If you really want to really want to teach them about life, say “give me a coin for a moment so we can decide this,” then pocket the coin and walk away. 😢
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If you really want to really want to teach them about life, say “give me a coin for a moment so we can decide this,” then pocket the coin and walk away. 😢
Kids, just say no to murdering your neighbor.
It frankly boggles my mind that we have invented a computer that cannot do math.
RIP Graham Greene. Indigenous Canadian icon. For the sake of convenience, someone needs to put together a list of movies in which he does not appear.
I thought I was going to get to publish my Giuliani obit yesterday. Now that is tanned, rested, and ready.
I get that many people won’t consider Bluesky a success until it’s a place where ‘normies’ and posts of your lunch are in the majority. But the fact that it consistently angers and upsets so many Dems/centrists/liberals because it’s too woke or left or whatever makes it a success in my book
What GIF comes up when you type in your name?
This has got me wondering how Martin Scorsese feels about me.
Pretty sure I might be on the awesome spectrum.
When Reagan got shot, I was 15. I was watching the news with my father and said “I hope the bastard dies.” My father (no Reagan fan!) said: “You don’t do that. You don’t wish death on anyone, not even your worst enemy.” I’m not sure he’d being saying that in our current context.
One thing I’m quite grateful for is that generative AI has given me a new source of personal esteem in that I feel incredibly superior to those who use it.
NGL. Half of this real stuff looks fake and half of this fake stuff looks real.
Have any of you people even considered turning all your weaknesses into strengths?
Wait was it Trump?
Anatomy question: Did his doctors ever determine which bone George Thorogood was bad to? DO NOT ANSWER THIS.
Well this alone should be enough to keep ICE out. They would be like a hoodless Klan.
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
Reason #4,832 why it's absurd that the UN headquarters are in the USA. www.bbc.com/news/article...
The Summer We Weren’t Entirely Convinced Eddie Wilson Was Dead
The last 3 years have been the hottest in around 125,000 years. CO2 levels are their highest in MILLIONS of years. But most people have no idea this is happening, let alone what it means for our kids’ futures. Our politics & media have failed our children. We should be furious.
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when you die on the white house toilet you die in real life
What's this about a pre-internet?
You can tell a lot about a person by how they respond to Greta Thunberg. So many shitty people have an insane level of hatred.
I hate when you go to a funeral and another guy is wearing the same skeleton costume
This X1000
Pay attention, Canada. If Alberta is successful in this book banning, this will spread. Look around you, b/c this is how it starts. We're on the same ledge the US was on. And we either start fighting this right-wing rise now, or we follow the Americans over the edge. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
There was a good reason fear & anxiety often surrounded ancient Roman profession medici et medicae in antiquity. But medicine in the modern era has saved 154 million lives with vaccines since 1974—predominantly children. RFK’s actions are even worse because the science is known & he still rejects it
"What we're seeing is an exercise of discretion that's much stricter than ever before.' Travellers crossing into the US have been asked about their political views, including their opinion of President Donald Trump. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
When I was a little kid, there was an apartment building built right at the edge of my low-income working class neighborhood that the kids in the neighborhood called the “repartments.”
I just got a post in my FB feed asking for my favourite Bob Seeger song. I said Manic Monday by the Bangles.
Still have a few hours to fill this out and tell the Liberals you're not actually interested in Canada having a blatantly conservative government.
70 years ago today, Emmett Till was lynched by white supremacists. Here in Illinois, we promise to never hide from our history — no matter how painful the chapter. We honor his memory and his brave mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, by continuing the fight for civil rights and justice.
Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation” That’s NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.
Critics see big risks
Often when I’m asked why we live in Hong Kong and if I feel safe there I respond that never, not in a century, has a kid been shot in a Hong Kong school.
The NDP leader had to have special security because the RCMP was afraid he was going to be murdered by a criminal gang with connections to the Indian government, but it's all cool now. Looks like Carney will roll over for anyone, not just Trump.
I DO NOT WANT TO HEAR FROM ELECTED OFFICIALS IN DC THAT THIS IS A SCARY MOMENT. WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT IT??????? THAT'S ALL PEOPLE WANT TO HEAR.
Sucks that feminism became politically verboten at exactly the moment when the right calcified into a masculinity death cult
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but that is a very large phone.
Outstanding work from @nicktsergas.ca Immunity debt isn’t a thing It’s made up. It’s a get out of jail free card for the folks who encouraged you to get infected with Covid www.bmj.com/content/390/...
You guys. This is huge. I have just received a cheque for an amount in excess of $100! For writing books!
Wait. This is a feature of a fire pit I just got an ad for. I regret the error.
I was originally designed to allow you to use a cast iron pan.
People think that conservative backlash is proof that we should take progressive change slow but actually its the opposite. We need to push through left-wing change at a blistering and impossible-to-keep up with rate the same way the right-wing does their cultural initiatives.
The Israeli government has adopted the double-strike tactic used by Bashar al-Assad in Syria: target a hospital or heavily populated area, then hit it again when rescue workers, reporters and medics turn up, to kill or maim them too. Hideous war crimes piled one upon another.
Anyone ever hear of this band called The Led Zeppelins?
As students return classrooms in the next few weeks (elementary up to university) with wildfire smoke filling the air in this province please remember that people have advocated for clean air standards, ventilation, air filtration in every public place since at least 2020. #nspoli
This is a failure of policy and leadership by Tim Houston's Tory government. The living wage in Halifax is now $29.40, while minimum wage sits at just $16.50. This is why life feels so hard 50% of Nova Scotians earn below a living wage. Families deserve better. #NSPoli. globalnews.ca/video/113496...
after ai implodes what do you think the next kinda plausible but not really sci-fi word the tech industry will use to bilk investors and taxpayers out of billions more dollars? my money is on “quantum mechanics/computing”
Going to be wild to have Clarence Thomas and other members of the court write that even the appearance of impropriety is sufficient to allow the President to remove Federal Reserve members from office, and then head off to Harlan Crow’s yacht
trump does not intend for the next january 6th to fail www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
It’s disorienting for me to utter these words, as this is a lesson I am only now learning. But we Canadians need to face the truth.
