"Cycliste" Oui, mais non. Un enfant

There's a potential for transformative change in how trans people are seen, a chance to go from being poor little born this way pity cases to heroes and leaders in the world that emerges after the husk of our old order is burned out by hate.

New episode of Sandy and Nora! We talk about Toronto's Black boys who are being exploited by rich and powerful forces to settle scores for them, and how privatisation and the affordability crisis has created a stream of disposable child soldiers. sandyandnora.com/episode-379-...

15-minute city conspiracy theory BS did real harm...👇 How a planning buzzword turned into backlash www.nationalobserver.com/2026/06/16/n... via @nationalobserver.com "Anti-vaxx and right-wing social media channels spread the conspiracy theory to Canada..." The tyranny of walkability!

Human lives used like pieces on a game board.

Depraved and utterly grotesque. mondoweiss.net/2026/06/the-...

McDonald's were hiring hundreds of children, as young as 10 years old, to work in Kentucky locations as recently as 2023. McDonald's business model, like others, is predicated on exploiting child and farm labor, and to let them get away with this is frankly insulting to the legacy of Dolores Huerta

my man looking like the baby from the Teletubby sun grew up to be an alcoholic

Rowling has escalated to directly boosting anti trans slurs.

Stanford grads walk out of their commencement when Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage

I will club a robot to death with an em-dash before I let the robot take it from me. I will wield an em-dash like Excalibur, granted me as a boon by the Lady of the Lake before the lake was consumed by a data center. I wrote about this last year

It's income and stability. Huge surprise.

leadership is hard. that's why the first thing leaders destroy when they're having a bad time are systems of accountability. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Ian Fleming might have made the world’s first trillionaire this evil, but only Philip K. Dick could have made him such a pathetic drug-addled loser, desperate for attention and adulation but incapable of human relationships, and now terrified to go out in public.

We teach kids growing up that genocide is the highest crime humanity can commit and we must do everything we can to prevent it and then give people decades in prison if they try and stop weapons from being shipped for a genocide. 3 of the 4 only did destruction of property

They didn't disclose it because they wanted to get away with it. It's the main splash art for your game! The first impression! And this is what you were okay with? Clothing that makes no sense? A backwards hand? Fucked up cart? If you don't care to make it, why should I care to play it?

Antarctica’s west coast missing an area of sea ice the size of France as temperatures peak 20C above average

We the anti-fascists outnumber the fascists by a mile. We are surrounding them. Brighton is anti fascist

Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation

humans have known how to construct a shoulder seam for thousands of years, but with AI, we are unlocking untold new ways to fuck it up

Livestream of the removal of Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center is back up. www.ms.now/news/watch-t...

Red Lobster is now an... AI company? 🥴

Wab Kinew is standing up for the future of Canada right now like no other politician really does. Recognizing that there’s actually little benefit to data centres for the environmental harm that they’ll cause is 🎯 Source: Wab Kinew’s TikTok account. #notodatacentres #wabkinew

1. This title makes no sense and 2. Quebec did exist before Canada did as a Euro-descended settler state. Alberta did not.

Sandy and I are fundraising for a journalist or two. Please take a read of why (and find out how to apply and donate if you're interested!) noraloreto.substack.com/p/help-sandy...

Everything now is either full on Black Mirror or Idiocracy.

Here's the full article for those interested. Insanely bleak stuff, I don't think I'll ever be able to look at the Pokemon franchise the same way again dronexl.co/2026/06/09/p...

Elon Musk’s xAI hit with class action over data centre power plants causing 'inescapable' noise

My colleague @hannahalothman.bsky.social is in Belfast tonight. This is what she’s seen. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

THERE IS AN ACTIVE POGROM IN NORTHERN IRELAND. FASCISTS IN SKULL MASKS ARE GOING DOOR TO DOOR PULLING MIGRANTS OUT OF THEIR HOMES AND SETTING THEM ON FIRE.

In Mississippi, lawyers on both sides of a court case were caught using AI, essentially two LLMs arguing against each other. The judge dismissed all lawyers from the case and canceled the trial: www.404media.co/judge-learns...

Commentary: I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

It is a good symbolic step for Ireland to ban 2 of the most fanatic ministers in Israel's genocidal gov. When will the Irish gov, however, comply with the ICJ rulings & end its shameful complicity in Israel's genocide, apartheid & military occupation against the Palestinian people? loom.ly/fTB41iE

perv glasses are in europe’s crosshairs. i definitely want to see quick progress on this.

very funny that City of Vancouver staff, who refused to obey a unanimous council vote to start providing real time updates on a platform other than just X, responded to X's new posting limits by giving up entirely it's fun to just ignore the will of council

Credit where it is due, we did create the first openly trans character in the batverse and she has meant a lot to a lot of people. I always wanted her to turn into a costumed hero and had plans for her to be Batgirl for a bit when Barbara was injured. It was @planetx.bsky.social who came through!

Literally a story about how the ultra-rich are incentivising the rest of us to turn on each other. And that has been the underlying cause of much of the most damaging disinformation we have seen in recent years. This sort of thing only gets worse as wealth inequality gets worse. #CDNpoli #ABpoli

so cool that the canadian government plans to spend billions of dollars to encourage people to use not just a bullshit machine, but a mass death and suicide machine

CAG 938's Vancouver Animators Art Market RETURNS! Our THIRD annual VAAM brings you 30 Union artists with illustrations, zines, crafts, & we're bringing back the incredibly popular Portfolio Reviews, provided by CAG 938 Education Committee & our skilled member volunteers! Sunday, July 19 - 12-5 PM

ok well, instead of supporting a z!onist organization like vancaf, how about supporting small artists helping a family in gaza escape the war? my buds over at @pals4palestine.bsky.social have a doodle campaign for charity with a new rotation of artists every week 💖

Mining elbows now.

Hello @crowdfundr.bsky.social! Hey could you add more share options to the bottom of payment confirmation emails? Or allow users to customize them? I'd love to see more than just FB and X (I personally use neither of those). How about buttons for Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, etc…? Thanks!

On this day in 1730, "around 4:00 a.m. several captives freed themselves from their iron shackles and broke through the bulkhead of the ship [the Little George, captained by George Scott]." (BlackPast) anticolonialhistory.com/event/63/

the entirety of a large language model's """thinking""" is an extremely flimsy facade, so obviously fake that even the people trying to convince you it's real can't hide how fake it is, so they have to be like "well actually if you really think about, aren't we *all* confidently lying as humans?"

Canada has unveiled its long-awaited national AI strategy, but experts say key questions around regulation, privacy, and accountability remain unanswered. Can Ottawa translate its AI ambitions into public confidence? https://thewalrus.ca/canada-ai-plan/

We lost Richard Hunt to AIDS in 1992 youtu.be/AwwdwFTuLRY

im sorry is this a thing that just randomly sends you products and charges you lmao

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The Fred Rogers Production has started uploading every episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for free. www.youtube.com/@misterroger...

If only our government had a backbone. Europe is ditching US tech. European governments are choosing European digital tools and some universities and researchers are doing the same. www.nature.com/articles/d41...