Alberta will give $95M to another coal company www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #abpoli #yyc #yeg #yql #cdnpoli

The fall of Britian from globe spanning empire to isolated, backwards little island is especially tragic. All those centuries of global oppression and cruelty, all for what? So they could go back to eating mushy peas and distrusting foreigners?

Canada when it’s No Kings day next door.

a murmuration of starlings

Pastor David Black, First Presbyterian Church, being pepper-sprayed outside ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois.

He claimed that fentanyl was flooding in from Canada, too. When he wants something, he'll just say whatever sounds plausible as an excuse to get what he wants.

I was well over 30 when I wrote and published my first novel, and fully agree with you!

Delighted that Cory is having a moment with "Enshittification," because it's an accurate word for what's happening in tech and he's the right person to describe it. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/b...

A Handy Guide [1/4]

even the high lifted and chivalric Crusaders of old times were not content to traverse two thousand miles of land to fight for their holy sepulchre, without committing burglaries, picking pockets, and gaining other pious perquisites

I feel like this review could really sell some books over here on degenerate liberal Bluesky

Thanks all! Strategic uses for ceramic-bladed kitchen knives now the list of things that might turn up in my fiction.

If you think Tylenol is bad for children’s health what until you see what guns do.

I'm at the Gouttiere & Gribouillis art market this weekend! Please come by!!! #montrealartist #montreal #crowtime

What we call things reveals a lot about our priorities and biases. Graphic via @reenamahajan.bsky.social

I'm hopeful that Canada will drop its tariffs on Chinese EVs, because Carney's Liberals have discarded the EV requirements on the "local brands," and so there's no incentive for them to make affordable EVs. But if BYD comes in, that will light a fire under their asses.

5-6 beers are now legal if in close proximity to public transit

they’re removing the height limits on the beers

We’re quite deep within the Singularity right now, though it’s turned out be the Singularity of Stupid (SoS), which effectively prevents the original concept of the Singularity from happening.

I forgot to post this one here! It's a long update! www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/cr...

Carbon capture, like hydrogen fuel, is a distraction by the fossil fuel industry to redirect funds away from meaningful climate change policy.

"Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead!"

“Local stores next to the protected bike-lane have seen a 49% increase in sales, compared to an average of 3% for Manhattan as a whole.” (Among MANY other public benefits.) Want To Make More Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane. #CityMakingMath via @fastcompany.com #BikeLanesMeanBusiness

Seen today in Vancouver

My HVAC guy drives one of those Japanese mini trucks for in-town jobs. Replaced his huge pickup. Told me no one notices his fleet of vans/trucks. Everyone notices the mini truck and it sends business his way, while saving gas etc. I had to admit that what why I called him to put in our heat pump. 🛻

This is really scary news

I kill a kid, I go to prison. My company kills a kid, it pays a fine. And if the fine is less than the profit, then my company’s job is to kill kids. No sane society would intentionally build that, but here we are. Actively repealing child labor laws, not that we’re not already exploiting kids. 2/x

"I asked chatGPT" "I asked Grok" yeah well i asked goombella and her tattle log says you're a bitch

I don't understand how tech industry people can vote conservative. Don't you want to maximize your customer base? Doesn't it bother you when corporations get the government to stop pushing for technological progress?!

do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists

A very excellent video essay on one of the most underrated films of the early 2000s. I prefer the theatrical release to the director's cut (which I think has pacing problems), but I know I'm in the minority, and I also agree that you SHOULD see the DC for a more complete story. youtu.be/c28rdkY9DtI

A conspiracy thing on Tick Tock was talking about how strange it was that vaccines needed PSAs and so that was an indication that maybe they weren't valid or something, and like I remember PSAs on Saturday morning cartoons telling me not to use too much ranch dressing

The Canadian government is going in on AI to make way for cuts to the federal public service. My bet is 18 months from now someone is going to get served by "MechaHitler" at a Service Canada and the the whole thing is going to end up with resignations and a Royal Commission.

'Vacations.' The word is 'vacations.'

Siegfried’s Long Call from Twilight of the Garage (Gäragerdämmerung)

Future things swim before me, as in empty outlines and skeletons; all the past is somehow grown dim.

Price drop on The Peripheral ebooks from July 4 - July 10…

If social media is the primary way to communicate critical alerts, then it's too important to be subject to the whims of its techbro owners, and should be nationalized.

Other people don’t have to lose in order for you to win. It’s not us versus them. There is no difference between me and a South American migrant worker other than where I was born. We both have the right to a happy life and healthy children. If we can’t agree on such basic things then I am at a loss

I think the first two years of college should be free, student loans should be at 0% interest and available to anyone who needs one, we should take care of our veterans, we should have free public transportation, the post office is not a business and should not be run like one, healthcare is a right

Wilhelm Reich’s 1933 book - The Mass Psychology of Fascism - concluded that a key characteristic of fascism is the ability to derive joy from inflicting cruelty.

We're buying *Commodore* and bringing it back! (you KNOW I'm gonna get involved somehow!) Check out the announce! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke-A...

Senator, I believe my memo was called rdcu.be/ehooz

Very sincerely, every bit of travel we do in an EV, on a train, on a bus, on a bike/e-bike, by walking or rolling, or by other active transport, helps the climate, helps air quality, and helps national & economic security. We should fund these as national security infrastructure.

Absolutely huge news for type 1 diabetes sufferers. Stem cell therapy that replaces your islet cells. It cured most study participants. The down side? You have to take immunosuppressants for the rest of your life. That makes you very susceptible to infections. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Sure, sex is great, but have you ever tried sex v1.01 (minor bug fixes)

my hottest educational take is that schools should actively, non-punitively teach students how to admit when they don't know something, aren't sure or have made a mistake, with various teaching frameworks adapted to support this ideal, because people who can't admit fault are breaking the world