i literally can’t understand how rich people keep their money. giving people money they need to stay fed and housed is the most amazing feeling. i wish everyone of you that have donated got to experience the gratitude of the people you are helping.

If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.

It's not fun being "that person" but a lot of information being shared is just wrong. The truth is scary enough and people's energy being diverted because of a rumor spread in good faith is a problem. A lot of information, due to algorithms on platforms is also WAY out of date. Please be mindful

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

“ The daughter of a well known conservative operative , whose paper did not answer the topic at hand and had a carefully planned media campaign , had a trans instructor fired for grading a paper according to the agreed upon rubric”

Once again.

“It’s really exciting to me that air quality improved throughout the entiremetro area,” said Fraser. “This tells us that congestion pricing didn’t simply relocate air pollution to the suburbs by rerouting traffic. Instead, folks are likely choosing cleaner transportation options altogether”

No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going. It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.

today is the first time since 1988 that the united states is not observing world AIDS day in fact, per STAT, the state department has forbidden federal employees AND GRANTEES to not utilize any funding to promote or commemorate this day

If you live in Vancouver, please take a moment and use this link COPE has put together to send our ABC councillors and the mayor an email opposing their budget. www.votecope.ca/stopsim

For the airplane + red aurora + big dipper fans. 😍

TIL the tale of the Edmund Fitzgerald is one of corporate malfeasance and worker endangerment.

NEW: City Budget survey results are out. By a more than two-to-one margin over any other scenario, Vancouver residents wanted a tax rate that maintained public services. Zero means zero consideration of public feedback. ABC's cuts are as anti-democratic as they are harmful.

they need a functioning city hall and local government that can assist them to make things as easy as possible so they dont waste all their fucking time in line or on hold!! why are you looking to fire 400 local government employees!! those are homes and families that need feeding too you fuckass!!

the struggling family who cannot afford to feed their kids do not need fifty million to the fucking corrupt overtime-abusing traffic-unenforcing homeless-endangering police force!! they need libraries and activity centres and pools and parks so their income is freed to FEED THEIR FAMILIES

"And there's a whole bunch of other people that are struggling, who didn't fill out the survey, that are literally looking to feed their families." THOSE!! ARE THE FAMILIES!! THAT NEED PUBLIC SERVICES!! THAT YOU ARE CUTTING!!!!!!!!! I HATE THIS POLITICAL CLIMATE THEY CAN JUST SAY WHATEVER THEY WANT

right wing bigots have admitted - the “trans women in bathrooms” issue - the “trans women in sports” issue and - the “trans kids getting surgery” issue were all MADE UP TO TAKE OUR RIGHTS AWAY are you paying attention?

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

"City Councillors Sean Orr and Lucy Maloney are tabling a joint motion requesting...Mayor Sim write to the premier, the prime minister, and other govt officials to express council’s support for the SkyTrain line, and to ask them to commit to a timeline and funding." www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

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.

The article echoes what I’ve seen and heard from peers: AI makes it easy to produce slick but shallow work that looks plausible on the surface, yet riddled with errors or bad assumptions underneath. Your coworkers end up having to fix or redo it. It’s workslop, and it’s spreading fast.

If you read one story about the autism announcement, make it @amymaxmen.bsky.social's. One detail that others miss: "Fevers can harm the mother and the developing fetus, she said, adding that fevers are more strongly associated with autism than Tylenol." kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Global News laid off 26 journalists in B.C. and Alberta today. In B.C. the layoffs include virtually all of the online team, along with many others. The business is increasingly cruel, and the hollowing out of newsrooms providing fair and reliable information continues to suck.

sam altman is trying to find the guy who did this

The most effective way to reduce homelessness is to give people homes. I'm not sure why we pretend that this is so complicated. You end pantslessness by giving people pants.👖 You can't end pantslessness by throwing away someone's shirt too. That doesn't make sense.

imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter

Never forgive men for treating programming as a meaningless thing your secretary did while women were inventing and developing the field, then, once they realized it was going to be important, shoving women out of it and claiming only Male Logic Brains could perform it.

one cool thing about Scandinavian countries with comprehensive public health insurance is places like Denmark can do a study on… everybody and conclude that yes COVID vaccines are safe

@shawnlenore.bsky.social if you're open to suggestions for wallpaper candidates... the bottom open panel of www.howtobeawerewolf.com/comic/mal-is... would make a great one

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

i will go into menopause, decline mentally and physically in my 30s, develop osteoporosis, and die an early death if HRT is banned and for what reason? none senseless violence against me and other Americans like me

There's a lot of talk about Canada Geese and whether they're good and my answer is Yes.

disabled people deserve to live fulfilling lives no matter their productivity to society

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Hi Bluesky, my house was one of those that was destroyed in the Eaton fire in Altadena, CA this last week. I need your help rebuilding my life. Please read and consider donating or sharing my GoFundMe. GoFundMe: gofund.me/e69c2676 Story in thread 🧵 #eaton #losangeles

Just incredible things from the VLC folks

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Exceedingly important discovery: Ikea Kallax shelves are exactly two LEGO studs wide. A simple bracket shape like this will stay in place without any support.

Canada, meanwhile, has no high-speed rail at all, despite fully half the population already obligingly arranging itself IN A STRAIGHT LINE en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_...