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WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL
Yes - it needs to be asked right out loud. Gov. Pritzker is deliberately interfering with the normalization of Trump's corruption and media acceptance of it.
yet opposing the integration of genAI into the classroom and other critical societal infrastructure somehow makes one a 'pessimist', 'anti-progress' & 'anti-innovation'
The Law Society of Alberta has disbarred both John Carpay and Jay Cameron of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms for hiring a private investigator to surveil Manitoba Court of King's Bench Chief Justice Glenn Joyal. documents.lawsociety.ab.ca/wp-content/u...
I often think about this letter to the New Statesman. It's from a 1960s Tory, and neatly summarises how British politics has shifted massively to the right, and taken Starmer's Labour party with it. #PoliticsLive
Monbiot is right to point out how “the centre” has been redefined. This isn’t just political drift, it’s what happens when discourse is shaped by systems that reward outrage and performance over verification.
Especially Tomorrow Never Dies with Elliot Carver
I'm a 57 year old college educated man. I learned about the Tulsa race massacre from a TV show 6 years ago. Schools have been very selective about the history that is taught. That's just one of the reasons why this matters.
The Brazilian edition of Starter Villain has arrived at the Scalzi Compound and the amazing cover is even better in real life. Thanks for sending it along, @editoraaleph.bsky.social!
If you are in the Edmonton area Fiasco is still missing - please check garages and sheds and engines! Let's get him home, please share x
I don't get how people keep needing this explained: They don't have ANYTHING without Trump. Yes, it's BAD that JD Vance is Peter Thiel's puppet but also remember that Peter Thiel has the actual political instincts of an inbred lemur and you know this BECAUSE HIS HANDPICKED POLITICIAN IS JD VANCE.
Be still my heart! This was created by Ginger-Politicat "Here. Look. These are my three wives: Pestilence, Famine, and Death. Do you think I married them for their personalities?" - Londo Mollari #yarn #crochet #babylon5 #LondoMollari
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha... HARD pass. #TheLongWalk
The brilliant Horror Grandmaster Chelsea Quinn Yarbro has left us at 83. Thank you for everything.
Every time the automotive industry, or oil and gas, or the tech sector, faces challenges you're told (and the media repeats) just how important that sector is as a driver of the economy. Well, there's no bigger driver of the economy than the post-sec ed sector. Why don't we ever point this out?
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roses are red gold is the key
Reverse Vampires. Attracted to garlic, become stronger if you show them a crucifix or sprinkle them with holy water, wear a lot of silver bling, constantly lie around in the sun, obsessively observe themselves in mirrors... basically, Italians.
One may say that I'm in a bubble, and that might be right. A person who picks the screen name "Plantation Scientist," though, or who for lulz posts pictures of bacon at a Muslim public figure is someone I don't need to share space with. Life's too short for such nonsense. I like my bubble.
This is why some pundits say Bluesky is dead, by the way. They can't outrage farm. When they try, they get blocked to oblivion. Ergo, since they are Very Important Main Characters who cannot get Engagement and have their jinglies jimmied, Bluesky must be at fault, not them.
New York does not miss. The bleach did it for me. 😭
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It's a shitty sentiment expressed shittily; I can't think of a clearer way for these arse-clowns to show how shit they are.
We need to make liberal elitism great again. Making you go “Of course I don’t think I’m better than the people with bad ideas who want me dead,” is how they get you. The elitism is load bearing.
Tbh, I think the NYC primaries didn’t signal a huge shift leftwards so much as hunger for a candidate who seemed to actually like New York City.
It was absolutely bonkers and was where I first started using the phrase "people who think they can win the global class struggle with a zoning ordinance"
I'm too online; at first I read that headline as the Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic buying a bank in India.
We have a similar problem in Canada; when a far-right propaganda outlet was excluded from the Parliamentary press gallery, mainstream media rallied to support them. I treat them all our media outlets as the same, now, and I will until they decide to distance themselves from the bad actors.
My dive into right wing piss pants baby culture Why are conservatives such cowards? www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
(I've heard this strategy called, "the grey stone". We saw it used in the White House by PM Carney.)
