my festive spirit amidst our grimly stupid reality (2025)

Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide. When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble. Happening under a Labour Government.

Some r asking why I’m giving liberals a hard time for climate inaction because “at least they believe the science.” Inaction is still inaction. Believing the science but not heeding it is actually worse. Dem Presidents wouldn’t even declare climate emergency or even give a climate speech. Why?

I'm still stunned at the number of progressives who are upset at the federal government scaling back on non-permanent residency programs. Here's the 2024 UN report on contemporary slavery that calls out issues with TFW and international student programs. docs.un.org/en/A/HRC...

Whew.

The thing about RFK jr. being a terrible head of health and human services is like…yeah. Yeah, he is literally the worst possible person for the job.

Since the various takes won’t die, I will offer my own: We elect people to the House of Commons and to provincial legislatures, not trained seals. We should therefore expect our elected representatives to exercise their own judgment, and to not be surprised when they do so.

Accusing people with long Covid or other invisible illnesses of having "Munchausen syndrome" & using terms like this to deny someone's real suffering is emotional abuse

Does he think “what they can control” includes BC? 🤨

Say what you will about the Conservatives, but at least they would have stabbed you in the front.

Will PRIVATIZING Canadian MEDICARE WORK? Researchers compared 25 wealthy countries. The more each relies on FOR-PROFIT COMPANIES to deliver healthcare ...the WORSE LIFE EXPECTANCY gets. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

Matthew McConaughey is on the Texas sideline, which implies that they're losing because they're not using Agentforce, the powerful new AI from Salesforce

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

can’t tell if my antidepressants aren’t working or if they just weren’t built for this. like, zoloft was introduced in the 90s it barely needed to work then. if you got sad you could just buy a house.

Imagine if Canada was investing in research and universities, instead of burning everything down.

It's one of the things I think folks struggle with is that you're not actually nostalgic for an era of factory work, you're nostalgic for an era of union jobs, massive-scale construction of affordable housing, and mass immigration

This is what I mean when I say that present-day covid denialism is right wing. It was a plan born of corporatists and wholly adopted by centrists and even leftists eager to pretend the pandemic was over, which should immediately give anyone thinking about it pause.

Remember how just a few years ago during the worst of the pandemic when we saw how the govt can actually do big things and saw that our collective health & well-being are intertwined, and then corporations got mad that they lost a modicum of power and helped fund a backlash of amnesia and fascism?

that’s awesome. hey does anyone know how climate change will affect the range of tropical diseases like malaria ? and whether countries that haven’t had to deal with it in decades have resilient health systems rich with expertise and flexible enough to respond to newly endemic tropical diseases?

Option 3: I’ve studied the math and algorithms that make this tool work. (Generative) AI sucks.

Tonight's harvest supermoon 🌕 in Vancouver, BC. @bskyphotos.bsky.social #SuperMoon #HarvestMoon #photography #NaturePhotography #Astrophotography

Sleep is super important to me and I consider it central to my success. I sleep 7.5 to 8 hours every day without fail and try to fit in a 9-10 hour day a month. I consider myself lucky to be able to and thus prioritize it, and generally feel a lot of energy all the time. bsky.app/profile/patr...

These people would be in for a huge surprise if they opened an American history book 🙃

What will poor Eric Adams do for work? That’s nbody’s business but the Turks!

my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

man, that's wild, what killed them?

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

The best cognitive bias is selection bias, everyone I follow on Bluesky says so.

Literally the second meme I've made in my life.

The true purpose of Bluesky has been revealed and it's Michael Stipe telling us the lyrics to It's The End Of The World As We Know It

opening a Spirit Halloween where my patience used to be

And boy do they project their hopes and rationalize everything he does.

A barred owl at Jericho Beach yesterday evening. @bskyphotos.bsky.social‬ #owl #barredowl #bird #birds #photography #NaturePhotography #JerichoBeach

I suspect that people gravitate towards this criticism because it's harder to argue with than their real reason for disliking LLM's (believing that training AI is theft, being afraid of having their job automated, believing that only humans can think and create, etc.)

If you consider yourself an ethical, intelligent, & informed person & you insist on any version of, "We have to stop fighting for the rights of <vulnerable group> in order to achieve our other goals," I don't know what to tell you other than that you are not ethical, intelligent, or informed.

Scientists find link between genes and ME/chronic fatigue syndrome

this is one of my ultimate “could never get away with this today” movies genuinely an impeccable way to teach kids that poverty is an artificial social construct and the cops use violence to enforce it also Friar Tuck is one of cinema’s greatest Catholics I am serious

TIMELINE: ok i hear what you're saying. but what if things got dumber

darth vader: (arm extended dramatically) join the dark side way too many people, way too willingly: ok darth vader: (quickly withdrawing arm) jesus christ

You know what works better than thoughts and prayers? A functioning government.

The point I want to make is: this is not coincidence. You could not do what the NYT is trying to do while maintaining high journalistic standards. Why? Because in reality, the parties are asymmetrical. The right has become deranged, violent, & illiberal. Dems are bog standard center-left party.

I said this the day the decision came out and it remains true: the Parliament of the UK can, and should, respond to the Court's ruling by changing the law to protect trans rights, not by implementing the decision's bad consequences. Starmer does indeed suck.

Capitalism in a single image.