Why does Trump criticize Zelensky and not Putin? Because Trump thinks that criticizing Zelensky is punching down, while criticizing Putin is punching up. And Trump always punches down.

Obvious question: what would a Mancunian Clay Davis accent sound like?

Thing that annoys Little Miss F1 more than anything else on earth: me telling her she is among my three favorite children. (I have two kids). And I can keep telling her this for the rest of my natural life. Years of amusement!

1) Our politicians are neither brave nor imaginative 2) We are also being held hostage by the worst coalition of assholes imaginable

Whoever recruited this guy to run for Senate, take a bow.

Tthis week's edition of the Fifteen! The web's best all-in-one-place overview of higher education developments around the world. Free tuition in Indonesia, bananapants surveys of female students in Belarus, and scads of fake degrees, universities and even Vice-chancellors all over the place. Enjoy.

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

In light of world events, I'm going to take a break from LOLing about BC politics here for second and say this in earnest: it is a genuine privilege to live in a place where a political leader shows contempt for the population by calling an election two years early, as opposed to never

Thing I would watch right now: A Klingon version of The Sound of Music.

Nice data-informed summary of what's actually going on in French secondary schools to have caused all the ruckus. Tl;dr: it's not the aggregate spending, it's the scheduling.

Need-Based Student Assistance, by type and province, as a percentge of GDP, 2024-25 (re-posting because of errors for the AB and SK numbers. sorry)

What is it you think causes the higher prices?

It did until 2010 or so.

If any diesel actually gets delivered, maybe. That doesn't seem very likely to me.

So...a country with a deserves-to-be-overthrown government and diesel shortages so bad that vehicles line up for miles has agreed to sell diesel to another country with a deserves-to-be-overthrown governemnt with diesel shortages? Is that what I am hearing?

Dear God, no.

It caught on in a flash!