This is the key part; make your employer verify in writing that you (or your team) are expected, as part of the duties of your job, to be exposed to child sexual abuse material. They *of course* then have to provide a method of reporting it, and resources for supporting those exposed to it.

As Poilievre stepped on stage to address the CSFN conference in May, some of Canada’s most prominent conservatives were watching. So was an increasingly notorious “Canadian nationalist.” New for @thetyee.ca: I dig into the organized effort to make a racist movement mainstream in Canadian politics.

“The known cases of police stalking are almost certainly a vast underreporting of the overall abuse, because they largely include only cases in which the behavior was so egregious that it led to police officers being fired, arrested, or both.”

GET 'EM ALL!

It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.

sylvia townsend warner in 1926, foreseeing the type of author who would use AI:

I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up

Sometimes people are following me for a while and don't realize I have a podcast If that's you, hi! I make @lingthusiasm.com, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics! If that sounds like something you might like, give it a follow? And if you think your followers might like it, give an RT?

My colleague @hannahalothman.bsky.social is in Belfast tonight. This is what she’s seen. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

I'm inclined to accuse the *reason* for these new bills restricting speech showing up all at once— encryption limits, "adult content" limits, ID checks (age verification)— is to drive people to use "AI" instead of talking to each other. Especially when it comes from hyper AI promoters like Carney

“you’re not allowed to talk to your friends, only the self-harm robot”

Polymarket offered me enough money to pay my rent for ten months for one post in my newsletter and I turned it down because I enjoy being able to sleep at night.

The key to understanding Bradford is to understand that the one thing he’s consistent about is presenting himself as an alternative to whoever the current mayor is, in the hope that he can be the next one. In April of 2022, it was John Tory.

In a time of hyper-convenience, individualization, and near ubiquitous surveillance, often through self-surveillance, etiquette offers a framework of thinking that reinforces the reality of our interconnectedness time-and-space-studios.ghost.io/solidarity-a...

"Pronoun police"? Please. The proper term is the gendermes.

final point of this hits the nail really

I went from reading a few books a year to around one a week. I wanted to write down how I got there, how it involved rethinking my relationship to attention, and why I believe reading books can heal your brain. I hope this gives you something useful! johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/how-i-lear...

If you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.

this is so fucking cool neal.fun/space-elevat...

I genuinely don’t think people in toronto do this which is maybe one of the things I love most about it!! we just want you to drop the second T for the love of god

Receipts btw: sex-matters.org/wp-content/u... They're quite explicit about curtailing rights in order to "no longer make transition a desirable goal" and thus eliminate trans people from public life.

Mom always joked about how before her funeral, she wanted to go to Walmart one last time. Unknown to me, last night at 10:30pm, my brother, my nephew, my other niece and a getaway driver brought mom’s body to the local store. They wheeled her in, rolled her around, made their escape. Legendary.

this coffee shop is playing a……..steel drum?? version?? of cruel angel thesis?????? I’m not mad I’m just confused

I need your help! I'm travelling to Ottawa on June 10 to tell our Parkdale—High Park MP, Karim Bardeesy, that his constituents say "NO!" to the airport expansion! Can you sign my petition? I'll be bringing printed copies to Parliament Hill! www.dianachanmcnally.ca/billybishop

it’s my birthday and all I want is for it to happen at the game tonight is that so much to ask

Hi I'm posting a 54-page PDF to the only app where when I post a 54-page PDF people sometimes read it everyone should read the ENTIRE whistleblower statement about DOGE attempting to falsely "kill off" 2.7 people through the SSA Death Master File. www.washingtonpost.com/documents/be...

I think every politician who proposes to ban anything on the internet for teens should be required to propose, as an alternate, a free and accessible and all weather space for teens to hang out in their own hometown

Sick of AI, social media and horrible tech? Celebrate the good bits of the internet with THE TINY AWARDS 2026! The Tiny Awards celebrate the small, non-commercial, fun, silly, poetic, frivolous web - nominate your favourite site from the past year here, and please tell the world: tinyawards.net

My hot take is that only Tumblr has figured out how to build a social network with an enduring culture and none of the other social medias are trying to copy it, and that's a mistake that will cost them.

vid i made several years ago that will prob stop being relevant at some point

So many people focused on Bari Weiss asking to make protesters look more violent and glossing over Pelley admitting they’d already dug deep for the most violent protester footage they could find. His interview is more of an indictment of corporate media than many want to admit.

This Korean paper asmr artist that I’ve been following for a while made a TikTok of her healing Van Gogh 🥹 Her account name is paper pepper www.tiktok.com/@paper__pepp...

Almost a decade ago, I was very Special Interested in mushrooms and developed an organizing training framework based on mycelium. The core teaching was, people think the above-ground part (the mushroom) is the body of the organism, but that isn't the case. So too with movement. (cont)

the locked tomb but it should be an anime and every voice should be moira quirk

How many times can I reply “a fan only covers the area of its airflow, bubbles cover the entire area the bubbles float in” to everyone smug-actuallying me about goddamn fans

This reveal and the news yesterday— about Meta having shipped the code for facial recognition in their glasses—should be understood as very deeply intertwined.

Hello! I'm Greg Erskine, and I'm running for State Representative in New Hampshire's District 22 (Manchester's Ward 11). New Hampshire needs strong public schools, freedom of bodily autonomy, and fair taxation that works for all Granite Staters. secure.actblue.com/donate/greg-...

We have been inundated with multiple scandals from the Toronto Police Service, from Spain to Project South to the sexual assault of a minor. We must have a serious conversation about this extreme breach of trust. www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

I found a map from 1979 of Via Rail routes across Canada with daily service, and compared it to a new map I made of cities that are currently served by daily (minimum 7 trains/week) passenger rail service. It's bleak.

10 seconds into reading the new federal AI strategy and already rolling my eyes at "AI is rapidly becoming a foundational driver of economic growth, productivity, industrial capability, and geopolitical influence." ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en...

These are just first impressions, but my big takeaway is that the government decided a long time ago that they wanted to get in on the AI game and give a lot of money to Canadian companies to do so. Everything else, e.g., November's consultation, is messaging and damage control.

are you just going to do this for every generation

This week's @showuptoronto.ca email is slowly rolling into your inboxes, which is mostly about the travesty that is Bill C-22, what you can do about it, and other tech activism pathways. Also, as is common these days, 70+ events over the next week! buttondown.com/showup/archi...

Doly Begum, former NDP who crossed, won recently, won't talk about the Island Airport. The rest are mealy mouthed. What a shame of a Toronto caucus.

among the biggest problems with television today, the lack of economic or logistical pressure to actually make shows is among the greatest. (1/14)

Truly awesome reporting work by @emmapaling.bsky.social and @thelocal.to here, taking the reader inside a safe consumption site so you can see for yourself the effects of its coming closure. thelocal.to/moss-park-sa...

Reposting this eulogy I wrote for my magical, mysterious ex-stray cat George, who died in 2024, in case anybody would like a read. I've taken the paywall off it. It was very, very hard to write but I think it might be my favourite thing I’ve ever written about cats. www.tom-cox.com/lots-of-peop...

On top of job cuts at the Competition Bureau, consumer protection efforts seem like a waste of money to the Carney government, so our banker in chief is effectively declaring open season on scams. www.donotpassgo.ca/p/carney-gov...