Department of the Unlikely: If anyone wants to sell a couple of tickets to the World Baseball Classic game on 8 March in Tokyo, I'm interested. DM please.

thinking about how there's a true solution to the trolley problem and union workers were the ones to point it out

I wrote a little post for Own Your Digital (a Canadian project to help folks move to the fedi). It's called "The Canadian Network Effect": https://ownyourdigital.ca/news/the-canadian-network-effect/ Basically, I'm addressing something I hear all the time about the fediverse, whether it's […]

The Australian Centre for Disease Control is looking for feedback on their website. I've just put a word in suggesting RSS and ActivityPub, along with providing raw data for people to analyse/visualise themselves (like @mike_honey_ does each week), and perhaps providing some good-quality […]

Because it's a feature that is less known or less appreciated on Mastodon: Hide Boosts Have a person you like to follow, but they boost a ton of stuff you don't like? Click their profile, go into their menu (like where you would block them) and there's a hide Boosts button. It's legit made it […]

Watching higher ed just completely fucking melt and smell like a plastic toy in the microwave as part of this epoch is on the one hand totally predictable viz historical patterns of fascism etc and on the other keeps surprising me anew in ways I didn't know I had in me

Settler pogroms ran out the last 2 of (once) 120 Bedouin families in Ras Ein al-Auja in the Jordan valley. The settlers graffiti'd the horrifying "Third Nakba 2026" on abandoned structures. This, from the editorial board of Haaretz, a large center-left Israeli paper: Unpaywalled, next skeet

And I'm not here to give Haaretz props or not or what. Just where I saw it. This horror is happening, it's fucking real, all the government enforcement systems are aiding & abetting it, & it is also true that there is not nobody saying anything, & also it's not enough. It's all true.

My bar for politicians is not high. I want them to care about eugenics and disabled people. Because without that, we don't stand much of a chance defeating fascism. If some of us are deemed disposable, eventually other groups will be too

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Medium gives employees Friday off to participate in national strike protesting ICE https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/medium-gives-employees-friday-off-to-participate-in-national-strike-protesting-ice/

‘You can't make the word-guessing program into a "superintelligence" by shoveling more words into it. That's like betting that if you keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will eventually give birth to a locomotive.’ -Cory Doctorow […]

The cruelty is big business

I couldn’t be happier or prouder, and it's all thanks to a spare-time open-source project. Someone just shared that they created their own version of Leave X - Protect Democracy, mapping Canadian politicians on the Fediverse. 🇨🇦✨ https://elbowsupdigital.ca/ After restarting the project a few […]

Worth watching: Food inspection agency to cut more than 1,300 jobs, says union https://toronto.citynews.ca/2026/01/28/food-inspection-agency-to-cut-more-than-1300-jobs-says-union/ ⤷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

One to watch: Why Ontario hospitals are turning to bank loans to stay afloat ijb.utoronto.ca/news/why-ont... @blairbigham.bsky.social @ijbstories.bsky.social ⤷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

Trump policies at odds with emerging understanding of COVID's long-term harm https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-long-term-harm-health-policies/ ⤷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

I love that Saudi Arabia spent less building their enormous line-city than Facebook spent on their "metaverse" nonsense before Saudi Arabia was like "OK, well, this is too much money, we have to stop." But Facebook just kept going for another $27 billion with absolutely nothing to show for it.

Powerful photo—this is the young woman who was simply driving through an area where ICE was deployed on her way to a medical appointment. She was dragged out of her car while screaming she is autistic and has a traumatic brain injury.

We can ALL take action to resist state violence. Join us & @neveragainactn.bsky.social on Thursday, 1/29 at 8pm ET to hear from activists from Minneapolis to the West Bank about realities & resistance in their communities, and what we can do to keep our neighbors safe: innmvmt.org/nationalcall

Just remember Trump said that he should have seized the voting machines in 2020. Dominion dissolved, and Liberty Vote bought it, owned by billionaire Trump mega-donor Scott Leindecker. Around 70% of the market share of voting machines is now in the hands of one of Trump's thugs. Georgia election

Only 17% of Austrian MPs are still on X. Compare that to Sweden, 66%, the Netherlands, 63%, and the EU average, 58%, that gap is striking. Finland is often cited as a leader in digital literacy and counter-disinformation. It makes me curious how Finnish politicians assess X today, as a neutral […]

Metformin shown to prevent long COVID across risk groups in multiple randomized trials https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-metformin-shown-covid-groups-multiple.html > Multiple randomized clinical trials and electronic health record studies now show that metformin, a widely used and […]

Join us tonight! innmvmt.org/nationalcall

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115978385132170439 Two things: ew. And: shut them down. No one except the depraved needs access to this. These Big Tech companies are in possession of this material, and should be subject to the same laws as anyone here with this disgusting stuff. If […]

