hey that’s me! i support the 2026 budget because i love money and i hate vancouver and i hate this city! wealthy ppl plz dm me for my email im now taking e-transfers to speak up more against the welfare of the people and to advocate for better tax rates for rich ppl

Cyclothymia sounds like a mystical place in a Greek epic

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

Can anyone help with id? A fungus parasitizing another fungus. PNW. Hardwood log. The parasitized fungus is Lumpy Bracket (Trametes gibbosa). Other fungus growing on it is dry and hard to the touch, so not a slime mold? #mycology #fungi #mushrooms

My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

I still remember my anthropology professor’s favorite joke from college: “What did Watson and Crick discover?” “Rosalind Franklin’s notes.”

Best time of year. The dogs get bored waiting for me to take eleventy jillion photos of all the mushrooms, slimes and lichens that suddenly appear. #fungifriday

Pierrot, by Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1718-19, 📸 by @andyharnik

AND HE WAS LIKE, BUT NOT MY FACE, RIGHT? AND I WAS LIKE WELL IT'S A FACE, SO

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Dick Cheney dies, Zohran Mamdani wins, a beaver moon shines in the sky… I just know the Etsy witches have been busy.

Fun fact: if you're looking for space opera novels written by cisgender women, trans, and non-binary authors, I've got a handy spreadsheet just for you! I've maintained this list for several years, and it's still growing! #sciencefiction #books Give it a look. Bookmark it! tiny.cc/spaceoperali...

Agent Lairmore is done with his testimony. Prosecution asked further about the condiments and he said there was mustard on his uniform and an onion hanging on his radio antenna. Don’t think defense was going for a pun when she called him a “seasoned officer,” but you never know…

Hey everyone! Can I get 50 reposts for this program? It would mean a lot! www.jccsf.org/event/michae... #RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth

🆄🅽🆂🅰🅵🅴 🅸🅽 🆃🅷🅴 🆆🅾🆁🅺🅿🅻🅰🅲🅴 how the CBC forced me to resign over COVID and why we’re all worse off for it—especially our kids a 🧵 (on the occasion of my son’s [5th] and the CBC’s [89th] shared birthday, nov. 2) 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 [links to referenced articles in ALT text]

I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees And this here AI junk is just worse NFTs

Who did this?

Babe Ruth was one of the greatest baseball players in history. He revolutionized the sport with his homerun hitting but he may have never found his way to baseball immortality if not for a priest from Cape Breton. This is the story of Brother Matthias. 🧵 1/8

To be fair, Ireland hasn't had a female president since the two they had before the last one.

Floof Lump 🥹 #FloofLump #Arachtober #EmotionalSupportSpood (Hamataliwa grisea)

For Vancouver friends!

honestly i'm kind of in awe at this company ngl like in any other country remodeling the symbol of the nation that is owned by the country would be a multiyear effort with massive research and contingency plans and remediations and etc and these mad lads just let jimmy go nuts with a backhoe

Looking to connect with a Canadian health reporter. Several provinces, are no longer offering the COVID vaccine to kids under 12. This decision needs public attention. DM if you're interested in covering the story. #cdnpoli #covid19 #healthnews

Fucking rad. Given Anchorage's population dude is probably an actual bush pilot, too

Hey Bluesky followers who think that local gov't should do things to make the city better, like vote FOR affordable housing, FOR active transportation, FOR renter protections etc: come to a little fundraiser on Thursday & meet some like-minded #NewWest folks! www.communityfirstnw.ca/burgers_beve...

There seems to be a concerted, coordinated effort from the White House and various governmental agencies to join Bluesky en masse prior to the "No Kings" protest and flood the zone. A reminder that the Trump admin is monitoring social media platforms to find excuses to revoke visas:

I've received an 'exclusive' invite to try Nature's new 'research assistant', which will burn down a forest to provide a 'summary of the paper' I'm reading and I have SUCH exciting news for them, that's called an 'abstract' and the actual authors already wrote it for me, no forest-burning required.

📣 Job alert! 📣 The Narwhal is offering a one-year fellowship for an Indigenous journalist in B.C., in collaboration with the Indigenous Journalists Association and IndigiNews. See the post for more details — applications are due Nov. 2. Spread the word! thenarwhal.bamboohr.com/careers/40?s...

🚨 EXTRA! EXTRA! Freshet News is now online 🚨 🗞️ We’re bringing local news back to New Westminster, Burnaby and the Tri-Cities! 👉 Visit freshetnews.ca #newwest #newwestminster #burnaby #tricitiesbc #coquitlam #portcoquitlam #portmoody #anmore #belcarra #news #localnewsmatters #journalism

Read my words. Ty.

We’ve reported extensively on how the FDA allowed foreign drugmakers to send generic medications to the U.S. from factories with filthy labs and contaminated equipment. This month, we’re digging deeper and could use your help. THREAD/

Journalist here I’m interested in talking to a federal agency scientist who was fired, then rehired. I can keep you anonymous. I’m on Signal ginnyg.04 Reposts are appreciated!

Alberta government to ban the number 58,008 in schools

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

Here’s the SIDS mortality graph 1991-2021. Babies who recently recovered from a respiratory infection are believed to be at a heightened risk of SIDS. RFK Jr wants to make this line go up and to the right (Enlarge: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/core/lw/2.0/...)

My personal timeline is full of autistic people trying to explain that there isn't more autism than before, it's just that we're better at detecting it, and there's nothing more autistic than hoping explaining something at length will help matters when nobody is really listening.

As other people have stated, postal service in Canada is a essential public service. Gutting and privatising Canada Post is not the only answer. It is shameful mismanagement and lack of forward thinking and flexibility that allowed an institution that has connected Canadians and communities to fail.

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

Every now and then I get reminded that this song exists. So for all the trans people out there suffering from family rejection, fear, hate, and wishing they had an accepting family, here's a song for you with lots of feels. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tils...

ah hell yeah, Free Shoes Day

Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate https://theonion.com/left-wing-group-too-disorganized-for-fbi-agents-to-infi-1848923025/

TLDR: Ben Mulroney DONATED nearly the maximum allowable amount to the Conservative Party of Canada — and is now the interim host of one of Canada’s top political shows. I’ve got the receipts:

Sally, are you not familiar with the concept of rhetorical violence?

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board:

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

I’m glad so many people have found my “capybara method” for how to write alt text and image descriptions helpful! However, I know conflicting access needs exist and not everyone can write their own #AltText, so here’s an ongoing thread of tools that can help. Inclusion in thread ≠ endorsement

Attention #AcademicSky Everyone is talking about books, but thousands of academic journals were also pirated and are entitled to up to $3,000 *per pirated volume!!!* if editors submit titles to join the suit. Incredible opportunity for underfunded journals to get some $$! #SkyStorians #MedievalSky