@thebeaverton.com I've got an extra invite for Gander Social. DM if you want the link. 22 Minutes just joined so I figured you should be there too 😊

My fellow Ontarians : This is what happens when you don't go out to vote. This is what happens when you refuse to bring up politics at family gatherings. You end up with a Premier who is a corrupt goon who would rather a late night vote to change the law than be accountable to us, the people.

👏 Canada 👏 Post 👏 is 👏 a 👏 public 👏 service 👏 Nothing proves how capitalism has brain rotted everyone than thinking the post office, hospitals, public transit, libraries, etc. need to turn a profit to be worthwhile.

Dear America, Come collect your mad man. Sincerely, The World

Cool that many of the same people who failed to protect women gymnasts (and who knows how many other women athletes) from predators will now use the Olympic movement to incite hate against another marginalized community. Yet another institution capitulates to Trump.

As the guy who was hired multiple times 15-20 years ago to write the think pieces about "separating art for the artist" I can say unequivocally that all has been said and argued. You ABSOLUTELY CAN enjoy the work of awful people. But that doesn't make you nuanced or wise. It makes you complicit.

Doug Ford going to the mat on this like it is an existential threat probably because it is. There has to be something so damning, so utterly corrupt in these emails and phone records that he sees it as a legitimate threat to both his political future and future business dealings.

Philip nails it in this piece. « Finding ourselves, seeing our neighbours: Why access to art and libraries aren't add-ons » www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

With Cesar Chavez being outed as a serial abuser of women and girls, we can add to the list that men can imagine a world where there are rights for all workers, but not human rights for women.

I just clued into the Afroman defamation lawsuit. Amazing. Absolutely amazing content. Actually, it surpasses mere content. It is art.

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." And you wonder why feminism exists AND WHY WE STILL HAVE TO FIGHT. #Pinks newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

The only variable consistently correlated to birth rates is its inverse relationship to women’s education. To seek higher birth rates is to strip women of a lot of rights they should not have to even fight for, because they should be guaranteed

The harms of gen AI go far beyond copyright theft and environmental damage.

I lowkey hate the "women don't apologize" jokes because women apologize TOO FUCKING MUCH.

I am begging my fellow Canadians to take a break for a second from obsessing about American corruption to focus on our home grown versions. Ford is a corrupt crony goon who has done countless shady backroom deals. He wants to remove one of our most powerful tools to hold him accountable. Fuck that!

Here’s my (frighteningly vulnerable!!) follow up on my reporting that exposed a white nationalist active club. On the professional and personal costs of this work:

Iran has officially pulled out of the World Cup, stating that conditions in the US are not safe for players or fans. More countries must follow suit. The US will only respond to public pressure and financial retaliation. Boycott the World Cup. Boycott the Olympics. Boycott America.

On the one-year anniversary of his detention by federal authorities, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and First Lady Rama Duwaji welcomed Mahmoud Khalil, his wife Noor, and their baby boy, Deen, to Gracie Mansion to break the fast together.

Sad to see PM Carney choosing to skip the Parliamentary debate over the Iran war. In times of crisis we look to the PM. This would have been a powerful moment to provide the Canadian people with a sense of leadership in this dark time.

As millions of Americans were losing their SNAP benefits the Pentagon spent: 🔹️$6.9 million worth of lobster tails🦞 🔹️$15.1 million for ribeye steak 🥩 🔹️$2 million for Alaskan king crab 🦀 🔹️ and even $98,329 on a Steinway & Sons grand piano ✏️ by @newrepublic.com

Brookfield, Cameco, and oil companies are not "the Canadian economy" and unless you somehow believe in the fantasy of trickle-down economics, boosting their profits does little for the Canadian people. They are also closely tied to the US, so it does little for our sovereignty either.

I've had this talk with other parents more than once. "I don't want my kid to feel different." "They already feel different, what they're missing is context and understanding so that they can learn to understand their own needs and advocate for themselves."

Bombing oil refineries and desalination plants isn’t what you do when you want to “liberate” a country. They’re what you do when you want to destroy it.

Oh no! We'd better get dragged into Trump's illegal war then! I can't believe there are so many Canadians who can't see what's going on with Carney. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Every time a woman runs for president I hear that she’s too emotional and unstable to make wartime decisions, unlike the men in charge who make really reasonable decisions like bombing kids to death, starting water wars, and poisoning the entire planet

Worth remembering

Ugh so much "not all men" stuff going on today. It's when men don't call out friends for comments, or turn a blind eye to what mates are doing. It's in jokes and actions. It's in deflection by saying "not all men". If things are to change everyone needs to accept what's wrong #internationalwomensday

This is the correct nomenclature futurism.com/future-socie...

Women outvote men, but 69M married women have names that don't match their birth certificates. This bill turns paperwork into a weapon against their voice. Don't let them be silenced at the polls. ☎️ your senators: (202) 224-3121 Demand they protect our right to vote!

it's me hi i'm the expert it's me

That's some #IDUPlaybook, right there... www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

World leaders need to look to Spain right now. I am so exhausted hearing about polite, calm diplomacy in the face of two countries starting illegal wars, lying about it, murdering children, and committing genocide in plain sight. It's shameful. I can't stop thinking about the Iranian girls' school.

passive voice final boss grand champion honorable mention award for turning slurs into a sentient thing that can do actions www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

Platner enlisted *after* the Iraq invasion had begun, did 4 tours, then joined Blackwater *after* the Nisour Square massacre to go to Afghanistan. To us non Americans, that's exactly what a nazi looks like

Ah, Kristi Noem. You may be gone for now, but you'll always have a place in the human rights abuse commission in my heart.

I love that Kristi Noem got fired in a social media post hahaha

Women: We live in a constant state of vigilance because men pose a constant threat to us, here are literally millions of corroborating stories. Men: What a scary time for men this is.

Once again, as with self driving taxis and automated amazon stores the “technology” is actually exploited workers in the global south bsky.app/profile/drew...

Carney says he supports US invading Iran, Cuba, and possibly Canada "with some regret"

If any of my Canadian BlueSky peeps are on Gander, you can find me there as MissAnthrope

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

I’m reminded of that tweet that says that men were able to successfully cast themselves as the less emotional gender by redefining anger as not an emotion

Mark Carney's reaction to the US attack on Iran, and his subsequent defences of that attack, made you wonder: for all his talk of pragmatism and principles, what does he stand for? And what does he think Canada wants him to stand for? www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Siding with the aggressor and pretending it is just is deplorable.

An illustrative piece in that it says the quiet part out loud: When you ask *who* is "wrongly" included in the autism spectrum, the response is almost always "women". In other fields, this phenomenon of women being immediately dismissed, overlooked and underdiagnosed is called medical misogyny.