This is a reminder: when ICE says someone rammed their vehicle for no reason, they're almost certainly lying. If people were out there trying to harm ICE agents, they wouldn't be trying to hit massive SUVs with their cars. That math just doesn't work.

LOGGING ON

This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.

It's all the more shocking to me that this has been learned more quickly by the Greens than by Labour, because most of my time in the Green Party I was the only person in the room who wasn't middle class, and everyone was white.

Oh, I’m gonna keep going. It’s Black History Year now since the cřäqůėřş wanted to play all day. This new month (March) will focus on Black women. April? Neurodivergent Black people (& more). May? Blasians & those in the mental health field. June? Queer Black people. And so on & so forth.

chemistry bsky, i need to consult on a very specific, slightly disgusting question about a lithium reaction. who has open dms & a strong stomach for exothermic reactions in extremely biological circumstances?

Polaris the Bear combines the magic of raku with the feeling of first snow on a starry night: crisp air, soft light, and that moment winter asks you to slow down. A small reminder to breathe, wander, and let the season settle in, for soon spring will come. #art #pottery #gaybear #furryart

Ironically drivers are almost literally parking their tanks on our lawns, our pavements, our mobility paths and our town centres. We’re apparently waging war when we ask for some of that space back for people. Or even asking for drivers to share the space while being aware of other road users.

Unbelievable that we still talk about withholding HIV funding as a form of political maneuvering rather than an act of social murder, as if the 80’s + 90’s never happened and we didn’t lose an entire generation to this already.

People ask what it is exactly we expect of Dems in this situation, and for me it's this. Make these assholes fucking scared. Make it clear that they are on borrowed time, that consequences WILL arrive, and that they will be harsh.

Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it

Find your inner mean girl. Unleash the terror of a bus filled with middle schoolers. Channel your inner toddler. Culturally we lean into toxic masculinity which tends to choose physical violence. But ever been iced out of a friend group? Yeah channel that.

Put them in your contacts, local offices and DC office.

iran is a country where millions of people are born, live, fall in love, have children, make art, read books, play sports, doomscroll, cook, build homes, care for one another, fight, argue, complain, and die. iran is a place with real people and we pretend like theres two sides to this shit.

I can confirm this is real, just took my own screenshot

Update - it made it to Bethlehem and is now strutting around demanding everyone call it Ozymandias. Won’t be long now.

stepped outside for a vibe check and saw a beast fuckin hauling ass towards Bethlehem

In case you were wondering, Polymarket had yet another spate of likely inside traders betting that the US would strike Iran by February 28. Per the due diligence investigation service Bubblemaps, the wallets used were created 24 hours earlier. The Pentagon Pizza Index has been replaced.

All true but it's frustrating that we might have been spared a lot of this but for the Lancet publishing Andrew Wakefield's fraudulent study in 1998

More of this kind of thing, please, Canadian leaders

Related: If you know someone who's been doing a lot of mutual aid organizing, they might benefit from you paying for someone to help them get their home cleaned... because it's likely been a total mess for 3 months. 😊

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

I mean you could go through this ten times and it always ends with “yes, but instead of living in one of the most culturally vibrant cities on earth, you have to live in Accenture Magic Kingdom”

Everything going on right now makes more sense if you realize everybody in power right now sees their job as making TV, social media, and short form video for a Nielsen demographic of one.

It is 2112 Wolf Blitzer, kept alive against his will by a crude network of tubes & wires attached to his neck & what remains of his spine "… kill me…!" They shock him. "Say it." "PLEASE!" *BZZZT* "The US government believes… *sigh* the South Pole is developing weapons of mass destruction…"

It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

pay your goddamm taxes

do i need to have done all of that to believe that bombing an elementary school and murdering 85 school girls is not acceptable? How many children must die for you to stop supporting the US' illegal strikes?

