Don't feel like doing a repost that puts the murder video on the timeline yet again but do feel like repeating the point that the president just straight-up assassinated 11 people for supposedly doing something that wouldn't be a death-penalty crime if they were caught and convicted
We know the difference, which is that they're targeting queer/trans materials, but don't want to say the quiet part out loud. #canqueer
Boots or Hearts
Teens calling Idaho's suicide hotline are being told they can't proceed with the conversation without parental consent. Many of the callers are then hanging up. Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
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?
This Day in Labor History: September 2, 1885. White miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming decided to exterminate the town’s entire Chinese community. Whites killed at least 28 Chinese miners in the Rock Springs Massacre. Let's talk about one of our great problems--the racism of the white working class!
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.
“Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
Americans Astronomers watching watching US politics Betelgeuse 🤝 “It could happen at any time”
The Vimes Boots Theory is something I use often.
This is of course true, but “preventable deaths” is not a persuasive frame when the right and most of the Polite Center have embraced a gilded age theory of public health where diseases sweeping through the population and killing off “the weak” is a good thing we meddle with to our detriment.
"We're going to do ethnic cleansing on the blockchain" is what you get when you give power to the dumbest, cruelest people you can find. Just a complete collapse of even the most minimal sense of decency or humanity. These people are monsters.
Tech people are insane
never going to the US again
Think it’s time to come to terms with the fact that in the next World War, we’ll be the Baddies
For those keeping score at home, the Navy has sent 3 destroyers, a guided-missile cruiser, a nuclear-powered fast attack submarine and an amphibious ready group with a Marine Expeditionary Unit to the southern Caribbean. New @taskandpurpose.com taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-sh...
This was literally today btw.
Anthropomorphism of objects we interact with is pretty common already, and it's hard not to recognize things that look like faces and snouts and head shapes. I could see the difference being "do you actively call them out or just linger your gaze longer on the object." :3
We almost lost papayas to ringspot disease before an immune cultivar was developed via genetic manipulation. And we DID lose the Gros Michel banana. This is a skeet about the USDA mass layoffs.
You did include apartments in the no loopholes part. It is easier for smaller entities to own buildings out here. That doesn’t mean they’re better landlords, but they don’t have to own a building with hundreds of units in it.
Nah. Canadian classic is much better. m.youtube.com/watch?v=FJl_...
At this point, anyone who doesn’t recognize the sleight of hand is either lying and in on it or is a fucking idiot and can be safely ignored. We don’t have to let the freaks use tolerance against us.
… sat in a bar with nothing but the Jays game or tennis on. Watched the most baseball I have ever watched (half a game) and thought “these fucks are just like the leafs”. Me. You’re talking about me.
“Charlene Aqpik Apok launched Data for Indigenous Justice in 2020 after trying to collect the names of missing and murdered Indigenous people to read at a rally, only to discover no government agency had been keeping track.”
I don’t really want to disincentivize apartments. We had a rush of condo conversions a while ago and no real rental replacements built. Rents went up significantly.
Your 1,623,647th reminder that appeasing Trump not only doesn't work, it makes things worse.
At my age my folks had one kid well out of high school, one just graduated, and one a few years away. I have no kids.
We Have AI Now www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...
Ah what's wrong little buddy? Why the dirty delete? Big clever dark money think tank boy like you can almost certainly defend the position you came to based on ✨vibes✨ against a bunch of people who have actually read a book one time.
Look, I’m not a smart man or a man that particularly enjoys seafood, but chilean sea bass being served at the diner scene in Jurassic Park made it seem fancy to me until I got older.
Isn’t carbon capture a huge fucking scam that fossil fuel industries have used to pretend they don’t have to change at all?
It fills me with rage that we could've spent the last 5yrs overhauling indoor ventilation and just...didn't. Like, it's good for capitalism! Even if that's allll you care about, healthy people are more productive workers! And people don't have to take as much time off work if their kids are healthy!
The number of people needed to produce a barrel of oil has been declining since 2012 -- and no, it isn't Ottawa's fault (it's happening in Texas too). If we want to create jobs in the future, they have to be jobs *of* the future. #cdnpoli #abpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/28/o...
You learn something new everyday en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_A...
In response to my rant yesterday, I was asked how we can make better parks and other public places for teenage girls? What do they want? I have answers to this, so now a positive 🧵. Starting in Sweden, where this was co-designed by teenage girls.
