"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani will be the next mayor of New York City after running on a platform centered on making the city affordable for working people.

There are more of us than there are of them.

This past year alone, the 10 richest people in the U.S. got nearly $700 billion wealthier. Meanwhile, over 40% of the population is now poor or low-income. The Trump administration is accelerating an American oligarchy that’s been getting worse for decades. THREAD 🧵

Homey literally said "touch mass"

Those Ring of Fire ads during World Series broadcasts might have you thinking mines are up and running in the remote region in northern Ontario, but that's not the case and the Ford government should be upfront about it, writes @elaineanselmi.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/opinion-blue...

NEW: Vehicles registered to Doug Ford's cabinet ministers have been caught by automated speed cameras more than 20 times. In one case, they were driving 70 in a 40 zone. On average, they were 17 over the limit. #OnPoli globalnews.ca/news/1146373...

Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year.

This is so bleak: www.404media.co/a16z-is-fund...

We’re at a learn to skateboard event

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

Doug Ford’s Ontario Govt plan to ban bike lanes “is ripped from the business lobby’s wish list…Ford’s war on bikes is more than a vendetta—it’s a gift to corporate lobbyists.” It’ll make Ontario’s cities weaker, less competitive, more polluted, & more dangerous for everyone. AND the traffic worse.

The Ford government has announced plans to shred a bunch of tenant protections: news.ontario.ca/assets/files... (pdf, see p. 13-15)

Notice how it’s always, “the Bible must inform our laws!” until it comes to the +2,000 verses in the Bible that discuss the generous use of wealth and possessions in a way that prioritizes the needs of the poor, this sick, the stranger, the vulnerable, and the oppressed.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

As many Canadians reckon with their country’s history, a loud and organized group of people continues to minimize and deny the harm residential schools and other colonial policies did to Indigenous Peoples. thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

In 2015, Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission issued ninety-four Calls to Action for repairing the Crown’s relationship with Indigenous peoples. A decade later, most remain unfulfilled. Seven Indigenous writers reflect on the work still to be done: thewalrus.ca/truth-and-reconc...

What I heard in Klein was someone whose central priority was his own immediate comfort. And it will be the death of us. I'm not someone who believes in doing hard things for the sake of it. I like ease. But I'm also aware that if I spend all day everyday bed rotting my body will atrophy /4

"Civility is a fantasy, because our political discourse never happens in a vacuum. It happens in the beautiful mess of the real world. It is naïve, at best, to believe civility is more important than who we are, what we stand for and how."

So just to be clear, all taxpayers will pay for traffic calming instead of fining the people that speed and leaving everyone else alone. We like this for a policy change? Are we so afraid of going after the actual rule breakers that we would rather put it on the back of everybody?

It takes a split second of googling to find the evidence. Do not give these "devil's advocates" your time. (Probably a bot since this is well-trod territory, answered many times before, typical phrasing). Sharing the link to so you can too. www.sickkids.ca/en/news/arch...

Good to know that if we just vandalize the things we don't like in this Province, eventually Ford will just get rid of them

this exists it is called thinking

We keep confusing the metrics for the goal. "Dem's should run pro-life candidates in those states" is a bad take not because those states had pro-abortion wins but because being pro-life kills people. What is the point of winning if you just become the opposition?

I had never really thought about the fact that The Lord of the Rings is the 500,000+ word version of “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house” but here’s the explanation.

This right here is why you'll never catch me in wearable tech

There is no organisation called antifa, it's an idea. What Trump is doing is trying to criminalise *anyone* who opposes fascist regimes, like his. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

There. Is. No. Such. Thing. Cattle ranching is among the most destructive of all the world's industries. "Regenerative" cattle ranching is simply greenwash.

This is so terrible. Please do not use these things for therapy.

I’m a consultant. I’ve seen inside every kind of organization. Good managers/leaders doing important work don’t run their teams ragged, and especially don’t brag about it.

This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.

It's that time of year again, welcome back to school kiddos! This week we're going to address Toronto's back to school/micro mobility campaign & ask that they direct all available resources at dangerous drivers who cause hundreds of serious injuries & deaths each year in TO. 📷 @tomflood.bsky.social

The struggle against racism must be anti-capitalist, and the struggle against capitalism must be anti-racist.

I see we've given up on the whole "creates jobs" thing

An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.

Would love to see smaller/growing communities make active transportation networks a part of their plan

NEW: 1km of Montreal’s Ste-Catherine Street will become permanently “pedestrian only” (less than perfect term since it will be a people-place for a LOT more than walking). 225+ new trees, vegetation-covered pits for rain drainage, more seating, illuminated canopy, financial help for businesses, etc.

part of the issue here (besides the shameless propaganda from nature) is slippage by design wrt the term "AI". None of the examples they cite as to why AI is "good" use LLMs or chatbots, it's classical machine learning we've been doing for decades with an entirely different societal cost

I saw “Cracker Barrel” trending and thought y’all were still talking about Sidney Sweeney’s jeans.

"A lot of magic can happen when people come together in public space, and you can’t always predict exactly what it will be." It was such a pleasure talking to @jasonthorne.bsky.social about the joy potential of public spaces in our cities.

Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc. Via @theconversation.bsky.social

Eventually, it'll come out that AI psychosis played a bigger role in shaping the 2020s than many thought at the time, with some very influential people operating under the belief chatbots are sentient and they're special for seeing it, distorting their worldviews, politics, and business decisions.

AI is being used to justify firing workers at major tech companies, leaving those that remain to pick up the pieces. AI code is being shoveled into crucial Google products, replacing trainers at TikTok, and worse. This, in tech workers' own words, is how AI is killing jobs in Silicon Valley.

I love this so much and I am absolutely tearing up about it. The gentleness and plainness of this, the way he just lets her be her (and she seems so damn lovely, who wouldn’t?), the generosity. It isn’t going to solve the world’s problems, but this kind of humanity is a hell of a start.

Being the least bit skeptical of the insane hype of tech companies makes you Cassandra these days. www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

"“If this volume just grows even more, we simply have a societal situation that is not bearable anymore because it is just too much risk that is no longer covered,” Thallinger told CNBC..." whatever politicians pretend to believe about climate, this is what they know www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/c...

Across Canada, extreme heat causes physical and mental stresses that lead to a documented rise in violence. That includes intimate partner violence, @rebeccaga0.bsky.social reports, which threatens women, girls and vulnerable communities the most. thenarwhal.ca/heat-domesti...

Blue whales are falling silent from hunger. The krill are gone. The sea is too warm. Their songs fade away. This is no anomaly. Humanity is deaf to a symphony of grief and warnings. Blue whales are going eerily silent—& scientists say it’s a warning sign www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

That's how you can tell human authors from AI. AI will put in some em dashes, then apologise and take them out when told off. Human authors will climb the filing cabinet, hissing, and defend their right to em dashes with a loaded stapler.