Breaking: Small-handed dictator threatens own subjects if foreigners don't comply with his diktat.

Banger on “kindness” in healthcare/public health journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (“Fake kindness, caring and symbolic violence” by @faussenurse.bsky.social et al)

What disability and illness advocacy groups are doing good work in Minnesota right now in terms of direct aid and background activism/advocacy?

I feel like people are downplaying the scale of the possible US theft of Greenland. I know Greenland isn't Mercator-projection big, but it's still massive: it would increase the total territory of the United States (including Alaska) by nearly a quarter (23.7%)!

It’s crucial to recognize this is not hypocrisy. People in power don’t actually want to regulate the business models of these big tech companies, they want to use liberals/leftists rightful anger at big tech to pass sweeping surveillance/censorship laws while letting these companies profit

Indeed, but ICE is not an occupying force; ICE is a terrorizing force. They don't have the numbers to be an occupying force. At a certain point the sheer numbers of people in the streets will simply overwhelm ICE's ability to inflict fear. The moment of shock is transient.

Kinda weird how Carney's jetting all over the world to make trade deals, ostensibly to reduce our ties to the US, meanwhile there's been absolutely no discussion of reducing foreign ownership of our news media. Post Media is primarily owned by a US hedge fund with ties to the Republican Party.

Just saw a content-theft account reposted by someone here. A tip: if their bio says something like, “if you own the original, DM me,” you can tell they are happy to steal, mislead, and profit off other people’s work (and don’t want to be called out about it in public). Personally, I block on sight.

Ok what about a tropical storm but it’s a metaphor for anti-colonial revolution? youtu.be/uw66FA6OTqA?...

How many women have died with “fucking bitch” ringing in their ears? Don’t let the misogyny get erased here

Seeing how white people, who claim to be allies, are responding to Black people, the community they’re supposed to be in allyship with, about respecting the origins of the #SayHerName movement is why our fight goes nowhere. Y’all are not real allies bc you’re not actually LISTENING.

The Trump Regime Smear Machine is now a taxpayer funded venture that smears victims of state violence by justifying their killing. This should be familiar, it is a common practice in the aftermath of police shootings of black people (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The US has now reached the "regime security forces summarily executing unarmed civilians in the street" phase. Fucking hell.

👈Shot 👉Chasers (1&2)

The attempted coup was made into a rolling and ultimately successful coup by Mitch McConnell’s covering for it in the senate and by McConnell’s Hand-packed SCOTUS - no figure worked harder or more successfully to destroy the protections we had against a man like Trump whom he purports to disdain

Canadian federal Bill C-16 proposes making nonconsensual deep fake nudes a crime. We can talk all day about how the legal system will not save us but this is a tangible way we can at least create SOME mechanism for justice. Now's the time to contact your MP and show your support for the Bill.

Every shred of 20th-C progress is being unmade with alarming speed. I'm exhausted, but I'm not exhausted enough to stop fighting for a better, more equitable world.

Every video I come across on YouTube these days is so obviously scripted. More and more creators are just fully reading ChatGPT generated scripts to the camera 24/7 and it's total garbage I hate it!

The kids are not ok.

I sure would hate to be an oil-rich country whose sovereignty the US doesn't recognize within easy striking distance of US soil. That would be scary!

Canada needs to take see the invasion of Venezuela for what it is - a deliberate attack on the international rules based order. We have a bandit nation on our border and we need to be ready for whatever comes next. charlieangus.substack.com/p/venezuela-...

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

U.S. military action in Venezuela is just as illegal and immoral as Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

US policy has become so Putin-esque.

It would be nice if Canadian journalists started asking our politicians why they continue to use X despite all of the CSAM and fascism, but a lot of Canadian journalists still use it, too.

Can we please stop referring to common viruses as mild when they cause families unimaginable heartache every year? people.com/influencer-p...

2026 Out: ChatGPT/gen AI 2026 In: Analog hobbies

all meaning has collapsed in our post-literate society and i wrote a bunch of useless, useless words about it. read it if you, like me, are one of a diminishing minority who still reads www.theverge.com/policy/84960...

