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Sat, 17/01/2026 - 09:33
Canada has cut a trade deal with China. This is what I have been suggesting for ages, and it’s finally happening. (Not, of course, because Carney reads me, but because it’s the obvious play and of all Western leaders he’s been the most resistant to Trump’s threats and blackmail.) Canada cuts a deal: Chinese leader […]
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Sat, 17/01/2026 - 05:00

Black seadevil anglerfish
Twenty-five-years-old, monogamous, wants children

What I’m looking for: A confident, independent female roughly twenty times my size with a dangly, glowing orb attached to her forehead.

Don’t hate me if I: Latch on to you and permanently fuse to your body until my head dissolves and our circulatory systems become one

This year, I want to: Delete this app <3

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Giant squid
Fifteen feet long, Catholic, figuring out my dating goals

Give me travel tips for: Two-thousand feet below sea level off the west coast of Norway—Spring break 2026 gonna be a movie!

If loving this is wrong, I don’t want to be right: The Office

My love language is: Physical, tentacle-y touch

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Hexactinellid sponge
Software engineer, nine thousand years old,
twenty-eight centimeters tall

I bet you can’t: Pronounce my name

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Sat, 17/01/2026 - 00:36

Attacking asylum seekers and refugees has long comprised the strategic core of the far right. Physical, verbal, and political harm waged on communities who have migrated to the UK can be traced across British history back decades, if not centuries — from the overtly racist legislation predating the Race Relations Act, the era of Powell’s […]

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Sat, 17/01/2026 - 00:00

In these uncertain times, you need a steady hand at the wheel. An unblinking beacon of sure-footed decisiveness. A fearless, damn-the-torpedoes leader who will flawlessly accomplish every goal.

You don’t have that person. But good news: You have me, a uniquely well-qualified ball of anxiety, ready to worry about the fact that you don’t have that person. And also about the fact that you have torpedoes. That seems like a bad idea for a rudderless organization.

“But our budget can’t accommodate another executive!” you may protest. Shhh. Don’t worry your pretty little head; that’s my job. My perturbation is completely pro bono. I will knit my brows, second-guess, and perseverate without compensation of any kind.

I require no specific hours of work. I stand ready to contribute round-the-clock, unmitigated what-ifisms to any and every to-do list, whether or not it’s in my job description.

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Fri, 16/01/2026 - 11:38
The IQ debates are, to me, tiresome. I’m pretty high IQ, not what I consider genius level (I’ve encountered true geniuses) but just under, in the one-in-ten thousand range. Which is to say, if I’m around 10K people I expect that no one is smarter than me, unless it’s a place that selects for IQ. […]
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Fri, 16/01/2026 - 05:00

“What we are seeing across the country as organized gangs of wine moms use Antifa tactics to harass and impede Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents is not civil disobedience. It isn’t even protest. It’s just crime.”
David Marcus, writing in an op-ed for FoxNews.com

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Belle Ave. Wine Moms Gang
Meeting Minutes

Date: 14 Jan 2026
The meeting was called to order at 8:00 p.m. by Emily in Lauren’s Basement.

Present: Emily, Lauren, Megan, Katie, Jessica S., Sarah, Jennifer, Amanda, Ashley, Jenny, Rachel, Stephanie, and Jessica M.

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