AxeDame
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Feral child inhabiting the rickety body of a GenX recluse 🇨🇦🎶 #Ottawa
"Before the ruling any challenges had been gentle, like ‘oh by the way this is the ladies’,” she was quoted as saying, “and people were embarrassed or apologetic when I said ‘it’s okay I’m a girl’, but now it’s aggressive and horrible.”
QueerAF@wearequeeraf.com · 16h agoThe EHRC's Code of Practice has been condemned as a "system of segregation", "impractical and inhumane", and even "genocidal in nature" It comes into force today
Lloyd Robertson has died. One of the absolute highlights of my professional life to date was during a live stream during pandemic where I got to say “Back to you, Lloyd” TO Lloyd. (picture from a book release around 2011)
Current results with 33% reporting: Abdul El-Sayed: 254,781 votes (49.7%) Haley Stevens: 239,395 votes (46.7%)
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 22h agoCurrent Results with 28% in: Abdul El-Sayed - 208,829 votes - 51.0% Haley Stevens - 185,539 votes - 45.4
#Breaking: Lloyd Robertson, one of Canada’s most recognizable news anchors, dies at 92
Longtime Canadian journalist Lloyd Robertson dies at 92: CTV News
Lloyd Robertson, former chief anchor at CTV, covered events from Royal Weddings to the 9/11 terrorist attacks during career in broadcast spanning over six decades.
thestar.com
You just (accurately) described the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, Pierre Poilievre.
Cliff Poole 🌹@cpoolenyc.bsky.social · 23h agoThis is like the people who flipped out about anyone trying to understand why Al Qaeda carried out the 9/11 attacks other than “They hate our freeedooom!!!!” You can try to understand why someone did something w/o condoning it. Anyone who claims not to understand that is a toddler, or full of shit.
And he's using a comparison between cis men and cis women to make an argument against trans women. One of the goals of these types of stunts is to get people to broadly accept the idea that cis men and trans women are the exact same. And you can't have a conversation that starts there.
Here we have a pup enjoying the fruits of his labor after a hard day's work. 13/10 good for him
I feel sympathy for this generation for many reasons, not the least of which is.... Where's 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 Alan Alda?
The older I get the more I understand why cats just walk away mid conversation.
Female elephants usually love the opportunity to nanny younger siblings and members of their herd. Naleku takes this to the next level: In late 2025, she left the dependent herd early, refusing to enter her bedroom to instead spend nights out in the wild caring for ex-orphans' calves.
Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…
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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterdayToday, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
In good news, we are holding our own 🇨🇦 www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/eco...
Statistics Canada reports merchandise trade surplus grew to $3.9B in June
Canada’s merchandise trade surplus increased to $3.9 billion in June as a weaker loonie pushed trade values higher, Statistics Canada said on Tuesday.
bnnbloomberg.ca
RFKJr claims Lyme disease was created by scientists,which is the closest he’s come to admitting that science exists. Meanwhile, Ötzi the Iceman, who died more than 5.3K years ago, had Lyme disease. Apparently prehistoric humans are part of the conspiracy. Get me off this timeline
It may not be surprising, but it's nevertheless sad to see a Canadian newspaper trumpet Washington's call to demolish the #ICC, and siding with impunity for Putin, Netanyahu, and the Taliban. This is now part of the right's firmament, along with anti-trans politics and Residential School denialism.
A story of cause and effect: Last November, Ontario banned cities from using speed safety cameras to issue tickets. Reckless speeding immediately surged in Toronto, Ottawa, Guelph, and cities throughout the province. A 🧵 about my latest in Bloomberg (gift link)
What Happens When Speed Cameras Get Shut Off
In 2025, Ontario banned automated traffic enforcement. Now the number of drivers exceeding the speed limit has surged, according to traffic data.
bloomberg.com
ICE Now Forcing Haitian Immigrants to Wear Ankle Monitors As the Trump administration strips legal status from hundreds of thousands of Haitians, ICE is targeting them like never before. ...
ICE Now Forcing Haitian Immigrants to Wear Ankle Monitors
As the Trump administration strips legal status from hundreds of thousands of Haitians, ICE is targeting them like never before.
newrepublic.com
"I saw a TikTok video of something called the Vancouver Island Healthcare Infusion... Watching those TikToks, I thought, Maybe I could live there." #nanaimo #canada #cdnpoli ✅ READ THE FULL ARTICLE: macleans.ca/society/kell...
Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives want to launch a witch hunt against Canada's public health heroes - just like MAGA is doing with Dr. Anthony Fauci. Poilievre offers nothing to Canadians except warmed over crap from the American extreme right.
Libraries bringing their A game to social media
Enter Kaikai's partner in crime, Bungalu! She's still learning how to share, but is adjusting admirably and adores her brother. Before he was rescued, Bungalu spent several lonely weeks trying to fend for himself, surviving a lion attack and storms. www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/orphans/bung...
In other words, going from a constitutional right (Roe) to a constitutional state by state decision (Dobbs) to a constitutional rule of no abortions. What is the DOJ/legal underpinning for that? There isn't one. Ladies & Gentlemen, your lawless soon-to-be AG. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
Blanche assures anti-abortion supporters that Dobbs will be ‘permanent in every single state’
The acting attorney general made the remarks during a private call with faith leaders.
politico.com
When Fred Trump was in the throes of dementia, they set up an office for him to go to every day, where they would have him sign blank sheets of paper, to replicate his business schedule (according to Mary Trump in her book). This really feels like that.
Canadians overwhelmingly demand wealth tax after Kevin O’Leary says it will make him move away
Canadians overwhelmingly demand wealth tax after Kevin O’Leary 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 res...
thebeaverton.com
The SCREEN Act is not just another age-verification bill — it goes much further than anything passed at the state-level or in other countries. 1. The bill doesn't just target porn sites. It goes after *any* site that allows material "harmful" to minors. You'd have to scan your face to use Google.
Bluesky's nuclear block supports a culture of consent. Each user can completely prevent another user from having any access to them on this site. Right wing harassers on X hate consent. They hate being told "no." They hate not being able to force their posts onto others and target others.
Can't think of a thing that will radicalize a generation faster than "you've gotta let that old man in the corner over there see what's inside those pants before you play Kindergarten volleyball."
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
