The former general "can’t foresee any scenario in which Canada and the United States disagree on the use of F-35s for the defence of North America." How about the unilateral assertion of American sovereignty and freedom of action in the far north?

If I were to write a collapse-of-civilization novel it would start with AI-aided ransomware.

So excutives from Dwave and IONQ have recently dumped large amounts of stock. Zapata (kinda?) went bust... what are the other quantum computing stocks to watch?

I am sure Mr Trump will take full responsibility for this mess, and will not just blame Ms Halligan who tried to do the illegitimate things he wanted.

Your #CharlieBrownScore is the number of links in the Charlie Brown chain before you reach a blocked post.

Affine collection.

A good set of links on the problems of Canada F-35 purchase decisions and particularly the issue of who controls the software.

Ok Bluesky, let’s give this a go: I found this postcard in the back of a photo frame I bought at a London thrift shop. It’s an unsent postcard from a woman called Linda to her parents. The front shows the Kremlin in Moscow and the stamp says 1984 (!). I’d love to return it to Linda - can you help?

Blocked by Mr MacFarlane. Oh well. Fuck off.

Some notable things in what's being called the "Trump peace plan" but which could not have been more clearly written in Moscow if it came with a 2 for 1 deal on tickets to the Bolshoi Ballet. 🧵

Spoiler alert: my answer is NO.

Is he still here?

Kvis time. Is Kvantify Qrunch: | a. A breakfast cereal, or b. A mystic in the Dune sequence of novels, or c. A quantum computing company, or d. A Sesame Street character known for counting things?

Odd.

Ford’s so-called Digital Platform Workers’ Rights Act doesn’t protect workers — it protects Uber. All it really does is help U.S. platform giants suppress wages, with Ford and Piccini setting up the system for them. Thank you, Captain Canada. www.thestar.com/news/gta/thi...

Sigh. Eye roll. Waldman wrong again.

Disagree.

Posts and headlines like this, which are really common, assume an audience that is not old. I'm 65, my parents are dead, and my grandparents died ages ago. I guess it's not for me.

Over The Gate. 11°C with sunshine and showers. Redwing have arrived.

Weirdly, the soon-to-be famous NYT headline "Did women ruin the workplace?" turned out to be true for BBC announcer Martine Croxall who used the word "women" without formal permission.

New from me for @washingtonian.com: a deep dive into the autopen's place in American politics. washingtonian.com/2025/11/06/i...

Can’t make this up is right.

48 years to the daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

...and from yesterday's Globe and Mail, an article about pregnancy that avoids the word "woman". www.theglobeandmail.com/life/advice/...

It seems so obvious that the US Supreme Court is not going to get in the way of American tariffs that I'm tempted to just mute the whole topic (literally, here, and figuratively elsewhere). Am I wrong?

Communications staff: "You're doing great, Prime Minister. That's as vague and bland as we could have wished for."

As always, Cathal Kelly gets the epic triviality of a great sports loss just right. Gift link. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/034a874...

That organ is really irritating.

Well this is not looking good

Toronto tomorrow morning, either way

Always smacks This Sunday, November 2, 2025, at 2:00 a.m. local time, marking the end of daylight saving time the Stonehenge workers will be busy!

New from me. I don’t know about you, but I’m getting a little tired of Canada being treated like a toy at a spoiled rich kid’s birthday party, so I wrote about Pete Hoekstra’s public meltdown in Ottawa this week.

A little on the nose.

3-2: a lot of fuss about nothing. 2-3: an event of fundamental geopolitical importance. #GoJaysGo

WTF Mark Carney. So he did apologize. Have some dignity FFS: this is getting more pathetic by the week. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/w...

Almost forgot to post my Halloween story. www.theawl.com/2013/10/a-sc...

My father always maintains that the most honest space in Philippine culture is a cockpit: money is passed from hand to hand and not a centavo goes missing.

Wise words. #GoJaysGo

The difference in the time it takes a streetcar in Amsterdam vs. Toronto to clear an intersection after servicing a nearside stop.

"Expletive-laden tirade" is pussyfooting around. We need to hear what he said. And if that's not suitable for family reading then that says it all. #SendHoekstraHome www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Top political analysis from The Beaverton.

He wants to test. He doesn't want to be the bad guy who breaks a 30+ year old global nuclear testing moratorium beloved by sane people everywhere. Trump takes on that burden, Xi gets to see if all these weapons they've been making but never actually setting off really do go boom, and how much boom.

As someone who feels that patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, I hate it that sovereignty is the issue of the day for Canada. But it is.

I think it's wise, in this day and age, when the US Supreme Court has said that people can be randomly stopped and asked for papers, that people should avoid visiting that country.

This is the UK edition

Turns out I do not put my pants on the same as everybody else. — Rube Goldberg

Yet still FRS, FFS.

p(Doom)=1

Saying "Olive Branch" is not actually extending an olive branch.