Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
Personally, I was intrigued by the notion of a plane that ran on gravy. But I see the naysayers have once again gotten in the way of progress.
A man is sitting at a desk, writing a book with a quill. He is not looking at the page. A godly book, illuminated, is also present in the copperplate print of 1716. The godly message of the flying book is in German and from the Bible: Im Anfang war das Wort Joh:1 v:1". A light beam from the holy book to the yet blank page can also be seen with the words inscribed: „Dein Wort ist ein Licht auf meinem Wege Ps. 119 v. 105“. So, basically, god is the textual inspiration of the author's work. It looks like he is waiting an artificial hallucination in 1716. The source: https://portraits.hab.de/werk/17512/mirador
AI-assisted writing in 1716. #skystorians
The president of the United States is bragging about being able to write his own signature.
People do not get that Carney's whole orientation, for most of his career, has been the health of the markets and shareholder value, not the wellbeing of people. In fact, he probably sees people as an expense to be managed. We are a cost centre.
Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake
Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke
Thursdaye Ich care not for thee
Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love
[dreamye lute arpeggio]
Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye
Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye
No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye
Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love
Doug Ford holds up a white board. On it is written his contact information: Premier's Office 416-325-1941 Constituency Office 416-745-2859 doug.fordco@pc.ola.org premier@ontario.ca In front of him is a plate with a slice of cheesecake and a Tim Hortons coffee cup. He's grinning like an inane ghoul with a bottomless pit of corruption where his soul should be.
Housing
OSAP cuts
Healthcare
Gravy Plane
FOI changes
Ontario Place
Science Centre
Public education
Autism supports
Greenbelt scandal
Surveillance pricing
Just a few reasons to contact Doug.
Premier's Office
416-325-1941
premier@ontario.ca
Constituency Office
416-745-2859
doug.fordco@pc.ola.org
Alt headline: Doug Ford purchases $28.9-million private jet for Doug Ford
As of 2023 27% of Ontario children faced moderate to severe food insecurity.
Grocery prices: up another 9% since.
The average Ontarian’s wage: not keeping up.
Loblaws market cap: up $31 billion since 2023.
Galen Weston Jr’s net worth: $20.6 billion
Doug Ford: “God bless the Weston Family”
Ford government announces new plan to help them meet their ‘new homes built’ target.
It's got a laugh track but isn't funny. If a man who was mugged is treated like a woman who was sexually assaulted.
From early Nirvana to Phish, a Chicago fan’s secret recordings of 10,000 shows are now online. blockclubchi.co/4t6zW7R
Trump's meme, annotated.
The only possible way of making sure EVERYONE benefits from AI is UNIVERSAL basic income as a productivity dividend. And the entire point of AI is to reduce the need for human labor, not to make work more interesting. The purpose of my dishwasher is not to make doing the dishes more interesting.
Text says: “We CAN’Tdo that in our city.” And then… “we MUST do that in our city.” Tag line at the bottom says “Sometimes leadership can be found in just one word.” Via the Urban Truth Collective.
Sometimes leadership (and excuses) can be found in just one word.
#NoUrbanExcuses #UrbanTruth
I've said this before but I won't be convinced that our govts can meaningfully use AI to solve health care system problems until they've shown us they can take advantage of the previous technological marvel of the 21st century: the internet.
I still send faxes every fucking day.
A bunny with a flashlight sits in bed reading a book. It is night time, and other books are strewn around the floor of their room.
Daily bunny no.3284 is up late again
One thing that makes me go ballistic about Ontario is how complacent its residents are. Whether it's the 55% of voters who didn't vote in 2022 or 2025; or them not willing to protest on as large a scale (and as persistent) as the Québécois would do. #ONpoli #cdnpoli
Your daily affirmation:
It's ok to feel out of place.
It's ok to look like a long-lost Muppet.
There are no limits to your weirdness in this world.
Picture of Earth taken by the Artemis II mission
Ich see trees of grene
Redde roses too
Ich see them bloome
For me and you
And Ich thynke to myselfe
What a wondirful worlde
Ich see welkin blue
And cloudes of whyte
The brighte blessid daye
The darke sacred nighte
And Ich thynke to myselfe
What a wondirful worlde
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Image of the Earth
The Earth, taken from Artemis II.
What if we cared enough about keeping it livable for us, to change?
What if we demanded change?
#ClimateCrisis
Universal Basic Income works. It works extremely well because what people need is cash, trust, and dignity, not paternalistic bureaucratic hoops to jump through to exist. And yes we can afford it because the lack of it is very costly. UBI should be seen as an investment with a large expected return.
inflatable pink dino with eat the oligarchs sign
Toad shouts to his seeds, trying to get them to grow. From "The Garden" In *Frog and Toad Together*
Toad put his head very close to the ground and shouted, “NOW SEEDS, START GROWING!”
Shall we have a No Kings thread?
Japan⬇️
Newt Gingrich C @newtgingrich X.com Instead of fighting over a 21-mile-wide bottleneck forever, we cut a new channel through friendly territory. A dozen thermonuclear detonations and you've got a waterway wider than the Panama Canal, deeper than the Suez, and safe from Iranian attacks.
They’re all quite mad.
What’s your late winter look?
1. haunted cottage witch
2. cozy tea goblin
3. bleary eyed night owl
4. shambling darkness
