It's well-crafted pop with the magic touch that makes it enduringly beloved AND reviled. Wherever you land on it, it's genuinely interesting to see the moment when an actual new Xmas classic arrives, bc it's very rare for a new one to be canonized in this way, and you can't know until decades later.

This MTV recording I found from an extremely golden age of 1994 is a time capsule of exactly specifically the last time the world existed before Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” as shown by this ominous trailer. Make of that what you will.

#MerrittBC - Coldwater River levels rise, but no flooding expected in Merritt www.castanet.net/news/Kamloop...

#HopeBC - District of Hope hit by flooding, road closures from atmospheric river globalnews.ca/news/1157379...

#Abbotsford - City of Abbotsford issues evacuation order for 371 properties due to flooding abbynews.com/2025/12/11/c...

#MetroVancouverRD - Metro Vancouver’s tree canopy: Under threat like never before vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...

The biggest use of Bitcoin is crime and the biggest use of generative AI is porn and the fact the current government and economy is all in on this strikes me as problematic.

#Abbotsford - Evacuation alert issued for Clayburn Village, Sumas Prairie West missioncityrecord.com/2025/12/10/e...

It is openly a bid to support the far-right in Central and Eastern Europe.

#FraserValleyRD - Atmospheric river prompts evacuation order in Fraser Valley globalnews.ca/news/1157253...

#Abbotsford - City of Abbotsford provides update on local flooding abbynews.com/2025/12/10/c...

So they *are* able to stop a ship in international waters and seize control of it without killing everyone on board? Huh.

New calf sighted with B.C.’s endangered orcas a ‘huge, welcome surprise’. Read more at: vicnews.com/2025/12/10/v...

A female Northern Cardinal looking nice and fluffy and ready for winter. This particular female has quite a bit of red in her eyebrows and in her crest (reminds me of a flame.)

We have a whole flow-chart 😂

My morning workout today was shovelling about 5 cm of snow off about 100 feet of driveway (and if that’s not the most Canadian way of describing measurements, I don’t know what is 😆). Always nice to start the day with a feeling of accomplishment. 😊

Snow Covered Trees Tom Thomson 1914

6) Art is, in the end, a way of taking a feeling out of my head and trying to jam it into yours from across space and time. There may be some tasty junk food made by AI eventually, but without intention, our appetites to make will be unmet, and we will eventually move on. 6/6

5) AI, which is good at bullshit, may thrive because we have made a society run on bullshit. But in the end I cannot believe we will all become nothing but consumers. People MAKE. An not in the Randian "makers and takers" sense, in the yearning, stretching toward the infinite sense.

4) Ages ago I noted there's just a vast gap in experience, in language, in the very ideas between the very rich, the techbros, and the rest of us, as deep as, say, THE ARRIVAL aliens. We do not use words with the same meaning. Don't even have the same value in and from the human experience

3) The effort is the juice! The effort is the high! Mastery of a skill is an unparalleled buzz. "Having written" is nice yes, we all joke about that, but *the making is the pleasure*. Men who've never experienced that, trying to steal it because ironically *they do not know its value*, is a sin.

2) That adrenaline dump, the release when you're done, or where I was today, looking at my watch, thinking I was running out of time but only an hour had passed, in complete flow state, just hacking away at sentences, solving problems, and we both said: "Why would you give that up?"

1) I was having drinks with @gregrucka.com who is in LA for VERY SECRET REASONS and we were discussing this post, because he had just finished A Thing and I am in the middle of A Thing and write all day, literally 9 to 5, and we were talking baout how THAT felt ...

*stares in a lifetime of listening to republicans fear-monger that socialism would take all our choices away*

Today on my podcast Canadian History Ehx: Tommy Prince! One of the greatest soldiers in Canadian history, he was the most decorated member of The Devil's Brigade. Listen on all podcast platforms 👇 link.chtbl.com/chx Read 👇 canadaehx.com/2020/09/20/t...

I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.

A Blue Jay takes flight with a spray of snow.

then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM

OLYMPIC QUALIFICATION EVENT From coast to coast, now in Kelowna for the Olympic curling qualification event. Final spots up for grabs. Here’s an explainer to get you up to speed at the Kelowna Curling Club. Extensive @rockchannelcurl coverage the rest of the way.

When margarine was banned in Canada, it was bootleggers in Newfoundland who kept Canadians supplied. The manufacturing of margarine is even enshrined in the Newfoundland Act. This is the story of Canada's Margarine Prohibition Years. 🧵 1/12

On this day in 1915, In Flanders Fields was published for the first time. It appeared in Punch magazine on its way to becoming one of the most famous poems in Canadian history. It was written by John McCrae on May 3, 1915 following the funeral of his friend Lt. Alexis Helmer.

'The best conspiracy books of 2025' for @theguardian.com

Quick reminder! "Hexes Fly" is a half-price Kindle Monthly Deal (US & Canada) this December. Popular highlight: Sometimes a safe space was all you could give a person. You couldn’t live their life for them. You had to allow them room to become themselves. #booksky

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

A close-up of a Tufted Titmouse with his/her tuft blowing in the wind. I love their black eyelashes. The thin black feathers around the break are rictal bristles, which are common in many birds but their size and placement differs between species.

This really is a must read for anyone in academia.

Republicans use the "I'm not familiar with that" dodge several times a day now, and if a reporters or anchor isn't ready and willing to shut them down as soon as they try it, that means they're either incompetent at their job or a willing accomplice to the lies. Either way, never trust them again.

The Sun in my Sunday Morning Lee Munn 2024

MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours° Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"

Elon does not fundamentally believe that any government or governing body should be allowed to constrain or regulate him in any way and he is deploying all of the vast resources at his command to make it so governments should act accordingly

On this day in 1989, an armed gunman murdered 14 women at École Polytechnique de Montréal. Another ten women and four men were injured. The anniversary of the massacre is commemorated annually on Dec. 6 as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.

Porcupine are the north's spiky sloths. These slow movers will climb into trees and shrubs during the winter and stick it out for days and weeks at a time. #mammals #AB

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

A fine is a price. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/t...

Lodge Interior, Lake O'Hara J.E.H. MacDonald c. 1925

Layers of Light Holly Dyrland 2024

Toronto goal! Scored by Matthew Knies with 15:16 remaining in the 2nd period. Assisted by Max Domi and Morgan Rielly. Carolina: 1 Toronto: 3 #TORvsCAR #RaiseUp #LeafsForever

I tell my students the easiest way to catch mistakes is for them to read their papers out loud, and they always look at me like I'm insane. But look, that's what we do with our own books! Because it works!