I feel like so many people need to hear this: Compassion isn’t just humane, it’s fiscally responsible. It’s far cheaper to keep people housed, healthy, and supported than it is to deal with the fallout after their lives have gone off the rails. Prevention costs less than crisis. Every single time.

I'm primarily Linux, but reboot into Windows first time in 2 years to get firmware updates, and I figured I'd update all the software while I'm there, but holy fuck, between Dell and MS, I've reboot a dozen times, and it's taking all fucking afternoon, and I didn't even tell it to do 25H2 yet!

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Is Intel's Core Ultra Series 3 (Panther Lake) CPU not actually able to be wired up to their discrete Thunderbolt 5 controller (JHL9580, Barlow Ridge), or did every single laptop OEM just not bother? ☹️

Danielle Smith’s UCP Captured by Alberta Separatists Danielle Smith is pandering to "cultist" separatists like Parker, Rath, Sylvestre, etc. Can Alberta's democracy survive the assault? My interview w/Thomas @lukaszukab.bsky.social #ableg #abpoli youtu.be/WodpWFZYvv8

"CBSA said the agency has opened 446 immigration investigations into foreign nationals suspected of being involved in or linked to extortion across the country" 446! This ain't some handful of small-time gang members pulling some shit. This is a *huge* problem. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"Hantavirus doesn't have 'pandemic potential,' says health official." How did I know it's Bonnie Henry saying this?!? Argentina disagrees. She doesn't think *anything* is airborne, or has any potential, and her resulting half-efforts are gonna get us all killed. www.cbc.ca/news/world/h...

Can we just make @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social Director at the WHO?

Bonnie Henry is going to kill the entire world.

This is way more transmissible than they've been leading us to believe.

The grandkids are gonna be huddled in a nuclear powered bunker eating insect gruel while looking at a picture of tree (extinct) on their phone and ask "how did we get here?" Well, son, people demanded GIANT homes and SUV's and suburbs and cheap gas. And change for climate wasn't winning votes?

I'm guilty of this when it comes to motorists endangering pedestrians and cyclists. It's SO HARD not to be cynical when you constantly read stories of the cops not even wanting to see video footage, let alone press charges, then drivers get off with a $1000 fine for killing someone.

As we keep seeing breathless headlines about the dangers of ebikes, this is the data: "94% of reported pedestrian and cyclist injuries involved a car or truck...while e-bike, e-scooter and moped riders caused just 2.4% of all reported pedestrian injuries." nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/24/t...

This is fucking nuts. We need to get off US tech platforms.

I feel like the Venn diagram, between Russian disinformation victims and Conservative voters, is a circle?

Canada should go into the business of higher education. We should strive to be THE destination for students from all around the world to get a high quality, hands-on, and well regarded post-secondary education. We have our own educated populace that could help make this happen.

Why is the bike lane on the *outside* of the bollards?

We aren't turning climate change around. We aren't even slowing the fuck down, not meaningfully. Our federal and provincial politicians are enthusiastically ramming this through. And they're both the "good" political options we *barely* elected to avoid the full on fascist ones. I can't even.

This is a great overview of how global right wing think tanks are pulling the strings here in western Canada...

Feeling down about the state of things? Looking for something to lift your spirits on a beautiful Friday evening? Come join us at the Art Gallery at 6pm!

The future of a family in south Lebanon shouldn't depend on what Roscoe in Wisconsin thinks about gas prices.

I just found in my @github.com settings that they automatically opted me in to their "Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training" setting. This says you have until April 24 to opt-out. github.blog/news-insight...

Module 3 of the UK COVID Inquiry is out. Encouraging to see explicit recognition of the "widespread failure" of clinical leaders to understand aerosol science, and the "clear failure" of IPC leaders to understand that they might be wrong. #medsky #scisky covid19.public-inquiry.uk/reports/modu....

We have copyright in Canada. If the code from my open source projects was slurped up to train AI, I'd like to sue the US corporations that stole it for infringing my copyright. Just because the US has decided not to enforce it against them, doesn't mean we can't? There's international law, right?

Wow, seeing it all compiled together in a list, it really hits you what a profound disappointment he is...

