Arjun Basu
@arjun.bsky.social
Writer. Latest novel, The Reeds, out now. Proud Montrealer/Fier Montréalais. Beer league hockey. Habs. Board member Access Copyright. A "Certified Elder.” Brand/content consultant. Host a podcast about the future of magazines. https://linktr.ee/arjunbasu
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“I was just following otters.”
November 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
“I was just following otters.”
Don't send me these recipes I'm watching my blood pressure.
November 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Don't send me these recipes I'm watching my blood pressure.
Great story.
Becoming Ballers: How Nunavik’s Youth Built a Community Around Basketball therover.ca/becoming-bal...
Becoming Ballers: How Nunavik’s Youth Built a Community Around Basketball therover.ca/becoming-bal...
Becoming Ballers: How Nunavik’s Youth Built a Community Around Basketball – The Rover
In villages across the north, Inuit teens are creating a safe space for each other and the next generation of athletes.
therover.ca
November 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Great story.
Becoming Ballers: How Nunavik’s Youth Built a Community Around Basketball therover.ca/becoming-bal...
Becoming Ballers: How Nunavik’s Youth Built a Community Around Basketball therover.ca/becoming-bal...
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There’s no punishment sufficient for this lawless evil—we keep talking about commissions of truth and reconciliation but these people need to be made an example of.
“.. As the smoke cleared, they got a jolt: Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck.
“The Special Operations commander .. ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions .. The two men were blown apart ..”
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“The Special Operations commander .. ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions .. The two men were blown apart ..”
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
There’s no punishment sufficient for this lawless evil—we keep talking about commissions of truth and reconciliation but these people need to be made an example of.
Foam that's washed away. Nice image.
‘Foam that’s washed away’: support dissolves as Bolsonaro starts 27-year jail term
Brazil shows little sign of feared rightwing rebellion, with only a few die-hards protesting outside prison
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Foam that's washed away. Nice image.
As someone who has rocked cardigans his entire life, I am extremely ambivalent each time the cardigan makes a comeback.
November 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
As someone who has rocked cardigans his entire life, I am extremely ambivalent each time the cardigan makes a comeback.
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I am not subjecting my brain to reading this, but scanning a few keywords thru the text - Trump didn't write this. This is Steven Miller's stream of conciseness after he snorted two lines of coke, and raved directly into speech-to-text dictation.
If an elderly friend or loved one did this, you would have them institutionalized.
November 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I am not subjecting my brain to reading this, but scanning a few keywords thru the text - Trump didn't write this. This is Steven Miller's stream of conciseness after he snorted two lines of coke, and raved directly into speech-to-text dictation.
Black Friday is really hard on the in-box.
November 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Black Friday is really hard on the in-box.
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A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
I was going to write this afternoon but not after that Jack White Eminem mash up.
That tryptophan will fuck you up. And I did Thanksgiving over month ago.
That tryptophan will fuck you up. And I did Thanksgiving over month ago.
November 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I was going to write this afternoon but not after that Jack White Eminem mash up.
That tryptophan will fuck you up. And I did Thanksgiving over month ago.
That tryptophan will fuck you up. And I did Thanksgiving over month ago.
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Every year Tesla ranks as the worst for road worthiness amongst ALL brands, not just EV.
Every. Single. Year.
💩 🤡 🚗
Every. Single. Year.
💩 🤡 🚗
Tesla Model Y Is The Most Defective Car This Year, Germany Says - Jalopnik
The report comes from TÜV SÜD, a German auditing, inspection, and certification firm, and is based on data collected from about 9.5 million vehicle inspections.
www.jalopnik.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Every year Tesla ranks as the worst for road worthiness amongst ALL brands, not just EV.
Every. Single. Year.
💩 🤡 🚗
Every. Single. Year.
💩 🤡 🚗
The clouds are more ominous than they appear.
(I should get that stencilled onto my window)
(I should get that stencilled onto my window)
November 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The clouds are more ominous than they appear.
