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• Post #4403741

  That fuckery that's happening to Fauci right now... Yeah. That's literally fascism

• Post #4280731

  The Web is so broken now. There's a very specific board game I'm interested in so tried to search. First non FB hit was taobao, a store I don't care to order from. So clicked down a few links. Could not get past security verification on one site, then needed an account to even view the product on another. It's like the Internet doesn't actually exist anymore.

• Post #4249993

  Saw a superyacht and wishing orcas came to the great lakes.

• Post #4166901

  RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/116997262133211532 Holy Shit. This is next level. Not even pretending anymore.

• Post #4017191

  USA doesn't ban guns because guns don't kill people. People kill people. They won't ban AI because AI doesn't do bad things, people do bad things. Oh... it did a bad thing on its own. Uh.... It's "unprecedented" Um... Hm... We still can't ban it because uh....

• Post #4014633

  The rich people's problems are OUR problems messaging is so subtle and insidious that it's easy to miss. New (to me) computer and I have yet to turn off all the crap I don't want on it. I have a little ticker on the bottom that's a graph and a curving upward arrow. I hovered over it and it was telling me that the TSX (Toronto Stock Exchange) is up .88% like this is important news that effects me the same way the weather does (the icon has now changed to a cloud with the tempera...

• Post #3999420

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@KristopherWells/116955954653490033 I remember this well. Over Boxing Day dinner my brother and I argued about this. My mom had some church friends over. I got a scolding from one of the church bigots. I stormed out the front door of my own house while my mom hosted her shallow church friends. The next year I told my mom she could choose to have her big Christmas holiday church friend gatherings or have me home for Christmas. It would not be both. That bigots di...

• Post #3993125

  I am optimistically including "Ethics" as part of proposal writing criteria. I know I am lying through my teeth telling students that ethics in business matter. But still. I will lie.

• Post #3987855

  There are some paths of logic I will never understand. Some grandkids of my parents' friends are making up for lost time and now learning to swim. It never happened before as the now ex wife was scared of the kids drowning. She's out of picture now so the dad is getting them swimming lessons. I don't get it. I'm worried about kids drowning so I will make sure they don't have basic water survival skills. 🤔🤔

• Post #3964246

  Masto friends, Looking for some help. If you've come across any particularly good or annoying sales pitches in your inboxes, can you screen shot and send it my way? It's for a communications course I am teaching and writing a pitch one of the elements. I figure we can analyze some real world examples. Thanks!

• Post #3866722

  These are Ford Fires. Our politicians own this. They play politics with fire fighting budgets, climate change science, and lives. Heads need to roll and I no longer care if this expression is figurative. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/namaygoosisagagun-first-nation-wildfire-9.7272350

• Post #3863122

  People of Ontario, please start referring to these wildfres as "Ford Fires". He cut over $184 million from the wildfire funding because climate change is his love.

• Post #3860277

  RE: https://masto.ai/@Miro_Collas/116928105738810900 What the Americans are doing is a crime against humanity. If our courts won't judge them, history will. May whatever God they believe in judge their hypocrisy harshly.

• Post #3841086

  RE: https://halo.nu/@theguardian_world_news/116924883915195900 We're number one! We're number one! Oh... and a pipeline will clearly make this all better.

• Post #3839926

  The Air Quality Index (AQI) in Toronto through the roof right now. Outdoor activities are being cancelled, and people are crawling indoors. People with respiratory ailments are suffering. Canada's Prime Minister thinks another pipeline is going to fix our AQI. You gotta have pretty low IQ for that. I honestly hope there's a lawyer prepping a class action lawsuit against the oil men somewhere for this.

• Post #3835891

  Air in Toronto is so bad everyone not trading on Bay Street is calling it an apocalypse. Bay Street is licking their chops calling it sweet, sweet profits.

• Post #3751442

  Canada, you know, the country that pretends it's committed to environmental stewardship is building a pipeline after thousands of heat deaths in rich Europe, let alone poor anywhere else.

• Post #3647304

  I just got an email from a university titled "How AI enhances human connection" and I'm basically going check out for the day. It's not even 7am.

• Post #3637635

  Stop calling this Fifa thing a "controversy". There's nothing controversial about it. It's corruption. It's political interference. It's the dissolution of any sense of sport integrity. Just like the dissolution of any sense of legal justice, or free markets, or social responsibility. He is as comfortable dismantling international bodies as he is American ones. It's just showing us that assholes enabling this aren't restricted to rich or uneducated Ameri...

• Post #3590998

  RE: https://todon.eu/@regendans/116863321148738723 I have a story about solar panels, science communication, and educating the public and why it's so important to show and not just tell. A Cuban friend's remaining family in Cuba is facing difficulties like the rest of the country. Her parents, like everyone else is dealing with black outs and wanted to buy independent electricity generation. She told her parents to get solar panels (they could) but they insisted on gas generators as t...

• Post #3589214

  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@deirdresm/116863153016839154 I want to see some YouTubers go around asking these guys what they are celebrating. When they say "Independence Day" ask "independence from what?" And watch what happens.

• Post #3564152

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@miki_lou/116856829107358489 Privatize profits, socialize costs. It's 90% public ownership because not even the capitalists think it'll be profitable

• Post #3467397

  People in Europe, please don't let your politicians gaslight you like American politicians do to them. After every school shooting is never the time to talk about gun control. Making it political is somehow "disrespectful" to the innocent children shot by mad men who got easy access to deadly weapons. Now is the time to make every heat death political. Make every death count. Scream to the rafters. Hold public funerals for victims of heat deaths. Name the perpetrators. Don'...

• Post #3413500

  I simply refuse to drink bottled water anywhere there is safe water out of taps. To do it during a heat wave like Europe is experiencing is just an exercise in cognitive dissonance. The amount of carbon that goes into bottling and shipping that water is beyond the pale and people are dying from heat. I know. It's easy not to make the connections. We like to talk about flying, driving, but things like eating excess amounts of meat and buying clothes you don't need are also large CO2 c...

• Post #3413201

  RE: https://floss.social/@delawen/116815719515071190 I keep telling myself that as rich countries become unlivable, "we" will finally act on climate change. We are literally losing habitable land and still talking about deep sea mining and letting AI datacenters take our water to give people advice on sniffing glue.

• Post #3400717

  I don't understand why Tiramisu isn't considered the ideal breakfast. It has caffeine, sugar, and fat to give you energy for the day and a touch of booze to numb how stupid reality really is right now.

• Post #3384967

  RE: https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/116801448766997921 At this point everyone needs to identify as antifa loudly and proudly. Make it clear it's a meaningless label and be proud not to be a fascist

• Post #3382895

  There was a time when we kept saying climate change is so far in the future we should not risk the economy for an unknown thing that screws the children, not us. Ok, now that the decision makers are the adults in the room who are seeing their labour force not be able to labour from the heat, why are we still doing nothing? Are we really going to let the elite kill us all? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0ryvlxpg7rt

• Post #3381121

  I've spent more time thinking about this than I should admit and I'm concluding that there are more wheels. A large office building will have a lot of doors but think about the number of things like office chairs and carts with wheels. Even my massage therapist has a heat thing and a light thing on 5 wheels each. Just walked past an event space that has a whole lot of these boards with castors nailed to the bottom to move things. Then walked past a sea of bikes parked outside. Cars...

• Post #3376228

  I need to tell the fediverse that @fuzzyleapfrog@chaos.social and I just met up IRL. My second fedi meetup of an actual human.