Of course, don't forget, Smith snubbed the first ministers dinner reception and morning meeting because..... traitorous (insert politically incorrect term) #cdnpoli #abpoli

No person with disabilities, trans person or refugee would describe Sir Stormfront as ‘decent’. It shows how the Labour elite are so out of touch with regular people. 1 in 4 ppl has a disability in the UK. Where is this supposed decency? He’s even implicated in a genocide! FFS!

Lifer pie! My first snowy owl! 🪶

Tow truck driver offering free service returning abandoned vehicles to families of those abducted by ICE: "For the last three weeks, we have been getting nothing but death threats." www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Why are the men’s names redacted and the victims names exposed?

A six-day campaign immunized more than 174,000 children against measles in Sudan. ❤️ w.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/you-c...

it's not just that Mamdani is charming af (he is), it's that he is normalizing the idea that children are full members of society that we all share a collective responsibility for

Ford can either call his own public inquiry (and write the terms of reference) or he can wait for the next government to do something he'll enjoy even less.

Does the federal government shape the policy space around housing in some ways? Sure. But I think the other levels of government can do way more to solve this than Ottawa can.

Here's the thing: if I were to wave a magic wand and fix all of these things so that they were *perfect* would Canada be close to solving the housing crisis? (My admittedly non-expert opinion is "No." Because municipalities would still be the main barrier to getting shit built.)

I’ve said it before, but Bondi, Noem, Melania, Erika Kirk, almost every prominent woman on the right has this cadence of voice that screams “beauty pageant contestant who knows what the judges want to hear” that I find particularly gross and humiliating.

Important speech by Spain’s PM. I’ve posted about it before without linking to the speech. The utterly malignant #ElonMusk prepares his attack. Tech zillionaires like Zuckerberg are building giant bunkers rather than using their power to make the world better. It’s way past time to fight back.

Epstein said he was ‘asked everyday’ for advice on #MeToo: ‘So many guys reaching out to me’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

This kinda thing makes it tough for me to feel confident (or even informed) about the true state and potential of autonomous tech

Nat'l Cmte for the Administration of Gaza's new logo has Israel's pro-annexation gov't bent out of shape - for good reason! Based on the State of Palestine logo, it was a harsh reminder to Netanyahu & co. that issues of occupation, Palestinian self-determination can't be ignored forever.

"[W]e can't move forward from these endless cycles of abuse until we pay attention to victims, empower them to speak up and set agendas, and support them in recovering and thriving after abuse. Right now, we're doing the opposite of all of those things."

Chloritoid crystals in a schist from the Massa Unit, Italy ⚒️ #geology

I wrote about how the women Epstein and co victimized have been minimized and ignored as individuals even in popular discourse about the very abuse they endured—and how the legal system has punished them and other women, not helped them, for daring to come forward. spitfirenews.com/p/even-the-m...

People really have conceptualized that "AIs" are some omniscient Godbrain. They really have. It's people denying a news story cuz it's not printed in the Encyclopedia Brittanica levels of smoovness, because they don't see AI as what it is - a smoothie of lifted word salad - but instead a genie.

Please please please stop using AI, stop using ChatGPT, stop using this fascist-funding, data-farming, environment-killing, plagiarism-fueling, illiteracy-encouraging utter *garbage*. Stop. My god. Just stop! How do you reconcile this in your hearts? STOP.

Original plan was a narrow book about the biology of sex and gender to fight for trans rights as a geneticist, with facts and my personal stories But now I seriously feel like I'm writing the "woke" spiritual successor to The Selfish Gene Working titles: The Empathy Genes (yes the plural matters)

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Canada assumes future oil demand will come from Asia. The data says otherwise. China, India, and Southeast Asia are electrifying fast — and the demand many are counting on may never materialize. Betting on the past is a dangerous mistake. #Energy #Electrification #Oil

Good write-up in Science on our recent paper: www.science.org/content/arti...

France and Canada open consulates in Greenland

A new all-electric double-decker Climate Stripes bus has started taking passengers around Reading today. The bus shows the warming stripes for Reading back to the 1860s and will hopefully help start climate conversations amongst passengers. #ShowYourStripes

Indigenous fire stewardship brings rare Ontario prairie back. After nearly disappearing, the Black Oak Savanna at Alderville First Nation is thriving again thanks to 25 years of Indigenous-led restoration. tinyurl.com/25xfwttl #ShareGoodNewsToo

fave (/sarcasm) response so far: "you can't criticize AI data centers if you use internet data for other tasks" like "you can't criticize huge gas-wasting vehicles because you also use gas in a smaller more efficient car" or "you can't criticize wasting water, you also drink water"

"The “anti-woke” movement was not a genteel intellectual inquiry, made by disinterested parties who cared deeply about free speech. It is a social circle of powerful people who feel threatened by #MeToo." Great read.

Racists don’t change. Don’t fall for ‘new Pierre’ #cdnpoli

Ppl need food and a safe place to live and not be working 2 jobs, or working and going to school which I did in my teens and 20s to make ends meet. The solution was not make a prompt machine so she can write, it was a stable place to live so she can breathe and then maybe she can make things.

I'd like to see ppl support UBI rather than use AI as an answer to income and time resource inequality. I grew up extremely poor and AI would not have been the solution for my economic and housing instability.

with one revision: I'd move that tree squirrel up a box, they act like tiny tyrannosaurs and they hold their little forearms like microvelociraptors (and bite like them too)

Excellent classification. xkcd.com/3204/

Why is AI governance so often ineffective at preventing AI from harming people and the planet? My new paper Transfeminist AI Governance addresses this question, now out in this month's issue of First Monday: firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

Nice to see US olympic cross country ski team wearing respirators to protect themselves from airborne pathogen spread🙌 Yup! They are smarter than all of the directorate of Ontario Public Health & the Ontario Medical Association combined! No baggy blues here because COVID spreads through the air!

"Why is a member of our party cozying up to a fascist?" is a real puzzler for Conservative MPs who apparently have no clue what their party has become.

This is why they must be challenged every single time. Not accommodated. Not bargained with. Just challenged.

It's happening #2026MMM docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A friend who runs a blog had the nerve to tell me that he uses ChatGPT art because he respects artists so much and can't afford to pay them what they deserve. I told him to pretend it's 2010. There was a time recently when we didn't have this technology. Do the work yourself or don't do it at all!

Said "culture of professionalism" is what keeps your bridges from falling down and your planes from falling out of the sky, and Boeing is a nice object lesson in what happens when you think like this.

Trans people tried to warn the world about Epstein, but no one listened. Maybe now they finally will, and turn away from anti-trans figures closely associated with one of the most horrific human traffickers in history. Read all this and more in the full article. Edited by @davidforbes.bsky.social

My family and I have completely stopped using Amazon. It's a scam and they will try to rip you off starting with that Amazon prime thing and when you try to cancel it, they will harass you to death. But we do just fine without Amazon. Boycott.

‘THE MUPPET SHOW’ revival special is now the #1 trending project on Disney+ in 59 countries. It is also in the Top 10 in 16 other countries.

When the original authors and those who find errors in their work, pull together for the sake of correcting the record and moving science forward, it's a beautiful thing Retracted paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Bachand said, “Your actions today may set a precedent in terms of National Assembly regulations.” Verreault-Paul retorted, “That’s always the response we get, sir. We can set precedents. This is a historic opportunity to change things together.” www.aptnnews.ca/featured/chi...

This is an especially good article about why the Epstein files matter so much.

The last time some got booed this bad at a ceremony, they were engaged to Prince Humperdinck