I’m a Grade 11 student in Ontario. This is the real reason high school attendance is alarmingly low right now Students will often skip school to study for a test or finish an assignment because the actual learning part of school doesn’t seem as important as getting a high grade.

Opinion: We've heard a lot from adults about the Ford government’s new attendance policy in schools.

Here’s a Grade 11 student’s take instead: trib.al/iNc2bVO

Yeah we wouldn’t want an ugly high rise to impede our views of the other ugly high rises.

Wait until you hear how much free public roads lost

👏 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.

Here’s my two:

The president of the United States is bragging about being able to write his own signature.

Katie (general ennui) would probably benefit from
running but is currently watching escape to the country.

I scroll because secretly I’m hoping that one day social media will be what it was in the late 00s. For us olds, it was a magical way to reconnect with everyone we’d ever met, and then to connect with the rest of the world. Now it’s just a way to connect with bots & AI slop. It’s disheartening.

Gift-redeem

NEW: Here’s a gift link to the @TorontoStar exclusive revealing the government’s purchase of a private jet for Premier Doug Ford’s use.

www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

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

Local man tells post-secondary students money doesn't grow on trees and then picks private jet from private jet tree.

Ontario buys used $28.9M private jet for Doug Ford: sources A senior official confirmed that the province this week took possession of a 2016 Bombardier Challenger 650 executive jet.

Oh look, a snake on a plane.

www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

This is the best picture I’ve ever taken of ANY pet. This was the magnificent Magnum PI.

He’s just doing it. The thing everybody hems and haws and never gets around to doing. He’s doing it.

Are the rich allowed to be happy FINALLY? Can they FINALLY enjoy their wealth instead of sitting on it in a cave, guarding it jealously, never emerging except for once-annual glimpses of the sun? Can we just allow them to bring a dubloon to CVS for a pack of gum? Have we no decency, fellow poors?

Instead of asking chatgpt, why not ask a librarian? You'll get real answers and they won't tell you to kill yourself.

The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

"At some point if the ship doesn’t turn around, maybe it will start taking on water or listing badly or hit an iceberg, or perhaps the iceberg has been there all along and is named Donald Trump."

Extremely annoyed at the amount of AI pics of the astronauts landing when we have actual real cool pictures of it that we should be sharing

My generation had to hear every detail about Bill Clinton’s blowjobs, meanwhile Trump is destroying the entire planet and they’re like, “Nah, we don’t want to go to all that trouble.”

Schools are like "hey lock up your cell phones they're too damaging to the learning process. now please open up your lying plagiarism machine and start generating content"

The more I think about the 70,000 ICE incarcerated without due process the more I think we are underreacting. People are literally trapped inside for profit prisons. We need to do something.

Let's put #RenewablesON! A study done by Ontario’s electricity operator found that wind and solar energy combined with battery storage can meet about 99.5% of Ontario’s electricity demand. Renewables can power Ontario’s futur...

A study done by Ontario’s electricity operator found that wind and solar energy combined with battery storage can meet about 99.5% of Ontario’s electricity demand. Renewables can power Ontario’s future. Let's put #RenewablesON!
act.environmentaldefence.ca/page/188460/...

Yeah baby!

This is literally all happening because Obama was a cool and popular president and this guy can’t fucking stand it.

medusaglare › Artemis I| 7h @ Threads i thought i stopped caring about space. turns out I was just sick of SpaceX, not NASA. • 18.3K Q145 G807ł → 143

Speaking of Threads, this one got me in the feels.

Normal Tuesday. Got a few meetings today but not too many. President's threatening to genocide millions of people and there are folks flying around the moon in the fucking sky. Gotta take out the garbage later

Realizing that some of my inexplicable sadness about the Artemis II stuff is that it feels like a trans-dimensional communication from an America that took a different path and chose joy instead of fear and hate.

"we need kids to get an early start operating machines that are routinely wrong and may try to coax them into suicide and/or psychosis" is a fun education perspective i disagree with actually

NYT scrutiny on this site is often a bit much but this is legit sanewashing being called out. Even by overly fussy "objective journalism" standards, the proper way to cover this would be to describe it not as an "ultimatum" but as a "profane and inflammatory statement without precedent" or similar