These questions are equivalent: Why would anyone put cilantro on a pizza? Why would anyone put soapy covered poop on a pizza? #cilantro #OR6A2

Yes, but accuracy & choice of comparatives is important. Israel doesn't compare to Nazi Germany's 6 million. While Israel killed more civilians in the past 3 yrs than any other country ~75k, compare ~200k killed by USA in Iraq, ~150k killed by Russia so far in Ukraine. These are better comparisons.

Trump isn't likely a real Russian asset. Just shares the oligarchic, kleptocratic values: organize the economy to enrich yourself, family, friends. Control gov't, especially courts so never held to account. Smear & discredit opposition. Demoralize citizens to believe it's even worse everywhere else.

"De-risking" means countries that don't share our values & aren't democracies can't have significant roles in Canada's essential services, infra, energy, transport, tech, info tech, media, soc media. Biggest risk countries: Russia, China, USA. Preplan, debunk, prebunk, watch. Can't trust.

AI won't ever think and feel like a human. Thinking can be simulated but feelings can't be. Human thought requires feelings. Brains have no distinction between "hardware" & "software".. Simulation means by definition "not real".

May Day. Social democracy is the way. Rich fat cats can go away. Mouseland for us, the mice, okay?!!

It's happening now. Surveillance pricing is when a company spies on you ("surveillance") and uses the resulting dossier to raise its prices to the maximum it calculates you will be willing to pay ("pricing"). You pay a different price bc they can get you to pay more. (Corey Doctorow)

I swear I thought it was a joke. insideevs.com/news/794295/...

World Press Freedom Index.

The last thing someone who dances like this needs is a ballroom.

To what countries does this refer? Some countries are actual, real democracies. Others have only democratic decorations with self-enriching leadership. These countries' people believe it's worse everywhere else, and have given up hope for better because of all the leader's lies.

Most Canadians could not manage "playfully" with Donald Trump. Don't think I could. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

🇺🇦👀 Partners asked us not to attack Russian oil terminals because of the war in the Middle East, — Zelensky. "I will answer them "no". I am not against an energy truce, but no one is offering it to us. We are open to it, but if Russia attacks us, we will respond in any way."

How much Russian money is in Trump properties today? www.reuters.com/investigates...

Um, "no!". Destroy Russia's ability to finance their war against Ukraine. "Ukraine said some of its allies asked it not to attack Russian refineries because of global energy crunch" President Zelenskyy "said that would only happen when Russia stops striking Ukraine." www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...

My opinion: until Canada has a full publicly-funded continuum of care, more than emergency hosp care when in crisis & medication appts every few months, we shouldn't be talking about assisted dying for mental health. Psychotherapy, community MH nursing, day programs... www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

Why USA is a failing country: it enriches the wealthy, steals from everyone else. "A strong state capable of building infrastructure isn't enough. It must also be an inclusive state that works for the benefit of everyone, a [not] an extractive state that works only for the benefit of an elite few"

"America is the nation in greatest need of a spanking" Trevanian, 1972.

I eat supper. I do not eat dinner. Except at Christmas and Thanksgiving (the real Thanksgiving in October)

The USA was almost a good country- was working towards it. Probably until Ronald Reagan. We're watching how nations fail.

5 topics I could give an hour talk on with no prep. • how to testify in court as an expert witness • psychotherapy and models of therapy • therapy dog training • downhill & XC skiing, sailing, canoeing • health policy & funding in Canada

"The decline in Canadian travellers helped drive a $8.5-billion US drop in international tourism spending in the U.S. last year" “It's just a scary place that the U.S. is becoming right now”"I don't want to spend money there to support that type of thing.” www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

For all the sardine and tinned fish lovers. Too ridiculous and tasty not to share. Loves me a sardine.

If you've been cremated, what's the equivalent of "rolling in your grave"?

Just do it: Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt. Measure for Measure, Shakespeare. Act 1 scene 4

Note. In German, "über" means above. It does not mean better or stronger.

Decision on the webpage gives Sask Professional Teachers Regulatory Board jurisdiction to hear misconduct charges re Legacy Christian Academy (Christian Centre) teachers Louis Brunelle & Dawn Beaudry. It's private school the rightwing Sask gov't partly funds, which is bad. sptrb.ca/SPTRB/SPTRB/...

David Cochrane: "I never stop to be shocked at how shocked the Americans are at the logical consequences of their actions, 'Can you believe they're not selling our booze after we disrupted all of their core industries?'"

