Reposted by Jason HaslamBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 12hPete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time." 131872454
Reposted by Jason HaslamLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 30/09/2026The National Post is using language that seems wildly irresponsible and dangerous here Citing ancient “Jewish law,” it labels Avi Lewis as a “rodef” The ultranationalist extremist who assassinated Yitzhak Rabin rationalized his killing on the same basis: www.theguardian.com/world/2020/o... 25338142
Reposted by Jason HaslamAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14hTRUMP: I won Alaska by a lot. Do you know how many points? DAN SULLIVAN: 15, sir TRUMP: How about 22? 8548792
Reposted by Jason HaslamLeah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Earlier this year, the Canadian Network on Cuba launched a campaign to ensure Canada doesn’t cave to US pressure and support the US embargo on Cuba in a UN vote.thegrindmag.caU.S. Pressuring Canada to Vote Against Cuba at UNFor three decades, Canada has voted against the United States’ embargo on Cuba at the annual United Nations General Assembly vote held in October. The U.S. is now applying economic pressure to prevent... 1224
Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 30/09/2026docs.google.comLLAMADO A LA ACADEMIA SOBRE LA SITUACIÓN DE CUBA - EL SILENCIO ES CÓMPLICE(English below) En este segundo cuarto del siglo XXI, la humanidad atraviesa una serie de desafíos y amenazas existenciales. La no superada posibilidad de un enfrentamiento nuclear, la crisis climáti... 000
Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 30/09/2026Rewatching “Matrix: Resurrections” and loving everything about its ethic all over again. “Nothing comforts anxiety like a little nostalgia.” Brilliant. 020
Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 30/09/2026Ok, not editing again. Surely this time I didn’t screw up…. 000
Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 30/09/2026Excellent piece in @halifaxexaminer.ca on the no-confidence vote at Dalhousie (though n.b., the current provost, Brenda Merritt, was not included in the vote). The piece recognizes that senior admin focuses on the lockout but doesn’t acknowledge the other egregious, decisions before and after.halifaxexaminer.caDalhousie Faculty Association members vote no confidence in university leadership - Halifax Examiner"There is a sense of unhappiness and a sense of loss of direction from many people who love Dalhousie dearly." 120
Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 30/09/2026The SO and I were talking when suddenly I heard loud, animal-like noises near the couch. I go into “terrified-hunter” mode, creeping over while trying not to cry… … then SO holds up her phone, playing a video, sound on, of a chihuahua running in the water. I’m owed money for emotional damage. 030
Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 30/09/2026<admit it: people who read the previous post, you sang the last few words> 010
Reposted by Jason HaslamAnne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 4830241059
Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 30/09/2026Kim Mitchell out here containing multitudes… under his patio lanterns. 110
Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 30/09/2026This is terrifying. Not going to lie, though, “toddler brings loaded gun to [x]” is a decent metaphor for every single waking moment of living in a world with Trump in charge of US military. 061
Reposted by Jason HaslamBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I do think they probably ran his texts through an LLM and it hallucinated crimes. That’s scary and bad and it’s funny they got caught, but imagine how many other times this happens on a day to day basis against people with no rights, let alone the ability to publicly humiliate the AI prosecutor. 522109334
Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 29/09/2026Anyone else been haunted by a weird dread for the last 42 years that the only thing keeping Kim Mitchell from literal murder is going for a soda? 2100
Reposted by Jason HaslamProf MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Please share!! The Department of English at Arizona State University invites applications for an Assistant Professor, Indigenous Studies position. PhD in literature, rhetoric, media studies, linguistics, or related discipline required at the time of appointment. apply.interfolio.com/194236apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 01421
Reposted by Jason HaslamAnn Petersen-Kane @anniegirl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026People have mostly forgotten how the UCP killed people during covid. Why and for whom. #ableg #abpoli Political pressure, negligence, incompetence all contributed to pandemic tragedy at High River plant, new report says albertapolitics.substack.com/p/political-...albertapolitics.substack.comPolitical pressure, negligence, incompetence all contributed to pandemic tragedy at High River plant, new report saysParkland Institute analysis shows how UCP ministers and officials tried to reassure workers to stay at work in the face of a major COVID-19 outbreak in 2020 78639
Reposted by Jason HaslamJohanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026missing from this argument is the fact that Williams is an extraordinarily rich college with students who are overall very well-prepared for college—essentially none of this is generalizable even to a flagship university, much less any other higher education institutionnytimes.comOpinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think. (Gift Article)If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to. 2421736
Reposted by Jason HaslamJohanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026it's not the main thing we need, but we do need a David Lodge style Changing Places exchange program so that professors realize the way their institution does things is not standard nor inevitable 612516
Reposted by Jason HaslamSenator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 29/09/2026Trump’s Republican allies in the Senate BLOCKED my bill with Senator Murkowski to stop the Kennedy Center—or any presidential national memorial—from being demolished without an act of Congress. Just shameful. 15550163
Reposted by Jason HaslamNew-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick. 161446368
Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 29/09/2026This empty, angry, mouldy husk of a plastic Mr Potato Head, tho… 031
Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 29/09/2026Me realizing today was just one Monday… in September.static.klipy.comMatthew McConaughey Smoking IntenselyAlt: Matthew McConaughey Smoking Intensely 020
Reposted by Jason Haslamderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Scans from “Nomads” by Itsuro Naraki. Naraki is a Japanese photographer whose work is deeply influenced by Robert Frank. These portraits show people Naraki met on the street between 1986 and 1994. The book is available for purchase at Pinakotheca Books. IG t.archivist 382286251
Reposted by Jason HaslamA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026To people who don’t believe that Kermit the Frog is real: What is the basis for your morality? Where does your moral standard come from? 963606655
Reposted by Jason HaslamDepartment of English, Dalhousie U @dal-english.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This week in our speaker series, Dr. Asha Jeffers will present “Writing the Past and Present,” discussing her research and reading from her new novel project. Fri. Oct. 2, 3:45-5:00 in McCain 1198. Reception to follow. All are welcome! @dallibraries.bsky.social @dalhistory.bsky.social 012
Reposted by Jason HaslamLee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Florida figured it out? 623045
Reposted by Jason Haslamnick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays. 4249921972
Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 28/09/2026According to the information I’ve been able to find (not a scientific search…), the average McDonald’s employee in Canada stays in the job for 1-2 years. What does that mean? Over the past decade, Dal’s Provost has a higher turnover rate than McDonald’s. 060
Reposted by Jason HaslamTeresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The AI industry is driving up energy demands to keep the fossil fuel industry alive. The malware surveillance tech they produce can be regulated by laws we already have. Don't get distracted by the "existential risk" cult begging for more money to "regulate"...fossil fuels are cooking the planet. 0118
Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 28/09/2026Create an unnecessary sequel by adding an -er to a book’s title: Neuromancerer 030
Reposted by Jason HaslamRobert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 27/09/2026This is quite an anecdote about how our current Secretary of Education got the job. www.politico.com/news/magazin... 26130
Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 28/09/2026Love it when AI apologists block me after a post like this. Must be how Luddites felt when a child-labour supporter stopped talking to them. 081
Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 27/09/2026You know who I see using AI confidently? Plagiarists. You know who I see using it ethically? No one, because it’s the fruit of theft and it’s ruining communities. 1215
Reposted by Jason HaslamPaul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Oh, get fucked, @wsj.com. Now and forever. 🗃️ 1118727
Reposted by Jason HaslamMatthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Listening to academic administrators talk about the loss of trust in academia, the need to listen to what the public want us to focus on—without any recognition that this crisis is in large part manufactured by bad faith actors. 2376
Reposted by Jason HaslamJen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Spineless wimps. They never learn.nytimes.comTV Networks to Resume Trump Coverage, Even as White House Excludes CNNThe White House TV pool went dark this past week amid a standoff between CNN and the president. Network leaders, however, believe an indefinite suspension may be untenable. 711016210
Reposted by Jason HaslamMoby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026What sort of a bamboozingly story is this you are telling me? 417153
Reposted by Jason HaslamAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026"Getting French-Canadians to the point of embracing the mindset of 'we must all hang together or we shall all hang separately' is an amazing feat. Only Trump could have made the US seem so awful that the Quebecois would embrace Canada First."publicnotice.coThe view from Canada: Make America Think AgainRebuilding trust will take generations. 471710328
Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 27/09/2026static.klipy.comStar Wars Jar Jar Binks Thumbs UpAlt: Star Wars Jar Jar Binks Thumbs Up 020
Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 27/09/2026static.klipy.comWithnail Demands BoozeAlt: Withnail Demands Booze 000
Reposted by Jason HaslamPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026static.klipy.comColumbo MehAlt: Lieutenant Columbo. 1271
Reposted by Jason Haslamemily @soupmuse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026In case you were wondering how Silicon Valley-poisoned Stanford is these days... A department used AI on a promo photo, completely altering/slimming one young woman's appearance and erasing / replacing another student with a (non-existent!) Black woman. stanforddaily.com/2026/09/23/u...stanforddaily.comUniversity confirms use of AI-edited photo amid controversyThe incident has caused national controversy, stemming from a now-viral Fizz post. 4102
Reposted by Jason Haslampaulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Absolutely shocked to pass by this little gallery in Auxerre, France, that looks it hasn’t opened in a long time, to see this rare lithograph, 20/50, by the renowned Kinngait Inuk graphic artist Pitaloosie Saila (1942-2001), titled ‘The Outcast.’ The mystery remains how it 18511
Reposted by Jason HaslamCanadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026On this day in 1972, Team Canada defeated the Soviets 4-3 in Game Seven of the Summit Series. Paul Henderson had his second-straight game-winning goal. Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇 buff.ly/2jPYIV2 3598
Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 26/09/2026static.klipy.comYeah Yep ExpressionAlt: Schitt’s Creek: David subtly but emphatically agreeing 010
Reposted by Jason HaslamJulia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social · 26/09/2026AI will never deliver a burn one tenth as serious as this. 073