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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

submitted 1 day ago • 843 comments

“vietnam has been very unfair to america and owes us compensation” is a wild take

submitted 2 days ago • 128 comments

If Pierre Poilievre can't handle the media, who else will he avoid confronting? The Conservative leader’s tightly-controlled media circus is disquieting, by @justinling.ca www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... via @thestar.com #journalism

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Stay tuned for an exciting announcement tomorrow. Time for Canada to lead

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

From city on a cill to pariah state

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

They want to imprison anyone for burning down a Tesla. For 20 years. How much for burning down the stock market?

submitted 6 days ago • 899 comments

Trump’s use of the thumbs up in photos has appropriated this positive gesture, like the OK hand gesture or the Canadian flag during the Convoy times. Second thoughts whenever I see someone doing this now. Would be the perfect salesman’s salute for an authoritarian leader.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

It turns out that you can study gender identity after all.

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

Vance is lying (again). Social Security has repeatedly debunked this. The actual claim is that 40 percent of direct deposit fraud occurred via calls to the agency. That is wholly different, and massively less, than 40 percent of calls being fraudulent. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...

submitted 7 days ago • 76 comments

There’s something worth unpacking in an administration that clings to a cartoonified imaginary of the past while projecting a cartoonified imaginary of the future—both propped up by substandard, corporatized tech visions of the present.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

What I absolutely love about university marketing is that it has made everywhere sound exactly the same, as if there weren’t individuals with different interests working in universities at all.

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

Its like Nero fiddling but if he was the one who set Rome on fire

submitted 7 days ago • 30 comments

Meanwhile, South Korea has successfully impeached their president www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

submitted 6 days ago • 523 comments

Reason #1648 for avoiding any travel to the US. Hope the 🇨🇦 airlines bulk up on domestic and non-US international flights as they are jammed. Four flights I looked at from Vancouver to Toronto today are full. Didn’t check the others.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

chef’s kiss

submitted 8 days ago • 426 comments

Incredibly, this appears to be true. We tariffed our own (jointly operated with the UK) military base.

submitted 8 days ago • 211 comments

[1/2] this is…incredibly stupid eu: $235.6bn surplus, $605.8bn exports, 235.6/605.8 = 39% claimed tariffs charged indonesia: $17.9bn surplus, $28.1bn exports, 17.9/28.1 = 64% claimed tariffs charged

submitted 8 days ago • 22 comments

Conservatives confident attacking female journalist will distract from Poilievre’s comments about women’s “biological clocks”

submitted 9 days ago • 51 comments

It's possible this means some kind of MAGA/DOGE-scale attack on institutions. It might also mean something quite small wrt SSHRC grants, specifically. The range of policies that would line up with a policy like this is huge.

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

the pokemon have risen up against erdogan

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

It is my humble opinion that if you don't want your boss to be compared to Donald Trump, you shouldn't be doing your best impression of Donald Trump's press secretary.

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

One less-noticed success in the Canadian counteroffensive: The most famous thinkers at Yale — specifically writers on fascism — are being serially scooped up by the U of T’s Munk School as they express a desire to flee the Trump assaults on universities

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submitted 16 days ago • 23 comments

This sure is some timing from the Globe’s intelligence source. 👀

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

holy shit www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 17 days ago • 343 comments

As God intended.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 Preprint alert 🚨 We have developed an entirely new mechanism of action for ASO gene knockdown -> lysosomal trafficking! Works with non-DNA ASOs (unlike RNase H mech) and higher activity than corresponding gapmers! #chemsky 🧪 @uclchemistry.bsky.social sky.social chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

[spits out his water!] There you have it, #cdnpoli. If you’re looking down south and think “yah I’d like some of what they’re having”… then Danielle Smith thinks you should vote for Pierre. Man-alive, with friends like these…

submitted 19 days ago • 20 comments

Looking forward to Canada confirming the same! Denmark’s elbows are up!

submitted 19 days ago • 10 comments

Elon Musk is frozen my Twitter account for 30 days.

submitted 22 days ago • 1145 comments

This story is fucking bonkers

submitted 22 days ago • 297 comments

Witness scientific discourse in action. Preprint asking questions about a recent finding is discussed in the thread by the authors of the original paper in an open and good-natured way.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

French researcher, going to a conference in Houston, was forbidden entry to US; his work and personal electronics were both confiscated. Why? Because a “random search” of his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump and the Trump administration. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

submitted 22 days ago • 109 comments

For those considering academic travel to the US

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments