Captain Queeg clicking his ball bearings energy

Something about sci-fi greats being legends in their lifetimes…

Peggy Atwood was for years the only author other than Shakespeare every UK secondary student had to read in English class, and of course on most core curricula in Canada and elsewhere, while being very much alive for decades after and still now

Probably. Or overland from a non-gulf port. There aren’t any shortages in UAE, just somewhat higher prices on European cheeses etc

Presumably made in China

F.B.I. Director Sues The Atlantic Over Article Claiming Excessive Drinking

Discovery’s going to be fun in this one

F.B.I. Director Sues The Atlantic Over Article Claiming Excessive Drinking www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...

The UAE flag is exactly the same colour and pattern, as are the flags of many Arab states. Of course they’re not. It’s probably meant as a boast about the success of the Emirati missile-defence system, which shot down ~98% of the 2200 Iranian missiles aimed at its cities

Bought a set of these teacups at the old souk in Dubai around April 2. Merchant told me they’d just arrived.

No, I don’t completely understand. Are they for IRGC tea?

I mean, we’ve had better versions of that image for 58 years. The Flat Earth Society was only 12 years old then and its very few members were not deterred by the proof. It did cease to exist in 1995 though

It was worth the cost and effort of putting millennials in space so we could get a portrait-mode version of Earthrise

“Feud with the Pope” is BACK as a likely Wikipedia section heading after a 400-year gap.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

This is an extraordinary scoop

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Wait what kinda hockey game is this

ESPN+ screen preview of Sharks vs. Jets NHL game (tied 1-1 in the first)

I know Heated Rivalry was popular and all but I disagree with staging a classic Broadway musical during a hockey game

This is important.

That is culturally and thematically consistent with waste-management industries

This is a pretty big story

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Iran used Chinese spy satellite to target US bases

Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

You should take a look at the new design, it’s very attractive on both handheld and wider platforms. And a lot of what I do, eg the big Hormuz piece, only really makes sense digitally. The writing requires interactivity

U.S. and Iran begin a battle of economic endurance in the Strait of Hormuz The waterway has now fallen under a complete blockade, with mirror-image military threats from Washington and Tehran

Solid reporting in a sea of propaganda, thanks @dougsaunders.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

I don’t think the ink-on-paper legacy editions are important — I haven’t read one daily for 25 years, just the beautiful Sunday ones. But making multi-platform subs free or cheap for university students is very important marketing; it’s an approach that got generations hooked in the past

It’s much harder for this sort of illiberal autocracy to seize power in a parliamentary system, and luckily there are no prospects for this in Canada now. UK is more of a worry but I suspect this sentiment will have peaked long before its next election

Hungarians celebrated the landslide defeat of Orban by singing "We Are the Champions" out in the streets

He did. Just it didn’t work.

And Israel‘s fatal flaw is a proportional representation voting system that’s easy to manipulate by unpopular but ruthless parties

If the Hungarians can do it, against an autocrat who actually won a majority of the vote and used his decade and a half in power to stack and manipulate all his country’s institutions in his favour with Putin‘s explicit backing, then Americans can do it. Israelis can do it.

Let’s all agree, out of respect, not to sing it.

….nah. Everyone sing it

The one thing you can say about the U.S. regime over the Iranian one is at least they don’t use chokepoints to hold the entire world economy hosta—-

Yesss!

Let’s all agree, out of respect, not to sing it.

….nah. Everyone sing it

This was the moment he became president