Trump-appointed US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra will be one of the headliners for this year’s “Canada Strong and Free Network” conference (Hoekstra previously suggested Trump’s talk of annexing Canada was meant as a compliment) (CSFN is the right-wing think tank formerly known as the Manning Centre)

the chief executive of Cancer Research UK is neither a cancer patient nor a cancer researcher, and yet everyone seems to understand that that’s fine, because neither of those would be the correct experience for the job??

Need to buy new runners and irritated by how many running shoes have 4 inch foam heel

Big Girls Cry at Their Computer

Belaboured lament but I’ve never encountered so many drivers that look at me as I’m crossing the street and continue to accelerate at me like move or get hit, bitch

Always ask if I can take a pic of someone’s dog when I see a super adorable one I want to show my son and truly hilarious how often I’m directed to the dog’s insta as well

Let the people enjoy nice things*! *the ironic demise of big game hunters

@canadianshieldinstitute.ca charted Canada's projected defence spending:

Remember this when they tell you we can’t afford social housing, good health care or transit, UBI, clean water for Indigenous people, support for arts & culture, etc

the new yorker: heälthcare

At 1:40 in this video MLA Tara Amstrong uses the Nazi phrase "blood and soil" when speaking against the K'omoks Treaty. From social media influencers on the fringe, to mainstream media and now to politicians, white supremacist ideology is surfacing at the highest levels of Canadian society.

do we think there are people at adult swim sabotaging alex jones or is this just the culmination of heidecker's decade+ of absolutely straight-faced shtick

The Narwhal is launching a cross-newsroom series today on the costs of climate change, and who is and isn’t covering their fair share. It’s called Who Pays?, and the first story is about the toll on human health: thenarwhal.ca/climate-chan...

Saturday night's live-band karaoke party in #hamont is pretty much sold out, but there is still room at the one we're hosting for young people the following day. If you know a teen/tween who wants to sing with a live band, this will be a hoot. www.tixtree.com/e/live-band-...

Man who inherited father's business, mom's house, lashes out repeatedly. how long will the ontario voter caress his teflon coat? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Doug appears to be struggling recently to keep the real him under wraps. This is awful. More in the next post.... #OnPoli

“Hush now, be still. Soon you shall be one of us.”

Staying awake felt like the last assumed work requirement for president and amazing to see that bar drop to simply having a pulse

Got Susie Boyt reading rec from Vladimir (Netflix). Not angry about this stream-to-lit pipeline

Sunset colours. #FridayFlowers #BloomScrolling

It’s an interesting entry point for a larger conversation about government compliance with tech invasion, data theft, predatory consumer policies. Every person I have talked to about this is stunned by implications

here’s my latest for @nationalobserver.com on how it’s both smart policy and politics for the federal NDP to go after surveillance pricing www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/24/n...

Crikey, The Boys season 5 is quite on the nose isn't it?

I spent 6 months working for a Swiss NGO researching the tactics used by Big Oil and how similar they are to Big Tobacco’s tactics, and I can tell you that the ones used by ‘Big AI’ are virtually identical.

This is correct. Best available estimates suggest that the destruction of USAID, in which musk played a central role, will kill over 14 million people by 2030, 1/3 of them children aged < 5 years www.thelancet.com/article/S014...

Oh ok so the Cuba invasion is like “definitely happening” happening.

The problem is not that older faculty are sticking around - it’s that they are not being replaced. The argument of this piece is quite pernicious as it substitutes a class war btw workers and a neoliberal administration w an age war btw different ranks of workers

Read and sit with significance of what’s been done, for whom and at your expense globalnews.ca/news/1181393...

This is illiberal

The Doug Ford gov't has passed its 2026 budget bill, which officially removes Ontario's right to know. How he governs, why decisions get made—we'll never know. The same bill consolidates conservation authorities. That's your democracy & your drinking water being impacted #onpoli

"The federal energy regulator...has reported the total value of crude oil exports from Canada was $138 billion in 2024. A Health Canada report that same year found the total cost of health impacts attributable to air pollution in 2018 was $146 billion." #abpoli #cdnpoli

Incredible piece. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban...

Me wearing a cute jumpsuit to work: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me sitting half-naked in the work bathroom: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

that's not a criticism of audience, tbh! there is a huge surplus of difficult news to contend with these days. a lot of feedback i've gotten on work in this administration boils down to: 'thank you for writing about this but i dunno if i can stare down yet another awful thing'

Going to the vet for his booster jab

I genuinely think some people do not want to look this in the eye/think about it because it is so awful. We wrote what I thought was a pretty eye-opening story about all this and I was surprised by the lack of engagement tbh

During question period, Doug Ford is playing the hits on freedom of information. Says he wants to protect personal information (that's already protected.) And says Ontario is aligning with the federal government (the FOI watchdog says that's simply not true). #OnPoli

Doug Ford currently claiming he gets more phone calls than "anyone in the world." Today, MPPs will vote on a budget that shields the premier, his cabinet and all their staff from FOI scrutiny. It will also kill a court decision for the premier to hand over his phone records.

When the president is a heinous abuser, when many of the most popular celebrities are heinous abusers, when the richest people in the world are heinous abusers, when the people developing new technology are heinous abusers, well that’s how you get a culture that incentivizes abuse

Once again failed the Bumper Sticker Maturity Test by laughing at Honk if You Shit Your Pants

Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was killed today in a targeted Israeli strike. The IDF fired live rounds and stun grenades at the Red Cross ambulances trying to reach her. She is the 4th journalist killed by Israel while in the field since 2 March. Photo via X @HindRFoundation.

Overdressed for this walk. Core temperature reaching irritable boil

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Enjoyed talking about tech and humanity with Kathryn Jezer-Morton for Chats. Food for thought and even call to action chatelaine.com/living/what-...

"logic of Musk’s empire is total. X shapes the discourse. Grok automates it. Grokipedia rewrites the historical record. Starlink can deliver it all, everywhere, to everyone. Each layer reinforces the others. It’s not about winning arguments in the public sphere. It’s about building a replacement."

Metal af

A family of Ravens is putting the goth back in gothic at NYC's largest cathedral--St John the Divine. There are five mouths to feed, so the parents are staying busy! ⛪️⛪️⛪️ #Ravens #Cathedral #birding

Received this morning. Minister Solomon can officially no longer pretend not to know about the open letter, its 160+ (now 275+) signatories, or the People's Consultation on AI, its submissions, & those who participated in it! 🎉 (nb I erased the greeting which was just my name) #PCAI

Kid vetoed request to bring smoke machine to piano recital