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• Post #4360671

  Canadians overwhelmingly demand wealth tax after Kevin O’Leary says it will make him move away https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/08/canadians-overwhelmingly-demand-wealth-tax-after-kevin-oleary-says-it-will-make-him-move-away/ > OTTAWA - Pollsters report a split among Canadians over the idea of higher tax on the assets of wealthy individuals, though support skyrockets after noting that Kevin O'Leary has vowed that he will respond to a wealth tax by moving far away. (Apparently I need t...

• Post #4348663

  Breadmaggedon A vignette from my short career as a bread factory worker, in which a co-worker accidentally destroyed a lot of bread. And a bad-tempered man was stunned into silence. http://ericlawton.org/2026/08/02/breadmaggedon/

• Post #4250477

  Europe is burning – and if Trump’s war on the climate is not met with sanctions, things will only get worse | Alexander Hurst | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/30/europe-burning-trump-war-climate-sanctions-white-house > The White House seems committed to ecocide. The EU should harness the power of the single market to force it to change course, says Guardian Europe writer Alexander Hurst #climate #StopOil #stopTrump

• Post #4249886

  98.98% opposition to Doug Ford’s new endangered species law revealed | The Narwhal https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-endangered-species-law-opposition/ > Internal Ministry of Environment analysis shows ‘confusion’ and concerns about ‘negative impacts on Ontario’s biodiversity’ raised over the Species Conservation Act, under Bill 5 > The Doug Ford government weakened Ontario’s species-at-risk law despite feedback from thousands of residents, conservation experts, municipal representatives, F...

• Post #4244352

  Claude, ChatGPT: AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books | news.com.au — "Once that information has been extracted and encoded into an AI model, the delivery mechanism has served its purpose." So the purpose of a book is to enrich Big Tech? 😡 Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”. I guess not. https://www.news.com.au/tech...

• Post #4140112

  Israeli crackdown in occupied West Bank intensifies, settlers cause mayhem "Crackdown"? Or state terrorism? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/26/israeli-crackdown-in-occupied-west-bank-intensifies-settlers-cause-mayhem?traffic_source=rss > The surge in violence comes after four Palestinians and two soldiers were killed in a gunfight on Friday.

• Post #4118110

  Instant access to Trump’s thoughts now costs $100,000 a month https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/07/instant-access-to-trumps-thoughts-now-costs-100000-a-month/ > Truth Social—where the president often moves markets—is offering faster access at a very high price. > Trump guarantees that he can post content elsewhere, provided he posts it on Truth Social six hours before he posts it anywhere else. #TrumpCrimes

• Post #4114499

  Israeli settlers set fire to mosques, cars and farm land in West Bank, Palestinians say There is something seriously wrong with "Western" governments supporting state-backed terrorism in our name. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjrv77gl4deo > The latest attacks come two days after a clash between settlers and Palestinians near the village of Tell, which left four Palestinians and two Israelis dead. #Palestine #stateTerrorism

• Post #4096373

  Holly is having a good think, in the dappled shade from the wild grape vine. She decided it was snack time and went in. #Caturday

• Post #4091643

  More than 250,000 people flee wildfires in France and Spain | Wildfires | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/25/wildfires-force-250000-people-to-evacuate-in-france-and-spain > Hundreds of firefighters battle blazes as strong winds drive fires towards Bordeaux and smoke prompts health warnings in Madrid Why are even "centrist" "Western" governments so pro-oil, anti-humanity that they pretend that there is no #climateEmergency ? #BigOil

• Post #4041350

  Linda McQuaig: Don’t be fooled, Big Oil is calling the shots, not Carney https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/dont-be-fooled-big-oil-is-calling-the-shots-not-carney/article_66e5bff8-0a55-43bc-ac51-163758734f00.html > Big Oil demands Ottawa help them squeeze every dollop of bitumen from the ground — no matter how wildly fires rage across the country and how Trumpishly orange the skies > Carney is going along with Big Oil’s plans, not because he fails to grasp the severity of the...

• Post #4018666

  We Shouldn’t Assign Attributes For Life Only immutable and permanently important facts about the event of your birth should be assigned and recorded on your birth certificate. That excludes race, sex and number of fingers. #sex #gender #bigotry http://ericlawton.org/2026/07/22/we-shouldnt-assign-attributes-for-life/

• Post #3939540

  “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action” ― Ian Fleming, Goldfinger Four times is a systemic issue — #SystemsThinking

• Post #3938368

  Why do I ridicule Trump, the rest of the Epstein class and their deluded followers? Because some wavering supporters are more likely to change if they think they're being made to look foolish than they are by reason.

• Post #3913908

  Trump, not Iran, is the world’s greatest danger. He’s a one-man weapon of mass destruction | Simon Tisdall | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/18/donald-trump-iran-world-danger-bombing-us > As the bombing starts again, it’s clear the president has dragged the US into a limitless fiasco – and the world into an economic quagmire, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

• Post #3832923

  Yesterday's clear blue sky has been exchanged for a dark brown-orange, smelly sky. On the other hand it's a little cooler than yesterday. #wildfire

• Post #3750821

  Mark Carney spent a year gathering political capital. Now he’s spending it — along with billions of taxpayers’ dollars They are NOT "taxpayers' dollars". Why do the media and others keep using this phrase. It belongs to the general public. Nobody claims that when corporations spend money that it's "customers' money". The phrase implies that it's been illegitimately taken from people, as if thieves spent their "victims' money". https://www.t...

