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🚨 Israeli forces have reportedly boarded the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. Connection to the Madleen ship has been lost.

submitted 15 hours ago • 26 comments

Live shot of the respectability police joining the protest discourse

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

“Defund the police” was in fact a great slogan.

submitted 1 day ago • 122 comments

Bad shit happens when the military comes into to a volatile situation. This reminds me of a story from the 1992 riots in Los Angeles, to which some Marines deployed. I knew one of them and he told this story I also saw elsewhere — absent his telling it I would have assumed it was apocryphal. /1

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

People continue to act like disabled & covid caution folks want to return to lockdowns. We don’t. We want clean air in public spaces. Paid time off. Better access to testing. Free respirators and mandatory masking in healthcare. Those steps would drastically reduce spread.

submitted 23 days ago • 13 comments

What is this NASA you speak of, what does it do

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

LMFAO holy shit it is too

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

The craziest thing about this fight between Trump and Elon Musk is that Republicans are trying to take away health care from 16 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

submitted 3 days ago • 161 comments

Hey, chat, is it good when a judge begins a ruling by extensively quoting "The Trial"?

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

On a new episode of @broadbent.bsky.social's 🌅PERSPECTIVES🌅 @graceblakeley.substack.com explains how neoliberal capitalism has overruled democracy & why organizing is essential for taking back working-class democratic power. perspectivesjournal.ca/2025-ellen-m... 🔶

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

The EU is pushing a plan to give police "lawful access" to encrypted messages. But there’s no such thing—without breaking the encryption.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

To again quote @alicefraser.bsky.social on @thebugle.bsky.social, "If you can't afford to run your business while paying for the raw materials from which you make your product, you DON'T HAVE A BUSINESS! What you have in your hands is either an imperial project or a crime. Possibly both."

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

"I don't know what to say. If you can't afford to run your business while paying for the raw materials from which you make your product, YOU DON'T HAVE A BUSINESS. What you have on your hands is either an imperial project or a crime. Possibly both." @alicefraser.bsky.social on The Bugle, 05.03.2025

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

You hate 2°C it

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

Pretty wild to be living in a time when humans are being forced to work in order to even be considered deserving of life or even to be considered human at all, while simultaneously human labor is being systematically eliminated from the concept of work.

submitted 12 days ago • 106 comments

Say no to the golden handcuffs. This is a multibillion scam that will force Canada further into the military "protection" of the authoritarian regime in Washington. It is about making us a vassal state. We need to put the protection of our interests as top priority for military investments.

submitted 12 days ago • 458 comments

Liberals are not on the left.

submitted 13 days ago • 18 comments

Suppose countries went back to requiring corporations to serve the public interest? Suppose countries went back to limiting the size of corporations, in order to preserve competition and enable smaller businesses to thrive? (Why would a functioning democracy allow anything else?)

submitted 14 days ago • 23 comments

Bee Everybody quiet down now and get some sleep. ‘Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you Sweet dreams that leave all worries behind you But in your dreams Whatever they be Dream a little dream of bees…’ #bee #goodnight #dream

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

Spring walk through the Seaton Trail, Durham region, Ontario Canada. #nature #calmingnature #river #Forest

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Romantic Teen Stands Outside Crush’s Window Holding Up Peter Gabriel theonion.com/romanti...

submitted 16 days ago • 56 comments

For 7 years, Akasha Song ran secret labs that produced tens of millions of doses of DMT—one of the world's most potent psychedelic substances—and made a fortune selling it on the dark web. His story, in this 13,000-word piece, is one of the wildest I've ever told: www.wired.com/story/rise-f... 🧵👇

submitted 18 days ago • 22 comments

Horrific murder of two Israeli embassy staffers in the middle of DC. This kind of violence is illegal, immoral, inexcusable and of course - if the chant of ‘free Palestine’ by the alleged shooter is true - solves nothing and helps zero Palestinians.

submitted 18 days ago • 370 comments

For forty years or more we've lived with the "more market, less government" nostrum. Now that ethos is running on stilts, at exactly a time when demographics, climate change, AI, corporate concentration and rising geopolitical tensions are demanding more government, less market.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

We're ready for Microsoft Recall and the automatic screenshots it takes of everything on your desktop. Signal Desktop on Windows now includes support for a new "Screen security" feature designed to block screenshots of your Signal chats. signal.org/blog/signal-...

submitted 18 days ago • 13 comments

"The pain should be minimal, but I’ll order you some meds, just in case. The hat is a longer story, I can get into it if you really want, but know that it will not be coming off."

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

The second season of ANDOR was somehow better than the first, and perfectly tailored to our moment. If you're not a Star Wars fan, it's a gripping drama about resisting fascism, starring Diego Luna, Stellan Skarsgard and other brilliant actors, from the director of MICHAEL CLAYTON. Trust me.

submitted 25 days ago • 18 comments

Self-identifying as a centrist is perhaps the most cynical and amoral political identity you can have because you're just openly admitting your beliefs aren't really beliefs they're just strategic positions that only exist relative to others in the room you happen to be in

submitted 27 days ago • 244 comments

[first science committee meeting] CHAIRMAN: the title of meteorologist will apply to those that study weather! METEOR SCIENTIST: what the fuck

submitted 211 days ago • 64 comments

Occasionally, very occasionally, the Internet is good

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

the age of human tools is over

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Your Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp will fund Mark Zukerberg’s army of dweebs recording everything you say and do in public through their Ray-Ban sunglasses. Every account you delete fends this lunacy off.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

"I didn’t even know I had a less secure knock-off version, and even worse, that it was hackable. Yet somehow Mike Waltz did, and here we are."

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

The left shouldn’t get into a quagmire over the monarchy. Focus on economic democracy — socialize the market. Focus on climate change — keep the planet from cooking. Focus on the welfare state — build it out to serve people. Stop picking stupid, useless fights.

submitted 36 days ago • 53 comments

Signal is secure and private. Understanding the larger issues raised by SignalGatee requires interrogating the surveillance business model. Brilliant work, getting right to the marrow of the issue, from @rondeibert.bsky.social !

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

Tall trees reach for sun, Path winds through the valley green, Toronto's wild heart. Rouge Valley National Urban Park. Spring is coming in the north! #nature #calmingnature #hike #Forest #sunshine

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments