This is what's happening in Canada. Our leaders, federally & provincially, are forcing us to subsidize the very industry/tech that is killing us. We're being forced to help undermine use of the vast and freely available sun & wind we could be investing in to preserve life on Earth. #CdnPoli #CanPoli

"They… found small nudges in the meaning of draft messages could be amplified across millions of interactions to create long-term public opinion shifts greater than the bias introduced by the AI system." This is a major part of AI's purpose, so it is likely proof of concept for people like Altman.

Indigenous RCMP officers who indentify as women, non-binary, or Two-Spirit can now wear a custom-designed ribbon skirt as part of their ceremonial dress uniform. How beautiful and badass!! ❤️ (@meagsteevie/Instagram) #Canada

China built a 40-story tower that banks wind power by hoisting giant concrete blocks, then dropping them when the grid needs juice. A skyscraper-sized battery with no lithium in it.

This sounds like the greatest afternoon ever. "These are the otters. They're heavily invested in crypto and mortal enemies of the giraffes who, as I'm sure you know, are dedicated Maoists."

Dammit, @gailsimone.bsky.social! Lavigne is 42. I swore I'd never get gotten.

Cheezus kwise

John Oliver gets his wish of getting slapped on a soap 😆 #GH

This is what's happening in Canada. Our leaders, federally & provincially, are forcing us to subsidize the very industry/tech that is killing us. We're being forced to help undermine use of the vast and freely available sun & wind we could be investing in to preserve life on Earth. #CdnPoli #CanPoli

Rape is a crime against democracy in the most immediate sense of equality between individuals and the premise that we’re all endowed with certain inalienable rights.

🎧 I've got a 75-song July playlist to keep you busy. It's out on Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, Qobuz, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Last[dot]fm, and Pandora 🤟 #NewMusic #MusicSky #NowListening

I once got to be in a room about 20 feet from Lupita Nyong'o while she performed a monologue that pulled me into a different world for a few minutes, a serious feat in a room that also contained Bono, Bill Gates, and Justin Trudeau, among others. She's this electric and gorgeous in real actual life.

Reminder that I have a pet end-of-life/loss/grief/etc advice column (that inevitably spills into humans too!) and I want YOUR questions!!

The people won! The biggest part of AI companies' PR campaigns has been to convince us it's necessary and inevitable. Neither is true.

A study based on 47 million galaxies found that the cosmic web retains patterns on enormous scales, which could force a reevaluation of a pillar of cosmology. www.wired.com/story/what-i...

My iPhone ringtone regularly drops to zero for no known reason, even after I've repeatedly researched and changed a kajiggety billion different settings through the years, but this shortcuts fix might actually be the ticket! Instructions are in the highlighted comment: www.reddit.com/r/ios/commen...

I think this might be one of the most incredible, unsettling and symbolic photos of today’s America I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at it. From Reuters, published on the Guardian website.

THUNDER! NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA. THUNDER!

Fucking smart. We should be looking at every flat surface that gets sun as potential sites for solar. Hydro dams would be great; no need to build extra infrastructure to carry the power, you're just increasing the output of the existing facility.

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

Firefighters in Venezuela's coastal La Guaira state rescued a parrot from the rubble after powerful earthquakes devastated the area, video released by Miranda State Firefighters showed on July 3.

My iPhone ringtone regularly drops to zero for no known reason, even after I've repeatedly researched and changed a kajiggety billion different settings through the years, but this shortcuts fix might actually be the ticket! Instructions are in the highlighted comment: www.reddit.com/r/ios/commen...

One of the things that really brought a smile to my elderly mother-in-law was hearing what her visitor counts were to her quilting website. Now she's in hospice, so I'm going to try to drive some visitation numbers up quiltsbymarlene.com/the-quilters/ This was one of her proudest achivements.

#CdnPoli #CanPoli

Since apparently this isn't making it beyond UK news yet, Rockstar petitioned a British court to section an 18 year old autistic kid under the mental health act for hacking their server and leaking a short GTA 6 clip a couple of years ago. No trial, no term of sentence, just locked up in hospital.

Well *I* think it's novel 😜

My favorite genre of thinkpiece is "the way you use AI is roasting your brain right inside your tiny baby head; however the way I use AI actually makes me brilliant and powerful, kind of like a god or maybe even stronger than the gods"

They tell me I’m uncultured, but I’ll always recognise a bit of Beethoven.

🎧 Sheldon Allman's "Crawl Out Through the Fallout" (1960) #1960s #Music #MusicSky #NowListening youtu.be/Qwwd2uzmm44

This song will just randomly pop into my head and make me chortle. youtu.be/YXEXO1YHpmQ?...

🎧 "We Are Torn Wide Open" (2026) by Neurosis #NewMusic #Metal #NowListening #Music

my brother & his partner are telling me an insane story about this local deity called "st. rat" which is apparently a mosaic relief put up by some queers in seattle. the city kept trying to paint over it, but people would repeatedly just use acetone and remove the paint until the city gave up

#CdnPoli #CanPoli

365 day exposure, one year in a pinhole camera, 7.4.25 to 7.5.26 #solargraphy #pinholephotography #altprocess

Me, a wizard: Where hast my scrying orb gone? I cannot seem to find it anywhere in the tower... perhaps this is a cruel trick from my dark warlock rival! My Capricious and Gluttonous Familiar:

Run don’t walk. I live for these playlists. 😘

Florida folks: If you have O- blood and are of African or African American descent, OneBlood is searching for donors who have a rare antigen that matches with a teenager with sickle cell disease who needs 50 units of blood so she can have a bone marrow transplant.

cc: @mark-carney.bsky.social #CdnPoli #CanPoli

I have a weakness. 🎧 "I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)" (1981) #Music #MusicSky #NowListening #1980s #Disco

That was a lot, I know.

It has been a weird day what with burying my grandmother and visiting some of my favourite people's graves and then finding out about a long-dead family pedophile whose victim never spoke of it for another 85 years until he felt he could tell his adult children why he'd been less affectionate.

The Portents..... the Omens

I’m not tired of the Reflecting Pool Jello models everyone took to their relatives’ houses for the 4th yet. They’re so creative! Although this one I’d prob not eat. A bit too realistic.

Time to garden my brain into forgetting.

One last thing about these fireworks: the cameras keep showing an individual or a couple apparently having the best time of their lives while everyone behind them is just sort of standing around.

I'm honestly scared watching these fireworks with Pyrotecnico's longrunning history of injuries and expolosions.

I am honestly frightened about this biggest fireworks display ever thing. The company putting it on, Pyrotecnico, has caused a number of injuries over the years 😬

Oh my god why the Proud to Be an American song. I mean, I know why, but why.

What if it happened?