Environment & Climate Change Canada finally has its own weather app for Android and iOS. Seems pretty good, and it pushes weather alerts if you want them.... canada.ca/en/environment…

Hey Ottawa folks who read comics, I just popped briefly into the Wizard's Tower on Fallowfield Road, and they have several hundred trade paperbacks and graphic novels on sale for 70% off cover price, plus individual comics for $1, through Dec.... wizardtower.com

Okay, crazy, angry, bugfuck people of the world. Doesn't matter who you are or what specific political nutbaggery you happen to believe in, if you attack Jews, or Muslims, or African-Americans, or Hispanics, or... facebook.com/660486894/post…

Oh, so NOW the 2010's get retroactively promoted to the status of "decade"? Only when we're looking down the barrel of the 2020's, everyone suddenly decides we have decades again?

Amen. h/t Martha Chaves codepink.org/codepink_state…

My daughter is literally poking me with a stick right now. Do you think she's bored?

I have my differences and issues with ultra-Orthodox Judaism, but THIS message is what Judaism is... jta.org/2019/12/31/opi…

Tor.com publishes some of the best short fiction on the internet, in any genre. If you haven't read it lately, check out this retrospective of all the fiction they published in 2019. h/t Jack Dann tor.com/2020/01/06/all…

Daughter, 12, upon listening to the first couple of minutes of the audiobook of Maximum Ride by James Patterson: "To be honest, it sounds like Twilight, if Twilight was good."

Oh no, this is so sad! What a funny, talented man. h/t Mark Askwith deadline.com/2020/01/buck-h…

"RCMP warned that 'by sharing these photos you may be putting a life at risk. Sometimes the missing children in the posts that you share are not actually missing. They may actually be hiding for their own safety.'" h/t Jessika Diamond thecurrentatahs.com/2271/world-new…

As a super-rich 1 percenter, Ghosn is not a terribly sympathetic figure, but who knew that Japanese justice was so authoritarian and undemocratic? You'd expect this from China or... theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The plane *shootdown* in Iran. m.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/canadian…

Surprise. Paranoia and itchy trigger fingers. Yes, just like that time a US warship shot down an Iranian civilian jetliner all those years ago. Lots of blame to go around, including the idiot in... cbc.ca/news/world/ira…

Meeting Holocaust survivors reminds us how important it is to keep their stories alive. / Rencontrer des survivants de l'Holocauste nous rappelle à quel point il est important de garder leur histoire vivante.#Auschwitz75

I finally found CBC's interview with my Mom when she was at Auschwitz-Birkenau a few weeks ago.

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