Good morning & welcome to Roast Dinner Day Never regret having a kind heart. Kindness is never wasted. The good you give to the world has a way of finding its way back to you, often in ways greater than you ever imagined

#CdnPoli Incredible!

A really good look at one community’s fight against a data centre, explo issues of re-segregation, environmental degradation, and the cost of trying to fix bad decisions: youtu.be/_r_OBG4Qijw

Well put:

He’s working up to Tr*mpLand… a gaudy sideshow. Or condos.

So is the reason we don’t hear about the 40 kids killed on the same day as the 168 at the girls’ school because they were older and IL has managed to convince anyone who might report on it that they were ”future targets” anyway? Its military leaders have said publicly that babies in Gaza are.

Darn.

#CdnPoli so what do we know about Arts Ventures?

Ah, America, land of the free to be arrested for goddamn nearly anything…. . . How do these oafs even look at themselves in the mirror?

Oh, this is good, esp if you e way he’s the Jon Stewart bit from last night.

hey you piece of shit, start loving yourself, because you're awesome and I love you, and if you don't start loving yourself right now I'm gonna punch you right in the forehead. right in the center of your forehead, which will make no sense and hurt both of us. so love yourself dipshit, you're great.

Also this basically confirms my theory I talked about on @pastduepodcast.com and @halftheanswer.bsky.social — he decided to murder WaPo in 2023 because he couldn’t handle employees who organized. A sad little man. bsky.app/profile/chri...

The most shadow banned post in the history of posts lol

This, and this account’s previous post, is what it is all about. Completely out in the open.

I hadn’t caught the bit about the swarms of gnats: youtu.be/qDMqvDnMcvI?

I thought this said waffle maker and I thought “Damn, I didn’t know waffles were suddenly so hot!”

The L Train Brass Band! ltrainbrassband.com

So yesterday I saw a post that a pilot team had lodged a formal complaint with FAA and NASA about the lights blinding them as they approached the airport. Any further word on this? And yes, this is definitely a beautiful rainbow! Someone’s idea of resistance? Every Blob photo shd include it!

Also truth:

Truth:

But doesn’t Little Jo have his friends and maybe even family at his home zoo? Is it appropriate to send him somewhere else?

A few years ago, the historian Elizabeth Thompson wrote an excellent book on how France and Britain undermined an independent Syria in 1920, which had just approved a relatively liberal constitution. She is interviewed here by Michael Young for Diwan

This is now two consecutive auctions where battery storage has outcompeted and outclassed gas-fired electricity -- in Ontario, of all places. It might be time for some folks to update their priors on the cost of battery storage.

What an excellent speech: youtu.be/rg2BizidnUY

While we watch the terrible abuse of the elephant at the Texas GOP convention, here is some more info about mistreatment of elephants for spectacle:

You can see the abusive piece of shit "elephant handler" using an electric rod on the bottom of her stomach to make her ignore her natural bodily functions and keep walking at :07 Absolutely disgusting

Animal abuse as spectacle: at .07 some asshole zaps her. Bastards. See: bsky.app/profile/cann...

So this is from the G&W, not a reliable chronicler of non-con (or even con for that matter) government actions. Has the current government issued a position/white paper on what they are hoping to accomplish, and how they will deal with fall-out? www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe... #CdnPoli

Isn’t this just what a ceasefire is, though? At least according to other murderous regimes.

This blew my mind. Some of the largest data centers can require up to 5 million gallons of water per day, equivalent to the water use of 50,000 people. Why are we selling out the survival of our planet to enrich a handful of Big Tech CEOs?

Let's have some cheering environment news for a change BBC News - Mangrove forests are healing after decades of human destruction - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Soooo… what’s with all the pols skipping Pride? youtube.com/shorts/AsmCm...

We were at Normandy for the 80th. You could feel the ghosts on the beach at Juno. Let their sacrifice never be sullied.

It’s a pay-for-play article but having those quotes on record is quite the thing:

Excellent advice!

A lot of y'all owe this man your whole sense of humour; go drop a dollar: www.gofundme.com/f/back-our-s...

Public health finding: make your city safe for bicycles and save on healthcare costs. Also: fewer funerals, more birthday parties. [hey it’s our Venn diagram, @notalegalrecord.net]

Canadian companies behaving badly! youtu.be/8kLyJkPQZbA #CdnPoli Onex

#CdnPoli Go Scotland! Go Greens!

If you are here, this is a good follow!

Apt analogy:

Not a good look. Though dismissing charges (that were confirmed to be founded) against 5 soldiers who viciously raped a prisoner really tells us everything we need to know.

This:

They are so afraid of ideas, even the ideas of a child. (And by that I am not diminishing children. It is their role to question and to ask why we cannot do better.)

Some cities bought AI surveillance cameras to solve crime. Now they are covering them with bin bags because they cannot tell who controls the data, whether the cameras are still recording, or how to escape the contracts they signed. youtu.be/5fbhd0r3wLw?...

Absolutely. And having uncared-for people trying to survive in public is massively increasing the discrimination and stigma that the community already faces. We need to find our hearts. And all the destruction we are building toward should be paid for by those who will profit. Not the vulnerable.

#CdnPoli we’ve done this, fooled ourselves into thinking that if we make nice with the bullies they won’t hurt us. We give them what they want, they do what they want, and a decade out we are worse off for the experience.