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nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

Sure, Wim Wenders because Wings of Desire (!), Paris, Texas (!)(considered one of the BEST films ever) and Buena Vista Social Club say nothing political.

Okay, Grandma, that's enough Winter Olympics for you! 😆

I've never even been this far north (only as far as Prince George). I don't think people realise how vast this country is.

And if you can't donate here, may I remind you children continue to needlessly die - @unicef.org and @oxfaminternational.bsky.social, @msf.ca can use your dosh too.

If you're able, please consider donating to Tumbler Ridge's GFM. I don't want to tell anyone where to donate - no one fundraiser is better than another, but this is a tiny, regular, Canadian town.

www.gofundme.com/f/tumbler-ri...

Donate to Supporting families affected in Tumbler Ridge, organized by Tumbler Ridge PAC Supporting Families Impacted by the Recent Tragedy in Tumbler Ridge … Tumbler Ridge PAC needs your support for Supporting families affected in Tumbler Ridge

OMG, someone made an *anonymous* donation of $50,000 to the Tumbler Ridge GoFundMe organized by the town's families.

Let's keep it going, Canada.

This Is How a Child Dies of Measles When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak

Please, just vaccinate your children

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

And this which taught millions of people to yearn. Of all orientations. The power of spectator sport.

I get it if maybe you haven’t found your spectator sport yet but it’s not a waste (even if there’s only losing (except Spurs they stinko) lol).

And this when we watched Celtic games off a VHS tape. Any day that other teams loses is a good day.

And this. And I don’t even like baseball - not true, I got into the BlueJays last fall and it was so rewarding, even losing.

Meta’s internal memo said the political tumult in the United States was good timing for the feature’s release. “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses.

this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

I dunno my dude, I think this was pretty sweet.

Some great debunking work here by @natashabulowski.bsky.social and Marc Fawcett Atkinson. Just because something agrees with how you see the world, doesn't mean it's correct.

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

All 8 victims killed in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., shooting identified by police | CBC

Babies, just babies. When we can't protect (or in some cases won't) the most innocent, we piece by piece lose more of our humanity. My heart aches for this BC community.

I bet he says this at parties and he and Cheryl laugh and laugh and laugh and he bookends this with him killing kids in Samoa and driving his first wife to the brink that she took her own life.

Justin Ling: In the face of horror in Tumbler Ridge, these are the questions we need to be asking Van Rootselaar was the target of abuse by a prominent American right winger.

I spent yesterday combing through the social media history of Jesse Van Rootselaar, the 18-year-old responsible for a mass shooting at a B.C. school.

It doesn't explain why the shooting occurred. But it hints at how it might have been prevented.
www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

YouTube video by CBC News Survivor of one of Canada’s first school shootings reflects | Power & Politics

Highly recommend this. And I can’t thank Anne enough for her courage and generosity in sharing her story.

youtu.be/BBfyk0eeST0?...

This is what I often think of when I see Minnesota: Northern Ireland. The resistance is on those streets. ✊🏼

Headline in today's Guardian that reads "Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40 percent, study finds. Cognitive health in later life is 'strongly influenced' by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers."

This is why you need to be reading books and writing your own emails, by the way. When you outsource your thinking abilities, you risk turning your brain into soup. Heavy dependence on AI has already been linked with severe cognitive decline. What you don’t use, you will lose.

Harold & Maude. I could wax poetic about this movie for ages. It holds such a weird and sweet and pure place in my heart. It’s so 70s and at the same time not of its time. Again, the wrong people keep dying.

Once again, all the wrong people are dying!

All of BC is wrapping the families of Tumbler Ridge with love.

Supports are available:

BC Mental Health Support Line: 310-6789

Kids Help Phone: Text “CONNECT” to 686868

Thank you to the emergency responders on the ground for the work they are doing.

Headline reads: my heart can't bear

The small-town paper in Tumbler Ridge is going to need support. This is its front page right now. Their subscription page is here:
www.patreon.com/tumblerridge...

“If all the names in the Epstein files are released then our entire system will collapse.”

Works for me.

These individuals are so deeply weird and unjoyous. They experience surface level living that is hollow and craven. They are the weakest of us. I don’t know why we capitulate to their brand of human malfeasance. None of these people experienced enough adolescent shame. Bring back shame!

“OMG, but if there was a multinational, blackmail pedophile ring wouldn’t someone have tried to sound the alarm?”

yes. many tried.

most of them women.

but you didn’t believe them.

you thought they were crazy. even when they sounded credible, they were discredited, silenced and sometimes killed.

I don’t know what to tell us anymore but when I am getting informed and nuanced takes from We Rate Dogs … what the hell are we doing? Those positioned to protect us are against us.

Anyway. Get rid of Ring. You don’t need it. You need to go outside. Walk your neighbourhood. Pet some real dogs.

See!!

‘Wuthering Heights’ is Emerald Fennell’s dumbest movie, film critic Alison Willmore writes, “and I say that with all admiration, because it also happens to be her best to date.”