oh happy memories! my dad was not the most active or engaged parent, but he showed me how to fly across a body of water alright 😆

I heard about this the other day but I didn't know she did it LIVE AS A POWER RANGER. 🙌

we need more allies doing stuff like this instead of sharing screenshots of content by white supremacists

NEW from Important Context: Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S. www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...

Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale on blowing up “commies” and their gravesites: “Exactly. What do you think founding Palantir was supposed to be about?”

💯 I mean, where I come from, it's all: lobster drowning in butter, scallops drowning in butter, and the entire maritime food chain drowned in the creamy broth of a chowder. +1 for quirky Maritime pre-modernism I guess!

> An investigative journalist has infiltrated the white supremacist dating website WhiteDate and exfiltrated over 8,000 profiles and 100GB of data. Photos and other sensitive details have been made public, and the full “WhiteLeaks” data is available cybernews.com/security/inv...

monday comin'

I try to keep this shit out of my timeline with judicious blocking and unfollowing, but it's unavoidable today: the evil empire is horrifically steamrolling the sovereignty of yet another sovereign jurisdiction, and has kidnapped its elected leader, and a not-insignificant number of Americans +

The thing about the "Maduro is a brutal dictator to be sure" caveats is, what does that have to do with anything? Do you think the US military cares if someone is a brutal dictator? Are you nine?

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Decided in this moment to reread some Galeano. First page: “The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.”

how do I sign up for the orca resistance army

Made a new playlist

Every single year our annual road safety report duly notes that this is specifically the most common cause of pedestrians being struck. A green light for drivers combined with pedestrian movements has terrible, regular consequences for victims.

They gentrified the tinfoil hat

Again for thr folks in the back: Alt Text is NOT a caption or a comment. (I am on the editorial team for a peer-reviewed journal and we struggle to get non-caption alt text out of our contributors!)

catholicism, the religion best-known for its embrace of the free market. many people do not know this but the Pope's primary job is to make needles large enough for the rich to get into heaven through

As someone that struggles with a delusional disorder, and spent a few years in a psychosis hell-hole, I am fairly convinced that I would have been manipulated into being a genuine threat to myself and others were ChatGPT a thing I could have interacted with pre-Therapy. It is a murder machine.

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If you want to get into drawing in 2026, here is what you need: Steal printer paper from your mom. Steal a pen from your bank. Steal a pencil from the CLUE game in the closet. Ta-da! Now you can draw.

I've waited 3 years to make this post

'Chutter Manzil Palace, with the King’s Boat in the Shape of a Fish on the Gomti River' Felice Beato, 1858

glad to be back home in halifax

These parents killed their child and we need to say it

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Side note: Sinatra’s mom Natalina “Dolly” Garaventa, a midwife by trade, ran an underground free abortion clinic, chained herself to a fence to fight for women’s suffrage and was an extremely influential organizer for the Democratic Party www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eamo...

Happy holidays from your furiends at the zoo ✨ Thanks to Keeper Megan and Keeper Ali for the holiday pics!

The problem with TVs getting so big is that now the fireplace channel is terrifying.

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was present at the end of the universe, having witnessed every black hole evaporate and every proton decay. Even so, Death would not come.

Incredibly moving interview with Sydney philosophy professor Peter Slezak, son of Holocaust survivors. “Recognising Palestine was the right thing to do - in fact it was long overdue. How on earth can that be connected to two mass murders who commit an atrocity?”

Just discovered a painting that really hit me, especially here in the Christmas season. For those not Christian, after Christ was born, Mary and Joseph had to flee to Egypt to protect their baby from political persecution.

This is horrifying but also an important reminder of how LLMs dredge the worst / most reactive parts of the zeitgeist and reify them. I clearly remember MacIsaac being slagged (using all the epithets you might imagine) in the 90s for being queer and (gasp!) a public figure.

Time to pay back some of that pilfered EI money, maybe?

the empire itself is like "how do i open pdf"

Millennials have been training for this since teenagehood lfg

I'm sorry, no, this is definitely a small child's drawing of a fantastical creature, not microscopy.

🚨 Don't eat uncooked snake! Your eyes & lungs can be parasitized by pentastomids, which are a CRUSTACEAN. Adults lack so many features that they weren't believed to be arthropods at all until their DNA was sequenced (and sperm morphology, but that was not widely accepted). Yet, they are! #Crustmas 🧪

Yesterday I saw a bunch of drivers on Lacewood doing their best to honk/obstruct to stop somebody from turning up the 102 off-ramp 😵‍💫 Luckily they succeeded.

Sinéad O'Connor Dublin, Ireland Anton Corbijn, 1987

new scam going around where they hire you for a job but pay you less than the value your labor produced

Following the third night of Hanukkah we honor Arna Mer-Khamis (1929-1995) Z’’L. Arna was born to Lithuanian Jewish settlers in British occupied Palestine. She was a teacher and activist who founded the organization, Defense of Children under Occupation/Care and Learning during the First Intifada.

On the first night of Hanukkah, we hold close the memory of movement ancestor Marek Edelman (1919-2009) Z’’L, a lifelong anti-Zionist who fought in and survived the Warsaw Ghetto, resisted Nazism, and maintained his identity as a Polish Jew, refusing to immigrate to occupied Palestine.

On night 2 we remember Naeim Giladi (1926-2010) Z’’L, an Iraqi author known for his work Ben Gurion’s Scandals: How the Haganah and Mossad Eliminated Jews.

Since European colonization, North America has lost 9–11 billion birds. • ~5–6 billion before 1940 • ~1–2 billion from 1940–1970 • ~2.9 billion since 1970 The quiet collapse of abundance is how the Sixth Mass Extinction is playing out: fewer wings, fewer songs.

"For people with heart disease, the flu vaccine should be presented not merely as protection against a respiratory illness, but as a proven cardiovascular intervention to reduce heart attacks and strokes."

French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations. All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin

Barton describing possible successors to Trudeau: Carney is “progressive but more centrist.” Freeland is “trying to pull away from the left” before concluding: “I don’t know where everyone would be situated.” You are CBC’s CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT.