Mark Hamilton

This interview with the great @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social was a "wow" moment for me. Thanks, New York Times and David Marchese.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...

I couldn't help noticing the question that seemed the most Times-like to me.

“Tourism boycotts do come up over one issue or another, but in my 37 yrs in the travel industry, I have never seen anything like what the Canadians have pulled off,” Amir Eylon, President & CEO of Longwoods Intl, told Forbes.

“This is one that’s being felt and it’s not going away quickly.”

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Proud to have done my part, no matter how small that was.

Where is the outrage from the legislative wings of the American government? Oh, sorry, I forgot that unlike in civilized countries, enriching yourself on the back of legislation is a time-honoured U.S. tradition.

Only 25. I feel like a slacker.

Oh, my. The NDP government ain't great, but.....

I'm convinced that if this guy was told a comet was on a collision course with Canada his response would be: "We need more pipelines."

Let me guess. His answer to the "problem" is a pipeline (or two).

I can remember walking through blizzard-like snow in Coquitlam once in April, which was very strange: the snow was falling hard and none of it was sticking.

I have Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine running on a loop in my head. Thank you, Country Joe McDonald and RIP.

teewatterss on Threads: “losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”

10/10 take. no notes

What a stunning sentence: "I wasn't until I was assigned the family tree project at the age of nine, the same age as my mother when she became a refugee, that I began to understand that she had survived a war." From Tastes Like War, a memoir by Grace M. Cho.

I haven't seen the movie. For me, the book does justice to Frankenstein's hatred of the creature and secrecy, which I read as driven largely by the guilt he carries.

Indeed, there are letters in much of the story, but they are devices for carrying along the plot. The narrative flow is (largely) connected and brisk. The writing style is only a little ornate, as you might expect.

A cool thing is that religious death cults like American Evangelicals are so obsessed with their paranoid and unhinged fears l that when they are granted even a bit of power they move heaven and earth to manifest them in the world and create the Armageddon they have always desired.

It was the first time for me and it sort of knocked my socks off. Hugely pleasurable read. And Shelley was by and large a wonderful writer.

Tastes Like War, a memoir by Grace M. Cho, and the final few pages of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.

Now it all makes sense.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to Fox: “Due to the temporary global oil gap, we may also unsanction other Russian oil.”

I just finished reading Frankenstein for the first time. Spoiler alert: Frankenstein both is and isn't the monster.

Yes

I'm reading a history of Asia Minor and I have lost count of the number of times the description of some significant relic is followed by the phrase "now in the possession of the British Museum."

By any sane definition, you are at war. Lying about it does not change the reality.

I am really digging Sinéad Keenan's performance in the wonderfully weird comedy How to Get to Heaven from Belfast.

As the price of oil & gas explodes, I recently read about how the price impact is almost entirely speculative, as the *supply* of oil and gas hardly budges, particularly in places like Canada. It's all just straight up profits for the gas companies. Remember that as you fill up the tank this week.

"Imminent threat" is the WMD of 2026.

A few true words: "At some point, a person figured out that the performance of sadness was a currency, and art has bowed at its altar ever since." Hanif Abdurraqib in his essay Rumours and the Currency of Heartbreak.

WTF? What's th problem with streets filled with 10s of thousands of local residents all having a ball?

Aren’t Americans getting tired of GOP reps and senators announcing they are not interested in doing their jobs?

is everyone on glue

He is not doing it in a vacuum: he is fully backed by a quisling, cowering legislature that isn’t interested in legislating.