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Not on Kanopy or streaming here, but I'll keep an eye out...

I never reread anymore, but this one has been on my mind for a while. Maybe I'll fit it in this year.

BTW I enjoyed Notes from a Regicide.

This is so lucid and helpful from @thomaszimmer.bsky.social. The situation is awful and could get a lot worse obviously but also: the country is vast, the authoritarianism is unpopular, and nothing will be settled anytime soon. So power on.

I was curious to see what I'd find on page 42, turns out they were barely getting started.

I usually avoid these, but I thought this might be funny.

"Pick up the nearest book. Open to page 42 and post your second sentence. Add #page42 and include this rule as a reply.

Don't look for your favorite book. Find the nearest book."

‘The settlers brought the violence’: the ethnic cleansing of a West Bank village Ras ‘Ein al ‘Auja is a small community of about 135 families – and the only one remaining in this part of the Jordan valley

Quietly continuing in the background, just like it always does when Palestine fades from the front page headlines...

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds Low-quality AI-generated content is now saturating social media – and generating about $117m a year, data shows

The beginning of the avalanche...

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Happy solstice! ☀️

A great example of Canada’s climate innovation ecosystem in action! Homegrown tech, early support from SDTC (may it rest in peace), federal and provincial support to demonstrate, growth capital from Canada Growth Fund to scale 🍁💪🍁

Oh, that has to be a treat! I discovered those three in the early 2000s and still enjoy their classic albums from time to time.

Okay!

Toronto Second World War casualty map - Google My Maps Toronto Second World War casualty map

A rather somber piece of cartography. A map with details of every soldier from the city of Toronto and fell in WW2.

Really brings into perspective the sacrifice paid citizenry of Toronto for the greater good. Also a morbid reminder of how compact the city was back then.

#maps #RememberanceDay

I stopped after the first book, I guess I made the right choice

Chain Reaction — West End Phoenix These stories and infographics are part of a larger story from the October issue, focused on independent grocers and how they're working to level the playing field between themselves and the Loblaws o...

The fruit tastes better, the prices are lower, so why aren't you supporting your local independent grocer.

CHAIN REACTION, our series on indie grocers and how they're working to level the playing field between themselves and big grocery.

www.westendphoenix.com/stories/chai...

GLGL!

Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Ico’s masterpiece by looking back with 11 people who worked on it (and three who didn’t).

Still one of the all time greats. www.designroom.site/shadow-of-th...

Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront A project to restore coastal wetland leads to astonishing discoveries of a host of life: seeds and plant scraps, as well as water fleas, worms, larvae and plankton

Pretty cool! Looking forward to visiting the new park. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

I'm still using Feedly, so I'm also interested in this topic. It's fine (paid), but just that. I like that it makes decent decisions about what to surface for me out of my subscriptions.

In some ways the debate around sampling seems archaic in a world of generative AI, but it also was an indicator of all that was to come b/c the argument always get framed in terms of “fairness” but legislated in favor of the powerful.

A ‘magic pill’ made Israeli violence invisible. We need to stop swallowing it | Diana Buttu For years, I pressed Palestinian interests in peace talks. The response to Trump’s plan proves the international community hasn’t learned from catastrophe

I remember Diana Buttu's writing from 20 years ago - a Palestinian Canadian who tried to help. She articulates exactly how today, the same problems are more acute, and the interlocutors suffer from the same myopia. Plus ça change...

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Ontario will miss 2030 emission reduction goal by even wider gap than it admits: auditor | CBC News Ontario's environment ministry says it will miss its 2030 greenhouse gas emissions reduction target, but the auditor general says province will in fact likely miss that target by an even wider margin.

I don't think there's a sad enough trombone sound for this www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Someone grabbed my Open Door Climate slot for tonight, otherwise I'd join!

CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called?

ME: Slay the Spire.

CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer?

ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours.

CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them?

ME: Now hold on a second,

Electricity Markets Aren’t Working Anymore Why regional transmission organizations as we know them might not survive the data center boom.

There should be zero duty to serve data centre loads. For once, make corporations pay for some of their their so-called "externalities."

heatmap.news/energy/elect...

clair obscur is the best atlus rpg since digital devil saga 1 dont @ me

Book Launch: Existential Politics by Jessica F. Green Join University of Toronto’s Lawson Climate Institute as we celebrate the launch of Existential Politics by Professor Jessica F. Green with a panel discussion, networking reception, and meet-and-greet...

Hey Torontonians! Learn abt the future of climate politics at book launch event for Existential Politics, Oct 9 at @utoronto.ca.

Features a fierce all-woman panel including @cat-abreu.bsky.social, Fate Saghir & CBC's Jill English.

Event is FREE. Registration here:
cpe.utoronto.ca/event/book-l...

I'm hearing that a lot lately. :/ Hope it's mild and brief.

Makes me nervous about upcoming travel, too.

The Resurrection of the Greatest Sci-Fi Writer You’ve Never Read He was beloved by Neil Gaiman and Robert Jordan, and so good that he won a World Fantasy Award for a Christmas card. How did John M. Ford disappear?

I'd never heard of him before seeing this article, I need to bump him up my reading list: slate.com/culture/2019...

Someone smiles and crouches down to adjust mulch around a young tree.

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By planting a tree, you can

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We’ll leaf it to you to learn more by visiting www.yourleaf.org 📲

GitLab?