Robert sits down with @margaret.bsky.social to talk about how mankind went from building one atomic bomb to building tens of thousands of them, permanently 15 minutes or less away from ending all life on earth. @iwriteok.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

I've had a lifelong fascination with the idea that ICBMs can reach the world's major cities faster than most places can deliver a pizza, so I can't overstate my excitement at @iwriteok.bsky.social's Behind the Bastards series on the Architects of Armageddon who built the world's nuclear arsenal.

Whenever I see my university campus (UofT), I feel so many complex emotions. Nostalgia, in part. Mostly regret & grief at who I could've been. Bitter, at opportunities squandered. Pride in my survival. My ADHD diagnosis + gender transition healed long suffered wounds - but the scars remain.

Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot. n.pr/3JKj19D

I need to know how much wealth they produce before receiving any more public funding. In the same way we ask of the postal service. If they can't turn a profit then why are we funding them?

If crime is way down, why are Canadians so afraid of crime? And what are politicians funnelling money into? My latest -- they are boosting policing to police us ... not keep us safe (unless you're rich, which trust me, you are not.) noraloreto.substack.com/p/the-big-cr...

Unfortunately once again we are ending up being excluded from Anarchist Bookfair event in Berlin. And again we find ourselves in need to address the issue that come from that exclusion. The full text of the statement is available at in english and russian abc-belarus.org/en/2...

A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social I think it’s cute when cats eat vegetables

17 people are dead from US strikes in the Caribbean this month and we still don't really know who they are and so far the president and VP have made jokes about scared fishermen.

The FBI is preparing to label transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

@miawong.bsky.social The recent ICHH episode on Abundance and SEZs hit alarmingly close to home. Here in Ontario, Doug Ford's government passed Bill 5, which allows the creation of Special Economic Zones that would exempt corporate entities from having to follow any provincial/ municipal laws 1/5

Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins

It's really hard to overstate how hugely favored conservatives were up until two months ago. Here's the graph of Canadian polling between March 2023 and March 2025. (Reminder: blue is conservative.) Those are months and months of 20+ point leads for Tories.

it couldn't be more obvious they are preparing for eruptions this summer and a subsequent crackdown

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

Varusteleka is inviting people who openly "joke" about murdering trans people to Finnish Brutality now. They're an embarrassment to the Brutality brand and it is disgusting.

@miawong.bsky.social you referred to Rob Ford as one of the 🇨🇦 conservatives Trump made an enemy of - it's actually Doug Ford who is our loathsome Ontario premier. Your point still stands, but Doug is the one who -dealt- drugs. Rob was the crack smoking one, and is deceased.

My country is riding the 'angry about petty shit' part of the breakup, before the trauma and uncomfortable realizations fully set in. Soon we'll realize our ex is pretty unhinged and violent and we're gonna have to change the locks. Dunno what that means for the metaphor but idk, shit's fucked.

Call that hand gesture what you want, but if Elon had done that at a punk show they'd be picking his teeth out of his neck

Today in Milan, a student activist group hung a trash-filled effigy of Musk upside down on a gate outside of piazzale Loreto, where Mussolini's body was displayed in 1945. They left the message: "C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon" (There's always room in piazzale Loreto, Elon)

The threats to annex Canada are alarming, but not altogether surprising. Authoritarians can't abide having any sort of counterexample to their rule nearby, even an imperfect one. The grass simply can't be greener on the other side of the fence. The fascists will go to any lengths to ensure this.

So I just want to point out that a health insurance company denying medically necessary healthcare is also political violence

Nothing makes me feel trans like navigating labyrinthine bureaucracy. Living authentically in a government office, waiting bravely to be called to commune with the leviathan. Here I truly feel seen, at least as ink on paper. What an experience.