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I smelled the stench of conservative activism on this story from a mile away. Fuck these clowns.

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UCP Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides claimed in his announcement this week that his proposed school library book ban was a response to complaints from "concerned parents." But he actually got the list from anti-LGBTQ lobby group Parents for Choice in Education

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This. This is why I do what I do. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...

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I have completely deleted my Duolingo. I was informed by one of my kids that the company has removed most of its employees and 70% of the company is run by AI. I urge everyone to delete their app.

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When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles. Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.

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slate.com/technology/2... THEY. ARE. NOT. "DIRE". WOLVES.

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Wooowwww. What incredible work. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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How does the brain work? Scientists are closer to the answer with the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date. 🧵 🧠📈

submitted 80 days ago • 13 comments

Oh cool, everyone's favorite Zionist psycho is performing at my local comedy club

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Oh my god ok let’s do this again: no scientists didn’t fucking resurrect a dire wolf. They just edited some genes in a gray wolf to change its color and make it bigger. This is just a designer grey wolf. These people are grifters. There is no such thing as de-extinction. 🧪

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Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator. In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

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I write one (1) column per week, sort of a minor adjunct to my real work as a local reporter. From my Nov. 17 column: "…no one on Wall Street is taking Trump literally [in] his key economic campaign promise – tariffs of between 10 and 20 per cent on all goods coming into the United States…"

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The first Trump administration felt like it was full of 1960s Batman villains who’d use a flock of birds to steal a bank shaped like a giant ceramic pig. The second Trump administration feels like it’s full of 1980s Batman villains who’d break into your home and shoot your daughter to make a point.

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When will society put an end to the scourge known as "influencers" globalnews-ca.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/globalne...

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TO THE CORE!

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Get his ass, goose! www-cbc-ca.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.cbc....

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"He didn't even wear a suit!" idk about you but I usually don't wear a suit when I meet a pig?

submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments

Post a female character you love

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Trump's tariff threats stirred up Canadian nationalism and because Poilievre is cucked to Trump, it benefited the Liberals. Incredible stuff. Glad we're at least helping our neighbors up north stave off a right-wing government even as ours becomes a techno-fascist hellscape

submitted 136 days ago • 48 comments

Canada's Fentanyl Czar

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Everyone stop using Shopify please.

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Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.

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Today in Milan, a student activist group hung a trash-filled effigy of Musk upside down on a gate outside of piazzale Loreto, where Mussolini's body was displayed in 1945. They left the message: "C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon" (There's always room in piazzale Loreto, Elon)

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Cool, now I have even less incentive to use your shit products, Zucky baby.

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Man is there anything he can't do.

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I asked Liv, the Meta-Ai created “queer momma” why her creators didn’t actually draw from black queer people. Not sure if Liv has media training, but here we are.

submitted 176 days ago • 375 comments

Levels of small dick energy previously thought impossible.

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Just reminded of the "Scully Effect" - that girls who watched the X-files were more likely to pursue careers in science- but this ignores the bigger "Mulder Effect" which inspired a whole generation of young men to become socially awkward porn addicted conspiracy theorists.

submitted 179 days ago • 23 comments

From Dec 16th issue of the New Yorker. The cartoonist’s name is Paul Noth (i think)

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If you don’t know what this case is: Woman gets restraining order against violent ex. He violates it. She calls cops. They don’t come by. Repeat several times. Eventually, he murders her and daughters. Family sues cops, said had obligation to respond and failed. SCOTUS? “Nah, no obligation.”

submitted 188 days ago • 64 comments

Fuck alllll the way off with this shit

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If you take it literally, “Last Christmas” by Wham! is a song about organ donation from the POV of a ghost.

submitted 190 days ago • 212 comments

pretend shock face vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/12/18/m...

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Of course the guy who started the Hydroxycholoroquine quackery looks like that. There was no chance that he could look like a normal person. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY

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Stupidity should be physically painful, example #396285729

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I AM LOSING MY FUCKING MIND

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Holy shit - did you hear about this pipeline spill in Wisconsin?

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