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· Aug 13
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
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...
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
August 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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...
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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
May 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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
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
May 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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 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...
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
May 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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...
Read @johnwlast.bsky.social on the tensions within sainthood: longnow.org/ideas/saints...
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!
April 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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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[letting a demon possess my body] sorry about the mess
April 18, 2025 at 3:56 AM
[letting a demon possess my body] sorry about the mess
Been a while since I've been in Canada but are people really living in terror??
April 18, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Been a while since I've been in Canada but are people really living in terror??
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
April 16, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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...
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/...
Meanwhile TWO WEEKS AGO there was a full factcheck from the public broadcaster: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
April 15, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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/...
Meanwhile TWO WEEKS AGO there was a full factcheck from the public broadcaster: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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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.
April 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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.
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.
April 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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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Google maps needs a route option called "See the most cows"
April 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Google maps needs a route option called "See the most cows"
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
April 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
This is a very satisfying read: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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[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
April 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
[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
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.
April 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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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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.
April 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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.
Genuinely thought this was satire
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.
April 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Genuinely thought this was satire
This is from Goldman Sachs, predicting the next US recession. Let no one tell you boycotts are not effective!
April 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
This is from Goldman Sachs, predicting the next US recession. Let no one tell you boycotts are not effective!
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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
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
April 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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
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
Opportunistic price gouging in Canada?? Hard to believe.
April 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Opportunistic price gouging in Canada?? Hard to believe.
Lol called it www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
NDP I'm available for hire as a strategist just give me a call already.
NDP I'm available for hire as a strategist just give me a call already.
April 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Lol called it www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
NDP I'm available for hire as a strategist just give me a call already.
NDP I'm available for hire as a strategist just give me a call already.
You just know some overfed "strategist" has told them that people don't vote for parties they don't think can form government. They're wrong! For the love of God, get new staff!
I've never understood the NDP tactic of pretending, in the face of all evidence, that they are campaigning to run the country. Why not say explicitly you want to control the balance of power, offer policies that pull the liberals to the left, and focus on a few dozen winnable seats?
Inside the NDP’s struggling campaign as party faces possible collapse globalnews.ca/news/1111512...
Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
April 6, 2025 at 10:56 AM
You just know some overfed "strategist" has told them that people don't vote for parties they don't think can form government. They're wrong! For the love of God, get new staff!
I've never understood the NDP tactic of pretending, in the face of all evidence, that they are campaigning to run the country. Why not say explicitly you want to control the balance of power, offer policies that pull the liberals to the left, and focus on a few dozen winnable seats?
Inside the NDP’s struggling campaign as party faces possible collapse globalnews.ca/news/1111512...
Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
Inside the NDP’s struggling campaign as party faces possible collapse - National | Globalnews.ca
Global News travelled with Singh the first week of the federal campaign and witnessed a leader struggling to attract large crowds and facing repeated questions about his future.
globalnews.ca
April 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I've never understood the NDP tactic of pretending, in the face of all evidence, that they are campaigning to run the country. Why not say explicitly you want to control the balance of power, offer policies that pull the liberals to the left, and focus on a few dozen winnable seats?
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If I were rich enough to live anywhere on the planet, but didn't like Italy, Italian food or the Italians I would consider simply not moving to Italy. I wouldn't do lavish photoshoots disparaging Italy before moving there! (Times)
April 5, 2025 at 8:08 AM
If I were rich enough to live anywhere on the planet, but didn't like Italy, Italian food or the Italians I would consider simply not moving to Italy. I wouldn't do lavish photoshoots disparaging Italy before moving there! (Times)