Flipside of the national dream. Buffalo skulls awaiting shipment by rail east in Saskatoon, 1886, for fertilizer or to be ground for bone china. Clearing the land. Local History Collection Saskatoon

Trash ass Chiefs with Christian nationalist kicker and Trump loving Mahomes family kicked into the dirty by the Eagles who come from a city with a big Black population during a Super Bowl with Kendrick Lamar and a super Black halftime show all in front of Trump. Love it.

Show me the tears of the racist team

half time show 2025

RIP Aubrey. #aMinor

An American flag built on the backs of Black people... Black music protesting white political terror in registers they never hear; reminiscent of ancestral spirituals embedded with instructions for runaways All this in New Orleans... What a moment

The city of Buffalo is gonna throw a party that’s gonna last all week.

we're done with doing it for love. we're doing it for spite, hate, and pettiness from here on out.

Super Bowl blowouts usually suck but this one is a work of art, just a complete middle finger to everything that’s happening

Truly a night for the haters, I love it

Don't think there is a better illustration of AI-in-everything-whether-we-want-it-or-not than an AI bro buying an AI toy for his child who played with it for a bit and then seemed singularly unimpressed with the AI and turned it off. He keeps turning it back on, and she keeps turning it off.

New evidence shows AI's thirst for power may be distorting the flow of power to US consumers (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Health insurers are increasingly interfering in care, an NBC News investigation has found. Doctors say the stakes are highest in cancer care, when delays can be the difference between life and death.

Fully agree. AI cannot do your job, but it pretends good enough that your boss thinks it can. And then the smaller team will end up having to deal with people even more irate with the AI and there will be fewer of them because the boss fired people he didn't think he needed with AI. Vicious circle.

Yeah, the thing is, it’s going to lead to twice the work, because both times this has happened, the AI answering service was not able to understand what I needed. So they’re going to have to call me back to figure out what it is that I wanted in the first place. It is not saving any time or money.

Guess what? I got a job teaching Creative Nonfiction!! For only one class for one semester, but still!! I'm so excited in a way that I wouldn't let myself be until now, because I was so sure my lack of MFA would prevent me from being hired. The ways trauma keeps us from expecting good things

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you—one book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. There are no explanations, no reviews, just covers. (5/20) #20books #booksky #20bookchallenge @wordsandguitar.bsky.social

I also think And Then She Fell is a five-star story 😂 Still time to pick it up for a gift for yourself or a friend 👀

v v tough to go from dronER to dronEE

i can't wait for the robot ai to get so advanced they don't want to fuck these losers, either. incels who think they're joaquin phoenix in "joker" fully becoming joaquin phoenix in "her" is the best timeline

Canada is at risk of democratic backsliding if right-wing populist Pierre Poilievre & the CPC get in govt. PPs admitted plans to invoke notwithstanding clause to overide the Charter & break down democratic institutions/guardrails are warning signs we cannot ignore #cdnpoli thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

it's so funny that they mean this as a threat bc every woman i know reads shit like this and says "oh thank god they'll leave us alone"

Alberta is dealing with the highest rising rents in Canada. Alberta has a healthcare crisis, a massive teacher shortage. It is a province whose governance is falling apart. Albertans have so many other problems to deal with first and foremost. Trans people existin' ain't one of them. 7/🧵

For reference, the three previous times the Alberta legislature has considered the notwithstanding clause is to: → restrict compensation for sterilization victims (1998); → allow its Human Rights Code to *not* protect on the basis of sexual orientation (1998); → define marriage as str8 (2000). 2/🧵

Alberta just admitted that it's willing to bypass 🇨🇦 constitutional protections re: the right "to life, liberty and security of the person" and "not to be subjected to any cruel and unusual treatment" in order to uphold a GAC ban. This is bad. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/alb... 1/🧵

This is why you don’t settle defamation lawsuits by public figures.

Our long national nightmare of having an atmosphere and a water table is coming at last to an end.

Just finished watching Joker 2 and I must say, I'm almost impressed with the disdain Tom Phillips had in every shot and frame for anyone who might ever come across this film.

