His lost painting The Trench is incredible.

i didn’t invent the game i’m just trying to follow the rules

If we had a crime rate trajectory like this motor vehicle fatality chart there would be calls for cops on every corner. tc.canada.ca/en/road-tran...

I really think the only reasonable response to the increasing prevalence of 996 in the tech world is to organize for a 20 hour workweek with no reduction in pay. They are trying to move the Overton window for working hours; let’s drag it the fuck back.

one of my kids’ books last night had a character say “I’m not a sissy” and i had to pause and give an intro to toxic masculinity and it’s tricky to get that across to a 7 year old boy. i tried to be like, “a lot of people have a broken idea in their head that it’s wrong to be soft”

New report: Extreme wealth inequality is soaring all across Canada — good thing we've got a wealth tax for that! 🎩🥂 See how your province stacks up here: bit.ly/C4TFProvWealth

What did @regimecpa.bsky.social know?

if you run into a succubus it’s important to: - let her bum a cigarette - make sure she’s hydrated & has friends around - tell her you’ll chat once she comes down

wow i genuinely did not know this, good info, and also very useful rebuttal to the many adult men who are suspiciously invested in believing otherwise

my mum died when i was 7, and back then 40 seemed impossibly old. i don’t feel that way now that i’m about to outlive her

“Well, my therapist said…”

they want to kill your kids

100 "thumbs ups" on your post may not seem like that much in the grand scheme of things, but imagine those hundred frantic hands dragging you down into the icy black depths of a mountain tarn and suddenly it doesn't seem like so little

will LLMs be better at churning knowledge than a human doctor? eh should lay ppl rely on them for medical advice? eeeeeehhhhh will an LLM be better at listening to what you have to say and have less of an ego about it oh i believe that 1,000%

one of the benefits of being a trans parent is hanging out with my kids’ friends and i hope there’s a kid out there who goes “ooooooh that’s a thing i could do!”

I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...

The median American driver opposes bike lanes on commercial corridors because they believe bicyclists travel a featureless plane of pure motion and therefore might as well use a parallel side street, even though the parallel side street is not parallel and is half a mile away from the shops.

new Dafoe pose just dropped

just called my local Lib MP to complain about bill c-22. i was less informed about the surveillance but i gave him a earful about how age verification is going to harm queer communities & make kids less safe. staffer told me this was the first phone call they've gotten. y'all pick up the phone!

He has a name and it’s Alexis de Tocqueville

Huang accidentally created a great metaphor to discuss the dangers of AI. Appropriation of public spaces, environmental damage, induced demand, how negatively influenced the way we design around us and how it created awful patterns of behavior. Genius!

"I was coming to the conclusion that by staying inside, I was becoming a tool to justify some of the things the government is doing, which I find to be unjustifiable." Read every word of Stephen Guilbeault's explosive exit interview with @meyer.bsky.social.

My @thestar.com column: To call the island airport expansion idea "half-baked" is an insult to baked goods. There are scant details. No credible projections. And few facts. Toronto is in absurd situation — debating a notion instead of a plan. That won't fly. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

I love my country Toronto

thinking about this, and tying it into my own family’s reaction, it’s interesting to me how ppl mask disgust in grief

live free or die is woke

Me trying to explain fascism to students: "A lot has to do with fear of supposedly stable gendered boundaries blurring, and how that maps onto racial and national hierarchies. But can I really say transphobia is the lodestone to fascism?" Aleksandr Dugin: "Ukrainians are collective transgenders."

the people trying to ban young people from the internet are just telling them that they’ve given up on the internet. “I’m going to stay on a shit internet but you can’t” is not a trust and safety fostering policy, it’s surrendering your own agency and pretending it’s helping

Troubling reports out of England of 30 year-olds being socially transitioned into same-sex attraction without parental consent! One can only hope that the UK bans coming out as gay until a child is at least 35!

*extremely jaundiced eyes* eric is coyly signalling he’s conservatively oriented? why is everyone who gained attention via local yimby politics kinda sketchy

If you think that a serious push to decarbonize the economy is going to unacceptably impinge on the prerogative of private power, then you need to cut back the ability to collectively regulate the economy in general, and exclude science and professional expertise from big swathes of government.

An idea I've been playing with for a while is that one of the core elements of the political economy of Trumpism is that a critical mass of the US capitalist class decided that decarbonization was not worth the costs to them.

Bicycling is an inherently safe activity. Cars make it unsafe, scary, and nerve-wracking and that's what prevents many people from riding. It's pretty simple!

Two former advisors to the federal government called out Prime Minister Mark Carney for slashing environmental rules and ignoring experts in climate science and policy. thenarwhal.ca/carney-canad...

Devastating account of degeneracy in the Ottawa police, which seems to be getting worse. Including that the police lied about the status of an investigative office (they'd killed it and pretended otherwise!) and the police board let them. By @kristynease.bsky.social . www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

i asked my local library where the pride display was this year (a measly five books hidden away in the corner) and a staffer shrugged and said i guess they prioritized fifa this year 🫥🫥🫥

What you wish you could be doing in New York right now is what you could be doing when It happens. HAVE A PLAN.

So tired of blacking out every full moon when I really want to stay up and help the townsfolk hunt for the werewolf

Dog Date

@coyotegirl.online ma’am excuse me for the message but i gotta know: if you go raving with dog ears how do you keep them attached??? i’d like to do likewise but i fear having to spend the evening holding them in my hand thank you kindly,

“My God, I've been doing so many VCRs. Everybody wants the tangibility effect now. They want to be holding it in their hands” Greg Thomas visits American Electronics in the Junction, the 53-year-old repair shop presided over by John Fadal and his dad. www.westendphoenix.com/stories/tota...

Being against bike lanes is the number one red flag there’s deeper, darker views a person holds that we just don’t know about

Uber drivers in Victoria are the first app-based workers in Canada to have a collective agreement. I spoke to @thelawofwork.bsky.social and @verosioufi.bsky.social about what's in it — including the clause that could be key to building gig worker power in BC pressprogress.ca/uber-drivers...