Canada’s wealth and power depend on the same exploitative dynamics as Israel. Siding with Israel is not counter to our values. Or rather, siding with Israel is only counter to the values we pretend to hold.
Canada’s continued support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the West Bank is not a glitch. It’s who we are as a country. The Canadian colonizer nation is the beneficiary of a genocide. And we continue to be beneficiaries of ecocidal genocidal capitalism.
His comments on Maher here seem spot on, too.
I raise this point frequently - we're not even well-adapted to the weather and climate extremes we already experience ('adaptation deficit', a la Burton 2009). Addressing that would go a meaningful way toward reducing total vulnerability to future climate changes www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Guys. Remember when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on stage at the Oscars and that seemed like a serious and important thing to think about?
1/ I conduct research and teach the benefits of exercise on brain health to young adults in a College of Applied Health Sciences. The same College that wants to “lead” in Public Health. And yet—when SARS-CoV-2 attacks the brain—there is silence. Thundering silence.
Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.
Fun fact: when you’ve got firearms in your luggage, they put every bag through the scanner, then open it and go through every. Single. Item. One. By. One.
OMFG. They’ve literally got firearms. No god damn wonder this is taking so long.
All I want is a sandwich rn.
There’s some sort of sports team from France at the Winnipeg airport, and their oversized luggage has slowed my day down considerably.
"people who are still concerned about covid are so unreasonable, they just want us all to go into lockdown again!" literally nobody is asking for that. what people are asking for is stuff like universal masking in healthcare settings and investment in indoor air filtration/clean air infrastructure
Well…
Danielle Smith claims wildfires would never have happened if trees refused to get vaccinated thebeaverton.com/2023/05/dani...
This is national fly back to Nunavut day.
I don’t understand the liberal mind. Just as confusing as the conservative’s logic.
While I was studying French in Quebec Ciry, my French prof, had a great suggestion for what to do in that situation. Pretend you don’t speak English.
I could have run the dishwasher last night. I could run it this morning. I could even rinse out a mug and use it. But why do any of this when I can just drink coffee from a wineglass
…to a specific warning to the oligarchs about what is likely to befall them once their end game is reached.
It’s a revenge narrative (so far, at 60% the way through), and it’s wild that we’ve gone from the idea that this sort of post doom story is a general warning to humanity of where its actions could lead…
I’m reading Juice, the post global warming catastrophe novel by Tim Winton. It’s interesting reading a work like this now that we are clearly past the “what if” scenario of climate collapse and are already seeing the first stages of the collapse.
Pretty striking for the BMJ to run this piece. “[Immunity debt’s] explanatory power has faded as the number of non-covid infections has kept rising each year.”
I have no idea what this means it's the funniest thing he's ever posted
Watching Canada actively arm and support a genocide has been a hard lesson for me to learn about my own country. Sickening.
Trump is going after prominent Republicans because he knows The Democrats are no threat at all.
Blessings to Air Canada for waiting until I’m through security before notifying me my flight has been delayed for 3 hours.
Ah I figured it out: Mamdani is running for mayor of NYC, Cuomo is running for mayor of Gotham and thinks he is Batman
There is no bottom to this hell.
Province to charge majority of #Albertans $100 for COVID-19 vaccine this season People eligible for free vaccine can get shot on Oct. 1, others need to wait until Oct. 20 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
It’s wild that there are people on this site who think they can derisively quote post me and I’m just supposed to let that slide. Fuck that! BLOCK! This is not 2012 Tw*tter.
On traffic congestion, Doug Ford has tried nothing — and he’s all out of ideas archive.ph/8rpKr
Anything good or right or just about this country and our way of life is cancelled out. We are just as evil as the genociders.
And not only is Canada not doing a god damn thing to stop the deliberate starvation and murder of millions, we remain staunchly on Israel’s side, staunchly on the side of the committers of genocide.
I know that the story of that war is much more complex than that. But there is a genocide being perpetrated right now. Israel is conducting a genocide of Palestinians.
I was born 20 years after World War II. The story my country and my entire cultural sphere told about that war was that there was a genocide being perpetrated, and people with a conscience decided they must stop it.
Gaza is officially in a famine as Israel starves 2 million people to death. This level of suffering is completely unimaginable. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/w...
In order to understand why I thought it was okay to eat two donuts on the drive home last night, people need to understand what it would have felt like for me not to eat two donuts on the drive home last night.
All these job ads that want applicants to be proficient in this, proficient in that. When did being deficient stop being okay?
Reporter Eddie Kim went downtown to cover the detainment of an immigrant by ICE this morning. Then he was pepper-sprayed in the face by an ICE agent standing a foot away. Completely unprovoked. See our exclusive story and video from @eddiekimx.bsky.social here: sf.gazetteer.co/i-reported-f...
IF YOU WANT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY YOU NEED TO POST IN ALL CAPS
it’s fun that the “facts don’t care about your feelings” people make every single decision entirely based on how they feel
NEW from me in Jacobin: With a deal now in sight, Air Canada flight attendants' defiance of the government's back-to-work order shows the power of a defiant, adversarial labor movement. jacobin.com/2025/08/air-...
For 14 years, it was a staple of children's programming in Canada. With French-Canadian hosts, it was broadcast on English networks and was the first exposure to French for many Canadian children. This is the story of Chez Hélène! 🧵 1/10
