Talarico: When we win, the first bill I’m filing is a comprehensive anti-corruption package: Overturn Citizens United Ban corporate PACs and super PACs Ban members of Congress from trading stocks Once we defeat the most corrupt politician in America, we can defeat this corrupt system.

“The Assembly of Treaty Chiefs (AOTC) of Treaty No. 6, Treaty No. 7, and Treaty No. 8 has unanimously passed a resolution calling for an investigation by the RCMP & Auditor General into the actions of Premier Danielle Smith & members of the UCP to determine whether they constitute treason”

Serious wisdoms from a man who needs to be listened to.

Meanwhile, in Canada: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Name...

lol my art that's going the biggest on Facebook is this dumb thing i made front a stupid thought

Between the plummeting cost of #Renewables & #Trump 's boneheaded moves in #Iran we're living through the fastest #EnergyTransition in human history. Winners & losers are self selecting NOW. Canada, so far, has chosen to lose. We need to choose to win. #MarkCarney #cdnpoli #ClimateChange

Fuck. Ing. Get them.

Took me a sec. Then, I saw the LAYERS

Breaking up all future literary events with obligatory ‘hydration breaks’ where I just shout BUY MY BOOK for three minutes.

Wealth concentration was already way off the rails before Musk became a trillionaire. The wealthiest megabillionaires in the country have basically been doubling their wealth annually in recent years. Feels near impossible to maintain a liberal democracy in this kind of situation.

oh wow you designed your secure web app to require 2 factor authentication via an authenticator app and you decided it should send a separate email to me through every single step of the process? thanks dude i really am enjoying it

Messi xkcd.com/3260/

Recently I was at an event where a reasonably respectable person talked about how Trump’s threats to Greenland speak to the human desire to go on a grand mission, etc, and that’s why we need to respect the mass appeal of this idea. Invading Greenland polls at like 6% approval. But they like it on X

All those visiting Vancouver for the #WorldCup and cheering our public transit, walkable downtown, & vibrant waterfront, might be interested to know that almost everything noteworthy about our city-building began with the turning point rejection of the freeways that lobotomized so many other cities.

I want one of those threads for like 100 different stars that are complete fuckers being the scenes… Big Ben, Don Imus, Jimmy Fallon, Olivia Munn, David Lee Roth, Stephen Pearcy of Ratt

Congratulations @corblund.bsky.social, the @waternotcoalab.bsky.social volunteers, & the hundreds of thousands of Albertans who stood up for our Rocky Mountains & for our shared future. When governments refuse to listen, citizens will organize & make themselves impossible to ignore. #WaterNotCoal

Halifax council votes to pause demolition of Memorial Library; Andy Fillmore pitches his own motion for site Story by me www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/c...

‘Protect Ontario’ ads cost one ministry nearly $10M last year: records

& bots end up being addictive in the sense of a subset of the users being converted into chatting to them as if they are people and then a subset from there goes on to become detached fully from friends and family and a subset from there also becomes more vulnerable to suicide due to all the above.

Big rocks Another photo I rediscovered in my Peru photos from 2016. This is at Machu Picchu. #RockinTuesday #ColorADay #BlueTue #EastCoastKin #ECK #ArtYear

When I was a kid, erasable ball point pens were all the rage. They were kind of globby, but that was a small price to pay when hand-writing out an essay. But lefties could not really use them, because that left hand just schmeeered the ink across every word.

To be clear, this is Yaalon condemning the ethnic cleansing.

A picture to illustrate why Halifax's safe vehicles section of the road safety framework is complete bullshit

Man oh man. Canada really is a couple telecom companies and a grocery chain in a trenchcoat. We've totally forfeited this country over to the capitalist overlords and it's such a shame.

The objection to UBI is not really about money without work. It is about which class is allowed to receive money without work.

i think boarding school teenage masculinity is a part of masculinity but not of manhood. we have to get away from the concept of the opposite of "man" being "woman." the opposite of "man" is "boy"

Huang misses that we decided that a high number of children & adult deaths was acceptable in order not to be inconvenienced.

The bus window offers a good angle to see people in cars on their phones. The frequency is terrifying.

"Ben owns a farm. He employs 100 workers. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10% productivity gain. Ben fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000% productivity gain..."

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

“We all bought into this lie that American would be dominant. Donald Trump wants to be dominant without allies. The rest of world is saying: ‘We gotta get away from these nutters and find a better way!” The OShow #PowerCast @charlieangus104.bsky.social 🇨🇦 youtu.be/LVyBGyGYOoU?si…#G7G7

Hey @ncgovernor.bsky.social @joshsteinnc.bsky.social let's make NC be the second state to allow cities to create streets for people again. If Washington can do it, so can we! #10mph #SafeStreets #StreetsForPeople

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LBJ's #Humpday Podcast Picks for June 17th This week: leadership and public service, everyday reflections, and unpredictable comedy. h/t @samfragoso.bsky.social @andrewsantino.bsky.social medium.com/@lanrickbenn...

Bikes deliver the freedom that car ads promise

NEW — Belfast-based writer @hleehurley.com talks about the racist pogroms that have terrorized his city, how existing tensions in Northern Ireland (and *not* Elon Musk) primed local factions to turn violent, and how Minnesota’s response to ICE inspired their community to care for one another:

"Bonfires, many illegal, are lit across the country. ... Previously, some Loyalists burned catholic effigies on their fires. But now that we have so-called “peace” in Northern Ireland, effigies of migrants have replaced those in recent years"

Betting on Kalshi that I'm going to obliterate my balls with a malfunctioning weed wacker, then doing it, netting myself a cool $35

Motherfucker can't even win a war against algae.

Indigenous group seeking consultation, records on Billy Bishop expansion plans

MySpace. Best way to find new music I've ever encountered.

Hey Canadians. The Liberals have an immigration survey out. I always catch people showing their ass when bashing immigrants by reminding them my lovely wife is one. "Oh, not her, she's one of the good ones." It's time to defend immigration. forms-formulaires.alpha.canada.ca/en/id/cmp15l...

Everyone love Thrawn, the Grad Student Admiral and his wacky subplots that aren't him staring at art and saying something racist about the species that created it

I wish it was possible to explain to regular people precisely how fucked up it is, and what a true believer you have to be, to reference Bonhoeffer in this context

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was an anti-fascist German Lutheran pastor who opposed Hitler and the Nazi Party so effectively that they murdered him in 1945. He is only a bad guy if you literally spend all your time on far-right, neo-Nazi websites and have pickled your brain in fascist group chats.

There is not an editor in the world that would let you get away with this in fiction, the notes would be EXCORIATING

Senator Bae framing this in stark moral terms, like “EVIL IN THE ETHER”, is apt “Michelle Obama is one of the most dignified people one could ever meet… This idea that Black women aren’t really women and Black people aren’t really people harkens to the darkest days in our country’s history.”

Republicans amazing at science and government efficiency: "Especially when you notice they are using 12% peroxide solution and the ratio was for 35% Buying a tanker of 12% peroxide runs about $1 to $1.50 a gallon An individual gallon jug of 12% peroxide runs $20-30 each" bsky.app/profile/siri...