This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is how I access Bluesky:

"The lawsuit says OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT was used by the shooter as a trusted confidante, collaborator and ally, and it behaves willingly to assist users such as the shooter to plan a mass casualty event."

The Atkinson Principles feeling a lot of strain right now

"The Campaign Research survey found 70 per cent of Ontarians favour a runway extension 'to meet new federal safety regulations' " A push poll.

This is a push poll, by the notorious Conservative operative Nick Kouvalis, that the government has leaked to the Star www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

I really wish I knew what the Consultant consults in and what his companies do. Probably some specialist field of finance called 'cancer arbitrage' and an app called Desperati.on that buys people's food stamps to sell back to them.

I’ve been covering abortion access since 2015, and I’ve never experienced the kind of fervor that I witnessed outside a clinic in North Carolina: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I will never understand how someone thinks he's doing a favour for women by praising them for being in his proximity.

Do you think you need some bunnies for your spring table? I reprinted the bunbushka coasters! 🐰🌷 Available at hellocloudyart.etsy.com

I knew I felt a little off

Glasgow Central is the busiest station in Scotland, and 3rd outside of London. Luckily no casualties reported yet, but leaving aside my personal interest in the Grade A listed buildings at risk- this is going to hit commuters and Scotland particularly very hard.

Alt text: a Victorian stone building on fire. A glass-roof covering Central Station right behind the near-collapsed building.

The fire in Central Glasgow is not unique. The city has many old buildings with ageing electrical wiring. Landlords live elsewhere and rarely renovate. This time the lack of oversight might cost Glasgow essential rail services.

Related: This is where I find myself out-of-step with some (not all) of my fellow lefties due to my grave concerns with expanding access to MAID. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/maid-...

Good article:

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This not a clickbait survey. This is legitimate multi-nation poll reported by Pew Research. Of the 26 nations listed here, the US is the most distrustful of its fellow citizens and Canada the least. This doesn't explain anything, but it illustrates almost everything.

This chart. A measure of what different countries think of their own people. Top of the chart, 53% of Americans think their fellow Americans are bad people, immoral. In Canada, the very opposite, where 92% believe other Canadians are good people. Tell me that 49th parallel doesn't mean something. 🧵

Sigh.

If there's media you care about, it's hard to overstate how important it is that you subscribe to it. Ad rates are garbage, and the changes to search mean fewer new folks discovering sites they didn't already visit.

hey i wrote about this yesterday and compared our tech oligarchs to the planter class of the South pre-civil war www.patreon.com/posts/152399...

killing us for years! They bombed an apartment building full of sleeping families in Kharkiv just last night - we are still digging bodies from under the rubble. Camfuckingraderie my ass.

TRUMP on Russia and Ukraine: "The hatred between Putin and his counterpart is so great. Ukraine, Russia, you think there'd be a little bit of camaraderie there, but the hatred is so great."🔚 Camaraderie? Camaraderie??? They are killing us! They invaded our country out of the blue and have been

Have a lover caress you the way the Canadian establishment caresses John Tory.

The more Timmy Chalamet speaks, the more his relationship with a Jenner makes all the sense in the world

So it turns out that Heather Watt, the Ford crony supervisor appointed to run the Peel District School Board is the daughter of Jaime Watt, founder of Navigator. Who better to help Education Minister Calandra navigate the useful crisis of his own creation? #topoli #Onpoli #onted

This is what we need right now. Political leaders with a combination of solid principles and moral courage.

Between this and Paikin's column it's quite clear Tory is trying to get his columnist pals to clear a path for him to re-enter the race, and it's frankly disgusting. He stepped down because HE HIMSELF said the affair was an unforgivable breach of the public trust! That's still the case!

(As an inveterate Chalamet hater, I am *so here* for the dragging. I particularly agree with an opera singer's comment that I saw on Instagram that the shittiest thing about his remarks is the punching down on fellow working artists.)

Do you know how people say judge people by how they treat service workers because they'll treat people they care about better? Timothée Chalamet dumped on his grandma, mother and sister with his negative comments about ballet and opera. It's layered insult against the arts and women including family

Timothee Chalamet is getting raked through the Internet coals for his pompous, ill informed and ego driven comments about the opera and ballet. And I’m here for it. 😂

tapping the "people underestimate how many of our society's elites are motivated not by self-interest, but by sadism" sign

Nika is watching her Saturday morning cartoons (aka birds and squirrels on YouTube) #Caturday

Woooooo! 🥈

It's Friday night baby

"Taylor, the Latte Boy" has been in my head all day long. I do not know why.

“The GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding New TV Series goes to Heated Rivalry!” via glaad

Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists. STATEMENT: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

A bunch of celebrities have been declaring that they dislike cats because they’re “mean” animals This is like when people complain that they don’t like turkey because it’s dry: they’re telling on their own incompetence. Ham-fisted dopes don’t know how to approach cats. Not the cat’s problem

Clown Province

Carney *explicitly campaigned* on increased funding for the CBC. Just a straight up lie.

@rainbowrowell.bsky.social My romance-loving colleague/friend is reading "Carry On" for the first time and I love the vicarious experience:

Not The Beaverton.

There’s a Blood Moon AKA total lunar eclipse that can be seen in my part of the world, “Taranno”, around 6am. I’ll be sleeping. Just letting you know if you’re up and out that early, DO look up! 🌕🐺

White House tweets out Rubio’s statement seeming to say that basically Bibi maneuvered Trump into attacking Iran.

Somehow it is *even more* deeply shameful that Canada's PM endorsed the US attack on Iran after Rubio's "justification". Didn't think I could find more shame, and yet.

There’s a whole pack of media he’s travelling with. A lot of liberal partisans screamed at Harper for barely taking to Canadians via media.

"For me the big red flag is: does it end in the supplement shop?" IMO this is the question we should always be asking when it comes to privatized health care - especially for historically stigmatized issues like menopause. @caulfieldtim.bsky.social @drjengunter.bsky.social @derekberes.bsky.social

A lichen collage on seaside rock. Newfoundland, Canada. Includes Xanthoria (leafy yellow), Physcia (grey), Rusavskia (orange) and Polycaulinia (the other yellow lichen). #lichen #fungi #fungifriends