There is not a single province in Canada where social assistance even gets close to the poverty line. And the $200/month disability benefit (clawed back in places like AB) is an ugly insult to people with so much brilliance and wisdom to offer society. It's gross and upsetting and it's wrong.

#CBC is legitimizing war crimes

Reminder: the vessels were on a mission to break the nearly 20-year naval blockade of Gaza (which is also blockaded by walls to the North, East, and South). Gaza has gone from walled-in Ghetto (like Warsaw) to Concentration Camp (like Auschwitz) to Extermination Camp (like Birkenau).

TriCon, the scifi/fantasy/horror/weird literary conference we're hosting, now has a full program schedule posted! Nova Scotia, if you love sff books, writing, publishing, and are interested in the issues that face our culture, this us for you. May 15-17 2026! tricon-halifax.com

You know what’s weird 4 of the 5 senses rely on holes in our heads

Militainment invites viewers to feel the power & experience of hyper-weapons thru the eyes of popular TV heroes & film super-warrior always on the right side of extreme violence. Realities of human suffering, death & destruction are ripped away from what becomes simply the toxic joy of destruction.

Learn about local risks, volunteer opportunities and how to be prepared. halifax.ca/safety-security/emergency-management/emergency-management-volunteers

More war crimes. This goes way beyond Netanhayu. Supporters need to stop saying Israel will be OK when he's gone. www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

it’s still wild to me when canadians say EVs aren’t good in cold climates, as though the leader in EV adoption isn’t a nordic country

#update Good news! Bear now has an official CLI, Claude Connector, and MCP Server. Build automations, connect your favorite AI tools, or just ask Claude what kind of person your notes say you are. The door is now open. Read the full story: blog.bear.app/2026/04/bear...

The relationship between mind and brain/body is the same as between math and physics: fundamentally, a non-physical set of patterns ingresses functionally into the physical world, affecting it at multiple scales. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Worth noting that Hamas won the 2006 Palestinian election, deemed fair by international observers (including Jimmy Carter). That result was not to the liking of US & Israel, those bastions of democracy, so they started a war on Hamas, driving it into Gaza, which they then walled in.

Another Silicon Valley guy who protested the first Trump administration is now aligned with him. The pattern has been extraordinary. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/u...

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Hopefully no elephants were harmed.

Happy Canadian Independent Bookstore Day! Always grateful for the wide selection and kind community at Bookmark Halifax, @tridenthalifax.bsky.social , and @kingsbookstore.bsky.social . I'm especially excited to have a physical copy of Carnalis by @tiffmorris.bsky.social to add to my shelf! #CIBD2026

Scientists in South Korea have found a clever new use for your old coffee grounds: Insulation. www.sciencealert.com/scientists-d...

"Who paid the tarrifs?" Consumers. "Who gets the refund?" Businesses. "Who pays for the refund?" Tax payers. This has all been so much fun. I'm so glad we all get to keep winning like this.

Few know that the Communists once invented a woke nonbinary computer

"The bullshitter is neither on the side of the true nor on the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all, as the eyes of the honest man & of the liar are, except insofar as they may be pertinent to his interest in getting away with what he says." Tim Halman is, precisely, a bullshitter.

From the ground-up resilience: 3 native species (bobcats, river otters, coyotes) learn new ways of taking down Burmese pythons that have become top predators in Florida, for the first time reducing their numbers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=07BN...

Biden Official: Biden Was Preparing To Bomb Iran If Re-Elected These moves were planned years in advance, and would have been rolled out regardless of what impotent meat puppet happened to be wheeled into office in January 2025. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/biden-offi...

NEW: Growing fears of food shortages on USS Tripoli & other US ships in the Middle East. This photo is the kind of meals now being served. It was sent by a sailor to her family. Families are now trying to send food parcels to the ships. Full story 👉 www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

- Increases and prolongs reliance on fossil (so next crisis hurts even more) - Often doesn't pass through to consumers (fossil co's just pocket it) - Benefits enjoyed more by the rich (who drive bigger cars longer distances) - Decreases gov't revenue so you end up paying for it in different ways

This is what I mean by "radical transformation"

Caterpillar bulldozers killed Rachel Corrie in Gaza in 2003. They've been demolishing Palestinian homes for decades. This week, her home state of Washington divested $62 million from the company, & her hometown voted unanimously to block all investment in apartheid. mondoweiss.net/2026/04/bds-...

a “ceasefire” that lasted 17 hours and killed 254 people in lebanon is not a ceasefire and referring to it as one is inaccurate

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is condemning the Israeli government for hitting a synagogue used by Persian Jews in Iran, and calling on Jewish advocacy groups to condemn the attack. Think about that for a moment

Standard Israeli ceasefire under Netanyahu

The key lesson of this NYT story is that Trump got conned by a better con man (Netyanyahu): www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

The U.S. President, Britain’s greatest ally, announced plans to end a whole civilization tonight.

one important question for anyone who supports "defensive" military aid to Israel such as the Iron Dome is: do you support defensive military aid for Palestine? Will you fund a Golden Dome for Gaza to protect its civilians from Israeli missiles? And if not, why not?

Benjamin Anthony's racist speech at New York's influential Park Avenue Synagogue, where he argued that U.S. Jews need to support ethnic cleansing in Gaza, illustrates how the American Jewish community has embraced Israeli racism and brutality. mondoweiss.net/2026/04/prom... #Palestine #Israel

It’s functionally illegal in the United States to criticize Israel

Iran-Contra showed something important: a president could ignore Congress on foreign policy, break the rules, and survive politically. Decades later, presidents launch wars without Congress — or avoid calling them wars so they don’t even have to ask. They’re not even bothering to hide it anymore.

A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans: 1940: 81% 1950: 84% 1960: 91% 1970: 72% 1980: 70% 1990: 28% 2000: 40% 2010: 35% For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.

READ: The Jewish Defense League was declared a terrorist group by the FBI. Its founder's ideology now runs the Israeli government. And a group inspired by it just plotted to bomb a Palestine activist's home in New York. Here's the history you need to know. mondoweiss.net/2026/03/what...

She spoke out about Gaza. Now she can't use a credit card. The UN investigator for Palestinian territories is facing U.S. sanctions and accused of antisemitism by the State Department.

#LongCOVID www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

Kessler 👏👏👏Kessler👏👏👏

Imagine if a country announced it was introducing the death penalty, but only for Jews. Imagine the global outcry. But apparently it's fine to introduce the death penalty only for Palestinians...

Maximum pressure campaigns, sanctions regimes, and periodic military signaling do not produce behavioral reversal so much as structural adjustment. Iran built sanctions-resilient networks, asymmetrical, economic responses, hardened security systems, deepened alternative trade...

The perfect noun for our times. #nspoli

Today, we’re excited to introduce Attie, currently as an invite-only closed beta. Attie is the first agentic social app on atproto. It’s something completely new — an experiment in making building on the protocol more accessible.

Nova Scotia Power is a monopoly providing a service to the public — it makes no sense for it to be privately owned, with primary purpose to make money for shareholders. It used to be a public utility: let's make it so again! c.org/Vs76xH9SbY

Every analysis of Cuba should constantly keep in mind that the purpose of U.S. policy is, and has been since 1959, to force the government to adopt a capitalist model that will be profitable for American corporations. www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-to-...

Mark Carney is really going on social media and condemning Iran for its "unprovoked attacks on the region" with his whole chest, and I just think we should all mail him pictures of the bombed Iranian children's school until he gets the fucking picture.