Bookmarking this to return to in a few years, because the tune sounds familiar here in 🇨🇦.

They always say this is to protect the privacy of the people who are fired. This is bullshit. They don't care about the people who they fired; that's why they fired them. They hide the names of the fired people to limit their own legal exposure. They fired these 'rebuked' employees for defiance.

Today I learned there's an officially-registered 'migraine' tartan. I like it.

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

Look at this beautiful cat

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

I think this a good time to remember that the only reason immigration laws exist in the first place is to suppress wages globally. If they can trap people in poorer countries, businesses can jump from place to place to bring down wages everywhere.

If Google stopped providing GMail for free tomorrow, there is nothing any Canadian government could do about it. And quite frankly, nor should they. If you want e-mail as a critical service, make Canada Post an e-mail provider. And make it accountable to the people through Government.

You don’t have to be the whole wall against fascism, but if you can be one brick, be a brick, and if you can be some mortar, be a little daub of mortar, and if you own a screen printing shop, bring people together in anger and art.

1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10

Americans please stop asking your Canadian workers to come to America for all staff meetings

This was a door for me. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

This is literally what I've been writing and podcasting about for years. I was planning to do an essay on this, but here's a 🧵. The main reason is psychology. Due to personal, family, and cultural histories, some people are inherently scared of the world.

This is objectively reckless and insane.

Don’t share ai slop even if it makes fun of Trump. It is the tool of the enemy.

This is some high quality shade.

So here's a question that just occurred to me. Given all the stupid crap Doug Ford is foisting on Ontario...the spa, the tunnel, the Ferris wheel, the underwater power line...the general assumption is that he's corrupt. But is it possible he's just a sucker? A rube? An easy mark? Maybe both, obv.

With this list of Minnesota labor and community orgs this is REAL. Not internet randos repeating a meme.

anyway if you work at the syndicate get in touch

No! Bad autocorrect!

I’m not doing this thing where we start accepting bullshit BEFORE THE PRIMARY because “we gotta get trump out and what if you say something in the primary that might hurt somebody in the general.” VBNMW *HAS NOT WORKED.* Enough with the bitchassedness. I’m not doing it again.

While I have not been this eloquent, I think I'm safe in saying that I've been yelling about this for a while. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

a) One of the weapons of creeping totalitarianism is insistence that "truth is what we say it is". b) Resistance to that requires a commitment to verifiable truth. c) STOP CITING LLM SLOP AS FACT. The "plausible-sounding answers" machine is NOT a source of truth.

Reminder that “Say her name” was developed specifically to call attention to murders of Black women

If you use Discord and want to tell them how you feel about them adding AI tools, here's a link to the survey. Share it far & wide. Let them know we don't want it. discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7

I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said. That is called murder when they do that. Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.

Good grief I really need to build up more community connections in real space, doing something actually constructive. I spend a lot of time shouting into the wind online because who doesn't want to be heard? Then every few months or so the sheer futility of that crashes down.

Canada, like other western states, is worried about alienating Trump. But that just invites isolation next time, when it's your turn over the barrel, and everyone else stays silent for fear of alienating Trump. Democracies worthy of the name must stand together for the rule of law, or fall apart.

A lot of people forget how in 2004 the Bush regime kidnapped the democratically elected President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and dumped him in Africa.

"You don't understand, it's so hard; I could lose my job!" I am 2 jobs deep on quitting jobs due to moral issues. I am transgender; the job market is exceedingly bad for us; and I still did it. I am in a shitty underpaid job right now because of my last one. Have a fucking spine.

JFC look at this guy blink. He's coked to the gills on some kind of stimulants. Or trying to signal he's a hostage, maybe. Probably the first one.

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

Wait, so the USA doesn't actually have troops on the ground in Venezuela? Have I got that right? And they think they're going to run the place? That the rest of Venezuela is going to just roll over?

Jesus fucking christ

@mark-carney.bsky.social Yo, Mark, can we get some proof of life? Did they kidnap you too?

If Xi Jinping invaded Taiwan right now, and toppled the president there, on what grounds would the United States object? Or have any credibility to say anything?

It's well past time for Canadian government officials to get off of X, @jameswsthomson.com writes. This latest — disgusting — incident is just one more reason.

keep blocking me, journalists and historians with thousands of followers. i do not care

Genuinely I hope more people can go into 2026 ready to fight Not just against The Hellworld but also for your hopes and your dreams and all the good shit. Fight for your own happiness. Fight to prove you deserve a space. You deserve to be heard and to thrive. We are done Just Surviving a year.

Right now Greenland and Canada are watching the world's response to the motherfucker doing the illegal invasion he said he was going to do.

I think everyone's mantra for the new year is going to have to be "so what are you going to DO about it".

Happy New Year, indeed. "By 9:23 a.m. on January 2 Canada’s 100 highest-paid CEOs had already made what the average worker will make all year." Also: "This year, a “shocking” five of the 100 highest-paid CEOs in Canada are women. This is the highest number we’ve ever seen." "SHOCKING"! #CdnPoli

This is the saturdayest Thursday ever.

So, the last few years I've said something like "that last year can go to hell" or something similar come New Year's Eve. But it occurred to me recently I've been doing that since 2016. At least. I think it's time to admit to ourselves that it's a trend. 2026 is probably going to suck. [cont'd]

New anxiety unlocked! Could my sump pump outflow be blocked by ice during a thunderstorm? Surely such a combination of weather phenomena is wildly unlikely, right? [looks out window] Sigh...

It has been 395 days of continuous demonstrations in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi. Our citizens demand the resignation of Georgia's mostly illegitimate and pro-Russian government, the release of political prisoners, and the return to a pro-European course.