I'd rather vote for Greens or NDP than spend my vote on a man who lied about his climate goals to gain leftist votes. Who is gutting public service that was starved under Harper and only began to recover under Trudeau. Everything in his budget is antithetical to leftist ideology.

#Budget2025 ties our Healthcare to the GDP at a net loss of $300M a year of funding, positioning it to privatize healthcare. #cdnpoli

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

Bluesky has finally, quietly posted a position for a one-year remote contract Policy Lead, Trust & Safety position. Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i... We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.

Boulevard Henri-Bourassa REV inaugurated today. The new mayor of Ahuntsic-Cartierville, Maude Théroux-Séguin, did not attend the opening of this new active transportation corridor in her borough. During her election campaign she promised to close it. She's our Doug Ford.

To all those people who have been dumping on me for my relentless criticism of Mark Carney: I'll take those apologies whenever you're ready. rabble.ca/columnists/o...

Thoughtcrime is apparently now a thing in Canada. Shame on the CBSA.

I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them. I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.

FYI, if you're someone that likes to tuck into some Christmas TV movie rom-coms this time of year, I've directed two with Asian-American casts: A SUGAR & SPICE HOLIDAY (2020) can be streamed right on Lifetime's website (US only). A BIG FAT FAMILY CHRISTMAS (2022) is on Hallmark+ or Crave in Canada.

Key point whenever you see an Altman prediction: the purpose of his predictions is *not* to accurately guess the future but build rationales in the present favorable to his company's interests. If you ignore everything he says you'll be smarter about AI.

This government has failed to invest in social programs, public housing, healthcare, education, research, green technologies, and public transit, all of which is desperately needed, much more than projects that accelerate the climate crisis and leave Canadians struggling with affordability.

Alice Wong was a fierce and kind light in the world, I loved her writing and learned so much from it as the granddaughter/daughter/sister of disabled people. I take solace in how my timeline is filled with love for and tribute to her.

This has always been one of my favorite quotes of Alice's. I think it explains the easy affinity between disability communities, queer communities (forged in the shadow of AIDS) and Palestinian communities (formed in the shadow of genocide): death is our "intimate shadow partner"—& so is love.

$1 billion data centre to maybe create 100 jobs. That's likely an overstatement. It is truly not worth draining the living word for this vampiric tech and people are starting to realize it. www.wisn.com/article/meta...

web.archive.org/web/20241122... Alice Wong's Teen Vogue articles were archived before their removal, for anyone looking.

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

My review of Osgood Perkins' KEEPER: Closer to 'I am the Pretty Thing' than 'The Monkey', Tatiana Maslany owns this film. via @screenanarchy.bsky.social screenanarchy.com/2025/11/keep...

I have never related more to a partially muscled skeleton

This is a REALLY important story, Canada. The Carney government's push to AI our entire country is going to hurt so many people and cause SO much damage to our communities. The government isn't doing ANYTHING to try and mitigate the harms data centres are going to cause, either.

If you are mad for even a second about what gender, gender presentation, or genitals another person has, you are a weirdo pervert freak

I wrote this about THE GOOD PLACE finale, but I now realize it also sums up my revulsion about the basic anti-humanity of AI avatars of the dead:

Porn is also history and cultural commentary and a crucial contributor to sexual self- exploration and self expression. Porn has been vital to queer and trans people in documenting important aspects of our language, presentation, interactions, relationships, institutions and communities.

more or less the plot to INFINITY POOL

i still refuse to back down from my belief that every single living person has the capacity for artistic genius. society-as-profit has just crushed those of us who don't happen to luck out

There is no material difference in the rates of loneliness for men and women. We are all suffering! The difference is that men make their loneliness everyone else's goddamn problem and that includes turning it into anger and violence. But the solution isn't "stop talking about toxic masculinity"

Sharing a poem I found today by @shelaghrowanlegg.bsky.social from an interview by @pinholepoetry.bsky.social Love the exquisitely crafted musicality that weaves its way throughout in lines such as: 'in that solitude / that sees any light / as solace and succour.' #poetry #poetrycommunity

"I like something so it must be good" is a gateway to bootlicking.

