Patrick Cain

finally we can automate the drudgery of lovingly describing our children so we can spend more time maximizing returns for investors

You could not waterboard this confession out of me, much less get me to put it in an interview. Can you imagine her kid's middle school enemies getting wind of this? "You suck so much your mom needed Chat GPT to say anything nice about you."

five weeks ago lorne doerkson was vacationing in africa while the conservative party was immolating and david eby was diving head first into a snap election call over the wishes of municipalities life comes at you fast

Thunder Being Alan Syliboy ~ Mi'kmaq n.d.

This is so damaging to America that I cannot fully put into words how ashamed I am of my country at this moment. 

This is a publicly funded government agency refusing to share weather warnings and their own public warnings with a journalist at Global News, one of the larger mainstream news outlets in Canada. I really want you to sit with the bare facts of that.

Trump says Russia has “been fine on Ukraine” and “hasn’t been doing much." His comments came the same day a Russian drone struck a park in Kharkiv Oblast, killing six people, including a 14-month-old girl. Russia continues to attack Ukrainian cities and kill civilians daily. buff.ly/jbmykwq

President Trump: Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine. They haven't been doing much. Comment from me: see quoted post.

Draft dodger guide published by House of Anansi in 1968. I’m told they’re reprinting it for Americans fleeing their country again.

Ukrainian strikes on Yandex data centers sparked viral claims about a sudden drop in Russian influence operations on social media, but experts and disinformation monitors say there is no evidence to support this.

Is this good political communication? No idea, don't care. But it's very funny

"Last night I was truly struck — really, almost radicalized — watching in real time as experts at the heights of their careers unquestioningly boosted emotionally satisfying narratives that were pretty much entirely wrong." www.linkedin.com/pulse/those-...

Russian diesel is not certified to meet U.S. standards and is unlikely to undergo certification. If Russian diesel ever makes its way to the United States, good luck to anyone who puts it in their vehicles.

Hm. I was wondering if this was in the ‘too good to check’ column, but here we are

I've been toying around a lot with the idea of libidinal rationality, which is when people act not according to strict rationality of maximising profit or returns or sustainability, but toward what provides them with libidinal satisfaction, which trumps everything else

Mykhailo Tkach, head of the investigative journalism department at Ukrainska Pravda, has been detained in Vienna while carrying out an editorial assignment. We consider his detention unlawful and demand his immediate release and an official explanation from the Austrian law enforcement authorities.

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I have a long list of words in defence and security discourse that I'd like to ban. 'Escalation' is soon to be added to the list, for this very reason. Over-used and an excuse for inaction.

A useful sticker for these times

What about the 24th of May? 😎🇨🇦

This is so so dark

Ukraine Is A European Country

Ovechekin cant have it both ways. He cant say that "Well, I'm not in politics. I can’t say who's right and who's wrong,” and then appear in political ad for Putin.

Also, I’m not mad. Don‘t put in the paper that I got mad www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

It’s mind-blowing that this guy helped fund the American president’s son’s wedding. Imagine Reagan’s reaction to this. The US has become a complete embarrassment, and voters have no one to blame but themselves for re-electing a corrupt pro-Russian traitor who attempted a coup

It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.

Freedom of information? We filed an FOI for refused FOIs to find out what Ontario's government doesn't want you to know. ijb.utoronto.ca/news/freedom...

We don’t need to "save the planet." The planet will be fine. We need to save the conditions that allow human civilization to thrive. Let's be clear about the stakes.

We are so fucked.

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

Soon, poetry will be solved, and no one will ever have to read a poem again. Soon, landscapes will be solved, and no one will ever have to look at a mountain again. Soon, love will be solved, and no one will ever have to have an emotion again.

Fellas is it woke to train jumping out of a helicopter into a lake in full battle order to insert behind enemy lines to mark drop zones ahead of an airborne assault?

If I were looking for a photo to make the Canadian Army look weak I certainly wouldn't choose candidates on the Patrol Pathfinder course, one of the physically hardest courses out there that requires airborne and recce quals just to be eligible to attend.

rest in peace to Wendell Berry

Rest in peace to the inimitable Wendell Berry

Something something digital sovereignty www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Food so good you grow an extra finger!

I will just point out that canonical saints are SUPER weird. This is a thing people forget. Saints aren't nice and tidy, they are in fact almost always messy, melodramatic tricksters, though it's true Dolly beats most everyone for trashy.