Final sentence of this post is an entire fucking thesis

Weird how Doug Ford just Keeps Showing Up in cases of random Ontario corruption and self-dealing elites, like in this story about a construction union head who got the union to buy him a 4-million dollar home. Gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/8363bd6... (via @loanseyjonesy.bsky.social)

Well...at least they used the verb "claims." That's at least sort of progress. Also, if you didn't know, AI Detection tools are snake oil. They have an abysmal track record for false positives.

Israeli genocide scholar Omer Bartov will have his book on Zionism and genocide translated into 9-10 languages, but not Hebrew. He even offered to translate it himself, but not a single Israeli publisher would go near it. Not even the ‘leftwing’ ones. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Proper capitalization in hashtags prevents confused semantics and screen readers.

🚙🪫🔋 CATL, the world’s largest battery maker, has unveiled a new battery that rivals gas station fill-up times—capable of charging from 10% to 80% in just 3 minutes and 44 seconds. It also reportedly retains “over 90% of its original health after 1,000 ultra-fast charging cycles.” #EV

lovely tribute by bluesky to the 28.8k dialup modem. a single image could take minutes

flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.

"The requirement that women have their sex invasively monitored legitimizes the fantasy that men are trying to pass as women to win women's sports & validates interrogation against women whose bodies/lives aren't gender-conforming." @moiradonegan.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite!"

This is also a good excuse to switch on the setting that reminds you to write some alt-text when posting an image.

The Americans sure don’t see the world or themselves the way we do. They look at these figures and say “He’s underwater! Alarm bells ring for his presidency!” Everyone else says ruefully, “One in three Americans still supports this bullying, dangerous, demented, self-destructive regime.”

Okay, the funniest response to the news of @theonion.com getting InfoWars is seeing Jay Johnston's wife claiming that Tim Heidecker snitched on her husband to the FBI, as though thousands of people hadn't already been like "Is that Jay Johnston at January 6th?" online before Tim said anything.

thinking abt this bc there is currently a controversy on tiktok where people are misreading and spreading a statistic from this article, saying that 62 million men were either in or interested in a telegram chat about drugging and raping their female partners when really it was like 1000 people max

This was an FOI request from advocay group Safe Parkside - exactly the kind of information Ford wants to hide.

How To Live A Good Life #oldknees

The power is down in my neighbourhood, and apparently only about 10% of drivers know that means you treat every intersection with no lights as a four way stop. Complete chaos out there.

I worked for the Canadian Armed Forces in the early days of the Afghanistan operation, and man…I’ve never had so many vaccines. It took repeated visits, over several days, to get them all done. It sucked, but I understood. A disease-ridden force isn’t great in a fight.

You're looking at velvet malachite, Cu2CO3(OH)2. A few warnings: Please resist the urge to touch it to feel how soft it is. Absolutely /do not/ lick it. Keep far away from any Supermen. If a wingéd creature emerges, do not agree to any pacts. Let's talk about the science here.

Congratulations to Tim Apple, ass-kisser.

If you haven't been to Billy Bishop Airport or don't spend time on that section of the waterfront, you might not realize that thousands of people live 500 metres or so from the runway. Here's what expanding it could mean to them: www.thestar.com/news/gta/wha...

Feel like it should be a bigger story that Howard Lutnick's firm (run by his kids) created a financial product to buy up tariff refund claims at a major discount, and will now be cashing in on the higher costs passed onto consumers.

It will also make nicotine harm reduction efforts harder (because that’s what vaping and other smokeless products are)

So now that the far right is latching on to the conspiracy theory that Trump faked his assassination attempt (with the help of Israel for an antisemitic angle), maybe it’s time for the left to finally drop this goofy idea?

No one has ever accused Doug of this

All those "show us what you looked like ten years ago" or "show your green art/animal art/art of women" memes are being used to train AI

It bears repeating that historically, the #1 thing that keeps people alive in hard times and disasters is “the ability to play well with others”

Thinking about that lady in South Texas who shot and killed her Latino Uber driver because she saw a turnoff for Juarez and immediately assumed she was being human trafficked

Dudes who actually buy into manosphere bullshit love to go on about biological/gender essentialism and The Natural Order, but when you tell 'em "So where's the problem, most males in the animal kingdom never get a chance to procreate, I guess your genes must be inferior" suddenly there's an issue :V

10 years ago my buddies in Dayton made a joke FB event that said Limp Bizkit was playing a surprise show at a gas station. It broke containment and became national news. Happy 10th birthday, Limp Bizkit Gas Station Show ”hoax.” www.theverge.com/2016/4/20/11...

It's funny these guys will project things like this but then not make the next step and think about what Verizon profits look like in a world where 20-30% of workers have nothing but time to sit around thinking about destroying all robots

Two days later, and the ADL has yet to comment on the US Secretary of Defense talking about the "Pharisee press." They sure found the time to talk about Hasan Piker, though.

Everybody will have their own ways of handling this. You should do whatever works, there's no right way (unless the way that works for you is to put poison in the city water system or something. Anyway, I say out loud "Yes, it's going to be terrible. Doing it anyway." And then I start writing.

I wonder if the brain worms feel good, like a little massage inside your head

Sometimes, you read an idea that so clearly sums up an experience that you didn't know you were having, repeatedly. At every work place. For all of time. Thanks @maxread.info for the glimpse into the human experience. I feel seen.

Palantir is also claiming in this same statement that Germany went too far in constructing its postwar identity around guilt for the Holocaust, which is the exact narrative that the German far-right is running on and winning in elections.

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

I swear to God that when I wrote the below skeet about popular Domino's mascot "The Noid" driving someone into violent paranoia, I did NOT know that a version of it really happened?!?!? What the fuck???? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Noi...

Excited to attend the ribbon-cutting for the next segment of California’s solar canal initiative later this month in Hickman. Imagine generating solar power over 4,000 miles or so canals across the state. A lot of Sierra and Colorado River water to save via avoided evaporation.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Props to the WSJ, they managed to pack almost every Trump decision-making pathology into a single story. It’s all here: 1) Short attention span 2) Impulsive behavior 3) Knowledge deficits 4) Gambling for resurrection 5) Belief in the madman theory www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

in general, & across the world, the political gender divide really opens up around 2016 wonder if something happened then?

this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990

Wrote a thing yesterday. forward.com/opinion/8195...

To put this in stark context, 3 years ago, this number was inverted. In 2023, 75% of Canadians viewed the US as a "friend or valued ally." It only took several months to undo what took over a century of friendship building to create. Repairing this isn't something that will be solved in a few years.

Why we have a housing problem in Canada.

in a lot of ways Mamdani uses Obama messaging to push Sanders policy.