Ottawa is suffering an epidemic of dangerous, distracted, aggressive & careless driving.
The lack of enforcement by Ottawa Police @ottawapolice.bsky.social is disgusting and pathetic.
The lack of engagement on this serious issue by politicians is pathetic.
No one is safe from these idiot drivers.
Here’s a few minutes of me just hanging around ONE intersection in #autowa. Pedestrians were hit near here this morning. I said, I’ll hang around until a driver doesn’t break a rule. But I had to eventually leave. @ottawapolice.bsky.social has suggested we all just DO OUR PART. Because they won’t.
I never would've expected Americans to get so accustomed to fascist madness. Every day there are 5 new outrages that make me think I must be having a nightmare. Yet some people around me act as if it's just normal life.
Frankly, a little more healthy panic would reassure me.
Like AB, QC has in effect voted to weaken, fracture and undermine Canada.
That puts us in the crosshairs of the greedy, fascist US.
Trump and his MAGA regime will capitalize on this.
And if Canada is annexed, the French culture of Quebec will be overwhelmed, diluted, and largely wiped out.
Congrats to ~30% of the people of Quebec for being idiots.
Canada is now one step closer to being taken over by MAGA fascists, and your culture is one step closer to being crushed forever.
Many or most right-wing politicians and parties insist that the global warming crisis is a hoax or that it's not something to be concerned about.
The bad framing comes nearly exclusively from the right wing.
Could we please stop framing climate action as a left/right issue. It’s just a big issue that all politicians need to grapple with. Both a massive cost/risk & huge economic opportunity with clean energy transition (with big risk of stranded fossil fuel assets).
It's Wednesday, which means it's another day when the US people will whine and complain, but will do nothing tangible or effective to stop the staggering corruption and fascist agenda of their brutal regime.
🛡️ As flu season approaches, air filtration remains an important layer of protection against infectious diseases. IHEP member Jeff Siegel @engineering.utoronto.ca) explains how high-efficiency air filtration can help reduce airborne pathogens in shared indoor spaces.
lol I just realized Trump is treating the voters like his construction crews on a building project. Tell them to do a job and then stiff them on the promised compensation.
I’ve reached the point - well actually, I reached it a while ago - where I’m militantly anti-AI. Fine - use it in bioscience labs and radiology where it might help analyse data more effectively. Use it sparingly for systems engineering. Everywhere else, it can fuck off.
Before the dictator Trump goes, he will issue a 'blanket pardon' to every member of his regime and every supporter he's ever had, despite the staggering corruption and mind-blowing criminality of the whole lot of them.
How are the US people preparing for this? Will they simply let this happen?
Five decades of watching Hollywood movies did not at all prepare me for the pervasiveness of cowardice in the face of tyranny in America.
To be fair, it did prepare me for the stupidity.
A year ago the US people were taught about fascism, why it's so awful, and that their own president and MAGA regime was fascist.
Let's list all the things the US people have done since then to stop the brutal, corrupt, deranged, fascist agenda:
That's it—nothing.
FFS people do something! 🤯
You see, the US is at liberty to murder civilians because the US population tolerates mass murder from their leaders. It's just war, and war is the business of the US, no one cares if civilians die, as long as the Military Industrial Complex is profitable. Go back to sleep or watch the NFL.
Did Tobi Lütke know he was making a case for a stronger Senate when he made those gross comments about protecting the rights of the rich minority, or was that just one of the many important things he doesn’t know anything about? brigittepellerin.substack.com/p/tobi-lutke...
Starting Tuesday, the Dodgers will be playing at home for six days straight. Crowd sizes will be metrics for the public's tolerance of pedophilia and fascism.
Conservatives in Canada have lauded people like Tate, even though he's a vile thug and rapist.
At the same time, Conservatives have heaped scorn on people like Justin Trudeau for his hair, or for wearing striped socks, or for not wearing socks.
All Conservatives are assholes.
Combatting it would require living up to being the "land of the free, and the home of the brave", but as you've shown the world, you're actually a nation of cowards.
Meanwhile, the US people just twiddle their thumbs, letting their POS president and his vile regime do shitty things day after day.
Canada has some forest fires, but the US is a gigantic raging, stinking dumpster fire.
No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be.
"The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."
You're going to get left behind if you don't use Al."
Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long- form, and books without needing Al summaries.
Canada here. Sorry, we can talk when your country overthrows the corrupt criminal in the White House and regains it's status as an ally and a democracy.
Canada's boycott of California wine is causing devastating harm to winegrowers.
I'm urging the Canadian government to recognize that California doesn’t agree with these tariff wars, to lift these restrictions, and increase consumer options to strengthen both our economies.
Guys I can’t keep doing this independently. I need a job. If you know of a place—advocacy, OSINT org, think tank, left media, etc—where I could take this work in-house, pls let me know. I admire the folks making independent work for them, but I am collapsing under the weight and the lack of impact.
A few minutes ago, two ICE flights operated by Journey Aviation landed in Eswatini, likely another third-country removal of immigrants to a maximum security prison there.
Nineteen people have already been sent there on previous ICE flights in the last nine months. Only two have been released.
US concentration camps are packed to the brim.
Yet what are the US people doing as a whole to end this vile and brutal fascism right now?
Nothing.
Pathetic. A totally pathetic, weak and cowardly people.
We can see this in the ICE flight data. Domestic “round-up” flights are spiking, and some activist flight watchers report the flights are getting fuller.
But deportation and removal flights remain steady. This means the concentration camps are getting packed to the brim. It’s awful to comprehend.
Tomorrow, July 4, look up around 6:30 pm when the Royal Canadian Air Force is scheduled to perform a fly-past over the U.S. ambassador’s residence in Rockcliffe during Independence Day celebrations.
I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists:
X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up
As much as Trump's screws up and looks stupid, it's also pretty clear that he is also winning. He's winning the redistricting battle. He's winning the media battle by supporting media monopolies and shutting down neutral media like NPR and PBS.
This also validates my theory that anyone who drives a giant fucking truck and does not work in an industry where you need one (construction, whatever) is probably an asshole with anti-social tendencies.
Officials in New York mostly yawned at the news that Staten Island cop James Giovansanti has accumulated 547 speeding tickets. Activists renewed their call for action.
With all that’s going on in the world right now, I feel it’s really important to draw a distinction between ‘religion’ and ‘faith’. I’m not religious, but I have a humanist worldview which prioritises rational thought, empathy and kindness. I know many people of faith who hold similar values. 1/5
Dear America,
DO SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR PRESIDENT AND YOUR FECKLESS GOVERNMENT! WHY SHOULD EVERYONE ELSE SUFFER BECAUSE OF THIS INSANITY?
Signed,
Most of the rest of the planet
I teach about terrorism, and when talking about the US in the 1970s, I say more attacks came from the far left, because that’s what the data shows.
For the US in the 2010s and 2020s, it’s predominantly from the far right. Because that’s what the data shows.
Presenting it otherwise is distortion.