James “DELENDA EST GLACIES” Harbeck

Being polite. The world is full of raging assholes (especially since we were locked in for covid, pretending happy hours in drawers on zoom was fine) and saying please and thank you and meaning it goes sooo far these days.

yup. this is the only argument they've ever had since the trickle down bullshit failed completely.👇

I’m in Dark Horse on Front east of Cherry, at a round marble table; sun is beaming down on the large bright room, including my latte and my Leica M3

Office in the sun

Pretty much every night, there’s some weird technical screw-up on CTV News Toronto.
“What is going *on* in that place?” Darcy asks me and I tell him that every news studio is now being run by unpaid interns and AI. My theory remains undefeated.

One short sentence, two statements of fact, both false.

“I’m categorically not. Can you make that the headline?” Cillian Murphy

Grainger photographed from 494

Highway to the Grainger Zone

How editors should handle AI-generated manuscripts - Josh Bernoff In yesterday’s newsletter, I pointed out that editorial experts are now cleaning up other people’s AI-generated messes. And I’ve now heard from lots of ghostwriters and editors that their clients are ...

Some useful thoughts for editors by @jbernoff.bsky.social on dealing with AI-generated text bernoff.com/blog/how-edi...

'Exposed to geopolitics' is a fascinating way of phrasing this, and a really telling one. They thought they'd reached a level of wealth where they were free of the need to think about the consequences of their actions.

I do not want ‘reach’ I have seen what you fuckers do to people you perceive as having ‘reach

Chart: 122.6 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced at the end of June 2024 as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations or events seriously disturbing public order. Line graph shows a dramatic trend upwards after 2012, from ~40M to 125M

This one goes out to all the North Americans who complain about brown people immigrating here. What did you think would happen when we egged on *the destruction of people’s homes???*

When the New York Public Library's wealthy trustees tried to get rid of physical books, & turn the beloved main branch (guarded by the two lions) into a kind of upscale mall, they presented this as inevitable too.

People fought back—turns out people really like books!—& they had to drop the plan.

ICE was very active in Minneapolis today, they kidnapped multiple people. ICE didn't leave, the media has moved on but we are still under federal occupation.

A broad expanse of beach, with a bay beyond it, and headlands creating a strait; in the foreground, on the sand, various words in Spanish and Basque traced into the sand by one person's dedicated feet.

And so much more of it at low tide.

View from the top of a concrete ramp with railing sloping down to a beach with a stone and concrete arcade on the left; on the right, where in low tide there is a broad expanse of beach, there is now surf lashing at the ramp.

I remember that beach fondly. So very scenic, and such a dramatic tide difference. I was using this photo as a Zoom background even today.

if you’re cis and you don’t get it this is LITERAL TORTURE

it will result in dead trans people

and with their other goal of making us “sexually explicit” for existing

you see the pipeline right?

we exist -> we’re jailed for it -> we’re tortured and die

WE NEED YOU TO STOP THIS

They’re really trying to do drive-thru colonization

fucking brilliant work, guys. what an accomplishment, you took out the IRGCAF's gate guards. you are winner.

we're throwing away a year's production of precision-guided munitions to vaporize a bunch of broke-dick museum pieces which probably haven't seen so much as a taxi test this millennium.

fight the real enemy

Dior haute couture spring summer 2026 by Jonathan Anderson

The first act of violence that patriarchy demands .. of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves.

bell hooks

Fact check: No he fucking hasn't

Years ago our admin did a red and black report. It took salaries & how much $ each instructor made in tuition $ for classes we taught-you were in the red or black. They released numbers once & shut it down bc humanities were producing huge $ for uni & engineers, business and scientists were losing $

One hundred accounts are behind the majority of conspiracy theory content in Canada Researchers analyzed more than 14 million social media posts from accounts in Canada and found that 87 per cent of conspiratorial claims come from influencers, with just 100 users responsible for near...

100 accounts are behind majority of conspiracy theory content in Canada www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/25/n...

"...analyzed over 14 million social media posts from accounts in Canada, and found that 87% of conspiratorial claims come from influencers."

Those on "X were the biggest culprits."

If you spend time in the bad place, you’re hearing this claim a lot:

Alberta sends $23B more to Ottawa than it gets back. If we separated, we’d erase the $9B deficit and have a $14B surplus.

It sounds simple. It’s wrong. Here's why. 🧵

It sure would be great if the bright minds behind autocorrecting spell check would understand that no one ever adds a diacritical mark by accident. That macron, and all the acute and grave accents and diaereses that Word has whisked away from me over the years, took DELIBERATE WORK, dammit.

why are criminals allowed to commit crimes but everyone gets mad when cops do it

MARCH CARTOON, in support of this and similar posts about not irritating your readers, from @bcdreyer.social.

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This is a perfect expression of the modern GOP credo: We don't build, we only demolish.

Overheard: Sorry I cannot attend the Friday happy hour as I have a prior commitment to be unhappy at that time.