In St. John’s there exists a concept called “Regatta Roulette” where people stay out late partying the night before the Royal St. John’s Regatta, in hopes the holiday goes ahead, which will not be confirmed until the morning of based on the wind forecast. This occurs in the windiest city in Canada.

I agree strongly with this -- in that difficult moment, the possibility of collective effort was conceivable. Not everybody felt it, but many did. I think the political class did not like this one bit.

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 4d ago

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

New reporting from @breachmedia.ca shows that Canadian universities operated a secret national effort to coordinate surveillance and policing of anti-genocide activism and encampments. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...

Every year I am shocked anew to learn that American parents are starting to think about back to school right now, which is solidly a thing that happens in September in Canada.

T-Pain shared this on Instagram 😂

The path from “I wouldn’t have any use for an air fryer” to “Have you heard of our lord and saviour the air fryer?” is fairly steep.

Don’t encourage your preteen to listen to the new Olivia Rodrigo album unless you are prepared for them to then tweensplain to you who Robert Smith is.

Ann Leckie N.K. Jemisin Margaret Atwood V.E. Schwab Rick Riordan (I’m a children’s librarian so he makes sense here) I realized there’s so many authors I’ve read 5 plus books by, some I don’t want to mention because they’re bad people, and some because they wrote large fantasy series I devoured.

Jonathan Kennedy@getradified.net · 4w ago

Blake Butler Samanta Schweblin Brian Evenson Steve Erickson Jeff Vandermeer A lot of writers who clock in at three or four, struggled to find many (especially living) that hit five.

"Why did the casting of a Black actress cause so much controversy?" because small gangs of slobbering gutter racists aided by an unprincipled media landscape in the business of selling outrage have been allowed to run wild. there is literally nothing else to discuss.

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

Once again wondering how the onion survives in this environment

Robert Komaniecki@komaniecki.bsky.social · last mo.

This is an actual screenshot from the syllabus for this class. Beyond parody

A gentle reminder: “Reading to children, even before they can understand words, teaches them to associate books with love and affection.” (Princeton Book Review)

Gather round children, it is time for Mother’s annual lamenting of yet another peach season spent far away from any fresh peach.

The whole internet loves Larry the Truffle Cat, a lovely cat that digs for truffles! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you Larry is AI generated

Beginning to think most people shouldn’t be trusted to drive a car.

To the man behind me in the Dairy Queen lineup, obviously on a first date, complaining about your ex girlfriend right out the gate like that was….a move. Not the right one. But a move nonetheless.

Though it be Canada Day across the country, in Newfoundland it is also Memorial Day, which commemorates the Newfoundland Regiment’s incredible losses on the First Day of the Battle of the Somme in 1917. Of almost 800 men who went into battle, only 68 answered roll call the next day.

Tech CEOs in 2026: ‘We spent billions to hopefully one day have an ai that can make people feel like it’s portraying real emotions for tv, but we need way more money to do it’ Jim Henson in 1955: ‘yeah so I stuck some ping pong balls to a bit of old felt and called it Kermit’

Happy Father’s Day to fathers who read to their kids, and father figures who their kids see reading so they know it’s important enough for you to do too.

I’m so tired of everything being ads and AI and even the ads are AI and so many people don’t even notice or care and wow I’m so tired.

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

I am begging library related groups to not call the scope of their work “country wide” when the representation in their group doesn’t include anyone further east than Toronto.

My birthday is tomorrow and as a gift the universe gave everyone in my house a horrible case of gastro, and it’s going to snow.

Having kids is weird because I’m worried about them being asked to use AI in school and outsourcing their creativity and this isn’t a worry I share with any other generation of parents.

This is going to come across as pretentious and unhelpful, but I really recommend reading books. Reading a book is the only thing I do where I feel like I'm nourishing my attention span, rather than sanding it down. The trick is to just read whatever you enjoy — not what you feel like you should.

What’s the last great book you remember reading? I just finished The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill and wow is that ever a children’s novel mvp. Beautifully written, emotionally striking, accessible to both myself and my 11 year old.

Another fun fact about the island of Newfoundland is that we have no skunks, raccoons, deer, no snakes (unless they come over from NS which they sometimes do), no poisonous insects or spiders, and no poison ivy. We do have a whole lot of moose and caribou, and approximately one billion black flies.

I don’t watch WWE much anymore and I know all the things wrong with it, but one thing I’m really annoyed about this week is the reports that many wrestlers have been asked to take pay cuts when executive compensation is at an all time high. That company really does not treat its talent well.

May the 4th be with you 🌌