I chose cats over children bc as long as I use a loving voice I can say super mean shit to them all the time.

Hey everybody - I was raptured, but then chose to return to Earth to aid all sentient beings in their quest for nirvana. This may not have been the eschatology you were expecting but my advice is to start practicing compassion and loving kindness right now. Svaha!

RFK Jr: The Amish don't have autism The Amish:

"To see an American-based company attempt to occupy our ancient village sites without consent is deeply unacceptable and is a violation of our inherent rights, title, laws, and jurisdiction." Chief Don Tom, Vice-President of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs @ buff.ly/DrNaG9F

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

Stands on street with no sidewalks. What do we need with extra development charges or red tape for accessibility, eh?

This is why I moved away from the PNW, bc for me the return of rain was not welcome in the least, garden and wildfire benefits notwithstanding.

You may not have noticed but Canada is trying to increase its ability to criminalize any direct action that threatens capitalism. Fundraising, advocacy, organizing, etc. all under threat via these bills Canada is desperately trying to ram through. And for what? So Rich people can build more bunkers?

Whether your sabbath is just ending, about to begin, or awaiting another time in the week, I share with you this “Prayer for Sabbath” from “Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals” by Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove. /1

We're counterprotesting a hate rally attempting to target trans kids' healthcare. Details in the poster.

Today people united together in #solidarity to demand climate justice, peace, & real democracy. #DrawTheLine #YYC #DefendDemocracy

300+ folks in rainy Winnipeg today to #DrawtheLine for justice, connecting the dots between the climate crisis, genocide in Palestine, growing militarism, and migrant scapegoating. Demanding Kinew & Carney put people over profit, say no to new pipelines, and fund real solutions for health, housing..

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

Two people have been arrested while attempting to paint a large mural on Wellington Street outside the PMO. Police have closed the road for cleanup. Organizers say it's washable paint.

Here's the mural.

I refused to placate the bully. Then I refused to placate the institutions who placated the bully. Then I refused to placate the shills who placate the institutions who placate the bully. I'm still standing; the rest are down. Never placate the bully.

All of this can happen in Canada and it's already begun. They have disinfo/harassment/threat/crony networks here they've been building for years. Governments are aligning. I fear Canada will wake up one day realizing it's been absorbed into MAGA fascism without anyone needing to announce annexation.

Now we must question if they believe what Kirk believed. Do Carney and Poilievre believe that girls must be forced to give birth? That guns have more rights than people? That Black Cdns are “prowling” the streets to attack whites, or that Islam is ‘slitting the throats’ of our country?

Be Seen. A New PSA

“…cities do not have room for everyone to drive alone in a car…Transit — along with cycling, walking and carpooling — is critical to the economic functioning of these cities. (Reducing car use has other benefits…but the need to use space efficiently is the key thing that no technology will change.)”

The 100K fee for H-1B visas (yearly!) is reported as a hit on tech -- but it is a hit on universities. It will make it impossible for us to hire foreign visitors, or foreign scholars into tenure track positions--I think almost 40% of H-1Bs go to universities and university hospitals.

We are many. #DrawTheLine

For #Ottawa folks en route to the #DrawTheLine protest: there’s a group of aggressive transphobic picketers at Bank and Wellington

Sometimes I miss having Instagram or Facebook to keep in touch with distant relatives and family, but fortunately Meta produces reminders that they are an evil company: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Canadian Mennonite University is unveiling a new “district geothermal energy system” — a first on a post-secondary campus in Manitoba — this weekend.

Canadians, write your MP. Tell them you want the H-1B cap raised to 50k or 100k.

They still won't protect you 100% from tear gas, but they will protect you from impact and fragmentation injuries. The American Academy of Ophthalmology has recommendations on what to do: www.aao.org/eye-health/t...

i cannot stress enough that this is a ghwb appointee most famous for siding with ron desantis against the cdc

lord, make me authentically charitable to my enemies, but not yet.

