This is brilliant!

📢DIRECT ACTION ALERT! SHARE WIDELY! Join us to "circle the strollers" around the speed camera at Bloor and Dundas to protest our Premier's reckless attack on road safety. Tens of thousands of kids will be defenseless against speeding drivers in school zones!! More info: www.ffsafestreets.ca/events

I'm pledging to introduce a motion to make Calgary a Queer Sanctuary City. In the face of harmful provincial legislation, we must act to protect the rights and safety of our 2SLGBTQIA+ community. #Ward7 #YYC #YYCVotes #TransRights 🧵

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

There is absolutely no good faith reason to use the term “AI” for any technology one is selling. It serves only for dazzling people into thinking the technology has capabilities that it doesn’t. If one wants a technology to be trustworthy, just use a transparent, informative term without hype.

Music lessons and farmers market by bike. Doesn't get better than this! #BikeTO

WHO statement on autism-related issues The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes that there is currently no conclusive scientific evidence confirming a possible link between #autism and use of acetaminophen (also known as paracetamol) during pregnancy Full statement bit.ly/47YsgwI

30 years since this happened (28 since I wrote about it). I still recall that wonderful tree and the generosity of my patient in her final illness. www.bmj.com/content/315/...

Ok my cis friends, we are going to need a lot of you to step the fuck up and fight hard for us www.them.us/story/trump-...

liberals don't want to hear it but this, too, is genocide

B i n g o !

"Can I withdraw $1 million from my account?" "Hi, sorry, you can't. You do not have $1 million in your account." "Yes, I do." "Sorry, my mistake! You do have $1 million in your account. Would you like $20 or $100 bills?"

HAHAHAHA UHHHH WHAT THE EVERLOVING FUCK??????

If you wait long enough to cook dinner, everyone will eat cereal. Follow me for more recipes.

Gai kaken offen yom indeed

NOW: Over 100,000 people on the streets of Tel Aviv after a day of disruption! NO to the killing, NO to the abandonment. Right now all of us must act with all our strength against the extremists who want us to despair and to think they can’t be stopped. We won’t back down!

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

No one’s talking about the six hostages #Bringthemhome #Stopthewar @gildickmann.bsky.social

Every rich person that sees this should find a Trans person on. This website and send them a thousand dollars because you can and we all need it.

We are on the cusp of AGI, definitely for real

starting to suspect my neighbor is a large language model

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Israel released Hamas documents purporting to show that he was a Hamas fighter. If the documents are authentic, they show he joined Hamas in 2013, and was wounded in 2017. There's no evidence (that I've seen) he served as active fighter in the last two years. Which means he is not a fighter. 1/

when you've even lost this guy.

More people in Gaza died of starvation in the past 21 days than in the 21 months before. This is a man-made famine created by our extremist government and their war of annihilation. THIS HORROR MUST END. NOW.

If you cannot go to the bathroom at work, you cannot go to work. If you cannot go to the bathroom at school, you cannot go to school. This effectively bans transgender people from a broad swath of public life in the UK

A growing chorus of Jewish diaspora centrists are exasperated with Israeli policy. What they refuse to accept is that pleading with Israel's Kahanist government to be "pragmatic" is a waste of time. Kahanists talk about expulsion and genocide - they mean it. Care about Israel? Call for sanctions.

There are no good-faith anti-trans arguments and reality has a known trans bias

One small thing you can do to help fight the starvation and violence, support those inside Israel who are showing up in person day to fight for an end to the war.

Yesterday, @washingtonpost.com Washington Post published an image of Gaza City which looked like Hiroshima. It seems that this is one of the *least damaged* areas in the Gaza Strip. Short thread: @leloveluck.bsky.social

"LinkedIn has quietly stripped explicit protections for transgender and nonwhite users from its English-language hate speech rules, repeating a playbook now familiar to LGBTQ+ advocates tracking the rollback of content safeguards across major social media platforms." www.advocate.com/news/linkedi...

By continuing business as usual, Israel’s international partners are allowing the Israeli government to continue with its genocidal campaign with no consequences beyond symbolic gestures of disapproval and statements. The time to act is now - me @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I saw somebody on TikTok using the word 'slopper' as a slur for people who use ChatGPT, and that's a thing we should start doing.

Advocacy alert 📣 Until August 19, you can give input on a game-changing national standard requiring N95s & other respirators in healthcare (and beyond)! To make it easier to take part, we've created a plain-language explainer that includes some sample feedback: donoharmbc.ca/national-sta...

Read my latest:

Replication Crisis xkcd.com/3117/

We could avoid all these annoying debates about whether Fahrenheit or Celsius is better if we just abolished numbers like I've been arguing for for some indeterminate amount of years

Brilliant analysis, though I’d prefer not to have to look at a picture of the psychopath. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

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My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

When you prewrite your lede and then hit the bar for the afternoon.

And in that silence, bombs keep falling, aid is blocked, families are erased without a trace, journalists can’t report and medics can’t coordinate. This horror must stop. (3/3)

A thorough takedown of Carney’s Trumpian deportation and surveillance bill from @wickdchiq.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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