so much this

Alright, I’m home now so here’s the Norm update. Yesterday at 4pm, I got a text from a family I’ve been helping who had a loved one abducted a couple of days after Renée Good’s murder. This was the family that Norm Nation kept from being evicted (and you delivered). ICE had released their loved one.

Why Old Trees Matter for Bats YouTube video by Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Canada

🦇🌎🧪🌳🦊Bats need forests and forests need bats. Learn why you should be thinking about the "Bat Tree" rather than the "Bat Cave" when it comes to bat conservation... B.A.T. (Bats And Timber) #BatsAndForests

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

A short clip of a Sharp-tailed Grouse drumming on a lek at the @nature.org Bluestem Prairie SNA.

#birds #wildlife #nature

Sorry!

Tim Blake Nelson being a badass little freak in Buster Scruggs

OK FINE!

I don't eat lunch, going for a walk

At Long Last, InfoWars Is Ours By Bryce P. Tetraeder, CEO, Global Tetrahedron

We have a deal. theonion.com/at-long-last...

I noticed a prescient detail in Danny Hellman's cover for my 2016 e-book, 7 Days in Ohio, about a surreal week I spent covering the Republican National Convention and Gathering of the Juggalos. Trump was still pretending to be a pacifist then, but he knew better.

Aerial view of large scale devastation inflicted on the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, with an Israeli tank parked in the center of the photo.

This is what Israel has done to Bint Jbeil, my hometown in southern Lebanon

This mf said gid

Time Bomb

time bomb - rancid open.spotify.com/track/56hwcJ...

3 theses on this:

(1) the 20th century's deranged eschaton-immanentizing visions (on the far right and far left) emerged from the chaos of unregulated capitalism and operated through the power of the totalitarian state

[1/n]

Ou sont les sitcoms d'antan?

Steven Barrett (a right leaning barrister and Conservative activist) post on Twitter. @SBarrettBar Where are the raves and the dancing? Where are the flags and the Spice Girls? Where are the fags and the drinking? Where are the laughing and the sitcoms? Where are the honoured and respected? They have passed They have passed like rain on the mountain They have passed like wind in the meadow The sun has gone down in the West In to shadow.

I dunno about you, but I think Rutger Hauer's soliloquy in Bladerunner was much better.

Calgarians! This one is for you! #abpoli #ableg

Never forget that Sam Harris is calipers-and-Bell Curve levels of racist against black people, but he is Rivers of Blood-and-nuke the Middle East levels of racist against Muslims.

Post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet

(Screenshot of Amazon review) Five stars - Verified Purchase Spider dreams guaranteed Got these for a transatlantic flight from Seattle. Took effect about 20 minutes from consumption. I slept for about 4 hours and continued to use them to adjust to the timezone change. Every night I had the same dream about a spider wrapping me in a web very tightly and speaking backwards. It seemed very scared and was furious I could not understand what it was trying to say. 20 years passed in the dream world and eventually the spider and I became close friends and four years later we were married. Understandably our differences were too much and our relationship fell apart from the inside. My infidelity was the last straw and we never recovered from the betrayal. I would always wake up write before we signed the divorce papers. I had this same dream every night for 6 days. Great product. Highly recommend.

Lee Cronin's The Mummy Made Me Want to Projectile Vomit in Disgust Like No Movie I've Seen Since Melania It'll make you wanna puke—in a good way!

nathanrabin.substack.com/p/lee-cronin...

Classic

American Kestrel deep dive. Toronto, Canada, April 17th 2026.
Photo by Jose Raposo

I needed to read this today.

Absolutely true. Personally, capturing my first Spotted Bat with Cori Lausen was an *emotional* experience. These are really unique and special little mammals. Life is richer with this kind of biodiversity in our lives. ❤️🦇😍 #BatAppreciationDay

Over on Twitter, Greg Clark, former leader of the Alberta Party and Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission committee member shared his thoughts on the UCP's failure to act on the recommendations of the Commission.

He was one of the most reasonable politicians I've ever worked with. Worth a look.

every day it gets a little more embarrassing to be from this province

The Boundary Waters are one of the most pristine, beautiful places on Earth. A rare place that is truly wild. The GOP just authorized stripping it for copper.

perfection