Chris Janzen
@soulandreason.bsky.social
Recovering / failed academic| "If you take everything I've accomplished in my entire life and condense it down into one day, it looks decent."
I think about this essay a lot. It's possibly the best thing I've ever read on the internet. It's made me cry at least a couple times re-reading it. www.seriouseats.com/the-case-for...
The Case for Bad Coffee
Lately, something has changed. Lately, I've been reacting to fancy coffee the same way a child reacts to an accidental sip of red wine mistaken for grape juice. I don't know when it happened, but I've...
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website that picks the Rothko closest to how the weather feels in your location (by Joonas Virtanen) rothko.joonas.wtf
Kew beach ice scenes, Toronto - January 27, 1929. 📸: John H. Boyd City of Toronto Archives, Globe and Mail fonds, Fonds 1266 #OnThisDay #1920s #torontohistory #toronto #jeremyhopkin
Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:
The high water mark of culture was the Discovery Boom De Yada promo. It's all been downhill for the past 15 years from this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at_f98qOGY0
Rough-legged Hawk Eddy Cobiness ~ Ojibwe 1993
Shout out to the Georgian people who are, for the 100th day in a row, turning out to oppose a Russian-backed coup. georgiatoday.ge/100th-day-of...
100th day of pro-European protests: Rallies planned in Tbilisi and regions
On March 7, marking the 100th consecutive day of pro-European protests, a series of coordinated rallies are scheduled across Tbilisi
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BREAKING: Mexican Cartels abandon Canada after being forced to conduct business in both English and French
In the midst of the chaos, time for some honest journalism.
Whole 'nother Story - February
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"Wilderness is a necessity ... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls." ~ John Muir In the Forest at Winter (1885) 🎨 Isaac Levitan
Excited to see this account return!
Canadian Paintings@canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 2y agoPink Cloud Maurice Cullen 1903
'This process includes the replacement of all first-rate talents, regardless of their political loyalties, with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is the best guarantee of their loyalty.' (The Origins of Totalitarianism, renewed version, A Harvest Book New York, 1976, 339)
This is an important point. Working in the economic development space, for most businesses and organizations I interact with the implications of this have not been adequately contemplated.
Blayne Haggart@bhaggart.bsky.social · 2y agoCanada’s regulatory dependence on the US is going to cause us huge problems. Republicans have promised to gut the administrative state. We won’t be able to trust their regs. Worse, they will seek regulatory harmony with Canada. Business will likely support them, claiming an unfair regulatory burden.
Relating to these S. Zweig lines: In the last analysis it seems likely that they were wiser than I, all those friends in Vienna, because they suffered everything only when it really happened, whereas I had already suffered the disaster in advance in my fantasy, and then again when it became reality.
There is a silent eloquence In every wild bluebell That fills my softened heart with bliss That words could never tell Anne Brontë
