it is devastating to notice how few benches there are in the world and how some benches have been replaced by weird "leaning" things. the world is incredibly cruel to disabled, elderly, poor, pregnant, tired, homeless, and all people. there should be benches fucking everywhere for everyone

Cutting US science hurts the whole world. It's stealing from everyone's future.

A great country does not have starving children in it

Calgary researchers call for national database tracking physician sexual assault, misconduct https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-researchers-call-for-national-database-tracking-physician-sexual-assault-misconduct-9.7170711 ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

Studios laying off hundreds and thousands of employees with the excuse that they can move production to the UK and not have to pay for healthcare because the UK has socialized medicine should be humiliating to the US government.

Khajiit has wares if you have coin

This reminds me of a “multistakeholder convening” I was invited to years ago, intended the solve the problem of “lack of trust in tech.” When I suggested the real problem was that the tech industry wasn’t trustworthy, the bros looked at me like I had three heads.

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

“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 to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

The electoral boundaries commission website has been taken down but the commission’s interim report, final report, and public submissions are available on the Elections Alberta website: www.elections.ab.ca/resources/re...

data centers: less popular than nazis

i simply find it a little hard to believe that shortly after every website implemented ai code and fired a bunch of engineers they all started breaking constantly every single day but its not related to the ai code or the skeleton crew

I do not believe the internet was a mistake. I think giving entitled little shits unlimited money to do racism and misogyny and dress it up as accommodating disabled people in a super ableist way is. And I know enabling that culture is destroying us.

Birding? Data centers disrupt habitats. Religion? AI cults and JesusBot 9000 who suspiciously says white supremacist stuff. Art? Everyone is now suspicious of everyone else and no one is buying. Cooking? Good luck with this recipe that chatGPT barfed up.

The downside to routine is when you follow it so closely that you forget that it has changed slightly for one day and then you're running around to try not to be late for said alternative plans when you went too far along your routine schedule. Fortunately I was not actually late, but still!

Time for me to make a "game devs against ai" feed to go along with the artists one. It might be harder to verify, with how many different processes go into games. But i'll try 🫡 if YOU are a game developer that despises ai slop, please let me know! #games #gamedev #noai #antiai #videogames #art

Repair the ship and escape quietly, and it's yours... 🚀 Life is already difficult enough when you're not bipedal, but Talita has had enough that the hand of a rogue spaceship A.I. is enough to make her stargaze... Jay Eaton's RUNAWAY TO THE STARS launches TODAY‼️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

The wealthiest 1% own 50% of stocks and the top 10% own 87%, per Federal Reserve. The bottom 50% of Americans owns only 1%, but we hear about the stock market constantly in media (even NPR and MS NOW). Seems like we could hear more about the opportunity costs of not providing universal health care.

To the doomers who keep saying Trump will rig the 2026 and 2028 elections: Do not concede in advance

People will be closely studying how Hungary's opposition pulled off their win in such a pro-incumbent system. Important to note that the theme was corruption. Democrats need to get much better at calling out Trump's corruption.

For a government obsessed with personal freedom, the UCP sure loves telling people what to do. They've done it in classrooms, libraries, and end-of-life care. But nowhere is the hypocrisy more glaring than in drug policy. This week in Forward Weekly 👇 share.forwardweekly.ca/issue03

Here’s the wonderful news. Shadowpaw Press’ Kickstarter for the On Spec 2026 anthology is fully funded, and they are open to submissions of original short stories from Canadian writers!

In Turkey, an elderly man who earns his living by shining shoes is visited every morning at the same time by a cat that asks to have its fur brushed. The man never turns down this little friend.😍👍💙

there is no politician so irreplaceable that we must overlook sexual misconduct because nobody else could possibly fill their shoes

The biggest difference between 1990s Internet and 2020s Internet is that the bulk of our online activity has been corralled onto unregulated for-profit digital platforms The profit motive driving the way these platforms are designed and run is the root cause of everything that goes wrong on them

The govenrment has NO business restricting public access to public libraries.

I'm going to point out that we spent a shit ton of taxpayer money on moderna and he's stealing it from us.

Alberta libraries, staff, city councillors denounce Dan Williams’ book censorship scheme open.substack.com/pub/albertap...

If men were the ones who got pregnant, this would be in vending machines next to the Snickers bars.

Josie and the Pussycats is totally jerkin'! And once again, here's my essay about how fun (and, unexpectedly, to me, anyway, smart) this movie turned out to be: whatever.scalzi.com/2023/12/12/t...

The thing about there needing to be a path of redemption for people who have been “canceled” is: there already is a path to redemption and it’s called “redeeming yourself.” The path is open! No one is blocking that! You just have to do it!

All we have ever known is here.

KEEP ON REPOSTING. KEEP THE TRENDING HIGH. #EpsteinFiles #NoPedophiles #NoKings #NoPEDODENTS #NoTrump

Just a reminder that the Kickstarter for On Spec 2026 is close to being fully funded, but time is running out. This anthology could be the start of a new market for Canadian speculative fiction. See our website for links.

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Well, you knew there wouldn’t be books

A huge thanks to everyone who came to our first Objectionable Publications Book Club meeting - discussing Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe! Brilliant conversation, and delicious eats from Waffle Bird. We'll be doing this again soon with a new book. Stay tuned!

I expected the UCP government to ignore the Forever Canadian petition numbers, but come on, legacy media. You want to go ga-ga over the separatists claiming they hit the lower threshold Danielle set for them, but you won't put into context what FC did with less time and a higher bar?

Trans rights are human rights. And included in human rights protections from coast-to-coast-to-coast in Canada. On this Trans Day of Visibility, let us commit to defending these human rights and building a nation that fully includes and supports all trans people.

It is a very sad day for human rights when youth have to live in fear and are pushed back into the closet by the UCP government’s discriminatory and hateful laws. We will continue to fight to have them repealed or struck down. edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

New episode about a series of misleading stories from LGBT news outlets going viral and flooding the zone with doom. This panic-inducing clickbait is making it harder to accurately assess risk and dedicate resources to fight real pressing threats.

New article investigating a collection of viral panic-inducing claims. This clickbait treats every horrific potentiality as an inevitable eventuality, undermining our ability to accurately access risk and effectively dedicate resources to oppose pressing threats. open.substack.com/pub/shatterz...

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This book contains so much Trans Joy. I cannot recommend it enough!

Still a few spots left for the inaugural meeting of the Objectionable Publications Book Club! Join us at Waffle Bird from 6:00 to 8:00 to discuss Gender Queer one of the most banned Graphic Novels of all times! For more information and to register at: variantedmonton.com/events/45896...

This is such a bummer. We're no doubt returning to pedestrian crossings that are too fast for senior citizens and disabled people. #yeg

Woof. We wasted years of opportunity to improve the signage for people walking, train drivers on red light turns and improve timing along Whyte, and we could absolutely keep scrambles while adding transit priority when lights change. I am not confident they'll get this right.

I really don't see why we can't just add transit priority for vehicle cycles and keep the scrambles.