Similarly, when we are walking on older #Ottawa narrow sidewalks, I walk on the street to converse side by side with my companion. It is similar. Not ideal at all.
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Similarly, when we are walking on older #Ottawa narrow sidewalks, I walk on the street to converse side by side with my companion. It is similar. Not ideal at all.
Cycling side-by-side isn’t bad behaviour—it’s human behaviour. It’s how parents talk to their kids. How friends catch up. How communities form.
If bicycle infrastructure is too narrow for people to ride and talk together, the problem isn’t the people. It’s the infrastructure.
Nørrebro, Copenhagen.
When Jocelyn Bell, who discovered pulsars, did not win the 1974 Nobel Prize for the discovery of pulsars, and the prize went to her research supervisor Antony Hewish, critics dubbed it the 'No-Bell' prize
#Science #Astronomy #Physics
Good idea.
So the despised #US president has called our Canadian Prime Minister “Governor” yet again. This is how to provoke. Now there is even more #Canadian determination to avoid visiting US. Makes it easy in fact.
It’s that time of year again as our Cree commentators gear up to return to APTN for another 3 games of Hockey Night in Canada in Cree.
Puck drops for the first game this Saturday, March 14th.
I don’t say this to be doom and gloom, but let’s realize in advance that when Trump is finally removed from office, whoever the Republicans replace him with would be the 2nd most awful, corrupt and fascist President in US history.
An Edward Gorey drawing showing a morose looking black bird on a branch. He (and this feels very much like a he) is pointing downwards with one scraggly wing, and looking straight ahead with debt-filled eyes. His beak is long and sharp, like winter on the Great Plains. He is pointing with his right wing, but this means he is pointing to your left. Your wicked, sinister side. This is no accident. The Bird makes no such mistakes. But he is talking, and the text tells us that he is saying, "Beware of this and that." Honestly, you feel his message in your bones.
Some days I just feel like this Edward Gorey bird gets it.
Nobody in this Administration can agree on why they started this war or when it will end. The Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the President are all saying different things. Servicemembers’ lives are on the line, and they deserve better than this.
Brilliant
"The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart." ~ Donald Barthelme
This is not the first time #Trump has described injuries in such graphic terms, and I have to say that in my lifetime I have never come across anyone else who talks in this depraved and disgusting way.
POTUS 47 is sick. Seriously sick.
Death capitalism
Trump at his Miami golf club yesterday entertaining the Republican members of Congress with tales of his exciting super-fun war on Iran.
Failing to mention that in the first 40 minutes of his "little excursion," a U.S. Tomahawk missile fired at a school killed 170 girls aged 7 to 12.
My German translation of "The Philosopher's Tome" is now the Amazon Kindle #1 bestseller in its category.
(Full disclosure: it's such a narrow niche that it probably doesn't take a lot of sales to make #1. But still.)
The Canadian Establishment Volume II by Peter C. Newman
Published in 1981, as part of his Canadian Establishment series, it follows The Old Order and looks at the richest families and individuals in Canada and their impact on Canada.
One of my first professional jobs
The Allan Legere Trial
by @deAdder
Substack:
open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...
(simpleisbeautifulphotography)
Photo by Wayne Miller
Children in a movie theater, USA, 1958
These allegations of child rape are horrific. They back up the story of Jane Doe, another 13-year-old victim.
The American courts, police, politicians and media know that the President of the United States is an accused child rapist and abuser.
Horrifying.
www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Title card for Mindscape AMA podcast episode.
Mindscape Ask Me Anything | March 2026. We talk about quantum gravity and the early universe, the Umwelt of a cat, junky AI-written papers, and whether public debates serve a useful purpose. #MindscapePodcast
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...
Thinking of opening a martini bar after I retire. Various nibbles will be served, but all of the drinks will be martinis. Real martinis: gin, vermouth, garnish. But there will be dozens of different versions available.
Interior of the Bodleian Library in Oxford, showing historic wooden bookcases and a decorated ceiling. In the foreground, a sign displays the traditional Bodleian Oath, which readers must read aloud before being admitted to use the library. The oath reads: 'I hereby undertake not to remove from the Library, or to mark, deface, or injure in any way, any volume, document, or other object belonging to it or in its custody; not to bring into the Library or kindle therein any fire or flame, and not to smoke in the Library; and I promise to obey all rules of the Library'
The traditional Bodleian Oath, which every reader is required to read aloud on seeking admission to the Bodleian Libraries 📚
#WorldBookDay
📷 | @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Twist and Shout album with. Beatles jumping in air
Twist and Shout
This is a profound continental divide. Canadians overwhelmingly view other Canadians, even those unlike them, as being good people. Americans, more than any other country, view their neighbours and fellow citizens as bad people. Anti-Americanism flourishes in the United States
I'm old enough to remember when JD Vance wrote that "mathematical realities" meant that America had to conserve its Patriot stocks in case China invaded Taiwan.
Officially a floating head and of course keeping it black and white in a world of colour.
Some info on our new @urbantruth.bsky.social project.
