Here's everything you need to know to have a traditional Valentine's Day/Lupercalia as it was before the church slapped a Saint on it. First, priests would sacrifice a goat &a dog to Romulus&Remus, legendary founders of Rome, at the cave where as babies they were allegedly suckled by a she-wolf.

This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden. (After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)

Bandcamp pays artists about 80% of sales. And prohibits AI music. If you believe music is important, stop using Spotify.

"The Donut Lab solid state battery is made entirely from abundant, affordable, and geopolitically safe materials, does not rely on rare or sensitive elements, and demonstrates a lower cost than lithium-ion." Heck. Can all of that be true at the same time?

Incredibly promising news to start the new year…

If reconciliation actually meant something, this would be the final word

Good news: Study shows France’s birds making tentative recovery after neonicotinoid pesticide ban UK has only just closed loophole in neonics ban (‘derogations’) so may be too soon to see recovery here? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

FFS! Canada Post is NOT a business. It is a public service, like parks and fire departments. Decide what services it should provide and fund it properly. Are we expecting police departments or highway maintenance to turn a profit?

Radio 4 interviewed some folks on AI yesterday and one proponent rolled out the usual 'people are scared of new technology' nonsense. People aren't scared of new tech. They're scared of the devaluation and loss of jobs, which is happening. They're scared of thirsty data centres. This isn't hard.

The loathsome zeitgeist of "having *done* without having to *do*", that started in the creative arts, now burrows outwards through the corpse of human experience.

It takes 30 seconds to send emails to your politicians, Canadians. Carney's government is on a warpath to destroy Canadian rights and freedoms, please speak out before it's too late migrantrights.ca/take-action/...

In any discussion of food and farming, unless your solution can be scaled to feed 8 billion people, you shouldn't be taken seriously. Unfortunately, cottagecore fantasies that would feed only the richest consumers, leaving billions to starve, are all too common. www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

I hear the President has decreed that it is possibly a crime to refer to Americans as "fascists," but "fascism" is a word that has a relatively clear meaning that's worth understanding. Here's how an official publication of the US Army defined "fascism" in 1945.

Canadian Tire hilariousness first thing 🤣🤣🤣 I want those gummies Tod youtube.com/shorts/e_hw-...

Impressive. Via xcancel.com/The_x_Truth/...

The walk to beach is food for my body, as evening beckons with a sun-kissed dusk, as cotton soft candy colored clouds wrap their strands around my soul.... my spirit shook by awareness of how fortunate I am to be a witness. A winner in Mother Nature's eternal game. ✍️ @mdanielsmith.bsky.social

This is the official spokesperson for the White House, stating that the President hopes to deploy the United States military to occupy every city controlled by the political party that opposes him. Explicitly.

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

🇨🇦 Nuclear Laboratory to be taken over by 🇺🇸!? WTF @mark-carney.bsky.social?! Pls sign this HoC petition! No f’ing way! “Canada is poised to award a multi-billion dollar contract — the largest federal contract ever — to a consortium of U.S. companies;” #cdnpoli www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

The rampant data sharing fueled by online tracking has serious consequences. Privacy Badger blocks online tracking to prevent your browsing data from being used against you. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

I saw this at the beginning of the invasion but was unable to find it again, thankfully someone posted it yesterday on Twitter. A very wry explanation of what’s been happening in Palestine for the past 75 years.

Your semi-regular reminder that Winston Smith, in Orwell’s 1984, worked as a records editor for the Ministry of Truth, continuously rewriting the historical record to ensure that it matched the Party’s preferred version of events.

I know we probably know this but: New York’s murder rate is one of the lowest in America’s cities, at 5.3 per 100,000. That’s still four times higher than London’s, which is around 1.3 per 100,000. So if Mamdani turns NY into London…all good?

How did I miss this story earlier in the week…Daniel Ek has “doubled down” on investments in military drones and AI. Original source is FT, here is that article past paywall archive.ph/2025.06.18-1...

I needed to read this today. Thought someone else might need it too.

This article on ‘Steps of Life’ inspired the cartoon below: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #Canada #politics #immigration

Canadians, I realize all eyes are on the US but: Carney's introduced Bill C-5 which is basically Doug Ford's Bill 5 but for the whole country, allowing corporations to do whatever the fuck they want to our land in the name of the economy, Indigenous rights and environmental concerns be damned 1/3

2025-06-10 Tuesday's Canadian Wildfire Smoke Forecast (condns at ~3:00 pm) #ClimateEmergency #Canada #Wildfire 👉 Note: Canada is warming 2 xs faster than the global average Read about it here: climateinstitute.ca/news Entire Towns are burning, not just forests firesmoke.ca/forecasts/cu...

Canada Post SHOULD take Amazon business away, though. And the working model has to change.

This.

Canada Post is as essential as the CBC- it reaches people and homes in places that aren’t profitable for corporate greed and allows all Canadians to feel included. We are a huge country with few urban clusters. We need Canada Post. We need the CBC. #cdnpoli

This powerful billboard was spotted in London 🇵🇸 It all started in 1948 💔, not October 7” A reminder to the world: the Nakba never ended. #Nakba77 #FreePalestine

Brooklyn magnolias!

CTV dropping @rachelgilmore.bsky.social is infuriating Where is CTV’s journalistic integrity? CTV was spineless and gave in the far right fascist mobilization against Rachel. CTV *chose* to side with these fascists. Attacks on journalism will continue because msm allows the far right to win.

just CTV collapsing like a wet deck of cards in the face of conservative smear campaign. What's happening to @rachelgilmore.bsky.social looks like a particular strain of media cowardice imported from the States. It's unreal

Like Carney says:

French researcher, going to a conference in Houston, was forbidden entry to US; his work and personal electronics were both confiscated. Why? Because a “random search” of his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump and the Trump administration. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

What if Canada stopped upholding U.S. tech companies’ intellectual property? #cdnpoli #uspoli #Trump #tariffs #TradeWar www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

If only all of humanity could understand and embrace this. ☮️💙

I just signed a petition demanding the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Ban X/Twitter in Canada. Join me in signing here: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ba... you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ba...

BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years