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On a government census form I would expect that to be a choice for identifying as anglophone rather than francophone. (Language, rather than geography)

gradient.horse Draw a horse, watch it run!

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for

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Carney's speech is worth reading or watching in its entirety. A crucial speech, to the moment. Historic, if you will.

Good news for film fans who have not gotten @criterionchannl.bsky.social: use the code NEWYEARS26 for 20% off an annual subscription

Leonardo DiCaprio has stopped using Wikipedia.

SO MANY TINY SPINES

Coffee with colleagues, therapy, an emotional phone call with my best friend and a trip to Costco this afternoon. I have a headache and an emotional hangover. (And a tuna sandwich)

I use Life Smart or Vega vanilla vegan powder, and if I’m not using frozen berries I throw in a couple of ice cubes. The powder is better when cold

I’ve been in the smoothie breakfast life for the past year (diabetes diagnosis), and it is great. I’ve been using the brand name protein powders, excited to hear your bulk barn review

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this week's post is something i've been working on for a long time, and is a little guide to living the good life. Or it's early aughts punk nostalgia. Or it's my response to tradwife culture.

margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/the-punk-r...

Christ, What a Monster! Something gendered was going on here.

A doodle of a transmasc Jesus in a 9th century book of monsters is the starting point for @ebermichael.bsky.social’s new piece in @contingent-mag.bsky.social. Don’t miss it.

Slept in a Tragically Hip shirt, when I left your house this morning it was a little after nine

Such a fun book

Ten Kinds of Happiness Joyful words from around the world

The Danish word ‘hygge’ refers to “a cozy quality that makes a person feel content and comfortable.”

We hope this list of joyful words makes you feel hygge.
www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/ten...

Cosmic Threads: A Solar System Quilt from 1876 A serenade to the universe in wool and silk.

142 autumns ago, a paper in the nation's capital reported that "an Iowa woman has spent seven years embroidering the solar system on a quilt." Ellen Harding Baker used her stunning quilt to teach astronomy in an era when women could not attend college www.themarginalian.org/2018/12/06/e...

If you see this repost with your model of positive masculinity

Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2 “Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports Myco...

Immunity debt's "...explanatory power has faded as the number of non-covid infections has kept rising each year...

A growing number of scientists believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may instead be subtly altering our immune systems." 🛟😷medsky

The captains bunk! The whole movie is so bonkers

When my partner died this summer, one of the most concrete ways he loved me was leaving everything as organized as possible. Will and power of attorney and medical directives done. Joint bank accounts, complete list of passwords, full access to his phone and laptop.

That also happens to me during allergy testing, and I react to the plain saline control. My current allergist explained it as a dermatographia skin reaction: I get hives from the scratching! So he subtracted the 3mm saline control scratch from all the other hive measurements.

AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures

NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Scientists warn common diabetes drug may be cancelling out benefits of exercise New study raises urgent questions about how doctors treat diabetes

Metformin reduces the benefits of exercise in people with diabetes

Yikes

Wait, what?

CHOTINER: So You created us right
GOD: Yes
CHOTINER: In Your image
GOD: Yes
CHOTINER: And sometimes we do bad things
GOD: Oh Yes
CHOTINER: And then you send plagues and floods
GOD: OK I think I see where you are going with this

Close-up of a map showing the proposed extent of Doggerland, the land mass between the UK and mainland Europe that existed when sea levels were much lower.

I thought I knew the story of the "lost world" off the east coast of Britain, inhabited by Mesolithic people until rising sea waters engulfed it around 8,000 years ago...

But I didn't know about the *tsunami*.

Holy hell.

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Very jealous!

A selection of New York Times columnists tap gently at the door of Jordan Peterson’s Arizona crypt, asking him to come out and explain how, although the left may not have done it, the left *made* that troubled young man do it.