Reminder note to all adults: If you know any young people trying to enter the workforce, make it your job to introduce them to people in your network. Provide a reference if you can. Help them acquire resume and coaching help. Tickets to networking conferences. We need to help them start.

As Suresh says, if you're in business with a liar, you might be able to reason with them in private - but you can't reason with a true believer. The true believers are in charge. 38/

Everyone's comparing Nolan's Odyssey to Homer, but I think there's much more richness The ancient Greeks adapted the Odyssey into ART While these images might appear static to us, I want to walk through how an ancient Greek saw art: AS DYNAMIC STORYTELLING like our films 1/13

Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...

‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)

The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.

nytimes.com

Since they changed the location of the discover tags from top ribbon to below first post, I haven't used it even once. Tag: Free UAT.

Every time I see you it's like rediscovering a long lost sister. You're so cool. ❤️ Till next time!

Ranylt Richildis@ranylt.bsky.social · 2w ago

Just had a rare hangout with a very faraway friend who dropped into town on biz. LOVE THAT. Thanks for another round of catchup, @modreplica.bsky.social. There will be more! ♥️

Here I am at a software platform training, boring the living fuck out of everyone when I bring up privacy. As per usual. Jfc

Public Domain Art is the lifeblood of small tabletop rpgs, but it can be a nightmare trying to find the right art and license. This week, I’ve re-uploaded my old list from 2020 (with updates) of public domain websites. That's 500,000+ public domain paintings, photos, maps, and film. Link below 🔗👇

In response to a request for an interview, the BC Conservatives new caucus communications director Cosmin Dzsurdzsa — a hire criticized by opponents as bringing “Trump-style politics” to B.C. — called The Tyee a “far-left smear outlet” and “literal trash, not journalism.” thetyee.ca/News/2026/07...

BC Conservatives Hire an Alberta Separatist and Far-Right Media Figure | The Tyee

Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay commits to a MAGA approach to winning power.

thetyee.ca

You can tell an infrastructure project is desperately needed by a private industry when the government has to pay for it and also pay that private industry to use it.

Alberta will provide oilsands producers with incentives to fill proposed West Coast pipeline

Five major companies also agreed to build Pathways carbon capture and storage mega-project

ca.finance.yahoo.com

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

If you are in the Shelburne, Ontario area tomorrow night, I will be giving a talk about my interest in history, the 17,000 km journey around Canada I am taking and more! Free to attend, 7-9 pm!

Carney calling Lindsey Graham a defender of democracy and freedom when the man made jokes on his official X account about taking over Canada is just the last straw of many last straws for me.

I'm been wondering if it would come to this and apparently it has. huge move from cloudflare, which hosts a fifth of all websites on earth.

Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search

The nuclear option is gaining traction as web traffic collapses and Google refuses to negotiate with content creators

adweek.com

ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.

WA Whistles@wawhistles.bsky.social · 4w ago

ICE is surging in the Seattle area. (Map shows activity in the last week) Do you have your whistle with you?

It is man work to call out other men about their shitty behavior. More men need to be doing their man work.

NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...

He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.

thebulwark.com

In the future everyone will be mistaken for a criminal for fifteen minutes

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4w ago

“A simple data-entry error, magnified and broadcast nationwide by a growing surveillance network operated through an opaque partnership between a private company and public agencies, led police to identify me as a car thief and set up a sting to take me down.”

A haunting, sad but hopeful imagined version of what America’s end might feel like to the future, which hits very differently now from when I planned the speech back in 2006. It compares America to the first human infant carried & born in space, & wracked by the consequences.

Word Family Friday@wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · last mo.

Sometimes, I think of the words of Mycroft Canner on Feb 16, 2455 (@adapalmer.bsky.social _Perhaps the Stars_, 2021) “THE OLD UNITED STATES OF AMERICA remind me very much of Terra the Moon Baby. Both were crisis births, sudden necessities when too much damage made healing and homecoming impossible.

"The realization is yet to set in with the public that 90 per cent of the cost of this multibillion-dollar project — we don’t know how many multiples of billions yet — is going to be paid by Alberta and Canadian taxpayers, just as we were promised would never happen." thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

Inside Carney’s Pipeline Deal with Alberta and BC | The Tyee

Taxpayers will be on the hook for billions to bring oil through BC’s Lower Mainland.

thetyee.ca

This will be a thread of tips for people suffering through their first god-awful heat wave with no or subpar AC. I'm a perpetually broke Southern Californian so my ideas run cheap.

Currently crowdfunding for my first risograph comic, which is a retelling of Sophocles' Elektra from a more rageful perspective!! Link is below if that sounds up your alley www.kickstarter.com/projects/ele...

Elektra: A Rageful Retelling in Risograph

A 26 page comic retelling Sophocles' Elektra that gives her anger more autonomy, in a two color riso print

kickstarter.com

NYC is opening city grocery stores in every borough — and we need the right spaces to make it happen. If you own or know of a site in Brooklyn, Queens, or Staten Island, submit to the NYC Groceries Sites Portal by June 30: grocery.nyc/portal

Opening day of the Great American State Fair drew light crowds, long walks, and mixed reactions from visitors. Here's what it was like inside the America 250 event. washingtonian.com/2026/06/26/i...

There are a few things in the world that fill my itchy little heart with absolute glee, and this one is always in my top ten. I cannot help it. It's such a big swing - overwrought and under polished and pure unvarnished charisma. Came across it and had to celebrate it. youtu.be/D-e9D_NRn98?...

Moulin Rouge 2001 Nicole Kidman Ewan McGregor Medley Silly Love Songs remastered 4k

YouTube video by Jorge Peña Audrey Hepburn

youtu.be

BREAKING NYT: A New York City panel just voted to freeze rents for nearly one million rent-stabilized apartments — fulfilling one of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's key campaign promises and handing the mayor a major policy win six months into his tenure.

Mamdani’s Rent Freeze Is Approved by New York City Board

nytimes.com

I rolled my eyes a little at W Social because of aforementioned adherence to the false and disproven "identity verification is an anti-abuse measure" theory, but combining that with a cavalier approach to user security and launching something that requires extremely sensitive personal information--

Hahaha Even a 2003 episode of Dead Like Me had this loser's number.

If I were writing a Sci Fi novel about this moment in time, it'd be a story of Canada's desperate run at data sovereignty during an intense phase of American IP aggression through co-opting emergent AI models.