An old crone trying to shield the last of her hope from *gestures wildly* whatever this is.
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I don't live in the US but to your point Putin has been cutting science to fund his shitty war. And sorry that I have zero faith either leader would patiently wait for ethical organs. Also love how you all skipped over elderly despots with dementia ruling long into their flailing years.
I'm all for it so long as Indigenous rights aren't erased & it isn't at the expense of my sons generation. Expansion of pipelines that will serve future capacity as the planet burns makes me irate. This mother is tired of pretending my kids future is negotiable.
How to record ICE: 1) Record from a safe distance. DO NOT INTERVENE. 2) Put the DATE, TIME, & LOCATION on the video. 3) Ask for NAMES & BIRTHDAYS 4) CONTEXT, how many people were taken? What happened? How? 5) If possible, document vehicles used and agents, even if masked. @eltragon.bsky.social
I hate these companies with a passion and always have.
You think those human organs are coming to them ethically? I think there's a lot wrong with 2 authoritarian human rights abusers celebrating longevity. Because it's coming at other people's expense and they'll probably get dementia and somehow be even more cruel.
In a metaphor that was too on-the-nose, there was a military flyover in Washington, D.C. that drowned out Epstein survivors who were speaking out. I'm happy to report they persisted.
Jeffrey Epstein survivors say they haven't had any contact with the DOJ
Watch this. What smart nations are building.
Does anyone know someone who recently joined ICE? Are they desperate, ignorant, or just the straight-up evil cartoon character I imagine them to be?
Funnier than any joke we could write
Lefties might be prone to in fighting because we actually care & want to make our world better. The right is a seething mass of resentment politics. They can't function without their favourite nerd or minority to punch down on. We are happy to avoid them but they cant function without us.
Also a great reminder to yourself or any friend doubting they are capable enough to run for office, apply for a job, learn a new hobby, etc. Men like this are holding office & posting crap like this with no self-doubt. If they feel component, my dog should run in the next election.
I used to read books like Lord of the Rings or watch movies like Star Wars and think the villains were unbelievable. And of course, now watching the tech oligarchs (who could not spend all their money if they tried) destroy civilization for power, I’m like, guess I was wrong. People are that awful.
Well who the hell is watching the Ford government? My kids education has been nothing but volatile, unstable, constantly in flux with no answers, and marred by cuts. I have cried numerous times over the last 4 years and am tired of being angry. #DogFoodForThePeople
The house down the road sold & now 6 modified muffler, lifted trucks, underlit by LEDs have moved in. There is a nightly parade of male insecurity and I shit you not, jet skis. All of them have trailers with multiple jet skis. Anyhoo, now I must sell my house.
That tracks given he doesn't want to empower families with robust worker protections like well paid mat leave, funded daycare, affordable housing, or health care. Instead he just wants forced birth via powerless women and a return to brute "manhood".
This show, Star Trek, Degrassi and Ann of Green Gables were my after school rotation. See you on the other side friend and sorry to see you go
Ahhh, he is so adorable. Just as an fyi: my cat had a similar wiggly toy and out of nowhere chewed it into bits and swallowed them. We almost lost her to a bowel obstruction and it was SO expensive. The little weirdo had never done anything like that before. Proceed with caution.
Hard feels today…✌🏽💜✊
Happy Labor Day to all unions except for cop unions, which I would argue are not real unions but crime syndicates
It’s so upsetting to see millions of people wishing death on someone. These are rookie numbers, folks. We can do better. Double it. #ClotsAndPrayers
My take is, “I get paid to suffer through looking at and analyzing this shit myself and people like me should be the only ones doing analysis about it. Turning it into CONTENT and DISCOURSE is what the shooter would want the most.”
I am a simpleton, but it does not make much sense to me to hang a picture of a literal traitor in the halls of your military learning institution www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
What a time to be alive (and be a teacher in Alberta).
Worried Halloween won't be as spooky this year because right now reality is the scariest horror movie franchise out there.
I can't remember which, but there is a goldenrod that doesn't spread as much. Great keystone species with beautiful fall colours.
I'd agree with golden rod but there are a few different species. My plant I.D. app has been really helpful for this stuff.
If some washed up American troll wants to insult Canadians in our own backyard, might I suggest a flotilla of boats parked outside her cottage next summer. Log drivers waltz on full blast might wipe that shitty Logan Paul inspired far right smile off her smug face.
As a kiddo who developed her union awareness on the picket line with her mom, Happy Labour Day all!
The older I get, the farther away from people I want to move. Even though all the studies show that social connections make us healthier, people genuinely drain my battery. I think I'm made for backwoods living. Do critters and furry things count as social connection?
Rudy Giuliani was seriously injured in a car accident. I hope he gets the same expert medical care that he would wish for a disabled transgender immigrant.
