“The last provincial budget left a gaping hole of $3 billion in funding..[for]...the public health care system,” @alonghurst.bsky.social said. “At the same time...the provincial government [is] somehow finding the money for private for-profit health care facilities." globalnews.ca/news/1185573...

Gotta love the casual dismissal of the entire economic basis of the internet. Like "people will no longer click through to anything, AI will visit websites for them!" Is the AI also going to impulse buy a bayeux tapestry christmas tree ornament while it's there? If not, there's a problem.

"Are we the baddies, and have we always been the baddies, and are we now being treated like Meta livestock just like we always treated everybody else"

The Supreme Court of Canada will hear British Columbia's appeal of a ruling that found the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the provincial mineral claims regime are "inconsistent."

remember when Google offered unlimited digital storage to colleges and universities and then when adoption reached the right levels rescinded that promise, capped everything, and started pricing those services without the subsidies? idk man just something I think about a lot

“I Cannot Let These Doctrines Be The Face of My Education”: Elizabethtown (PA) Students Protest Book Bans This is a moving and honest piece from a high schooler who has been protesting book bans in her school–and the defunding of their library–for months. bookriot.com/elizabethtow...

A) people are absolutely sick of data centers and this kind of thing is going to get worse if steps aren't taken now. b) Said steps will have to include *Not Letting Data Center Companies Sue Towns Out Of Existence If They Don't Get Their Way*. I mean seriously how the fuck is this allowed?

My favourite undiagnosed ADHD mindtrip is when a kid who's great at remembering interesting facts is told they have a great memory. As if semantic, autobiographical, and working memory are all the same thing, and strength in one must mean weakness in another is *just laziness*.

Value(s): ✅ Military spending ✅ Oil and gas subsidies ✅ AI infrastructure ✅ Privatizing public assets ✅ Hosting soccer ❌ Pharmacare ❌ Climate action ❌ Funding research agencies ❌ Clean water for Indigenous communities

David Anderson, who played a major role in getting Canada’s Species at Risk Act passed in 2002, is the third former Liberal environment minister to criticize Mark Carney’s proposed changes. @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

I don't believe in a society where you have a first amendment right to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on buying an election but you don't have a first amendment right to give food to the hungry

"In retrospect, the speech was the first sign that Schmidt had begun talking to 'Mad' Mike Hughes about securing a place on one of his rocket tests. Dental records would later show..."

This bird probably speaks French. It has strong opinions about the work of Salvador Dalí. Let's meet the Inca tern (Larosterna inca), so-named because their native range matches the area of the Inca Empire. We're going to HAVE to talk about that mustache first... (📷: San Diego Zoo & Safari Park)

Skill #1 for a prospective politician is likeability. Skill #2 is a very strong memory for details about people. It's very strange that we've moved into an era of politics where failing miserably at both of these is not considered exclusionary.

On Monday, ICE agents bashed in the door of a 31-year-old Tucson woman who is a DACA recipient and detained her. She has no known criminal record and moved here at age 1. From the story, it seems ICE is still acting as if they don't need a judicial warrant to enter a home. tucson.com/news/local/b...

It's completely horrifying that the federal government is spending money on legal cases to argue that it's not obligated to provide people with clean water. The fact that it's been ongoing for so long should not distract us from the surreal repugnance of the government's choices here.

Everyone needs to read this thread ESPECIALLY if you think nah, this isn’t relevant for me (looking at you, cis men of all ages)

Morrie would like to kindly remind you to take a nap before you go burn it all down. Health first.

There is no non-nefarious purpose for instituting this kind of system.

The entire idea of an NDA to prevent the world from learning you've done terrible things is in and of itself an ethical hellhole, but trying to punish an abuse victim over it like this is beyond loathsome. I just cannot with this dude. This fucking fuck. Christ.

This whole thing of the entire global economy now being based solely on gullible fascists selling each other magic beans would be much funnier if the global economy wasn't how I feed, clothe, and house myself.

There is a program in Massachusetts where juvenile offenders are sentenced to performing Shakespeare traumaresearchfoundation.org/lets-get-to-...

The Sorcerer is a divisive piece of cave art. Henri Breuil found and sketched it in the 1920s, claiming it is the first depiction of a god, but many argue his drawing doesn't reflect the weathered paint. Yet some say it depicts something real. Something the people of this cave worshipped, or feared.

