So, Chicago, thwart. Thwart like lives depend on it because they do. This was long and nobody'll read the whole thing, but man it felt good to write because, for the time being, LA fucking won. 11/end
So, Chicago, thwart. Thwart like lives depend on it because they do. This was long and nobody'll read the whole thing, but man it felt good to write because, for the time being, LA fucking won. 11/end
Why? Well, for starters, 300 ICE agents have been moved to Chicago, leaving only about 300 in LA County which is about what we had before Trump took office. Why are they leaving? Because LA made their jobs TOO FUCKING HARD. LA Organized. LA sat on corners outside Home Depots with radios. 5/
Didulo arrested, Carpay disbarred and Bexte under investigation? The find out phase has finally arrived for some of Canada’s finest fucko buckos.
Most African Americans have been in the US longer than most white Americans of european descent. And of course there were always Native Americans here and many of the founding texts were influenced by their presence. The US has never been a white country.
October 18, 2025. Mark your calendar: No Kings 2.
Arguably, AI Artist is an oxymoron in every sense of the word. Also, the misrepresentation to get in is insulting.
☝🏼 OMG, so much this. Like it's also annoying to other readers who like the content when some rando comes in to shit all over the property and it's clear they haven't read it, understood it or engaged in good faith.
Canadian here: we recently had to choose the “best” from a collection of terrible people. We picked someone better than the alternative but it’s still a sore point that they’re terrible. Sorry that you’re also going through the same thing.
Imagine how much money could have been saved just by going with an actual human to begin with www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Yep - if they want to police their own kid’s reading, they can search their kid’s backpack. Leave everyone else out of their battles with their Imaginary Sky Daddy.
It’s worse in his neck today - he’s puffed out more than one of those fancy chickens at PNE/Stampede/CNE
Two weeks ago, Nursing TikTok was saying they’re seeing the signs of congestive heart failure?
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
I honestly love Windsor Newton Cotman paints. Like yes, there are more colour-rich paints but as beginner paints, they’re great! Easy to mix, luminous...
Anyways, banning books is pointless and you should read His Dark Materials, if you haven’t already. And any other banned books you want to.
I’ve found one that is sung in Spanish and if it happens this weekend, I’m going to blast it on YouTube and hold my laptop over my head like John Cusack’s character from Say Anything.
Came here to reiterate that alcohol poisoning is bad. Chug lots of water and electrolytes, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social!
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
What is it going to take for folks to realize that AI is cursed...BY DESIGN?!?
It clearly doesn’t sound like you but it’s gross that someone thought it was perfectly fine to do this, however poorly. AI is really exposing who amongst us has the poorest judgement.
If you are in one of the drought areas, maybe put out a water bowl or two for some of the wild creatures who are struggling. I saw five dead voles at the side of the road today in different places. Apparently they have been driven from underground because of the dry conditions, searching for water.
The whole Snoop Dog and Martha Stewart collab never made sense to me…until now.
How egregious do US violations of its supposed allies’ sovereignty have to get for those allies to stop downplaying the shocking nature of its actions and tell it to take a hike?
Don’t you threaten me with a good time.
🎶There goes my hero, watch him as he goes 🎶
Canada doesn't need this because grown Canadian adults with children have *scads* of already free parental control toggles built straight into every one of the ISPs Canadians can use, assuming they're smarter than a sprouted potato who can drive And iOS and Android have them built in be smarter.
Fuck this tech - nobody needs it
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
À better measure of the US economy would be how the bottom 33% are making do on their income, rather than how the top 10% are making do in the stock market.
Academics and activists have tried to help people see that social problems are structural--that people's struggles often stem from the way systems of power and privilege prevent them from getting by or getting ahead. That kind of structural thinking is inoculation against authoritarianism.
And on the subject of #realartatters: AI poisoning tool NIGHTSHADE is now free for artists to use: venturebeat.com/ai/nightshad...
Wait, there's already a sing-along version?!? (I have not seen it, but the family Littles are obsessed so now I get to hear about it 😅)
I don’t really think that there’s any difference between calling human beings “NPCs” or calling them cockroaches or “human animals” or any other classic rhetoric of dehumanization and I find it pretty worrying that people who are otherwise concerned with respectability have adopted its use
Alberta is the only province charging for COVID vaccines. That’s wrong. Vaccines must be free for all Albertans. #ABHealth #ABLeg #ABPoli
I feel like we haven’t really talked enough about how much of MAHA/masc-coded wellness grift is just boosterism for the cattle industry - collagen - whey protein - colostrum - tallow - organ meats It’s all repackaged beef & dairy byproduct, baby
It’s like everyone forgot about Loblaws' bread price-fixing scandal.
