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I don't think this is going to change anyone's mind but Neil Young endorsing a corporate banker for Prime Minister is a thing that happened today.

I finally got to see her in concert in 2022 at McCabe's in Santa Monica, which is a delightfully intimate venue. I was so happy, and she gave a wonderful performance.

(Video not from McCabe's but this is still a lovely song)

youtu.be/hyMONDo3zNc

Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers - Affection • TopPop YouTube video by TopPop

Sometimes I need to mainline this one www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9hY...

Tundra Swans arrive at Thedford Bog for annual migration stop Hundreds of majestic Tundra Swans have touched down at the Thedford Bog near the Lambton Heritage Museum.

A large group of Tundra Swans has made its way to Lambton Shores.
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This is great! Go Canada!

Hero. 🫡

Sir John Soane’s Museum is amazing.

This brings a tear the the eye of this aging punk rocker.
I played with the Dead Kennedy's at their first gig in Canada.
Their anthem Nazi Punks F--- Off caused bedlam.
I like this song better.

This is gutting. Outside was one of the main reasons I wanted to be a magazine journalist

Elon Musk and the DOGE engineers are the best argument for the Humanities

Nothing makes it hit home how far sweaters have fallen in the last 40 years like this image.

Krugman: "For a while I tried to make up for the loss of the blog with threads on Twitter. But even before Elon Musk Nazified the site, tweet threads were an awkward, inferior substitute for blog posts." contrarian.substack.com

Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star

Questlove’s Fantastic Video Mix of 50 Years of SNL Music Oh this is just delightful: for the opening of his documentary film on the history of music on SNL he co-directed with Oz Rodriguez, Questlove produced what the NY Times calls “a high-speed, six-minute DJ mix of SNL mu

Oh this is just *delightful*: for the opening of his documentary on the history of music on SNL, Questlove produced “a high-speed, six-minute DJ mix of SNL music highlights”. So good you’ll want to watch it way more than just once. [kottke.org]

We all need this-

Mudita: an especially sympathetic or vicarious joy—the pleasure that comes from delighting in other people's well-being. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudita

(via @mhoye@mastodon.social)

The first 3 letters of 'Sweden' and 'Denmark' spell out 'Sweden.'

The remaining letters spell out 'Denmark.'

I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike

A linguistics professor was lecturing his class. "In English, a double negative is a positive. In some languages, like Russian, a double negative is still a negative. But, there is no language wherein a double positive can be a negative."

A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."

How Whales Found Peace in War - bioGraphic A forgotten museum collection reveals how a pause in industrial whaling during World War II changed whales at the molecular level.

In the midst of one of the most gruesome periods of modern human history, whales experienced a rare moment of peace.

Now, a long-forgotten post-war museum collection is revealing how the slaughter has literally been etched into the very fibers of those whales.

www.biographic.com/how-whales-f...

Sagan was a prophet.

Jules Feiffer, 1974

January 19

Photo of a small crab from NOAA’s social media. It’s covered in spikes

Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found

For reality A few thoughts on the last day of the old world

Don't let go of reality, no matter what the Trumpers say
billmckibben.substack.com/p/for-reality

The world braces for Trump, hoping for the best, unprepared for the worst His pick for secretary of state may have given measured assessment of world affairs, but ‘crazy’ Trump will call the shots Western allies of the US are braced for the return of Donald Trump, still hoping for the best, but largely unprepared for what may…

The world braces for Trump, hoping for the best, unprepared for the worst

A.A. Milne on Happiness and How Winnie-the-Pooh Was Born On rainy days and the simplicity of happiness.

A.A. Milne, born on this day in 1892, on happiness and how his Winnie-the-Pooh was born

This image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows a portion of the Leo P dwarf galaxy (stars at lower right represented in blue). Leo P is a star-forming galaxy located about 5 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. A team of scientists collected data from about 15,000 stars in Leo P to deduce its star formation history. They determined that it went through three phases: an initial burst of star formation, a “pause” that lasted several billion years, and then a new round of star formation that is still continuing.

Stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope offers a timely reminder that there is so much beauty to be found in this universe, if we look for it.

The Henri Cartier-Bresson of South Korea Han Youngsoo chronicled the postwar transformation of mid-century Seoul, complicating popular depictions of that era as one solely of deprivation and hardship.

The photographer Han Youngsoo, whose photographs chronicle the postwar transformation of mid-century Seoul, sought to create an archive of working-class society that was unembellished, yet respectful and humanistic.

Illustration of a ‘fairytale tree’ with tangled branches filled with random or assortment of characters from fairytale stories

Ladybird endpapers.
‘Fairy tale’

(Artist: Brian Price Thomas, 1979)

Without Mel Brooks hiring Lynch to make THE ELEPHANT MAN — on the strength of ERASERHEAD alone — he is very likely just a guy who made a weird film at AFI. That whole filmography you love doesn’t happen.

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