The fact that Signal has threatened to pull out of Canada should be a five-alarm fire for the Carney people. This bill is illiberal.

Okay, I couldn't resist. A fast and dirty cross stitch chart.

dear god PLEASE let this also lead to a wider acceptance that treatment needs to include *improving quality of life* and not just "how to make them have baby"

Oh hey, guess what else real scientists (as opposed to Man Scientists who tried to block this research because menstrual blood is too “messy and hard to collect”) discovered (thread): - 84 unique proteins that only show up in menstrual fluid which can: - reduce inflammation - repair cells

Why should I stop using em dashes? Why should I stop listing things in threes? They’re the ones who suck

"A universal basic income would also put a small dent in the deficit created by the mountain of uncompensated labor done mostly by women — mostly by moms. This Mother’s Day, my wish for all mothers is a universal basic income."

They told us to make the headlines conversational what can I say www.wired.com/story/using-...

Why is our pension fund invested outside of Canada at all?

The agony of DEFEET. #UrbanTruth Via our own @tomflood.bsky.social

Heart of Darkness haters unite. I had to read it THREE TIMES for THREE DIFFERENT CLASSES.

“hi just out of curiosity but why did you think the f-750 that gets 3.5 miles/gallon was the future and why did you actively support gas guzzling policy, placing your company and the country at a disadvantage? was it because your personal bank account would grow?”

Ontario's Endangered Species Act is gone. Only the immediate habitat for species is protected. Not the larger area for feeding, etc. www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

Canadians are not allowed whimsy; I'm YEARNING for this but ikea canada doesn't carry it.

We could literally legislate this out of existence.

Another moth eclosed, so we took graduation pictures

it’s still wild to me when canadians say EVs aren’t good in cold climates, as though the leader in EV adoption isn’t a nordic country

PS If you reply with "but the plagiarism machines will solve the climate crisis for us" you automatically fail the test

A reminder during #NationalLibraryWeek, libraries are our best and last defense against the fascist monopoly on knowledge and information

benches, buses, and bathrooms. they should be everywhere

Look at Purolator's profits over that time. Despite being over 90% owned by Can Post and poaching profitable parcel routes from CP, leaving the unprofitable ones, not one cent of their billions in profit over that time counts on CP's books. CP is being deliberately destroyed and you're being conned.

The union has been begging them to build more package handling facilities, to diversify their offerings (bank, internet, ANYTHING) and management, the tippy top of which are all political appointees (and on the board of Purolator) have fucked it up.

That's it? $6.1B in eight years? We gave Ukraine $25B in four and didn't even get daily mail out of it.

If you think Doug Ford using taxpayer funds to buy his private jet is unrelated to his trying to have jets fly from Toronto's Island Airport, I've got a failed private waterfront spa at Ontario Place, a shuttered Science Centre, and a tunnel under the 401 to sell you. #ONpoli #TOpolo

Tom Waits x Massive Attack just released a brand new single

seoul offers a climate card for unlimited transit usage (with a few exceptions) and it's been pretty flawless for us so far. $15 for a week. the coverage is *insane* we've never had to wait more than 5 minutes for a bus or subway. frequency is freedom

the number of public restrooms here is dreamy

the quality and quantity of open space here is incredible. near density too!

car light streets are great

This part hits. I've been carless in the US (by choice and without shame), and even in some of the most public transit-friendly cities it is difficult and wearing. It's not just the challenge of getting places, it's the sense of hostility.

Are vehicle headlights too bright nowadays? Transport Canada wants to hear from you. Survey closes April 20th: #cdnpoli tc.canada.ca/en/corporate...

🧵 The Canadian federal government’s 2025 budget has allocated: More business tax breaks including for fossil fuels sector $925 million for AI $81.8 billion over 5 years for military However, this comes at the expense of cultural heritage.

The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.

Anyone who thinks Carney's Liberals are fighting for Canada needs to look at this list of catastrophic cuts- a list that includes nearly every cultural and social program we treasure- and tell me what'll be left of Canada when it's done.

Everything in this is great and well presented. I only add one humble contribution from my own experience: learn to recognize what work gives you energy, and what work drains it. It's always easier to push through the wall if the work gives you energy. If it drains energy, the wall becomes brutal.

"Most American cities still expect the healthcare system to solve challenges that are fundamentally environmental: chronic disease, mobility loss, social isolation, and falls. But aging doesn’t unfold in hospitals. It unfolds across the places we live, move and connect."

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

I always want accessible walking networks; I walk as much as I can and love being out on foot. But also: accessible walking networks are ACCESSIBLE PUBLIC TRANSIT NETWORKS. Failing to maintain pedestrian infrastructure kneecaps public transit.

At the airport.

I agree that the LLM makers are at fault for confusion around the term "AI," and I think it's entirely intentional. I think they want to be able to equivocate around the term, and say things like, "We're curing cancer," when their chatbot is clearly not.

I've seen multiple people express this confusion, so I'll chime in: LLMs are an application of ML. You are, however, correct that there are beneficial, ethical applications of ML that are not commercial LLMs.

TOMORROW IS THE WINTER SOLSTICE AND Y'ALL KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. It is time for the women (defined broadly) to hunt the Year King through the woods and tear him apart with their bare hands!

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

If you would like to give people a physical gift, I recommend Snack Kits. They’re based off what I saw people use and enjoy the most when I was working in shelters and later homeless myself www.patreon.com/posts/901016...

A global network of urbanists shaping the cities of tomorrow. From sustainability to resilience and fairness, we’re all tackling the same challenges—and we have so much to learn from each other. As climate change and other crises intensify, sharing ideas has never been more urgent.

The Kicked Out series is a multi-part compilation of resources, advice, and one of our go-to safety guides for unhoused and transient youth. We're excited to announce that this series is expanding even more with two additional pieces coming soon! www.scarleteen.com/read/cultu...

But, what’s woke about accessibility? If you release a product, and something like a quarter of your audience can’t use it at all or at least has significant difficulty … your product is just shit. It’s that simple. “I made a product lots of people can’t use” isn’t any kind of flex, bro

"Every day, public agencies greenlight projects that cost millions of dollars, destroy neighborhoods & ultimately kill people—all in the name of saving drivers a few seconds. This is standard operating procedure, justified by a single, dangerous metric: vehicular delay." -Andy Boenau

Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. *Populations* get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner. nymag.com/intelligence...

Here’s a list (I don’t think it’s up to date but it’s the most recent I found) of alternatives to Adobe products It’s too big to get into detail in the alt text so sorry about that!