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Sign, sign, everywhere a sign: Niagara Region hikers to learn more about trails' Indigenous history | CBC News

Trail signs popping up along major paths in Ontario's Niagara Region will connect people to an interactive map detailing the Indigenous history of the site and route, in a project launching in Novembe...

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Happy #FathersDay to all the dads and paternal figures celebrating. Including our own staff like Head Keeper Edwin. He has two families, his elephant orphan family and his human one. He says: “My kids ask me so many questions about my job, and they’re proud of what I do.”

How about using some of the millions of advertising dollars Ford has spent to promote his reckless government to instead promote the ROM?

Diana Chan McNally@dianachanmcnally.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our natural and cultural heritage — whether it's the waterfront, or irreplaceable cultural artifacts — are not for sale. But Premier Ford, for all of his masquerading as "Captain Canada," treats everything that makes Toronto and Ontario distinct and beautiful as an asset to sell. It's revolting.

Bill C-16, which includes my recommended amendment to the criminal harassment law, has passed. We fucking did it 🎉 I am downright stunned that I survived 10 years of being stalked & lived long to see this through. Life is one helluva trip!

Julie S. Lalonde@julieslalonde.bsky.social · 2y ago

Last week, I testified to the Parliamentary Committee on the Status of Women which is currently looking at femicide and gender-based violence. I was asked to summarize in 30 secs or less what my main recommendation was as the ED of @antistalkingcanada.bsky.social Here's my answer ⬇️

Maybe all Indigenous communities should have running water before data centers get a drop.

I can’t get enough of this cat!

Peter Coffinman@petercoffman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

There are so many reasons why I love cats. Their tendency toward this kind of mischief is definitely one of them. 😻 www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

Hazelnuts. The only food I don’t like. I mean, I’ll still eat chocolate with hazelnuts in it, but only if there’s no other chocolate. And I’ll be slightly sad.

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What’s the most widely enjoyed food that you can’t stand, not because of allergies or anything but just because you hate it?

If you’ve shared a “libraries are the only data centers we need” post in the last month and haven’t visited your local library or used its resources, get on it.

Soon there will be peonies.

Today is the feast day of St Melangell the patron saint of hares. She fled from Ireland to Wales where she founded a community of women. Remembered for saving a hare from a pack of ferocious dogs

You can become disabled in an instant. People think those of us who are sick did “something” to deserve it. We didn’t. The just world fallacy is a lie. It just takes one illness, accident or stroke of bad luck to forever change your life. Disability is not a moral failing.

Today, hundreds of people went to the streets in over 40 cities (!!!) in Germany to demand better support for Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) patients. One of the reasons I chose Germany as my new home. Very proud of you my German friends. #LiegendDemo #MECFS

Stefan Hemler@stefanhemler.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Mehrere hundert Menschen heute in #München bei der #LiegendDemo, deren Trauergang jetzt gerade vom Sendlinger Tor zum Stachus zieht, um bessere medizinische Versorgung für #MECFS-Patient:innen und mehr Geld für die Erforschung der myalgischen Enzephalomyelitis zu fordern. #MECFSAwarenessDays

Local man tells post-secondary students money doesn't grow on trees and then picks private jet from private jet tree.

It's Jan de Heem's birthday but his son Cornelis de Heem was also an excellent painter! Here are some flowers from him.

Rainy day reading ready for tomorrow.

What am I going to do with myself now that Integrity has returned?

I'm moonscrolling

I can’t get enough of these photos. They are absolutely stunning.

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 7mo ago

Oh this is great: there’s now an #Artemis II Lunar Flyby Gallery on the NASA images site: www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna... (thx @dpmanchee.bsky.social for pointing it out)

Not much road left after the winter!

Every part of the lily plant is deadly to cats - even drinking water that lilies were sitting in can kill them. Other popular spring flowers like tulips and daffodils can also make them very sick, but there are plenty of beautiful and safe alternatives.

Cats of Yore@catsofyore.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This weekend and always, NO LILIES FOR KITTIES. www.fda.gov/animal-veter...

I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.

Photography Ethics Symposium, Queens University Belfast, June 3-4 2026 Program and registration here; docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

It works. I feel better.

Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 7mo ago

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly (@ wildheartrescue on TT)

Join our next online seminar on 26 March 2026, 5:30pm (GMT/UTC). Sarah Parsons will speak on photographic histories of privacy and exposure in the 19th century. Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures & Heritage @phrc-dmu.bsky.social Free registration: shorturl.at/kU2xK. All welcome!

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Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage Sarah Parsons York University, Toronto, Canada Feeling Exposed: Early Photography and Privacy in the United States Booking is free Where: Onl…

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This doesn't have to keep happening. It is possible to craft worlds where women and children are safe, rather than objects to be either dominated or protected from the domination of others. It is possible to create a world where people can just be safe in their bodies.

Angus Johnston@angus.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The Cesar Chavez story discussed yesterday is out, in the New York Times. Two women say that he sexually assaulted them as children, beginning when they were 12 and 13. And Dolores Huerta says he raped her in 1966.

It really is.

There are just no words. More power to her. May she find peace as she continues to do her amazing work.

L.A. TACO@lataco.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Civil Rights icon, @doloreshuerta, made a brave move today, revealing a secret she had been holding for 60 years for the sake of the Farm Workers movement. You can read her letter here: medium.com/@dolores_hue...

I’m not surprised but it is exhausting to see the constant dehumanizations of women and girls.

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 7mo ago

When you think you're a liberator of your people and you're also sexually abusing women and girls from among those people you're demonstrating that you have trouble recognizing them as people. (And that is way too common.)

“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.” Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. Now, they're fighting back.

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back

Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

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This is an interesting question. Why do progressives seem to not care?

loscharlos @loscharlos.bsky.social · 7mo ago

For #LongCovidAwarenessDay — I know so many of us would love to see progressives start to be consistent in their progressive values: “Governments modelling abandonment.. in time of crisis signal support to fascist, eugenicist & Nazi logic.. pandemics can give rise to fascist political economies”