I know this, have prepped myself throughout the years but now that graduation is a few short years away, I'm simply not ready.
I'm not saying no policy is warranted but their is a history of Liberals getting in bed with the right when we clutch pearls over the children. And the UKs policy has kind of sucked no? So can't we admit the perils and write better policy?
In listening to Taylors what I heard is that falling prey to hysteria style thinking just leads to bad policy. And is she wrong that age verification is affecting forums for queer kids, girls looking up period information, all the while employing Palantir with our most sensitive data?
Literal experts called this outcome as we dropped COVID protections. I am exhausted by a society that ignores science and then when profits models are affected (not human lives) there is a collective "huh, how can this be!?!?"
So pissed my husbands company is making him cross the border for work. Have they not heard of zoom?
thinking about the fast, efficient driverless cars we should’ve had decades ago
Do these fucks seriously walk around bemoaning choices? Maybe just buy bread you like instead of turning grievance into your entire personality Alex?
Unions are cool and all but have you tried starting work at age 6 and grinding in the mine until 29 when you die of black lung indebted to the company store?
Unfortunately, my daughter was planted next to some Monsanto daughters and has lost her organic status.
Kids with brain cancer are communists. Sorry, this is so fucking grim I don't know how else to respond.
Trans people never stole the entire Social Security database and put every American at risk by uploading their personal information to an unsecure server. But Trump and Elon Musk sure did.
I'm total hot head & will get into it with anyone being a dick in public. While my convo's can get heated and it's like duelling wirh the wind, my husband simply says "explain that" or "how does that work". His strategy is far more effective. Questions leave them scrambling.
Almost like fighting climate change should be our most pressing issue. Now back to our discussion on petro chemical overlords being granted access to Canada's first born. We simply cannot celebrate our hellfire demons name day without infant sacrifice. Anyone telling you otherwise is a communist.
Really great thought. There is total reluctance to call out plain as day fascism but if anyone left of Trump talks about funded daycare, workers rights, affordable housing suddenly no one has a problem screaming communism.
My rage out button is the way right wingers make up fantasy conspiracies when this one has been there the whole time. THEY ARE BURNING OUR E FUTURE DOWN AND YOU WANT ME TO HATE ON VACCINES INSTEAD #@*!
Dr. Demetre, in his resignation from the CDC, said this: “I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people”. It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS.
Fall of Duty.
So every loser cop wannabe who couldn't pass the psych. test is now gonna be an ICE officer. My true crime radar gets major ick thinking of how many serial killer types fit that bill. But when cruelty is the point, that sounds like Trump's dream workforce.
“I’m not afraid of you,” I quietly seethed while passing a bouquet of sunflowers in the grocery store. “I have *real* enemies.”
Ashley Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadn’t happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.
Sorry, to loop back, this idea of abandoning the words and ideas of activists, motivated to help people and not corporations, just doesn't seem to be it. Corporate governance is the problem we need to fix, not lean into
Just watched Sovereign & and can't stop thinking about how we build good governance while the current state actively harms people. Lower class people losing their home, can't imagine it. So they vote for Trump who makes it worse. How do we interrupt this self fulfilling tale?
Working in the school (kindergarten wing to boot) and seeing all the unplugged HEPA filters makes me cry. Everyone is sick all the time and I really worry what happens if bird flu learns to jump human to human.
I am still gobsmacked that the story of Russia directly paying Canadian podcasters, THOUSANDS of dollars per month was not a bigger story. Millions of dollars to Tenet & it's treated as fringe as opposed to fundamentally destabilizing our country via misinformation.
I dunno, maybe try not to be a giant piece of steaming shit actively making the world worse?
Love to see it.
Wild to me that as energy costs via renewables keep getting lower, the man who promised to lower electricity costs is pretty quiet on that front.
More of this. We don't win by leaving our buds behind. We don't win by abandoning truth and human rights to manufactured fears. We don't win by being cowards. In fact, when we find middle ground with folks like Charlie Kirk or Steve Bannon, the battle is already lost.
We're allergic to regulating big tech. Zuckerberg & co. have since spawned genocides, encouraged teens to self harm, & weaponized algorithms to rot our parents brains. Can we not repeat that with AI? Not companies or senior citizen politicians policing them but serious rules by experts.
Ahhh, look at these big men doing such a great job of protecting us pretty little women. Good thing they are slowly robbing of us of our autonomy 'cause clearly it's going great.
As a parent, it's comforting to know the world's elite are prioritising our most pressing issues. The planet may be warming, fires raging, electricity grids buckling, but at least we can rely on the cracker barrel logo staying the same.
Go back to Twitter troll. You're getting the block.
