Shelly Kraicer

Strong sympathy with this toyed with idea!

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Matt Reuter. #NewYorkerCartoons

Farmyard in Pontoise

Farmyard in Pontoise
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Markwayne is actually a noble title, and is the Oklahoma equivalent to "Marquis," and may be passed on at the same time your father gives you his car dealership

Juan-les-Pins - 1888
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10314

Introducing: Quantum 101 with Katie Mack YouTube video by Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Strong recommend if you are interested in cosmology. The videos are succinct – most around 6 minutes long – and the explanations are satisfying. Same goes for the "Quantum 101" videos.

“TTC Route Management: We’re not happy ‘til you’re not happy!”

Vase of Flowers, Tulips and Garnets

Vase of Flowers, Tulips and Garnets
https://botfrens.com/collections/49/contents/16938

The Toronto Film Critics Association did what? They edited an indigenous actor's award speech "for time" but the comments cut "for time" just happened, by accident, to include her support for Palestine? And they're sorry for the ... awful coincidence? Is anyone actually supposed to believe that?

"Torontoplex, run by Don Marks, the unsung hero of Toronto cinephilia who has been quietly organizing screening information on a daily basis for over twenty years."
I often get vital info from Don via @torontoplex.bsky.social Also a super chill guy to bump into at screenings :)

Berlin Film Festival Boss to Accept New Advisory Board and “Antisemitism Code of Conduct” (Report) Tricia Tuttle came under fire following pro-Palestinian speeches by Berlinale award winners at this year's awards gala.

GERMANY WILL POLICE PARTICIPANT SPEECH AT BERLINALE

Logically speaking, "those are one offs" is self-contradictory.

Canada doesn’t have a position on the Iran strikes, it has a superposition.

"It appears that these acts are not consistent with international law": PM Carney on the joint US/Israeli war against Iran. He spoke more frankly, less timidly, in Davos. This ad libbing of Canadian foreign policy, when the stakes are highest, does not inspire confidence. Attn: Canada: cf. Spain.

Avenue de l'Opera, Place du Theatre Francais. Misty

Avenue de l'Opera, Place du Theatre Francais. Misty
https://botfrens.com/collections/49/contents/16829

Canada is saying the same too, shamefully. Our PM should know better, since he is ostensibly leading us in our struggle to find a way to defend our own country's sovereignty against the U.S. regime.

We are indeed in a Learian time. I had thought, back when I studied the play, that it painted a bleaker, darker, harsher world than we could ever see in our own time. I was wrong.

Here’s the kind of statement I would have hoped for from our PM.

"Rather hard to pinpoint" is putting it kindly. How about: incoherent, ad hoc? Carney's Davos speech recognizes that the "international order" is broken. Perhaps the conclusion he draws is not to reestablish a new order (sans the U.S.), but to embrace the breakage here, along with the U.S.?

Imagine hastily gutting the arguments of the Davos speech weeks after you make it. Carney has changed his mind? Was never sincere? Only supports international regimes of order and stability insofar as they protect Canada?

Carney declared the results based international order hypocritical and probably dead at Davos. We are seeing the consequences of what a world without rules looks like.

If Canada pretends that the Trump regime's illegal aggression against Iran is legal and justified, what happens when it faces US aggression against Canada itself?

The Government of Canada's incoherent, deeply shameful statement of instant support for open US aggression. Was Carney's Davos speech sincere? Was Canada's pledge to defend a broken international order restricted to those aspects that protect(ed) only Canada? This is self-destructive.

English version archive.is/M12kJ

Palestinian villagers - a man, a woman and a baby, and a young child, raising holding their hands in the air, probably as they are forced to leave their village. Photograph taken by a Israeli soldier. Source: Haaretz/Akevot

Haaretz @haaretzcom.bsky.social with Akevot @akevabanshee.bsky.social report on a trove of archival documents, with granular detail on atrocities committed in the 1948 Nakba. Ground level documentation by soldiers demonstrate the pervasive nature of murder and expulsion of Palestinian civilians.

that is in fact principled, it is commendable, and yeah, it is in a real sense a brave act. it is the kind of behavior that we need and want to see from elites. sorry if acknowledging that breaks your cool shield of irony or whatever, but it's true.

Love it when our nation’s defense contractors all spend their Friday nights subtweeting each other about killing everyone in the world

So now the most careless people in history will have fully autonomous weapons that use janky AI to pick targets: Altman joining Hegseth to commit war crimes.

I'm registering alarm and bleakness too, as if an evil thing once well-contained, with a real but limited footprint, has broken though formerly solid barriers and has now re-joined mainstreamed hateful discourse. I'm just wondering if social media is distorting our perception of this?

Cautious question: is this a real thing "out there" in the real world (in person-to-person discourse, social action, violence & vandalism etc.) or is the lens of social media focussing on & distorting (by expanding) its prevalence? I mean both social media practitioners and critics of anti-semitism.