Stop every campaign/effort telling people on bicycles/pedestrians and anyone outside the car how to be safe and divert ALL resources to remove every opportunity for drivers to be dangerous.

Hypothesis: any time somebody invokes "common sense" they're about to say something they can't justify by reference to facts.

Local Man Furious that Law Continues to be Applied Impartially Even When He is in the Wrong

Here's a Youtube link of Violet Affleck's full speech about COVID and clean air at the United Nations:

There are now five (five!) teachers on staff at my school who commute primarily by e-bike. We park in the staff room. Not sure how that scales up on a city level. 🙂

if ppl under 18 cant vote, ppl over 65 shouldnt be able to vote either

This is the good stuff. More of this please, world.

Imperial Boomerang just keeps on boomeranging...

20% of #hamont Ward 8 voted and we got an organizer for the PC Party. We got Skellyed and Cirielloed at all once.

Kid in class today asked if I ever give detentions. Me: No. Last one was 18 years ago. Kid: why not? Me: Do detentions change your behaviour? Kid: no, they just waste my time and make me mad at the teacher who gave them. Me: this is also why we should abolish the carceral system.

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The students in Guitar Club have spoken. They nominated songs, they did ranked ballots. I put no thumbs on scales. This semester we learn: Teenage Dirtbag High and Dry The Man Who Sold the World Come as You Are ...and our stretch goal is I Was Made for Loving You. Everything old is new again.

Just little sips of the kool aid, Prime Minister. Little sips.

1. Autism isn't a problem. 2. This isn't "rooted in frustration." It's rooted in misogyny and eugenics and absolute contempt for science and any other ideas they are too lazy and intellectually incurious to grasp.

he'd generate a lot more impact a lot cheaper if he just put a bounty out on RFK

Watching someone--anyone!--squeak out a municipal byelection victory over Terry Whitehead is somehow both more exhilarating and also depressing than I ever thought municipal byelections could be. Congrats, Rob Cooper.

Muppets-Andor crossover movie is our goal here.

If The Rapture (tm) happens tomorrow all the 'good' Evangelicals get sucked up in the God Vacuum, right? Which means that any Evangelicals still hanging around on Thursday are de facto _not_ good people...? Is that how this works?

I'm a teacher. I teach the children. Kicking at the system from the inside while showing the next generation that there's a whole world outside it.

Eat. Sleep. Exercise. Nurture the relationships that sustain you. Protect your health. Find joy. Don't mistake any of these for the resistance itself. Joy isn't resistance, neither is rest. But you need to be whole to resist for a lifetime.

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An astonishing thread. Cannot imagine worse people being in charge of a nation's health.

Popped on Daniel Lanois' "Acadie" for old times sake and wow does it not only hold up but is basically the audio template for so much other good music of the era. His fingerprints are _everywhere_ from 1984 - 1995. 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-Jt...

Hey there Delilah I am writing the Quixote Adding hermeneutic weight to what Miguel wrought crude and floaty Vis-à-vis The work— attributed to me? Or only he?

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Who knows? Maybe one day they'll also recognize the ongoing genocide there?

It's this simple: Rich people realize they are gonna be held accountable (rightfully so) for destroying the world and they are preparing to go to war against the rest of us to try to save themselves. For what? I have no idea, a dead planet kills us all but they are a delusional class of people.

UN: definitely a genocide in Gaza. Yep. It's official. It's genocide. CANADA: we'll wait until it's official before we do anything. UN: ... CANADA: wouldn't want to be hasty about anything.... www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Protesters from Ottawa and Gatineau are converging in the capital to call on the Carney government to prioritize human rights and reverse course on planned cuts to jobs and public services, among many other things. There are many demands. You will have to read the story for more information.

companies make it difficult or impossible to disable ai in their products because it is an authoritarian project made from a stack of consent violations in a trenchcoat they don't give you a checkbox for "i don't want this and will never use it" because they know many people would check that box

Ok my cis friends, we are going to need a lot of you to step the fuck up and fight hard for us www.them.us/story/trump-...

There will be a global action tomorrow, #DrawTheLine — for peace, climate justice, and a world beyond fossil fuels. Find a gathering happening near you! drawtheline.world/canada?r=CA&...

Friendly reminder that Canadian Liberals can do a little fascism too. #kneecap www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

The math is simple: Train your LLM on biased data, generate biased outputs. Western medicine has a long history of racism and misogyny, so this wad basically inevitable.

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A message to Vince Gasparro, who has banned us from Canada, and our many fans there. 👇

I always talk to Uber drivers. The last two (one taking me to the service center, one taking me home still with no car) both gave fantastic advice about used cars, pep talks about dealing with sales people, and general good vibes. 10/10 recommend taking an interest in every human you meet.

"You workers deserve to own the company together instead of some rich guy, you do all the work!" is an easy & affirming thing you can say to any service worker. Tell them about your union, or a pro-immigration protest you went to. Plant the seeds that we're all in this together & they deserve better

maybe he can be the first AI zombie president! omg you know these fuckers are going to have a bot of him making tik toks by saturday lunchtime

COVID-induced neuroinflammation can last 2 years or longer, according to new PET data #LongCovid healthimaging.com/topics/clini...

Guns are an ideology. So is policing. www.thespec.com/politics/fed...

The Dipshit Paradox "Good faith requires an assumption of both awareness and good intent—yet some propositions are so divorced from reality that assuming good intent means also assuming unawareness, while assuming awareness means also assuming bad intent." www.the-reframe.com/the-dipshit-...

If you're anti ANTIFA that makes you FA, right?

Workin' tonight. 😀

Live your life such that vulnerable people and groups voluntarily say nice things about you in your eulogy.

I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior

Paired texts in #hamont news today...

Restarted my school Guitar Club today (we're like concert band except we're a rock band...yes, you can be jealous). 17 kids showed up. 🤘 I gave them a choice of 4 songs. We listened to the intro, verse 1, chorus 1, then voted which song to learn first.

There was enormous pressure exerted on teachers to shut up about #Palestine in the early months of the genocide. An absolute chill, a sense that if we so much as discussed the facts of the conflict--never mind favored a side or passed a judgement--we could face disciplinary action.