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Ten years after the #TRC, Canada is moving backwards — As resource-extraction bills are forced through without First Nations' consent, what happened to the ‘national reckoning’ with the country’s colonial legacy? The latest from @brandimorin.bsky.social: ricochet.media/indigenous/l... #cdnpoli

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Oh time.com/7295195/ai-c...

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TW: harm to children. My research into the effects of the UK government puberty-blocker ban has finally been published after peer-review. It details the severe harm being caused to young trans people & children by the Starmer government's puberty-blocker ban. Unlike Cass it is peer reviewed...

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Always poetic to get stopped on the bike by the oil train

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I don't want to alarm anyone, but hoopla has a whole dang 2025 eisner nominees section. You can just... read them all. For free. And support your local library at the same time. 😱

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How did this guy not get his own book

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I think it’s weird that some countries are allowed to have nuclear weapons and others are not when really, the danger from a “safe” nuclear power is only an election away.

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"matching donations" is such a nasty idea. rich guy stands next to a homeless guy on the street and says "i won't give him a dollar unless you do"

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What is this "comfort zone" you speak of

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Carney fights off harsh U.S. authoritarianism with slightly gentler Canadian authoritarianism

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“It's amazing to me when somebody tells me we need to convince these Missouri MAGAs to join the fight against tyranny, as if we could be convincing in a way that having a friend kidnapped is not, as if it is natural that they should still need us to make a case.” www.the-reframe.com/winning-the-...

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Breaking property and attacking people are not equivalent forms of violence. This is important.

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Movie idea: Effective Altruism Star Wars, in which it's OK to be a Sith as long as the majority of your earnings go through vetted charities.

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“Decarbonizing” oil will work about as well as ‘decolonizing’ Canada has

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I'm just saying that, as apes, we need political systems designed to be run by apes.

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We're all just fancy apes, and no ape should be making decisions affecting more than about 5 other apes.

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Forget fancy trips. I want to enjoy mundane stuff. Say, grocery shopping. Never having to wait more than a few days between deeply satisfying trips to get green bananas and margarine. Life would be so good.

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Drinking ginger ale from a whisky glass, badass and yet completely responsible and mature. That's just how I roll.

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Giant fires on the prairie. Animated version here: open.substack.com/pub/mackayca...

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Basically jam and bread, perfectly reasonable breakfast choice

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As my daughter pointed out some time ago, "You only live once!" can't be what you say before jumping off Niagra Falls in a barrel or whatever—that's crazy. "You only live once!" is what you say before PUTTING ON YOUR SEATBELTS.

submitted 23 days ago • 7 comments

Does anyone remember, like, looking forward to things? I haven't done that in forever.

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My biography just released.

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Nostalgia in politics can work for more than one thing, it doesn't only have to be a guy saying "Don't you miss being racist" it could be a different guy saying "Remember when people had pensions"

submitted 27 days ago • 35 comments

sunny day on Atlantis

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Worth a read

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“Your windows need scrubbing,” said Frog. “Your plants need watering.” “Tomorrow!” cried Toad. “I will do it all tomorrow!”

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The self-seriousness of charging Kneecap with terrorism while letting war crimes slide is pretty wild to say the least

submitted 31 days ago • 8 comments

less "who's rogan of the left" and more "how do we get rid of podcasts"

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Tom Humberstone's excellent comic about the Luddites' history. thenib.com/im-a-luddite/

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Ever feel guilty because the problems you're upset about are pretty common, and actually much smaller than loads of really terrible things other people have to deal with? Yeah, me neither.

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Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Doing things you enjoy is a worthwhile use of your time. Staying as up-to-date on every teensy detail of the world's rapid disintegration into a smouldering ball of tar and hatred may not be useful or healthy. I tell myself this often, but--

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cannon apples, painted by ellen isham schutt, 1912

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