V interesting, although of course it’s not at all true that researchers have overlooked the “ground-level workers” of authoritarianism. Yet another case of quants discovering a problem historians have been studying for decades and declaring it “new” 🗃️

Dr. Samantha Green, a Toronto family physician who researches heat, says mandated air conditioning in daycares is "urgently" needed. “We know extremely hot days are expected to triple in Toronto in the coming decades. We need to protect our most vulnerable. That includes children.” #onpoli

Pastor Roman Trachak command people that they MUST forgive people who wronged them or they open the door for demons. He walked the crowd through a prayer to completely forgive, release, and bless their molesters and abusers. No message to abusers to stop abusing. This is part of rape culture.

New York, another heatwave is on its way this week. Temperatures are expected to feel like the upper 90s Tuesday, with the heat index climbing into the low 100s Wednesday before cooler weather arrives later this week. Here’s a reminder of what you need to know to stay safe: youtu.be/egBMr07NSF0?...

What qualifies/entitles Lindsey Graham’s sister to assume his senate seat? These folks are just out free-lancing and doing whatever they damn well please.

Ideally I don’t think politicians need to be emphasizing how masculine or feminine they are. This obsession with asserting traditional gender roles is a very clear conservative agenda and it’s a bunch of made up bullshit anyways

All of the branding finally got me to talk about menopause. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/o...

You would think the idea would be that the companies could achieve increasingly stringent requirements by investing in CCUS, not that CCUS would help them avoid those requirements.

The shrunken emissions-reduction targets might get the most attention here. But what jumps out at me on first glance is the weirdness of giving oil sands companies a break on industrial carbon pricing stringency if they make (government-subsidized) CCUS investments. www.canada.ca/en/one-canad...

Also, the man in the photo just looks very unhappy. I don't think being a manly man is working out for him very well...

Love how this image has dice hanging from a car mirror in it so you know that manly men are gambling addicts who live in their cars (and dashcam rage filled rants).

Masculine things don't stop being masculine when women show up. Only men who are dangerously insecure in their masculinity think that. If I look over and see a troop of guys at a Megan thee Stallion concert, I'm not going to cry like a little bitch that my femininity is in danger. It is NOT!

The problem is when women are terrorized for showing up. Hell, hypermasculine men of color are terrorized for showing up and they are the target audience! It has always been okay for men to like masculine things. It is never okay to chase people away by being an aggy weirdo.

After today, I think I'm going to have to go offline for a bit because I can feel myself slipping into trouble. Are you masculine or are you scaring the hoes?

I'm going to become the Joker

The Trump administration's assault on the rule of law—both at home and abroad—continues. Notable that it is not just a former ICC prosecutor who has labeled the boat strikes as a crime against humanity but also former State Department lawyers as well. www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...

“Before the midterms roll around you won’t be able to eat a salad” would’ve been too hyperbolic for me but I’ll be dipped if it ain’t true.

That means TODAY! Do it! It's not that hard and science will love you for it (and the love of science is a glorious thing).

Give kids money and their toddlers will eat more fruits and vegetables (this specific study looks at whether it’s because families move to neighborhoods where such foods are more easily accessible and finds no evidence of that—parents maybe just buy/prepare healthier foods where they are) (Ungated)

having a chuckle thinking about apple extracting gold from its $10B wasted boondoggle project vs Zuck lighting more than 80 billion on fire to build the metaverse and getting bupkis

At first slowly then all at once. The response to this wave of state violence could define this country for years.

Much indicates that another round of war will not fundamentally change realities on the ground. Trump, in particular, does not have time on his side when taking into account both economic and political realities, and even some military factors. responsiblestatecraft.org/iran-mou-hor...

As Canadians we should also be keeping an eye on this ultra militarization of ICE and US xenophobia and expansionism.

ICE, boosted by $250 billion in funding over the last year, increased spending on small arms by more than 400% in 2025. ICE has also made over 2,000 enforcement deals (known as 287g) with local cops, the most ever. And those cops are also getting surplus military-grade weapons from the military.