This advice on dealing with narcissists is dismayingly applicable to current politics. #ElbowsUp #MAGADelendaEst www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Taf...
Canada's boycott of US imports is spreading; I think it will have a greater impact than the retaliatory tariffs. #CDNpoli #MAGADelendaEst www.youtube.com/watch?v=Whcy...
And far too often we still think physics is just quantum mechanics and cosmology - far away mysterious things that don't relate to our everyday life. That's nonsense. Why it is tiring to walk slowly, what limits the height of a tree, why do baby ducks swim in a tight line? Physics will tell you!
I, for one, cling to the faint hope that we will get affordable graphics cards for gaming computers again.
they are threatened by anyone who lives in reality instead of the algorithmicly-curated simulacrum they've constructed for themselves.
If I hadn't already sold the bulk of my US equities, I'd be selling them now. (Indeed I'm pondering selling the remainder when the markets open... though I probably won't, I kept them for reasons that still seem sound.)
I signed this a couple of weeks ago; we really need to do something about mis/disinformation before it kills Parliament the way it killed Congress. #CDNPoli
The Sound of Gary.
Not officially confirmed but Nelvana, one of Canada's most storied animation studios, appears to have quietly closed down on Friday, yet another casualty of Corus Entertainment's struggle to survive.
Graham Greene has died. A Canadian acting icon, he earned an Oscar nomination for his role as Kicking Bird in Dances With Wolves. He also won a Grammy, Gemini and Canadian Screen Award, along with the Governor General's Performing Arts Award. He also earned a star on Canada's Walk of Fame.
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Difference between a husky and border collie... 👀😅🤣 #dog #dogday #bluesky
Sam Vimes' boots theory was honestly one of the concepts that helped radicalize me, and contributes to the basis of my political philosophy.
Spending a non-trivial amount of time the last couple of days assuring the previous cats that just because there's a new kitten in the house, I don't love them any less
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I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
Man…. My country’s children’s television programming is in the PITS. Unless someone does a huge rebound, this will be BLEAK.
Yeah, we kept the black kitten. It wasn't the plan! We had a home for him and everything! But plans fall through sometimes, and also, cuteness will not be denied. He's ours now.
I can’t find the lie in this.
The more kids are invited to bike, walk and take public transit to school, the safer, healthier and smarter it is for EVERYONE. It’s shocking how much vehicle congestion in cities is actually “driven” by trips to and from schools. #BackToSchool #LetKidsBike #LetKidsWalk cartoon by Yehuda Moon
The latest update to Windows 11 is making some SSD drives unstable, and at this time there is no way to remedy that or roll back the update. Microsoft really dropped the ball on this one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbFI...
NEW -- Exactly 10 days after taking the oath early this year, Donald Trump nearly drowned dozens, potentially hundreds, of his own citizens in California’s Central Valley. Why? Because he is one of the most ignorant people you will ever meet. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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I left a bedcover out on the balcony overnight to air out after a hasty hand-cleaning. This morning, coffee mug in hand, I see a pigeon taking a massive dump on it and undoing my hasty efforts of last night. I guess I should acknowledge fate and just trash the cover.
Asset stripping is tremendously profitable for shareholders it but it wreaks havoc on the real economy; it's emblematic of the Wall St. / Main St. divide.
Anti fascist educational film from 1945
"'One of the things about people like Trump [...] is they like to accuse people of what they themselves are trying to do,' he continued. 'You’ve heard it said about Trump many times, every accusation is a confession.' "'Deep down, he’s a destructive force. Deep down, he wants to destroy,' he said.
here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road
Me when my wife sees the browser history
What "Make America Great Again" really means....
I just want a global 'turn all 'ai' off everywhere, categorically, no exceptions unless I individually approve them in triplicate' setting for all my devices
This is all absolutely right, except for the bit where the quoted poster (not Sunny) characterizes occultist baloney as “medieval”. That made-up shit is the pure product of the Renaissance and the modern world; leave medieval people out of it.
“Unlike Donald Trump, Mark Carney does not claim to be the leader of Europe. Nevertheless, by supporting Ukraine and deepening relations with European partners, Carney is demonstrating quiet, effective international leadership.” www.thewhig.com/opinion/carn...
