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@thewalrus Good timing on this, are they going to boycott the Olympics too?

Figure skating has long been a space for LGBTQ2S+ athletes to shine. Now, Skate Canada is taking a stand: no events in Alberta until trans athletes can compete freely. Mel Woods explores what happens when values meet policy: thewalrus.ca/the-sports-org…

By 1968, the psychedelic movement had seeped into every corner of pop culture - music, film, art, and even cartoons. One of the strangest and most delightful examples was “Psychedelic Pink”, the 39th episode of the Pink Panther series.

@ingelramdecoucy @CBR Because it's fun to watch?

The Lord of the Rings trilogy is an iconic film series, but it also has many elements that are difficult to watch in modern day. cbr.com/8-reasons-toug…

@RockChartrand Sometimes it's anti-capitalism masquerading as environmentalism.

When people say “save the planet,” the question they avoid is: from what, and for who? The planet isn’t at risk. Human flourishing is. Using resources to live better isn’t an atrocity, it’s the basis of civilization. The real debate is how to balance prosperity with environmental impact, not whether prosperity itself is immoral. What often gets framed as “saving the planet” ends up meaning restricting development, raising costs, and limiting access to energy, especially for those trying to improve their standard of living. And when the same voices exempt themselves from those constraints, it raises a simpler question: Is this about sustainability, or about controlling how others are allowed to live?

@MPelletierCIO Canadians on the left voted for this because they don't understand economics and think that capitalism is the enemy. They got exactly what they voted for.

The exact same government, the exact same people, with a new leader that shares a lot of the same views. And yet we expect a different outcome.

@ingelramdecoucy @BumpstockBarbie I read these to myself in a Hank Hill voice.

@BumpstockBarbie Possums are our friends, if you see a wild possum you should go up to it and hug it and kiss it on the snoot. They love to be cuddled and kissed! Don’t let the hissing deter you, that’s just their cute possum way of saying they love you

Fun fact about opossums: Opossums are very unlikely to carry rabies due to their lower body temperature, which makes it difficult for the virus to survive in them. While any mammal can contract rabies, cases in opossums are extremely rare compared to other wildlife like raccoons and bats.

@IonaItalia Rick has good hair.

Previous bfs introduced me to chess—I didn't think I would like it; now I am completely hooked. And to Foo Fighters and to Rick Beato's music analysis YouTube channel. I am now the world greatest Foo Fighters fan and am in an intense parasocial fantasy relationship with Rick.

@BIDecomo @BovrilG Bingo. I thought this was obvious.

@BovrilG My uncharitable view is its joos. He wants an anti joo right party and is prepared to overlook everything else to get there.

Can anyone more charitably disposed to AA than I explain why he’s rowed in behind Restore so hard? You’d think he’d be dismissing it as slopulist containment and note that it does nothing whatsoever to either advance a counter-elite or encourage elite defection by now.

@BovrilG He's an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist. Everything else is secondary.

Trying to stop "Hate" is funny to me, like, it's a human emotion ffs. Imagine starting an NGO to try to combat "Frustration" or "Melancholy" or something

@Chris_arnade Poor little guy.

We will be together for the next seven miles Mr bottle, even when done, because there will be no place to deposit you.

@BovyMaltz Klein has been peddling this for 30 years. She's so excited to finally be right.

I am once again bringing down the seriousness level in the room, this room being Indigo's "most anticipated" Canadian books page.

@benwansell Yes, use indigenous knowledge that's been lost to colonialism.

Can this be a solution?

@vxylily He's married.

He doesn’t smoke He doesn’t drink He doesn’t Womanise He doesn’t party He stays at home He doesn’t bet Where can I find him??

@memeticsisyphus It's true. Sorry, eh

I do feel bad for Canadians because there’s many I enjoy, but they’re ground zero for TDS posts

@NicholasTyrone It was a ploy to push anti-capitalism.

It is astounding how pretty much the entire left have given up on climate change as an issue. It was omnipresent for ages, and now it barely features at all in leftist discourse. Sort of makes you wonder if their commitment to it was ever real.

@katrosenfield Put this one in the time capsule.

Revisiting the anti-Woody Allen revival of the long 2010s and woof, this headline

I’ve written elsewhere how contemporary Left pathologies become much more explicable if one views that Left, or at least sections of it, instead as akin to body-snatchers, taking on the name, and, in some cases, taking over the organs, of the Left, but with a radically different class composition and set of ideas to the Left of old. Ben Fong here makes a similar point while introducing Rustin’s Challenge, a new collection of previously unpublished essays by civil rights leader Bayard Rustin, whose thought on the trajectory of the late 60s/70s New Left was uncannily predictive of our current malaise. To my mind, viewing the conjuncture this way this does not require abandoning the Left, or, still less, abandoning the centuries-old goals and values of the Radical Enlightenment that was the historical Left’s project. It instead requires defeat of the body-snatchers.

@Leigh_Phillips Indeed. Thanks for posting, always good to get an update from you.

@davidclowery Ira Kaplan.

Probably me.