Leo Macneil

also one of the craziest evolutions of rapid response is how a month ago you'd be trying to get a plate check and you'd be like "VBZ 2552" and then have to repeat it 12 times and now 90% of us know the NATO alphabet and you'll get these girls going "Victor! Bravo! Zulu!" like they're fighter pilots

Wednesday

It's kinda annoying how solar panels were hung around the neck of the left as impractical pie in the sky treehugger shit *right* up until it started outcompeting every other energy source. Then suddenly, instead of going "hey the left was correct about solar" it's no longer a "left" idea!

Interesting

Pretty, pretty good

Good stuff

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:

Post a banger that’s not in English. (A basic choice, but I’m like that) youtu.be/DoIqXz2AIFs

This is just one of many scenarios that would end this in as little as four swift moves. We are currently teetering at the precipice of oblivion.

Relevant to several of my interests

Made in a lab to appeal to me

We made the big time.

One of my most cherished classes is my 18th century novels course where the primary learning objective is "learn how read long novels." We did a "couch to 5k" approach to attention span and note-taking.

Reaction floods in after death of legendary Canadian actress Catherine O'Hara | CBC

One of the best to ever do it. www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

Dementia-care training expands with $4.3-million investment

https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/news/news_release.2026.01.0023.html

scoreboard

Some Can cons on US invasion

How many fronts is this? I wonder if anyone is keeping track, because I’ve lost count

my 2026 resolution is to stop talking about climate in terms of global mean temperature (will rise a couple degrees, sounds manageable, nobody cares) and start talking in terms of H bomb equivalents (holy shit, seems bad, WTF)

Good start.

In fairness, a quick search tells me that Court Party as a term has been in use since 17th C England, this guy could have got it elsewhere. Knopff and Morton are OG Calgary School though, so definitely influential in Canadian anti-left circles

The term “Court Party” was popular among some Charter skeptics in the 90’s, there was a book by Morton and Knopff. Is there a revival or did it never go away?

the spectrum of queer experience is vast and complex, and none of us know what's going on inside families that are not our own

but my feed is full of media outlets describing a woman with a very-much-living-and-in-the-picture wife first and foremost as though she was a man's widow, and I just

Informative, even if you don’t agree with the priorities

WTH…

Happy New Year stuff

Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its…

Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.

The condescension and moral preening are getting all the glory in this email, but don’t sleep on the new head of CBS News declaring that the last 7 days were a “slow news week.”

Cave Canadenses

It’s the most wonderful time of the year