John Faithful Hamer
@johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social
Teacher of the Humanities — Department of Humanities, Philosophy, and Religion — John Abbott College (Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Québec)
“The fact that we’re no longer Robin to America’s Batman, and that Batman has certainly turned into the Joker, means that we have to get our act together in a way that we never, ever have had to do.”—Stephen Marche, “Is Canada Leading the Anti-Trump ‘Resistance’?” CANADALAND (May 5, 2025)
May 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
“The fact that we’re no longer Robin to America’s Batman, and that Batman has certainly turned into the Joker, means that we have to get our act together in a way that we never, ever have had to do.”—Stephen Marche, “Is Canada Leading the Anti-Trump ‘Resistance’?” CANADALAND (May 5, 2025)
“One of the greatest gifts we can give our friends, our partners, our children or our colleagues, might be to forsake anxiety: to realize how much we use our worrying as a barrier to our becoming and a protection against real intimacy . . . .”—David Whyte, Consolations II (2024)
March 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“One of the greatest gifts we can give our friends, our partners, our children or our colleagues, might be to forsake anxiety: to realize how much we use our worrying as a barrier to our becoming and a protection against real intimacy . . . .”—David Whyte, Consolations II (2024)
“The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone.“—Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow (1921)
March 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
“The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone.“—Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow (1921)
“In a way, we represented the first true, damning proof of how badly things can go wrong in a social media–driven world where kids are content and content is king.”—Shari Franke, The House of My Mother: A Daughter’s Quest for Freedom (2025)
March 3, 2025 at 1:32 AM
“In a way, we represented the first true, damning proof of how badly things can go wrong in a social media–driven world where kids are content and content is king.”—Shari Franke, The House of My Mother: A Daughter’s Quest for Freedom (2025)
This guy is the new deputy director of the FBI. America has become such a joke. Such a bad joke.
February 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
This guy is the new deputy director of the FBI. America has become such a joke. Such a bad joke.
“If you can’t be heard, it doesn’t matter what you say. And right now it’s both easier than ever to shout and harder than ever to be heard.”—Chris Hayes, The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource (2025)
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
February 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
“If you can’t be heard, it doesn’t matter what you say. And right now it’s both easier than ever to shout and harder than ever to be heard.”—Chris Hayes, The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource (2025)
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
“Spam is all the things we don’t want to pay attention to that want our attention. . . . It costs the spammer nothing to distract us. It costs a lot to be distracted.”—Chris Hayes, The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource (2025)
February 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
“Spam is all the things we don’t want to pay attention to that want our attention. . . . It costs the spammer nothing to distract us. It costs a lot to be distracted.”—Chris Hayes, The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource (2025)
@chrislhayes.bsky.social : I’ve read almost all of the new books on attention, and this one is in a league of its own. You’ve thought harder and deeper about this subject than anyone else to date.
February 26, 2025 at 3:01 AM
@chrislhayes.bsky.social : I’ve read almost all of the new books on attention, and this one is in a league of its own. You’ve thought harder and deeper about this subject than anyone else to date.
Ted Lasso contains the most beautiful treatment of female friendship I’ve encountered in years. Women really support each other here—and not in a contingent feminist way—which always seems to come with strings attached—but in the fiercer, more primal way that we all deeply crave but so rarely find.
February 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Ted Lasso contains the most beautiful treatment of female friendship I’ve encountered in years. Women really support each other here—and not in a contingent feminist way—which always seems to come with strings attached—but in the fiercer, more primal way that we all deeply crave but so rarely find.
“They laughed at Edison, they laughed at Fulton, and they laughed at every hopeless crackpot.”—Aaron Haspel, Everything (2015)
January 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
“They laughed at Edison, they laughed at Fulton, and they laughed at every hopeless crackpot.”—Aaron Haspel, Everything (2015)
“Charm is always simply courtesy offered spontaneously, the gracious thing offered as though it were the obvious one. Cary Grant is the most charming of actors because his wit is always offered as aplomb, simple and self-evident, imperturbable in the face of every incident.”—Adam Gopnik
January 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
“Charm is always simply courtesy offered spontaneously, the gracious thing offered as though it were the obvious one. Cary Grant is the most charming of actors because his wit is always offered as aplomb, simple and self-evident, imperturbable in the face of every incident.”—Adam Gopnik
Trudeau’s legacy?
January 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Trudeau’s legacy?
Forge alliances or else.
December 30, 2024 at 10:43 PM
Forge alliances or else.
“One unpopular thing Carter did in his first term was issuing an executive order mandating seatbelts and airbags. Whether that was idealistic or pragmatic, there are literally millions of people alive today because of that decision.”—Ryan Holiday, Right Here, Right Now (2024)
December 30, 2024 at 4:52 AM
“One unpopular thing Carter did in his first term was issuing an executive order mandating seatbelts and airbags. Whether that was idealistic or pragmatic, there are literally millions of people alive today because of that decision.”—Ryan Holiday, Right Here, Right Now (2024)
December 27, 2024 at 1:02 PM
“‘Scruffy hospitality means you’re not waiting for everything in your house to be in order before you host and serve friends in your home.’”—Oliver Burkeman, Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts (2024) 1/2
December 23, 2024 at 4:36 PM
“‘Scruffy hospitality means you’re not waiting for everything in your house to be in order before you host and serve friends in your home.’”—Oliver Burkeman, Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts (2024) 1/2
“An important psychological shift occurs whenever you realise that a struggle you’d been approaching as if it were very difficult is actually completely impossible.”—Oliver Burkeman, Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts (2024)
December 23, 2024 at 1:03 AM
“An important psychological shift occurs whenever you realise that a struggle you’d been approaching as if it were very difficult is actually completely impossible.”—Oliver Burkeman, Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts (2024)
“For the most part, it’s not illegal to sell stuff to dumb people who don’t know any better. In only a handful of cases is breaking your word a crime. . . . But just because we can doesn’t mean we should.”—Ryan Holiday, Right Here, Right Now: Good Values, Good Character, Good Deeds (2024)
December 20, 2024 at 4:41 PM
“For the most part, it’s not illegal to sell stuff to dumb people who don’t know any better. In only a handful of cases is breaking your word a crime. . . . But just because we can doesn’t mean we should.”—Ryan Holiday, Right Here, Right Now: Good Values, Good Character, Good Deeds (2024)
“What’s the one move that drives investors wild? Pump and dump on that thang.”—Rhonda Shane
December 20, 2024 at 1:53 PM
“What’s the one move that drives investors wild? Pump and dump on that thang.”—Rhonda Shane
