I'm just glad there are thriving acoustic music traditions out there so I don't have to bother with this nonsense.
“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.” ― Henry David Thoreau
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I'm just glad there are thriving acoustic music traditions out there so I don't have to bother with this nonsense.
Planet Democracy says, "Well, it’s finally happened. The party of “parental rights” and “freedumb” has decided your kids aren’t equipped to handle books written before the internet was invented."
There is no origin story of the police without the story of the reorganization of human society by the birth, expansion, and dominance of the system of capitalism.
The latest from YYCCowboy on Alberta Health ER, OR, and hospital closures plus info on measles, Covid, and ambulance response times ...
Time for your daily de Adder dose ...
My sources are telling me that Rudy Giuliani is dead too and his gizzard and giblets are already on the black market for around $1000 apiece. Honestly not a bad price.
Duffelblog has gotten as cutting as the Onion these days. “In exchange, ICE will share “lessons learned” about family separation policies and the treatment of unwanted women and children, which Taliban representatives described as “forward-thinking and inspirational.”
Just feel like this shouldn't leave collective consciousness. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
I have seen a Serious Naturopath speaker suggest homeopathy for head injuries...
As a group, we're pretty good at educating ourselves about issues, so we have options. I hope people are reading these articles.
Make no mistake, everything that’s happening in the United States is being significantly enabled by the right wing oligarch capture of media. Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are. Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.
“It’s clear that there’s enough smoke coming from the White House to warrant at least a major story in a major outlet investigating whether there’s fire.” Yet there aren’t any. At this point in the Biden presidency, Fox News was regularly asking “Who is actually in charge at the White House?”
The suggestion to call it "International Garfield Day" was rejected by one vote...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eTS...
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.
This is basically the plot of a Dukes of Hazzard episode.
ICYMI, some useful advice to us in Australia on tackling big tech, from @mariaressa.bsky.social - but has broader relevance. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Canada needs to start by ousting Postmedia. How can a sovereign nation subsidize a foreign-owned newspaper (semi-)monopoly that undermines its own duly elected government on a daily basis?
This cartoon is from the Ottawa convoy in February 2022, but it addresses a technique that's used daily on various media:
Finance Minister Nate Horner thinks 12% increase - over 4 years for teachers is too much. But he voted in favour of a ln immediate 14% living allowance increase for MLAs. Just sayin’…
When conspiracy ideation bumps up against psychological reactance.
From FB... This is the real consequence of a government that can't think past their first reaction. The UCP's book ban was poorly thought out, written & executed with unintended consequences that are disastrous. Everyone saw this coming but them. #abpoli #abed #cdnpoli
Our MP does the same, only from Oklahoma.
It's actually worse than that: bsky.app/profile/tzep...
Although they often had to pick people who weren't totally in their corner. Carney appears to have been extruded by a Conservative think tank. Or maybe a major bank...
And now the owners have their own dedicated Prime Minister, so there's no telling what will happen.
"We're going to need a bigger sharpie!"
Sadly, there's no evidence that UCP politicians read much of anything. 🤷♂️
"It's always worked before."
Just lay back & enjoy Canada's PM & Labour Minister telling us how much they support the labour movement. 🙄
We're not.
They're conformists with computers.
It's really weird here (Canada) too. Like, who are those people actually working for?
and the climate crisis
One of the victories of the "AI" industry is that the use of the word "intelligence" for their product has led to people conflating a massive appropriation of intellectual property for an database sorted and outputted with algorithms, with what actually happens in human brain, one artwork at a time.
Fascinating, thank you. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
OK who did this?💀😂
Of course, we'll need a larger house to keep our Royal Dalton collection.
The other thing we don't need regulation for is genetic engineering. It's kind of analogous, & both fields think they're going to get rich by building the next best Agent/Gene. I'm skeptical, because we haven't yet seen what kind of damage those things can do in the wild.
"Some shoppers committed to the Buy Canadian movement worry that if grocers face no repercussions, "maple washing" will persist." www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
You don't look a day older than 39k!
Same here. My take is that we could live in a country that works for everyone, without making Alberta into the lame country cousin in some weird American fantasy.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filling an IV bag from a murky puddle near Trump National's sixth tee. "The president needs parameciums," he tells the assembled media. "It's the only treatment proven to work in real testing." His golf cart is piled high with dozens of dead birds.
No way. RFK Jr needs his brain for "worm research".
A study of “whether and how public media systems contribute to the health of democracies in 33 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, North America, the Middle East, Latin America, and South America” showed that secure funding for public media supports democracy. www.niemanlab.org/2022/01/do-c... #CBC
Except all the bots are worms...
A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean
The problem isn’t refugees on boats. The problem is oligarchs hoarding obscene amounts of wealth while most people fight to stay afloat. Wages aren't tied to inflation, so the working class keeps falling behind no matter how hard they work.
As long as guns are easily available to crazy people, mass killings directed at so-called soft targets will continue. This is a fact. Countries where it's more difficult for crazy people to obtain guns have less shootings. This is also a fact. Do with these facts as you will.
An excellent explainer of Danielle’s political ambitions. “Smith’s politics represent an ideological project to “create Alberta’s little bastion of freedom and free enterprise”” We are her experiment. I’m not at all sure we won’t succumb.
