Aaron Manton
@aaronmanton.bsky.social
Enfant terrible of public sector union communications | Living in Yellowknife | Go Leafs Go!
you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"
'Cunningham added that she would never apologize for defending the next generation of girls from one day having to compete against someone who can reliably create her own shot.'
The Onion@theonion.com · 4d agoSophie Cunningham Claims Any Woman Who Averages More Than 8 Points Per Game Should Not Be Allowed To Play In WNBA https://theonion.com/sophie-cunningham-claims-any-woman-who-averages-more-than-8-points-per-game-should-not-be-allowed-to-play-in-wnba/
A real leader would have had Canadians ready to put in a war-like effort to avoid being dominated by an authoritarian United States. Carney has wasted SO MUCH political capital. Canadians were ready. They probably still are. But we have weak, ineffectual, or complicit leaders.
“My maid is walking around with a 4-carat diamond. I cannot allow myself to be upstaged by my maid.” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
The Diamond Industry’s Old Guard Wants You to Buy ‘Natural’
How De Beers and friends are battling the avalanche of cheaper, near-identical synthetic gems.
bloomberg.com
I am once again asking those who spend their time lamenting visible poverty, addictions and homelessness to perhaps channel that rage into advocating for better healthcare, income supports, shelters and housing.
"The Alberta NDP has a different problem. Its communications too often feel improvised, overexplained, and visually second-rate. Sorry to my friends who work there, but the party has to step it up. Good intentions are not a production strategy." terryreith.substack.com/p/albertas-u...
Alberta's UCP is winning the communications ground game
All the reasons why an unpopular government is leading in every poll
terryreith.substack.com
Walk with me in the woods while I explain, from an anthropological perspective, why just existing feels like so much work these days:
You made it through the day | Dr. Hilary Agro
YouTube video by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD
youtu.be
Some of you have the most self-defeating, self-loathing takes regarding the value of your own labor, and I find it baffling.
Guerilla solar in the land of the midnight sun. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Yukon Conservation Society wants to bring 'guerilla solar' movement north | CBC News
The Yukon Conservation Society recently took to social media to encourage people to use plug-in solar panels, a technology rapidly growing in popularity in the face of rising energy costs. The Yukon g...
cbc.ca
if you're somehow still alive, and you're seeing this, please - pokemon go to the escape pods
Mika Fae Queen of Night 🏳️⚧️@msmaxwellmusic.bsky.social · 3w agothis has real "final video log on derelict space freighter" vibes
“As our treasured cultural institutions are encircled and captured by capital, the Lakers being bought by a slumlord who funds AI and military weapons is par for the course.” www.thenation.com?post_type=ar...
The Bogus Lakers Sale Is Exactly Why We Need Publicly Owned Sports Teams
These private equity vampires will just keep strip mining the things that give us joy if we let them.
thenation.com
Looks like an interesting story but I wouldn’t know. I got distracted after the first few paragraphs. www.vox.com/life/498932/...
How to rebuild your broken attention span
You’re taking breaks wrong.
vox.com
Few things more annoying than someone who replies to a post about a social problem that we should fix by telling you that the people in power would never let it happen. If you want to climb into a hole and feel sorry for yourself, go nuts. I'm going to put in the work to make things better.
"We might ask ourselves, how much of my political energy am I devoting to a particular concern? And what does that attention facilitate? Am I attempting to make a decision... supporting an effort, or strengthening a relationship? Or am I simply riding waves of exhilaration, indignation, or angst?"
Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3w agoI’m seeing a lot of people hang their hopes and all their attention on the midterms. Electoral organizing matters, but full-time spectatorship won’t build the power we need. I wrote about checking in with yourself about where your attention is going and what you’re doing with it.
"...currently in early talks with the City of Yellowknife regarding building a proper skatepark near the ATCO Aquatic Centre. Yellowknife already has a skatepark, but users complain of its poor layout and years of disrepair." yellowknifer.com/2026/08/12/d...
Dene Skateboards signs first sponsored skater, with plans to endorse many more - Yellowknifer
Founder plans to roll out limited runs of Indigenous-designed skateboards
yellowknifer.com
"We’ll be in an even weaker position to resist than we are today. That’s the price of whatever short-term relief we may be buying. It’s more than a bad deal. It’s a bad trade. There is no better time to fight than right now. It does not get easier." www.readtheline.ca/p/jen-gerson...
Jen Gerson: If Carney signs this deal, let's be clear: it's the beginning of our surrender
There is no piece of paper you could sign that is going to get Trump off our backs. There is no way to secure the illusion of business certainty in this political environment. It’s fantasy.
readtheline.ca
If you live in a city you shouldn't have to own a car.
“I don’t know what the company wants to say, or can say, given the investigation and all that.” When your crisis management firm needs to hire a crisis management firm. www.nytimes.com/athletic/749...
Kawhi Leonard reportedly had deal with Daktronics, Clippers’ video board manufacturer
The "Pablo Torre Finds Out" podcast reports a new wrinkle around alleged efforts by the Clippers to circumvent the NBA's salary cap.
nytimes.com
wrote about how the internet increasingly feels like a restaurant where ~*~we do things a little differently around here~*~ www.theringer.com/2026/08/04/t...
The End of Google Search—and the Internet—as We Know It
For years now, Google has been tweaking its search formula to prop up AI and bury actual links. Now it’s rounding into its final form—and changing the internet forever.
theringer.com
I've got a great postal code with letters I don't need to clarify over the phone, and I don't take that for granted.
Finding a doctor's appointment or having lab work done in Yellowknife feels like trying to win concert tickets on the radio. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Inside Yellowknife’s race for same-day doctor appointments, lab work | CBC Accessibility
As early as 6:30 a.m. on any given weekday morning, people start lining up for lab work or same-day doctor appointments at the Primary Care clinic in downtown Yellowknife. For some, it's frustrating, ...
cbc.ca
We're doing shame discourse again, so it's time to bring this piece back:
Shaming fascists: Not enough, or too much?
If shame was helpful, we would have solved all our problems by now because it’s the primary way people relate to each other in colonial cultures.
hilaryagro.com
