Audiobook narrator: “… the ancestor of Venetian and Hebrew” Me: wtf?! 🤨 Me (5 seconds later): Phoenician. He said *Phoenecian*.

The pogroms tearing through the West Bank this past week are enraging and devastating. In the past two years, 76 Palestinian communities expelled. 152 new settler outposts. Soldiers standing aside - or joining in. And, this devastating state-backed violence is spreading into new territories.

Latest from the BMJ www.bmj.com/content/392/...

People at concert: How come you still wear a mask? Also people at concert: *cough* *sneeze* *loud throat-clearing* *sniffles*

New from @latimes.com: “Yet new COVID infections are producing new #LongCovid patients. People who were healthy and active just a few months ago are still arriving at USC’s clinic with cardiovascular and cognitive problems that have upended their lives.”

I think I have figured out one of the things that’s wrong with the world: TIL that not only do handbags exist that retail for like US$15k, which is bad enough, but also people exist who COLLECT THEM. I.e., they buy MULTIPLE purses each of which would pay my mortgage for 18 months.

seeing more disgusting genocidal racism talk coming from Israeli politicians now that more bombs are dropping. There is no justification. Every human being's life is equally precious and demands our dignity, care and consideration. Full stop.

To my Canadian friends, an acquaintance started a petition to allow US transgender citizens to claim refugee status here. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... If you’re Canadian please sign it. If you’re not, please share ❤️

Petition calls on Parliament to save files on residential school abuse before they're destroyed - Petition has over 11,000 signatures asking government to save residential school files www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

"Trump has no plan for Iran. Just blow shit up, kill some people, and hope for the best. It is the war of a Mad King."

OK but why is it always “we have to limit immigration so that we don’t overwhelm settlement capacity” and not “we have to allocate resources to ramping up settlement capacity so that we don’t need to limit immigration”?

Have you seen Chuck’s latest Tingler?

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This is SO FUCKED UP. Very clearly cruelty for the sake of cruelty.

You know I really resent having to root for Jordan Binnington, even indirectly But OTOH I do get to boo both Tkachuklefuck brothers simultaneously which is a nice feeling

This hockey game is too much stress too early on a Sunday morning you guys

ICYMI: See link below to watch the most recent @policyalternatives.ca webinar: How Alberta is bringing in U.S.-style health care and putting Canada’s universal public health care system at risk—by opening the doors to private, for-profit health care. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Just tried to watch a documentary about Bryan Johnson and @bobapud.bsky.social turned it off 20 minutes in for the sake of my blood pressure 😂 Having only encountered him in passing on Maintenance Phase, was unprepared for how immensely the guy himself would piss me off

I know humans are in general very bad at assessing risks accurately, but you would think a premier would at least TRY.

A modest proposal: Politicians who cut funding for arts education AT ANY LEVEL should no longer be allowed to watch TV/movies, run TV/online ads, go to concerts, be photographed or painted, do photo ops at museums or cultural events, listen to music, own artwork or posters, or take any credit for >

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes

N95s could be a significant performance advantage Not just in the Olympics But in Life

Props to Piper Gillies for being super loud on main about ovarian cancer symptoms and the importance of not ignoring them. This is the info I needed in 1994 and 1995 but didn’t have! Using her Olympic platform for good—like, literally out there saving lives.

Very normal, reasonable commenting on Olympic athletes wearing masks today 🙃

Age verification? Quarter pounder cone for a quarter at McDonald’s.

Today anti-maskers attempting to insult me online have called me (in order of frequency) 1. R*t*rd 2. Tr*nny 3. Lesbian (Disemvowelling mine) Another data point in support of rh hypothesis that yes, the anti-mask & anti-vax asshats are ALSO ableist, transphobic, homophobic asshats.

Happy Superb Owl #stunday , for those who celebrate

There's all sorts of society-transforming positive things these guys could do with their equivalent of pocket change. It's significant both that none of them are doing ANY of those things, and what kinds of things they are doing instead.

Happy Superb Owl day to all who celebrate.

Wow, COVID truly is the curse that keeps on cursing.

From the Department of Yes, Anthropic, We Know This

As it turns out measles is bad. So is whooping cough. Also tetanus and rabies. Raw milk is full of cow shit, and RFK the lesser gave himself mercury poisoning. Maybe putting one of America’s leading dipshits in charge of governmental health services was…REALLY FUCKING STUPID.

A large contingent of copyeditors, fact checkers, and proofreaders just collectively went WHAT THE FUCK and don't yet know why.

Shalom friends, Need to vent your anger at crimes being carried out across this country by fascists who are violating the constitution and terrorizing our friends and neighbors? SAME. Welcome to the Elder Millennials of Zion Ill-Wishing Hotline: ICE Edition. JUSTICE, JUSTICE SHALL YOU PURSUE

Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

Really hope I live long enough to see the Nuremberg trials phase of this shitshow.

Just watched Tim Walz press conference. Sick to my stomach at what Minnesota is dealing with so courageously, and also that we could have had people with human decency in charge and instead we have … this.

TFW the internet issues dire warnings about how epically cold your city is going to be today, but then it’s just regular cold (-11C currently)

Canadians go here! www.blood.ca/en room was v empty at my donation last week, plz go donate a bag of your wets if you are able

I have never seen any of the Rocky movies, so my only association with their theme song is Grade 7 band. This skeet brought to you by my spouse watching some Rocky movie or other in the other room.

So good to know that in these troubled times, a non-zero number of people are up in arms about . . . the use of “y’all” by one presenter on one CBC show 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Elsa Lam continues to prove & document how corrupt & full of lies the Doug Ford closure of the science centre was & is. Read & share widely - not that it matters in Ontario, a province that seems ok w a high level of this. www.canadianarchitect.com/draft-engine...

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Look, nobody is asking you to like Maduro. Maduro is awful. The point is that this is ILLEGAL and BAD. The point is if he can bomb Caracas and kidnap Maduro without consequences, whose capital and government are next?

I'm currently reading HOW THE WORD IS PASSED by @clintsmithiii.bsky.social and I don't know when I have heard a more powerful phrase than "the shame of being alive in a room built for death."

Canadians, please sign this petition to stop Alberta & Saskatchewan from using the Notwithstanding clause to enact transphobic laws that deny the Federal Charter of Rights & Freedoms. Please, do it for me, right now. Please: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

So on the one hand Britta Curl scored a goal 👎🏼 On the other hand ~8K people loudly booed her goal 👍🏼 The @pwhlsceptres.bsky.social crowd is NOT the audience for your homophobia & transphobia, tyvm