#TalkAboutSudan: “Having lost almost everything, their stories are what they have left.” Michelle Shephard recently returned from the Chad-Sudan border, where she met MSF teams and heard from Sudanese refugees fleeing violence. Listen on CBC/Radio-Canada's The Current: https://ow.ly/BmbE50XHtuy

Open AI & Microsoft face lawsuit over ChatGPT's alleged role In Connecticut murder-suicide It is one of a growing number of wrongful death legal actions against AI Chatbot makers across the country. apnews.com/article/ai-c...

The shit Fuentes and Tate consider "gay" is not gay as we understand it. Its gay because its emasculating to them Loving your wife and treating her like she's an autonomous individual? Emasculating. Being a nice person and giving others respect? Emasculating I can go on but that's the core of it

In the Netherlands, where the Dutch invest in safe cycling, the over-65s cycle around a quarter of their journeys, while the over-80s cycle around 10% of theirs. Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and cycle lanes don't 'restrict freedom', they expand it.

Our pretend facts are just as good as the real thing. If not better.

I love the #TTC, but sometimes you make it really hard. Took these 10 seconds apart. Which is it?!

I just found out there is a BEAUTIFUL senior cat named MRS. DOUBTFIRE up for adoption in Centre County, Pennsylvania! So, of course, I had to spread the word. If you’re in Central Pennsylvania, please help this elegant lady find a home! centrecountypaws.org/cats/adopt

squirrel: *points gun* me: what do you want me to do? squirrel: *gestures at sign* me: alright, i get it *opens book drop* squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion* me: NOT A SQUIRREL! squirrel: *disappears into book drop* me: *whispers* forgive me, keith

NEW: In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant. She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency. Then she died. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language. It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.

The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.

For my newsletter, I wrote about Olivia Nuzzi and the older men who have taken advantage of her her whole life. www.burnsnotice.com/olivia-nuzzi...

Harvard: “Because Larry Summers asked his close friend, a convicted sex offender and the leader of a vast pedophilia ring, for advice on making sexual advances on a young mentee, we are cutting off all his responsibilities except close contact with undergraduate women.”

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

Honestly, more of this. Anyone working for ICE shouldn't get served anywhere. #NoTreatsForFascists

Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"

I dunno, man. Seems pretty wild to write an extensive piece like this and only give a cursory mention of why so many people "declined to be interviewed." The man has sued so many people for even just TWEETING about the case. But I still gotta listen to CanLit elites play the victim? C'mon.

Children should have legally enshrined inalienable rights that can’t be overruled by parents.

A crossing guard was killed by the driver of a dump truck yesterday. absolutely heartbreaking. Look at our intersections, look how hostile these are for people/children - this is what we continue to build and defend at all costs. These aren't accidents, these are results. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Fuuuuuuuuuuck

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down

Hello @support.bsky.team why has @sarahkendzior.bsky.social been suspended without explanation?????

Some random group of NIMBYs, claiming to speak for all of Toronto, is deeply concerned about neighbourhood stores. The spokesperson (frequent activist vs planning reform) lives in a wealthy, deeply suburban part of Etobicoke. These people speak for no one, and ought to be ignored. cot-ra.org

The 8 Senators and Schumer should experience the consequences of this vote by becoming pariahs. They should no longer be welcome at events. Restaurants should refuse to serve them. Stores and vendors should refuse to sell to them. Tell them they suck daily. Basically, give them the ICE treatment.

The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

Incredibly bittersweet to be published in Teen Vogue this weekend after devastating layoffs, including my editor for this piece. It’s about how beauty influencers have fallen into and become part of the alt-right pipeline targeting girls and women www.teenvogue.com/story/womano...

"They want everyone to know these thugs they’ve deployed to terrorize cities are battle-hardened and impervious to pain. But in court, they're such delicate flowers that if they are, say, lightly grazed by a sandwich, they are entitled to justice because of the horrific assault they have suffered."

In San Francisco, anti-driverless car sentiment has been reignited by an incident in which an autonomous taxi killed a beloved local bodega cat. The taxi company, meanwhile, is like, “It is inevitable that one day one of our vehicles will kill a human being. The public will accept this.”

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

“In his final budget before facing voters next October, Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is presenting a property tax freeze and $50 million more for police, & major cuts to arts, culture, community services & sustainability.” Brutal austerity for everything else, but $50 million more for over-budget cops.

“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’” @reuters.com #Chicago www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Matthew Goodwin, who is still welcomed by the BBC and other mainstream media outlets, now explicitly promotes a white supremacism identical to Enoch Powell's ("the West Indian or Indian does not, by being born in England, become an Englishman ... in fact he is a West Indian or an Asian still")

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

This is the guy Carney invited to a cabinet meeting & when it didn't happen (hopefully because there was a quiet caucus revolt), said would work with privately. Look at his words. Also, "pantsuited girlboss"? Can you imagine women in cabinet being subjected to him across a table? #CdnPoli

Obamas speech was good and as usual way better than 99% of politicians but the “distraction” thing is once again mainstream Dems not coming to terms with what they are up against. The “distraction” is a part of the thing, not separate from it. It’s all part of the fight.

can't believe outlets are running moral-panic headlines again based on flimsy anecdata from the *same* trade group (the national retailer federation) and sponsored by the *same* anti-theft company (sensormatic) that had to retract this *same* "study" just two years ago for being bogus.

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

Anyone know a good Toronto- or Ontario-based employment lawyer? A friend got laid off and is looking for help to negotiate the best severance package he can.

I think the fact that we allowed cops to lie openly with no real consequences is part of How We Got Here. If the people with the ability to shoot others in the street are allowed to lie about it, you can't expect other officials to abide by a higher standard.

The cure for loneliness is making plans with friends, saying yes to new things, and dealing with stuff like long commutes. For example: on Wednesday, I went to a Blue Jays-Yankees playoff game with a friend despite the long subway ride to the Bronx and a desire to hide in my apartment. It was fun!

The difference between how this officer speaks to the cyclist, versus how he speaks to the driver is unacceptable. bikeportland.org/2025/10/10/l...

To the bicyclist who we saw hit by a driver near the Blaisdell YMCA this morning: I'm glad you're ok physically, and hope you can work through the psychological trauma that comes from being hit by a driver. To Minneapolis drivers: STOP HITTING PEOPLE.

This is my dance about how much transphobes suck.

*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What

The thing about the people complaining about how it'll destroy the #AI industry if they have to ask for permission or respect copyright have remarkably little to say about what they're doing to other industries, like publishing.

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn

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