(I of course have nothing to say against those who left bsky because they couldn't stomach, e.g., selective policing of Palestinian speech.)

But if you can't do the limited "keep up with some news and some people" stuff on bsky because it's a stifling repressive lib hellscape or whatever, the solution is to block those people and follow ones who can help you keep up with some news and some people. It's not much, but twitter's over.

Bsky unequivocally sucks and is owned by yet another set of aspiring Jack Dorseys but "the commons" isn't "still X," it no longer exists because Musk replaced it with what X is now. There are a few use cases for paying attention to captive subsets of userbase I guess?

The thread (and the repeated insistence that Musk's site is the commons, non-participation in Musk's site is surrender, refusal to see that the nazis now rightfully own the commons and you have to participate etc) is deranged and stupid.

This was all eliminated after my time, so I can't speak to if any "virtual shelf" alternatives were introduced for students, but seeing that place replaced with the campus's 40th interchangeable internet-cafe looking computer lab was a real "paved paradise, put up a parking lot" moment for me.

...and then on a set of shelves in the same room were humanities journals, where there were 4-5 different history journals I kept up on.

My university library, besides also providing the stacks-browsing experience discussed ITT, also had a lovely periodical reading room where I first read NYRB - ~6 months or so would be set out...

*Important* At the Senate on Tuesday, the President summarized the Province's plan to cut University funding across the province by 10%. This is nuclear, amounting to ~50M divided among the four universities. (While Irving pulp and paper is to get +45M for tariff relief.) But it is not yet a done deal. All university and union presidents are responding firmly. Please write to your MLA asap. There is not much time.

Dear Hon. Susan Holt, It has come to my attention that the budget for universities in the province may be cut by $50 million. I am writing to plead with you to reconsider. New Brunswick universities like the University of New Brunswick--recently ranked tops in Atlantic Canada and 14th in the country ahead of Western and Ottawa by TIME Magazine--serve a vital role educating the young people of this province. Our constituency is our own children. These proposed cuts would have a catastrophic impact on institutions that quite frankly require more public investment not less. This would be an incredibly short-sighted decision, with devastating long-term impacts. I hope New Brunswick can count on you to reconsider and put its young people first, ahead of corporate interests. Many thanks, Nathan Kalman-Lamb Associate Professor of Sociology, University of New Brunswick

Catastrophic higher education news in New Brunswick: the Liberal government of my MLA @susanholtnb.bsky.social is potentially going to cut 10% of the budget for universities—$50M across 4 schools when much *more* funding is needed, not less.

The impact would be devastating.

Please share, NBers.

Granting Mr. Radosh's sincerity (or even much more tentatively Browning's) the headline (which, we frequently hear, isn't the writer's fault) doesn't mention "some stumbles" by accident, or even half by accident. That 'graph and that headline weren't conjured into existence by Axel Springer SE.

the only conceivable effect of anti-anti-Newsom interventions is to make it likelier that his bizarre awful candidacy prospers, meaning the speaker is either evil, stupid, or some combination even before one gets into the spectacle of liberals ranting about the communist menace

Spreadable processed cheese from Canadian generic "No Name" brand labeled "cheese-tastic" in English and the much funnier "fromidable!" in French

That *is* a fun fact. Please enjoy this bilingual generic cheez-whizz.

I need people to understand that if you’ve dealt with ice, if you’ve had to worry about you or your kids or neighbors disappearing, if you see the govt giving nazis carte blanche to kill you, every “reform”’ from democrats who currently reject abolition sounds insane. and frankly fucking stupid

More Than 100 Gazans Have Been Accepted to Canadian Universities. Canada Isn’t Letting Them In. See a map of the graduate programs they're planning to attend, if the government finally processes their visas

New from me: More Than 100 Gazans Have Been Accepted to Canadian Universities. Canada Isn’t Letting Them In.

