"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls." time.com/7335723/auto...

“(W)hen Canada walks away from feminist policy, it abandons a key driver of poverty and strife. And when Canada appears to bow to bro-signalling, it means Canada has joined the league of polite misogyny”

The story of what's driving rising beef prices is yet another canary in the climate coal mine. It sure would be nice if we started listening a little harder. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...

Ok so now I want to give up everything and work in a typewriter repair shop for the rest of my days

I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen

Shame if the BBC censoring the line about Trump being the most openly corrupt president in US history led to all sorts of people chattering online about the line calling Trump the most openly corrupt president in US history gosh that would totally defeat the purpose of removing the line about T

“Once you’ve seen how these systems are cobbled together – the biases, the rushed timelines, the constant compromises – you stop seeing AI as futuristic and start seeing it as fragile.” How AI is trained: garbage in, garbage out. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Our national spite can move mountains I tell you

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?

Lost a beloved colleague this month. And Canada lost a rare talent. www.legacy.com/ca/obituarie...

“Canada lost its status last week, ending a 27-year run, after failing to control an outbreak that began at a Mennonite gathering in October 2024. (Thank Alberta for selling out healthcare to antivax privatization fiends, then Ontario) -pre-embarrassed in CA. Tommy Douglas spinning in his grave

Did Underage Girls Ruin Politics? Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com

“What these pundits are nudging us to do… is accept that women are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid and ignored and dampened in their ambitions, in ways that men are not and never will be.” Blowing up the ‘man crisis’ rhetoric www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Never forget that a Democratic US Attorney’s decision to prosecute Aaron Swartz for downloading JSTOR PDFs contributed to his suicide but AI firms’ decision to download everything ever will be a justification for hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer bailouts and legal exemptions.

Fun and playful to imagine barring an entire population from public life if it’s just ladies, cuz who wants to see all that pink and hear about periods all day at their job?

cc all members and industry allies of @inkcanada.bsky.social

Bluesky is kinda shit for Canadian news. I opened TikTok and immediately got live updates on the budget from actual news orgs

This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works. I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.

“I hope… readers will keep going back to her original works. They were written by the light of her darkness.” Wow this memoir of living with Patricia Highsmith near the end of her life is gripping. yalereview.org/article/work...

microsoft wants to use your linkedin data to train LLMs turn it off here: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

Oh JFC 😑 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Not even satire. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-...

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

*whilst stabbing you to death* Don’t be discouraged! Our indestructible robot bodies will be here any day now!

Yeah wtf was that about anyway

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

Think it’s probably time for the leaders of each political party to be asked exactly what steps they’ll be taking to protect Canadians from MAGA ideology and the utter carnage it inflicts on society

Also a great way to crap on people who’re willing to do more work and take more risks than you are

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now. Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

“I still think back to the moment when those plants were discovered. It was joyful. This whole project has becone a celebration.” Consider this story of renewal your Friday timeline cleanse www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

I’m old enough to remember when you could travel across this country easily, efficiently and comfortably by train. Mulroney tore up the tracks to make sure we’d never have that again.

Noticing a lot of user-first platforms popping up in response to this kind of BS. There’s the Nebula video platform, the music one I can’t remember the name of, & Gander, a social media platform, founded by a non-billionaire dude, just for Canadians, and MODERATED ACCORDING TO OUR CHARTER OF RIGHTS

Really ingenious. Attract doctors into family medicine by making them municipal employees so they can just provide care & don’t have to deal with the admin burden of running a practice. We need more of this kind of outside the box thinking to fix healthcare in Canada www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

Can’t wait to give this a listen

I feel like waiting around for billionaire tech men to decide how our culture is going to work based on their various products launches has not worked out and we should turn away from them and their companies now

If you create an AI-powered wearable device that sucks and nobody wants, you should be forced to eat the unsold stock

This is what’s playing out in Canada now. Carney jumping thru hoops for the right, the rw echo chamber too busy screaming communist at him to care, meanwhile those of us who thought we voted Liberal last election are left going wtf

Great thread on the melting of ICE in LA and the 'empowered bullies' that comprise ICE. A thread of encouragement from LA to Chicago...

Hi. I know I've said this before, but it bears repeating: we have to be able to criticize Mark Carney without living in fear that doing so will help Poilievre or weaken Canada. He is our Prime Minister. Out of anyone, he deserves to be watched and critiqued. We should all be dying on this hill.

This was always the scam. Writers: CHARGE MORE to fix AI docs

This is exactly the wrong time to kneecap arts and culture in this country

Do the Alberta book banners worried about children being exposed to inappropriate content know that there is an internet

Solomon’s priority should be protecting Canadians from the excesses of these dodgy companies and making sure they’re not permitted to heedlessly Kool-Aid Man themselves into every aspect of our lives

New human just dropped

Say it louder

For the cynics who think it doesn’t matter, that the compensation for authors whose work was stolen will be so low it’s not worth fighting, I personally think it’s worth making the monetary punitive damage these companies suffer as big as possible to deter similar theft in the future.

The money and time squandered on self-infatuated megalomaniacal bullshit by Musk, Zuckerberg, and Altman alone could have built rail networks and clean energy, replanted forests, paid teachers and researchers, fed and educated millions quit Facebook quit ChatGPT boycott Tesla

A federal court ruled that ANTHROPIC illegally copied MILLIONS of books to train its AI. All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work. For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...

Worthwhile thread on AI, what it’s really for and who it really serves—especially pertinent after the Eden Mills debacle

A swift, good decision to just not