Yes, and let's also remember #YourSlipIsShowing, the Black women activists who predicted all of this first and received no credit. "Before Gamergate, before the 2016 election, they launched a campaign against Twitter trolls masquerading as women of color... If only more people had paid attention."

Following Apple’s removal of ICEBlock, both Google and Apple have removed a similar app for reporting ICE raids called Red Dot. Google states it removed the app for targeting a vulnerable group that is at risk of violence — ICE agents.

Alberta www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/... Quebec www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art... Canada is not a safe place for trans people; the eliminationists are just moving slower here than in other English-speaking countries.

Carpe DM!

nothing says "we care about your privacy" more than sharing your data with 222 partners

Bruh

I should not have updated my apple devices to new OS. every single device has much larger battery drain. 😭

One thing that kinda blows my mind: I spoke to national French-language media all morning about this. I did three separate interviews before 10am. I was interviewed for the U.S. publication WIRED about it. But English-language Canadian media? Crickets. It’s just so odd!

1/ 💛💙 Today we celebrate Ayyankali, a revolutionary anti-caste social reformer, educator, and politician. Ayyankali’s family was forced to labor for feudal landlords, which motivated him to spend his life fighting to improve the lives of Kerala’s Dalit communities. 💛💙

CUPE’s National President Mark Hancock – YYZ – August 16th 2025

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

folks! my new jam! a punjabi person being interviewed “do you like relatives from your mom’s side or dad’s side?”. and the response is that “i hate both sides and i hate the word relatives”

gas r'غزل

Canada could lose its measles designation by October: experts https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/canada-measles-designation-october 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

https://doubleaspect.blog/2025/08/01/the-bike-lanes-and-the-clown-cars/ “..most of which is elected by people who do not live anywhere near these bike lanes and won’t ever drive on the affected streets, acting at the behest of a premier with a longstanding grudge against the city” 👏 #cdnpol #onpol

time to write a registered mail to the MP, I guess

If your MP is liberal and you have reached out to them, have they responded to you? Say about Bills C5, C2 etc? My newly elected liberal MP has not responded to anything I send him and his office phone is never picked up. #cdnpol #cdnpoli

Read every word. ICE is an abomination and injustice. They have no place in our society, and everyone who works for them or their for-profit network ought to be held accountable for their actions. I look forward to that day. #AbolishICE www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...

The call for proposals for this year's @opendatasociety.bsky.social summit closes tomorrow (July 18!). It'll be an awesome crew of folks in New Brunswick this year: opendatasummit.ca #opendata

At this rate what is even the difference between pp and mc? https://thedeepdive.ca/carneys-spending-review-order-makes-cbc-brace-for-15-budget-cut/

'Vacations.' The word is 'vacations.'

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

Six Nations host Bill 5, C-5 Haudenosaunee rights teach-in www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

I got laid off today. Eek! Looking to hire a senior/staff engineer? I might be exactly what you need. Some more details on what I offer here: denisdefreyne.com/notes/get-me... repost = 💙

15 Ontario families were forced to surrender kids to CAS because they couldn’t get medical care www.thestar.com/news/investi... @thestar.com 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

viral sharing of explanations of phenomena using (usually funny) media that represents shared online culture is just … a memes to an end.

1. The US Transgender Survey has finally been released, and the results are stunning. - <1% of people are less satisfied after HRT. - The most common reason for detransition, pausing transition, or stopping transition is transphobia. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

Cherokee street magician. Trying to preserve our Native American Magic Culture. If you like our work, please help support it, any little bit helps a lot and is greatly appreciated. cash.app/$lostcitymagic www.paypal.me/JeramyNeugin

this rules "I am old, and I am a legend, and fuck you all I'm going to use my platform to support trans people" good for him

What's the current Rust development on NixOS? Searching online brings a bunch of options. I am getting back into NixOS (with Rust) after being away for 4 ish years and I wonder if anything new is current de facto.

Now I am become “#TODO”, shaver of the yaks.

I think "enshittification" can also be called “the tragedy of comments”

fact: “bors” is short for “borsgeoisie” #programmerhumor #rust

them: programming is not shitty me: explain the existence of things like coredump, objdump, memory dump, hexdump etc. #programmerhumor

Ever heard about the function that was supposed to take only one argument but ended up allowing multiple? It got curried away.

Is that star wars show logical AndOr or bitwise AndOr? #andor #programmerhumor

Despite his efforts, he couldn't find a single lead.

philosophizing while waiting in the checkout line in a store — whether to buy all this stuff or leave it in Descartes.

heard there was this guy who found harmful chemicals in his old home. he was trying to remove them asbestos he could.

If your pudding is proofing, it may be a bread.

if they did not want me to continuously eat pudding then why did they tell me the proof’s in there.

thats sounds like it was unabridged

and this is a great new book - can lend you mine, it’s also at the library: chbooks.com/Books/L/Livi...