Literally everything including imaginary pals. Always imagined. Fear of house taken away Fear of being killed Fear of robbery Fear of new people Fear of anyone that doesn't look just like you. Fear of new food. Fear fear fear.

If the world gathered at the UN and voted to put boots on the ground in Iran that would be needed to establish a democracy and stop the killing of protesters, I'd be okay with that. But I don't believe for one second the USA and Israel are gonna do anything more than drop bombs and fuck off.

A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives

I've seen 5 GP's and 10 specialists over six years, and seriously not one of them had any idea what Long Covid is, or Covid being more than a respiratory virus. Honestly, if you replaced them all with AI, at least that shit would read a paper every five years (and after a fucking pandemic).

WestJet, AirCanada, and Porter all list Vancouver/Toronto flights on Wed as $743. All of them. To the dollar. You know, because we have a free market that supports competition, but also, I guess, that must just be what the cost is to fly someone there, right? What a crock of shit. Fuck Capitalism.

"It will not work, and is wrong in principle" "America’s top 1% enjoy a fifth of the economy’s income and pay nearly a third of its federal taxes." Wrong in principle? But, have you considered how much of that income should've been paid to the workers who actually created it?

For all the complaints about it's replacement bridge being named "stal̕əw̓asəm", it turns out pretty much nobody could correctly spell "Pattullo" either 🫠

"Pedestrians and cyclists will be able to use the nearly 90-year-old Pattullo Bridge until Tuesday, when the crossing will permanently shut so it can be demolished" "pedestrian access on the new bridge is expected to open in the spring" Wait, the crossing is being closed to cyclists? WTF?

"pedestrian was wearing dark clothing and carried no lights.... The tribunal arbitrator found ICBC’s determination that the driver was entirely responsible for the collision was reasonable." www.timescolonist.com/local-news/d... #safety #urbanism #yyj

A great thread dropping ALL the receipts...

Opsec for protesters is good, just be real what your adversary knows and where they get it. Following ICE? They got your plate themselves. They can prolly ID you masked just from your interpupilary distance. Your opsec is likely already defeated. Showing crimes > opsec, it motivates the resistance.

This is one of the best advertisements for cycling that I've ever seen! Great work from @ryanvanduzer.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PPW...

It's becoming a world where you'll finally meet a co-worker in person for some project, and be taken aback by their struggle to clearly articulate their ideas, in contrast to all their previous communications online, which were all written or honed through AI.

"They’ve long ago abandoned Jesus, discarded his compassion, and feel no obligation whatsoever to love their neighbors. Their Jesus-less Christianity runs entirely on malice, exclusion, and cruelty."

ATTN: Cyclists, We're being used to convince people that, if we can ride our bikes up hills, they can walk up some stairs. Capitalism is exploiting us and our healthy lifestyles to sell their shit!! 😆

"Why don't the Democrats do something?" Because Democrats vs Republicans is just a giant theatre production. A culture war to keep you preoccupied from fighting a class war. An illusion of choice. Democrats aren't fighting because this isn't a threat to their Capitalist system.

Greenland's minerals belong to the people of Greenland.

This is an excellent thread. I began to realize this on my own in my 20's, that a certain percentage of the population would rather hurt everyone than help someone who needs it. A corollary is that they'd rather help nobody than help someone who might not "deserve" it.

I think that any politician who wants to make laws about e-bikes should at least be required to read this article.

Is there really no Wikipedia article for "Take Back Alberta" and it's leader, "David Parker"? en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...

While I'm up, if anyone else needs their butthole wiped, with a hot compress to keep their glands from getting clogged again, lemme know. #CatDad

Long Covid messed my neck- when bad I see stars if I turn my head for long. If you think it's possible for our medical system here in BC Canada to comprehend that, and actually perform any type of scan while having me turn my head, you'd be wrong. All failed to understand this complex requirement.

I am indeed enjoying the "For You" feed.

It's been brought to my attention that Amazon has DOZENS of listings for "phone shaker" for cheating at Pokemon Go (or forging fitness tracker step counts). Just the first one listed has 9.4 thousand reviews. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE.

"The Venn diagram comparison analysis of the differently regulated biomarkers among various groups revealed that IL-6, CRP, and TNF-α remain up-regulated in long COVID patients and may be important indicators of long COVID syndrome" pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...