Patrick Devaney

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

BC nobly sacrifices good governance to teach one man about hubris

RFK decided to once again target maskers in a speech, laughing about going to LA and seeing people driving in their cars while masked. And I want to make sure people know that studies have shown that the reason someone might wear a mask in their car is that it's none of your fucking business.

Editorial: Toronto is falling apart, so let me finish it off - by Brad Bradford

The House of Commons is debating the price of food, which is a bit weird because eliminating the carbon tax was supposed to solve that problem.

“Regarding MAID for patients with mental illness, he cited continuing concerns about inadequate access to mental-health services.” THEN PROVIDE ADEQUATE SERVICES! Denying people treatment and using that as a justification to deny MAID is just pointless cruelty.

I am rarely affected by discourse on social media, but the current wave of posts asserting that Long Covid is psychosomatic has angered me. To be very clear: if you're asserting that LC isn't a physical disease, you're ignorant of science. End of.

I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

You don't have an inalienable right to be an antisocial dipshit because you're doomscrolling all day and it makes you feel terrible. There are no qualifiers to this. You are not released from the obligation to try to be decent just because Elon Musk is lighting the world on fire.

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

You can tell a lot about someone’s character by how they feel about the government providing free school breakfasts for children.

3 things about Dem politicians who dabble in transphobia: 1. It's wrong, they're wrong, on a moral basis they're being evil 2. It's stupid, they're stupid, they'll never get any credit from the fascists for it 3. It's proof you're not capable of reading or rising to this, and therefore any, moment

Never forgiving Apple or Google for participating in this bullshit.

This is excellent. Do not make these assumptions about names in your code.

Of all the weeks in Canadian history, this has definitely been one of them.

Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact https://theonion.com/democratic-socialism-myth-vs-fact/

DRM is bad and should be illegal. Companies have told us for decades now that you're "buying" content but actually creating a lease, instead.

"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks!

Brutal photo caption from The Guardian: “Gianni Infantino carefully explains to Donald Trump that he is not part of the Spanish national team.”

This arrived in the mail today - excited to read it! @grimalkina.bsky.social

They’re going to call you a socialist regardless. So be a socialist.

National corporate media have created a controversy—”is Long Covid a real medical disease?”—which never existed in any serious form among the experts who research Covid. fair.org/home/media-w...

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and— I said look. Look with your eyes! Oh now you’ve gone and touched it. The paint is peeling. My beautiful paint! I’ll have to call my pool guy back. Vandal! Antifa! I said look And despair Nothing but the algae remains.

Now that's an obituary headline.

Can I just give a shout out to the @ethz.ch researchers who initialised an AI weather model with a cat picture. 👏🐱

it’s crazy that they still do this event every year while this post exists

Carney to replace Steven Guilbeault’s seat with burning tailings pond

A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans: 1940: 81% 1950: 84% 1960: 91% 1970: 72% 1980: 70% 1990: 28% 2000: 40% 2010: 35% For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.

Proposed Burrito Tax: For every 1 door dash opinion you post you must bring meals to a disabled person who can’t get food safely themselves.

This Canvas hacking situation shows problems with monopolies/duopolies, in this essay I'll..

The Assistant to the Regional Manager of the Rings

Does the stock market count as a prediction market? 🤔

Urging Bluesky to bring more nuance to AI in general.

Passed my RPE (my department's equivalent of PhD qualifiers) this morning! 🥳 Now I just have to do the PhD...

*taps the sign*