This is a beautiful example of how addressing a population's material needs can eliminate the surface conflict.

we all know I have no life, so:

Oh yay! That is excellent. This is a nice time of year here, when things are ramping up for the season, the swans are in the river, but you don't have to wait for a table, ha ha. I hope it was a lovely visit with your friend!

lately i have been thinking a lot about how there is more air between my home and downtown la (22mi+) than there is between myself and outer space (7.5mi to stratosphere, 31mi to mesophere, ...).

and somehow, all of us live in this fractional layer upon this planet.

👏 Canada 👏 Post 👏 is 👏 a 👏 public 👏 service 👏

Nothing proves how capitalism has brain rotted everyone than thinking the post office, hospitals, public transit, libraries, etc. need to turn a profit to be worthwhile.

Finally, good news. Tim Apple stepped down so Tim Onion could run.

As a current resident of Stratford and a former resident of Picton, I thank you for this service. :)

​A digital article screenshot from CBC News titled Here is the 'experiment' NDP Leader Avi Lewis is trying to run in Canadian politics. The subtitle notes that Lewis is calling for fundamental structural changes during his first Ottawa visit. Below the headline is a photo of Avi Lewis smiling in a suit, standing between two Canadian flags. The bottom half of the image features a pull quote where Lewis argues that the first-past-the-post system causes people to vote defensively or strategically. He concludes by stating that proportional representation is needed to restore faith in democracy and allow people to vote for what they believe in.

Appreciate @avilewis.ca bringing the case for proportional representation back to Ottawa.

Breaking the cycle of defensive voting is the only way to modernize our democracy. It is time to make every vote count.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

palantir should be viewed as the enemy of modern society

i think the thing with the pope, and this is true for many people so it's kind of ridiculous to say it about him in particular, is the more progressive and anti-fascist his messaging the more it stings that it doesn't extend to trans people

I wish more educators and fewer lawyers would run for public office, in part b/c the best ones are naturals at explaining the whys of things.

We could use more people in public life who cultivate understanding and bring people along together instead of "voters are too dumb to appreciate language"

What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows.

Grenell instructed me to “get rid of” the center’s permanent art collection. New art to adorn the building’s walls after its renovation, I was taken aback. If the donors of the works didn’t pay for their removal, he said, we could auction or give them away.
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Tag sur un mur : Merci d'exister.

Voilà c'est tout. ♡

I'm more interested in the random acts of squirrels than in the deliberate actions of celebrities.

My retirement plan is to observe and keep a log of the places where the squirrels bury their acorns

« O surprise, un reportage décrit ensuite les derniers bombardements meurtriers de l’Ukraine par la Russie ... Un net changement, car depuis le début de la guerre, les médias d’Etat relaient le narratif russe et présentent l’Ukraine comme un pays corrompu et fauteur de guerre. »

Hungary's prime minister elect announcing that Orbán was funding CPAC and other Trump-related political activities (also Heritage Foundation's Project 2025), and this will now end.

Bicycles Deliver the Freedom that Auto Ads Promise

OLP interim leader John Fraser on Doug Ford's new gravy plane: "When people can't afford the price of milk, or gas is $1.85/L, the Premier shouldn't be going out and buying himself a private jet. It's disconnected from the reality of people's everyday lives."

So THIS is why Ford wants to expand the island airport, to accommodate HIS GRAVY PLANE.

Hospitals underfunded, EDs closed across Ontario, cut funding to Toronto Public Health, schools underfunded, cut teachers & EAs, cut OSAP grants…to buy a $28.9M dollar jet with OUR taxes. Fire his A$$! 🔥 #ONpoli

Here! Let's get this moving right along

You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.

Kuwaiti-American journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin is detained under new security and fake news laws in Kuwait. Mobilizing international support puts real pressure on the Kuwaiti authorities to #freeahmed.

Sign the petition to demand Ahmed’s immediate release. ⤵️
cpj.movements.mov/pet/kuwait-r...

We all have days like this

Today is the 42nd Anniversary of the Canada Health Act, the perfect time for the Liberals to enforce the act and protect public healthcare.
But will they?

Stocks rise on news that most of the ill effects of the war will fall on poor people.

C'est pas grave, moi non plus, je ne le parle pas veldig bra.

This makes sense
It's a logical transition.
Pour ce que ça vaut,
On apprécie bien un peu de français, quand ça te dit
Ou même le norvégien,
Hvis du er i nordisk stemning.

Yeesh, please feel better soon!