NEW: Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit, AI-generated child sexual abuse material in recent months. Some as recently as this week. "These are ads that were reviewed, approved, and allowed to run by Meta, never encountering interference while the company collected the ad dollars."

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

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What if living authentically wasn't hard, but joyful? 🌈 That's the spirit behind 'Rainbow Wisdom', @mischa-oak.bsky.social’s new book of 18 life lessons from the LGBTQ+ experience. Don't miss this inspiring author talk + live Q&A and book signing. cc. @genderqueeries.ca @xtramagazine.com

Nothing is too low for the right wing.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 12h ago

A trans couple has been brutalized by a mob, and then the trans woman ended up being arrested afterwards, at a public bathroom in Louisiana. EITM writer S Baum investigates this horrible act of violence in our latest piece. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-coup...

Unwanted attention making you uncomfortable at work? #SHARPWorkplaces can help. We offer FREE confidential legal advice to anyone experiencing workplace #sexualharassment in BC. Call 604-673-3143 or learn more: https://ow.ly/Jv8W50WTnwg #BeInformedBeSHARP

I find it strange how Canadian news orgs devote so much attention to vandalized pride flags, really just pieces of cloth, yet become silent on the harm being done to people such as in Alberta with its anti-trans laws. Maybe they ignore it for the same reason good news stories get fewer clicks.

"Cuddly-honest" Andy Burnham & extremist transphobe Bridget Philippson think that, like most political decisions, their imposition of trans-segregation will quickly be forgotten. It will not. Margaret Thatcher proposed similar discrimination 40 years ago. Oppressive acts live long in memories.

The Court found that British Columbia is the only province that does not require an assessment of a person's capacity to make treatment decisions before authorizing involuntary psychiatric treatment, and that this approach is unconstitutional.

Last week’s decision marked a significant milestone for our client, the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD), whose decade-long challenge has resulted in an important advancement for the rights of people involuntarily detained under BC's Mental Health Act.

And yes, I also got the Blahaj sticker 😌

A new study out of Canada looked at four youth gender clinics. Out of 445 patients only four who started gender affirming hormone therapy ceased taking it, and only one did so due to a re-identification with their birth sex. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

A New Study from Canada Again Finds Less Than 1 Percent of Trans Youth Detransition - Assigned Media

Out of 445 patients across four gender clinics only one who started hormone therapy stopped due to a change in gender identity.

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"The majority (97.1%) of adolescents continued to identify with a gender not typically aligned with their birth sex. Only 2.9% reverted...None who initially identified as non-binary returned to binary gender aligned with birth sex. Discontinuation of gender-affirming hormones was rare."

Stability of Transgender Identity in Adolescents Seen in Multidisciplinary Specialized Gender Centers: A Multicenter Study in Canada

To determine the proportions of adolescents continuing with their gender identity after referral to specialized gender clinics, the proportion continuing with gender-affirming hormones, and the propor...

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Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership:

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · last wk.

The Missouri Attorney General is threatening librarians with arrest over an LGBTQ+ story hour for kids, suggesting that a picture book about gay dinosaur dads is "pornography." The Secretary of State says he'll pull funding if the event happens, citing the state's new age verification law.

Tim Hortons had the choice to not promote the work of an author actively funding anti-trans lawsuits and destroying organizations as prominent as Amnesty International. It did so anyway. celeste.lgbt/en/2026/08/t...

Tim Hortons and the organized anti-trans movement • Celeste Trianon

Tim Hortons announced, out of nowhere, a Harry Potter collaboration. Not a single word on the harm caused by its author to trans people.

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Today is Emancipation Day in Vancouver which marks the 1834 enactment of the Slavery Abolition Act across the British Empire

Our interview with Parm @duskpro.bsky.social about "We Came from the Closet" a queer, drag wrestling event happening tonight. Tickets at the door (cash only) or buy online and save 20% off with code PRIDE20 www.tickettailor.com/events/duskp... drive.google.com/open?id=17ix...

