Well done antivaxx dumbasses, really outstanding work. What’s next - a Bring Back Typhoid campaign? Cholera for Kindergartens to keep their immune systems strong? Imbeciles.

As the UK and Canada want to increase their defences against foreign powers, one of the key bulwarks is the BBC and CBC. Having a trusted source of news and information is critical to push back against disinformation campaigns that foreign powers funnel through the modern right.

Campus snow

Democrats are up 3-1 late in the third period but decide to pull their goalie just to give the republicans a chance to come back.

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

“But our very conservative large donors want us to cave to Trump” seems a central problem for the Dems

Human laundromats love to fold

Delighted to see that at long last the BBC is being held accountable for its relentlessly pro-Tory pro-Farage pro-Brexit pro-Israel bias. Wait, they’re being lambasted for a pro-woke anti-Tory anti-Israel position???wtaf? This is why the right wins again and again and again.

At least some people’s lives have improved in Donald Trump’s America.

The Barbed Noose with the Mice https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/484863

so I've been painting on leaves 🍁 🦋

Kim Jung Don

I hope this doesn’t become the World Wide Web

Kid 2 was top scorer on his select team for 3 years. Wanted to skate A for them? They said no. Imagine how sweet it was today to beat them in his new team. He has friends still there for sure but nothing like a good strong F*CK YOU to send them home. A good day!

I just found out that I share a birthday with Don Corleone. In so far as he exists at all.

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*sip* ☕️

The world would be immensely better if more religions and their believers had even a tenth of the dedication the Sikhs do to doing good for people with no gatekeeping or expectations of anything other than "you are a fellow human in need and we can help you"

WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data. Safe bike-lanes mean business.

Mavericks was firing this week. 🏄‍♂️🌊

There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were: Black Baptist Churches A Mosque A small Appalachian church

Strawberry Fields Forever is the first Beatles song that I truly loved so I’m very biased but still - it’s immaculate, absolutely blew my 11?12?yo mind. And that video of them with a piano in tree. I saw that and was absolutely sure I wanted THAT whatever THAT was.

It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced. Safe bike-lanes mean business.

Have you heard of “The Populist Playbook?” A few years ago, I posted what I still consider one of my most important messages. It was about “The Populist Playbook” that I’ve watched play out often over my 33+ years of city planning. Since then, it’s only gotten worse. Do the steps sound familiar?

“I’m publicly admitting I’m full of shit” says imbecile billionaire.

Gave kid 2 The Outsiders by SE Hinton and he is transfixed. It might be the coolest book ever because no school ever gives it to kids and yet 100% of people who read it as kids were marked by it and found it exhilarating and awesome.

In his decades-long pantheon of bone-chilling statements, this one’s hard to top.

At kid hockey tournament in Niagara Falls and can highly recommend The Dhaba On The Falls. Fantastic!

Has anyone printed up a bunch of “I❤️NY” t shirts with a hammer n sickle in place of the ❤️? To celebrate the Democratic People’s Republic of New Yorkia?

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The “America” and “Trump” labels just insert themselves don’t they?

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

@coldwarsteve.bsky.social did you do this one? It can’t be real…can it??

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @mluckovichajc)

This was excellent.

Wut?

Thank god. Schumer next please. Enough of being run by a doddering old set of entitled rich folk - time for some new blood.

#2 Halloween costume, 2028: AI data center. #1 Halloween costume, 2028: slutty AI data center.

framing this as an alternative to turning a profit sure was a choice

Brilliant summation of the defence. Which is a very eloquent “AYFKM, a sandwich?”

Ontarians know a conflict of interest when they see one. A low-scoring, late applicant still got millions from the Skills Development Fund after donating $10K to the Conservatives. $2.5 billion in taxpayer dollars, and this Minister can’t say how many full-time jobs it created.

Kid 2 back skating after 5 week injury and…he’s drawn two penalties in the first period. And it’s always the same - blows by the defenseman and shows enough of the puck for them to poke for it, pulls it away and bam, the stick takes out his skates. Must be super annoying - but it’s super effective.

Hockey rule change - if you get fouled and your team scores on PP, you get an assist. Some people are miraculous at drawing fouls, and it’s a genuine skill. Not flopping or faking - really drawing real honest fouls.

Rule change proposal for @nba.com - the 3 point line only counts in periods 2 and 4. Periods 1 and 3 every shot is a 2. Other one: the player fouled gets to choose, free throw or sideline ball and possession. Stops all the dumb fouling at the end of games.

When I moved to the US from UK I mentally mapped Democrat = Labour and Republican = Conservative. Totally wrong. Democrat is Old Money, it’s not a labour movement at all - the party machine is as fusty and entitled and complacent as a church organisation in the Cotswolds. And maybe this is changing

Zohran Mamdani won young men 18-29 by 40 points. 40! And he did so by standing FOR economic justice, FOR Trans rights, FOR immigrant rights, FOR labor rights, FOR Palestinian rights, & FOR diversity—& still unapologetically dunking on Trump. He is anti-MAGA w/o throwing people under the bus. 1/2

It feels like we are retreating back to some kind of dark ages where a fact-based rational view of reality is locked in conflict with a faith-based or “vibes-based” view of reality. From COVID vaccinations to climate change to universal basic income to bike lanes: too many people refuse facts.

Congrats to @aspuru.bsky.social (AC director, #UofT professor + #NVIDIA senior director), who has been named a #AI2050 Senior Fellow by #SchmidtSciences. Alán is one of 28 researchers who will receive >$18 million to advance research in beneficial #AI. Read: acceleration.utoronto.ca/news/alan-as...

Oooh oooh I wonder who will win this Corruptamundo FIFA Peace Prize, it is impossible to guess! www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.