Time to ponder the sheer evil madness of capitalism #socialistsunday

I don’t mind the US beating Canada for gold, but I hate that the upchuck brothers get gold.

Every day I see a clip of a right wing podcaster saying this or that group contributes nothing to society. Unlike podcasting

I’m sitting right now. 😢(This is an Olympic post)

Voting to fund Trump's paramilitary organization because they are afraid to look weak on migration is not a winning strategy for the Democrats.

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

If you hit someone with enough wet noodles, they are eventually forced to leave the pool. Or you can just say “welp, guess we gotta just let them sh!t in the pool, since all we have are these 200 wet pool noodles”

Just so everyone is clear: the valve here releases pressure that would otherwise build on her leadership from within her party. She would rather lose the country than her own job.

Why is Doug Ford so determined for Ontario to fall behind even the Americans on renewable energy? @mikeschreiner.bsky.social @maritstilesndp.bsky.social

The truth is that the naming of “Homeland” security was ALWAYS fascist-coded. We should not be surprised that it has grown into a fascist organization.

why have they been allowed to get away with this "paid protester" lie every single time for the last decade or so? is it just because its a really quick lie and its easier to just move on? is it because everyone is too lazy to just say "prove it"?

One of the best things to happen to Canadian politics recently is Charlie Angus freeing himself from the requirement to be a team player within the NDP, allowing him to write things like this. open.substack.com/pub/charliea...

“Mandatory philanthropic involvement” is a terribly misguided idea. Why would we trust people completely detached from reality about what is valuable to society? Just tax them.

So much fiction about robots rebelling, when we really should have been worried about robots complying.

21. And before team Yglesias responds by saying "yeah, but it's bad politics to run on climate and energy"... I'd point out that I've won 4 elections in a very purple district running on climate and energy. Pro-tip: leadership is possible! You don't have to be stupid to win!

Closing NCAR because it produces "climate alarmism" is like closing the fire department because it produces "fire alarmism" billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-low-poin...

“With [current policy] set to reduce emissions 21%…well short of the national target of a 40 to 45% reduction. Even when [ECCC] includes measures that have been announced but not yet implemented, the modelling only yields a 28 per cent reduction by 2030.” www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/17/n...

After the “AI” crash-out, can we repurpose all of the excess data centers into grid connected battery storage for cheap solar? That should be quite cheap to do. Grid interconnects already there.

Both @arieltroster.com and I believe we need a budget that puts people first, that delivers reliable transit, safe communities and a city where everyone can afford to live and thrive. Add your name to tell City Council that we need a budget built for people: www.arieltroster.com/budget.

Boo CBC! A whole story on the national about adding facial recognition to police body cams and you never once mentioned the proven racial bias in the facial rec? If these start being used for real, this will be another unequal policing method. Do better.

I have to admit that this result surprised me. I’d assumed people are more fooled by growth capitalism www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

When *checks notes* Franklin The Turtle has to put out a statement condemning your literal war crimes 😅😅

9/ This is reckless climate and economic policy. And magical thinking. Net zero doesn’t happen without reducing fossil fuel supply. At least the US has the cojones to say it doesn’t give a shit about climate. @mark-carney.bsky.social is still pretending that Canada does. FIN

You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.

Just saw this scary sentence in a story regarding Warner sale: “Larry Ellisons’s good relationship with President Trump is also a serious competitive edge considering the administration’s fraught relationship with the media industry overall”

Polls show increasing support (over 70 percent) for immigration restriction.These racist policies have been justified under the false austerity logic of "not enough resources". As billionaires & banks & bosses make record profits - largely on the backs of migrant labour!!!

The irony

One of the strategic failures of #OttCity Road Safety Action Plan is the lack of communications about where speed camera revenues are spent. I got the list via #ATIP. Here are some projects that were only made possible because of these revenues. Full data at tinyurl.com/4brrmh9j #Rideau-Jock

You should build bike lanes for people who are not currently biking and build housing for people who don't currently live in your neighborhood.

My first blog post in a while. Carney and Canada have abandoned the 1.5 and 2 degree targets. I'm going to try to get a few out in the run up to COP 30.

Even funnier that this is peak Streisand Syndrome. I doubt this would have caused nearly the splash of he hadn’t spent the last two days desperately trying to prove her wrong. Which of course is proving her right.

ridiculous. Bill Gates getting cold feet is not a shift in the scientific concensus.

This. Corporations are a fiction that we allow to exist for reasons (whether good or bad is irrelevant). If one harms society, society should not hesitate to remove it.

For reasons of self-flagellation I was just watching the Tesla shareholder meeting. Can confirm that it’s a cult.

Not only NYT of course, but this x100

"Any conversation about Bill Gates and climate should begin by acknowledging that he’s been wrong about it over and over again" - @billmckibben.bsky.social #climatecrisis 👇

It is becoming increasingly obvious that the US needs to be isolated and all countries need to remove all reliance on them and their economy.

We've got you 👍

Mike “I don’t know anything about it” Johnson. Nice legacy.

I remember growing up in a conservative household I was told about how in communist dictatorships, the people starve while the leaders build opulent palaces and ballrooms. Anyway, not sure why I brought that up.

This isn’t it. If you’re having a disagreement with someone who is clearly NOT Russian (which I think is rather obvious in my case), why would you say something like this. Nothing I said was idiotic or pro Russian in any way. WTF??

All this Reagan talk reminds me of a funny chart.

I just wanted to remind people that boycotts definitely do NOT work 🙄. “It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed …after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.” Lol, I’ll-timed. Sure, Disney.

Will *you* speak your mind? Or tomorrow, at least turn up? For peace, for justice, for climate? Sat Sep 20, across Canada & USA – GoodWork.ca/920447

"I can abhor the violence that took your life, but I don't have to celebrate how you chose to live." Pastor Howard-John Wesley

“…but some of us will still carry on the light.”