Oh, shit, you too? 💔 So, so sorry...
"I can't believe these fascists are doing [maybe one of the top 3 hallmarks of every fascist government in human history], this is unprecedented and goes beyond fascism"
Which of your Constitutional rights are you willing to sacrifice for this "victory" of yours? #TalkIsCheap
Dear America; if you want to stick it to Trump, spend your vacation dollars in the still-democratic nation of Canada.
There's a reason this image went viral in Canada last March. #MAGADelendaEst #ElbowsUp
In Which Nadine Amuses a Dragon and Makes Autumn Happen
And hey parents: Remember: doing a thing badly is the start of learning to do it well. Your kid’s having problems with school? Don’t punish, find help that’s not you (because you are tired and will get frustrated because beginner’s mind is a hard state to get back into). Sports/art/music? PRACTICE.
This is a great time to remind everyone that EOs aren’t laws, the federal government doesn’t manage voting in this way, and it’s all a scare tactic and any reporting that doesn’t provide that context is enabling potentially lawless activity.
💔Going to be off-line for a bit, not sure how long, due to a death in the family. Not a shock, but not expected. (This being my life, the pathetic fallacy kicked in with a power outage moments after hanging up from the news.) See you in a while. -- Steve
The Nazis are coming back for more punishment! (Jewish and Italian Torontonians beat them and confiscated their flag.) www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/c...
While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
The entire soundtrack was amazing; McCann nailed every single track in the game. #VigiloConfido youtu.be/ddVFVdS4-UA
XCOM's pre-battle music makes tying your shoelaces feel epic; damn, that game was good. youtu.be/SeLC55FOUCI
Lydia, the 16 year old who is more honest than most of our elected officials and the corporate media who cover the administration
It’s really important to remember that Republicans are cruel and mean and ruthless as any bully, but also like any bully they are a bunch of piss-pants cowards who run crying to their favorite podcasts when they get mean looks in restaurants.
Re: last reskeet One thing that UX designers don’t seem to grasp is that change for the sake of change is BAD. Users are used to whatever the user experience is. They already climbed the learning curve. If you’re going to make them do it again, there had better 1/
On September 13, race haters will hold a rally at Christie Pits field in Toronto. In 1933, 10,000 people fought in the streets with baseball bats to put the run on the Nazis. Come out to Christie Pits to protect our history of inclusion and diversity. charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-riot-o...
That said, since America isn't doing the immigration thing anymore and we still are, can we grab the Statue of Liberty for a bit?
We've already got PEI for the spuds and Alberta for the whackadoodle fringe politics. No thanks.
I advise every English teacher in Edmonton to teach "Farenheit 451" to every appropriate class this year. #UCPDelendaEst #CdnPoli
American mainstream media has been milquetoast on Trump for decades, and still is. This failure was a major contributor to the Constitutional crisis.
What a wildly incorrect conclusion. On almost every point Trump has in fact proved enormously successful: he's already outright fired tens of thousands in the bureaucracy and replaced its upper echelons with incompetents and corrupt bagmen, he has sent the military into cities,... 1/n
I have initial confirmation of a CDC walkout happening - will be looking for news coverage & more details.
Anyone who follows me knows I already believe Matt Yglesias is a broken-brained fake liberal, but he’s now telling Democrats to let Trump abolish vote by mail and strip civil rights from trans people, and that’s far beyond just being stupid. It’s evil.
This is Grace. Her human became terminally ill and made the difficult decision to surrender her so she can get the medical care she needed. Thanks to your support of our merch, @15outof10.org was able to cover her dental care, spay, and mass removal, AND she found a new forever family ❤️🩹
I guess they stole my flip flop off my foot because they wanted to wear it
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Dear people who are saying that the CDC directors who quit yesterday should have “stayed and fought”, With all due respect, you do not grasp the magnitude of the problem of RFK Jr. He is asking them to do unethical and immoral things that will actively harm the people of the United States. 1/3
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Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who chose to break into an unauthorized area during an insurrection against the repeated warnings of law enforcement. She ignored those warnings and got killed through no one's fault but her own. She was a traitor. She doesn't deserve full military honors.