It was very special to work with six brilliant, thoughtful Indigenous writers — Michelle Good, Julian Brave NoiseCat, Eva Jewell, Janelle Lapointe, Anna McKenzie and Riley Yesno — on this series about truth and reconciliation, in print & online for @thewalrus.ca. thewalrus.ca/truth-and-re...

After years of begging, they FINALLY let me into the Goonies!

There is no ethical use

yeah i'm gonna bring this one up again

The fabulous Naked Scientists have just produced a podcast episode about colour in art, a topic about which I was of course delighted to speak to them. www.thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/nak...

<clears throat> www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0FP...

liveblogging the countdown here >> Hours Away, Government Shutdown Seems Inevitable talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog/sh...

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

America’s military leadership has more important things to do than listen to lectures on character from an unqualified drunk who assaults women. Any soldier who was as careless as Hegseth was with war plans would be fired if not prosecuted. And everyone in that room knows it.

Trump to a room of generals: "I've never walked into a room so silent before. Just have a good time. And if you want to applaud, you applaud."

Next up: introducing meth to our warfighters!

There is no kingdom like the forests.

I dunno about you but everytime I'm addressing a group of people I need on my side, I always start by calling them fat and lazy

There's a great HSBC commercial from 2011 that relies on (among other things) the idea that the English see eels as a very foreign food. I love it 'cause it's such a historical reversal www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td6u...

So. You're a medieval abbot & the king is visiting. What will you feed him? Eel! (obs) In 1434 the 12 yr old King Henry VI stayed at Bury St. Edmunds for a bit & while he was there he ate all the usual things. You know...swans, pheasants, pike, & eels in "not moderate numbers." 🗃️🧪

If you want to know my basic financial system: * always ALWAYS use a separate business account * upload any and all business receipts AT THE REGISTER, no waiting * I use Xero (basic account) to automatically classify transactions so that I can balance books in ~4 minutes per month

10 jours en Italie, trois musées incroyables, Naples, Tarente et Bari, 1500 photographies à traiter.

"This analysis reaffirms what Indigenous Peoples have articulated for generations and what the TRC formalized nearly a decade ago: symbolic gestures divorced from structural accountability do not constitute reconciliation."

Ooooh, new euphemism just dropped. “Less hindered by the laws.” I mean, “illegal” is right there: shorter and more to the point. But ok. “Your honor, my client was just less hindered by the law when he demanded the victim’s wallet at gunpoint. That’s not a ‘crime,’ is it?”

White supremacy. End white supremacy.

The ads are everywhere here (with only cryptic messaging like "I'll ride the subway with you"), so I looked it up. I was not expecting something this depressing and pointless.

This AI “Friend” has posters plastered all over the NYC subways, and man, I have not seen a commercial this bad or a product this dystopian in a while. This felt like a rejected Black Mirror episode. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_Q1...

Truly the Henry Ford of our time: jewishinsider.com/2025/09/x-an...

The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.

Again, we cannot understand American politics in the 21st Century unless we take into account abuse culture.

I wrote this in 2017. It was fucking obvious what was happening to anyone who was willing to see it. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Northeast Pacific endures fourth-largest marine heat wave on record

History: "But the right did not learn cancel culture from the left; the modern right in America emerged as a censorious movement." The Right Didn’t Catch Cancel Culture From the Left www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

observing some of my students using "sibling" not as an ungendered generic, but as a sort of nonbinary-coded term. Ex: "my brother does X, and my sibling does Y" where in that specific context, it's clearly meant to signal that the sibling is agender/nonbinary/etc. just some morning #linguistics

Trump: "I'm gonna be meeting with generals and admirals and with leaders, and if I don't like somebody, I'm gonna fire them right on the spot."

Chile is home to the largest Palestinian diaspora outside the MidEast, & Palestinians are present on both the right and the left I talk to Pablu Abufom, activist with the Coordinadora por Palestina, on what that teaches us about the limits of a national project fromtheperiphery.com/2025/09/29/2...

I love how, when you ask ChatGPT a hard question and it says "thinking", there's a button you can press "skip this step". I guess that's how some human brains work too....

Spotted in DC a couple of evenings ago. Tesla's brand is become the bougie version of WeBuyUglyHouses.com

TODAY around noon, don't worry, I'll let you know

The Secretary of Defense who only got the job because the president saw him on the teevee is complaining about military leaders who were promoted "for the wrong reasons"

Just saw someone post to say if you're someone ICE isn't interested in, stop recording ICE disappearing someone and physically stop them, and if you're not willing to do that, go home. I understand the thought behind it, I just want to advise caution because white or not, we live in a police state 🧵

And once again, we join our story in progress, as our intrepid heroine gets ready to go on book tour. Again. SCENE: The TSA line. A middle-aged woman in a fabulous hat gazes with mild dismay at the line. WOMAN WITH HAT: But it’s…5:45…on a TUESDAY…

Gift link, because we need some good news.

One of my favourite German words to say aloud is Flurfunk. It describes gossip or rumours that spread through the workplace and means, literally, "hallway radio." On a related note, a Finnish word for gossipers is kahvipöytäparlamentti. It means "coffee break parliament."

Piece is here: benansell.substack.com/p/british-po...

Labour seem to hate their own voters. You know whose voters would be cool though? People who voted for Reform, or who want to do so now. That’s the ticket. That such people might disagree with almost every value Labour MPs and voters hold dear? Well that just makes them cooler. Hard to impress. 5/n

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n

Cosette does not know why I am excitedly kissing her head, but WE HAVE PLANNING APPROVAL!! Last November, our house was entirely destroyed by a fire. And now we can start rebuilding!!! Planning approval was the last bit of paperwork we were waiting on.

I don’t know what the lad who made that talisman meant to avert, but I reckon it worked. I’m only mortal and it most surely averts me. #AskAFairySmith

Cosette also got well huffed, and she purred directly into my ear for the longest time, so that was nice. She also aggressively headbutted me, and made sure I was well groomed, so I'm feeling very well loved.

Huffing kittens is a good treatment for anxiety. Hard to be anxious when you're reassuring a tortie that yes, she is the most perfect and bravest girl. And Maeve decided some emotional support biting would help both of us.

A Bookstore Grows in Brooklyn.

“By the way, there is a secret healing technology that elites have access to, it’s called health insurance. And our government really could give everyone access to it if they wanted to,” said Meyers, whose audience erupted in cheers. #M4A #Medicare4All

Yes, we need to be in coalitions with those we disagree with. But the “correction” many liberals make is to go further right. That’s not making space for others, it’s *becoming* them. We can bring people in while remaining firmly rooted in who you are and what you’re fighting for.

#Florida woman wins Mortal Kombat tournament playing with newborn baby in arms. You know, like you do. www.dexerto.com/mortal-komba...