This is important because it's a core element of media literacy, which is necessary for your own autonomy in an era of nationalism, fascism, and authority.

I think it is really important for people to understand that a TV show, book, or film doesn't need to be good in order to be enjoyed. But also that enjoying a piece of entertainment doesn't necessarily mean it's good. Quality is separate from your experience.

Notre infolettre de novembre avec l'invitation pour l'inauguration du REV Henri-Bourassa. www.ahuncycle.com/article/info... #TransportActif #velomtl #Montréal #MontréalNord #StLaurent #Ahuntsic #vélo #polmtl #REV

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead. Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

Jesus is named 1500 times in the New Testament. Here's why that number doesn't matter. every day the @cbc makes it harder to support them. long past time they got a new news editor. www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

CBC once again called the Ksi Lisims LNG project “Indigenous-led” on the National last night, despite the fact that it’s 100% American-owned by a Texas shell company, Western LNG. Yikes!!!!! Anyway, here’s a very funny video that breaks this down: youtu.be/Lt6Hmp9ndkI?...

HORROR FANS WANTED! My friend and colleague Mathias Clasen desperately needs horror fans to help with his new study. The survey below doesn't take long to complete, and your participation is appreciated by him and his collaborators. Details 👇 app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/brighton/i...

Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in one month of "ceasefire." Gardens, homes, entire neighborhoods turned to dust www.bbc.com/news/article...

I told you Bill C5 would give them license to steal Indigenous land. LNG is going to be 💯 % American 🇺🇸 owned. What nation is Carney building? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

GenAI is a tool the way that seabed trawlers are, or dynamite uses in mountain-top extraction mining, or a dam that destroys a river, or a bomb. Sure, they're "things that do stuff when wielded by humans" (tool) but they're also super destructive forces unleashed by capital (absolute tools).

"AI is a tool." No. Empirically not. A tool empowers people; helps people. It solves an extant problem. Generative AI in creative mediums is being used as a cudgel that diminishes and eliminates people, and the only "problem" being solved is fiscal. Stop validating it, even in passing.

A Budget is a statement of your values and the statement Mark Carney made with #Budget2025 is that he values multi-national corporations more than the lives of Canadians. You would know that if you read it.

Starbucks workers this Thursday 11/13 are starting a long strike to win a first union contract *** NOBODY SHOULD BUY ANYTHING FROM STARBUCKS AS LONG AS WORKERS ARE STRIKING ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY*** Consumer boycotts are very powerful when combined with workplace militancy

Folks have been telling me they’ve noticed I’ve gotten “a lot more political” on social media this year. Of course I have. The circumstances have gotten nightmarishly worse, and the consequences of inaction and staying silent infinitely more obvious. Everyone needs to get “a lot more political.”

Over 400 Mi'kmaq served in WWI, WWII, and the Korean War? Yet First Nations weren't recognized as Canadians until 1956 and couldn’t vote until 1960. Thus, we were allowed to fight and die for a country that didn't recognize us as citizens. Least we forget. Thankful for all who served ❤️❤️❤️

Tatsuya Nakadai (1932-2025), grand parmi les grands. RIP

This seems hyperbolic to people who have not read this legislation but it isn’t. Furthermore people will tend to think it is an exaggeration because two women are presenting them this information. This isn’t a hyperbolic analysis and there is a very good reason it is not front-page Canadian news.

From what I can tell, Smith's reputation as a scumbag serial abuser of young girls was basically an open secret in Halifax for years. Everyone in the Halifax entertainment/bar scene has been like "don't be alone around Mike Smith" for 20 years now. The Maritime Jian Ghomeshi.

Yves Engler policy call for "Defending the Sovereignty" of all Nations, and at the same time call for the abolition of NATO, the defunding of Ukraine and Canada joining the BRIC, which is mostly led by Vladimir Putin This guy is a crank. As dangerous as Maxime Bernier