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John Last 🇮🇹 🇨🇦 @johnwlast.bsky.social · Aug 13

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John Last 🇮🇹 🇨🇦 @johnwlast.bsky.social · Aug 13

I'm back in the pages of National Geographic with a piece about wolfdogs — why people can't stop loving them, despite their dangerous qualities, and why they trouble conservationists working to keep the wild wolf alive. www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Demand for wolf-dog hybrid pets is surging—and that's a huge problem

Wolfdogs are becoming a popular choice worldwide with people looking for furry companions. Conservationists are growing increasingly concerned these hybrids could interbreed with wild wolf populations...

www.nationalgeographic.com

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · May 23

Lots of nostalgia for the golden age of magazines/expense accounts/travel and decadence. But whenever I take a spin through the Atlantic's archives, I yearn for the days of magazine writing where people were literally like, here is simply a piece of food/geography that exists

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John Last 🇮🇹 🇨🇦 @johnwlast.bsky.social · May 14

Well it certainly seems like everyone's worst expectations of Carney's cabinet have been confirmed, looking forward to the liberal doom spiral of the next 2.5 yrs

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · May 8

The Catholic Church has been undergoing a long, slow shift, playing out on the timescale of centuries: a shift to distance itself from the popular enthusiasms of its most devout parishioners.

Read @johnwlast.bsky.social on the tensions within sainthood: longnow.org/ideas/saints...

Saints Without a Cause

The Catholic Church has been undergoing a long, slow shift, playing out on the timescale of centuries: a shift to distance itself from the popular enthusiasms of its most devout parishioners.

longnow.org

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John Last 🇮🇹 🇨🇦 @johnwlast.bsky.social · Apr 27

look, I made a podcast about cod

codcast.transistor.fm/episodes

The CODCAST | All Episodes

This four episode podcast series explores the discovery of a sound. It is a faint but distinct sound produced by a fish, the Arctic cod. Only recently have scientists realized how important sound is i...

codcast.transistor.fm

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John Last 🇮🇹 🇨🇦 @johnwlast.bsky.social · Apr 21

Pope Francis is probably going to be fast-tracked to sainthood, so this time I want GOOD miracles, people. No random healings — I want translocations, exorcised demoniacs, strange odors!

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · Apr 18

[letting a demon possess my body] sorry about the mess

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John Last 🇮🇹 🇨🇦 @johnwlast.bsky.social · Apr 18

Been a while since I've been in Canada but are people really living in terror??

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John Last 🇮🇹 🇨🇦 @johnwlast.bsky.social · Apr 16

Surprised to see this article fail to mention arbitrary search and detention as a reason for falling travel. Surely outside the minds of the California tourism board that's the biggest reason, no? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Nearly 900,000 fewer people went to the U.S. in March as cross-border travel plummets | CBC News

The number of cross-border travellers going from Canada to the U.S. dropped by nearly 900,000 in March compared to the same month last year, according to the latest U.S. Customs and Border Protection ...

www.cbc.ca

John Last 🇮🇹 🇨🇦 @johnwlast.bsky.social · Apr 15

Social media truly reminds me every day that democracy is failing because most people don't deserve it. Bring back the Freemasons ffs someone's gotta save us

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John Last 🇮🇹 🇨🇦 @johnwlast.bsky.social · Apr 15

I swear to God people are so fking stupid we're not making it out of this decade alive. "What are your sources" and he just asks a different habitually wrong AI (this one from Elon Musk ffs!).

Meanwhile TWO WEEKS AGO there was a full factcheck from the public broadcaster: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · Apr 14

I don't really have anything especially profound to say, but yeah man this is it. They won't obey even the most milquetoast SCOTUS orders and are talking about sending US citizens to foreign gulags. It's happened here.

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John Last 🇮🇹 🇨🇦 @johnwlast.bsky.social · Apr 13

White Lotus S3's ending is the most depressing and unedifying possible from all its many storylines and I'm not sure why I sat through a whole season for it.

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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · Apr 11

Google maps needs a route option called "See the most cows"

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John Last 🇮🇹 🇨🇦 @johnwlast.bsky.social · Apr 11

The bigger point here is, have you ever met someone who attended a political rally who isn't some rabid weirdo? Like, who cares about crowd sizes? Surely they are not representative of the broader voting public!

John Last 🇮🇹 🇨🇦 @johnwlast.bsky.social · Apr 11

This is a very satisfying read: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Liberals and Conservatives said their rallies drew thousands. We decided to count | CBC News

Crowd sizes have become a discussion point in this election. The CBC News’s visual investigation unit looks at some of the images from those rallies to try to determine whether the reality fits with t...

www.cbc.ca

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John Last 🇮🇹 🇨🇦 @johnwlast.bsky.social · Apr 10

👀 www.noemamag.com/the-good-soc...

The Good Society Department | NOEMA

Once upon a time, there was a federal government department that helped design and distribute tools for living the good life. What happened to that vision?

www.noemamag.com

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · Apr 9

[at the front of a bread line] uh yeah, uh. uh, i’ll have the uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. huh. i’ll uh, i’ll. oh you know what? here’s what i’ll do. i’ll get the uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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John Last 🇮🇹 🇨🇦 @johnwlast.bsky.social · Apr 9

Got a close friend's wedding coming up. Half of the party is Moroccan, and half the party is from the Midwest. I don't envy him in this moment.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · Apr 7

You know, one of the main threads running between Trump, Musk, and El Salvador is cryptocurrency, and if I’m a country who’s concerned about preventing what’s going on in America from happening there, one of the steps I would take, and quickly, would be making cryptocurrency illegal.

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John Last 🇮🇹 🇨🇦 @johnwlast.bsky.social · Apr 8

I wrote about this recently for Noema! That time was also defined by the fruits of an activist, interventionist and progressive government — one that changes the market, not with tariffs, but with research and guidelines that make life in consumer society better. www.noemamag.com/the-good-soc...

The Good Society Department | NOEMA

Once upon a time, there was a federal government department that helped design and distribute tools for living the good life. What happened to that vision?

www.noemamag.com

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John Last 🇮🇹 🇨🇦 @johnwlast.bsky.social · Apr 7

Genuinely thought this was satire

judgeluttig.bsky.social @judgeluttig.bsky.social · Apr 7

From the great David Brooks of The New York Times, in the May volume of The Atlantic. Everyone should read every word of this historic piece. It's worth the price of a subscription to The Atlantic, without question the most courageous magazine in America today.

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John Last 🇮🇹 🇨🇦 @johnwlast.bsky.social · Apr 7

This is from Goldman Sachs, predicting the next US recession. Let no one tell you boycotts are not effective!

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matthew ellis @matthiasellis.com · Apr 7

It is 2008. I am starting my first career and watching the stock market tumble double digits in a single day.

It is 2020. I am making a career change and watching the stock market tumble double digits in a single day.

It is 2025. I am making another career change and watching the stock market tumb

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