uh oh y'all it's gettin kinda hazy
valve could get into my good graces design-wise if they made Sinclair a sexy magician’s assistant but kept the two-voices thing. and add naked lash of course
can valve please add another woman character that wears pants or an otherwise interesting fit again
Trump's warmongering is so aggressive that he has the pro-NATO Liberal government in Canada talking like they're about to join the Non-Aligned Movement
Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, 20 January 2026:
For decades, countries like Canada prospered under what we called the "rules-based international order." We joined its institutions, we praised its principles, we benefited from its predictability. And because of that, we could pursue values-based foreign policies under its protection.
We knew the story of the "international rules-based order" was partially false— that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically. And we knew that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused or the victim.
This fiction was useful, and American hegemony, in particular, helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security and support for frameworks for resolving disputes.
So, we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals, and we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality.
This bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.
Over the past two decades, a series of crises in finance, health, energy and geopolitics have laid bare the risks of extreme global integration. But more recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons, tariffs as leverage, financial infrastructure as coercion, supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited.
You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration, when integration becomes the source of your subordination.
The multilateral institutions on which the middle powers have relied – the WTO, the UN, the COP – the architecture, the very architecture of collective problem solving are under threat. And as a result, many countries are drawing the same conclusions that they must develop greater strategic autonomy, in energy, food, critical minerals, in finance and supply chains.
And this impulse is understandable. A country that can't feed itself, fuel itself or defend itself, has few options. When the rules no longer protect you, you must protect yourself.
But let's be clear eyed about where this leads.
A world of fortresses will be poorer, more fragile and less sustainable. And there is another truth. If great powers abandon even the pretense of rules and values for the unhindered pursuit of their power and interests, the gains from transactionalism will become harder to replicate.
Hegemons cannot continually monetize their relationships. Allies will diversify to hedge against uncertainty...
Collective investments in resilience are cheaper than everyone building their own fortresses. Shared standards reduce fragmentations. Complementarities are positive sum. And the question for middle powers like Canada is not whether to adapt to the new reality – we must. The question is whether we adapt by simply building higher walls, or whether we can do something more ambitious.
the real “future of cocktails” happening rn is that bartenders are taking way more inspiration from kitchens imo. using flavours typically used in foods, tons of infusions, precise recipes for batching, etc. drinks are fully thought-out dishes now
bartending books will say shit like “But the scene was about to be rocked in 1976 when Gary “Toots” Cocker stumbled into 58th and 11th and demanded the bartender add dog mustard into his Manhattan, creating what would come to be known as the Toot, and which later was refined to the Dry Toot, although many bartenders will still rip you apart with their teeth for ordering the latter. Gary went on to open the swanky joint Cocker’s Calling in London a few years later, where you would be shot for ordering anything the bartender deemed ‘sweet’.”
“No one knows what the future of cocktails holds, but Paul MacDonald might have a clue. He’s developed a theory of cocktails where every drink is crafted according to the Fibbonacci sequence. This is a real guy and his real theory that you can look up right now. I rest easy knowing future bartenders are in good hands.”
bartending books will say shit like “But the scene was about to be rocked in 1976 when Gary “Toots” Cocker stumbled into 58th and 11th and demanded the bartender add dog mustard into his Manhattan, creating what would come to be known as the Toot, and which later was refined to the Dry Toot, although many bartenders will still rip you apart with their teeth for ordering the latter. Gary went on to open the swanky joint Cocker’s Calling in London a few years later, where you would be shot for ordering anything the bartender deemed ‘sweet’.”
in new york in the late 1890s you could get a cocktail made of whiskey, rum, camphor, benzene, and cocaine. for six cents
christmas underwear is itchy and im flying so i’ve just gotta take it. pour my stupid body into wet mud. follow for more insights into my awful life
Bat Pussy has one of my favorite origins of any film of all time bc no one knows who made it, no one has ever come forward and verified having worked on it, and it seemingly just appeared out of the blue in the store room of a p*rno theater in tennessee
