When I asked my husband if he'd read whether cyclosporiasis was traced to kale yet, he replied, "Even that bacteria hates kale."

There has been a 'ceasefire' in Gaza for 274 days. In that time 1,098 Palestinians have been murdered and 3,500 injured. While 0 Israelis have been killed. There is no ceasefire, just a Genocide.

Mark Carney says the US bombing of Iran is “appropriate.”

Trump is incapable of understanding this.

The next Western leader who speaks of human rights and the rule of law should choke on their lies. #AbuSafiya

The problem if you can't admit there is Genocide in Gaza is quite simple. It means you can ignore the largest problems because someone is telling you to. Which means you will do exactly what they tell you about everything else as well. It isn't 'just' Palestine.

Great article about how much e-bikes, etc., cut oil consumption: arstechnica.com/cars/2023/11... I was thinking of getting an EV last year but got an ebike instead. I love it!

The White Rock Pier was damaged by an incredibly powerful wind storm, the kind of extreme weather event which becomes more likely by the day because politicians like Carney refuse to decarbonize.

Our governments continue to allow the private sector to make a mess of our housing system. We know from our nation’s history that only strong non-market alternatives will restore affordability and get people into the homes they deserve.

The most bombed countries in the last 50 years are all Muslim. But somehow Muslims are the terrorists?

The actual anti-technology people are not those opposed to generative AI but rather those opposed to renewable power generation and battery backup. Tech is not inherently good or bad. It's how it's deployed (or in this case, not) and who profits from it that matters.

There is no 'national interest' but there are class interests and it's abundantly clear which class #Carney represents.

it's pretty wild that every province is experiencing a healthcare crisis, yet every decision being made is going to negatively effect people's health: fracking, data centres, removing environmental protections, exacerbating socioeconomic inequities, etc.

Your regular reminder that cities aren’t loud. Cars are loud.

War crime. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/w...

I’ll never understand people who listen to podcasts at 1.5x. The point of podcasts isn’t to consume information as efficiently as possible. The point of podcasts is to never, ever risk being alone with your own thoughts for even a moment.

Everybody talks about how nothing is affordable anymore but no one talks about how poorly made and disposable things are. Part of the affordability crisis is because we keep repurchasing things, cars, appliances, clothes etc because things don’t last.

@mark-carney.bsky.social “Israel has killed 3,650+ civilians, 245+ children, 339+ women, 27 journalists and media workers, 130+ health workers and paramedics, 7 UN peacekeepers, and displaced over 1.2 million in Lebanon in 100 days.” M. Safa. UN We are watching Israel commit another genocide.

A smart city has nothing to do with artificial intelligence or sensors. A city is smart when children can walk and cycle freely and safely. Technology is only a bonus. 📸 Picture by @dutchcycling.nl

Climate activists can't afford to ignore social media and AI, writes Ricardo Grinspun. If we don't assert democratic control over the platforms that shape public understanding, the far-right and the forces of disinformation will continue to gain ground.

It is becoming clear where workers fit within Carney's Canada Strong framework. Labour is treated as “human capital”: workers are inputs to production, and their value is measured by the economic returns they generate and labour market demand. Worker rights are largely absent from the narrative.

A syndrome of the greasiest kind.

“Why does your car need to be that big? Does it make up for the size of your tiny dick?” Truer words have not been spoken. Also, check out their version of Bowie’s “I’m Afraid of Americans”. youtu.be/QJRuZL0fvww?...

I just cycled from town amid fumes from a rush of noisy vehicles, most carrying 1 human. So, yeah, “Cars are an invasive species” and their collective noun is “a rush of cars”. Why are human gas fumes socially unacceptable, but cars’ are?

Really, Cape Breton, on May 29? We’ll probably get a heat warning next week.

Every day there are more stories like this. The tech bros need to be stopped! ‘Hidden datacentre tax’ costing Irish households millions, report says Datacentres used 22% of country’s electricity last year, pushing up household bills, study suggests www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Happy birthday to Bruce Cockburn, born on this day in 1945 in Ottawa! One of Canada's most acclaimed singer-songwriters, he has received the Order of Canada, the Governor General's Performing Arts Award and 13 Junos. He has 22 gold or platinum albums. 📸 Daniel Keebler

Pharmacare on the ropes The battle over universal drug coverage is really a battle to preserve what’s left of our withering social safety net canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

For anyone who still thinks Carney is playing 3D chess: Who gets to talk to Carney? Natural resource lobbyists, not environmentalists Analysis of Carney’s first 100 days show oil & gas, mining and other industrial groups made up about 60 per cent of lobbying records thenarwhal.ca/carney-natur...

Pope Leo XIV gifted Marco Rubio a plant of peace. In return, Marco Rubio gave the pope a crystal football. The pope’s response? “Wow. Okay.”

meanwhile in Nova Scotia, Houston’s cuts continue to be irrational: All the Campus Librarians and most Student Advisors? How’s that gonna work, especially long term? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Don't ever cuss that fiddle, boy unless you want that fiddle out of tune. That picker there in trouble, boy ain't nothin' but another side of you. - Kristofferson

Computers used to scream out in pain when we connected to the internet. This was a warning and we did not heed it.

Why do we call Israelis in the West Bank "settlers" and not "invaders"?

Mark Carney’s vision for the future of Canada is an oligarchy of better-behaved oligarchs—a corporate technocracy that resolves the twin crises of declining living standards and environmental catastrophe without slowing capital accumulation.

Carney is a 20th century leader. And not one of the transformational ones who took big swings to build things, one of the neoliberal late stage ones that tore society down. His vision is of a Canada that doesn't do big things, it has more soldiers and fewer of everything else.

Meanwhile in Cape Breton ...

Pete Hegseth is doing to Christianity what Al-Qaeda did to Islam.

"Pop Stars To Stage Concert For Peace" April 15, 1988 #History #OTD #BruceCockburn #1980s

And God said, wtf!

"Vance" is a useful new verb in the English language, and one consistent with our Latinate heritage. Compare: ➡️ ADVANCE: To move something forward. ⬅️ VANCE: To cause a situation to decline or devolve. In a sentence: "Donald Trump's second term vanced the American economy."

Trump’s weak grasp of history, art, architecture -everything—shows how private school can fail in more ways than perpetuation of social inequality.

Speaking of the opposition, in the latest Angus Reid polling Claudia Chender now has a higher approval rating than Tim Houston.

One thing non USAians don't ever factor in when doing the "why no revolution" thing is that you and I and almost every other person in almost every other nation on earth aren't tied to our jobs for our healthcare. Healthcare is but one of the many ways that the US system controls its citizens..