I think there's a seed of a good thesis statement in there of "the problem is not poor character, there are systematic issues students cannot solve themselves." But then acting as if professors are not at the mercy of exactly the same systematic issues?

The main reason to not have brunch with facists is *because they're facists*, but one of the secondary reasons is it biases you to think of them as "the dude who always gets a denver omelette" instead of "the dude who thinks fewer black people should vote."

It always seems like the people wanting me to freak out about declining birth rates are the same ones wanting me to freak out about immigration, and you can't have it both ways without being hella racist. There can either be a "too few people" crisis or a "too many people" crisis, not both.

The only appropriate response to meeting bison up close:

Whose dead are cherished and whose are commodified? Thinking about that question this morning as I read about the recent renovation of the tomb of Sir Richard Francis Burton and think about the African human remains he sold, which still sit in museum storage… 🧵

The thing that makes this seem implausible to me is not the technology, but the economics. This vision doesn't include any shitty monetization features... and when's the last time we were allowed to have some new tech without them?

It is a poor understanding of UBI to think of it as just some money. That's not what it is, and the reason we don't have UBI yet is because the people in power know what it is — the power to say no. UBI is a redistribution of power. It's frustrating to see people who should know that, not know that.

The annual Forced Birth March to Strip Canadians of Reproductive Rights happened in Ottawa yesterday. Their propaganda still centres on Canada treating abortion like a health issue, not a legal issue. But the devastating harms caused by anti-abortion laws in the US show us what bullshit that is.

Vancouver is trying again to get fossil fuels back into new homes. Please tell them to stop by clicking below. @stand.earth

I had a commenter on one of my posts insist that it's impossible that Mark Carney is worse for the climate than Harper was, and having taken the time to respond at length, I thought I should share that as a thread because it's clearly not just one person operating under that false belief. 🧵1/

Trudeau avoided fossil awards at COP conferences by providing quality lip service while still making Canada the only G7 member whose emissions kept going up while the others all declined. 19/

What can we take from this? Did PM Carney get played, is he a terrible negotiator, or was he looking for an excuse to dismantle Canada's climate progress without paying a political price? Bottom line: PM Carney is making Canada a more toxic, economically vulnerable place - just like Pres. Trump

Fort Covington, NY - "It was so unfathomable that our children were seeing these boxes and hearing children screaming in these boxes," said Herne, a parent and a member of the tribal community. "I cried, I threw up and I immediately grabbed my laptop and said, What are we going to do?"

I find that percentages tend to really misrepresent the severity of problems when it comes to language. "This list of words makes up 95% of English written text! Master these to master English!" 5% is 1/20. Have you ever tried to read a text where 1 word out of every 20 is gibberish? Exhausting.

The Ontario government strip mines/will strip mine its social programs so it can push everyone and everything towards privatization as much as they can and AI is just going to help the governments to do more of that

This is a good thread, though I do not agree with “fear”. The statistical slop machine will never be able to match a dedicated human wordsmith; the problem is greedy corporations/publishers attempting to use said slop to further exploit/starve/indenture us.

This is just... such a weirdly unforced error for a career politician? Like, you actually don't have to convince the 10yo to back your energy policy. You just go "Thank you for taking the time to write to me, it's so important for young people to get involved in the political process, blah blah."

Exactly right. This isn't a challenge artists have to respond to, it's an ugly expression of bigotry from a billionaire. This is his problem, not theirs. Leave them out of it.

If it has more than six sides, it's probably a very large gem. You're in an old-fashioned adventure story. Or a noir novel if anyone nearby could be described as "a dame".

Elon Musk knows that any person hatched from an egg as the result of a god turning into a swan to have bird sex with a mortal woman must necessarily be white, it's in the rules

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a 13th-14th century seal depicting a squirrel encircled by the words I CRAKE NOTIS ('i crack nuts')

Clearly, there should be some rules.

ICYMI: “Several new wildfire starts in B.C.’s Coastal Fire Centre are believed to have been caused by lightning strikes after recent thunderstorms rolled in.” vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/05/13/b... - @citynewsvancouver.bsky.social #AlouetteLake #BCWildfire #ChehalisLake #HarrisonHotSprings