As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from humanoid sex robots to classroom "education" robots. Buckle up. nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/n... 🧵

I have never ever ever seen a newspaper story where liberal men or women whine about how conservatives don't want to fuck them but at least a couple of times a year there's a newspaper story about how awful it is that liberal women don't want to fuck conservative men

"Prime Minister Mark Carney and B.C. Premier David Eby’s plan to convert thousands of vacant condo units into rent-to-own housing treats a symptom of Canada’s housing crisis instead of its underlying disease." macleans.ca/economy/real...

Able only to watch their hometown burn to the ground, residents of Collins First Nation flee for their lives by boat—one of at least five northern Ontario First Nations evacuated due to wildfires. That story and more on APTN News Brief: pod.fo/e/44afde

Carney has appointed a tobacco lobbyist to the Senate and an oil exec as consul general to New York. Can't wait for an asbestos CEO who dabbles in the blood diamond trade to be made ambassador to the EU.

"Bottom line, we're likely to see oilsands emissions continue to rise over the next five, 10, 15, 20 years...Nothing that's been announced ... suggests that there's a real attempt to constrain oilsands emissions and see them reduce over time." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The healthcare system we all deserve relies on nurses being treated fairly. Nurses have been put in unsafe working conditions, and now they’re being disrespected for asking for better. This is unacceptable. The right to strike is sacred. The BC Greens stand in solidarity with the BCNU.

Who’s behind the backlash over Indigenous rights in B.C.? www.dogwoodbc.ca/news/whos-be...

Buster Keaton didn't stand still while a two-ton housefront collapsed on top of him with a window cut out to barely clear his shoulders on each side so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

The heatwave in Europe is so extreme, it's 25–32°F (14–18°C) above normal. You read that right. France recorded it's hottest day ever. The UK had its hottest ever June day. The ground is exceeding 122°F (50°C). People are dying. Tell me again why we shouldn't talk about climate change???

Leadnow wondering how y'all are feeling about AI data centres. It's a short 2 minute survey. Share your thoughts on the AI data centres here: leadnow.ca/campaigns/AI...

The death toll in India continues to add up - 3,400 per day. Canada is planning to multiply by 7 our LNG production. Our government doesn't care who dies.

"women can be perfectly capable of using this technology and simply choose not to" we did in fact need data backing up this incredibly obvious claim bc a LOT of companies will insist Susan from Accounting is refusing to use AI to do the books because IT needs to come explain how it works to her

"Say fewer things, say them more often." 🎯

Tech oligarchs have spent 3 years screaming that their plan is to win the race to AGI, which they define as the point when machines replace the vast majority of human economic activity. They just figured out that we could hear them. Bit late, Jensen Huang. www.channelnewsasia.com/business/ceo...

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

This is so damning of the Ministry + VicPD. “We are now more convinced than ever that the process was just a whole set up... coordinated by senior government staff who worked closely... with police liaison officer program to try to force us to do what they wish" cheknews.ca/sd-61-truste...

Did y'all know PM Carney is ending Pharmacare? Send a letter to your MP: Protect Pharmacare for all!. You can use the template or modify and write your own. via @leadnowca.bsky.social leadnow.ca/campaigns/ph...

Happy International Worker’s Day🌹✊ American billionaire Warren Buffett once said “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning." Call me naïve, but I believe that the working class is starting to win again.

the B.C. Coroners Service posted two reports on April 24 and I guess nobody noticed? I did just now. it should've been A HUGE SCANDAL #bcpoli Deaths of Individuals Experiencing Homelessness in British Columbia (2016-2024) www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/b...

What's wild is that the only group that actually violates property rights in Canada is corporations. They can drill through your land and excavate you from your home and send the RCMP if you protest. Yet racists want us all to be mad at Indigenous people who didn't take anyone's property title away

I feel so disconnected from the genpop in how often this Prime Minister angers me. (hello gen x babes) Today, uplifting a right wing Indigenous Rights eroding disinfo frame on the Cowichan decision. Which he entirely did not need to weigh in on. It was gross posturing.

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

Boosting the incredible resources on DRIPAfacts.ca! 📝 Share far and wide to combat coordinated misinformation campaigns. DRIPA is the path forward for human rights in BC. Send this to your family, co-workers and friends so we can collectively defend this critical legislation in the coming months.

Friends of reconciliation: please repost this! Or direct from DRIPAfacts.ca Educating fellow settlers is on all of us to help undo the damage.

