all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

why the hell would we put windows 11 in space

Revelation 13:17: So that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.

Bible believers who have not been totally brainwashed by the MAGA cult might be a tad disturbed about Trump’s plan to put his signature on our money.

Famed primatologist Biruté Galdikas dead at 79 | CBC News Biruté Mary Galdikas, a Canadian scientist who dedicated her life to the study and conservation of orangutans, has died. She was the last living member of the renowned primatologists known as "trimate...

Sad news: www.cbc.ca/news/science...

World leaders need to look to Spain right now. I am so exhausted hearing about polite, calm diplomacy in the face of two countries starting illegal wars, lying about it, murdering children, and committing genocide in plain sight. It's shameful. I can't stop thinking about the Iranian girls' school.

Cathal Kelly’s columns are among the few reasons I continue to subscribe to the Globe and Mail, and him upsetting US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra is a huge bonus

US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra,

I find your presence in Canada disappointing & outrageous, but I can only wait with hopeful patience for my government to serve you notice under Article 9 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961). Cathal Kelly is awesome. You are not.

Regards, Heather

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty"

Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

Eisenhower

A black cat on a counter under a window which is the best place to soak up some sunlight heat

#Caturday finding radiant heating 😺

Probably fine

White House: Image (probably AI) of a Bald Eagle and Canadian goose

Remember this next time this country asks us to send troops to Afghanistan or Iraq

every British historian rn frantically trying to find examples of British royals being arrested that don’t end with their execution

Please enjoy my cartoon for Thursday's Toronto Star

The greatest threat Russia presents right now is that it gains more at the negotiation table than it has achieved on the battlefield.

Russia’s maximalist demands cannot be met with a minimalist response.

Extract of my speech at Munich Security Conference ↓

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Canadian Higher Education’s Sacred Scaffolding | HESA There is a whole bunch of policy areas in higher education which are what I might call “scaffolding” (others might use the term plumbing). That is, the basic building blocks of how education actually ...

Timetabling, credit defiition/accumulation, major/minor requirements and GPA scales for the fundamental scaffolding of univeristy life. Its remarkble how much of this we both take for granted and yet are unwilling to even consider altering. @jimdickinson.bsky.social

No place for politics in F-35 cockpits as Canadian fighter jet pilots get ready to train at U.S. base | CBC News While procurement for Canada’s complete fighter jet fleet remains up in the air, advocates say politics need to be set aside as members of the Royal Canadian Air Force head to Luke Air Force Base in A...

CBC continues to scold Canadians on the need to keep our "politics" out of the discussion on whether we get strong-armed into buying the F-35.
Lol... the F-35 is all about politics.
It is the politics of threat and intimidation against our independence.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Academic researchers (including grad students): did you know that your campus administrators may have access to your full hard drive (including research data), placing you in violation of the TCPS and whatever data access & mgmt plan was approved by your REB?

The President is Losing his Marbles It's time for the 25th Amendment—even if it puts JD Vance in office.

This, by @claireberlinski.bsky.social, is a smart, thorough comb through Trump’s use of language, and what it says about him — and robustly makes the case that no-one has to be qualified to make a diagnosis to point out what everyone can see and hear.

claireberlinski.substack.com/p/the-presid...

Canada could do the funniest thing now and resurrect the Avro Arrow

I'm dead.

A picture of the Mary Tyler Moore statue in downtown Minneapolis, depicting the iconic moment from the show where she throws her hat in the air. But the hat has been covered over with a protesters cardboard sign, reading “FUCK ICE.”

On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”

A massive winter storm will hit large parts of the U.S. through the weekend A large storm system is expected to hit this weekend, with snow and ice from Texas to the Carolinas and up the Eastern seaboard. The winter system could bring more than a foot of snow.

"A blast of cold air from Canada...bringing significant snow and ice accumulations" - gosh why would Canada do that? And to the south of all places?

News reports

"Henry II says he won't personally kill Becket"

Greenland, Iceland
someone tell him the one he really wants is “the rich, fertile land just a bit to the south of Vinland” and maybe we can still get out of this

Do we get to call the price rises on European goods that Americans now face the Danegeld?

Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star