NEW: @maxblau.bsky.social spent a year reporting on abuses of farmworkers. It left him wondering: Is there any way to find out whether the produce he buys at the grocery store comes from farms with a record of mistreating workers?

Monday

there are a few things that will activate trip wires for me and one of them is flagrant ignorance or disregard for basic cookery principles — something that is absolutely at epidemic levels in the population for totally understandable and valid reasons, but nonetheless drives me nuts

marked safe from this problem because I’m taking three buses out to the suburbs to the big thrift store and I KNOW my corningware and PYREX makers’ marks and I know how to spot a fake too!!! get on my level haha

It’s deep in the settings. But you can turn it off

anyone whose job is making or maintaining any kind kind of website knows this. Apocalyptic decline

‘Google has often said it was “sending out more traffic and the web is bigger than ever,” Mr. Patel said. “And then right next to that is a bunch of publishers whose businesses are getting destroyed.”’ - thank you @reckless.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...

if I see an email from HR I am going to assume that's heated rivalry

On this day in 2005, the Civil Marriage Act received Royal Assent and legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. At the time, every province and territory had legalized it except Alberta, NWT, Nunavut and PEI. Canada was the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage

I dispute the premise of the story! that’s not a song!!! That’s an AUDIO FILE

Air quality warning lifted after four horrible days. A gorgeous summer day with a cool breeze. Everyone at the park saying, “How about that weather?! We can breathe!” Thinking of our neighbours who will live with the effects of this particular climate disaster forever, not just a week.

The epic investigation in the New Yorker by Heidi Blake seems to have lit a fire under UK criminal justice bureaucrats, who'd messed up last time they had a chance to prosecute the Tates (including some pretty horrendous victim blaming Blake recounts). Journalism matters for justice.

Art on the wall at a neighbourhood cafe I won’t be visiting again. It’s ChatGPT. I asked.

A must read— @heidiblake.bsky.social for @newyorker.com

Not once did I hear that prick say "Go Go Gadget Warrant"

the weather is just different genres of migraine trigger this week

I got the coveted reverse rainbow on @hankgreen.bsky.social’s 4x3 today, but I keep missing out on the streak bonus because I use a secure browser on my phone that wipes cookies, and I play on different devices. Still fun! July 18, 2026 201 points • No mistakes 🟪🌟🟪 🟦🌟🟦 🟩🌟🟩 🟨🌟🟨 4x3.fun

New: the highly controversial AI music generator Suno was hacked. The hacker sent us Suno source code; it shows the company scraped YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius. In all, Suno scraped *decades* worth of music from the internet. Obviously didn't pay artists www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

News In Photo:

the future is here and it is picking images for news alerts

They should invent a dinner that you remember to make before you’re hungry

This is the biggest possible news for me

Don’t rely on your phone to judge air quality! There’s a thick haze over Mississauga despite a supposed AQHI of 2

nobody here knows I just navigated an unfamiliar urban super transit hub by myself (this is big for me)

my unholy creation. its actually working, it hasnt been an hour yet and the air quality in my place is noticeably better. i can breathe in comparable comfort, and my eyes dont hurt! link to build ur own here: engineering.ucdavis.edu/news/science... beware walmart, they overprice their filters

this happens for a variety of subcultures (goth, country, fantasy art) but AI pretending to be Native is particularly disgusting www.youtube.com/shorts/LnR1s... www.youtube.com/shorts/tkEIe...

There are SO many incredible indigenous creators on TikTok and other vertical video platforms. There’s a whole scene. If you proactively follow a bunch of them you would know in 2 seconds that this looks NOTHING like authentic content

its staggering how many people haven't considered the idea that Joe Rogan is a big fucking idiot who doesn't know shit about anything and that's not a character he plays or a bit, that's just who he is as a person.

Lucy Dacus said “hands up who here is gay?” then tied a lesbian flag around herself very neatly, like a superhero’s cape, and said “This song is dedicated to everyone who just almost raised their hand.” A lovely show, although the acoustics of the Queen E theatre frankly STINK

YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A MILK

Only 1 day left to preorder these stunning oracle cards so you can get a little advice from the stars certifiedcrucial.com/collections/...

my husband sent me an Instagram reel and was like….is this AI? and upon searching: it is a plague of AI fake Natives across TikTok and IG selling various “handcrafted” items. moccasins. earrings. jackets. they all have the same AI website and all the stuff costs $79.99

I saw roofers working unmasked today, and was tempted to shout up at them. Do you want to keel over and pass out on a ROOF? It’s employers’ responsibility to provide safe working conditions

“This data included the user’s birthdate, birth control type, reproductive goals, and specific symptoms that the user was experiencing, and it tied that record to a unique identifier in place of the person’s name.”

The view of the Northern Ontario forest fire haze engulfing the Toronto Skyline from Humber Bay Park West. #ForestFire #TorontoHaze #TheBigSmoke #Toronto

We should not lose sight of who is in the path of these fires. A whole Indigenous community, already precarious because it doesn’t have status, is in ashes. People fled for their lives with minutes to spare. This is a climate disaster www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

Torontonians are not used to having our activities restricted. We have been lucky (spoiled) to not contend with air pollution day-to-day like many of our counterparts around the world. Friends, the air is poison. Wear a mask if you have to go out; an N95 if you’ve got it.

a Toronto crypto/metaverse outfit that pivoted to sex doll tech (really) through acquisition is now deploying robot “teachers” to a poorly resourced reservation school. What does it mean that this device purports to “support, not replace” teachers? Is there a teacher in the classroom or not?

For folks struggling to figure out how to deal with wildfire smoke, I put together some information a few years ago: apihtawikosisan.com/2023/09/miti...

whoever created the automatic AI retitling (AFTER I GAVE MY FILE A TITLE) at Descript .... you're on my list

i'm at the heat wave i'm at the canadian wildfire smoke i'm at the diarrhea lettuce i'm at the combination heat wave canadian wildfire smoke diarrhea lettuce

I hope y'all have been given the box fan filter tip for indoor air quality. 20x20x1 furnace filter rated to remove particulate, tape it to the back of a box fan with the arrow on the filter facing forward. (It's not perfect, but it's cheap.)

iPhone doesn’t do justice to the rust-coloured haze over Toronto, or the stench. I was fine in an N95. Birds were having a bona fide party in an utterly deserted Home Smith Park. Thinking about my impassioned speech in elementary school arguing for the swift implementation of the Kyoto accords.

it's been almost 20 years since wikipedia user "enriquecardova" uploaded this homemade illustration of argentina's famous goal against england at the 1986 world cup

losing my mind at how ruthless this sentence is

Avocados!!! Avocados are so high in fibre!

Emily Wilson thread, y'all! Real heads (i.e., me writing my Odyssey review today) will be cracking open her translation again in advance of the release of Chris Nolan's film on Friday.