This is awful This is why the decision to not have brakemen—a decision made by CDPQ-Infra to lower overhead costs because they didn’t want to have unionized employees—was criticized from day one #Montreal

I'm finally reading Dawn of Everything. I am loving the accounts of some of the first indigenous Americans meeting Europeans and being astonished at how shit the European society is.

I'm thinking about this in the context of payment processors cracking down on sex workers. It's always worth pointing out who payment processors have a problem with, and who they do not.

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

This is outrageous. Danielle Smith is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad person. Please sign the petition. It takes a few seconds.

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Every single time there was police reform in America. It was followed by an unending backlash that undid the progress that was made.

Trump is so deranged. He spent months threatening to invade Canada, and it seems like it was because he didn't like the Prime Minister. I haven't heard a peep about it since Carney took office.

My most woke opinion is that we can give indigenous people their land back all of it. They're not going to try and get rid of all white people. We can actually work this out. It's going to be fine. Also we should let criminals vote. What are we afraid of? That they'll vote to legalize crime?

here at the Paper of Record, when an open white supremacist leaks someone's college application in an attempt to imply he got unfair race-based special treatment, even though he was rejected, we know what to do: publish it immediately prospect.org/2025/07/09/2...

I'm going to have a hard time getting out of bed today and I have no buffer for emergencies. I'm well behind where I should be for the month and today I'm going to probably be hungry since between me and food is stairs, work, and the pain of every nerve acting in concert to hurt me.

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I look at the way billionaires write and I think I get it now. I get why these dudes are so excited about generative Ai.

It’s crazy how far the elites will go to protect their own. Trump was a reality tv host in 2008 and somehow was protected for his involvement with Epstein and his crimes. Honestly I’d be surprised if there was an explanation for this.

A major feature of our society is that we know who the good guys and the bad guys are. The worst people take on the aesthetic of their enemies because everyone agrees that they're the bad guys.

This is so obviously a self-serving policy. It allows Bluesky to refuse to give any explanation to its users for why someone was banned. But if the media shows up, they'd love to have that conversation.

So here's a totally-hypothetical-and-therefore-legal musing: It would certainly be something if it turned out that Epstein was the figurehead while Trump was the actual driving force behind the trafficking itself, going back to his years of experience using his own modelling agency.

Kudos to @lastweektonight.com for covering felony murder, an incredibly racist law used to charge people for murder when cops kill someone using "look what you made me do!" abuser logic. Abolish it. youtu.be/Y93ljB7sfco?...

It's night here and I've gotta get groceries tomorrow. Please help me out either by sharing or donating if you're able. I'm disabled and this is the only way I can survive

I think she's literally correct here. No one in the senate wants to do it more than her and that's the whole problem.

I love games about pirates. I think my favorite recent one is the Pale Beyond. Which is a great game, but it comes up short as a pirate game in an number of ways. It's not about pirates, which is a big problem. I also wish it was more about sailing and charting courses. But it's good.

This is one of the best explainers on the ongoing saga out of BC. Too few mainstream news articles touch on the connections to the Convoy, or the fact that it’s really the same movement, with ostriches. The farmers are saying this is just starting. it’ll be interesting to see where it goes now.

The whole economy Is built in compelled speech and it would collapse without it. Doctor have to tell you if they have a license. Food has to say the ingredients on the label. Banks have to tell you the terms of a loan.

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I want a pirate game so bad.

When a billionaire sics a bunch of high powered lawyers Into cases. The judge and the jury should be entitled to an adverse inference. It’s the most suspicious thing ever.

Miranda rights kind of suck. Any lawyer will tell you that there's no reason to talk to the police. While anything you say or do can be used against you, it cannot be used for you. So why can it be waived at all? Any reasonable person would invoke their right to silence and refuse to answer.

Everyone's talking about how Trump said he didn't know who CZ is. I think the much more interesting part of this, is when Trump said "I heard it was a Biden witch hunt", because whoever told him that has a lot of power.

As always, signal boosts hugely appreciated on this!

Ostranauts might be a very good game, and I might be in love with the inventory system from Neo Scavenger. I would have bought it so much earlier if I knew how similar they were.

I say this a lot. There is no possible deal a country can make with America. Even if Trump leaves office and a sensible person takes over, they could elect another crazy guy who will blow up the deals and start making threats.

A truly extraordinary document. Judge Rodriguez throws out the indictment because "the Government’s conduct is so shocking to the universal sense of justice that it should be deprived of the opportunity to prosecute the Defendant." Hard to count all the different ways ICE lied throughout this case.

What I found most interesting about Ezra Klein talking to Ta-Nahesi Coates was when Klein said "The consequences of losing power are horrifying". That says a lot about what Klein thinks is happening to people who never had power, and he wants to throw them under the bus so he can be safe.

I am losing my mind over Iran-Contra again. What an incredible political scandal. I love John Pointdexter repeatedly saying he never violated the law, when congress passed 2 different laws to stop him from arming the Nicaraguan contras.

I'm just going to make a thread for my Dispatch commentary.

So, I finished the first episode of Dispatch. I have questions about the end of episode statistics. See I'm in the 1% of players who performed moderately well in the tutorial, and I can't tell if that's better or worse than the other 99%.

My challenge to all the politicians who want to ban trans people from sport because they have unfair advantages: Make the law say that sports have to be fair. You don't need to bring up trans people to legislate fairness.

I'm just not convinced y'know. I find it very hard to believe that a committed anti fascist went to a nazi tattoo parlor and told the nazis there he wanted the totenkopf that he saw on the wall. Those are not the actions of a committed anti fascist.

one of the interesting thing i have seen in the platner discourse is a refusal to confront a thing on its own terms. to his pundit supporters, platner isn’t a novice candidate with perhaps questionable judgment to be evaluated on his ability to win, but a symbol to wield against rivals

When it comes to AI I care about one thing. Who is legally responsible for AI? its already committing crimes. Who is going to be held responsible in court? Someone has to be.

We all love ironic punishments, but equally important are ironic requirements. It's better to make people live by their decisions before they make them for others.

What @prisonculture.bsky.social said about the US public sector being distilled to prisons, ICE, soldiers, and cops is the trajectory of Canada also. Carney is gutting everything & dumping the money into militarization, borders, and policing, combined with surveillance and sentencing reforms.

You know the conspiracy about democrats bringing in undocumented immigrants so they can vote, right? Well if Republicans actually believe that, then what ICE is doing is deporting democrat voters. In the rights narrative they are deporting their political enemies and that needs to be very clear.

It is really funny that Trump posted a video of himself shitting on Americans and then started demolishing the white house.

I love little doodads that make games feel more vibrant. Maps and in game radios are my favourite. All games should have them.

I'm still confused about AI. So if anyone can explain how AI is improved by having more data centers that would be appreciated. I can't find a good explanation.

Biden could have done so much good if he just weaponized every federal agency against the Supreme Court.

I hate having to vet all the games I see during next fest for AI. It is truly awful to get excited about something and then realize how it's being made.

www.twitch.tv/squidpunk/ I don't even know what's going on with my internet anymore man, tune in while you can I guess? Playing Donkey Kong Bananza