Canada Post “lost” 1 billion dollars last year?

How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.

Green text on a black background reads: The World Looks Back: a reading list for haunted paths and places

Over the image of two bloody hands clasping each other, white text reads: "When they observed the world, the world observed them back." --Piranesi, Susanna Clarke

A new reading list is up today! (with thanks to
@memilies.bsky.social & @scandalabras.bsky.social & @archivefeverdream.bsky.social for theme ideas).

The World Looks Back: A Reading List for Haunted Paths and Places: www.patreon.com/posts/world-...

RIP Robert McGinnis. One of the very best. A giant of illustration.

anyways i suppose i’m trying to be over here again

decided to finally play the hidden books game with my coffee this morning. relaxing! i thought. sitting here absolutely incandescent with fury at how long i took to get each of these

'He Was a Crook' Hunter S. Thompson's scathing obituary of Nixon

enjoying HST's obituary of Nixon in celebration. "If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Dr. Leonard McCoy from Star Trek, smiling and raising a liquor bottle

"He's dead, Jim!"

That time Peter Jennings went to a dinner party at Barbara Walters' home and called Henry Kissinger a war criminal.

Time to move this tweet to a site that deserves it. RIP Peter Jennings.

Mom, can you come pick me up? The best lack all conviction and the worst are filled with passionate intensity

Also, I know some people find Faber’s covers boring, but I really appreciate their commitment to cohesive design

Oh, I did NOT realize this was happening this year, and I DO need to acquire it immediately amp.theguardian.com/books/2023/n...

omg I FORGOT

Have woefully neglected this thread on this platform, so here’s some other soups I’ve made:
- sausage & kale, my fave, several times over
- vegan black bean
- egg drop dumpling
- hot & sour (also egg drop, also with dumplings, but different!)
- coconut curry butternut squash with lentils

You’ve made me want to rewatch Ripper Street btw so thanks for that

Okay yes. 100% yes

For me, there’s one (TV theme song/opening credits) that tops any other youtu.be/EL-D9LrFJd4?...

British Library targeted by hackers as website and services down in cyber-attack Hackers have launched a cyber attack on the British Library that has caused a "major technology outage" with the NCSC and cyber specialists now carrying out an investigation

Feels like the huge cyberattacks on the British Library should be bigger news, it's causing absolute havoc www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

‘In the last four weeks language has deserted me’: Adania Shibli on being shut down Speaking out for the first time since the cancellation of her award ceremony at the Frankfurt book fair, the Palestinian author sheds light on her work and the power of linguistics and erasure

Adania Shibli: “I was always afraid that one day I would wake up and I wouldn’t have language, this is my fear. And in the last four weeks language has deserted me, it was like it was not there. Whenever I tried, I failed.” www.theguardian.com/books/2023/n...

A small white stoneware mug, with a yellow dove, outlined in a reddish brown, hand painted on it in a folkish style. The dove’s wing extends off the cup and becomes the handle, which has been sculpted to the shape of the end of a wing. The handle’s colours are inverted from the body of the dove. There are blue branches painted in the empty space of the cup, and the rim is also yellow

Oh ho ho I just remembered that my darling pal Emily isn’t on Here so I can actually show someone the absolutely beautiful mug that’s on its way to her for her birthday. I am sooo in love with it!

Folklore holds that all that the tide touches belongs to the King-Under-the-Sea. Most fisher-folk talk of paying the tidal tithe in libation. In some harbours this is known as 'sweetening the salt', others have it as 'giving The Deeps their due'. – C.L. Nolan

...this seems to fit the aesthetic of many of my friends, so here:

one of the funnier book to screen transformations is frankenstein's monster being a silent, lurching creature when in the books he just cannot stop giving melodramatic monologues? he talks SO MUCH about like the ineffable human spirit & poetry and the movie monster is like "gruhhhhhhh"

My stepmom stepped in and we did our best to distract her and I think she mostly had fun, esp since we had a sleepover at mine after, but I’ve never forgotten that. Her first ever Halloween, 12 years old, spent getting scolded by suburban Karens

In grade five ny class got a new student from Korea. She was taller than my dad already—her older brother played basketball for the Korean national team! She came trick or treating w/me & some other friends that year & ppl would be so nice to us and then rude to her bc they thought she was too old

Also literally who cares, as long as they’re not being jerks or making things scary/unsafe for the little ones. You got that candy to give away

Also I get why people don't think adults deserve candy but you know what it means when an old person shows up on your doorstep asking for hospitality on a sacred night, right? We all know that, right? This is a story that is almost universal in its provenance?

Cover illustration for Brad Strickland's The Beast Under the Wizard’s Bridge by Edward Gorey (2000)

NOTHEN WRONG WITH LIKEN OR NOT LIKEN PICKELS BUT DA YING AND YANG OF DA UNIVERSE DEMAND'S THAT FOR EVERY ONE WHO DOSENT WANT PICKELS SOME ONE ELSE MUST TAKE THEM ,AND DA SKELETON IS REACHEN ACROSS THE TABLE TO GRAB DA PICKELS, NOT ALOWED TO DRINK VINEGAR BUT YOU CAN EAT THESE CRUNCHY BOYS AND THERE BASICALY THE SAME BUT NO ONE GET'S MAD, AND DA TEXT SAYS " IF YOU NOT GOING TO EAT YOU'RE PICKLE'S CAN I HAVE THEM ???????" - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

HAND UM OVER - dashare.zone ADMIN

Poster for Akpik Theatre’s “community telling of Pawâkan Macbeth, a Cree Takeover by Renetra Arlin”, co-produced with the Prismatic Arts Festival

Photo from a production of Pawâkan Macbeth. It seems to be the famous first murder scene of the source material—a woman sleeps soundly next a tent that melds into a backlit screen of material stretched over a disc. The light is gold like the setting sun, and projected on the disc are the silhouettes of another sleeper behind it, and someone standing over them with a knife in their hands. The actors and styling are all Cree

Going to see this on Friday, and I am so, so excited about it! www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre...