Rogers Launches Satellite-to-Mobile Service Across Canada Rogers Communications has become the first Canadian wireless provider to launch satellite-to-mobile text messaging, extending coverage to 5.4 million square kilometers – approximately 2.5 times more a...

For Canadians who are thinking of using Rogers' new satellite to cell service, you might want to think again since it's backed by Elon Musk. cabinliving.ca/rogers-launc...

A daye wythout anachronism ys lyke Jane Austen wythout her x-wing.

Excited to have just emailed the @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social Special Collections to request access to Tolkien’s materials for my course on Life Writing at Oxford this fall. It feels surreal to link my SFU GLS research with the archives that helped shape Middle-earth.

A collage of PBS personalities including Barney Elmo and Mr Rogers. These characters and personalities both real and animated show the inclusive purpose that PBS had in the 80s and 90s

Tom Morello speaking truth. I wonder if anyone who consider themselves anti-woke will reflect meaningfully on it.

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every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

AOC and Bernie in front of the rally crowd in Denver

Zoomed out crowd shot of 34,000 people in downtown Denver with Colorado mountains in the background

Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.

This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.

Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.

And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

Won't they just get a Trump pardon if they are jailed? Maybe they need to be disbarred instead.

Module 1 | Video Series | Canadian Democracy @ Work This module explores how we consume information online and offers practical strategies for evaluating content and finding reliable, useful information.

This video series is worth watching. Posted by renowned Canadian broadcaster Lisa Laflamme, these short modules can help you and your families understand the realities of our overwhelmingly digital world. teamdemocracy.ca/preview/vide...

"You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination." - Charles de Gaulle

America first. Dr. Seuss

Hmmm this guy is on to something

Are Libraries the New ‘Third Places’ We’re Looking For? They just might be. They’re doing a lot of things that don’t have much to do with books but do have a lot to do with community. And you don’t hear “Shhh” much anymore.

Libraries have always been a key part of society and if we continue to support them, they can nurture the missing pieces of our social life in unexpected ways. Plus, it's better than Starbucks.

‘Breaking Bad’ Creator Vince Gilligan Urges More Good Guys in Stories Now That Bad Guys Have Taken Over the World: ‘God Help Us, They’ve Become Aspirational’ In his speech at the WGA Awards, 'Breaking Bad' creator Vince Gilligan said we need more good guys on TV, that Walter White shouldn't be aspirational.

Well said @vincegilligan.bsky.social ! Stories of all types are needed, but our elevation of anti-heroes has not done any favours to our societies over the past couple decades. From Walter White to Kylo Ren and many others, our sympathy for the devil may have gone too far.

Man sitting on a couch looking listless. His hair is unkempt and his clothes are wrinkled. He sits in a couch that looks like it's from the 60s and the wall behind him is a stark white.

This is so the vibe right now.

Collins: Is there a tangible concession in your view?

Davidson: Yeah, absolutely. It’s a commitment from Trudeau to help with fentanyl

Collins: He announced that plan six weeks ago.

Davidson: Well, at least he's reiterated it

I think we need to jump ahead a few steps and bolster our military (can't believe I'm saying this) but if you look at the trajectory of what's coming, it's not good.

Sarah McBride points out a fatal flaw in Trump's anti-trans executive order Sarah McBride has pointed out a fatal flaw in President Donald Trump’s executive orders which targets the trans community.

Trump's executive order on gender defines me as a woman and I am here for it. www.thepinknews.com/2025/01/22/s...

Project to 'free social media from billionaire control' plans to take on Musk and Zuck using Bluesky's open source protocol: 'It will take years and hundreds of millions of dollars' Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales, actor Mark Ruffalo, and more have endorsed Free Our Feeds.

I would un-Facebook so fast it would make your head spin. Let's hope this getsade. Save us, Bluesky!

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post Democracy can't function without a free press

Folks: please be diligent about not disseminating Ann Telnaes' cartoon in a way that she's not getting the clicks on it (until she says differently). Her IP matters now more than ever.

Make it go viral but make sure she benefits.

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I managed to both laugh AND cry at this.

3 of Jane Austen’s 6 brothers engaged in antislavery activism − new research offers more clues about her own views The author of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and other classic novels used the words ‘slave’ and ‘slavery’ nearly a dozen times in her books.

Fascinating article, though it raises more questions than it answers.

That's what I thought when he was bragging about topping the ladder in Diablo 4.

Libraries should be our backups! Articles like this help us see the fault lines in our dependence on electronic infrastructure. TV dramas like The Last Ship show us how badly things can go wrong by blithely putting all our eggs in the electronic basket.

Fine, but in your characterization of Girard as a cop, you appear to be laying the blame for this at his feet as though he endorsed this, which he did not. He continued to seek cures for this problem though his writing to the end of his days, though I wouldn't say he was that successful.

"it’s a simple statement". Not when a man lies dead on the street.

How does Girard turn anger inward? He calls out the fact that those in power have us redirect our anger to a scapegoat, allowing those who should be held accountable to escape where an innocent is sacrificed instead. Thiel uses Girard's memetic desire to make social media a gladiatorial arena

Domination politics "It's not that the middle-class professional family doesn’t know or care that the driver bringing them their food delivery makes what a British doctor does. I think when they are aware, they’re often quite angry about it. They like having the people who serve them be desperate."

Yes because Thiel used Girard's insights about human nature for evil

Not paternalism—media shapes behavior. Mimesis drives imitation, even if few act. Publishing a manifesto risks amplifying a pathological model for vulnerable minds. Responsibility matters. #mimeticstudies #renegirard #trumpsusa