Buy tickets – We Came from the Closet - Inclusive Pro Wrestling & Drag – Container Brewing

We Came from the Closet - Inclusive Pro Wrestling & Drag – Container Brewing, Fri 31 Jul 2026 - The safe space for violence - PrideStyle returns to Vancouver! Collaborating with DUSK Pro Wrestling &am...

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Our interview from last night with Dean Paul Gibson, Associate Artistic Director of Bard in the Park about BARD PRIDE NIGHT tonight at 6pm. Tickets at bardonthebeach.org/news/2026/ba... drive.google.com/open?id=1VNG...

Bard Pride Night returns on Friday, July 31st at 6PM | Bard on the Beach

Bard on the Beach Celebrates Pride With an Evening of Theatre, Community and a Queer Artisan Market IN BRIEF: Bard on the Beach celebrates Pride with its annual celebration, Bard Pride Night, on Frida...

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In the past he’s aligned himself with fairly extreme candidates, then leave after finding them too extreme. I think we might see Angelo pop up in the federal Conservative sphere in the future.

Interesting. I’ve tracked Angelo’s career ever since coming across him rocking a red MAGA hat in 2017. My profile of him from 2024: thetyee.ca/News/2024/12...

From MAGA Kid to Canadian Right-Wing Power Player | The Tyee

Angelo Isidorou runs BC’s Conservatives. His approach to politics is shaped by a controversial past.

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Simon Little 🍁@simonplittle.ca · 6d ago

B.C. Conservative Party campaign manager, executive director steps down www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.

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Angelo Isidorou is out as executive director of B.C. Conservatives as shakeup continues

Angelo Isidorou is out as executive director of B.C. Conservatives as shakeup continues

Angelo Isidorou is out as executive director of the BC Conservatives, as a shakeup in the provincial opposition ranks continues.

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my layoff has brought joy to so many very normal guys

Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 6d ago

Received this bizarre email out of the blue yesterday from National Post columnist Adam Zivo gloating over my former colleague's layoff notice I'd like to thank Postmedia for looking into it and issuing this statement clarifying Zivo is expected to uphold professional standards for employee conduct

A major victory for the rights of involuntary patients in BC. The BC Supreme Court has ruled that involuntary patients cannot be stripped of all consent rights the moment they pass through the hospital door. Read more: clasbc.net/our-work/cases/deemed-consent-law-under-the-mental-health-act/

Bigots vandalized and tore down 100 Mile Pride's sign www.gofundme.com/f/fund-2slgb... Facebook comments are what you expect, but it remains the best platform for identifying threats in your community and gathering information for reprisals. www.facebook.com/100milepride...

Donate to Fund 2SLGBTQIA visibility projects in 100 Mile House, organized by Tay Frost

My name is Tay and I'm the chairperson of the 100 Mile Pride Society. O… Tay Frost needs your support for Fund 2SLGBTQIA visibility projects in 100 Mile House

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Angry all caps in the subject #JustVancouverThings

Parents of trans youth in Alberta, alongside advocacy groups, are calling for a federal government inquiry into the province's harmful trampling on the rights of trans youth. Because Carney has been all smiles alongside Alberta Premier Danielle Smith lately -- and silent on her deadly policies:

Transphobic posters are up around downtown Vancouver (court hearing today and tomorrow for the Amy Hamm appeal) Document the signs - if they're on "naked" poles without a "poster cylinder" or any other city property put in a complaint with the city by calling 311 or van311.ca/services

Baggage as in a train car full...

Vancouver Is Awesome@viawesome.bsky.social · last wk.

Rob Shaw: BC Conservatives' new hire comes with baggage from Alberta

Wow. One tenant sued this landlord, won and after repeated non payment and eventually, a garnishing order requiring the LL's new tenant to pay the court instead of the landlord. New tenant complied with the garnishing order and LL moved to evict them for non payment, RTB GRANTED IT!

CTV News Vancouver@ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social · last wk.

Landlord tried to evict tenants for following B.C. court order regarding rent payments