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Well well well, if it isn't exactly what privacy nerds have been warning about forever! https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/27/ice_data_advertising_tech_firms/

Some other Premiers have had enough with Alberta separatists and Smith enabling them. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

It's great to see all this anti-ICE, pro-Minnesota #music coming out. If you haven't been playing along at home: Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Minneapolis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKSoxG1K7w Billy Bragg - City of Heroes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW2ZikGW8 NOFX - Minnesota […]

[Filming Cops For Scared People] When you are filming police try not to talk to them. Avoid: "Is it OK if I film?" (That isn't up to them.) "Sorry officer." (You have done nothing wrong don't apologize.) Try things like. "I am filming from a safe distance." If they start yelling at you focus […]

[Filming Cops For Scared People] "Am I free to leave?" *will* mark you out as an "annoying do-gooder who doesn't like police" But this could be an improvement on seeming like someone they could trick or trip up more easily. Prepare to be ignored. Police will try to provoke you so they can […]

[Filming Cops For Scared People] Practice how you will film and what you will say. It will be a very stressful situation and it's tempting to just try to "be reasonable and talk" you aren't dealing with someone who is reasonable. They want you to stop filming. They may be very angry and […]

🗳️ NEW POLL | Greens climb to 2nd place and would become the official opposition REF: 29% (-3) GRN: 19% (+2) LAB: 17% (+3) CON: 17% (-1) LIB: 11% (-) Chgs with 21 Jan Seats --- 🟢 GRN: 67 (+) Based on @findoutnow.bsky.social poll, 28 Jan (using Electoral Calculus predictor)

How We Build a General Strike Join this call to hear from Minnesota organizers, international experts on authoritarian regimes, and regular people who are leading the way in their neighborhoods. Together, we’ll learn how we can build the power we need to make a general strike real in our […]

[Filming Cops For Scared People] If you are in a public space and "a safe distance away" and "not getting in the way" you are following all of the laws when filming openly. Shockingly even if you are clearly doing all of these things a police officer may react as if you aren't. Be ready for […]

So if you survive Measles, like many other airborne viruses, you're at risk of long-term sequelae and immune dysfunction (or amnesia for Measles). Tell me again how this anti-vax admin is making America healthy again?

Progressive Bible/Theology scholar-types: *very specific ask*: ISO *constructive* Indigenous-authored takes on the conquest of the Promised Land that stay in Hebrew Bible--beyond Robert Allen Warrior-style (justified !!!) critique; rather Jace Weaver-type ideas re: new reads to find a way back in.

For the last 4 1/2 years, I've been sending commentary at Life is a Sacred Text, week after week, Genesis through Deuteronomy-- and now, finally, after years and years and years, we've completed an incredible cycle. Even though everything's hard, we still gotta pause & celebrate:

As Canada finds its sovereignty threatened by the U.S., Trump plays the villain. But it is #BigTech that rules the world and poses its own threat to Canadian sovereignty. And nothing the Mark Carney government has proposed is likely to blunt its efforts. Donald Gutstein writes. #uspoli #canpoli

The union for workers at Jim Pattison-owned Save-On-Foods says it has raised concerns about another Pattison company’s sale of a Virginia warehouse for use as a detention centre for ICE. @isaacphannay.bsky.social reports. #uspoli #bclab

The Senate could vote on sending more money to ICE as soon as TODAY. Tell your senators to oppose ANY funding for ICE right now: innmvmt.org/jewsagainstice

The deeply satisfying feeling of crossing the first thing off your yearly school deadlines, even though it was a 2-min form. The rest of this list is daunting 😅 #GradSchool

Microsoft and Blackrock have "have largely given up on organic adoption [of AI] by consumers. They have moved on to a new dream of forced adoption mandated by government and managerial coercion." Fascinating piece here on what Davos can teach us about the AI industry by @mattseybold.bsky.social

"Activists have targeted the “pillars” that let ICE operate like an occupying force: hotels, rental cars, corporate partners, the quiet, normal places where repression refuels. A local campaign that pushed a Hilton-branded hotel to refuse service to ICE […] [Original post on newsie.social]

Guan Heng went to Xinjiang to photograph the detention camps where the Chinese Communist Party imprisons Uyghurs. He fled China via Hong Kong, Ecuador, and the Bahamas, reaching Florida on an inflatable boat. The US was considering his asylum case when ICE arrested him. DHS has not released him.

[uspol, ice,] "Federal agents from the agencies were asked to fill out a form titled “intel collection non-arrests,” and “capture all images, license plates, identifications, and general information on hotels, agitators, protestors, etc., so we can capture it all in one consolidated form" […]

Greenland sharks can live till 500 years old with minimal retinal degradation Man, I wish my LASIK lasted as long https://www.futura-sciences.com/en/behind-the-400%E2%80%91year%E2%80%91old-shark-a-major-scientific-discovery-on-longevity_24276/ #marine #Science #sharks