Inside the Right-Wing Attack on Alberta's Public Education via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Attention fluoride and chemtrail tinfoil hatters: here's something real to be concerned about

Support Public Education Join us this Sunday, October 5, from 3:00–4:30 PM at McDougall Centre (455 6 Street SW, Calgary) for a rally in support of public education. #abed #ableg #yyc assets.nationbuilder.com/albertateach...

Teachers: you know you've got a fair deal when, in a year from now, when the private schools come lobbying for money again, the government has to tell them "no," not because they want to, but because you've tied up everything in public education. Don't stop until they roll back private funding.

The UCP are trying to warm us up to the idea of school vouchers. www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?...

"Tylenol is dangerous for women and children," say men who have spent the last eight years making life more dangerous for women and children

Well this is awkward

“Fascism” isn’t a slur for politics we don’t like. It’s a precise word with precise meaning. And in the face of what’s happening right now in America, it’s the most honest one we have. I’ll lay it out as plainly as I can. 🧵

every time we talk about parental permission in terms of book banning I'm like fuck man. kids have rights too. a 17-year-old should be able to check out books at the library without Mom and Dad stepping in. so should a 10-year-old or 7 or whatever. kids deserve SOME goddamn freedom and privacy

this exists it is called thinking

Parenting hack: if your teen isn't answering your texts, text them and say "please respond or I'm leaving you a voicemail." This has never not worked for me.

Let's hear it for @foundbookshop.bsky.social (active on Insta) in Cochrane for their Labour Day display trolling Labour Day Parade Marshal Dani! Calgary, take a short road trip & buy some books there 😊! #ableg #yyc

BREAKING: Nope, not yet

My mom sent some garden beets home with me in this vintage bag. Collector's item!

Download the many books on fascism now available online for free through Project Gutenburg: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14058 Or: openlibrary.org/subjects/fas... So many ways to be come informed. As a responsible citizen, inform yourself about fascism.

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

Who the hell lets their traumatized child talk to CNN at length about surviving a mass shooting?

Teachers: we really need supports for complex needs in classrooms, lower class sizes, better working conditions, and appropriate funding UCP: best we can do is a book ban

As a librarian, parent and citizen, I am sickened and enraged. No trustee who presided over this should be re-elected.

The People yearn for Orange Cat Men

My kids and social media are really testing my determination to remain ignorant of what Labubu is and why people care about it. If I'm forced to make brain space for this I'm going to have to delete at least one Kardashian.

Alarmist and unhelpful reporting. They go on about how lice are now resistant to common chemical treatments and people are calling in professionals, without any info about how to actually treat this at home. A few doses of olive oil plus lice comb works for most. thewalrus.ca/super-lice-a...

There is a LOT to unpack here. Starting with the premise that public schools and mainstream media are lying to you. Also, there's no way you spend a day with Sir John A. without getting wasted. tnc.news/books/a-day-...

the only problem with "Radioactive Shrimp" as a possible Halloween costume is how many more memorable things will likely happen in the next two months

This is so true. You could have an entire podcast dedicate to shit parents in cars do in school zones.

Where do I submit my resume for this job?

Hey teenagers! You can use this one weird trick to get your mom to stop nagging you! It's called Doing The Thing

11YO, after a stay at Grandma's: "So Mom, what's your opinion of Jell-O salad?" Me: "It's gross and I haven't eaten out since leaving home." Him: "Yeah, it looked really weird and I decided not to try it."

Texas style election rigging here in Alberta. #abpoli #ableg.

The people obsessing over books in school libraries could put their time to better use storming Meta's HQ

This industry needs to pay its own bills. Particularly in places with public utilities, they should have the ability to charge these mega-users more www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...

This study did something we apparently COULD have done during COVID to settle the airborne question. They just...sampled the air in infectious spaces for virus! Why did we spend years arguing about droplet vs. airborne instead of doing this? www.scientificamerican.com/article/bird...

Men brain poisoned by the rationalist community: men are superior to women because we make decisions using data and evidence and not our emotions Lady economist: I have looked at the data and it says there's little benefit to dating men Men: no, not like that! www.thecut.com/article/cori...

one of the biggest arguments against AI dependence is that the strongest proponents of its use have become visibly *dumber* in the last few years.

Wow - this story has everything. The headline doesn't oversell it. I want a television series based on this woman @paulisci.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...

Grifters. Nobody wastes now taxpayer money than "small government" conservatives

On the next Joe Rogan...

I wonder if he read the midtransition paper with @gruberte.bsky.social

If you, regular person, did anything like this after a fatal car accident, you would be prosecuted for a variety of crimes, including insurance fraud. If you then repeatedly lied to the courts about it, like Tesla did, you'd get prosecuted for that too, plus stiff monetary sanctions.

I think we've reached the point where corporate elites don't care about jobs numbers and that's why they are fine with Trump suppressing them. They are automating their operations and are just as happy not to have everyone know the impacts on the labour force

Still no response from Alberta's school boards opposing this censorship edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

“Alberta’s order is precisely about banning books, as its direct effect is to force school authorities across the province to remove from their libraries a host of books deemed inappropriate by the state.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

My 15-year-old just referred to my 90s radio station as "the oldies station". 🤬

Trump was impeached, twice. Considering posting this every day until the Smithsonian corrects its exhibit. Feel free to join me.

I think the time has come to ban backyard fire pits. So annoying to open the windows for the cool evening air, only to have the house smell like smoke

I’m just a girl screaming into the void that the destruction of our institutions WAS THE ENTIRE POINT. This is why @timothysnyder.bsky.social’s *SECOND* (of 21!) lesson in his book On Tyranny is “Defend Institutions”

This is definitely the first chapter of an amazing sci-fi novel. Chemistry experiment goes awry, creates green crystal instead of red crystal...who can say what happens next? www.ucalgary.ca/news/unexpec...

I take back every mean thing I've ever said about bagpipes globalnews.ca/video/113079...

Israel immediately rejected this statement. At this point, Carney and Anand should be asked whether Canada has any intention of doing anything of substance to stop it.