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Shawn Micallef: Doug Ford’s attack on speed cameras shows how good politics can make for lousy public policy The premier’s comments on Tuesday should be a moment for Ontarians to think whether the province is a place of law and order or where vigilantes can influence government policy.

In Ontario criminal vigilantism is acceptable, effective & can influence government policy. When Doug Ford gives his tacit approval of criminal vigilantism, indicating it can influence his government's public policy, it's a frightening moment for Ontario. My column on what we should think about.

I ran an experiment, simultaneously posting articles on Bluesky and X, and then testing to see how many people actually clicked and read them. The numbers on Bluesky are higher, both because the X algorithm downranks journalism, and because Bluesky attracts readers, not just shitposters.

The best women's baseball player in the world, Ayami Sato, just made her debut playing men's pro ball in Toronto and had a 3-up 3-down first inning

Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.

Screenshot of People Magazine article with photo of Queen Elizabeth Ii: “Queen Elizabeth’s Final Diary Entry Contained Only Fve Words.”

“Bustin’ makes me feel good”

Opinion | Larry David: My Dinner With Adolf When a private meeting goes unexpectedly.

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This is really bad, signed a historian of food safety

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Date: Monday, January 13, 1992, 5:26 pm To: Byron Preiss Dear Byron, Thanks for the script of the novel. I don't know what happened to the first one. It may have been a victim of the office move (see above). I'll respond as quickly and briefly as possible. One general point. A thing I have had said to me over and over again whenever I've done public appearances and readings and so on in the States is this: Please don't let anyone Americanise it! We like it the way it is! There are some changes in the script that simply don't make sense. Arthur Dent is English, the setting is England, and has been in every single manifestation of HHGG ever. The 'Horse and Groom' pub that Arthur and Ford go to is an English pub, the 'pounds' they pay with

are English (but make it twenty pounds rather than five- inflation) So why suddenly 'Newark' instead of 'Rickmansworth'? And 'Bloomingdales' instead of 'Marks & Spencer'? The fact that Rickmansworth is not within the continental United States doesn't mean that it doesn't exist! American audiences do not need to feel disturbed by the notion that places do exist outside the US or that people might suddenly refer to them in works of fiction. You wouldn't, presumably, replace Ursa Minor Beta with 'Des Moines'. There is no Bloomingdales in England, and Bloomingdales is not a generic term for large department stores. If you feel that referring to "Marks & Spencer' might seriously freak out Americans because they haven't heard of it (or because Marks and Spencer owns Brooks Brothers) we could either put warning stickers on the cover ("The text of this book contains references to places and institutions outside the continental United States and may cause offence to people who haven't heard of them") or you could, I suppose, put 'Harrods', which most people will have heard of. Or we could even take the appalling risk of just recklessly mentioning things that people won't have heard of and see if they survive the experience. They probably will - when people are born they haven't heard of anything or anywhere, but seem to get through the first few years of their lives without ill-effects.

Haha! Love this letter from Douglas Adams to his US editor about not Americanising the text of Hitchhiker's Guide. 🐋🌸

a woman is saying `` this is the bad place ! '' Alt: a woman is saying `` this is the bad place ! ''

Are we in the Bad Place? It feels like we are in the Bad Place.

Emoji search, the query is “old” and all of the results are old technology like telephones, pagers, and VHS tapes

I tried to search for the old man emoji and iOS chose violence

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That time the mariachi band came to MDR when we wrapped episode 210.

#severance

Look at these heroes. That’s earnest.

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Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression WASHINGTON—Warning that Americans should brace themselves for an economic “period of transition,” President Donald Trump told reporters Monday that a recession would be an unfortunate but necessary st...

“If everything goes right, none of you will be able to afford food, housing, or retirement ever again.” theonion.com/trump-says-r...

A splitgill mushroom that looks very much like an anus grows off the bottom of an upturned branch in a bare winter forest. All photos by me

Here is a nice mushroom

Excerpt from the linked story

Remember when the WH insisted that global HIV prevention & treatment was exempt from the freeze? When it seemed MAYBE they understood that cutting off medicine could put the entire planet at risk of drug resistant HIV strains?

Wrong. Elon Musk’s interns were simply shutting payments off manually.

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Edward Gorey’s “Great Simple Theory About Art” is essential reading for writers. “Many of Edward Gorey’s most fervent devotees,” Stephen Schiff wrote in a profile of the artist in The New Yorker in 1992, “think he’s (a) English and (b) dead. Actually, he has never so much as vi…

Why writers should read Edward Gorey’s “Great Simple Theory About Art.”

So same! Give me summaries and sound bites after the fact and I’m good.

So Trump pretends to be ready to impose tariffs to get other countries to pretend to get tough on the border, and the media pretends all this is serious, and it's understood by most of America as Trump being tough and getting things done

The correct headline is "Mexico and Canada Outwit Cranky Old Man by Making Him Feel Like He's Important."

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