AI tech bros promising to allow you to talk to a digital simulacrum of your dead relatives as a false comfort during your natural process of grief are, I’m afraid, in contravention of the 1736 Witchcraft Act, the 1951 Fraudulent Mediums Act, and should be hanged. I don’t make the rules.

This is an awesome Goosefish. I also now know that Goosefish (Geesefish?) exist, and my life is so much better now.

Wanna avoid responsibilities while appearing responsible? Wanna escape your mess of a life while looking like you have it all together? Wanna stave off people without coming across as rude? Try reading a book in public! 📖 #WritingCommunity #BookSky

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944

We need more housing - especially supportive housing - in Toronto: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/pa... Toronto must be for all Torontonians, and yes, I would like a supportive housing building to go up beside my house

Very honest. Skies are hard.

This thread has a good explanation about the changes at the US Coast Guard re hate symbols that goes over what is actually happening, what it might mean in the future

some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops: Blue Diamond Bob's Red Mill Land O'Lakes Tillamook Welch's

Is it good or bad parenting when you are trying to teach your child how to read... mostly to avoid reading the same very repetitive book again and again?

@alicefraser.bsky.social I'm sorry for being months behind on Realms Unknown - but about Tamora Pierce's Alanna series: Alanna is 11 in the first book, and I read them first when I was 9 or 10 (in 1986-7), and they were terrific for that age.

It's always best to give food banks money - also, maybe then Loblaws doesn't get a cut

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced. Safe bike-lanes mean business.

“More people could have died in the past week in El Fasher, and this is without hyperbole, than died in the past two years in Gaza,” says Nathaniel Raymond, Executive Director at Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab, who joins Mehdi remotely.” zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...

Yes.

There's a whole country on the verge of a heart attack. Thank God we have universal healthcare

Never forget what they took from you.

For the record, the Hobbits saved Gondor. End of lesson.

The Jays and Dodgers will break for Christmas Eve to share a drink in no man’s land, show each other photos of the family they left back home, before heading back to their respective trenches.

One of the most wholesomely beautiful things I have seen - and heard! - in too long #readingrainbowrocks

I spent a lot of money on ebooks yesterday and it was delightful. I've been reading this author's books from the library and I just realized I needed the rest of the series. But now the payment service offers to track my purchase delivery, but it's an ebook. I have it. I downloaded it.

Today I learned: Kristen Bell not only sings much better than I can, but she's funnier, too. Also, the mundane world needs to get a sarcasm / black humour detector.

Sometimes I hear people talking about things like productivity and profitability - and I realize that I don't want to see a growth in either of those things. Living standards? Sure. But we don't need more productivity or profitability unless it leads to more free time and more money for workers.

All set. Presenting 𝘌𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘯 𝘓𝘙𝘛. Enjoy, #Metrolinx. #EglintonCrosstown #Halloween #Toronto #TOpoli #ONpoli @tabathasouthey.bsky.social

Sometimes being an activist can feel defeating. But then I remember that humpback whales were considered so endangered that an entire Star Trek movie was made about them in the 80s. Now, because of the work of thousands, humpbacks are now a classified as a ‘species of least concern’.

These protesters are getting out of hand, now they're building little huts and shaking branches in a threatening manner

Paging @aptshadow.bsky.social

"this is the fast I desire: To unlock the fetters of wickedness, and untie the cords of lawlessness, to let the oppressed go free; to break off every yoke. It is to share your bread with the hungry, And to take the wretched poor into your home." Isaiah 58:6-7

Toronto can send some experts down - we're terrific at taking months (years?) to resurface a small street

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

Asbestos. Silica. Black lung. Lead. NIOSH is the research agency you've never heard of (and the whole world relies on) to keep workers safe on the job and help businesses create healthier workplaces. And Trump/DOGE cuts have decimated it.

Infant is dead and 6 more injured because we keep building our communities to prioritize 1-tonne vehicles that go 180km/h, are parked 95% of the time, are mostly empty even when moving, costs thousands a year just to run, kills over a million people each year, and are burning up our planet. #topoli

Trump DOJ is now looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns. Worth noting that the Nazis did the exact same thing to the Jews. Also worth noting they have no plans to ban right wing white supremacists from owning guns, even though they commit a vast majority of all mass shootings.

My 5-year-old was happily biking ahead of us and stopped at a stop sign. We watched from 30 feet behind as an SUV sailed through their stop sign without stopping and without even slowing down or looking up. My son had the right of way. If he had gone - my heart can hardly bear thinking about it.

Lower productivity would benefit us all

Great short video by TransLink explaining “the empty bus lane myth”

and if those living along these arterials dare speak up to make them safer, install bus or bike lanes in order to easily get around, and install more crosswalks, the privileged in the quiet neighourhoods riot over the seconds added to their car commute. and this is who the american city caters to.

north american zoning exists to protect wealthier homeowners who live on quiet streets in leafy suburbs from the externalities of the american city, the brunt of which is faced by renters (usually) in denser housing living on surface stroads subject to noise+air pollution, and traffic injuries👇

Thandiwe Muriu (b.1990) Photographer, Kenya

roses are red violets are blue singular they predates singular you

Apparently, some Nazis think that they can hold an anti-immigrant rally in - of all places - Christie Pits. Instead, there's a party celebrating immigrants! actionnetwork.org/events/sep13...

thinking about the fast, efficient driverless cars we should’ve had decades ago

We deserve it. Sorry Europe, you'll all want to squish in a bit, the settlers will be coming home.

If I were a curator at the Smithsonian faced with a Trumpist review of the items in my care, I'd take the audit stooges into the deepest part of the unsorted acalyptrate fly collection and have them start there, drawer by drawer, until they die of old age having gone through half of them.

Make that 30.

Elephants are born weighing 250 lbs. They are the biggest babies on earth except for motorists when they see a bike lane