our elected officials think we're all children and we should be investing all of our available energy into putting the fear of God into them

Maybe I'm missing an important point, but the Ford gov's claim that "Landlords will lower rents if they can rent out more of their properties now that we've given them more power over tenants" feels like something you'd say if you'd never literally never heard of capitalism before in your life.

It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.

Wait, theres a law about saying fuck in Toronto parks? Lmao what

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

Gee, who could've predicted...

This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals

Pretty simple step for sports owners who want to cry poor and have public support/belief of that: Open the books

sounds like blue jays material to me!

Guy who gives himself 200 days off a year assumes someone else is unemployed

Every week living in Ontario is like - BREAKING: Doug Ford's government introduces bill that will let landlords evict you with no notice if you sneeze too loud - 10 protests about bill - Daily social media posts raising awareness - News interviews scared allergy sufferers - BREAKING: Bill passes

The Doug Ford government hates poor people and they should not be allowed to enter any business that employs minimum wage workers without being driven out by the staff in shame, and yes I am so serious about this. share.google/uziYkHKA57ob...

It's so fucking wild to dig deeper into deconstruction stuff, and work through the fucked up upbringing I had, and discover constantly how it's all so intertwined with the political reality of the world right now... Makes me feel crazy, because nobody outside of those circles really talks about it

The IBL has rebranded to the CBL (Canadian Baseball League) www.theibl.ca/news/a-new-e...

For me, "goodness" is related to how you treat people and much less to do with religion. Do you treat people as human beings deserving of care, compassion, and human rights? My parents cannot offer that even to their own children, let alone anyone outside of their insular religious group.

Is it any wonder that some of us leave? We've been hurt by the people who claim to love us, but we have to tell them constantly that their worldview is correct or else they withdraw what little support/affection they have. Their abusive, conditional love is the big secret we cannot say aloud.

When people disparage exvangelicals or anyone who has had to set firm boundaries with their evangelical parents I wish I could communicate how we were born into systems that we have no control over. The rules of the game are comply with the veneer of goodness, suffer silently, or leave.

The image of goodness that they cling to is what makes it so difficult to be in relationship with these folks. They only want to interact on their terms -- and those terms are that they are good people and their actions and beliefs are loving. Therefore they cannot listen or even apologize!

He (and other popular Christian writers, speakers, and pastors) also exported this way of being in the world to millions of people. So many of us exvangelicals struggle with this dichotomy in our own families. Every time we try and bring up how we have been hurt, we are met with dismissal.

The reason I am determined to expose people like Dr. Dobson is because he (and so many other evangelical men) tried to hide their abusive personalities behind the veneer of being good and godly people.

so glad Vin Scully died before he had to do an ad read for DraftKings boosted live parlay odds

Amidst two MLB players being criminally charged for colluding with gamblers, a reminder that in order to watch 9 MLB teams you need to watch a cable channel literally named after an online gambling app

People throw the phrase “nightmare blunt rotation” around pretty casually, but

paypal running ads about buying candles on installments feels like america interpreted that dril tweet as aspirational

...... definitely didn't see this coming, wow

Never seen it put this way and it's really powerful.

ALERT: The Goldeneye 64 pause song is the official end-of-period music at @pwhlgoldeneyes.bsky.social games

PLEASE tell every author you know about this!

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

It never stopped being February 2022 for these guys and they are on a desperate quest to recapture that energy.

‘Tis the season of me bugging PWHL teams and reminding them to please post their lineups, etc., on Bluesky, too. Ahem! #PWHL #TorontoSceptres @pwhlsceptres.bsky.social

Hi there, A Bluesky account you control posted content that violates our Community Guidelines related to Respectful Discourse by being both Funny and Correct in the direction of an impotent soul sucking tech bro. Best regards, Bluesky Moderation Team

Good and Cool that Canada’s fourth-largest province by population is run by a government infested with internet brain worms

Wait Gmail made it so you can't use labels and folders unless you turn on their AI that reads your emails? Man, fuck you.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

give grok the peace prize. put it on the cover of Time with the GREATEST TRIUMPH headline. it’s earned it all.

Amazing stuff

Just a little reminder for all my fellow people who come from toxic, enmeshed, and emotionally immature families: You deserve holidays that are comforting, nourishing, and are about good food and being around people you actually like being around. Full stop.

For my project STRONGWILLED we look at evangelical parenting and family life materials. So much of them cater to serial child predators in multiple ways but an important component of that is pressuring young women and teenagers to always, always forgive and forget those who abuse them. Always.

Things the Republican party will also say cause autism within the year based on this trajectory: -women working during pregnancy -women having right to vote (bad!) -not having Jesus in your life -current age of consent (too high!) -windmills, somehow

BREAKING: US Ambassador to Canada accuses Canada of meddling in US elections, states “Only we're allowed to do that shit.”

the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know

We had 69. The new generation only has 67. Shrinkflation is no joke.

"Agentic AI applications introduce novel security risks, such as cross-prompt injection (XPIA), where malicious content embedded in UI elements or documents can override agent instructions, leading to unintended actions like data exfiltration or malware installation."

So please, take care of yourselves and don't fall into manosphere shit like No Nut November or weird masculinity rituals. Be kinder, be gentler, be stronger for those who can't be strong, and let yourself feel weak when you need to be. Happy International Men's Day!

If your kneejerk reaction to IMD is to guffaw, or dismiss it as a parade to celebrate toxic masculinity, then fine, whatever. You weren't contributing much to societal discourse anyways. For everyone else, it's a day to remember that you aren't alone, and that we can all live better lives.

It's also about health, both physical and mental. It's about demanding athletes get proper treatment. It's about destigmatizing asking for help lifting the box that fucks up your back in front of the guys. It's about getting that prostate exam because cancer is real.