I like to gamble. I have a regular poker game. I used to go to Vegas once a year with buddies. But I hope we begin to treat the extractive online gambling industry, along with the online shills who ruin lives, like coke dealers.

Budget 2025 does little to contain the cost-of-living crisis or rising rates of poverty. Important programs are targeted for cuts, others to be starved of funds. Is this the route to an inclusive future? #cdnpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

My thoughts on Budget 2025, @armineyalnizyan.bsky.social's call to focus on "the humans that make up the economy," and the vision for governing articulated by @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social in his victory speech: open.substack.com/pub/orbitpol...

Three missed opportunities in Canada's federal budget: 1) "Sacrifice"—but not asked of the wealthy; 2) Bold rhetoric but weak action on housing; 3) Productivity drive that misses key low-hanging fruit; Some reflections for @bcpolicy.bsky.social bcpolicy.ca/2025/11/07/c...

I just donated. This is so important (read Luke's 🧵 for more information.) If you can manage it, please consider supporting @pressprogress.ca it this fight against politicians who try to silence journalists.

Courtesy of the world’s richest man who just got a trillion-dollar pay package from his feckless board: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

There are no words for how evil this is

The right way to cover Nancy Pelosi lol

Creative brown-nosing the likes of which we've never seen! apnews.com/article/fifa...

YouTube has deleted more than 700 videos posted by Palestinian human rights groups, ranging from investigations into the killing of American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by an Israeli soldier, to testimonies of Palestinians tortured by Israeli forces. theintercept.com/2025/11/04/y...

This was such a fun panel to moderate and I'm so glad it had a bit of spice to it. Innovation panels so often fall into the same tired narratives. It was great to see @ashleighweeden.bsky.social, @dkmunro.bsky.social and the other panellists push back on those!

For @techpolicypress.bsky.social I laid out a tech agenda for Mayor-elect zohrankmamdani.bsky.social that resists surveillance and extraction while advancing his goals for affordability, dignity, and justice.

Wow, the Budget explicitly uses the phrase "taking back control" in relation to immigration. After years as the Governor of the Bank of England during successive UK Conservative governments, Mark Carney seems intent on bringing that playbook here.

I was a coms staffer at PSAC when the Harper government slashed the public service — a miserable time for everyone. All it led to was layoffs, followed by the fed govt hiring more temps and expensive consultants. And then eventually hiring back even more people. It takes humans to run a country 🤷‍♀️

So why call it sovereignty if what governments are actually talking about is agency within a transnational supply chain? It is a policy frame that has more to do with legitimizing nationalist narratives of technocratic control and securitization than with the material realities of digital infra

Sometimes I think about how much of our productive economic capacity is devoted to developing increasingly baroque and absurd luxury products for the wealthy, and I despair.

A reminder the wealthy love to threaten to leave if left-wing politicians are elected. 10,000 media pieces alone before Labour were elected for example Evidence shows almost 0% of them actually move. They have families, communities and home links. They just don’t move taxjustice.net/press/millio...

Thinking ahead to tomorrow's federal budget and all the talk of Canadians needing to make sacrifices, I can't help but wonder when the wealthiest few might be asked to do that. Unfortunately I don't think that's part of the plan.

100% this!

Today's lesson: do not go down a rabbit hole of grocery store income statements to unpick comparative profit margins across different countries and companies with slightly different income streams and accounting practices.

This is an interesting piece on accusations of grocery store profiteering in the UK, and why they might not hold up to scrutiny. However, from a Canadian perspective, it really does put the scale of profiteering here into stark contrast. /1

1/When @himself.bsky.social and I wrote about the future of US economic coercion we hoped that the tools could be used for global collective goods like climate. Now US “evaluating sanctions on officials sponsoring activist-driven climate policies”’ on.ft.com/4qJF3Ko

Universal public education, libraries, and transit fuck yeahhhhh let’s send productivity through the roof

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

Having slept on it, it’s really set in that the Blue Jays loss last night was one of the most gutting pro sports losses I can remember. Absolutely brutal. My heart goes out to 🇨🇦

I am still so numb from the game. I've never been as emotionally invested in any sporting event. What a run and what a team though no matter the result. Still wearing my Jays hat today with pride. Also, was a lot of fun to watch it along with all the folks here. Some great posting along the way!

Yoshinobu Yamamoto: First pitcher to win 3 games in a single World Series since 2001 Randy Johnson First pitcher with 3 road wins in a single WS 4th P to win G6+7 in a WS, joining ‘01 Johnson, 1946 Harry Brecheen, 1925 Ray Kremer — FIRST to do it on road

Without sadness we would not know happiness

There was never a greater baseball series.

The Blue Jays can still win if Mike Pence has the courage to do the right thing.

Average anti-Bluesky op-ed: this app is solely an echo chamber for left-wing politics Average Bluesky post: baseball has taken everything from me

This. We were the better team throughout most of the series throughout the series except against him. He was a Jays killer.

What a team. Great run. Brutal end.

💔

There is only already the void.

If you're in line to bat at Game 7 of the World Series STAY IN LINE

that the worst five minutes of my life and it may happen again in ten minutes or it may become the best five minutes of my life AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

baseball

This is the least dismal my Bluesky timeline has been in 10 months so thank you baseball!

what if instead of sports we chose happiness

Baseball is pain. Baseball is also barfing.

Yamamoto is like when you get past the final boss and there is an even bigger boss waiting.

I'm having to consciously remind myself to breathe right now.

Love Ernie Clement so much man, that was some league of their own posing there

I was trying to place who he looked like 😅