Under neoliberal restructuring, the most vulnerable are always hit the hardest. #onted

Discworld QOTD, from Jingo

Perfect campaign ad for the upcoming Midterms. 👌

Dear @cityofhamilton.bsky.social media IT'S A SWAMP! Beverley Swamp specifically. #SWAMP

I saw in @joeycoleman.ca 's FB post Tom Jackson is running for Ward 6 again. Goal: To serve 40 years on #HamOnt council. What are his governance goals and what does he hope to achieve for the people of his ward and the City of Hamilton? 🤷‍♀️

It would be less pathetic if Tom was actually an elder statesman of city hall. But he’s not whipping votes and steering dialogues and so forth. He’s just clocking in and clocking out. He surely isn’t the worst politician ever but cumulative negligence is as bad as damage done.

We should all be very concerned about what Doug Ford is doing here. #DeclineOfDemocracy #ONpoli buff.ly/FZPeJDw

One fun thing about taxes is how if you owe the IRS money you have to pay now now now otherwise you get penalties aplenty but if they owe you money they’re gonna take their sweet time, maybe you’ll get a deposit someday next quarter or so

Is the answer because they're dumb?

For 25 years, the Paprika Theatre Festival has supported emerging artists 🎭 Its artistic director Amanda Lin says: “Better art comes from healthier artists.” Honestly? That conversation feels more important than ever. beacons.ai/cbcarts 💜

THAT'S RIGHT, MOTHERFUCKERS, I WON A WEBBY AWARD. Here's my 5-word speech. #webbys

Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal

Discworld QOTD, from Witches Abroad

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

Greed will never magically become generosity. Workers shouldn't have to skip meals and ration medicine while billionaires buy yachts. Happy #socialistSunday to those who observe 🙂✊🏻

Discworld QOTD, from Moving Pictures ‘“Did I hear things, or can that little dog speak?” said Dibbler. “He says he can’t,” said Victor. Dibbler hesitated. The excitement was unhinging him a little. “Well,” he said, “I suppose he should know.”’

Deeply integrating our economy with the United States is what made Canada so vulnerable to Trump’s bullying in the first place. This isn’t what Canadians voted for. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

something I find very funny about the Marcomentum bullshit is that foreign policy has been objectively a huge disaster! like what the fuck is this guy going to run on, “I murdered millions of people by dismantling USAID and was heavily involved in the Iran fiasco everyone hates”

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

If we imagine no worse of them than they of themselves, they may pass for excellent men.

In honour of punk's 50th anniversary this year, photographer and band manager Ralph Alfonso has scoured through his negatives and put together an exhibit called Picture My Face that will be making its Hamilton debut at Art Crawl from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. on May 8. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #HamOnt

Discworld QOTD, from Unseen Academicals “Ponder Stibbons stared at the page in front of him. His mind filled up with nasty questions, the biggest and nastiest of which was simply: Is there any way at all in which people can make out that this is my fault? No. Good!”

Hamilton's Port celebrated the opening of a new $135-million sugar refinery that will become Canada's largest. I'm celebrating with a can of liquid sugar. (Or as @alainnajj.bsky.social calls it, a fridge cigarette.) I'll write more on the refinery. It will use the new Randle Reef dock. #yhmcc

All right, this just came across my radar, and it is *brilliant*. You won't find a better or more compact explanation for [waves hands] all of this. This is the skeleton key.

My entire lifetime has seen Republicans benefit from every structural bias in the system: two republican presidents elected while losing the popular vote,the senate being biased towards small rural conservative states,house and state legislatures being heavily gerrymandered, and a captured SCOTUS.

In 2026 the City of #HamOnt will spend $2.6 million installing 8 new traffic signals. 🚦x8 That’s roughly equivalent to the original budget for the controversial Barton/Tiffany housing project, that got 80 people out of winter tents. 🏠🧍x80

I wish people could understand. I once had a client accept a guilty plea - when I had absolute evidence he had not committed the crime - because they were going to make him sit in jail until trial.

Yes. Very similar to plans for education, the GOP vision for healthcare is three tiers: The rich still enjoy science-based medicine, but privatized and exclusive Middle class gets woo and psuedoscience Poor get nothing - denial of medical care to them serves as a means to discipline the middle.

again, covid killed my healthy dad. fuck this insane piece of shit.

Crazy isn't it Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party had an 'antisemitism crisis' and now Zack Polanski's Green Party does. While Nigel Farage's Reform party, with Nigel Farage and loads of Nazi lovers, doesn't. It's like it's some kind of scam used against Left Wing parties.

Honestly, me too. I was hoping for boring. Boring would've been great. Just run the country, relatively smoothly, do a bit of diplomacy, come up with a fair enough budget. Instead we got the full-speed-ahead racism, transphobia, and socioeconomic deprivation train.

Just for kicks: a party bound to get between 15 % and 20 % of the vote in Spain just posted this piece of shite for the regional elections in Andalusia. (Text and translation in the ALT)

I am not a problem. I am a person. I don't need to be solved. Stop acting like I am the person destroying he economy instead of the oligarchs.

You don't get to say things like this and then ask why I, an immigrant, and all of my loved ones who don't see me as a problem to be solved, won't vote for you.

What was the last week of terrified screaming at the Green Party, if not a firm recommitment that nothing to the left of Sir Keir’s Labour will be tolerated and, if our politicians and media outlets are forced to choose between left and right, they will start prepping for the transition to fascism?

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

Discworld QOTD, from Soul Music

fannie lou hamer gave this speech at the DNC in 1964. LBJ called an emergency press conference to prevent these words from being broadcast on national television. she wanted her vote to count. she nearly died for it. her blood helped write the voting rights act. and now it's dead.

Why is our pension fund invested outside of Canada at all?

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It is true that Mark Carney isn't destroying archives of climate data the way that Harper did, and that he hasn't muzzled climate scientists from publicly speaking, which are both things that Harper did. 2/

Billions in cuts to climate programs. Cleaner homes funding gone. Transit funding cut. Anti-greenwashing legislatiion rescinded. Emissions cap eliminated. Literally billions of dollars of new fossil fuel subsides piled on top of what were already the highest on Earth. 22/

I've spent the last week deep in the shit that is the state of canadian democracy today and, guys in Ontario, the fact that nothing has been burned down or occupied over Doug Ford's insane attack on democracy is a very, very bad sign. It's a five alarm fire out there.

Some Cdn teens are getting into extremist, racist and antisemitic movements, and then charged with terrorism. Today's news in Toronto that 2 teens (one NFA) who shot up synagogues were not chaged with hate crimes demands an explanation. If not hateful or terroristic, why? What is happening here?

*Very* interesting response at City Council. Councillors are not giving their typical self-congratulatory responses to staff described "innovation" It's an election year, and this Council is hearing repeatedly from Hamiltonians frustrated at a City Hall stuck in the 1990s. #yhmcc

But, masters, remember that I am an ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass.

Police move on man in swastika shirt from outside antisemitism royal commission: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-06/swastika-shirt-antisemitism-social-cohesion-royal-commission/106646264

Discworld QOTD, from Pyramids

Doug Ford did not like being asked repeatedly about his softening polling numbers. He answers briefly then bridges immediately to the economy. 1/2 #OnPoli