Canada refused to sign an international letter calling out the Israel's attack on the media in Gaza. We established the Media Freedom Coalition and denounced abuses of the press in Hong Kong. But radio silence about the IDF killing squads. The world is watching. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCDG...
Covid has been such a massive failure of public heath, among other things. This virus is still disabling and killing people and so many people think it became magically milder in 2022.
They definitely bill back for things like ER visits - would be interesting to know if that includes vaccines as well.
Alberta announced today the COVID-19 vaccine this fall will cost us $100 per dose. So for my family of four, that'll be $400. Alternatively, we could spend $400 on an overnight trip to Golden or Fernie, B.C., get immunized for free, and make a little mountain vacation out of it.
The number of people who told me last year that ‘it can’t get any worse for Gaza.’ But it always could get worse, things can always get worse- and they have. We are now witnessing an official, full-blown, US-approved famine in Gaza. Shameful.
OMG, same
Two cats, and it’s a takeover
WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCKERY IS THIS?!?
Actually I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States with my hand on @bpl.boston.gov’s 1782 edition Aitken Bible—also known as the Bible of the Revolution.
For the first time in over a century, sockeye salmon are able to return to Okanagan Lake #BritishColumbia Syilx Nation has been working to restore sockeye salmon in Okanagan waters for decades www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
If the price soars past $15-$17 for an e-book (which I will only pay for authors whose work I know I will re-read), I’ll go to the library instead to borrow the book. Given a choice, I’d like to support the author, but as you said, $35 is grocery money.
And fare evaders!
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
Canada petition of the day: I like to call this the "stop fuckin' lyin'" petition. basically a stand against mis/disinformation by holding Members of Parliament to a standard of not fuckin' lyin'. I'll sign that! Pass it on, Canada! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
After this process, there needs to be a serious discussion about Section 107, how the government has been using it, and how prominent companies have come to expect workers to be forced back to work, robbing them of their leverage — as Air Canada’s CEO openly admitted. It can’t continue.
All those people whining about how this wasn't the right time and but what about my convenience: Air Canada didn't lift a finger to negotiate. They ran out the clock and sat on their asses knowing the government would order back to work. Flight attendants said NO. AC made a real offer in >24 hrs.
“if governments keep showing such disregard for workers’ fundamental rights, we shouldn’t be surprised if workers start showing more disregard for government [back to work] orders”
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If Flight Attendants hadn't stood up to Carney and Air Canada there wouldn't be a tentative agreement today
"Among the sticking points for the union was the issue of pay for work performed while planes are on the ground. While not elaborating on the issue, the union said in a statement provided to CBC News that 'unpaid work is over'."
Air Canada must have realized they fucked up because CUPE says the company has returned to the bargaining, despite previously saying it wouldn’t negotiate until flight attendants were back on the job. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
Air Canada’s CEO gave striking flight attendants more reason to defy a government order to go back to work. On BNN Bloomberg, CEO Michael Rousseau says the company didn’t make provisions for passengers with cancelled flights because it assumed government would enforce Section 107 to end the strike.
“Probe.” Just audit the hours on their pay stubs allocated to ground work, FFS. This isn’t rocket science. Also, WTF with allowing Air Canada to pay under minimum wage to flight attendants? why doesn’t the government also investigate that bullshit?
I'm at Vancouver Airport where CUPE's Air Canada Component is picketing. Air Canada flight attendants are still on strike, defying a back-to-work order from the federal government.
Plainly, the people mad about the work required to write well and make great art who are justifying various artificial intelligence tools as shortcuts to that creative process don't value the labor inherent to it.
so much respect for cupe and air canada flight attendants. air canada can have planes back in the skies tomorrow, all they have to do is pay their workers fairly.
Air Canada consoles stranded passengers with pictures of their executive bonuses
My hill: kids are naturally creative and artistic. You give kids paper and something to draw with and you will get the wildest shit ever created. It's an actual tragedy & horrifically anti-human to be shoving AI on them and encouraging them to stunt that essential part of themselves.
