Canadian librarians studying Black methods of archiving books

Or, I dunno, EMPTYING THEM

ICYMI: A remarkable long read from John Lloyd in Quillette about the tension between liberalising forces in Islam--including Saudi Arabia's crown prince Bin Salman--and the hardliners seeking to promote victimhood & separatism quillette.com/2024/09/03/isl…

Male versus female is one of surprisingly few genuine dichotomies, writes Richard Dawkins. quillette.com/2024/09/06/ric…

Charger SRT Hellcat spotted on Danforth, nestled unabashedly among the Subarus, Teslas, & Acuras…..Thoughts on the rub strip’s fascia accent ? (No sexual double-entendres, please.)

Tofino Surfing Day dress code keeps getting more complicated

Say what you want Publish what you want But don’t create a garbage-dump summer camp for antisemitic Hamas fans in the middle of campus Pretty sure 99% of people at University of Toronto would agree with that

Hard to imagine that we once lived in a backward age when high-quality AI-generated “reports” such as this weren’t available to journalists

This is a fascinating obituary of James Darren. There’s a Star Trek DS9 subplot, too. nytimes.com/2024/09/03/mov…

Had lunch with a literary agent last week … a totally non-ideological guy who will rep the devil himself if he can move books on Amazon. Told me he’d just signed up a 1990s-era lesbian activist who’s just “discovered” she’s a man. “I sold the book within 24 hours,” he told me.

I love election time in Canada. It’s the one brief moment when people like Brenda decide that everything in Canada is amazing, and we no longer inhabit a transphobic late-capitalist genocidal settler state destined for climate-change apocalypse

these fanatics always target leftist venues, which they assume they can ideologically manipulate with this kind of tantrum … the Gillers, TIFF, Pride parades, university campuses. But even in these venues, everyone is just completely fed up with them.

Your tax dollars at work

Oh are we doing this again?

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the last six people in Canada still wearing masks outdoors. cbc.ca/news/canada/to…

ok that's pretty good

Who’s the maniac in orange hair?

Okay, so Ford and Poilievre are fellow travellers. And stage actors. And colliding objects.