Hahaha! I was pushing my hubby to move to NZ to avoid the nonsense in Ontario but I guess this crap is everywhere🙃
If Bluesky isn’t structurally, mechanically, far superior to every other social media site how do you explain that Ricky Gervais is here but I don’t see his posts unless I intentionally seek them out
Really good movie but will punch you in the gut.
School and learning independence should not involve physical violence. Especially grade school. Get a grip.
You asked a mom when she planned on letting her kid develop independence when that was not at all applicable. As a classroom aide, there aren't enough of us and you should sue the system overwhelming classrooms, not the school. Anyhoo, this is obviously not the place for nuanced thought.
I think a nonverbal 6 year is still squarely in the realm of needing their parent. Them wandering off school grounds ALONE is a literal emergency. And a as parent of a kid who's bullied, when they call you respond. Violence doesn't help a kid grow.
You're being really rude in response to horrible stories. A non-verbal kid outside of the school yard & unaccounted is my biggest nightmare as an E.A. We don't get good policy without taking situations like this into consideration. Insulting a mom who's enduring bullying is twitter style b.s.
The funny thing is animals actually can suffer and we slaughter them by the billions but sure let’s have an existential panic over whether a software program screams when we turn it off
Yeah, my friends keep telling me Pierre is more destructive. Meanwhile every facet of my life has actively been made worse by Ford. He is effective because he acts like a big chud people want to have beers with.
Trump, Miller and co. are the snivelling losers who you were nice to once in high school, so they made dating you their whole identity. When you very clearly said "no" after months of sexual harassment, destroying your life became their whole persona.
If you’re doing a ‘double tap’ strike on a hospital, you’re a war criminal and a terrorist.
Since investment in #podcasts dropped, I have noticed a huge lack of audio dramas, history, & light hearted episodes in my feed. They were my escapism because I can't listen to 35 episodes in a row about Donald Trump, Project 25, murder, and various human rights abuses. Anyone have suggestions?
Just a reminder that despite what your introvert homebody brain tells you, a girls weekend is always good for the soul. Originally sold Detroit tickets after Trump was elected & I wasn't crossing that border. My BF's mom ended up scoring ROW 4 SEATS!!!! #NIN slayed in Toronto.
No money to help people but deals for deportation prisons. This is a Lord of the Rings battle between good and evil. These people delight in cruelty.
If you’re a US LGBTQ person who has an Irish parent/grandparent & thinking about applying for a passport ▪️do it now Our passport service is struggling with the volume of applications from the US, with so many Queer Irish Americans seeking to escape
Yaaaaas!
Current cat vibes, love how Gwen is protesting on top of my favourite cat shirt.
I would love this as a wallpaper.
My kid is mad he can't come see #NIN with me tonight. But us 40 year ladies are ready to cry with joy, guttural scream along with Trent, and pull out our best moves at the Dark Rave NIN after party. My back is going to be so sore tomorrow🤣
Not saying that we shouldn't do it, just that it's something that needs to be thought about and implemented carefully.
I will make a point of it. And no rubbing it in, I get it. While watching Dune, I remember thinking you simply wouldn't get the same scale of doom at home.
Oh man, I wish I'd seen it in theatre. Made a point to catch Furiosa after failing the first time.
Our province has ordered this and teachers feel really uncomfortable having possession of multiple devices that can be worth a thousand bucks each.
we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light
i think people need a refresher on what constitutes a Distraction. the cracker barrel logo thing (zero stakes, obviously invented controversy) is a Distraction. the ongoing military occupation of washington dc (ample footage of random delivery drivers being violently detained by feds) is not
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Love these.
Shopping carefully to abide by a low FODMAP diet due to excruciating stomach cramps. Looking every food up to make sure it won't kill my innards. After 6 pm: elbow deep in a bag bag of Smart Food. Tomorrow's comfort be damned.
Confederate statues being reinstalled but a rainbow crosswalk outside Pulse Nightclub is apparently too much. I have no words for the depravity of these people.
I'm not sure if you've had a chance to look at the Canadian Online Harms Act. Perhaps there's some glaring difference with the UK that isn't as dangerous?
Pierre Poilievre is back -- and so is his virulent transphobia. He took to social media to defend a suspended nurse who he said was facing “authoritarian censorship.” What was she being so cruelly censored for saying? Oh boy, you'll never guess:
Say again? A giant budget increase for the force that not only stood down in the face of the clown convoy but openly abetted their treasonous coup. Remember when citizens did a better job of kicking their bits outta town!?! I wish I could suck at my job and get a huge pay bump.
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social I found your episode on this really interesting. I also enjoy Paris' podcast. Are you two at odds or am I missing something?
i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good
Starbucks CEO made $95M last year. The median worker made $14K. That’s a gap of 6,666 to 1. This isn’t capitalism rewarding risk, it’s extraction on autopilot. Every empire ends with elites hollowing out the core. You’re watching it.