Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

Bittersweet at missing GDC this year. It had to happen for a number of reasons, but I’m still a bit bummed because I always connect with so many cool people.

I want to reassure my followers that even though Bluesky has a new CEO, I still remain 100% committed to my mission of making your experience of using this website as unpleasant as possible

it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.

Chronograph Games is hiring a Senior Sound Designer to help shape the audio for their hand-drawn 2D fantasy soulslike, Project Hourglass! 📍 Remote, Contract (ET ±4h) 🎧 Made in Unity & Wwise 🗓️ 4–8 weeks, $8k CAD ⤵️

"Increasingly, the landscape for large-scale events, particularly community events, has been changing." Ken Sim and ABC found $1 million for a sign and $2 million for fireworks after pushing through a brutal austerity Budget. Surely we can save Car Free Days! www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

sure you should check the food bowl and all but riffing is typically a sign that you're housing your writers in an overstocked tank. you're going to need a bigger enclosure and/or to rehome some writers. otherwise they'll get their plots tangled together and form a "writer king"

Watching people play Outer Wilds for the first time produces every good brain chemical.

I might be new here, but I think a city that fosters community, local business and arts festivals is a better one to live in than a city where, if you say it should be for anyone other than tesla-driving real estate investors, the mayor will call you a drug dealer.

Has liberating a country through bombing their children to death ever worked?

I wrote a few words last night. nvie.com/posts/15-yea...

Key areas are given very small increases, which mean real cuts to services. The gov’s tax increases will hit low- to moderate income households. The budget lays the burden of austerity on the poorest in BC, while abandoning key investments in the care economy, including $10day child care 5/ #bcpoli

The BC government says the budget has to be "tough" to tackle large deficits. But we can’t talk about deficits without talking about revenues. And BC’s revenue as a share of our economy is much lower than it was before the deep tax cuts of the early 2000s. #bcpoli #BCBudget2026

Microsoft's apparently AI-slop git intro would like to inform you that the more Tim's you have on your team, the more you can program featue backwards in time, but with less Tim you can actually continvoucly morg back into develop.

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

Minneapolis.

Bonne année et joyeuse austérité!

Michael Bublé (and his awful water) will answer for his crimes

Vancouver city councillor @lucymaloney.bsky.social has introduced a new Council motion that would get rid of right turns on red lights in the city. Via @dailyhivevancouver.bsky.social Unquestionably the smart, evidence-based move for EVERYONE’s safety, but especially for people walking & on bikes.

I’m actually impressed by how Heated Rivalry is leaning into its structural weirdness and just going for it.

What is this, a housing plan for ants?

HEY WHAT THE FUCK www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Right, that's exactly where you wanna build a data center – in a place which has half a second of ping to anywhere on Earth and is perfectly heat-insulated on all sides. www.businessinsider.com/google-proje...

Thread on what I've seen as a journalist for @thetyee.ca this week at DULF's constitutional challenge. They're arguing closing their compassion club put marginalized people at risk of overdose and death. Explainer article coming early next week.

WSL stands for Worcestershire Sauce for Linux,

Heated Rivalry. Oh my.

Health Canada convened an independent expert advisory group in 2020 to provide guidance on safer supply. Health Canada heavily redacted its final report, but unredacted version obtained by CBC shows the expert group said drug crisis is driven by prohibition and recommended expansion of safer supply

"Safe supply itself is not a failure. Safe supply has never been tried yet." www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XJ-...

okay NOW we can call it the skyline

I’m honestly shocked that this story from @globalnews.ca has flown under the radar. Confirmation that Amit Shah, the second-most powerful man in the Indian government, was directly involved in the assassinations on Canadian soil. globalnews.ca/news/1151469...

In this past decade of mass death, there were timid steps in the right direction - at first. But the most coherent, passionate response from the state (and its various apparatus) has been to smash DULF, hire more cops & roll back what little harm reduction we had won.

the police are defunding us bsky.app/profile/jmce...

Deeply disappointed to see @cityofvancouver.bsky.social terminated the All Souls Nights at Mountainview Cemetery. This event has been a tradition for us for the last 6 years, and the event has been going for 20. I’ll quote the statement from nightforallsouls.com In a thread:

*heavy breathing* theprotomen.bandcamp.com/album/act-ii...

Canada Post is not a goddamn business and it's infuriating that the government keeps talking like it is. We never hear about how much money the army loses, or how deep in the red Environment Canada is. But the Canada Post, it never stops. And it's bullshit.

oh shit!

This year’s @fullindie.bsky.social summit was excellent, and it was so great to reconnect with a bunch of people I haven’t seen in ages. But wow my social battery is fried.

I am playing the first hollow knight and it's the first game I've played that's even remotely like this but I am beginning to understand the appeal of doing the same route 40 times in a row cause I can't stop fucking up it's a nice reminder of how we can not rush our escape from samsara

Last funding application submitted for the year! Now time to get hype for @fullindie.bsky.social summit this weekend and figure out what I'm gonna do for the next few months...

Do your mental health a favor and turn this on for today. You really don't want to watch this. It is awful.

i don't know what the source of this video is but I love it

Canadians, this is a parliamentary petition, not a random online thing. Takes a minute to sign. An easy good deed for the day.

Online age verification is not like "showing ID to buy alcohol" because a) the liquor store doesn't get to scan your ID and store a digital copy of it forever in a database that will inevitably get hacked b) you don't have to show ID to go to the library because they have cocktail recipe books

Enough people said they wanted to see the final slide deck, so I took the time to put it on my non-teacher github so I could share it. I didn't end up getting in trouble. I ended up being encouraged by a colleague to share it with my dept chair, and he liked it authorblues.github.io/lecture-slid...

bit of a fib from the mayor, isn't it? sure, you could describe a budget freeze as a budget cut. working for an org that has had its funding frozen at the same level for years, I get that. but it wasn't even frozen, the province wouldn't let them. he was police board chair for a while, he knows.