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someday a real Black Friday will come and wash all the scum off the streets
November 28, 2025 at 4:02 AM
someday a real Black Friday will come and wash all the scum off the streets
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American Thanksgiving is the most Canadian day of the year.
In the US it’s this huge explosion of consumption, family gatherings, football, consumerism…
Up here, it’s just Thursday.
In the US it’s this huge explosion of consumption, family gatherings, football, consumerism…
Up here, it’s just Thursday.
November 25, 2025 at 2:08 AM
American Thanksgiving is the most Canadian day of the year.
In the US it’s this huge explosion of consumption, family gatherings, football, consumerism…
Up here, it’s just Thursday.
In the US it’s this huge explosion of consumption, family gatherings, football, consumerism…
Up here, it’s just Thursday.
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Happy Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Happy Thanksgiving
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“I can see why all these people without heads wouldn’t be good for a community." www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
“I can see why all these people without heads wouldn’t be good for a community." www.science.org/content/arti...
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November 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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When I was a kid I’d watch Laurel and Hardy’s March of the Wooden Soldiers on Channel 11 every Thanksgiving, and it scared the pants off me.
November 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
When I was a kid I’d watch Laurel and Hardy’s March of the Wooden Soldiers on Channel 11 every Thanksgiving, and it scared the pants off me.
It’s been over a year since I tried watching a Raptors game.
Cautiously letting a little hope into my life tonight….
Cautiously letting a little hope into my life tonight….
November 27, 2025 at 2:56 AM
It’s been over a year since I tried watching a Raptors game.
Cautiously letting a little hope into my life tonight….
Cautiously letting a little hope into my life tonight….
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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The thing about Trump stories is that they always have that extra layer of stupidity that you’re not expecting. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
November 26, 2025 at 12:59 AM
The thing about Trump stories is that they always have that extra layer of stupidity that you’re not expecting. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
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the people whose opinions I want are those who have lived in countries under the transition to authoritarianism, and I have not met one who is confused about what is going on in the US right now. If you teach history at Penn and don’t understand that, it’s time to quit.
November 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
the people whose opinions I want are those who have lived in countries under the transition to authoritarianism, and I have not met one who is confused about what is going on in the US right now. If you teach history at Penn and don’t understand that, it’s time to quit.
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Not ranking, but here are tickets sold (US).
(obligatory)
SW-178M
ESB - 98M
ROTJ - 94M
TPM - 90M
AOTC - 53M
ROTS - 59M
TFA - 108M
TLJ - 67M
TROS - 54M
R1 - 60M
S - 22M
SW-178M
ESB - 98M
ROTJ - 94M
TPM - 90M
AOTC - 53M
ROTS - 59M
TFA - 108M
TLJ - 67M
TROS - 54M
R1 - 60M
S - 22M
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Not ranking, but here are tickets sold (US).
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GALADRIEL: (glowing green) In place of a hard roll, I would have whole wheat—beautiful and terrible to behold!
DELI GUY: #3 on wheat.
G: (coyly) You offer it to me freely.
DG: No, Galadriel. You have to pay. Every day with this
DELI GUY: #3 on wheat.
G: (coyly) You offer it to me freely.
DG: No, Galadriel. You have to pay. Every day with this
October 15, 2023 at 4:56 PM
GALADRIEL: (glowing green) In place of a hard roll, I would have whole wheat—beautiful and terrible to behold!
DELI GUY: #3 on wheat.
G: (coyly) You offer it to me freely.
DG: No, Galadriel. You have to pay. Every day with this
DELI GUY: #3 on wheat.
G: (coyly) You offer it to me freely.
DG: No, Galadriel. You have to pay. Every day with this
American Thanksgiving is the most Canadian day of the year.
In the US it’s this huge explosion of consumption, family gatherings, football, consumerism…
Up here, it’s just Thursday.
In the US it’s this huge explosion of consumption, family gatherings, football, consumerism…
Up here, it’s just Thursday.
November 25, 2025 at 2:08 AM
American Thanksgiving is the most Canadian day of the year.
In the US it’s this huge explosion of consumption, family gatherings, football, consumerism…
Up here, it’s just Thursday.
In the US it’s this huge explosion of consumption, family gatherings, football, consumerism…
Up here, it’s just Thursday.
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After the American Revolution, Thayendanegea tried to form the Western Confederacy to unite the Haudenosaunee with western Indigenous groups to prevent further American expansion into the west. Despite his loyalty, the British provided him with no help.
🧵 5/10
🧵 5/10
November 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
After the American Revolution, Thayendanegea tried to form the Western Confederacy to unite the Haudenosaunee with western Indigenous groups to prevent further American expansion into the west. Despite his loyalty, the British provided him with no help.
🧵 5/10
🧵 5/10
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The correct path to a just peace in Ukraine is, and can only be, the destruction of the Russian armed forces on the battlefield, sufficient to end Putinist rule in Russia itself. Every day the West dodges that realization is another day of wasted lives in Ukraine.
November 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The correct path to a just peace in Ukraine is, and can only be, the destruction of the Russian armed forces on the battlefield, sufficient to end Putinist rule in Russia itself. Every day the West dodges that realization is another day of wasted lives in Ukraine.
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When A.I. drafts the preamble to a P.R. pitch.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
When A.I. drafts the preamble to a P.R. pitch.
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After an economic crash you always see headlines like What Was Everyone Thinking? What do you mean everyone, most of us are waving our arms and screaming every day, it's a handful of insanely rich assholes who aren't listening
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
After an economic crash you always see headlines like What Was Everyone Thinking? What do you mean everyone, most of us are waving our arms and screaming every day, it's a handful of insanely rich assholes who aren't listening
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This excellent WSJ annotation of the Molotov/Ribbentrop … sorry, Witkoff/Dmitriev … “peace deal” for Ukraine shows how ridiculously vague and utterly unworkable this thing is
Free link
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Free link
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Trump’s Peace Plan for Ukraine, Annotated
Here’s a breakdown of some of the key points in the plan and how Ukraine and its European allies might respond.
www.wsj.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
This excellent WSJ annotation of the Molotov/Ribbentrop … sorry, Witkoff/Dmitriev … “peace deal” for Ukraine shows how ridiculously vague and utterly unworkable this thing is
Free link
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Free link
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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On Friday November 28 at 7pm, join Sabrina Janke and Alex Judge for the launch of Portage and Main: How an iconic intersection shaped Winnipeg's history, politics, and urban life (@greatplainspress.bsky.social). Hosted by @jenzoratti.bsky.social. - mailchi.mp/grant/janke-...
Sabrina Janke & Alex Judge to launch Portage & Main
Join co-authors Sabrina Janke and Alex Judge for the launch of Portage and Main: How an iconic intersection shaped Winnipeg's history, politics, and urban life. Hosted by Jen Zoratti, the event will f...
mailchi.mp
November 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
On Friday November 28 at 7pm, join Sabrina Janke and Alex Judge for the launch of Portage and Main: How an iconic intersection shaped Winnipeg's history, politics, and urban life (@greatplainspress.bsky.social). Hosted by @jenzoratti.bsky.social. - mailchi.mp/grant/janke-...
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