The BBC, quite consciously, sets out to demean and belittle trans people. This is both morally contemptible and in breach of its Charter obligations. We've made it super easy for you to write to the BBC and tell it to stop. Please use - and share with your networks. goodlaw.social/2j5q

Borders should delineate legal sovereignty but should not be barriers to movement.

It's telling that they think "obsessiveness" is something generated by the structure of a piece of media; as a thing they can game. Here in reality, people obsess over media because it has earned their investment by giving them something meaningful (emotionally or intellectually).

Two updates. I don't know how many more I will have to make. If I'm eventually banned, you'll know why.

“This budget is basically just ’Trust me bro.’” Vancouver city councillors got an earful Wednesday and Thursday from residents opposed to a proposed budget that would freeze property taxes and is expected to increase fees and cut services. @jenstden.bsky.social reports. #vanpoli

A small, oily fish at the heart of B.C.’s coastal food web will likely disappear without an immediate moratorium on commercial herring fishing, say Saanich First Nations Hereditary Chiefs and conservation groups. Judith Lavoie reports. #bcpoli

this is a far more explicit death threat from people with the actual means to carry it out

This is rape culture. This is why so many people don’t come forward. A young girl was being bullied at school by a boy who made AI generated nudes of her. She told the principal. She told the guidance counsellor. They didn’t stop it. Finally she hit the boy responsible, and SHE got expelled:

While PM Carney’s fast-tracking initiative has been touted as a response to U.S. President Trump’s trade war, critics have pointed out the projects are largely backed by foreign-owned corporations — and include substantial U.S. investment. @amandafollett.bsky.social reports. #uspoli #canpoli #LNG

You know why we can’t make any progress on climate change in #Canada? Because Environment Canada brings fossil fuel lobbyists to COP30 Latest @desmog.com #cdnpoli www.desmog.com/2025/11/13/i...

Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.

It's wild to me how people still get annoyed at polite requests for a link or more information on social media. "You can't even be bothered to look it up yourself? Lazy!" But an informed other human is a much more reliable source of information now than a search is.

a phenomenon i find kind of darkly fascinating is that people who enriched themselves unethically think people who made a moral choice are stupid for doing so

Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics" guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation

Another issue with "vibes-based" age of consent: perceptions of "maturity" are impacted by things like race, body shape, and other factors that have *nothing to do* with whether someone is capable of consenting.

I'm reminded of the rampant cheating that takes place in online chess. There is literally no reason to play chess on an amateur website with strangers *other than* the joy of learning and improving at chess. And yet large numbers of people play... and then cheat themselves of that joy.

Started watching MURDERBOT and now I don't wanna go to work, I just want to watch MURDERBOT, which is pretty much the plot of MURDERBOT.

In lieu of the film business falling apart, some people have been saying to write your "fuck it" script. I don't know if that was the inspiration for this one, but it sure looks like 100 percent, pure "fuck it" to me. Which is a good thing.

Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it. He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted. Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.

Every Veteran’s Day I think about Leonard Matlovich’s headstone.

It’s insane to treat the filibuster as the most sacrosanct. Article 1 power of the purse, oversight, and war? Nah. Emoluments clauses? Bribery prohibition? Meh. Criminal law? 14A? Doesn’t count. But maybe the Senate changes a rule it has multiple times before? Gasp! Not that. Anything but that.

No proof will ever be enough for the denialists but here’s yet another example of the thing they say isn’t happening - children’s remains being returned to their families. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

U.S. Dems: "We *have* to give in. If we keep using the filibuster, they'll take away the filibuster, and then we won't be able to use the filibuster!" It's like deciding not to use your hammer to pound in nails because that might break the hammer.

i dont think there’s ever been a point where corporate america has had a sincere sense of morality but it is probably a sign of the times that the culture at most major firms does not even pretend to encourage ethical behavior anymore. the transformation is really stark in tech.

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

There's a reason why it's possible to, say, get lost a short distance from the Appalachian trail and not be able to find it again. We all know what direction the sun rises and sets in, sure, but that's not super helpful when you *can't see the sky*.

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

The International Olympic Committee is set to ban trans and intersex women from competition. This is despite the fact that for 20 years, the IOC has allowed trans athletes to compete and only 1 has ever competed and none have ever won a medal. www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...

Canada has just lost measles elimination status. The U.S. will undoubtedly follow shortly. Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer. Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.

I’m honestly shocked that this story from @globalnews.ca has flown under the radar. Confirmation that Amit Shah, the second-most powerful man in the Indian government, was directly involved in the assassinations on Canadian soil. globalnews.ca/news/1151469...

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

Just a reminder, that possibly the oldest piece of palaeoart dates to the Neolithic. The petroglyphs of horned characters with trumpets, recorded on the same rock as a ornithischian footprints (Zagaje Formation) in Poland, might be an early reconstruction of the Jurassic tracemaker.

There's an interesting question to raise here about what, exactly, Vance thinks "the law" is. They will not comply with the judgment of the courts, instead they will comply with "the law"... so he does not think "the law" has anything to do with the legal system.

My favourite part of the robotics hype cycle is when video of a new tech demo starts going around, and the comments are full of swoon, but all it really demonstrates is that we are grossly underestimating how complicated it is to do some basic physical task.

I don’t have to read this piece to know that women are getting blamed for all the ways men made work worse to punish women for entering their workplaces. Stagnated or declining wages? Gig work? Sexual harassment? All reflective of men’s hostility to women in public life.

The double splitscreen shot from 1:13-1:42 is one of the most insane shots created during the photochemical era. You’ve got a real woman fondling Maroon and Valiant at both ends of the shot, with the woman’s body hidden by splitscreens that run along the edges of the fluted columns in the BG…

"All hot dog stands will be replaced with goat meat stands." hold up. tell me more about that

For years Canada pointed to private refugee sponsorship as the future of resettlement - a model to be emulated elsewhere. Canada is cutting private refugee sponsorship by about 30%: www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...

#lostpainting #StPancras #London if anyone finds or comes across this painting, it would be lovely to reunite it with the owner.

What establishment Dems tried to do to Mamdani, the BC NDP successfully did to Anjali Appadurai. She was poised to win the leadership race by actually getting people to join the party. The old guard didn't like that, so they crushed the next generation to maintain their grip on power.

If your party can only be in power as long as you actively disenfranchise a sizeable number of your citizens because of where they happen to live... you already shouldn't be in power.

We've found DHS is giving local cops a new facial recognition app to find immigrants. Point camera at face, tells the cop to detain person or not. The app is available on Google's Play Store. Google took down apps that report ICE sightings but now hosts this app www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...

NEWS RELEASE: “Prime Minister Carney’s first budget reads like a war plan against people and the planet." Budget 2025 underscores the federal government's continued trajectory of focusing on industrial development at the expense of people, public services and the environment. #CDNpoli #Budget2025

Republicans running anti-trans hatefests lost and Zohran Mamdani is a hugely vocal supporter of trans and other LGBTQ rights. That is MASSIVELY important to look at and run on. Roll around in all this & soak it in. This is the good shit, & it should be celebrated. And then it should be Built on.

budget.canada.ca/2025/report-... While there are a couple hundred mentions of Indigenous people, it's all genuflection - little substantial. Look past this fiscal year, and it's all zeroes... where do they think we're going?