Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

🎯 Celebrating relatively—not even exceptionally—low polling for Trump is ignoring the absolute shift in paradigm that has taken place. Things are not as they were. Utter incompetence & malice are not facing ANY accountability. You can't go back-and-forth between reason & madness. Hard no.

There are many things I’m very proud of as a Canadian. MANY things. But every time I watch another media story about another ambitious push in renewable energy from China, I’m embarrassed that Canada isn’t aggressively working to quickly become a true global powerhouse in renewable energy.

On se dit que ça ne fait aucun sens, jusqu'à ce qu'on se penche sur la source du problème: You are what you eat. Mind your feed. (Instagram, Facebook, X: même fléau. À force de s'abreuver à la mésinformation, on finit immanquablement empoisonnés.) (1/3) #PolQc #PolCan #Québec #Désinformation

What you see: "52% back impeachment" What the rest of the world sees: "40% oppose" As if MAGA weren't irreversibly destroying American influence, prosperity, security, health. While lining its pockets with its citizen's wealth No real push back, no strike Hardly bothered, barely in the fight

Why are AI music, video & text generation a problem? Consider this: Why take pictures of the far side of the moon when AI could just generate them? Because LLMs are neither reliable nor insightful. They are a mashup, not a new song. A shortcut, not a new path. Not fusion cuisine: Slop. #Artemis

HOT TAKE: If the FIFA World Cup 2026 had an epic anthem, looked like something not to be missed, I'd be bummed out. This is 💯 where America stands: in its own grave. Out of touch. Lame. This is so bad it has to be on purpose. As an act of resistance. [Sadly, we both know it's not.]

"Never felt this free before"? Given that it was clearly written by ChatGPT, that tracks. #FIFA

People used to joke "he managed to bankrupt a freakin' casino, watch him bankrupt America LOL". Nobody's laughing now. Except Putin. But hey, why do anything about it. Let's just see where it goes. (As civilization itself goes careening off a climate crisis cliff)

This is the way. Subvert. Appropriate. Ready… aim… 🔥🔥🔥

Sounds about right. That Trump/MAGA should be polling anything above 5% at this point is mind blowing to me. You couldn't install a better saboteur of American supremacy if you tried. If these clowns weren't as utterly inept as they are evil, they'd have been removed by now. Joke's on us.

"Why do I see Bluesky posts on Gander?" 🐦🍁 It’s the difference between a digital prison and a sovereign passport. I’m diving into atproto, Wingspan, and why OCAP-aligned infra is Canada’s "Third Way." Stop renting your soul from billionaires. Own the land. #GanderSocial #JustGiver

Americans: should the worst happen, it won't be on Trump—it'll be on you—for letting it happen. Iranians are massed around civilian targets to prevent them from being destroyed by a madman. Why aren't you? "Oh, we did #NoKings" Holidays don't count. Stop talking. Start walking. SHUT. IT. DOWN.

🧵 Democracy feels like it's in a rough state at the moment across the globe, and we hear various explanations, like polarisation, extremism, disinformation, and loss of trust. But what if those explanations are mainly symptoms and we've been trying to treat them rather than the underlying causes?

starting now i am going to start sharing the books i read. finished this volume this morning. it is terrific.

You can expect that we’re going to repeat our messages. For the same reason they repeat their lies. #UrbanTruth #RepetitionWorks

Too many on the Left see this as a funny burn. There's nothing funny about it. If you have any notion of modern political history, it's a matter of great concern. 1) The competent get removed. 2) The pliable and complicit take their place. 3) The wrong people die. Here, there, everywhere.

Of course this got me blocked. The American "resistance" is weekend cosplay. PEOPLE ARE DYING. All over the world. YOUR CHILDREN'S FUTURE IS ON FIRE. "But my health insurance!" "But my job!" "But the mean fat (incompetent) ICE agents!" FIGHT. BACK. Grow a spine. Grow a fucking conscience FFS

Epic would be squatting your elected reps’ offices until they impeach; blocking major economic arteries until the unredacted Epstein files are released. #NoKings is not epic. It’s collective hand-washing; performative opposition. It’s all talk. It’s weak. As barbarity marches on, UNBOTHERED.

Epic would be squatting your elected reps’ offices until they impeach; blocking major economic arteries until the unredacted Epstein files are released. #NoKings is not epic. It’s collective hand-washing; performative opposition. It’s all talk. It’s weak. As barbarity marches on, UNBOTHERED.

I swear to God, between the price of gas and the rising burden of air travel, the Transition Retarding Unequivocally Moronic Pedophile might actually solve climate change. MAGA is a case study of what happens when you don't follow expert advice. TLDR: Nothing good.

I’m peer reviewing a draft transportation plan for a city I’m advising, which is always interesting. One of the most common problems I find is in phasing/timing relative to the urgency of the #ClimateEmergency. I’m reminded of Mississauga’s urban biking plan that would take 27 YEARS TO BUILD OUT.

Elizabeth Banks

AOC: Companies like Palantir are mining endlessly the data and privacy of the American people—keeping track of everything that they say and do. And sending it to a militarized government. 

Still wondering if inequality is out of control?

