Let’s go!!! Lots of urgent issues these days it seems…but protecting Canada’s public healthcare system from coast to coast to coast is right up there! Please sign and share: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... We all benefit!

Prison guards are flocking to ICE jobs and frankly this makes sense. Those of us who have been anti-prison organizers for decades have been saying that fascism already existed within prisons/jails. Our best teachers for how to survive fascism are incarcerated people.

Why would they leak the video from the ICE agents point of view when it didn’t exonerate him and actually made him look more guilty? Because it shows Renee is a lesbian. They’re hoping to incite homophobia and give their base another reason to hate her. It’s sickening.

X is only allowing “verified” users to create images with Grok. Experts say it represents the “monetization of abuse”—and anyone can still generate images on Grok’s app and website. www.wired.com/story/x-didn...

A lot of people have strong feelings about what’s happening in Venezuela, but not much grounding in the history or politics. I talked to Geo Maher, who’s written two books on Venezuelan politics, to offer some context.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... A petition to end foreign ownership of media.

This policy is illegal in Ontario.

Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

Come on, @mark-carney.bsky.social be more like the PM of Denmark and less of a wuss.

Without vultures, we are screwed. www.aaha.org/trends-magaz...

Many of Canada's oligarchs and members of the kleptocracy will benefit from rolling Canada up into the US, and they are heavily backing Fortress Am-Can. They post some socials about "elbows up" but they want the 51st state. It has the backing of #IDUPlaybook. Carney is here to hitch us up.

Donald Trump has multiple indictments in the United States for crimes against the US government. And also pardoned top drug dealers.

The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics. It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.

you think this is a one-off? don’t be deluded. we are firmly in the zone of lawlessness & impunity. repression at home and aggression abroad. and a sleeping congress.

"A woman dressed as a pink Power Ranger hacked a dating site for far-right extremists. She deleted the entire site, but first she made users fall in love with AI bots she ran, thus obtaining information about them. Over 8,000 far-right profiles have now been mapped."

Now that they’ve started a war I’ve completely forgotten that they’re pedophiles.

it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"

Bombing another country and kidnapping its leader would also be wrong with Congressional approval. The outrage, and call for impeachment, should be over the evil and illegal outcome not merely the failure to follow the prescribed process.

Abysmal statement from Canada on the illegal US action in Venezuela. It doesn’t matter how much you dislike Maduro, that doesn’t justify a violation of international law and the UN Charter. You can’t call on “all parties” to respect international law and not call out US lawlessness.

as if the onus for improving quality and usefulness is somehow on the critics or the consumer

Would love if all the folks up in arms about consent when it comes to AI images (good!) could understand issues of consent when it comes to making people around you ill because you don’t care or possibly even know that you’re sick.

This 👇 There's no such thing as a serious effort to address the implosion of Canada's healthcare system that doesn't address COVID, and the incompetence of infection control leadership. They made a very big mistake in 2020, and they'll take the system down with them before they'll admit it.

Masks on. Infections down. Masks off. Infections up. Masks on. Infections down. Masks off. Infections… If I didn’t know any better, I would swear there was a pattern here. #maskingsaveslives #masksinhealthcare #commonsenseinhealthcare #HAIs #donoharm #stopthespread #normalizingsickness

Hiding from questions on Skills Development Fund scandals, development approvals given to Ford's wedding guests, slow or still unopened LRTs, pending Circular Materials recycling screwups, ongoing OSC relocation (for political reasons only), and ongoing consequences of underfunding EDU & Healthcare.

Holy CRAP. Retired engineer takes random pics of *kids*, without consent or attribution, bins them into “autistic” or “not autistic”, and uploads that “data” for free on Kaggle. Well over a HUNDRED papers are published, 38 in Springer Nature, 25 in IEEE, using it. And no reviewers objected? WTF.🧪

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I have been trying to raise awareness about the recent cuts to pandemic preparedness by provincial institutions in BC for the past 1½ months. Most of the cuts were not announced to the public beforehand and media coverage has been scant. 1/?

I spend so much time verifying everything now from art to cited sources to photos to historical references to citations to quotes to legal and medical information that it's really hard to fathom how much work AI has collectively added to the world, not reduced

Promote people of colour and women in this space, whistleblowers and survivors of these clowns. Read more on actual critical concepts here: bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Universities: investing millions so students ”develop literacy in the language of AI” Also universities: defunding the humanities so students are illiterate in ordinary languages

Meanwhile at University of Toronto... uncritical thought magazine.utoronto.ca/research-ide...

FFS. It's 2025. Covid is airborne. Increase the cleaning of the AIR and require masks. #CovidIsntOver #CovidIsAirborne

I think it was a missed opportunity to not have Kate McKinnon reference JG Thirlwell covering Ghost Rider with Soft Cell in the 80s either with a musician host, or cast member as part of a skit.

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Highly recommend this cheerful book about a walk in an enchanted forest. There’s even a unicorn!

Shoving the Military Industrial Complex into the same form as Fracking is a potent metaphor for the current society we're stuck with.

Everytime I advertise a product being accessible to disabled people. I lose sales because able-bodied people feel like it isn't for them as well. My products are for anyone that likes or wants them. You don't need to view yourself as disabled to want them too.

From a dead link on their 2023 election platform page.

Can we talk about how women 30-60 are convinced that any symptoms are perimenopause/menopause rather than considering possible damage from Covid infections? Any health concerns are 'normal' & they all commiserate about their cognitive, cardiac, respiratory, skeletal, muscular, immunological probs.

Opening up for subs at midnight tonight assuming that I have set up Submittable correctly....

After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)

Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.

Mice are a pain, and I wish my PTSD cat who doesn't know how to cat was a hunter. His sister is, but she lives with her mom. Should I move the cat feeding station upstairs so he spreads his scent more?

"We're making unprecedented investments in nation building projects." The nation we're building:

OMG a person I've been talking to on a dating app is a masker. Feel like I won the lottery. Hope this was the hard part.

Bereaved families are pursuing all legal action to hold Johnson accountable for his abject failure during the pandemic. "Justice for those we lost means real consequences for those who failed them, and we will not stop until that justice is delivered." #covidinquiry

This was the H5N5 patient. "Public health officials are continuing to monitor anyone who was in contact with the patient — including more than 100 health care workers — for symptoms to ensure that human-to-human spread has not occurred." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Will PRIVATIZING Canadian MEDICARE WORK? Researchers compared 25 wealthy countries. The more each relies on FOR-PROFIT COMPANIES to deliver healthcare ...the WORSE LIFE EXPECTANCY gets. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...