• Post #3631751

  Detained Gaza doctor almost unrecognisable after injuries in Israeli jail, lawyer says | Gaza | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/06/detained-gaza-doctor-almost-unrecognisable-injuries-israeli-jail-hussam-abu-safiya > Hussam Abu Safiya faces ‘tangible danger to his life’ following 18 months in prison without charge or trial #Gaza #Palestine

• Post #3611158

  How can people get so angry at immigrants because they think they're "taking our jobs", but admire tech bros and their AI™s who openly admit they're taking our jobs? Against people who have different cultures but for machines with no culture at all. Against people who have different colours of skin but for machines with no skins at all. #racism

• Post #3608112

  ‘In stories like this, the data and the methodology are key’: when private equity meets public service journalism | Data journalism | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2026/jul/05/in-stories-like-this-the-data-and-the-methodology-are-key-when-private-equity-meets-public-service-journalism > A team from across the Guardian set out to investigate the full extent of private equity’s stake in Britain’s public and essential services. The scale and opacity posed many challenges...

• Post #3590161

  "Trump discloses 327 unreported stock trades made a day before his first tariff pause "The disclosure, more than 14 months after the purchases occurred, is the latest revelation to fuel calls for greater scrutiny of the president’s financial assets" The calls should be for impeachment. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/markets/trump-stock-trades-before-tariff-pause-rcna352723

• Post #3539091

  Banning transgender girls from school sports affects all children – why allowing strangers to scrutinize children’s bodies may put all girls at risk of harassment https://theconversation.com/banning-transgender-girls-from-school-sports-affects-all-children-why-allowing-strangers-to-scrutinize-childrens-bodies-may-put-all-girls-at-risk-of-harassment-285559 And it normalizes transphobia, putting all trans people at risk. And by normalising division and hate, it harms everyone's mental heal...

• Post #3515003

  Mark Carney calls carbon emissions targets a ‘not sustainable’ threat to national unity https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/mark-carney-abandons-trudeau-era-carbon-emissions-targets/article_89b35724-50db-4038-8702-0073af1016a6.html > downgrading the country’s climate-change ambitions is necessary for *global stability* Is this satire? How will wrecking the #climate, causing mass migration, heat, drought, hurricanes, sea-level rise, … promote “global stability”? #CDNPoli #CanPoli

• Post #3449688

  Canada’s citizenship study guide has glaring omissions. Critics say it sanitizes the past https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/canadas-citizenship-study-guide-has-glaring-omissions-critics-say-it-sanitizes-the-past/article_c59aabc2-6e2f-4958-85a1-bc68aafa52da.html > The official source before taking the citizenship test has come under fire for the way it deals with Indigenous Peoples. It expects new Canadians to adopt the same shameful attitudes to Indigenous people as those born here. Ap...

• Post #3436384

  Shawn Micallef: Doug Ford’s attacks on Toronto got you down? Try these seven local democracy hacks to feel less helpless https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/doug-fords-attacks-on-toronto-got-you-down-try-these-seven-local-democracy-hacks-to-feel-less-helpless/article_b238cdc0-3bd1-443c-a861-ba55db60f503.html > There effective ways to overcome the feeling of helplessness as a result of recent moves to take away local democracy in the province. But quickly before Ford transfers all...

• Post #3431071

  Paramedic and football coach among 13 men charged with abusing woman ‘drugged by husband’ | UK news | The Guardian How are we enabling the creation of groups of men like this? One “rotten apple” is bad enough, but male society barrels that rot them all is a systemic failure. We can't just arrest our way out of this. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/26/13-men-charged-alongside-stockport-rape-accused-identified > Co-defendants in case against Stockport man in his 60s can b...

• Post #3418997

  Hate “The Algorithm?” RSS Is One of the Tools You’ve Been Looking For https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/hate-algorithm-rss-one-tools-youve-been-looking > Since at least the moment Facebook introduced (and apologized for) its News Feed, “the algorithm” has been shorthand for the ways the tech giants control what we see and when we see it. In the age of enshittification, there is a push to reclaim our feeds and networks. Good news: there’s a tool that’s been around for decades that can he...

• Post #2480736

  There seem to be more trilliums every year.

• Post #2457432

  Ford government files motion for injunction to stop Al-Quds Day rally in Toronto https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/ford-government-files-motion-for-injunction-to-stop-al-quds-day-rally-in-toronto/article_a336afd4-f09c-4a2e-b372-66c09313ddbc.html > Al-Quds Day is an annual event to show support for Palestine. Critics have called it antisemitic. This motion is itself anti-Semitic. It seeks to equate being Jewish with support for the horrors being perpetrated in Palestine. A hateful lie.

• Post #2423534

  ‘Truly terrifying’: Alberta voter data breach raises fears for Canada’s electoral integrity | Canada | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/11/alberta-voter-data-breach-separatists-referendum > Debates over secession overshadowed by revelations separatist-linked group gained access to list of electors They're not "separatists", they want to join the USA. Bankrolled by the US. #CanPoli #democracy