ça fait plus de 20 ans qu'on nous répète que les gens quittent montréal mais aucun effet sur le prix de l'immobilier...

As Minneapolis votes on adding these drones to the MPD arsenal this week, I'll just add this to the pile of evidence of what a disaster that would be. Skydio has no Chief Information Security Officer or Chief Privacy Officer as part of its C Suite on its website. Not a priority for them.

NEW: The SFPD was leaking real-time footage from surveillance drones, including color and thermal imaging, location metadata, and drone pilots’ names and email addresses. "There’s a certain trust given to the police to use these things correctly."

The value system of the greater manosphere is not just anti-female, it's anti-human. Success is defined by physical perfection, wealth, and dominance--but it's not in pursuit of goals these straight guys actually want like love or sex with women, it's just to impress other vacuous men.

The biggest fitness YouTuber of the 2010s drowned in a lake in a gated community after injecting himself with melted jewelry in a bid to become the greatest professional golfer of all time.

See also Canada.

- L’entente entre le Conseil des Innus de Pessamit et Hydro-Québec a été refusée dimanche soir lors du référendum. Au total, 63 % des voix ont voté contre. -

"You must support this man with a nazi tattoo as the next steward of racial and social justice against other white nationalists who are engaging in ethnic cleansing in America in real time" is a bonkers thing to say but there were no shortage of people suggesting it.

Wagner Group mercs left behind in the Central African Republic have built a drug empire on tramadol, an opioid painkiller known as the poor man’s cocaine, WSJ reports. Miners take it to work longer. Fighters take it to blunt fear. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.

"the American Astronomical Society said the endeavor cannot be considered to serve the public interest and would waste taxpayer $ by wrecking the work of federally funded astronomical facilities even as it brought untold risks to people and wildlife" Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...

Wildfires spread over 800 hectares near Fontainebleau, as authorities sent two ​waterbombing planes to tackle blazes.

“The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s concurring opinion for ‘Trump v. Barbara,’ (2026) upholding birthright citizenship in U.S.

Listening to Science Friday and got an ad about how solar and wind power are nice and all, but let’s be real, we still need natural gas...

#ICYMI: We found that a recently developed Defense Department program was meant to reduce civilian harm during military operations. But months before the Iran war, the mission was dissolved as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority.

The most important aspect of the deal to open the bridge -- and what's conspicuously absent from this story -- isn't the terms of the agreement. It's that the US government interfered in a done deal to extort further concessions. So, no. This is not a "good deal" for Canada. It's a portent.

"Agrivoltaics (using same land for both solar energy and agriculture) has also been used at scale to stabilize soils, reduce dust storm intensity, increase vegetation cover, provide forage for livestock, and curb desertification.." alt-text: quoted post has goats grazing in shade under solar panels

It was a "slap in the face."

Want to focus on someone's untimely death today? I'd focus on...

AI assessments which provide criminal profile reports based on SIX test cases, is reckless, ill-devised & quite frankly, unscientific & untrustworthy, PM Carney. This will not end well for @liberalca.bsky.social GOVT , esp as Cdns are this hesitant with AI. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

In photos: "The state is increasingly transphobic—but so is our country. Trans people represent a sense of possibility and self-determination that undermines the colonial project that is America."

One of my magazine editors is making $150/hr for Mercor training AI how to write and the key qualification was “knows how to write without using AI”

Which brings us to electricity. We in Ireland laugh at American outrage on data centres. Fun fact - your data centre companies are using 25% of all Irish electricity & forcing consumers to pay at least €300 [$340] extra per annum in costs!

I’m fascinated why kids are supposed to conserve water in Ireland. The entire population drinks just 3-5 billion litres per annum. There are 129 data centres here, each using at least 0.5 million L a >Day< - that’s 182.5 million L per annum. Multiplied by 129 centres = 23.5 billion per annum*.

‘…we need to achieve a minimum of 40% street tree canopy cover, and preferably more, before we start to really feel the benefits of nature’s most advanced air-conditioning technology.’ Me, for Big Issue, on tackling urban #heatwaves…👇 www.bigissue.com/opinion/heat...