Elon Musk is a trillionaire. Canada’s ultra-wealthy elite — and the politicians who push for policies to keep them that way — were lavishing praise on the world’s richest man and attacking anyone who dared utter the words “wealth inequality” or “tax the rich.” Here's why this is bad, actually!

I can smell this photo and I hate it.

You can tell MAGA is cooked because the obvious response is that a UFC fight in a violent storm is way more epic. Instead we get “nuh-uh, fake news!”

You know what’s cooler than a billion dollars? Not a trillion.

What is even the point of having a trillion dollars when some newspaper can say mean things about you?

Elon is a thousand billionaires in a Nazi trenchcoat.

Elon Musk is so filthily rich, even a 99.9999% (6 “9”s — that’s more “9”s than the purity of pure gold!) wealth tax on him would still allow him to live comfortably for the rest of his life, despite the crimes against humanity he’s committed. In a reasonable world, no one can become a trillionaire.

Elon Musk is perhaps the greatest indictment of capitalism.

Sometimes I think about how insane it was to start web addresses with www. Three instances of the only letter in English with three (not just two) syllables! And people say it out loud, all nine syllables.

I can’t believe that the @clevelandclinic.bsky.social found a new way to betray trans kids. The kids who were their patients. They’ve told the Feds they won’t care for kids for twenty years, they’ll pay $300,000 in protection money, and they’ll spend millions to open a detransition clinic. 😭 😡

“Idaho health officials are investigating how nearly 60 people got sick after drinking raw milk in the past two weeks—” I’m gonna stop you right there. idahocapitalsun.com/briefs/nearl...

I didn’t know it was possible to gaslight yourself, but I guess this is what it looks like.

Unfortunately I have to conclude that Mina the Hollower is actually a bad game. I absolutely love the aesthetics and the score, but the controls are unforgivable.

Jey still needs help recovering. It’s really sad that even when you survive a hate crime it can leave you with heaps of debt.

Tanya. STOP. Listen to us. You aren’t welcome at our celebrations. You lost that when you attacked trans rights.

Imagine being afraid of diversity.

Pete Hegseth's Christian Nationalist pastor has 3 churches in Alberta & is a supporter of the separatists. Wilson's Grande Prairie denomination pastor: "My prayer for Alberta is that if/when this referendum passes, that we boldly declare Christianity to be the official religion of this new nation…"

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

If you ever wondered what’s lower than Jeb Bush’s “please clap” moment, well here it is.

Finally, a clear repudiation of the brain-dead “it’s just a tool” argument that gets floated cynically about every new technology:

Incredibly proud of this piece that I've been working on the past couple months!

Okay, so obviously this is very dumb, but for an explanation of why: The "rules being eased" is really "unwinding the phase-out of HFC refrigerants." HFCs are responsible for the extremely high global warming potential of refrigerants, and our previous saner government was working to fix this 1/x

Holy shit, my friend @jeymccreight.bsky.social was beaten nearly to death on the street by a transphobe who recognized him from his LGBTQ advocacy. He started a GoFundMe to aid in his recovery gofund.me/9328f91f2

it's actually true that you cannot fund good government entirely by taxing the rich, which is why slopulist proposals to gut the tax base are a bad idea but taxing the rich at punitive levels is a goal in and of itself, billionaires are simply too dangerous to public policy to exist

The future of AI feels like being inside an imploding star.

Earth, Fire, Wind, Water, Heart, by your powers combined I am Captain Planet! GO PLANET!

“Alberta will appeal decision, Premier Danielle Smith says”, in case you were wondering.

Homeless folks are morally wrong because they do the things in public that we all do in our homes. This includes drugs, defecation, mental breakdowns, nudity and despair. They are bad people because they don't have a box to hide their ugly humanity in.

I suspect the large population of vocal trans users on bsky is seen as a liability for future investment, so there’s pressure to demonstrate that we can be kicked around should a potential buyer demand that.

Nothing seems to get better, and nobody knows what to do. So as a follow up to my essay on weaponized nostalgia, I talk about our culture, collective disengagement and depression, and where we go next, whether we like it or not. youtu.be/rinreKJ9Zjo?...

God fucking dammit.

Another stain on Pixar’s legacy. It’s really bad that writers and artists and animators can pour their hearts into a story that could literally save lives, only to have it gutted by spineless executives. youtube.com/shorts/qvQla...

logging on

Anti-woke extremists don’t realize they are constructing the most powerful Streisand Effect in the known universe. When Woke 2 hits: it will literally be transgender for everyone. No gender assigned at birth will escape it.

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

I hate this so much. Alberta is working on provincial legislation to ban and/or remove bike lanes. Like Doug Ford in Ontario.

the cognitive dissonance of covering your face while recording everyone else's

Making a billion dollars should come with an automatic prison sentence.

Alberta’s voters list scandal demands a public inquiry. I make that case in the interview below. But, instead of waiting for the results of the many ongoing investigations, there are 8️⃣ things Premier Smith could do in the next week to address the situation.🧵 www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/vid...

Being a billionaire should be the most embarrassing position in our society.

Ugh, Brilliant got hit with the AI stick too. Can’t even learn math without getting slopped on.

Jennifer Johnson has never apologized for comparing trans kids to actual shit. Some people paid $350 to listen to her and maybe have breakfast.

I would like to see a collective drive to spoil any referendum ballot until a full inquiry has been done. The entire thing is illegitimate and was before even this happened.

“We will get rid of these foxes!” Says person who let foxes into hen house. I doubt legal action will be taken and I suspect this will be used a pretense for more meddling with Elections Alberta. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Hey, Meatball! He said he likes you!

David Parker and friends should be in jail and the Republican Party of Canada should be dissolved.

Jasmin Laine comes off as a complete psychopath. She should take her own advice about minding her tongue when she’s defending nazi intimidation on main. The CPC needs better leadership with better friends than this.

@popdetective.bsky.social continues to release quality content on the regular. I miss the long form essays but this steady stream of shorts is wonderful. youtube.com/shorts/MZEpR...

Hate this so much. We need less private investment and more public services.

I’ve been thinking that something like Letterboxd should be decentralized, maybe built on atproto like Bluesky.