Just a reminder that you can help researchers keep tabs on the tick population in Canada by uploading photos of any ticks you are unlucky enough to encounter to eTick.ca.

it’s long past time lawmakers addressed how companies have taken the switch to digital to redefine purchases as licensing rather than ownership. it’s most egregious when it comes to libraries, but it’s harmful to everyone.

Happy Canada Day everyone! To celebrate, we've made our Completely Canadian Compilation of 28 songs a free download on our Bandcamp page. Spread the word! arrogantworms1.bandcamp.com/album/comple...

Trust in science in the United States @nature.com by @helenpearson.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

So funny how these fuckers “care about women’s sports” when they use that to bully trans kids but never when it comes to female athletes getting the same pay or opportunities as their male peers. Super cool

Today’s SCOTUS ruling on trans athletes in sports was never just about sports. This decision lays the framework for further discrimination against trans folks, and casts doubt over trans people’s coverage under the Equal Protection Clause. 1/3

He says it would be too expensive to meet our climate targets…so who is saving money when we don’t? The people whose houses burn down in forest fires? Those who lose homes to flooding? The people who die in heat domes?

lithub.com/just-a-few-h... 11 people were responsible for 60% of the book bans in 2021.

Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

Quietly fuming all day about the SCOTUS decisions. Anti-trans laws are bad for all women and girls, including especially trans women and girls.

Bye, Large Hadron Collider!! See you again in 2030, after your major upgrade. The LHC, the largest machine in the world, has been used in CERN’s most important experiments, helping in the discovery of the Higgs boson - a particle that explains why mass exists at all.

My love letter to Alberta - a province I proudly call home. I’ve had huge response to this essay - mostly positive, but some very negative indeed. Some have questioned whether a Senator should even weigh into this debate. I’d argue it’s not just my right - but my duty. What say you?

I think a lot about this @theonion.com headline theonion.com/report-every...

In a piece that harkens back to her days as the Edmonton Journal’s star columnist, Senator Paula Simons has penned a complicated love letter that wrestles with how Alberta’s best instincts have been swallowed up by grievance politics forwardweekly.ca/alberta-i-kn... #ableg #abpoli #canpoli

Here you see what results from the ruling class delusion that human workers have no value whatsoever beyond total obedience

It’s mosquitofuckinggeddon in Edmonton, wish you were here.

I will admit that roller skating is harder than I remember it being, and my muscles will be sore after, but this was super fun and I was very happy to celebrate with my spouse! @jonrenish.bsky.social is such a great partner (and our kid was such a good sport trying out roller skating too)!

First wedding anniversary? Roller Disco

@soupytoasterson.bsky.social I am wondering if it might be worth getting the Objectionable Publications Book club listed here: litresistance.com/the-living-room

A source estimated that the number of anti AI memes shared inside Google in the last year is in the “high hundreds / thousands.” www.404media.co/google-emplo...

Great news! Via Book Clubs for Inmates: "Today the Commissioner of Correctional Service Canada (CSC) announced an official rejection of the proposed budget cut that would eliminate federal librarian positions." Congratulations and thanks to the many people who organized opposition to this cut.

Today, Amazon said in a blog post that its data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water worldwide last year, which is “far less water per unit of compute” than its rivals.

A thread. The other day, I happened to clock the little AI-written bio attached to my name. It announced, quite confidently, that I was married, not to my husband, but to his brother. Particularly amusing, since my BIL is a proud member of the LGBQT community. I love him, but I am NOT his type. 🧵

Report a murder! "But I'd also like to point out that the company that says you can have a business of 100 people doing the work of 1,000, credited 24 people in the production of this report. So I'll continue to take their bombastic claims on their tech's capabilities with a large serving of salt."

I am livid that #yegtransit has eliminated the bus route that gets me and my kid to school/daycare as of June 21. On Demand Transit does not appear to replace it AT ALL. I don't wanna have to waste much of my morning every day DRIVING. :(

Happy 13th Birthday to Oh Joy Sex Toy! Join our Patreon Pledge Drive this month for BONUS COMICS and to keep the site going for one more year! www.patreon.com/OhJoySexToy

This ridiculously catchy song gave me joy today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YBP...

Proud to be the 481st supporter 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Mercedes Lackey's Deluxe "Heralds of Valdemar"! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/z...

Boosting.

Today is the start of celebrations recognizing Pride Season. While we focus on celebrating queer and trans joy and resilience, there is still significant work to do to defend and protect our human rights at home & abroad. Pride is and will always remain a core Canadian value.

Also, a reminder to BLINK to avoid digital eye strain. Handy rule to remember: look away from your screen every 20 min at an object 20 feet away for 20 seconds. #EyeHealth

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wscQ... An elderly man consigned his Lego collection worth $200k to his local Bricks & Minifigs store in order to help pay for his medical debt and help his family and then the Bricks & Minifigs corporation stole all of it and refused to acknowledge that they did that.

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Here's my parenting tip: Stop making laws that hurt LGBTQ+ kids.

BlueSky Post of the Day

So Badgers has been added to the BFI archives. Honestly this feels like quiite an honor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNqb...

2100+ signatures on our petition to change the submission guidelines at the Eisners to eliminate consideration for AI created comics. Have you signed yet? www.change.org/no-ai-at-the...

The comparison I heard was data centers using the same amount of water as golf courses, and for that I was all, my brother in Christ, let me tell you what I think we should do with golf courses

I so love playing Rabbit! I mainly play with @jonrenish.bsky.social by my side. :)

Social Media has existed long enough that I get frustrated that FB reminds me to wish dead friends happy birthday regularly. I wish there was a setting I could change on these accounts despite my not being a family member. I don't want to unfriend or lose access to the info on their accounts but!

today I learned that Japanese castles stored emergency rations inside the walls and under the floors and now I understand why Dracula's Castle has hidden meat all over the place

New statement from San Diego Comic Con on the Eisner-nominated anthology using AI:

An death just like George Floyd: In Dublin, Ireland, Yves Sakila, a Black Irish Congolese man, appears to have been killed by criminal justice system actors who kneeled on his neck moments before he died. Yves Sakila mattered. Black Lives Matter. Details: www.instagram.com/p/DYfk9HWiPx...

Two fun stories to view side-by-side: - An Australian psychiatrist is refusing patients that don't agree to the use of an AI scribe - A new Canadian study finding AI scribes have a shockingly high failure rate www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/0...

I've been talking with friends about the recent viral videos of students booing commencement speakers who bring up AI. So far they have all shared that their Bay Area teens and college students refuse to use AI. I think their critical lens on AI is born from their social media skepticism