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That's the kicker.

What a day in Kingston.

The people showed UP for @grandslamcurl launch event ahead of the Players’ Cup in December.

Rachel Homan and Jennifer Jones signed every autograph and spoke so eloquently about community and inspiring the next generation. Can’t wait to get back here.

Or two (possibly) bisexual guys to make the triangle multiply pointed. Sigh.

Here Are the Finalists for the 2026 Hugo Awards - Reactor Congratulations to all!

Congrats to all the Hugo finalists! Voters, we have a tough job ahead lol
reactormag.com/2026-hugo-aw...

I feel like not enough reviewers know they had to remake the entire final third of the Michael Jackson movie because it falsely exonerated him, and it turned out the kid’s lawyer foresaw that shit in the 1990s and made sure to include a clause that the estate could never ever do that on film.

Substack CEO Hamish McKenzie: "Email is an important distribution channel. It should not be your only one." then he quotes Mills Baker on his team: "I know l've said this a lot, but I cannot emphasize enough that email will continue to change, to become less deterministically reliable as a means for distributing your work; this is a huge part of why we got into the app and feed business, as you may know! You can blame a few things:"

Substack's CEO now trying to scare people into *only* distributing their content through their proprietary app, not email. (The link he posted warns users away from email.) It's not enough that Substack's locking in publishers & readers with "notes" and comments, now they're escalating tactics.

This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement. Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
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I am confused. There is white and red in the logo, and it's called The Hab, but it's not about a Montreal hockey player?

It's Mental Math Monday! Wisconsin became a state in 1848. How would you mentally calculate how old it is as a state in 2026?

Argh. I am getting tired of things getting lost in the love triangle sauce. Sigh.

Brooding Vampires and Love Triangles: The Gravewood by Kelly Andrew - Reactor A deaf protagonist must trade her blood for hearing aid batteries…

Even though I felt like this book passed up a lot of good thematic opportunities because it got lost in the love triangle sauce, I really appreciated having a deaf protagonist in a YA romantasy.
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Yes! This is important both because people often have no idea what the generations even refer to half the time but also as a feminist gerontologist, I can tell you that we're more often referring to life stage realities than generational ones.

You're going to want to watch this.

A striped knitted sock in progress. Colours are shades of brown, gold, blue, cream and grey.

Day 58 #100DayProject #100DaysOfStitchMaking #CraftSky socks continue. Did some embroidery during an online meeting. Lovely day - we changed two sets of snow tires to all seasons, took ourselves to an afternoon show of Project Hail Mary. West Coast ball game, so will add data tomorrow.

Carney's public service cuts will have real impacts on Canadians' lives from the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat to Indigenous services for communities and access to services for all Canadians.
@psac-afpc.bsky.social

Climate Change Concern Near Its High Point in U.S. The 44% of U.S. adults who currently worry "a great deal" about climate change or global warming is near its 46% high point from 2020.

US elites decided, like a school of fish, that climate concern is old, boring, "woke," square, not hip & popular any more. As usual, it was based almost entirely on internal elite dynamics. It had nothing to do with the actual public, which is more concerned than ever.

The American Library Association has released its list of the most challenged books of 2025 The ALA says 4,235 titles were challenged at libraries across the country – the second-highest year on record. Forty percent of the challenged works involved LGBTQ+ subjects or the experiences of people of color.

The ALA says 4,235 titles were challenged at libraries across the country – the second-highest year on record. Forty percent of the challenged works involved LGBTQ+ subjects or the experiences of people of color. n.pr/4vFxjvp

Two male slate-coloured juncos face each other in mid-flight, clasping feet like dancers as light snowflakes flutter around them in the snowy forest.

Two male slate coloured juncos hover facing each other in mid flight. The one on the left pulls his wings into an upstroke while bracing his tail, staring into the eyes on the one of the right who is mid-downstroke. Snow flutters around them in the snowy forest.

Some mid-air junco battles from the other day. They do these amazing, spiraling aerial battles. It's taken some practice to be quick enough to catch them. Most of my shots are of empty sky :) #birds 🌿

The Onion says it has struck a deal to take over Infowars The move would allow the satire site to turn Alex Jones' conspiracist creation into a parody of itself.

After years of legal action, the Onion says it has reached an agreement with a bankruptcy receiver to license the Infowars site.

"You need to learn how to use Claude" just entrenches Anthropic's power over you, if you learn how to use the tools (code, art, research) you don't give over that power

The (im)possibility of AI literacy Published in Learning, Media and Technology (Vol. 51, No. 1, 2026)

Also @shengokai.blacksky.app have you seen:

Pangrazio, L. (2026). The (im)possibility of AI literacy. Learning, Media and Technology, 51(1), 1–7. doi.org/10.1080/1743...

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Lost somewhere between melancholy and whimsical, this feels like the parts of ourselves we usually try to keep tucked away. So vulnerable.

Beautiful work by Christine Polis.

#beautifulbizarre #sculpture #ceramicsculpture #porcelain #textilesculpture

Garrett Crochet struggles again, Tigers beat Red Sox at soggy Fenway Park The Red Sox lost the series finale to the Detroit Tigers, 6-2, on Sunday.

Dillon Dingler hit a three-run homer during Detroit's four-run fifth inning against Boston's struggling ace Garrett Crochet, leading the Tigers to a 6-2 victory over the Red Sox on Sunday at chilly and rainy Fenway Park.

Embroidery journal: 5th & 6th grade pancake breakfast fundraiser.

Week in Review: Cracks in the Armor A four-game winning streak for the Twins gave way to a four-game losing streak as the roster began to show its warts.

The rotation excelled. The offense started big against Crochet, then cooled. The bullpen was bad and the defense was horrific.

The Twins went from winning 4 straight to losing 4 straight as weaknesses rose to the surface. New Week in Review @twinsdaily.com: twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/...

Garrett Crochet (BOS) allowed five earned runs over five innings with eight strikeouts

Finally finished this embroidery project! No more embroidery for a while.

(I just bought a new cross-stitch lol)

I thought this looked really good.

This one will rip your heart in two 💔 Beth Is Dead is a modern reimagining of Little Women with a mystery thriller twist. Beth is already gone and no one knows how she died. Everyone is a suspect. Katie Bernet handles this story with so much care and depth. I had tears 😭

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