I said it a long while ago, but Italy’s protests re: Palestine is really really hammering the point in: lack of healthcare, sky high housing prices, banning abortion, cop budgets higher than than GDP of small countries… it’s all to keep us chained so we can’t protest.

I posted this a week or so ago maybe but I love pretending to do this with food. clementines usually but also anything with a shell or crust you can eat. good human enrichment activity

It's César Aira's year, calling it now

Less than 35 miles away from Gaza

Kaleb Horton, again: "It's sad how many RTs you get by saying the world is ending instead of admitting the scary truth that it's not and there's work to do in it."

Kaleb Horton's podcast with James Murphy is still up. It was weird and intoxicating and fun. podbay.fm/p/the-last-e...

It's 100% bullshit but I'm a sucker for contemporary art speak. I wish that shit was real

"They're just like us. You go on a trip, you pack your stuff in a suitcase. They go on a trip, they pack you in a suitcase."

"Folks, how about that Night of Broken Glass, huh? You hear about this? Yeah, me neither!"

if there's no dei, you're going to die

I feel like there aren't supposed to be this many mollusks here––are we sure this is Heaven?

Oh fuck I'm getting fucking raptured

so frigging true

Citizens, permanent residents, and refugees are eligible to apply for provincial social programs. But only citizenship status is being targeted here. Elections Alberta says 3 people have been flagged for ineligible voting since the 2023 provincial election, among more than 1.77 million votes cast

ISSUE 32 IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!! www.thetemzreview.com/issue-thirty...

let's all rotate the word "tribunal" in our minds

Something I like to do sometimes is toss back a clementine but pretend it's a watermelon like in those hippo videos where they just demolish it

On The Current just now, Matt Galloway amplified that Kirk’s shooter was “radicalized by the left” and “has a transgender romantic partner“ as motives for the shooting. Left as-is, no questions.

Giller longlist with three past winners on it, seems like they're kinda desperate to shore up legitimacy

I sent an email to Giller Prize Executive Director Elana Rabinovitch, who told me that this year's prize will be funded "with the support of gifts from donors who wish to remain anonymous."

The Giller announced its long list today, though it comes with a major asterisk: Over 400 authors are still boycotting the prize until it drops its ties to the Azrieli Foundation and Indigo Books - two sponsors with financial ties to genocide. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The last of the five people arrested at the 2023 Giller Prize for protesting Scotiabank’s stake in Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems has had her charges withdrawn. I reported on the other four arrestees having their charges dropped last December: www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Vile graffiti on Halifax synagogues is being used to falsely condemn anti-Israeli protestors www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

Sad news about Robert Munsch. When I was in junior high one summer me and a bunch of friends were cast in a play for children adapting a bunch of his stories. It was a lot of fun.

Peep this, lads, new Irvine Welsh novel. i dinnae think we'll be disappointed, oan account of he's got them wee trainspottin cunts back thegither instead of the coppers from the Crime novels

Garden of Earthly Delights

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

I don't care because he's not my guy but I find the AI slop imagery of that guy meeting Trump in heaven far more distasteful than someone cracking a joke or correctly pointing to his repugnant views. Erasing the memory of someone's life because you need room on the VHS for a rerun of Seventh Heaven

We'll know more in the coming days. the totality of human knowledge is ever increasing

It's so telling that the guy left behind thousands of hours of footage and even a few books and none of it is getting used in the tributes being paid to him.

Pumped for all of Monday’s social media posts about why participating in, and losing, a prize in an embarrassing contest that every worthwhile writer already dropped out of is more important than getting behind your community, who wants nothing to do with genocide. I’m saving all of them.

Prostia asta românească e genială.

this is why it is vitally important to make fun of charlie kirk getting killed

timeline cleanse quote this with your favorite tumblr post

oh you don't say

Like during industrial rev, proletarian factory workers seen as children because they weren't taking part in apprentice-journeyman artisanal workshop path or whatever

“Nobody should be killed for their political beliefs” vs “every child in Gaza is potentially a terrorist” is a fun contrast

Okay I feel like you can't get mad at the left for being disrespectful when one of his influencer fans stole a bunch of bloodsoaked merchandise from the crime scene to sell on ebay

Our politics seems to be entering a phase of "right supremacy" where only the lives of right-wingers have value. Assassinating the leader of a state legislative body in her own damn home was business as usual, but all of America has to have a reckoning if it's a far-right online influencer.

"FREDERICTION, N.B. — Buster McKnight, 11, did not celebrate Christmas yesterday. He went out to play hockey on St John River ice Thursday, skated into an air hole and drowned." adamsnotes.substack.com/p/i-love-rea...

big turning point i've been thinking about today is when republicans said facebook was shadowbanning them or whatever and all the tech companies immediately agreed to start promoting conservative content

Free geoliminal! He has a gentle heart and also he loves rocks!

they're banning people left and right for not getting with the hagiography program. well, more left than right

They got our boy geoliminal

There's this liberal commentator I check in on sometimes because I know a relative of mine watches him. He's maybe 40% of the way there depending on the issue but he has this annoying tic picked up from Alex Jones of just suddenly screaming, pretending he's emotional, to recapture lost attention

On 9/11 something really violent happened and the right wing immediately made a huge power grab while scapegoating and actively discouraging critical thought about the matter. As you can see a lot has changed since then

"FREDERICTION, N.B. — Buster McKnight, 11, did not celebrate Christmas yesterday. He went out to play hockey on St John River ice Thursday, skated into an air hole and drowned." adamsnotes.substack.com/p/i-love-rea...

I was thinking earlier you only get last words so perfectly ironic in Greek and 19th century histories