“He was willing to say exactly the sort of thing that the powerful and privileged enjoy hearing. He maintained columns in The Sun, The Spectator, and The Sunday Times precisely because he was a voice for the party line - the party of Murdoch that never needs to seek re-election.”

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · yesterday

NEW | A corrective to the gushing tributes… LIDDLE TO BE CELEBRATED An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...

I can’t be the only BCer who prefers Save-On- Foods’ / Western Family’s Kickin’ Back Diet Cola to Diet Coke?

Elizabeth Picciuto@epicciuto.bsky.social · 2d ago

What is your favorite example of when the cheap version of a product is legit better than the expensive one?

and the voters of NYC chose Mamdani to, in some significant way, spend their tax money for them, and that is *fucking table stakes for representative democracy*, what the fuck ass kind of Tea Party bullshit are we dealing with here. Fuck off with it.

It’s important to understand that when 1.2 million Americans are dying from a disease, any government action is excessive and tyrannical, but if a dozen trans women want to play soccer no government action can go far enough

Was it just me (and my pregnant wife, and my toddler) or were those the smokiest Vancouver fireworks ever? It was in our eyes and noses and mouths. We had to leave. We also had to run our air purifiers all night (our apartment’s a block away from English Bay).

you can have neighbourhood of multimillion-dollar single family homes or you can have a vibrant, walkable neighbourhood of shops and restaurants but babe, you cannot have both in one place

I need you to understand that Gavin Newsom’s plan here is to ingratiate himself to his fascist billionaire buddies by voter suppressing not just himself but also any potential future democratic candidate. That’s how stupid he is. He should be suing & blocking. He’s fast tracking.

It ... definitely doesn't sound good, and but the sooner the bubble bursts, the better.

Jim Oleske@jimoleske.bsky.social · 5d ago

This ... doesn't sound good. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/m...

“The one thing that unites the successful DSA candidates is that they’re all fighters, and they’ve each already got at least one big fight under their belts this year.”

Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · 5d ago

I'm tired of people who feel threatened by the DSA controlling the discourse about it, because even though I'm not a member, I can recognize that the DSA's good for all of us and for the Democratic Party

Trump 2 has shown that the bulk of federal, state, and local "law enforcement" don't perform any useful functions at all. If they did, it would not be so easy to re-task them to brainless gestapo work like rounding up whole neighborhoods and waiting outside public buildings.

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 6d ago

I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.

Skynet waiting for the IPO to drop before annihilating mankind.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

BARTIROMO: It feels like we're moving into a Terminator-type world HASSETT: I hope not and I think not. AI companies definitely have an incentive not to destroy the world. That would destroy their companies too.

“the accumulated century-plus of tradition and joy and sweat equity becomes an asset on someone else’s books”

Tim Murphy@timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 6d ago

Infantino’s FIFA has firmly crossed the threshold from a sports story involving money and power to a money and power story involving sports www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A clear and detailed analysis of a highly offensive predatory pricing technique. Well worth reading. Making money is not the sole purpose of human life!

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 6d ago

With "surveillance pricing," businesses have finally found something AI can do way, way, *way* better than people: price gouging. 1/

I haven’t clearly said how much I appreciate Lucy’s words and vote here. Once again unattainable ideals are used as cover to do nothing and we are once again set back YEARS.

Lucy Maloney@lucymaloney.bsky.social · 7d ago

Yesterday, ABC walked away from their Villages Plan. The plan was not perfect and people didn’t feel heard. But here’s what was on the table: homes, for people and families, that are much more affordable than the ruinously expensive single family homes that are there today.

ABC Vancouver told reporters that the Villages plan was “disrespectful”, that city staff went too far, and that they were protecting residents from the sins of bureaucracy. But who told city staff to come up with a transformative plan? Here’s the receipts.

Peter Thompson’s Shadow Cast wins Best Artistic Photo, capturing his shadow at Stanley Park. Thank you to the BC Teachers’ Federation for supporting the Hope in Shadows project! 📸

Cut to: one year from now. 30 drones are hovering around the front door, afraid to go in

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last wk.

Some schools in Florida, Georgia and Colorado will be equipped with drones this year that can go through halls, smash windows and pepper-spray active shooters if teachers report a threat. The program follows a wave of high-tech campus security spending. https://wapo.st/4gVNMXn

For as long as I’ve been a reporter in this city the complaint has been that we build too many giant luxury condos in a few places and not enough medium density housing across neighbourhoods. But this week reaffirmed why that approach is so baked into the DNA and political culture of Vancouver.

OK: “several years of decisions and directions from successive city councils, after public engagement found strong support”. But: “significant backlash” over the course of 3 days. A full surrender by council to (ever more emboldened) NIMBYs. So much good work, done by so many, undone by so few.

Vancouver Sun@vancouversun.bsky.social · last wk.

Real estate: Vancouver council rejects controversial 'villages' plan, citing public backlash vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...

This is so disappointing, frustrating, infuriating, and depressing. I truly don't understand what they think the ultimate outcome of not having reasonable housing policy will be. A city with no thriving businesses, restaurants, arts and culture, services because there are no workers?

Important anti fascist skill to learn is being brave enough to yell "shut the fuck up" at someone in public

Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · last wk.

Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...

The reason why they’re closing marine drive through Spanish Banks in the summer is because that’s the window to work in fish-bearing streams without affecting spawning salmon, not because they’re Morons

Haley Stevens is going to be Kyrsten Sinema in the Senate. Don't say you weren't warned.

AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our civilization and our descendants will be digging it out for generations: pluralistic.net/2026/04/08/p... 36/

Wait. They all shake hands at the end? What are we even doing here? He's the US President suing you for $20 billion for reporting on the birthday card he sent his friend the pedophile in which he drew a naked girl & mused about secrets. And they all shake hands?

Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 2w ago

Remarkable camera angle of President Trump as he listens to Wall Street Journal reporters receiving an award for their investigation into Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — which they pursued despite Trump’s threats and lawsuit.

This utter muppet of a conservative Canadian politician in New Brunswick forgot to remove the LLM text from his floor speech and read it out loud.

My 3 year old's top 2 Willoughby Wallaby Woos: - 1) Willoughby Wallaby Wane. An elephant sat on a plane. - 2) Willoughby Wallaby Weka Wonster Wookie. An elephant sat on a Breka monster cookie.

January 6 was a heavily astroturfed, top-down event where a mob was enticed to DC via a series of organized rallies and paid social media influencer persuasion, followed by subsidized buses. Black Lives Matter was a spontaneous protest movement that led to some internal bottom-up organization.

Bernie hasn't tried this on here yet but here he is doing free marketing for OpenAI. He has been captured by the worst people in AI for a few years now and has been parroting company hype talking points instead of guarding against them. It’s like the public is being assaulted from all sides.

Rapist logic. The GOP mentality in a nutshell.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump on data centers: "You have to convince your communities how great these things are. You can't fight it. You have to go with it."