(I should get that stencilled onto my window)
(I should get that stencilled onto my window)
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As CEO of Mott’s Applesauce I really have to question your mental state if Applesauce isn’t on your plate, in your toilet, in the bedroom, really everywhere that Applesauce could help
November 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
As CEO of Mott’s Applesauce I really have to question your mental state if Applesauce isn’t on your plate, in your toilet, in the bedroom, really everywhere that Applesauce could help
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Social media photo / real life
November 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Social media photo / real life
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Canada just signed a deal with Alberta to build a bitumen pipeline through northern BC.
ICYMI: My recent explainer for @thetyee.ca about BC's 50-year history of opposing oil transportation through the region — and the massive battle these governments just signed up for.
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
ICYMI: My recent explainer for @thetyee.ca about BC's 50-year history of opposing oil transportation through the region — and the massive battle these governments just signed up for.
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
The Oil Tanker Ban That Dims Alberta’s Pipeline Hopes | The Tyee
The law is six years old. But federal promises to protect BC’s north coast from spills date back decades.
thetyee.ca
November 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Canada just signed a deal with Alberta to build a bitumen pipeline through northern BC.
ICYMI: My recent explainer for @thetyee.ca about BC's 50-year history of opposing oil transportation through the region — and the massive battle these governments just signed up for.
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
ICYMI: My recent explainer for @thetyee.ca about BC's 50-year history of opposing oil transportation through the region — and the massive battle these governments just signed up for.
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
2. You should buy this one, too. It's about the pursuit of happiness. It doesn't end well. Not the book. The book ends fine.
November 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
2. You should buy this one, too. It's about the pursuit of happiness. It doesn't end well. Not the book. The book ends fine.
1. You should buy it.
2. You could be my Thanksgiving.
2. You could be my Thanksgiving.
November 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
1. You should buy it.
2. You could be my Thanksgiving.
2. You could be my Thanksgiving.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone but Sam Altman.
Well, others too but I'm not going to make a list. I haven't got all day.
Well, others too but I'm not going to make a list. I haven't got all day.
OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits
The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone but Sam Altman.
Well, others too but I'm not going to make a list. I haven't got all day.
Well, others too but I'm not going to make a list. I haven't got all day.
On this American Thanksgiving, all I have to say is: good eating, and good luck.
November 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
On this American Thanksgiving, all I have to say is: good eating, and good luck.
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also stop calling us "mainstream scientists" like there's a cooler bunch of hipster scientists out there
November 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
also stop calling us "mainstream scientists" like there's a cooler bunch of hipster scientists out there
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BREAKING: Donald Trump is pressuring studios to fund and produce a sequel to Pootie Tang called “2tie Tang”
November 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
BREAKING: Donald Trump is pressuring studios to fund and produce a sequel to Pootie Tang called “2tie Tang”
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That’s it. I’m getting a recipe tin to keep them in, when on index cards after I’ve made the recipe twenty times.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
That’s it. I’m getting a recipe tin to keep them in, when on index cards after I’ve made the recipe twenty times.
Italian version of Mrs. Doubtfire. Coming soon to Netflix.
Italian man ‘dressed as dead mother in order to claim her pension’
Man from Borgo Virgilio investigated for benefit fraud and hiding body since woman’s death in 2022
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Italian version of Mrs. Doubtfire. Coming soon to Netflix.
There's a superficial Taylor Swift joke in here but I haven't thought about her enough to make it.
Brain has five ‘eras’, scientists say – with adult mode not starting until early 30s
Study suggests brain development has four pivotal ‘turning points’ at around the ages of nine, 32, 66 and 83
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
There's a superficial Taylor Swift joke in here but I haven't thought about her enough to make it.
My decline in drinking is in inverse relation to my pot use and I bet that's true for many people.
New Gallup poll shows that just 54% of Americans say they drink alcohol—"the lowest Gallup has recorded since first measuring alcohol use in 1939," per a press release. The trend coincides with growing understanding that even moderate drinking is unhealthy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
My decline in drinking is in inverse relation to my pot use and I bet that's true for many people.