This article (h/t @beansproutsmom.bsky.social ) nails the manipulation and bad-faith obstructionism that have characterized the public health and infection control response throughout the COVID pandemic. Bad systems controlled by bad people produce bad outcomes. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan....

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By the end of this week the NDP will have a new leader, but what will that signal? Comeback, rebuild, or continue to disappear from the national stage? Althia Raj & Rob Russo discuss. 🔊 on SXM Canada Talks, podcast platforms. 📺 on YouTube: youtu.be/H_u6xM2otXQ

What's a "Homo stultus avarum"? Not a greedy fool: "A foolish man of the greedy". DeepL translator knows what's up. #Phrasing #SpotOn #HomoStultus

THIS ↑ Also: employers are suffering too. This ain't "us v them"; the only "them" are the nihilistic sociopaths driving civilization off a cliff. But where coordination is needed, excuses are found. "We the people of the richest country on earth can't afford to". Not powerless; unwilling.

I'm just going to leave this here. For later.

For those of you in the back who are well aware but are still not reacting accordingly #NoKings on a weekend will not do They'll ignore you like they did every other time Protests must DISRUPT THE SYSTEM that is being rigged to oppress you You are being disenfranchised in real time #ElbowsUp

Day 1282—POTS was indirectly referenced by @merriam-webster.com. Since Long COVID [un]awareness day is tomorrow, I'm calling this a win: 'Dauncy', from the Gaelic 'donas', meaning "evil". [💯] "You feeling dauncy? Did you maybe stand up too fast?" [If only it were just that]

That was always Bibi's plan. Make it an "us and them" and see "our" people circle the wagons. Oldest trick in the book. And it worked. As always, the enemy is within. All of us. Lack of introspection, insight, humility and compassion is what led us (all) here. We need to be better. Aggressively

"You go from running marathons to barely able to run errands…Suddenly, you can't work, parent, or play. But the world's moved on, as if it weren't even a thing. Research goes underfunded, prevention's the butt of jokes. Welcome to Long COVID — The disease that disables hope." #MedSky #ChronicIllness

What I find so demoralizingly paradoxical is how utterly unknown it remains for something so allegedly widespread. At a friend’s bday party last week (for 20 min) w/College teachers, osteopaths, all I got were blank stares. ALS, MS, Parkinson’s they know. Long COVID? No. Widespread? Really? (1/2)

There’s no denying what happened to me. There’s a clear before—infection—and after. I’m now disabled; unable to work/play. If millions were like me, we’d know Until we have diagnostic tests—biomarkers—actual Long COVID prominence will remain speculative That’s a problem, because we need help (2/2)

@merriam-webster.com, not saying you should. Just saying… if you did? 😈🔥✊

At 3 Air Changes per Hour the probability of inhaling the Omicron strain through mouth breathing is 96%. At 10 ACH? 94%. HOWEVER: nasal breathing is found to be safer than mouth breathing. When ACH = 30, THE PROBABILITY OF INFECTION THROUGH NASAL BREATHING IS LESS THAN 5% (!!!) #COVID #CleanAir

As a Steph Curry superfan and ex-baller, this was LONG overdue. #NBA #Porzingis #POTS #LongCOVID

"All these doomers and forever maskers saying that COVID somehow disrupts immune function. There is no evidence of that" Isn't there, though? ISN'T THERE? "Circumstantial. Correlation is not causation". Correct. Just as wilful ignorance is not the same as skepticism. #LongCOVID #MedSky #Scisky

In case it wasn't clear enough. #LongCOVID isn't going away. It isn't getting better. And yes, the 2026 numbers just keep going up (see ALT). We need #CleanAir and for #PublicHealth to do its damn job. Wearing a mask shouldn't be taboo. Condemning people to #MECFS hell should not be okay. #CdnPoli

Just stumbled onto this: "Project Syndicate taps the most insightful contributors—from Africa, Asia, Europe & the Americas—to provide trenchant, authoritative analysis of the issues commanding global attention & promote viable solutions to the world’s urgent problems." i.e. What the world needs.

"Minitel was overtaken by the internet not because the gvt brought it to life, but because France Télécom insisted on end-to-end control to monetise it—exactly the same mechanism behind the way that tech monopolies have “enshittified” the modern internet." #DigitalSovereignty #ElbowsUp Links in ALT

Wild that an immunologist would still hesitate: Like thinking—as many Koreans still do—that having a fan on while you sleep can kill you: - Just to be safe, let's turn off the fan. - But it's 42 degrees! - Still. Just in case. - ??!! Fine. The broader point is an important one, however: 🧵(1/6)

🇨🇦 Canada needs real digital sovereignty NOW to secure the future we deserve. ✍️ Endorse the Digital Sovereignty Charter’s five principles today! openmedia.org/DigitalChart... @openmedia.org

@elhopkins.bsky.social, care to respond?

Yeah. Real classy. Jingoism's taught early and often in Murica. Deep down, they still think they're the Greatest Country On Earth™—they're just going through a rough patch. Trump's regime ends as soon as Americans decide it does. They just can't be bothered. YOU = S.A. We = Remember. #ElbowsUp 🇨🇦