I know it is easy to doomscroll, especially today. Please plan for yourself at least one or many more offline activities. Buy a pastry, read a book, go to a museum, see a friend, cook a meal, play with a pet, or even a trip to Costco. Try to limit time on your phone and avoid stewing in anxiety.

I am dehydrated again so I am going to drink a big glass of water and make breakfast. Naps count as offline activities! Max loves you.

The Tumbler Ridge community center has been a gathering space as the town heals from a mass shooting. A Hockeyville win could help get it upgrades www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Gen Z/Alpha: the 2000s were cool we should bring some of that back Millennials: ok, let us tell you about some of our fav- Z/Alpha: *blasting creed and trying on low waisted jncos* Millennials: no wait The Govt: oh hell yeah! *frantically starts fabricating evidence of WMDs in the Middle East*

News from the inbox 👀👀 ✨🙀 got notified today that my climate SFF novel (not novella) is receiving two OAC recommender grants !! BIG thanks to @ontarioarts.bsky.social for running the program, and @ecwpress.bsky.social & @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social for recommending my work for funding 💜

How many in the Iran Opposition Industrial Complex have ever even been to Hormozgan? Or Ilam, or Chabahar, or any of the other parts of Iran that aren't Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz or a villa somewhere in the North?

desperate for even one person in a position of power to live up to even a fraction of a promise of their horseshit speeches. Nakedly evil and morally vacant fuckers up and down

Her kids were so excited to see her dance. And Ms dance teacher delivered! 🥹🥹🥳😇💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽

We're seeing a drop off in newborn donations in Minneapolis. Birth workers are seeing small/early babies due to stress/food insecurity—ICE has not stopped—families still in desperate need of support. If you're able, here is a wishlist compiled by folks doing mutual aid www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

that’s so sweet but we’re pretty good on clothes. if you can sew the people’s laundry is in dire need of laundry bags. It’s a cool long running mutual aid project & has been vital though occupation, there are instructions for how to make/where to send in their post www.instagram.com/p/DVKzjyNjVz...

sometimes you have to be clear about your values

Anyway, be a wrench. Do every little thing you can to tamper with the plans of fascists. Be a NIMBY bitch about data centers. Stop using ChatGPT. Refuse service to ICE agents.

They are going to kill so many people between now and November. Elon gutting USAid will be peanuts in comparison. And Congress is overflowing with cowards and grifters. Too busying enjoying Palantir donations.

She's a flirt! She's a socialite! She's lavender-dating an aristocrat for his money! She's cursed to transform into a leopard every night and only true love's kiss will break the spell but she doesn't believe in love because she hasn't yet realized she likes women!

I forgot I scheduled this sale to run through the end of the month! You can get these 1920s lesbians dealing with curses and magic and being turned into cats and attraction they don't know what to do with for a few more days 💖🤍🧡 US: www.amazon.com/dp/B0CSC1JHLV UK: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CSC1JHLV

I HATE editing promo etc for corporations but it was the bread and butter of the freelance editor market. This has died a death now, leaving wankers like me fucking penniless while they hire interns on minimum wage to come up with their video marketing material AND THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T DO THAT.

Mood swings but it's just me oscillating between yelling about the mayor and yelling about the premier.

a Model Y with a “I bought this before Elon went crazy” bumper sticker next to a Cybertruck with a "trans science kills kids" bumper sticker at a red light, getting literally exact the same amount of respect from us

One of my unfounded conspiracy theories about generative AI is that to fake the "intelligence" they simply packed in a very high unpredictability factor. Rogue actions feel like a choice, a decision of intellect, while predictability does not; predictability is already served by non-AI software.

I SUGGEST YOU GIVE THE OTTAWA FOOD BANK A LITTLE BIT OF MONEY OR ELSE I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'LL TELL THE FANGÈD BEASTS

I talked with @ziibiing.com about Stand With Minnesota, keeping neighbors housed during ICE escalation, and directing generosity where it’s actually needed.