B.C. oysters are making people sick. The cause is disturbing https://ijb.utoronto.ca/news/tainted-waters/ More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
The Minister of Articial Intelligence using an AI tool to incorrectly summarise a bill that would regulate AI tools is so perfectly on-the-nose and also a terrifying glimpse into how bad things are going to get.
BORDER OFFICER: I just wanna be clear *I'm* not racist but the Impartial, All-Knowing Computer Algorithm I report to, programmed by insanely racist Silicon Valley guys, is saying you need to pull into secondary screening Amir
i assume he was quietly transferred to another server
More sad news for the polar community... Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (@arcus-arctic.bsky.social) is shutting down. We all lose here. The past 8 months have been unthinkable, and their consequences for the future even more so.
Today in 1997 at 2:14 AM EDT, the Skynet artificial intelligence system became self aware and—after we panicked and tried to shut it off—launched our nuclear weapons at their preset targets in Russia, which in turn retaliated against us, attacks that killed 3,000,000,000 people. Happy Judgment Day!
When he said he wanted to make America healthy again, he meant by unleashing a scourge that only the "healthy" would survive.
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
With O'Neill (apparently) taking over CDC (if they ever get around to firing Monarez), I think it's worth looking back to Project 2025 and asking what they actually intend to *do* to CDC. So, I went to remind myself today. Here's what's in store:
“Do not offer thoughts and prayers as you systemically enable such tragedies. Do not claim prayers are sufficient when children die as they pray. Do not pretend you do not understand.” — Lydia, 16, Minneapolis
This is the best explanation for how Canadians measure that I've ever seen (and it's not what you outsiders think it is)
beautiful
Western leaders have appeased Donald Trump since he returned to power, only to be hit with new demands after every concession. On Tuesday, Trump declared economic war on countries that regulate its tech companies. It’s time for the world to break from the US and aggressively target Silicon Valley.
I say this a lot and I am 100% serious: Facial recognition technology should be illegal. Allowing companies to do this has big social costs with absolutely no material benefit.
Ah, yes, for all you young people: there was a relentless effort to manufacture a consensus that Columbine was caused by Goth culture, industrial music, and videogames. The neo-Nazism was buried, and anyone who pointed to easy access to guns was denounced as a liberty-hating tyrant.
This from Riley Gaines is why trans people freak out when Democrats try to carve out some compromise over sports. The politicians and activists attacking trans people are not interested in compromise! They're interested in our eradication from public life and are exploiting sports to that end
1) This dangerous lunatic is spouting Naomi Wolf-like woo-woo bullshit. 2) A president in his right mind would fire this dangerous lunatic. 3) A non-chickenshit Congress would impeach and remove this dangerous lunatic. 4) Instead, this dangerous lunatic is attacking the CDC. Right now. Tonight.
Fuck those guys.
Why would you close one of the most amazing scientific efforts of the century? Gravitational wave observatories are literally the first new astronomical observing technique since radio astronomy.
imagine actually writing the sentence "Hamas propaganda lines such as 'stop killing children'"
taking a moment of incandescent fury to remember when that Washington Post columnist said that instead of enacting better gun laws, we should train schoolchildren to rush mass shooters
One really depressing thing to think about is that so many of the AI bros believe they're creating a new machine god that will destroy all of humanity, so why would a chatbot contributing to the death of a single child matter to them? They think the chatbots are going to kill all children.
5/ This is russia. This is what they do to people. This is what they will always do in occupied territories. Every “peace plan” that leaves Ukrainians under russian control is a death sentence. Torture, mutilation, execution - it’s all the same.
an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening
Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.
read this. share it. organize. act. no one is going to save you. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
Isaac Chotiner interviewed Biden's close friend and last ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, and in the interview Jack Lew explicitly defends Israel killing children. Lew's defense of this is so offensive that Isaac Chotiner interrupts him twice and then says outright that he's wrong.
Whether or not AI can suffer matters less than the suffering its human creators can cause aftermath.site/ai-suffering...
As a child psychiatrist whose job is working with teens contemplating suicide, let me respond to this with the nuance and thoughtfulness it deserves: WHAT. THE. ABSOLUTE. FUCK.
Oprah Winfrey has so much to answer for about the place the US finds itself in now...