Oh, for fuck's. THIS IS NOT DIFFICULT. DO NOT PUT YOUR NAME ON A LIST IF YOU ARE THE KIND OF PERSON WHO THE GOVERNMENT WANTS LISTS OF. PUT YOUR NAME ON ALL THE LISTS IF YOU ARE THE KIND OF PERSON THEY DO NOT WANT TO HAVE TO PROSECUTE EN MASSE. FLOOD THE ZONE.

Looking for your next COVID-19 or flu shot? Here’s when you can get it in Ontario CBC News September 18, 2025 By Gabriela Silva Ponte stillcoviding.ca/en/news/look... #Ontario #vaccines #COVID #CovidIsNotOver

🕜 Saturday, Sept. 20 from 1 to 3 p.m. 📍 Wellington Street, Ottawa, in front of Parliament Hill We look forward to seeing you stand in solidarity. www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/msf-stages-h...

My metrics are really just vibes, you really can't calculate my contributions. I'm performing way above what you're seeing in the numbers, boss.

Since this whole debate is still happening, and since we are still not listening I will summarize what I understand the argument to be in the Lingua Franca of white nerds: Lord of the Rings analogies.

"The biggest underestimated factor is the power of fan culture and the passion of people standing behind the artists and creators who they love..." Great essay on AI and art by @anildash.com! www.anildash.com/2025/09/18/t...

Ok I’ve changed my mind re the #BubbleBylaw, but would like it to be 2-way. The school by my home (& the homes of several thousand others) is currently blasting pop music very loudly and I would like to be protected from this. (Facetious, but it truly is a challenge for WFH. My windows are shut!)

“stop that calling us to conscience right now!”

this is the kind of thing that makes you feel something needs to be done about the notwithstanding clause

It's funny how fashion trend is so collegiate and the *broad sweep of hand in the air* is so...anti college/anti intellectual. Like how generative ai text is derivative of the true thing.

The heated debates about cars in cities aren’t a matter of ideology. They’re a matter of geometry. You simply cannot accommodate increasing travel demand by creating more space for cars. There’s no room for that without demolishing buildings, cutting trees, and endangering bikers and pedestrians

an embarrassing number of Voortman chocolate wafers, eaten by first removing with utmost care and then consuming the outer layers, then chowing down on the icing sections in the middle, washed down with milky black tea. Why yes I still have the palate of a four year old, why do you ask?

"The Department must remain vigilant in maintaining the grooming standards which underpin the warrior ethos.” Huh? "About 60% of Black men are affected by [pseudofolliculitis barbae], according to the American Osteopathic College of Dermatology." Oh, 🤮. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

you don’t understand bro, if we didn’t lie, no one would buy our product 😩

We need a properly leftist party in Canada/BC, but in the meantime I've always thought Greens were blowing it by not occupying the *giant* vacuum on the left BC Greens *were* moving left, but are now sadly blocking an inspiring left candidate THEY recruited. #bcpoli breachmedia.ca/b-c-green-le...

Making a list of professors who don’t mourn Redford in the appropriate way in refusing to acknowledge how hot he was

People always tell me that I should have more support. That if my level of function was really “that bad” I would have help. Please believe me when I tell you help doesn’t magically appear when you become disabled. Unless you’re rich or have family support, you’re on your own.

Avant d'applaudir à tout rompre le discours de Rachel Thomas à la chambre des communes, nos élus auraient du lire ce texte. Charlie Kirk propageait le racisme, la misogynie, l'homophobie, la transphobie et j'en passe... C'est honteux. www.lapresse.ca/internationa...

Canadians are not taking seriously enough the encroachment of fascism in Canada. This is wild. "Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government is adding proof of citizenship markers to driver’s licences and other forms of identification to streamline services and prevent election fraud."

i mean it’s recording everything you do for corporate spyware so it’s probably that

So this means countries will stop announcing their “plans to recognize a Palestinian state later” and meet their obligation of STOPPING A GENOCIDE, by whatever means necessary. Right? www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...