Respectfully & from the bottom of my heart, if you think anything in the world could justify this, you’re a monster or an idiot or some impressive combination of both.

They took a big lurch into the centre after Layton died, to the point where Trudeau was able to (successfully) campaign to the left of Mulcair. Obviously they’re not right wing, but they’re centre-left on a good day.

I did that last night for dinner, but with S&B curry powder. Doesn’t taste as good in milk

Solaris (1998)

My experience is limited to white English speaking countries but of the non-Canadian places I’ve spent time in, RTÉ, ABC (or Triple J), and the BBC have been pretty important cultural touchstones. But I’m old and still remember pre-internet days so I think that applies much less these days.

Landscape format in black ink lines and various water media. View down street. On left side is a Dublin Bikes station, looking full, and beyond a footpath are buildings behind with top 2 stories red brick above the shop fronts at street level. Right side of street has black metal bollards and lamp-posts along a pale footpath, with shop fronts in shadowy blues to the right. On both sides of the street is a dark grey narrow litter bin. At the end of street we see under a metal railway bridge, through the gap in its wide supporting piers either side, to Amiens Street and above its metal arch a grey Italianate square tower of Connolly Railway Station. The sky, street surface, and footpaths are white of paper left blank except for bike station, cycle lane, and double yellow lines, which are yellowy-orange, and traffic islands beside bike dock which are pale blue. Three small trees of yellow-green foliage populate the street between the bike dock and railway bridge. Signed bottom left: Liam Daly

Another mixed media #painting I did a few years ago. "Talbot St and Connolly" was painted because that street was one of my favourite streets when I was a kid and I still get a buzz walking along it today. Apart from its atmosphere I really like the visual mishmash of it. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear

Instantly recognizable. I went to an Internet cafe just under those tracks for a few months when I first moved to town. Probably walked down there every weekend for the couple of years I was there.

I’d say my kids’ cohort are happy to be Canadian but also much more aware of its many failings than I was at their age (late teens early twenties.) Their experiences of Canadian-ness are probably more filtered through parents, rather than picked up from their largely online communities

Seems like old folks are much more invested in symbols, and younger people in ideas. Though I have to say I’m disappointed about that CBC figure.

lol, lmao, and so forth

On the other hand, our “Three by Cameron Crowe” is only two. We’re missing Almost Famous.

A listing of films that skips directly from Beauty and the Beast to Because Men in Silk Shirts on Lagos Nights

Another reason for Canada to reject closer ties to USA

No, this is the same argument conservatives make about the CBC being Liberal propaganda. It's wrong in both cases.

Oversight by (well-funded and legislatively empowered) government inspectors would be a good solution. Ideally they would already be public utilities but politically it's much harder to nationalize than to privatize. And given the tax environment we've lived in since the 1980s, tougher to fund.

No thanks, not going to register my political affiliation with the authorities like down in the USA. They’re private organizations, they can have who they like as members and decide to choose a leader in any way they like.

a woman in a dress is standing in a room and talking to emily dickinson . ALT: a woman in a dress is standing in a room and talking to emily dickinson .

Apple TV is free this weekend and that means you can watch Dickinson, which is such a unique and delightful show that I will tag #poetry so the poets see this, too.

I had forgotten this, thanks

I hate family guy but I do remember laughing at a cutaway gag of him spelling his name. “Robert Loggia. That’s R as in ‘Robert Loggia’, O as in ‘Oh my god it’s Robert Loggia’…” no idea if it was actually him but I think so

Pachinko and Dickinson are fantastic too. They haven’t put out a ton of shows but they’ve got a much better good/bad ratio than Netflix or Amazon imo

Also rights holders who run their own streaming platforms so won’t license their films to anyone at any cost to keep it exclusive.

A man, concepts of a plan, a canal, Panama

Damn someone posted this yesterday I am not original

a group of people are standing around a pool . Alt: Neelix dancing, for some reason surrounded by “attractive” (in that Berman Star Trek way) women.

Neelix is nobody’s favourite character so this is technically a wrong answer.

E-readers don’t have lcd screens. Lighting is reflective like a physical book, not transmissive like a screen. Way easier on the eyes

old CNBC screencap showing a moderator asking three billionaires to judge capitalism vs socialism

asking three billionaires what they think of socialism?
that's America, baby!

Yet so much more than a trip to Alaska or Norway.

30 years ago a friend of mine bought a 16 year old car for one hundred dollars. Can you do that any more? (Not that I would recommend it – I think it burned as much oil as gas and was painted with red primer.)

Peculiar start to the day this morning. Monochromatic in the glen, but colour rising above the horizon.

god the look I got from my kid when I played this a few months ago and Patti Smith busts out the n word repeatedly

It's rare you get such a clear illustration of whose lives have value in America and whose don't