Now this is a journalist who deserves respect.
a single paragraph from the mouth of ai minister evan solomon demonstrates why any hope of canada adopting sensible tech policy has gone out the window thanks to mark carney
You think scams are bad for seniors now just wait until “agentic” AI becomes more widespread.
I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.
Consider being a socialist in America at any time after, oh, 1914. Or gay in many small towns. Or liberal in many small towns. Or, heaven help us, trans. Or Jewish or, shudder, MUSLIM in many small towns. Being conservative in America is nothing like these things.
There is a large category of letters from Union soldiers who first encountered slavery aristocracy that could easily be summed up as “we should kill all these fuckers”
Remember when Chris Rufo offered a bounty for evidence of his racist lie, got sent a video of some people in another city roasting a chicken, declared victory, and remains a treasured mainstream media source
The times we live in. Canada's ambassador to the UN @bobbyrae48.bsky.social deleted this tweet this morning. Credit to Stuart Benson with the Hill Times for posting a screenshot.
Juno is an AMAZING mission. The camera onboard was never supposed to last this long (the radiation around Big J should've zapped it a while back) but it just keeps on ticking. Killing this mission while it's still working and producing great science is a crime.
“Although the video shows several individuals, Wright said at least five of them have been identified as serving members of the Canadian Army. Those soldiers have been suspended from military duties pending an investigation by the unit.”
“he was stopped for not having tags on his moped”…”the agents ran him down and hit him with their cop car while he was driving a moped”
The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
We all know these deals are too fake to have the normal documentation of a formal trade agreement. What's extra moronic is that they're too fake to even have, like, the 1 page documentation of Trump's prior trade "deals". We still haven't lowered the tariff on Japanese/Korean cars as we promised!
“An Air Canada executive shrugged this off saying that as women we were just working for ‘pin money’. It seems their views of women have not advanced in over 40 years.” www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
The Air Canada strike was ended by union solidarity and militancy, and also by the Carney government’s intervention being so early and so tin-eared and ham-handed that it made AC admit being saved by arbitration was their whole bargaining strategy. Then it was gone and the strike ended! Lessons!
This Day in Labor History: August 19, 1987. The AFL-CIO called off its long-standing boycott against Coors beer, one of the more iconic boycotts in American history and one that reminds us what a loathsome family the Coors brood remain!!
Huh, when Air Canada couldn't rely on back-to-order orders from the government, they sure suddenly were able to bargain in good faith and reach an agreement pretty quickly... www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
Air Canada's CEO admitting to the media that their entire plan for the flight attendants' strike was "have the government say they're not allowed" and that they have no other ideas about how to deal with the strike is really a "yeah this is how Canada REALLY works" moment if ever there was one
Watching this video 10 times has significantly improved my mood.
Social media should be safe for trans people. Pass it on.
So the Trump administration *did* intervene to make sure that an Israeli pedophile fled American law enforcement. Protecting people who molest children appears to be the only thing this administration really cares about--other than pretending Donald wasn't totally shellacked by Putin in Alaska.
Cutting off USAID is a terrible evil. The future will judge us harshly.
Old genocide denial tactics are new again
Not to fuck everyone up, but at a job a long time ago I hoped down into a crawlspace to do some work and immediately found a skeletonized snake in the duct system.
“We call ourselves the heavy metal community, which is all-inclusive. Doesn’t matter what your sexual identity is, what you look like, the color of your skin, the faith you believe in or don’t believe in. Everybody’s welcome.” @robhalfordlegacy of @judaspriestof.bsky.social
ICYMI — A Netanyahu cybersecurity official was popped in a child sex crime sting in Las Vegas yet was somehow immediately allowed to go back to Israel. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
anyway the choice america faces going forward is live in the confederacy or do reconstruction for real and purge those motherfuckers from all of public life. and there isn’t really an in-between.
Zero emissions at the source maybe. The way the Saskatchewan Party is going everything is going to be powered by coal forever.
A hearty HELL YEAH to AC flight attendants for standing up to this government and an even heartier FUCK YOU to the Carney government for appointing a former Air Canada lawyer to arbitrate this dispute
omg. the sounds. www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/c...
Congratulations
A) There are other carriers. B) Air Canada was most likely negotiating knowing that the feds would break the strike C) If disruptive strikes is what it takes to stop unpaid labour and miserable wages, that’s what it takes