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Just asked Victor Wembanyama if he’d ever consider promoting a sports betting company. “Absolutely not. I will never do that. Honestly, I think it's very sad to see some players promote it. .. Everybody does whatever they want, but without me.”

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

Stunning. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The Americans must be made to suffer. We must humiliate them.

Everyone still using X is using a website that produces and distributes CSAM. It is disgusting and immoral and nobody has any excuse for not being fully aware at this point.

Well uh, this is weirdly accurate

So funny watching the media try to write 2000's era Grand Theft Auto Outrage articles now that the whole country is a casino run by murderers.

Canada fuels American growth. Canada supplies 99% of natural gas imports, 85% of electricity imports and 60% of crude oil imports. I don't think they want us to stop sending any of that energy. -PMCarney #TrumpTariffs

Simultaneous Self-Portrait by Enrico Prampolini, 1918 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137533

Saw this photo from yesterday of the free bike valet service yesterday in #VictoriaBC for the free Canadian Snowbirds performance over the ocean along Dallas Road. Wow #YYJ you are doing the #cyclinglife great, setting an example for the rest of #NorthAmerica let alone #Canada. #gobbybike #bikesky

The Trump admin had a real theory of war: Put on a show of toughness, tell people how manly you are, disdain law, do war crimes, and you win. Earlier losses came from leaders too "weak" to do that. It was a very stupid theory. But they espoused it a lot, really seem to believe it, and acted on it.

Runner at the Goal by Paul Klee, 1921 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137404

SCAM WARNING: this one almost got me, be careful! apparently most businesses and news outlets are owned by something called a "ruling class" and they're using our money to consolidate power

hate it when my elite pedophilia related government cover up gets in the way of my domestic ethnic cleansing and starvation campaigns while I’m trying to invade other countries

I just want to say for the record that when the history books are written centuries from now, I believe the election of Donald Trump in a free and fair election in 2024 will go down as one of the most senseless and self-destructive own goals in human history

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

"As long as policymakers continue to flood money into AI, small press publishers will only grow in importance. The quality of the books they produce, driven by that creative, alternative thinking & integrative design focus is only set to become more in demand." www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...

I guess I reflexively resist engaging with art when the creators call it "content" the same way I wouldn't order a dish that a restaurant lists only as "stuff."

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

The CBC maintains an account on X - but not on Bluesky (nor on Mastodon.) Why? I asked CE0 Marie-Philippe Bouchard and Editor-in-Chief @brodiefenlon.bsky.social when they appeared at the Senate Transport and Communications Committee this morning. #CBC #SRC #SenateofCanada #cdnpoli #X #Bluesky #TRCM

Fascists are desperate for violent disruption they can use an excuse for state violence and power grabs. They have trouble with mockery, goofiness, and fun. That holds across just about every type of authoritarianism. They like being feared for cruelty. They hate being laughed at and humiliated.

this is basically the aim of every AI company

so much is bad right now but the AI stuff in particular is making me insane. a desperate attempt to smother all human creative labor at an absurd cost to the planet by some of the most short-sighted, rapacious, and pathetic people who have ever lived

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

Everything fascists attack is what makes us strong. It's why they go for them. And it's why, rather than retreat, we can't give up an inch. Journalism. Humanities. Universities. Education. Art. Culture. Museums. All targets. All essential to defeating fascism.

Canadians are polite until we are we are not. What makes us not polite is fascism. We fought them on the streets of Toronto in 1933. We fought them in Spain. Long before America joined the war we fought them. When you tell us we don't have a right to a country or kidnap our people we will fight back

Elites and institutions have not “collapsed.” They have not “changed their tunes.” They have not “failed.” They are not “cowards.” They were and are simply been focused only on their own self-preservation and profit. Nothing has changed. They simply made a cost benefit analysis, and fascism wins.

actually a lot of innocent people write birthday letters to child sex traffickers in which they repeatedly reference the secrets they share

How can skin as thin as Donald's still look like luggage?

This list makes us realize how lucky we are to be part of the publishing community in Canada, bringing out stories and lifting up voices from coast to coast to coast.

Your daily reminder that CBC News is still posting on X (a right-wing propaganda-pushing platform that is hostile to academics, science, the CBC, & Canada) & NOT POSTING ON BLUESKY, a platform that is becoming a hotbed of Canadian patriotism. You can contact the CBC at ask@cbc.ca or 1-866-306-4636.

Following the reactivation of its Psychological Defence Agency, every Swedish household now receives a booklet titled “If Crisis or War Comes,” outlining what to do in an emergency. Canada should be doing the same, writes Peter MacLeod.

For fascists, the chaos and the "failures" are the point, not mistakes. The more chaos results, the more they can focus people on scapegoats while continuing power grabs. Do not measure success by the usual metrics: we are talking about a construct in which tragedy is a tactic.