! 🥰 Thanks to @timfordwrites.bsky.social for this lovely interview!

Just a reminder, if you're still engaging with Harry Potter stuff in 2026, fuck off and get lost.

I had the immense pleasure of chatting with @faitherinhicks.bsky.social on her latest work, INBETWEENS, inspiration, embarking on a career in the arts, and what it means for this moment in the creative discourse. Check it out:

If you needed any more reasons to stop reading the Atlantic, the fact that they chose to publish Jesse Brown should tip that particular stack.

93. Do not pursue even deeper integration with (and dependence on) the US in the energy sector. This is the exact opposite of what you campaigned on. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

Also, the arguments in favour of watching this show are ridiculous. You can pirate the old movies. You can get the books from the library. But if you're still insisting you MUST watch this, you just want to be pandered to. You want the same story read to you ad nauseam, but with new silly voices.

With the HP trailer dropping tomorrow, here's the whole deal: If you watch the show, hell even just the trailer, I will think less of you. I will dislike you. I will think you don't care about trans people. That's it. It's been years. There's no wiggle room. No qualifiers. You care or you don't.

I guess once we decided Israel could just murder everyone in Gaza, ignoring them as they move on to murdering everyone in Lebanon was the next logical step 🫤

You have my Gnome Stick

Btw Reacher actor Alan Ritchson? A Christian who said on record “Trump is a rapist and a con man, and yet the entire Christian church seems to be treat him like he’s their poster child, and it’s unreal. I don’t understand it.” & speaks out against police brutality www.menshealth.com/entertainmen...

Bet you a quid the guy who thought he could fight Alan Ritchson is also one of those morons who think they could take a bear or return a serve from Serena Williams

Ritchson was travelling at a low enough rate of speed that he was able to avoid hitting this man, who: - had ample time to anticipate Ritchson's approach - deliberately stepped out in front of Ritchson - repeatedly refused to get out of his way and assaulted Ritchson

The world is run by small-minded, emotionally stunted men who think they can fill the voids in their hearts by slapping their names on arbitrary "achievements."

To clarify: the helicopters are not the implausible part of this proposal. And the rest of the technology is not necessarily impossible, but 2028 is absurd and it's completely unclear why this should take priority over sample return or the dozens of other fully planned activities now on hold.

Completely Harmless Hydrogen Airships

Increasingly feels like NASA has been seized by the Trump admin the same way every other institution has.

Every time a Democrat starts a thread it's like waving goodbye to the Titanic

The Art of the No Deals

Absolute joke country.

Again I would like to reiterate, as something of an expert on the man and his work: there is actually nothing funnier or less film-literate than accusing someone of *ripping off Quentin Tarantino*

BAILEY PUPDATE! The bad news is it is cancer. The good news is they may have got it all. Next are some optional diagnostic tests to see if there's any spread. Waiting on estimate. To everyone who generously donated to me, shared my Ko-Fi page, and offered love and support, I am incredibly grateful.

Don't fuck up this fall, Victoria. #yyj #VictoriaBC