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 ❤️

Studies find AI helps developers release more software—while logging longer hours and fixing problems after the code goes live

Here's my first file on this stupid, bloody, pointless war. Even if this immoral gamble rids Iran of its murderous theocracy, we should be condemning this insanely dangerous act. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

@jenstden.bsky.social doing the good work again. News is often framed on X, Reddit, and Facebook by a small handful of coordinated accounts. They sell outrage, our brains get dopamine, and suddenly Russia's Ukraine invasion seems sensible. Read it in @thetyee.ca | thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

One of the purest examples of a moral panic in our time. A clinic that had years-long waitlists and required an average of 7 appointments before providing transition care smeared and shut down for being reckless.

This is an unbelievable breakdown of the halftime show

Understanding society is dangerous to reactionaries selling racial animus & crushing austerity, while enriching the rich

We heard the boos loud and clear on CBC, Canada's public broadcaster.

"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years

"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed." A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends. Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.

Catherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her

The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect. /1

Americans who are still begging Canadians to come visit again, this is why we aren’t.

If the will of one man is all it takes to invalidate the U.S. constitution in one year, there can be no trust placed in the U.S. for generations after that man is gone.

This is not materially different from Josef Mengele. The concept is to deliberately expose people to serious harm so you can gather more data on what you already know will hurt them. It's not some big coincidence the Nuremberg Code expressly prohibits everything resembling this kind of "science."

It’s hard to accurately describe what is happening in Minneapolis without sounding crazy. Unmarked rental vans all over the city, with people in military gear and no id jumping out of them to take captive anyone who looks nonwhite or who makes political speech they disagree with.

This thread is the best refutation of social-media doomerism that I have seen.

Canada has a literal Minister of AI in @evansolomon.bsky.social and so far crickets. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"

Because Canadian media organizations do not have the money needed to do the job expected of them. We have the Globe and the CBC in terms of places with large staffs and that is it. If the reporters there have other important stories they are working on, key stories don't get told.

It is to Canada's shame we have not spoken out or supported a Canadian judge being sanctioned by the US Her life is frozen. She cannot use credit cards, travel, move money, or access email. This is not sustainable www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

call us old fashioned but, if you've built a machine that makes child porn, we really don't care if can do anything else. unplug the machine.

Something I have to reiterate is that you are being straight up lied to about trans people and our healthcare on an unfathomable scale, this instance reporting is already being torn to shreds by other people commenting, but the frequency of this kind of reporting is astonishing, it's neverending.

What an obsequious, toadying, servile, brown-nosing, corrupt little cunt Gianni Infantino is. The FIFA 'peace prize' is the most cringe-worthy, pathetic thing I've ever seen in my life. Football deserves better than this travesty of a ceremony and ruling body.

HEY CANADA. MP Elizabeth May is sponsoring a petition to get Electoral Reform back in front of Parliament. Could all of us who were utterly betrayed in 2016 when JT reneged on this please go put our electrons onto this one? yes, yes, the petitions don't mean a thing WILL happen, but there was […]

1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics. It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT. It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse. Transgender care saves lives.

Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.

RETALIATORY TARIFF TO THE SHIN

Such a perfect example of what we all give up when we refuse to address basic inequalities. I don't want to live in a country where all the public space is militarized to keep hungry people from stealing food, just give them money to buy food!

I tried to cobble together a narrative of the industrial-scale corruption of the Trump state, and to think about why it's not breaking through. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/guide-to-d...

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

I know a lot of people talk about "Ken Griffey's swing", "John Olerud's swing" but for my money there is nothing more beautiful than Alejandro Kirk: - 5'7 and built like a Welsh corgi - basically drops halfway into a splits on each swing - each swing is a Street Fighter "Shooooryuken" uppercut

white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...

AI-generated content is flooding the internet, and we're entering a new era of information overload. Watch our latest video to find out how AI slop affects the internet and why kurzgesagt videos will always remain human-made: https://kgs.link/AISlop

this is great for two reasons 1, the obvious: brilliant deconstruction of how patriarchy tries to sell total emotional isolation as not just a side effect but a GOAL of doing masculinity correctly 2: the repeated mentions of Buffalo Wild Wings made me laugh so hard

Everyone say hello to Tupi, a lil’ capybara baby at the San Antonio Zoo. 🥹

Can't find a single thing wrong with this...

Thanks to @zo-e.xyz I have learned there is a not obvious way to turn off google ai overview by changing the google base URL. 10 cheers for hacking the URL! tenbluelinks.org

This is a huge problem in nonprofits, where management sometimes believes staff requests for market rate wages are somehow a sign of insufficient commitment, rather than seeing paying market rate as a sign that the organization is committed to hiring the best staff.

Hope you're seeing this Canada! LFG #WRWC25 bring on Wales 7pm EST

In my column this week, I tried to succinctly summarize where America is at right now. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context* Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when An LLM just generates text

The "ambassador" from a hostile nation blames Canada for having stood up to American threats and attacks on our economy. We need to hold the line. Any backtracking in the hopes of striking a deal with these gangsters will be seen as weakness.

Arsenal Women confirm the signing of Canadian international Olivia Smith from Liverpool. She will wear the number 15 shirt 👇🔴⚪ arseblog.news/2025/07/arse...

#Baltimore Mayor #BrandonScott invested in 42 summer youth camps, 29 literacy programs, extended the rec center hours to 11 p.m, planned block parties, opened the pools for safe fun, & opened several schools up for summer classes. Crime is down 62%. 🔥🔥 www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: Breakthrough results from two rival experimental reactors—the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator and the Joint European Torus tokamak—offer hope that the elusive dream of fusion power is within reach. www.scientificamerican.com/article/reco...

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.