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This makes those rustic cursive "Gather" signs in the kitchen way folk-horror creepy.

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To answer some quick questions about my latest story: - It does not apply to the Visa Waiver Program as far as I can see - It does not impact American citizens - The ban exclusively impacts transgender foreigners seeking visas in the United States - It is far more extensive than reported elsewhere

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As a historian of law and a historian of violence, can I just say that the traditional alternatives to an impartial public prosecution service are …messy. Hard to contain.

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Yesterday it was university of Pittsburgh - today it’s Penn. I fear this will soon be a grimly long thread of more gratuitous Trump/Musk inflicted disabling of America for the long term www.thedp.com/article/2025...

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Going against traffic in the snowshoe lane, Assiniboine River, City of Winnipeg

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Don't litter, friends. In 1326 Roger Styford was walking in London, selling eels from a bucket & skinning them on the spot. Tired of carrying the skins, he dropped them in the street, & nearby shopkeepers came out & beat him to death. So: Save your eel skins to save your own. 🗃️🧪

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"Ontario Place was just filled with dandelions." No, it wasn't.

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There are still some planes landing at Pearson. I just saw one get really close to the runway, wobble like a turkey vulture, decide at the last moment they weren’t going to be crash #2, and pull up sharply for another try. It’s windy out there today!

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If you work in archives or records management anywhere in the world, it’s time to develop some unofficial plans for guerilla records preservation. No document is safe from a hostile administration.

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I crack my window open after midnight, and from my highrise eyrie I can hear the scrape of multiple ploughs and the growl of dozens of snowblowers. A lot of people are working late on a long weekend to make Toronto function.

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Georgians have the most visually striking demonstrations of any place in the world.

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Good morning, Toronto. Today is a good day to learn the Québécois Profanity Song. youtu.be/DvR6-SQzqO8

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Real-world gothic: there are lost secret passages under Sforza Castle.

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I compared 22 identical climate-related posts on Threads vs Bluesky over the last 3 months, and the difference is shocking. Normalized engagement on Threads dropped nearly 2/3 + my following dropped, while Bluesky engagement held steady + following quadrupled. What’s driving this? Read on! 🧵

submitted 53 days ago • 70 comments

This is who the Ford family are.

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Good thing Americans have lots of spare money and that the US has built communities in which car ownership is not required www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.

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It’s going to be A Week on social media. I intend to log right out of all my personal accounts tonight and stay away until next Sunday. Nobody gets to make money off of my doomscrolling. Contact me by traditional means if you need metaphorical ammo or a ride in the meantime.

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This isn't just about the Market (which I miss desperately), but about the weirdness of "people paying a lot of money to travel to the kind of [walkable] places they might vote against at home". I also love the dig at Windsor's mayor and the folly of cutting transit while memorializing a streetcar.

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I keep imagining a Kermit the Frog voiceover for this video.

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Thread!

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This has apparently been on the iPhone for years, but considering I've had Siri turned OFF since the start, I'm curious why this function was switched on by default for almost ALL my apps, including my bank app and my kids' school app. It's faster to go to 'Siri & Search' and switch them off there.

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I've seen this pattern play out countless times. it's 2025, and so have you: 1. widespread left-liberal anger against an inefficient or corrupt system 2. rightwing populists amplify it for their own reasons 3. radical right politicians are elected on this basis 4. the system gets worse

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This is breathtaking. Aurora borealis... from above. Credit: Don Pettit from the International Space Station

submitted 53 days ago • 24 comments

Moath al-Alwi was released from Guantanamo today, after 24 years in US custody without ever even being charged with a crime. He built this ship with an eagle-shaped prow there while imagining himself as an eagle, soaring over the sea. Now, at last, he is.

submitted 53 days ago • 4 comments

When you have a historic house, but you also really like Mondrian and over-the-top bathrooms.

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The guy at the center of the take-out vs home cooked meal debate is an anti-feminist fascist who wrote an article called "How to Beat Your Girlfriend or Wife and Get Away with It". His lack of kitchen skills is ideological, not because he just never learned. everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en...

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One of my favourite medieval laws: Concerning vampires (strigis), which do not exist, no inquiry shall be made. (From the early 12th-century Laws of King Coloman of Hungary, c.57)

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Why this medievalist sticks to Canadian jobs.

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I’ve seen too many people my age having brain issues and strokes this year. Still masking up because I need my brain for work.

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