Why hasn't there been JWD/Trudeau/SNC level scandal about this premier raising hell because he is concerned about a court decision he doesn't like? Genuinely would appreciate some scholar helping me understand how this isn't political wing interfering with judiciary.

I don't know for sure who all within the NDP was actively resisting this DRIPA free fall, but I've reason to believe they were Indigenous led and all or mostly women and I just want to say thank you, I see you, inside change is hard.

This! Given the choice b/w updating a 150+ year old, 1850s era law that basically allows others (today, mostly Big Mining) to lay claim on resources below your land pretty willy nilly Or: Abandon DRIPA & First Nations He chose so colonial & reactive to mining lobby disinfo

"There remains another path. You can reject the course of colonial unilateral action and choose to uphold human rights and the honour of the Crown, and insist that the Province meet its legal obligations" www.ubcic.bc.ca/open_letter_...

Exactly this

How Joseph Trutch Set the Stage for BC's Indigenous Policies ~ @adampolsen.bsky.social via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

Former Minister McKenna has entered the excess profit tax chat! ✨

an incredibly important project by Connie Walker — most Canadians don't know that the government has an archive of 38,000 residential school survivor testimonies, which are slated to be destroyed next year www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

On this grim anniversary, amid so much finger-pointing and misinfo over drug policy, worth remembering how many ppl tried to overcome addiction, and were failed Harley Cartwright, who died Sept 24, 2020, is just one example. The letter his mom found after his death broke me tinyurl.com/unhsmmr4

@wgreaves.bsky.social As one of your constituents in Victoria, I am joining my community in asking: do you support wasting our public dollars on a dying industry, instead of making the investments everyday people actually need? Will you stand for HomesNotPipelines? bsky.app/profile/lead...

Economic growth under capitalism = increased inequality For decades, status quo politicians across the spectrum have peddled economic growth as proxy for individual prosperity. The lie? It trickles *up*. (gushes, really)

Imagine going down as the "progressive" NDP premier that let his government fall because he is opposed to principles of reconciliation. (As he was when DRIPA first passed) How much more can he disappoint us and, I imagine and hope, so many in his own caucus?

First Nations leaders are condemning Premier David Eby’s plan to suspend parts of #DRIPA as a step backward that will increase uncertainty for all British Columbians and create political problems for the NDP. Andrew MacLeod reports. #bcpoli

DRIPA (Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act) was passed unanimously in by all members from all parties. UNANIMOUSLY. We meant it then and we mean it now. Eby doesn’t get to change that because it’s unpopular with lobbyists and he failed to do anything to educate/prepare the public.

Prime Minister Mark Carney jokingly says he ‘can outlast’ a mercury-affected Grassy woman calling for justice on decades of toxic dumping. Hear more on APTN News Brief:

It's tough to see the ageism (with dashes of sexism) among some New Dems' minimizing frame on Emily Lowan. I expect she'll keep being underestimated. FTR CARGA collapsed under NDP token and broken committments. The expectation of BCG obedience under any circumstance just gives entitlement.

NEW: Canada’s richest 1 per cent have nearly as much wealth as its poorest 80 per cent combined. www.readthemaple.com/canadas-rich...

‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin Gelin

"It’s naively defeatist to assume millennia of patriarchy entrenched in law, culture, social arrangements and economics could be or should have been fully disassembled in one lifetime."

The commissioner noted the government was taking longer to respond to fewer requests and failing to meet legislated response timelines frequently In 2022-23, 43% of requests filed by media were unlawfully delayed Note that businesses and law firms were getting the fewest unlawful delays #bcpoli

Citizens' Services Minister Diana Gibson says proposed changes to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act will improve how the FOI system functions Her predecessor said the same thing while defending new filing fees for FOI requests Spoiler alert: the system got worse #bcpoli

The Defense Department under Pete Hegseth went on a $93 billion spending spree in September, buying: - $98,329 Steinway grand piano - $15.1 million ribeye steak - $6.9 million lobster tail - $5.3 million Apple devices - $2 million king crab @newrepublic.com reports: newrepublic.com/post/207555/...

When the BC Conservatives voted for a bill to repeal the human rights code, the NDP caucus promptly put out a press release slamming the Cons who "couldn’t muster the courage to stand against it." Today, 0 NDP MLAs mustered the courage to vote against a bill to close all BC's safe consumption sites

Bombing of Iran’s oil infrastructure to have major environmental fallout, experts warn

I just sent a @Leadnowca.bsky.social letter to senators to Vote YES to lower the voting age. Bill S222 is on a razor's edge of passongtthe senate, making your voice powerful. Send one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/bill...