The wealthy’s inability to accept mortality, and their efforts to become more than human to escape it, is threatening human existence in every conceivable way.
SpaceX told investors it may never have to pay US federal income tax. Thanks to a change made during Trump’s first term, it can count the more than $5 billion in losses it racked up by late 2021 against future taxable income. Meanwhile, 76% of its income in 2021 came from government contracts.
It’s strategic and targeted.
Good!
ScAir Canada, where their motto is “we’re not happy unless you’re not happy."
Love this for Andrew.
Democrats proving again that they are not a party that supports women or poor folks when it counts most. I can’t tell if they just can’t read the room or if this is a means test to see how many irate Repubs they can peel off?
Consumers of art feeling entitled to the creations and being rude to artists will always be crass. Like, people - stop acting like an emotionally dysregulated toddler!
the canada post strike and air canada strike are good comparisons on how a good pr campaign from the union can make a load of difference to how canadians understand the issues and whether they support the workers’ demands. cupe did a fantastic job. sadly cupw let management dominate the narrative.
He was on stage at World Con and some rando at the Q&A mic told him he was gonna die soon, so when is the next book coming out? Then the rando said the same thing to Brandon Sanderson who was also on stage with GRRM. Crowd booed that ahole, thankfully.
And another thing! In the introduction of Values, Mark Carney told a story about how Pope Francis compared the market into grappa and humanity to wine, and challenged him to turn the grappa back into wine Paying workers fairly is the strongest example. Solidarity with UCPW. Run them their money.
The alternatives were not great and we had to choose the lesser evil. Still evil though. 🤬
I think @pattyhajdu.bsky.social fucked up. Big time. Read the room, @mark-carney.bsky.social cause I don’t think people will be happy that you ordered mostly women back to do unpaid work. You’d better have some dynamic speaking points before the milk turns sour
“No one should accept being forced to work for free, for hours and hours, every day. No one should accept being forced to work for poverty wages for years in a profession, just to earn a dignifying living. That’s what this is about,” said CUPE Air Canada Component president Wesley Lesosky.
Sending all my solidarity to the flight attendants and none to the Air Canada execs (and the union busting liberals).
…are we getting a redux of the “you haven’t even said THANK YOU” fuckery again?
OMG, this is reminding me of the conversation that @kristadb1.bsky.social was having weeks ago about people who are outraged at “cozy books” not catering to their “standard” of cozy and then demanding that authors apologize for…writing a book?? What do folks think reading is about these days??
Why are they even reading at that point? To have something to talk about? How do you have a conversation about a point made by an author via a character and/or a situation if you don’t know the nuances of that character/situation?!?
Reminder: striking workers ordered back to work by the government are STILL ON STRIKE. They are working under duress. I encourage Work to Rule tactics to resist their exploitation. TL;DR: This is bullshit.
I had to look it up and WTF is wrong with people. Would support you (or anyone) writing their manuscript and burning it out of spite.
A loser senator from Maine wrote to Canadian representatives asking them to commit treason, break up our country and join the United States of Trump. I had to school him in basic facts about Canadian values and our readiness to defend our nation from fascists. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Bpt...
The way tech businesses are trying to manufacture consent for their thievery is outrageous and insulting. Can’t wait until AI crashes and burns, the sooner the better
Yesss…this!
Strong “do it my way, don’t listen to what the people want because it won’t benefit me per$onally” energy from Jeffries. Which honestly, is going to widen the gap between Mamdani, the people who support him, and the current Dem structures.
“Give me a cookie for this thing that I did that makes no material difference now.”
DC police are using excessive force against Black people
ANCHORAGE…
Israel can spin the genocide. They murder journalists who don't go along. Their lobbying machine treats politicians as compliant suckers. But they can't silence the people. They can't intimidate the grandmothers.
And like, no, people are going to feel how they are going to feel. But the correct answer is not to “forbid” that feeling or “dismiss” it: it’s to remind you that you have to sit with it and unpack it.
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Congrats to her - love a great worked hard for success story! 🥳
Get it, DC!
Things are going just great in DC tonight.
“I’m trying to dogwhistle for what I want. Just take the hint and do it already.” 🤦♀️
And yet I’ve seen a couple of posts about the protests (with video) on Bluesky this morning and I’ve only been looking at it for maybe 30 minutes? The news outlets really aren’t doing any heavy lifting here.