We have prepared a leaflet for sharing about the proposed 2025 WPS budget. Please help share it. We need to get the word out to as many people as possible about this massive theft of public resources. It's available as a printable download on our site: winnipegpolicecauseharm.org/resources/

This season of RHOSLC is high art and the greatest thing on TV. I used to be a Britani hater, but when she stood up at Mary Cosby's house and said, "Guys!! What about me?!? Where's my kumbaya moment?!" I saw the light. She and Bronwyn are like Batman and Joker. They need each other.

If you think Canadians are smarter than Americans, look at the Conservative provincial governments led by venal moral defectives like Danielle Smith, Scott Moe, Doug Ford, François Legault, Dennis King, and Tim Houston. And why is Pierre Poilievre worth considering as the next prime minister?

When I had a violent stalker who would graphically describe how he would have me gang raped, puncture my organs and and break all my bones, I was told the police "couldn't do anything". Consider this a reminder that they absolutely ✨can✨ do something. They just don't care about YOU.

"Like it or not, trauma is a burden, and survival comes with responsibilities, primary of which is to dodge the stigma of 'whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger'... the truth is, whatever doesn’t kill you simply hasn’t fuckin’ killed you yet." Yes.

As an educator who is forced to read AI generated assignments, this is exactly it. Students using it effectively learn nothing whatsoever.

Everyone should be sharing this story about the Amnesty International report because yes many of us have long acknowledged that it’s a genocide but there are still people who need the validation of a report from an org like Amnesty to believe it’s true zeteo.com/p/amnesty-co...

Lol. One week after the Economist published this chart showing the dude can't stop tweeting in the middle of the night, Elon removes time stamps from tweets.

WHEN THE PRAYERS GO UP, THE BLESSINGS COME DOWN.

NEW: Human rights organization Amnesty International has released a 296-page report concluding that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The group joins Holocaust historians, United Nations experts, and a growing number of nations worldwide in doing so.

Is anyone else very worried listening to teachers and other childcare workers talk about how poor Gen Alpha's reading comprehension, empathy, resilience and emotional regulation is? Seems like it's family phone addiction, leading to neglect from parents who won't say no or create/keep boundaries.

Every time I see one of your screenshots of AI images of Trump or the perfect white Nazi family or whatever I have this feeling that along w/ being weird these images are deeply narcissistic: People not just fantasizing about a world that has never existed but themselves as they will never exist

Just occurred to me - and someone probably already said this - that one reason right-wing spaces online use AI images so much is b/c they can make themselves look better. Fitter, taller, more conventionally attractive, whiter. It's like a funhouse mirror to flatter themselves and distort the Other

It's been a few days so I feel like it's safer to subtweet this: when a real piece of shit who actively tried to harm you and seemingly was obsessed with you for a while there cancels themselves and makes themselves even more irrelevant, and meanwhile, you're doing very fucking good? That's justice.

And 4. They know exactly what white audiences want from their "Indigenous" artists and are shameless enough to give them exactly that. (Hence 1939 being, effectively, 'residential schools lite' or the Orenda being the Jesuit Relations Redux)

I think these people believe: 1. that Indigenous artists and academics are "in," 2. that the pool of Indigenous artists and academics is smaller than the white pool, and 3. that they aren't talented enough to set themselves apart as just white artists or academics, so they fake being NDN

Vibeconciliation

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The part about her being sent to the "Indian side of the restaurant" was a new one.

Before I open this, should we play pretendian bingo? Mark your card if the explanation is thousands of words long. Mark your card if she uses the words: complicated, oral history, family stories, descent, intergenerational trauma, blood memory. Mark your card if no facts are actually conveyed.

Per the story, Lauzon admits she doesn't have any proof she is Métis — nor has she ever located an Indigenous ancestor in her family tree. But she has doubled down on her claims, and recently published a defence on her website, which you can read here: www.janilauzon.com

ICYMI, it's the one-month anniversary of this investigation into the Indigenous identity claims of notable Canadian playwright Jani Lauzon, who spent 30 years calling herself Métis and has said her father was a residential school survivor. thewalrus.ca/an-acclaimed...