Oh, it's Matt Bai. Well, that'll do it! I guess whoever's still working for RS can enjoy Curtis Yarvin's slam poetry at the FP/neo-WaPo/Quillette/Compact/Conde courtiers' gala.

Trump "was resurrected by" a left wing cultural revolution under Biden, says the Rolling Stone in 2025.

Reality-massaging nonsense from the imagination of Bari Weissian regime mouthpieces and MAGA fantasists, laundered by an ostensibly liberal outlet.

Ran.

c.f weather.gc.ca - pretty full-featured, but you have to know to search a community in the search bar as step one.

The author, Graeme Wood, is an American-Canadian dual citizen and may have meant it it as a cutesy joke. I don't give much benefit of the doubt, as he's one of the worst of the Atlantic's murderers row of Bari-Weiss-a-likes. Made news in 2024 with his "It is possible to kill children legally" piece.

Reform and its odious predecessors did their utmost to advance and mainstream stupid, hateful dystopia my whole life, but it was YOU buffoons who dedicated a majority government to lovingly handcrafting Farage's regime for him in advance. An object lesson in Dunning-Kruger polisci and shamelessness.

I’m on hunger strike in a British prison. This is why | Amu Gib Our demands are simple – and they start with stopping the flow of arms to Israel, says activist Amu Gib

"Palestinians are now facing another winter without any of the things that anyone needs to survive. To reach the point we have, where Israel can weaponise starvation, you have to confront who enables that."

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(I always assumed "remembering stuff" meant "thinking about your knowledge of the past," and I do do that a lot. Turns out "remembering," reexperiencing with a sense of temporality, is this whole other brain special effect I have never experienced)

The Wired article on that was not great (author made incorrect inferences) but the New Yorker article by Larissa MacFarquhar was a lot clearer. Compared to "how well can you visualize an apple," "have you ever experienced instant replay memories" is a simple binary and welp 5% don't have those

The real humdinger on all this (I didn't care about aphantasia particularly) was finding out about the bizarre memory deficits that come with it and the fact that episodic memory (all episodic memory) is apparently bound up with whatever the aphantasia thing is. And that's harder to mistake.

It's not. I can't make a red hexagon or green square come up in my mind's eye for one million dollars but a sense of spatial relationships isn't bound up with the same faculty so "remembering" homes, where a chair or a window is, isn't bound up with that.

apart from all the rest of the red flags re grievance waving in Compact magazine, the "people are mean/unfair about military history" specifically strikes me as having extremely strong Marine Todd fishiness levels. Maybe arrows-on-maps mil-hist isn't the most fashionable but no more doomed than most

1982 Far side cartoon: two devils watching the damned doing hard labour in hell see a goofy guy cheerfully whistling as he moves rocks in a wheelbarrow; one devil says to the other "You know, we're just not reaching that guy."

Maybe a cliche choice but it's the first one I think of

Holsey's resignation announcement was 16 October, a month and a half after the first strike (with the survivor-killing second strike) on Sept 1. Still obviously a good idea to be the one person conspicuously and explicitly resigning over this.

"Thomas" and "Williams" are both very normal, it's amazing how much of a "Forsyth Humberton Wigglesworth IV" vibe he gets out of just the middle part. Maybe it's just the effect of his writing.

Excerpt from Megan Greenwell's piece on the killing of Deadspin in which Jim Spamfilter basically paraphrases the "Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time, we created a lot of value for shareholders" cartoon Tom Toro drew for the New Yorker in 2012

The Tom Toro New Yorker cartoon of a post-apocalyptic world in which a bedraggled man in a business suit explains to bedraggled children that "Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time, we created a lot of value for shareholders." It doesn't have the caption on the bottom to make it more of a cultural reference and less me directly stealing from Tom Toro.

Any Democratic senator not publicly calling for the ouster of Schumer and Durbin can be assumed to be in agreement with the policy of surrender. Any Democratic senator criticizing "internal recriminations," - in this context! the gall of these people! - much moreso.