Here comes the Notwithstanding Clause!

How did I only just discover that Don Jr is marrying the daughter of a prominent Epstein enabler? Her late dad, a banker, wrote Epstein a reference letter calling him "a gentleman of the highest integrity" to help get him tax breaks &… his island. Can’t make this stuff up.

Both Ford and Carney are crowing about putting more cops on our streets while gutting the very programs that reduce the need for cops

There's a theme in these lawsuits where a librarian has been fired for refusing to remove books or discriminate against LGBTQ+ folks. They are not losing. www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/edu...

Re: Carney's 1,000 new cops announcement.

NEW: Montreal sex workers are on strike this F1 Grand Prix www.readthemaple.com/montreal-sex...

We have records of diabetes diagnoses going back 2,500 years. We only developed a reliable treatment (insulin) 100 years ago. Now we might have a cure. What an amazing thing to get to witness.

Video games 🎮

Most are gutting health care, two threatening separation, education lagging, attacks on judges and religious freedoms, none effectively using their powers to provide housing/rent controls... remind me again why they have so much power?

i'm thinking about that shrew

Witch Hat Atelier is a really good show, I highly recommend it.

If the Alberta government is going to continue to seek secession after getting what they want, the Federal government should absolutely not be giving them what they want.

Announcement! I will be having baby/ going on Maternity leave in July, which means I want to start prepping and saving for that now while I'm finishing existing commissions! SO! I'll be releasing some Adoptables this month and next!

NEW: The Maple ranked Canada’s provinces based on their disclosure reports. www.readthemaple.com/i-ranked-can...

NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:

I am actually quite proud of paying civilization fees when I see the benefits of those fees! Example: libraries. My library system has an amazing scanning system that feels like the future, and I pay for it! And that’s awesome!

Winnipeg Free Press editorial board: “Foreign nationals helping Canadian separatists is simply not acceptable — whether it’s American interference or anyone else, whether it’s app development or donated cash or social media bots dishing out political misinformation on social media”

“The original route Alberta Premier Danielle Smith pitched for her province’s desired pipeline — which still has no confirmed private sector involvement — would require BC’s restrictions to be lifted.”

Just swimming by to say hello.

NEW: Find out if your MHA/MLA/MNA/MPP is a landlord by using this new database from The Maple. www.readthemaple.com/provincial-l...

Playboy created a Bluesky account and their first post is to complain about AI. They already understand the Bluesky userbase better than the bluesky devs

Two areas of rotation along the leading edge of this line of storms southeast of London. Potentially tornadoes with these. If in the immediate area, take shelter. #ONstorm #LdnOnt

may have to update my banner

Stay safe in these storms everyone.

I appreciate KS surfacing just how much of this friction and censorship is due to payment processors and I wish more companies would put this stake in the ground rather than screwing over artists. If every company did this, payment processors would have to buckle.

Stop using google to search! I haven't used it for years now (mostly duck duck go with the AI turned off) you don't need google anymore.

Other people's intrusive thoughts: dark, mysterious. My intrusive thoughts: OOGA SHAKA OOGA OOGA OOGA SHAKA

Your long weekend dose of baby squirrels

TPS refuses to identify the accused www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

critically this was the case in 1870 when the 15th amendment was ratified! there is literally no such thing as partisan gerrymandering and manipulation of voting rules in the south outside of the context of “white reactionaries want to neuter black political power”

*wearily* fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by daylight...

Incredible

Seen in Logan Square

Some of the people interviewed are three-time Trump voters who nonetheless consider themselves political independents who distrust both parties, in case you needed another reminder of what that actually means

Here it is, the best Pokémon figure in existence (make sure to turn off YouTube autodubbing if it turns on for you) youtu.be/EBHHBKrRL-E

Locking Canada into even more infrastructure for a dying industry that's also destroying the world. I'd say I don't know how Carney or the other Liberal MPs sleep at night. But I strongly suspect they sleep very well at night because they don't care about the future of the country or our species.

Low probability but high severity does not equal low risk. At best it’s medium risk. share.google/3bG47y9kbIl7...

Every time I open Bluesky,

I think "fuck off, loser" would have been more respectful than being ghosted.

Mark Carnage gets worse every day: Carney government proposal targets extinction protections for endangered killer whales off B.C. coast archive.ph/MMq1x

Crazy how they got Astrotrain just perfect on the very first remake.

here again we see this idea that american citizens do not have rights apart from what their states provide.

Meanwhile, conservative commentator Jack Mintz who has famously argued EDI in academic research has gone “too far”was named a 2026 Trudeau Foundation mentor. The Trudeau Foundation is one of Canada’s most prestigious research programs, the goal being to advance social sciences.

NEW: Carney Doubles Down on War on Drugs With Mail-Seizure Powers www.readthemaple.com/carney-doubl...