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“Elon Musk admitted to his biographer that the reason the Hyperloop was announced—even though he had no intention of pursuing it—was to try to disrupt the California high-speed rail project to get in the way of that actually succeeding.” — @parismarx.com in @gizmodo.com He’s always been this way.

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this is today

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Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, and the arts – to prevent us from learning. It's Fascism 101. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]

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Or you could order a different #canadianmothersdaygift from @renegadeartsent.bsky.social - Alice At Naptime is a trippy poetic lullaby of a graphic novel, from an indie Alberta publisher based in Canmore 🦫

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“…this morning, from a war zone half a world away, I was reading about your election. And for the first time in days, I exhaled. A small, almost invisible breath. Relief. And then came gratitude… You didn’t just choose kindness or experience… You chose not to flirt with fascism.” From Ukraine.

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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The full report is well worth a skim through. Includes this incredible mode share chart showing “people walking, wheeling and cycling make up three quarters of all observed travel activity and 85% during peak hours.” Love it. Available here: www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/assets/Servi...

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It was a really good panel

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Thanks @elainemwill.bsky.social for the awesome punk Bella portrait, she loves it, as do we.

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In celebration of Stefano Jun's debut book, Straight Outta Busan's Publication Day, @comicsbeat.bsky.social have an exclusive preview: www.comicsbeat.com/exclusive-pr... #Korean #immigrantstory #newcomics #Canada

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❤️ TLDR The Webb telescope saw evidence of chemicals that normally come from complex photosynthetic life on … another planet in another solar system. 🤯

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Ocean heat content (OHC) in 2024 Global full-depth OHC gain since 1960 reached a record 452 ± 77 zetajoules (ZJ) in 2024. OHC was 15 ± 9 ZJ higher than in 2023, primarily associated with warming in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans 1 ZJ = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 J www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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This tariff fiasco is crazy on so many levels. So @hankgreen.bsky.social decided to rank them. As much as there is to laugh at, stay till the end, because he does a good job breaking down why this is so serious. youtu.be/8JuuGjRhSYE?...

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Written, illustrated, published & printed in Canada. Pass Me By: Lily by Calgary creators @katsimmers.bsky.social & Ryan Danny Owen. Trans teenager Lily, visits her estranged grandfather Ed, as he struggles with his rapidly developing Alzheimers. Lily too, faces struggles of her own. #booksky

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“Hello, the FOIA office has been placed on admin leave and is unable to respond to any emails.” This doesn’t sound like “radical transparency” to us. Check out our latest secrecy newsletter to see which FOIA offices have closed, and which might be next.

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Boat derangement syndrome

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Thousands of potential infractions were hidden in B.C. regulator records, until our investigation exposed a widespread pattern of lax enforcement. Here are more than 40,000 records and all company responses we received. #bcpoli via @writermjs.bsky.social & @zakvescera.bsky.social

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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

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Zine Party returns this May! Hosted by Shelf Life Books in partnership with CommunityWise Resource Centre, featuring local makers, artists, & vendors! Vendor applications are now open until April 20! Apply here: shorturl.at/uBI75

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Tonight at @shelflifebooks.bsky.social join @katsimmers.bsky.social & Ryan Danny Owen as they launch LILY - part 3 on the Pass Me By graphic novel series.

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Casar: You can quickly explain Doge with just two numbers. First: $8 million a day. That’s how much Elon Musk collects in federal government contracts. Second: $65 a day. That’s how much the average senior—someone who has worked their entire life—gets from Social Security.…

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~Until now, the library was considered a neutral location, allowing visitors to visit without having to go through all the procedures of a normal border, with patrol officers ensuring that everyone goes back to where they came from.

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“The MTA as a whole is averaging 448K more public transit riders per day this year…The MTA ridership growth since congestion pricing went into effect is almost 50% larger than the total ridership of America’s next-largest subway system.” bettercities.substack.com/p/congestion...

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When 18F was "deleted" by Musk, we told you: We’re not done yet. They can fire us, and delete our website, but they can't destroy our ideas. 🧵 of 18F resources for making civic technology serve the people, 1/7

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~"Unbelievably, Canada’s largest newspaper chain is owned by US hedge fund with ties to Trump. This was permitted by Harper gov, but Carney should use Canadian laws to ensure Postmedia is owned by Canadians – even by employees of those newspapers." archive.ph/Q4UKk

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Is your book on the list?

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UK Subs detained

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Smith said the quiet part out loud today. She wants only one version of the truth when it comes to environmental impacts from industry. She wants that version of the truth to be entirely under her governments control. With coal mines being proposed. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Terrific, timely explainer from @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social via @wired.com

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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

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Funny and sweet.

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I don't mention this enough, but I do, in fact, have an online store you can buy things from - including prints, stickers, comics, and digital downloads - take a look! ko-fi.com/elainemwill/... (now in CAD!!! 😜)

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This cure for sickle cell anemia was made possible by NIH-funded research to turn the gene for fetal hemoglobin back on. It was done predominantly by NIH researchers, including intramural researchers on the NIH campus. irp.nih.gov/catalyst/33/...

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Gov. Walz, "There’s nothing conservative about an unelected South African nepo baby firing people at the VA."

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Russia has kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainian children. Putin was indicted for this crime. Yale has a unit searching for them. Musk eliminated the funding. inews.co.uk/news/world/m...

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500,000 protesters against Vucic out of a population of 6.6 million! That's like 25 million Americans marching against Trump.

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Extraordinary scenes in Serbia’s capital Belgrade right now. Around 500,000 people are on the streets in what may be the biggest protest in Serbian history. All demanding the resignation of President Vučić & his government. What began as a student protest is now a full democratic uprising. 🇷🇸

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Dear media, please stop saying AI is “training” on copyrighted works. AI is “stealing” copyrighted works. It is “plagiarizing” copyrighted works. It is “breaking multiple laws.”

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I haven’t cried all week, but her asking him “habibi how will i call you?” in Arabic has me sobbing. Fuck every human who did this. Fuck them all.

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