THE PUNISHER #1 OUT THIS WEEK FROM MARVEL COMICS

Excellent essay from @annapeppard.bsky.social! I'll be sharing this with my superheroes class next week when we try to talk about Carol Danvers. (No thanks to Marvel, who makes ordering Captain Marvel books impossible)

lol CRAZY timing on this

In a perfect world, the Jeremy Renner app would still be up and we wouldn't be debating which app to be on because we'd all be there

wow at the donald trump call to the US men's hockey team and the laughter over "you know we HAVE to invite the women’s team"

THE NHL is back! Who is traded? What is the Canucks magic number for clinching last place? How will Toronto and Ottawa celebrate their captains?

Because there's a good chance Jordan Binnington will never play another meaningful hockey game again, I will say one final nice thing about his play. The US wanted to play a strong forecheck game and there were so many times he made a quick play to a defender and kept them out of the zone.

I‘ll keep posting about sports here but please have a little self-awareness about the site overall

granted we were due to lose to the Americans--Canada is better, but not "five straight best-on-bests" better--it's unfortunate for it to happen now, when the American reactions are either rah rah fascism or pre-emptive I'm One Of The Good Ones defensiveness

Kash Patel in the locker room with the boys. USA! USA! This is what they are, through and through

The White House made a point of quote tweeting Trudeau’s “You can’t take our country” tweet from 2025 when Canada won the 4 Nations Face-Off tournament and added an AI image of a bald eagle killing a Canada goose.

US hockey had a chance at 4 Nations to make it about Gaudreau and instead they made it about geopolitics. Not giving those Trumpies any credit now. That’s the bed they made.

Congrats to all of the Americans celebrating with Trump today. Get your 51st state jeers in now.

Canada taking wishful thinking wrist shots and giving up open looks the other way. Terrible way to end a great tournament. At least it was a Hughes and not a Tkachuk.

we're all about to experience a blip in the space-time continuum. we've already experienced the last 2 1/2 hours but what happens next will retroactively change how you remember not just the goal, but the whole game before it.

In 3v3 it’s usually the player you most expect it to be. I’m going with McDavid.

At least with no long change the 3v3 in the Olympics isn’t quite as bad as it’s become in the NHL. Still no reason it shouldn’t be 4v4 in the medal round.

Not you Sam Bennett

Increasingly resigned to being goalied at the Olympics. Won’t hurt me as much as Hasek did.

I can’t even pick a next goal scorer here. I’ll go with Bo Horvat for old time’s sake. #Canada

Great game. I know Team Canada loves Binnington’s puck movement, but I just do not feel confident going into one last period with him.

I choose to believe Anchor bar invented the chicken wing. Don’t show me any evidence to refute this historical fact because I can’t read.

Thankfully F1 has prepared me for this. I'll be awake for the start and then I might doze a bit through the pit window, but the coffee kicks in for the end

RIP to me. What a hockey game. How will I go back to hating all these great guys? #Canada

imagine if you went to the Louvre and it was actually full of mediocre sports photos?

Heartbreak. The better team won. Get all your Trump inspired 51st state jeers in now.

Sarah Nurse has some jump today. Maybe a goal right now for all the Goldeneyes fans?

Quinn Hughes is just that good. It still absolutely sucks.

I have always believed in Jordan Binnington and Mitch Marner

Losing to a team with two Vancouver Canucks on it is terrible, but Czechia is the country that just does this to Canada.

You Must Read www.otherstrangeness.com/2026/02/12/y...

since we're doing the "potential individual trans shooter = epidemic of transgender violence" discourse again, I will re-up this. while there is zero evidence for this correlation, when "rare" ppl engage in "rare" behaviors, we incorrectly presume there must be a connection bsky.app/profile/juli...

NEW from me today: Tumbler Ridge is mourning a horrific loss. But how the shooter's identity is being talked about online, and the dangerous links being made to trans people at large, will have resounding and dangerous impacts in the months and weeks to come. xtramagazine.com/power/tumble...

RIP to the voice of my childhood #Canucks

CALL FOR PITCHES @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience. We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not. Details below!

I'm sorry, he wants to block a bridge? Is this because we made fun of Kid Rock's jorts?

The forces of evil have been defeated. Absolutely fraudulent run to the superbown ends in the worst display of offensive football since the semifinals. Also go Seahawks. #Superbowl

excellent half time show #BadBunny

technically that was a half of football. hope the commercials were worth it (I'm stuck with the Canadian ads)

People gotta fuckin stop doin this. I won't vote for Gavin Newsom. Gavin Newsom will lose. I'm saying it now so y'all have time to listen, tho you never do. But nah I ain't voting for diet fascism just because he has a D. Candidates have to do what we want to get elected, there's no fealty here.

the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades

The Washington Post lays off a third of its workforce, is dead:

At least you can talk here without statue avatars interacting in really horrific ways. Yes, we know why you hate Emily Wilson. It's because you care deeply about ethics in translation.

it's a weird week to have to be talking about H.D. and the Greeks. I would just like to request in the future that the news stop always interfering with my attempts to teach American literature.

I‘ll be honest, the whole “states manage all of the US elections however they want” thing is a little absurd to me. Do not trust Trump on anything, but why weren’t elections nationalized 100 years ago? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Sorry for being nosy but I’m in a pretty quiet airport. a woman sat down next to a much older pilot here in the food court and started very obviously flirting with him but he absolutely cannot stop listing off aviation facts to her regardless of whatever question she asks him

Catherine O’Hara SCTV thread youtu.be/990OaFr8EYw?...

An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.