A big thank you to everyone who did anything, big or small, for the Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome +/or Long Covid cause in 2025 (including simply sharing messages on social media). 👏 Together we can make a difference. 👍 #MEcfs #LongCovid

Thromboembolic deaths are being monitored, but not necessarily linked to past C19 as a contributing risk factor, or acute C19 as a cause. So yes, they are counted but not necessarily as C19 deaths. ->

Count the whales. The 3 humpbacks I saw this morning weren't heading to warmer climes just yet. #salishsea #vancouverisland

Had a conversation with a 19 year old over Christmas; I asked her where she gets her news and she said she doesn't. I asked her where she goes to find out about the world and she said she doesn't. Just...doesn't. Shook me to the core, in part because I should have known this is happening but didn't.

Sharing the Go Fund Me for the wife of Prashant Sreekumar, the 44-year old man who died after waiting 8 hrs in the ER with chest pain. She is now a single mom of 3 and unsure how she will support their family as their youngest child needs 24/7 care www.gofundme.com/f/rest-in-pe...

☕️📖 Nothing like spending a cozy morning curled up under a blanket with a cup of tea and a book on my lap to keep me company while I endlessly scroll my phone

So tragic - I just watched the video of his wife saying the hospital killed him. Kudos to her for speaking out amidst her sudden grief

The wife of the 44 year-old man who died this week in Edmonton after waiting 8 hrs in the ER with chest pain was told by hospital security staff she was "being rude" Are you supposed to just be super calm & polite while your spouse dies a preventable death in the hospital?

If COVID were primarily prevented by handwashing, we'd expect it to surge in water-scarce regions the way true water-washed diseases do. The fact that it is surging in high-income countries with excellent hygiene is far more consistent with airborne spread than "wash your hands harder"

🚨 Holy s**t. I just went and manually pulled the annual flu totals in Canada. Almost like something happened to make us less able to fight off the flu. @nicktsergas.ca @spichaksimon.bsky.social @tryangregory.bsky.social @barryhunt008.bsky.social @jvipondmd.bsky.social @drgorfinkel.bsky.social

This piece buries the lede: "While flu-related deaths [in children] are rare, they do happen annually, and three elementary-aged children have already died in eastern Ontario this year." Get vaccinated. Wear N95s in public. And most of all, don't make the mistake of thinking "it's just the flu."

Theoretically, everyone deserves the right to do what they want to their own bodies. But in practice, these laws lead to further devaluation of disabled lives. They invariably lead to people choosing MAID because they can't afford healthcare, cajoled into this cheaper choice by an uncaring system.

Oof. Flu A taking off like a rocket in #bcpoli (as predicted, but who needs prevention from @governmentofbc.bsky.social, amitrite?!). Flu A test ~2X in 1 wk, from 7.4% to 13.8% COVID going down, RSV up a bit, but still LOTS of both around. #FluIsAirborne. Get your vax asap AND #MaskUp.

This is the way.

A lot of people don't realize the extent to which the academic process relies on trust. This is why those "sting" operations often work - peer review is good at debating the merits of a given process, analysis, etc. It's not robust to outright liars AI is particularly well suited to exploiting this

Seems fine, mild even?

Could someone explain to me again why Canada can't fund hospital equipment purchases from taxes instead of relying on charitable donations which may or may not materialize? This is another reason why we can't have nice things. www.timescolonist.com/local-news/f...

CALL OUT: Are you or someone you know currently in hospital and being cared for in, say, a hallway? If so, please get in touch. Ditto if you've got a parent waiting in hospital for a care home or the like.

Did you know? A Canadian company is supplying armoured cars to ICE as they continue to carry out the Trump administration’s cruel and rights-violating deportation agenda. @rachelgilmore.bsky.social writes that we need a moral line in the sand thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

As Chantal Hébert said, folks are missing the climate forest for the pipeline trees. Carney rolled back major climate policies for Alberta, now! In exchange for a lil industrial carbon price increase and the BS that is carbon capture! Forgetting the pipeline, this is BAD for the climate crisis!