Here's the link to that report on campus antisemitism released earlier today. It is some pretty gut-wrenching reading.

Last night, I finished reading The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard, and I’ll be thinking about it for a long time. It landed like a particularly profound and successful episode of Black Mirror.

I’ll pitch it to you the way a friend pitched it to me, which made me seek it out instantly: it’s about a small town in a valley, and over the mountains to the east is the very same town - same lives - 20 years in the future. To the west is the same town 20 years in the past.

One of the most consequential writings of our time. For those brave enough... willing enough... to take an honest look in the mirror and at those who surround them. fathomjournal.org/gazology-ant...

Gazology, Antizionism, and the Manufacture of Conviction : What the Shelf Requires

Kile B. Jones reflects on his time within an anti-Zionist apparatus that used terms like settler-colonial, apartheid and indigenous erasure. Discussing recent literature about Gaza, he notes that what...

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oh my god

Ross McKay@rossmc11.bsky.social · last wk.

Jim Callaghan appointed a 'Minister for Drought', and it rained within 36 hours (and led to widespread floods, but a win's a win).

LONG SHOT: an old-timey icebox refrigerator. GRADUAL ZOOM. SUPENSEFUL PIANO PLINKING INCREASES IN VOLUME AND TEMPO. CLOSE-UP: a hand on the icebox handle. EXTREME CLOSE-UP. JUMP SCARE VIOLIN DISCORDANT SOUND: a plate in the icebox, empty except for a few plum pits and a handwritten note.

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

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

Welcome to Hell

I can confirm that the Usual Suspects are both declaring this a false flag and celebrating it Why so many anti-Zionists celebrate Mossad ops, I can't imagine 🙃

David Fleischer @fleischmarket.bsky.social · last wk.

If anyone is wondering how things are going in Canada's biggest, most diverse citiy we've reached the "shooting at bagel bakeries" stage of normalized antisemitism.

I love the simplicity of this study: 1) Find homes with gas stoves and asthmatic children 2) Replace the gas stoves with induction stoves. 3) Come back in three months. Results? "Missed days of work or school because of asthma dropped by about 80%."

An elegant study shows how bad gas stoves are for your kids' health

Researchers replaced gas stoves with induction in homes with asthmatic children, and they got better fast.

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I am grateful and proud to live in a country where voting rights are protected so robustly that we can just roll our eyes at the plutocratic musings of a wealthy businessman and move on with our lives.

maia arson crimew 🏴@crimew.gay · last wk.

the ceo of shopify (tobi lutke) wants more votes than you.

Someone should do this for Ottawa, 1996 vs 2026

The Exchange@theexchangeleeds.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you stood on Briggate at 8am on a weekday in 1957, and stood there again in 2026, in which year could you reach more of the city in half an hour? Samuel Bancroft has crunched the numbers. Since the 1950s, Leeds has got bigger - but the city has effectively shrunk.

Plus it implies it’s rhetorical opposite, that there are proper places for it.

I've commented before that as far as empty platitudes go, I prefer "thoughts and prayers" to "hate has no place here". At least the former acknowledges that there is something to think about and pray for.

Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸@benjamin.bsky.social · last wk.

“Mayor says ‘hate really has no place’” Well, Your Worship, I’d really have to say that it demonstrably DOES have a place in our city…

Just in: Two locations of Jewish-owned bakery Kiva’s had their windows smashed, with one near Yonge Street and St. Clair Avenue West struck by gunfire, Toronto police say.

Window broken, gunshot fired at Kiva’s Jewish-owned bakery in Toronto, police say

Officers said a report of a broken window came in around 8:15 a.m. near Yonge Street and St. Clair Avenue West, according to a post on X.

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One reason the United States is unlikely to join the ICC anytime soon is that every president has committed war crimes

Extremely room-temperature take, but you can tell when a book bends over backwards to have perfect ethics, and it almost uniformly makes for a bad book.

As A Canadian^TM, my perspective on this (besides the obvious "this is terrible for the business owners, and pathetic on the part of the police") is, wait, gas stations in the UK don't require prepayment for precisely this reason??

Leftback@leftback.bsky.social · 2w ago

Well this is a lovely story about how norms are collapsing and crime is something it's too much like hard work for the police to investigate www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Since 2009, the per capita rate of Lyme disease has increased approximately 32-fold in Canada, according to calculations by Canada’s National Observer — making it one of Canada's clearest examples of a climate-related health problem. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/20/n...

In other words they are doing their job

Atlanta's New Bike Barriers Are Flipping Cars and Sparking Debate

If you drive down Cherokee Avenue in Atlanta's Grant Park neighborhood and see a car precariously balanced on two wheels atop a concrete divider, don't

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My gastroenterologist's office is admirably accommodating to time travelers from the Middle Ages, many of whom probably do have gastroenterological issues

North of Yellowknife Ted Harrison 1990

I have long predicted that this is what is going to happen in BC; posting this here so that I can, a year from now, tell everyone that I told them so

yeah this is malware, if you see this on a website you should leave immediately

molly conger@socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 4w ago

I take it back, give me the pictures of crosswalks and motorcycles. the captchas are evolving and I can't solve this one.

This is a surprisingly accurate description, actually

Tom Slee@handle.invalid · 4w ago

Bought it. Looking forward to reading it. I am expecting a tale that finishes where it started, but with a twist.

There's an app that detects smart glasses in the vicinity. It's called Nearby Glasses, and is available for Android and iOS.

Soumaya Keynes@soumayakeynes.ft.com · 4w ago

Already banned at nursery!

You're right. I was going to check the sources — but then I got high. And what's more, I was going to remove em-dashes — but then I got high. That's on me. Now I'm hallucinating — and there are several reasons. 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 🍁Because I got high 🚬Because I got high 🫩Because I got high

The Alternate Historian@althistorian.bsky.social · 4w ago

Ignoring the other part of this post for a moment, how does a chatbot actually smoke weed?

Today is the last day of Canada Week, a thing I just made up, so this sale ends today

Moebius Stripper@moebiusstripper.bsky.social · last mo.

🇨🇦📖 I wrote an award-winning literary suspense novel set in Canada, and in honour of Canada Day, it's on sale all week. You can purchase THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE as an e-book for 60% off on Amazon and Kobo (links in profile), as well as on Apple Books. 🇨🇦📖

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The decoupling of 'queer'

When the smol bean is a straight man so queer he dates lesbians

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