Here is @aoc.bsky.social thankfully telling everyone exactly what to do to stop a concentration camp from being built where you live.
Please take it to heart and take action.
Brain train game may help protect against dementia for up to 20 years www.nbcnews.com/health/aging...
Adults who played a specific type of cognitive speed training were found to have a dramatically lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s, new research finds.
Imagine if every Canadian had $500K of common wealth invested in the upside of global economic prosperity, like every Norwegian enjoys.
We are a nation of vast resources.
www.cnbc.com/2026/01/29/n...
Screenshot of a Wall Street Journal opinion article titled “A Guaranteed Income Won’t Stop People From Wanting to Work,” by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo. A subheading says evidence from programs around the world suggests basic income does not make recipients lazier. Below the headline is a photo of several women sitting outdoors at a table working.
"Not only don't people work less when they are guaranteed an income, they might actually put in more effort at work. And the fact that they have more money to spend leads to the creation of more jobs."
Nobel Prize–winning economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Actually it would be unusual for things to not be dark, chaotic, and terrifying as the machinations of a system based on a worldview that doesn't fit how the actual world works comes to its logical conclusion and as that systems experiences an age of consequences.
2025 was mostly garbage, but there were some good moments.
One of my favorites was when a family of beavers built a dam in just a few days, saving the Czech Republic 30 million Czech koruna (US$1.2 million) for a wetland restoration project the government had been planning for 7 years. 🦫 🌿
Imagine if, say, a single rock song, or a comic book, or a role playing game, or a video game, or horror movie, a chocolate bar, a toy, or, say, a person like a librarian or teacher, had an actual direct causal body count like this.... Imagine the furore, the witch hunt in the press, the outrage...
Made a new playlist
Friendly reminder that I take #artcommissions and that I have a Ko-fi. Feel free to message me to talk prices before you even think about throwing money at me
ko-fi.com/fishwithakni...
Price sheet for sketches, ranging from fairly rough with support lines, to fully colored. Each stage depicts a waist-up drawing of the same avian humanoid that resembles a cross between a hawk and a crow wearing a sleeveless robe or tunic. The fully colored version has feathers similar to that of a black-eared kite, which are a rusty brown with white feathers mixed in around the head and face. The tunic is a powder blue with a dark blue obi without a visible knot. Stage one is listed as "Rough $10 USD". Stage two is somewhat more refined but still has rough lines and is listed as "Cleaned $15 USD". Stage three has more clean bold lines with clear details and is listed "Refined $30 USD". Stage 4 is the fully colored version with shading and colored details, listed as "Full Color $$50 USD".
Slapping down some #art commissions and hoping for the best here. See me on Ko-fi or just send me a message here so we can talk about it~ ko-fi.com/fishwithakni...
Prime Minister Carney’s 1st 100 days, a must-watch video by the Breach. It is 6 minutes so I can’t post the whole thing, #cdnpoli
🔗: vm.tiktok.com/ZMS98KQHm/
Note to freelancers: I'm open to pitches for @nationalobserver.com! We pay pretty well, and we're flexible with timelines for assigned stories. I don't need a long pitch — think 2 paragraphs — but please give an idea of what your story is.
Some recently published freelance pieces:
A map of northern north america overlaid with the Environment Canada weather warnings for June 6 at 2:30pm MDT. There's a patch of southwestern BC from Vancouver Island to the Okanagan interior coloured grey. A huge stretch of the provinces is coloured red through northern BC, northern Alberta, Northern Saskatchewan, Northern and central-eastern Manitoba, Western Ontario, and north-central Quebec with serious air quality warnings. Parts of northern BC, northern Alberta, northern Ontario, southern Ontario including Toronto and Ottawa, southern Quebec including Montreal, and the Atlantic Provinces (New Brunswick and Labrador in particular) are coloured grey with air quality warnings. A small patch of Nova Scotia in the south-east of Canada on the Atlantic ocean is coloured yellow with a severe thunderstorm watch. All these air quality warnings are due to wildfire smoke.
So... every single weather warning on this map except the grey in the southwest corner of BC (early season +30C heat) and the yellow in Nova Scotia in the south east on the map (severe storm watch) is about wildfire smoke.
#CdnPoli #CdnWx #Wildfire
A UBC student has raised $3,000 to make a billboard that says “Abortion is safe, normal and common” to counter the anti-abortion billboard messaging that peppers the Okanagan region.
But she’s stumped on where to post her message. @michellegamage.bsky.social reports. 🪧
While RFK Jr. is fighting against fluoride in drinking water, the city of Calgary in Canada already made that mistake and is bringing it back this month. Back in 2011, Calgary voted to remove flouride, but childhood cavities rose and 10 years later in 2021, 62% of voters asked to bring it back.
Hard to think of a clear depiction of climate politics in Canada than provincial premiers calling for more pipelines and deregulation of oil and gas development as climate-amplified wildfires rage in their own provinces. #cdnpoli
Premiers united in belief that the best way to stand up to Trump is doing what they’ve always wanted to do anyways
“First Ministers recognized the devastating impact the toxic illegal drug supply is having on Canadian communities…”
Continues on to a law & order response, no mention of the social supports needed to solve this crisis.
“First Ministers agreed that Canada must work urgently to get Canadian natural resources and commodities to domestic and international markets, such as critical minerals and decarbonized Canadian oil and gas by pipelines…”
Decarbonized oil and gas? What the…
First Ministers’ statement on building a strong Canadian economy and advancing major projects
Here's the moment MPP Sol Mamakwa for Kiiwetinoong was removed from the legislature. He was removed for saying the Premier is telling "untruths" about First Nations and Bill 5. "That is the truth,” he replied when he was asked to withdraw his comments.
Bill 5 must be scrapped.
#onpoli #bill5
If tougher prison sentences and more cops reduced violent crime, then U.S. cities would be the safest in the world — they are not.
#cdnpoli #canada
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Canada achieved #measles elimination status in 1998. Now, it could lose it. Canada has more measles cases right now than any other country in the Americas, by Alison Northcott www.cbc.ca/news/health/....
“People do drugs, especially young people. The least we can do is equip them with harm-reduction tools.
Because if there is a chilling lesson to retain from Sidney’s tragic story, it’s this: it could just as easily have been your kid in that dorm room.”
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
B.C. has launched a special committee on electoral reform.
Twenty years ago, the BC Citizens’ Assembly made a bold recommendation. Antony Hodgson explains. #bcpoli
Young men hard to reach about impaired driving risk, MADD says after deadly Toronto crash. Man, 19, faces a dozen charges after deadly crash on Highway 401 kills siblings aged 15, 13 and 6, by Sara Jabakhanji www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... via @cbcnews.ca ##alcohol #DUI
Until MSM talks about the International Democracy Union & their membership, past & present, democracies around the globe will continue to be threatened by far-right fascism
They fact that only small, independent outlets even admit they're real is troubling
#cdnpoli
#USpoli
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta says it was unaware, until informed by The Tyee, that Dr. Roger Hodkinson continued to publicly make statements that were “inconsistent with accepted public health medicine guidelines.”
@charlesrusnell.bsky.social reports. #abpoli
Léger Alberta poll: "Indicate how much you support or oppose the following proposals: Alberta becoming a U.S. state."
🔴80% Oppose
🟢17% Support
[Léger, May 9-12, 2025, n=1,000] ↓ www.338canada.ca/p/leger-two-...
