What with Brexit and a bunch of other setbacks since he covered the hopefulness of Europe in the 90s, I do feel glad for Timothy Garton Ash to see this victory.
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Puffins swimming underwater, chasing after fish
Atlantic Puffins — Jessica Eggers, 2026
Pen & ink, watercolor and gouache on paper
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Pulled out Mario Kart Live for the first time since we got our new cat.
In major policy shift, Japan scraps limits on lethal arms exports www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04...
NASA just shared the closest image ever taken of Jupiter...
Each one of those swirls is a storm bigger than the entire Earth and going on for centuries. Let that sink in.
NYC has fewer pedestrian deaths than LA not just on a per capita basis, but in aggregate.
In 2025,
NYC: 111 deaths
LA: >150 deaths
Bluesky has turned into Metafilter!
When I taught in the schools 25+ years ago, mentioning “toire no hanakosan” was always good for a laugh.
My son just read Catcher in the Rye for English 11. Which I thought was weird because we live in Canada, but the American canon lives on.
Tagging @stateofthecity.bsky.social
It's an illegal blockade, though! In other words, "this is normal for high seas piracy."
"Downtown is too crowded, nobody goes there anymore."
Seems to be just a general culture war trope? Suburbanites and exurbanites freaking out about... nothing? Even my walkable, bikeable town here in Canada is like this. "Would you like my kids to hold your hand while they show you around downtown?" Main grievance actually is find parking.
My 6th grade teacher had us compete each term to memorise the most lines of poetry. Those 100s of poems and 1000s of lines still rattle around my mind, making the world, & every day in it, deeper and richer.
Thank you for letting me know! So awesome!
This is a new one. Someone subscribed to the newsletter using their work email address. Now their dumb AI assistant is replying to the emails like this. What a world we live in.
Jarvis has returned to his Sunday afternoon show on 6Music, while Iggy Pop is away for a year:
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From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks
"First Nations should not be asked by the Crown to compromise their human rights. No other segment of society is asked to put their rights on hold while the government seeks to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada to undermine those very rights." www.ubcic.bc.ca/open_letter_...
It is super weird. I think the idea was that he was going to do the vote tomorrow and rely on Opposition votes to get it passed? Maybe somebody (perhaps a Legislative page who just completed poli sci 101) explained the implications of that, hence the U-turn (a perfect 360).
"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth by the British Columbia Court of Appeal." -- Mike Tyson.
(The ruling was in Dec 2025 fwiw)
Adam Olsen was on CHEK this evening (before latest U-turn) saying Eby was repeating the same lies about FN told since beginning of colonization. Intransigence, stonewalling, threat to private property.
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Not exactly caving, it's more like Eby is replicating the Nutty Putty Cave Accident.
"I'm there, right now."
“Dude!”
Worst premier since Vander Zalm
Wait, he’s backing down… again? As in, just now?
BC is moving to suspend its Indigenous rights law as soon as it seems to carry more weight than a land acknowledgement.
Remembering when Jarvis Cocker had a show on BBC 6…