Have a terrific Canada Day! The Archives will be closed tomorrow for the civic holiday. ...No, we don't understand what's going on in this photo either. https://ow.ly/H3lc50ZfpOl

*men’s squad

🌀 Perspective from Marcus Aurelius: “When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”

Yes AND same for not cleaning indoor air when we have the tools but govt & corps don’t want to spend $. Eugenics. You’re not seeing the deaths from damage Covid causes YET & you may never bc heart attacks, diabetes, organ damage, cancer, etc will never be attributed to Covid but research says it is.

🔥 Tiny baby rhino, wearing its protective blanket, trots along behind its keeper at the Sheldrick Trust nursery

Attended last night's [email protected] AGM with guest speaker [email protected] and I really wish we could get more people on board with their important work. Happy to have received my spring booster and supply of respirators but it's such a mental social, and financial drain

“You are a little soul carrying around a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

She looked mad and exhausted, which was exactly the way I felt.

Loads Of Kids With Chronic Conditions Are A Price Worth Paying For Normal Childhood

I had an option, but it was a terrible idea.

We tell ourselves that constructs aren’t aware of their predicament. What SecUnit makes us realize is that this is not true; they are all aware of what they are and what’s been done to them.

Overconfident humans who don’t listen to anybody else scare the hell out of me.

This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

Award-winning Somali referee, Omar Abdulkadir Artan, has been removed from the World Cup roster after being denied entry to the US despite holding a valid visa.

Oh when the kids are old enough to understand that the entire world, including their parents, sacrificed their health and well-being to maintain this exploitive, inequitable, fake normal. 💔

This exact thing happened to me on Saturday while my partner and I were in Dollarama. The young girl who was probably around 6 looked at us curiously and thoughtfully before asking her mom about our masks.

We also need affordable childcare and spaces and places for parents and guardians to get some respite rather than just putting a screen in front of kids for hours on end to get some peace. I know it's not cool and edgy but it's all these little things that will address the problem.

+ Queer kids in small towns find community on social media. Kids in abusive homes escape on social media. What we need is social media literacy starting with parents & working their way down. We need more 3rd spaces. We need investments in community. We need addiction services for all - even youth

I get why this seems great & on principle, I agree. I've seen the rampant phone addiction amongst kids & it's frankly jarring. And that's not even talking about the exploitation. But play that out - It would mean giving your ID to people notorious for dogshit infosec. It would be a nightmare!

For anyone who doesn't know, Heydon Park Secondary School was open to girls and gender-diverse students city-wide who had diagnoses of mild intellectual disability and other specific support needs. This is a disgusting attack on some of Toronto's most vulnerable learners.

Feel as though people will truly never understand his death. He was killed for being an Indigenous Queer Man with a Transgender Partner. Every single one of those signifiers on axis/intersections/marginalizations is extremely important, but it is in tandem all at once not just because he “Gay”.

"Hours before the shooting, the mother of one of the suspects reportedly called police to report her son missing. [..] She saw warning signs and tried to act. [..] if we are serious about preventing targeted violence, we have to talk honestly about what prevention actually looks like in real life."

Transphobia is rape culture instance #5435788 www.advocate.com/news/crime/o...

Whatever was going on, there was nothing I could do about it now, and that just made me more furious. So I watched five minutes of episode 174 of Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon. Did that work? No, no, it didn’t.

SecUnits are ordered by the HubSystem to gather video and audio evidence because nobody trusts the human supervisors, including the other human supervisors.

More than 500 children killed in measles outbreak in Bangladesh https://aje.news/44egrp

While the peace and climate movements should be one and the same, big oil and war are definitely one and the same.

War is peace Tax cuts are savings Fossil fuels are climate action

ART’s processing capacity made me look like I was moving in slow motion. This made ART capable of both enormous patience and also of becoming furious when it didn’t get what it wanted immediately.

“My hypothesis is that women will use AI to do more work. Men will use AI to get out of doing more work. And, every argument that is not dealing with the preconditions of this gendered inequality is not thinking seriously about AI” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/lost...

Just laughing at how it’s possible for a black woman to be so beautiful and talented that she sends a racist into a six day public stroke

the iran war is a really fascinating lesson in global supply chains did you know a key component of (insert thing here) travels through the strait of hormuz? now you do!

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

“Yes, please be careful. There was a terrible virus on a company ship and we all nearly died and SecUnit’s brain was compromised.” SecUnit’s brain is always compromised, ART said.

This is a feel good image for me. These two adorable young Australian superb fairywren staying close to each other.

This is never going to affect me personally (as in, within my own household) and I am *FURIOUS*.

Gee, I wonder why a state university in Michigan might be recognizing Doug. Oh wait. (From January) www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Not your ordinary daffodils. #FlowerReport

A Ph.D. student at the University of Windsor is conducting a confidential study on what happens after unwanted sexual experiences, with a focus on any communication or contact with the person involved afterward. To participate or get more info ⬇️

"The researchers eventually identified 208 physicians and 689 alleged victims, most of them women and girls. [..] 'Shouldn’t the general public have easy access to this information?'”

“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.” – Epictetus #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

Whatever—the big danger to humans is not raiders, angry human-eating fauna, or rogue SecUnits; it’s other humans.

This cop used the police database to look up women and ex partners … and all he got was a demotion. He’s not fired. He will continue to be in a position of power and his demotion ends in 18 months This is a perfect example of why women “don’t just go to the police”

“Why don’t you just lodge a complaint?” This is why. 48 women were sexually assaulted by a neurologist who performed unnecessary vaginal and breast exams. He’s been acquitted. The courts decided the exams were “justified”. When rape culture & medical misogyny intersect, patients suffer.

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I don’t know what I want. I said that at some point, I think. But it isn’t that, it’s that I don’t want anyone to tell me what I want, or to make decisions for me.

This is the most-read story on Global News today. And the minister in charge of the FOI changes read it, too. After reading it, he said in part: “You’re suggesting we’re making a lot of changes. What are the changes then? There’s not a lot of changes." #Onpoli globalnews.ca/news/1181230...

There was a time when the CDC was respected, but now it can't be trusted. Accessible link: archive.ph/PGoA6

Amal Khalil, a veteran Lebanese journalist, was killed in an Israeli strike. Khalil had been trapped beneath the rubble for seven hours, unable to be reached as Israeli attacks prevented emergency services reaching her. Khalil is now being mourned across Lebanon for decades of fearless reporting:

My fellow Ontarians : This is what happens when you don't go out to vote. This is what happens when you refuse to bring up politics at family gatherings. You end up with a Premier who is a corrupt goon who would rather a late night vote to change the law than be accountable to us, the people.