Context: Trump killed Iran's senior leadership & unnumbered Venezualans 1 in 15 Americans have been in a mass shooting (7%). Americans keep blowing up fishing boats with people in them they say are narco-terrorists. America is rather bloody.

Righteous anger. Arabic w/ English subtitles "Eradicate our roots Demolish our homes Criminalise our existence Falsify our origins Separate our loved ones And Slaughter our children... Colonise our countries Appropriate our resources" (Dounana (Without Us) by Siba) www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdFl...

Flew out of Saskatoon yesterday. There was a "window" of possible sayeth the flight crew. Only 3 hours late. Snow or not, Westjet = Latejet. Always.

“Solar and wind, now the cheapest forms of energy, account for just under nine per cent of electricity generation in Canada, well below the G7 average of 19 per cent.” Canada is falling behind … www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Ralph Goodale: "Removal of the alcohol from the shelves in Canada by certain provinces was not capricious or arbitrary, it wasn't intended to be an insult to American producers. What it was was a direct reaction to the abuse heaped upon Canada by the United States." #cdnpoli

One of the great tragedies is not to live your life by doing things: "It doesn't matter whether we are holding our breath for a triumph or bracing for a tragedy. For as long as we are waiting, we are not living." (reworded a bit by me, James Baldwin)

Ethically, because it's pig organs, no one objects. "today with transplant outcomes more favorable than ever, the waitlist has exploded.. includes older, sicker patients whose organs have failed from chronic illnesses like diabetes & high blood pressure" thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/pigs-could-e...

Donald Trump: Unserious and dangerous. Iran war: Trump cancels envoys' trip to Islamabad www.dw.com/en/donald-tr...

The 7-11-77 test for good cycling infrastructure: a 7-year-old can ride comfortably with an adult, an 11-year-old on their own, and a 77-year-old would also feel comfortable.

From the Reddit via X. r/Saskatchewan. Andrew Scheer, former Conservative leader in his Cybertruck. Remarkable.

Private surgery facilities also take the straightfoward cases & people without other co-existing health problems. The public system is left with the complicated, riskier surgeries. The largest private surgical centre companies in Canada are profit making for shareholders.

USA wants to expel Spain from NATO? No. USA can expel itself- which its been doing by threatening Canada & Greenland. It wasn't on my bingo card that that WW3 will begin with USA rhyming with Germany in 1938. Their supreme court being Hindenberg, ICE as Brownshirts etc www.bbc.com/news/article...

If women wrote about men the way men write about women: "He sighed, his medium-sized balls bobbing in his jeans like buoys in a sea of denim, rising and falling with his breath. They were not the firm, boisterous nuts of a young man. He lamented this as much as the years lost."

"You should not be afraid of someone who has library and reads many books. You should fear someone who has only one book and they considers it sacred, but they have never read it" and don't understand it. – Friedrich Nietzsche

But ewww anyway "Is sharing a toothbrush riskier than kissing?" :Probably not" "The reality is if you are kissing somebody, sharing their toothbrush is probably not a huge leap to make," www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

"Carney says lifting U.S. liquor ban depends on Trump ending assault on steel, autos, lumber" "You know what's an irritant? A 50 per cent tariff on steel and aluminum, 25 per cent on automobiles, all of the tariffs on forest products." www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Human diversity. Gender has 2 modes, female & male-means most common, not the only. Between & around the modes are gender diverse humans. Some are Trans, some asexual, some two modes at once (a graph can't do everything). All the diversity is "normal". Minorities are not abnormal, just not as many.

Why? "Bikeway ends". All it means is that instead of 30 km/hr (18 mph), drivers can go 50 (31 mph). Which is dumb.

TIMELINE: TRUMP ATTACKED IRAN. IRAN CLOSED THE STRAIT. TRUMP/ ISRAEL BOMBED LEBANON. TUMP LIFTS RUSSIAN SANCTION ON OIL. OIL IS SENT TO CUBA FROM RUSSIA, YIELDING MILLIONS IN REVENUE. TRUMP STARTED A WAR TO HELP RUSSIA.

Bicycles make everything better- "Bicycle, bicycle, how I love you Bicycle, bicycle, better than a car Spokes on my wheels & I shiny handle bars wind in my hair and pedals under my feet Bicycle, bicycle, things that we do Bicycle, bicycle, I'm so glad you're mine" www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3DD...

"Ebikes are insanely great technology. Cheap, rugged and reliable, they're basically bicycles that abolish hills. Once you've gotten accustomed to an ebike ..you'll never go back." The mileage is great: 625 km per $1 (390 miles).

Americans. Turkeys not eagles.