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I know we talk about this constantly but it is truly one of the greatest mindfucks of my lifetime. as an 80s kid a Nazi was the most unambiguously, nonnegotiably evil thing you could even be ADJACENT TO, like morality for kindergarteners, and now we have to relitigate that shit every day???? ffs

submitted 7 days ago • 53 comments

A friend from the VA just sent this and asked me to share. PMDB is Prevention and Management of Disruptive Behavior in the workplace. THIS is the real war against women: being forced to say there are only 2 genders but not being allowed to mention 96% of violence is perpetrated by men.

submitted 10 days ago • 1224 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 11 days ago • 2289 comments

Mr Rogers and Sesame Street taught me love, kindness, compassion, and empathy. Star Trek taught me to dream of and aspire to help create a better and more diverse world. Star Wars and Tolkien taught me to fight for freedom, even in the face of overwhelming odds and great evil.

submitted 18 days ago • 150 comments

Don’t just say DEI as if it’s a bad word. Spell it out. Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation. Say equity, which a just society should pursue. Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.

submitted 19 days ago • 912 comments

Silicon Valley be all like "You didn't want to buy our monkey jpgs and conduct meetings with VR headsets, I guess we have no choice but to start WW3"

submitted 20 days ago • 99 comments

“A new analysis by independent automotive blog FuelArc suggests that fire fatalities are 17 times more likely in a Cybertruck than in the infamous Ford Pinto — the posterchild deadly cars if ever there was one.”

submitted 20 days ago • 646 comments

A non-government business that contracts with the federal government received notice today that in order to do business with the government they must certify that they don’t participate in DEI. So it’s not just the feds, it’s any private biz that contracts with the feds. Here’s the message they got:

submitted 21 days ago • 1691 comments

I’m rereading CBC coverage of the AHS board firing in light of the Globe’s bombshell story. “3 members of the 7-person board were current deputy ministers within gov’t (including Tremblay) and a fourth was Lyle Oberg, a former Tory cabinet minister with political ties to Premier Smith.” 1/2

submitted 22 days ago • 5 comments

Single Canadian guy actually smuggling fentanyl to US really flattered by task force

submitted 25 days ago • 35 comments

Starting trade wars to make it easier to take over the government was literally the plot to the Star Wars prequels.

submitted 27 days ago • 197 comments

Perfectly captured.

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submitted 27 days ago • 307 comments

MFer I grew up before NAFTA. I didn't have an avocado until I was 15 years old. I ate lunch in a Zellers cafeteria. I thought Robin Hood was just a guy who made flour. I was made for this moment.

submitted 27 days ago • 106 comments

🧵In Quebec, we’ve seen the privatization of schools, hospitals and now homelessness? My colleague Neha travelled to Gatineau to see it for herself: a condo developer building tiny housing units for the unhoused. It’s a complicated and sort of scary story. therover.ca/is-a-gatinea...

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

Kiah was set to join our faculty at Howard Law School in the Fall. She was a dedicated, brilliant civil rights lawyer poised to make a powerful difference in our world. Our hearts are broken & we pray for her family & friends. www.kwch.com/2025/01/30/c...

submitted 29 days ago • 2232 comments

we never should’ve given power to the nerds. the jocks shouldn’t have it either. we must usher in the age of the goths

submitted 34 days ago • 275 comments

💯🔥✨

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

With literally minutes left in his presidency, Joe Biden has granted clemency to Leonard Peltier

submitted 39 days ago • 382 comments

this confirms something i have long suspected, which is that certain people are told that their professional and academic failures are because of “affirmative action” or “DEI” as a way to avoid difficult conversations about their mediocrity www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

submitted 43 days ago • 1157 comments

lifelong runner, but never measured - until last year. 🤞🏽✨

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

you know who you are

submitted 46 days ago • 9 comments

after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

submitted 49 days ago • 332 comments

I mean…

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The comic that got us demonetised on Facebook back in August. (We’re no longer on Facebook).

submitted 51 days ago • 37 comments

I’m working on updates the Capitol Riot Map—an interactive visualization of the more than 1,500 individuals connected to January 6th. I’ve spent more than 3-years and devoted hundreds of hours to this project, and there’s still more work to be done. Details on how to support this project below👇🏼

submitted 57 days ago • 536 comments

Waxed Poeltl might just be his ultimate form? Dude was shiny in the Raps win✨

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

COVID-19 turns five today. It brought us to our knees, but H5N1 could knock us flat. 🦠 Crawford Kilian writes.

submitted 59 days ago • 12 comments

Turning half the planet into data centers just to reinvent the concept of imaginary friends

submitted 63 days ago • 38 comments

2 concerns: 1) Feels like a slippery slope to implementing "AI triage" in other areas of medicine with potentially disastrous results - in ER we have a motto: "the patient decides what's an emergency" 2) Reducing direct patient contact points with their family doctor could have hidden consequences

submitted 69 days ago • 2 comments

Periodic godzilla embroidery update

submitted 72 days ago • 171 comments

All these tech companies out here talking about future tech when they can't even make their existing tech work right. 🤡😆

submitted 73 days ago • 30 comments

Dying to win: Canadian provinces are expanding legal gambling despite ‘one death every nine days.’ Michener-funded investigation into gambling-related suicide data shows tracking of deaths lags, while governments ignore risks to chase industry profits. ricochet.media/justice/dyin... #cdnpoli

submitted 73 days ago • 2 comments

I want this on t-shirt or throw pillow.

submitted 75 days ago • 108 comments

A lot of people assume the higher up you get in your game dev career, the more cool ideas you get to contribute to a project. In actuality, the higher up you get, the more your job becomes about inventing types of diplomacy that could not even be dreamt of by mortal men

submitted 75 days ago • 42 comments

An algorithm was supposed to fix Canada’s food safety system. Instead, it missed a deadly listeria outbreak www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... @grant-robertson.bsky.social Get weekly updates: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment