It's such a bizarre experience having kids and regularly watching kids content and recognizing how many behaviors are displayed as villainous that are currently being lifted up as virtue in real life

Monday is a great day to call the premiers office. And my MPPs office, and whichever 3 cabinet members have some say over any of this disgusting unconstitutional anti human nonsense.

Every time these bans were mentioned there was a warning that this was was coming. It was ignored. We all have a choice. We could choose to turn away and go down the path of respect and fun for all instead of persecution and hate.

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

No more gambling. Shut it down. Shut it all down. It causes nothing but pain.

Feces often contaminates food when workers are 1) not provided proper toilets 2) not allowed to take breaks 3) using untreated waste water near/on crops (very bad!) 4) not provided adequate bathrooms in on-site housing 5) not cleaning workspace properly All of which is NOT on workers.

I now want this. Bring back bards.

Taylor Farms also owns and runs Earthbound Organics, which is available in nearly every grocery store across the US

At least we can use our pandemic masks as climate change masks #silverlinings #adaptation

NEW: DHS plans to pay Thomson Reuters $125 million for access to its databases which includes peoples’ names, addresses, Social Security numbers, ethnicity, social media posts, and geolocation information — to help ICE investigate “voter fraud”, according to documents reviewed by 404 Media.

Please? 1) ALT-TEXT GRAPHICS. It's good internet behavior. Accessibility matters. 2) Please do not ask strangers online qs that (basic/non-AI) Google can answer. It's just rude to demand their time. 3) Check someone's profile before you decide you know their deal & start yelling at them? OK?

I am going to stick to my Methodist roots on this and say gambling needs to go. No lottery. No casinos. No Sports betting. None. People will still do it. But the widespread harm and corruption we are seeing is bad.

Is this translated from the original German? www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202...

Home cooling and emissions aren’t trade-offs, both are necessary as Canadians summers heat up. Governments can keep people safe and answer the growing demand for energy by building clean electricity systems faster and with more flexibility.

The idea that A/C makes heat waves significantly worse is a dangerous misconception. The science doesn’t support that claim, and cooling is one of the best tools to keep people safe from deadly heat. Read more from our Adaptation Director Ryan Ness 👇 www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/17/n...

Lawful Neutral DnD shit posting tips

20ish years ago we moved to Ontario. There were smog days ALL the time. Then the premier shut down all the coal plants. And there were beautiful blue skies. Now we have smoke days. I wonder if there is anything we could do about that?

The current Ebola outbreak in Central Africa is the fastest ever. 2,000 cases and nearly 800 fatalities, and those are vast undercounts 80% of cases have no known contact. Fatality rates in the community are 60-70% The international response is woeful news.un.org/en/story/202...

See also: the incredible ancient kingdom of Nubia / Kush, now Sudan. (Called Ethiopia by the Greeks, mislabeled in Bibles forever after, what’s now Ethiopia had its own story etc)

My trusty steed Calliope and I explored the recreation trails around Niagara Falls. Walking where it’s crowded, glorious bike fun where it’s not. Sadly the sky was Armageddon orange. Holding in love the people racing to escape the fires and the people fighting them. Life is holding joy&tragedy

I find it particularly crass and evil of the (all republican) politicians’ public comments at Canada to control their fires and smoke not 2 days after a Canadian K-MAX pilot was killed fighting fires in Colorado. The decades of cooperation and shared sacrifice mean nothing to those absolute ghouls.

A reminder that all large news outlets (and quite a few small ones) are owned or controlled by billionaires who exert editorial control. You should know what is going on but please read/watch with a hermeneutic of suspicion and (to save your spirit) a hermeneutic of restoration.

People love Micah 6:8 But we experience Micah 3 on a daily basis.

There are many paths to evil. The obviously violent way is just one. The veneer of patriarchal care and concern is another.

It's almost impossible to really explain how bad things are, or how quickly they've regressed, and on some level I think some people almost can't accept it even when you lay the evidence before their eyes. Yet we have a more anti trans policy regime than Trump's America.

One of the reasons I find talk about this stuff (outside of Bsky which is like my diary of doom LOL) is I can't bear explaining to cis ppl how bad things are, and on some level they can't really grasp it. Extreme attacks on LGBTQ is something that happens in *other countries* not civilised Britain!

🙃 as i wrote in the afterword to the paperback, in 2020 we were so close we could taste it to creating a world led by a sense of disability justice and collective care—a gift from viruses to have learned negotiating life with them was the roadmap to climate change, incarceration & anti-capitalism

Interesting article. The end is the kicker though. … “If such clothing genuinely proved effective, it could get political very quickly,” he said. “Then this type of clothing could find itself banned.”

Love this pink Inornate Pyrausta Moth and a metallic green Sweat Bee sharing a peppermint flower spike this morning. 🩷💚🤍 #Photography99 📷 #GardenStrolling 🌱 #BloomScrolling 🌻

“Learn to live with it” really took off after COVID. The amount of “new normal” in the last five years has been abnormal.

The Luddites loved technology. They owned looms at home and would ‘mod’ them to count threads. Their battle was against worker exploitation. The degradation of their rights, safety and wages. They were against a handful of rich businessmen owning the means of production. Sound familiar?

I realize it's tough to do last minute, but if u don't have air filters in some form in your home, there are some DIY things you can do. I imagine places are sold out but around the country people should prepare for this type of scenario. Don't wait. engineering.ucdavis.edu/news/science...

this is an incredibly important archaeological site for so much. please leave a comment opposing this.

Mark Carney's made deep cuts to Natural Resources Canada that strip away science-based expertise on forest fires, "decimating capacity" to track wildfire activity. Only one forest pathologist now monitors the entire forestry system east of the Rockies. 5/ www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/05/n...

Good thing Mark Carney decided climate change isn't worth addressing.

Why I’m not a fan, this is amazing

'Partial or full shutdowns of nuclear facilities across France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, Romania, and other countries ... Highlighting need for a re-evaluation of nuclear's role in sustainable energy landscape.' www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

'Europe’s Nuclear Plants Can’t Beat the Heat. France is cutting output at up to five nuclear plants this week as record heat pushes river temperatures too high to cool reactors safely. Last month’s heat wave already knocked out power to 70,000 households.' oilprice.com/Alternative-...

We are inches into the beginning of this. Do not forget that once upon a time, this kind of thing was referred to as a "thousand year" event. Do all you can. That's it. That's our job. Do all you can.

I’d guess a full 1/4 of active paleontologists today wanted to be Alan Grant when they grew up. I don’t know if another actor has had such a tangible impact on science. I hope Sam Neill knew that at least a little. Rest easy.

we are now in a place where the Church is (correctly) calling the Labour Party out for being hostile to queer folk, so, that’s something else

In my Minneapolis neighborhood there is a “Little Free Plant Stand!”

Did not even last a week. The fact that this made it out the door means the privacy department now works in a basement with no computers and a single stapler. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/t...

Social media thought the Trump summoned Patel to rebuke him for his jet-skiing adventures. Silly social media! Trump doesn't care about corruption. He summoned him to direct a lawfare campaign against the NYT. Remember friends, this isn't a soap opera. It's fascism. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...

feels like a real landmark of impunity that major corporations are making federal crimes part of the interview process

This is the 1980s show moonlighting come to bleak real life.

Good reminders. Also. We can do better.

I'm not even joking when I say that, as a former writing teacher, I think even the act of bullshitting through a 10-page paper on a book you only skimmed is also incredibly valuable learning.

I liked Supergirl. Not world changing but some genuinely funny and heartbreaking moments. All with really neat relationship at the heart of it.