Death criers from the 17th century. Illustrations from Richard Davey's A History of Mourning (1890), which you can read here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-history-of-mourning-1890

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AI for All: First as promise, then as threat

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

Superman: The Animated Series master thread, collecting all the posts reviewing the entire series.

Negged so hard by the waiter at the dim sum restaurant that silently and unprompted brought me a fork as soon as I sat down.

Military strikes on other countries may sound appealing, but it’s taxpayers who will take the hit, murdering children they may never even have wanted to die.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Please stop saying “lockdowns.” There were never true lockdowns in the US, and it fuels far right narratives to repeat this inaccurate statement. You can say closures, you can say restrictions, or better, you can say public health measures which saved many lives.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 6d ago

People still complain about “lockdowns” but we had none in the US. We had stay-at-home orders, where although businesses were closed, you could still go outside whenever you wanted. Other countries had far stricter rules, and yet have been much more accepting of them as they saved many more lives.

One weekend in Montreal and my feeds are full of glasses ads that look like the poster for Mile End Kicks.

there are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.

Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”

youve heard of failing upwards. well academic careers in 2026 encapsulate the reverse: succeeding downwards. so many talented, highly qualified people, being punished for their achievements

“I take full responsibility” is my favourite example of what Sarah Ahmed calls anti-performatives: a statement that actually *does* the opposite of what it seems to say.

(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve@braak.bsky.social · 6d ago

We got to stop letting people get away with saying they take "full responsibility". What does that mean? That doesn't mean anything. Like, obviously you have to take full responsibility, who else's responsibility would it be?

What have I done to deserve this dry, flavourless orange?

www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Mary Lewis@profmarylewis.bsky.social · last wk.

It‘s quite possible that with this move, @harvard.edu could become the only Ivy League university without a writing center. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

@thebeguiling.bsky.social is a cool shop because Nancy herself gives you a complimentary face mask.

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

say what you will about AI, always-on voice recording and auto dictation has been a game changer for my workflows. Save post and close app. Yeah Footlong meatball sub on white. No veggies. Don't toast it. Ranch and barbecue sauce. Yeah, ranch and bargecue sauce. More. More. Little more please

*whispers* you know we can do this cultural debate about art thing all the time, right? Websites and news organizations used to have culture critics on staff whose entire job was writing about books, movies, and TV. People read them and then discussed them. We have the technology to do this again.

The Tiger Is Out. Coming to a theater near you in 2027.

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.

Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now

Somehow, his finances look weirder than his lapels.

kalibomeli.bsky.social@kalibomeli.bsky.social · last wk.

1/ This is Nick Adams. He’s a big deal in MAGA world. He’s got 638K followers on X and 2.1M on Facebook. President Trump even appointed him to a role at the State Dept. But when I started digging into Adams' nonprofit for "civics" education, something didn't look right ... 🧵

Even if you’re in favour of airport expansion, it would surely be prudent to wait and see what happens with the proposed high-speed rail corridor and how that affects demand for flights in and out of downtown Toronto before committing resources to this.

Toronto business community 'disappointed' Billy Bishop jet expansion isn't moving forward

Business groups call Ottawa decision to halt expansion for jets a missed opportunity that could leave the downtown airport on 'borrowed time.'

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“We don’t deny climate change and we don’t blame the smoke coming up here from U.S. fires by threatening tariffs. Instead, we have a much more orderly process in which we slowly dismantle the laws and regulations meant to curb climate change in favour of promoting fossil fuels.”

Gillian Steward: Trump stokes political flames over Canadian wildfires as we plan to sell more oil

The U.S. president suggests charging a smoke tariff while Canada promises new pipelines to export oil and increase greenhouse gas emissions globally.

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Given the outsized influence Lutke and his consociates have no matter who the rest of us vote in, is this not already effectively the situation?

Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · last wk.

Very cool that Shopify’s CEO thinks the poor should have far less of a vote than the rich. Still worth that ad read money, folks?

Behold! The very first completed page from the revived Ottawa Comics Jam! Panels by me, Craig, and Hannah.

Note: The article is about some UK cons, not #SDCC, which currently prohibits wearable recording devices but only downstream of their “no recording exclusive footage“ policy. No rules about them in relation to guest or attendees’ privacy elsewhere at the show.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.

“The vast majority of the talent and agents at our events felt that these were a violation of their privacy and were damaging and spoiling the interactions at the tables. Several expressed concerns that they might not continue to attend in-person events if they were being recorded in secret.”

Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 2w ago

The use of extremely online memetic aesthetics to support far-right political goals is like something out of Walter Benjamin’s nightmares.

📢 We're still looking for more US based comic workers to fill out this survey to improve the quality of our results! Pay transparency helps us all reach pay equality.

Cartoonists United@cartoonist.coop · 2mo ago

Have you filled out the third annual Comic Worker Survey? If not, this is the time to support your fellow comics workers! Your answers will help address pay disparities for a more transparent and equal comics industry. Take the survey here: cartoonist.coop/2026comicwor... Art by @urnash.com

Cartoonists like Jerry Moriarty, Richard McGuire, and Yokoyama Yūichi are vital (in the sense of both “important” and “alive”) specifically because, given their painterly rather than literary backgrounds, they put lie to the conception of comics as exclusively/fundamentally stemming from literature

My dipshit uniform has people asking a lot of questions that are already answered by my dipshit uniform.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w ago

Yes, please participate in slop branding so I know to avoid you.