Same.
Still, the government you're part of tried to break the Air Canada strike in a very obvious way. Actions speak louder than words.
This is not believable. Actions speak louder than words, and people are paying attention.
These fuckers tried to break the Air Canada strike after one day, while Bill C5, the Building Canada Act, is probably the greatest federal assault on labour in our lifetimes.
Leading genocide scholars organization says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza apnews.com/article/geno...
The #ForeverCanadian printing press just keeps printing…
We've basically given news aggregators like MS, MSNBC & Apple News an opening to serve news to Canadians, while undercutting our own news services. Well done, Canada!
I see this as well.
“The ongoing conflict and the Israeli government’s military actions have made famine a devastating reality for Palestinians in Gaza, and the crisis continues to grow.” Canada condemns Israel following official declaration of famine in Gaza
I'd say you're already seeing more women dying of pregnancy-related conditions. People watch this stuff & follow along as if it's some kind of normal change in how society works. It's not. This is antisocial Conservative & religious organizations spending decades to impose their beliefs on others.
I just hope they're not all backwards like this one.
In places with good bike infrastructure, cycling is a practical and natural way to get around, not a statement about fitness or the environment.
The best post I've seen this week applies: If your business requires theft to operate, you don't have a business, you have a criminal enterprise. (Evan May, @gianttourtiere.bsky.social)
Living in a kleptocracy is weird, because it gets harder & harder to separate business from, well, criminal enterprise.
My impression, as a white person: White people doing white people shit.
“Premier Smith apparently doesn’t seem to realize that if you’re accusing a school board of “vicious compliance” for trying to come up with a list of books that need to be banned in response to your own sloppily worded Ministerial Order, you’re revealing your own incompetence for all to see.”
Everyone has a story
And now time for an important question…
Weird. I wouldn't have noticed if you hadn't said something. 😜
I appreciate this guy's effort, but what can you say about this that hasn't already been said a zillion times before? Americans must know that this is a problem, they must know *why*, and they must know what steps must be taken to resolve it. Does telling them one more time accomplish anything?
LOVE THE BALLS ON MS. TINA SMITH JFKjr NEEDS TO BE INJECTED WITH IVERMECTIN AND BLEACH TO KILL THE BRAIN WORM THAT IS FEEDING ON HIS HEROIN ADDICTED MIND.
"Just wheel me into the Oval Office and put on that cd that I like." "No, not Barry Manilow, the other one..."
Oh man, that's so sad.
Danielle Smith and her ministers burrow deeper into their self-dug book-ban and bargaining holes. albertapolitics.ca/2025/08/dani... #ableg #abpoli #BookBans
🐥 need a political break ? 🐥 #Catsky #Dogsky #Kittens ♥️
#TeamCANADA, we need a large amount of signatures for the HOC to look at this petition. 🍁 Q- ...propose a bill to address the issue of perceived and actual misinformation being presented by MPs to the public www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
You know who’s polling well in Municipal Elections right now? Danielle Smith. She’s got everyone talking about the virtues of “independent vs party candidates” (I’ve seen no fewer than two posts this morning). We should be talking about issues that impact our daily lives, and leadership.
Urge the Canadian Government to Probe Elon Musk and Company X for Election Interference - Sign the Petition! chng.it/zbmqYMMBgF
Edmonton Alberta to start banning books in schools. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
"Wittfooth’s new solo exhibition, Deus Ex Terra at Corey Helford Gallery, features 19 new oil paintings on canvas, linen, or wood panels." www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/08/mart...
Damn you, literati!
New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors — by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit — helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...
A&W’s new Complicated Family Menu features Step-Mom Burger, Secret Cousin Burger
"President Trump must admit his mistake..." See, this is where I start to worry about whoever writes this stuff.
FFS this stupid bitch has to go! She has no desire to govern for all Albertans, she just wants to create her own empire. These are not conservatives, they're Christian Nationalists and not hiding it anymore. #FireDanielleSmith #FireTheUCP
“The number of orphan wells in need of cleanup nearly doubled over the last year to reach 3,388 compared to 1,719 the previous year.” CoolCoolCool
"Analysis has found drivers in the tallest cars could not see children as old as nine when they were directly in front of the vehicle."
Alberta sees a sky-high blow out in the cost to clean up orphan wells www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #abpoli #yyc #yql #yeg
Excellent question, and I'll bet they don't know the answer either.
Somebody has to do it. 🤷♂️
Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.
Little House on the Prairie and Deuteronomy.
AIMCo earns 2% first-half return as clients seek to reduce risk-taking - Globe & Mail. Another Danielle Smith boondoggle. A 2% return is well below the average return and one of the lowest returns for a money manager. Albertans are seeing their retirement and public reserves being eroded by AIMCo.
Tell me this is a joke, please? Orwell, Huxley, Attwood. What about Snyder, On Tyranny - or do they just have a problem with "novels"?
This is not the "first evidence" of the "Use it or Lose it" principle. There's lots of research into people losing their ability to read maps and navigate after GPS came out. This is some of the most recent www.nature.com/articles/s41...
