man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you

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Today I learned that aggressive baby goats have to wear horn noodles to avoid hurting each other

Trump does not need you to believe that Renee Nicole Good rammed an ICE agent with her car and sent him to the hospital What they want you to believe—what they NEED you to believe—is that if you don’t behave the way they want you to behave, they will fucking kill you

the grateful dead is one of the great symbols of american freedom. not the semblance of freedom enshrined in the bill of rights that can be stripped away by the state, but true freedom that can be taken by no one—to explore and express one's mind, body, and soul uninhibited, to fly your freak flag.

Not hollow; it’s consistent, wrote a book on it bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

As I reported my book, I noted an uptick in openly misogynistic behavior and language among law enforcement and their "back the blue" and 2A supporters. Part of white supremacy and the "warrior mindset" is misogynistic paternalism -- women need protection except when they are bitches.

Human brains feed off of negativity. Negative thoughts are easily digested and play in a loop in your mind all of the time. The reality, however, is that there is also A LOT OF GOOD happening every single minute. You have to do more work to pay attention to the good but it's worth it.

It's at times like this when I wonder if we need to create a Canada-wide organization for the amateur sport of modding drones. Perhaps we should get advice from Ukraine on how to set up such a thing. 🤔

The City of Vancouver continues to provide real-time text updates about council meetings exclusively on a website that produces mass amounts of deepfake non-consensual sexualized images of minors

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I can't think of a more deserving Vancouverite... Nardwuar The Human Serviette is named to the Order of Canada! (Second pic and text clipped from the Globe & Mail) www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Researchers discover rare breed of Canadian tuxedo cat #DumbWeek

I’m back after a 3 day suspension for sharing a link to publicly available police reports exposing Blood Tribe nazis. They also removed the post. Bluesky evidently prioritizes the protection of literal, active nazis over community safety. Unfortunately for BT, they’re already in the sunlight now :)

we need to build a principled and progressive movement without the NDP

just gonna jump in to say that it is not antisemitic to call out the fact that politicians and media hacks are jumping all over the bondi beach attack to unfairly blame those who oppose israel's atrocities in gaza for antisemitic violence

Let’s just agree right now never to normalize the term “AI actor” and call them what they are An animated character

it has come to my attention that the Prime Minister of Canada has the political skills of a goldfish www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

In a lot of ways our entire consumerist society is built on hating children and resenting their existence, and if we ever want to see a better world, we have to get our faces out of the trough and start working on it. Be kind to kids! It's our collective responsibility!

Critical look under the hood of freedom of information and police corruption by CTV Vancouver - take your time with it. Especially the correspondence among cops about info requests. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

i will never understand people who get all worked up about follower and block counts on here. my brother in christ, none of this is real. none of these numbers mean anything. i'm on here to yap and i'm going to keep yapping, the rest is whatever

Bird sounds.

There's something about the way men use LLMs that feel like those men at the strip club who believe that the dancers like them for their personality and wit. They just want a toy that makes them feel good.

You can rationalize it however you want but staying on twitter is a terrible choice. It is not the “town square.” It is the world’s disease-ridden dump. You don’t need to be there to think critically or write relevantly or stay abreast of current events.

Again, remains noteworthy that the City of Vancouver, TransLink, BC Ferries, and many more government agencies and politicians continue to use a certain website as one of their main modes of providing basic information to citizens on social media

People challenging gender norms are not intentionally dressing "ugly," as the original poster suggests, nor are they trying to gain "victim points." They are dressing in a way they find beautiful, but according to a different language. Appreciating that aesthetic requires cultural literacy.

Musk cannot be “turned”, “flipped”, “allied” with. He is a Nazi and he’s killed 300,000 people, mostly children. Anyone considering taking his political contributions or discussing allying with him has no moral compass nor should they be near power.

if someone reskeets you, you absorb their power

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People are literally being disappeared. This is capital-H History happening right now, the bad kind, and if you're thinking to yourself that things will settle down after Democrats do well in the midterm, you need to wake up.

I've got a Substack - it's 1/3 media/politics, 1/3 Native boffin stuff, and 1/3 my halting attempts at fiction writing (I work in all 3 as my day jobs). Here's something that combines them, a short story about how First Nations could accidentally cause annexation: rjago.substack.com/p/unceded