Oh my goodness. open.substack.com/pub/rachelgi... #cdnpoli

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Everyone should read Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City by Tanya Talaga,

This would be why I am such a strident critic of digitization as a substitute for actual archival preservation. My sixteenth century documents are far sturdier and likely to survive another 500 years than the detritus on the internet. And digitization is not democratization.

This is evil. Wheelchairs cost hundreds to thousands of dollars and are often customized to one person. Loss of mobility means loss of income, mental health, healthcare. This is eugenics. Remember: anyone can become disabled at any time. The folks in charge haven’t forgotten. They weaponize it.

I’m really grateful for Pritzker. But that he’s so good at this also makes clear just how badly most other Democrats are failing to meet the moment.

“I have seen movies, short films, completely created by artificial intelligence,” Herzog said. “Story and acting and everything, they look completely dead. There are stories, but they have no soul. They are empty and soulless.” Get their ass, Werner.

I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.

I'll put this marker down now: if we go into a shutdown and Dems actually hold the line and don't immediately cave, their poll numbers will go up 90% of the reason their numbers are so low with non-Rs is they've managed exactly zero concrete opposition so far

@sentimentbot.bsky.social how am I doing?

this!!! sucks!!! if they remove any of the queer or accessibility stuff I'm gonna lose my shit #thesims #gamedev simscommunity.info/2025/09/29/e...

Every transphobe is a misogynist.

I’d really like to see @mark-carney.bsky.social bolster #canCon tbh. Stronger cultural sector, stronger Canada. #cdnpoli

Get police out of social work for god's sake. The police are not a good resource for self-harm and suicide, and use of the police demonizes these situations and puts another barrier between kids and appropriate resources, especially if that child is not cis, straight, and white. Fuck ChatGPT.

Let’s be clear. Canada Post is not a business. It is a Federal entity whose task it is, is to deliver mail for the people of Canada. This Federal government should not be treating it, and its workers like Amazon employees. It’s not a business. #cdnpoli

EVERYONE STOP EVERYTHING Mychal the Librarian is hosting the Reading Rainbow revival!!! reactormag.com/reading-rain...

All the clothing in Columbo just looks so impressively well made…

I wish I had a nicely tailored suit… I got my partner two years ago but never did it for myself.

“Leave their church potluck casserole untouched” If you didn’t grow up in evangelical circles, you have no idea how cold this is. I’m just picturing a woman hissing at her husband who works for ICE because“They won’t even touch my tater tot casserole anymore Bob.”

Safety Advice: I keep seeing young trans people on social media talking about therapists disrespecting their pronouns and parents telling them that the therapist has a right to their beliefs. I want to be clear: you have a right to the therapy room being a safe supportive space for YOUR growth.

Content creators tend to think any spectacle is defensible if they can say health and safety concerns have been attended to behind the scenes, but that’s not really it imho. Mr. Beast’s whole thing is that his subjects’ desperation for cash allows him—a wealthier person—to indulge his sadism.

“there’s no real difference between an acetaminophen scaremonger like RFK Jr. and an anti-trans obsessive like J.K. Rowling. Neither are doctors, both have been poisoned by a steady stream of online propaganda and disinformation” When science is thrown out the window, everyone suffers.

Interesting to note that the coal industry in the U.S. employs just a tad over 40,000 people, according to the BLS. The same source tells us that 64,000 people work at wineries.

1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs. 2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar. 3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!

"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."

Spooky season approaches, so I'm going to repost some of my Halloween comics from years past.

Exactly, the Dems' "condescension problem" is almost entirely a creation of right-wing media.

Is it cool that I think you shouldn’t be murdered by the state even if you’re a drug dealer???

This is absolutely heartbreaking. This man should not have been murdered. His children should still have a father. His wife should not have to tell people her trauma. This government is committing war crimes.

Over a third of the US stock market is like half a dozen sex pest billionaires selling tulips and tulip farms back and forth to each other, each desperately hoping the other guy is holding the bag when the bubble pops. Also the tulips tell you to kill yourself while they seduce your kids

I just watched the flute episode again yesterday. Always getting me crying with that flute! 🪈 😭

I want a 13th Amendment lawsuit challenging prison slavery, espech in immigration detention I know youre thinkin 'the Constitution's ban on slavery explicitly exempts prison labor' but it's actually slightly narrower, exempting "punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted"

i love this part and i think it very much shows the difference in depth of thinking between someone like Klein, desperately fighting in the here-and-now and arguing to win a battle with compromise, versus Coates' position that he is a soldier in a long war.

2020: Biden, 51.3% popular vote, 306 EV; Trump, 46.8%, 232 EV 2024: Trump, 49.7% popular vote, 312 EV; Harris, 48.2%, 226 EV

also TNC pushes him on the "let's abandon abortion rights" thing and says, abortion rights are popular in red states, and Klein's response is, "well it was just an example I hadn't really thought about it." and TNC says, maybe you owe vulnerable people better than that.

My general belief is that Dems need to spend more time thinking about what they believe and less about what they think some imaginary swing voters want them to believe. Political strategy will stem from an authentic set of beliefs.

What Klein seems incapable of comprehending is that fighting for ALL of our rights could actually be very POPULAR. The attack on trans rights "works" in part because a bunch of centrists like Klein have refused to wholeheartedly fight it and frame anti-trans busybodies as INCREDIBLY CREEPY.

Watching Ghost in the Shell (v2; the remaster of the OG) and I Saw The TV Glow on the same day was a… weird choice. Unsettling. My first time watching either

“‘We congratulate and celebrate the 42 PRO-LIFE CANDIDATES WHOM WE GREEN-LIT [all-caps mine] and who were elected last night,’ said Jeff Gunnarson, National President of Campaign Life Coalition (CLC).” #CdnPoli #CanPoli www.campaignlifecoalition.com/press-room/i...

So many comedians who whine about political correctness are accepting big bags of cash and a list of prohibited speech from the same political figures who murder journalists for their speech. Atsuko Okatsu stands nearly alone in turning them down. Atsuko is the new face of comedy.

to be honest a bunch of the founders would have probably been less concerned by "mohammadans" than irish catholics like walsh

I guess the “you can’t say anything anymore!” Crowd is fine as long as the off-limit topics are contractually delineated? www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

Kneecap was never actually banned from Canada and the Liberal MP who announced it has GONE ROGUE?????? What the fuck!!!! This is unhinged!!!!

“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. “He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.” -Declaration of Independence

Solidarity with Canada Post workers!

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.

I decided this needed a little color.

This is so profoundly evil on an unimaginable scale.

Quite the week for the Book of Revelation, y’all. 🔥