Perhaps powerful men are turning to chatbots because they miss having compliant women they can boss around.

A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants

And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue

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The Regina City Jamia Masjid will have to apply every week for a noise abatement permit to broadcast their call-to-prayer: www.ctvnews.ca/regina/artic... Meanwhile… church bells enjoy a complete exemption from the noise abatement bylaw. #yqrcc

My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.

Way too few people showed up for that Wax Mannequin show, Regina. The guy's a Canadian music treasure. In other news, finally got my Red Brain shirt.

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

Research consistently shows that the reliability of speed safety cameras compels drivers to slow down. In comparison, police-based enforcement is spotty and biased. NHTSA awards the tactic 5 stars, declaring it has been “demonstrated to be effective by several high-quality evaluations.”

New report: SF drivers slowed down around cameras

Pilot program’s first year a success, transportation officials said.

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SERIOUSLY, WATCH THIS: If you really want to understand how SUVs and pick-up trucks have ended up being MOST of the vehicles out there in cities, and the absolutely HUGE consequences of that, watch this easy-to-watch video by Not Just Bikes. Then share it as much as you can. youtu.be/jN7mSXMruEo

These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us

YouTube video by Not Just Bikes

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If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky.

Dougie Jones’ Other Jacket@thepalinode.com · 3d ago

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky.

This is a representative sample of the discourse under Just Bins' post about Regina police approving the noise abatement permit so our downtown mosque can broadcast a call-to-prayer for 3min once a week. Racism. Ignorance. Calls for violence. #yqrcc

Saskatchewan headquarters of the right-wing think tank, the Frontier Centre For Public Policy, seems rather shabby and run down these days. Kinda like their ideas.

Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

General Motors streetcar conspiracy - Wikipedia

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Unpopular opinion: Leftists need to stop reading books.

Hey! This week on the Queen City Improvement Bureau we have Clr Victoria Flores and one of the kids from the City Council Boot Camp. We'll be talking about mock city council and ACTUAL city council. The QCIB: 2 old men finding out what the youths think. Thu 7pm on @accessnowradio.ca #yqrcc

"We need to do X thing that I personally do not believe in because of opinion polls & savvy electoral considerations" is just psychologically untenable after a while. You get dug in arguing for X thing and after a while you're just ... a supporter of X thing. Many such cases.

One key thing about reactionary centrism is that if you argue for the conservative position on purely savvy electoral grounds long enough ... you start to just believe the conservative position. I'm watching this happen in climate as the RC brigade becomes more & more explicitly pro-fossil fuels.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d ago

It was inevitable that reactionary centrists would turn against harm reduction and call for a return to mass incarceration

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

There is a certain level of obtuseness in (some) "AI" apologists when they flounce up to point out what "AI" is good for in science, etc, while eliding the fact that almost none of that use is driving the current market capitalization, environmental degradation and resource hogging of the field

It would be easy to call this the “new normal“ but that’s incorrect. In actual fact, “normal” is going to keep getting worse and worse and worse. Just how bad it will get depends entirely on how fast & far we go on real, legitimate (not performative) #ClimateAction. We know how. It’s about will.

Nahel Belgherze@wxnb.bsky.social · 5d ago

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

I just saw the announcement: Regina Police approved the noise abatement permit for the Regina City Jamia Masjid. The call-to-prayer will be going ahead downtown. I personally think this is great news. #yqrcc

Thomas Crown Affair is about a bored billionaire who does burglary. B/c when a billionaire does burglary it's a fun adventure. When a poor person does burglary that's a crime that gets you prison time & nobody makes a movie. Unless you count Les Mis.

Midneer is the cruelest month.

Days after Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke publicly supported the idea that pensioners and the poor should lose their right to vote — and the wealthy should have extra votes — Elon Musk called him a "national treasure." But that's not all. Lutke also has the ear of Canada's prime minister. Here's proof:

Tonight on the Queen City Improvement Bureau: • Exchange ED John Kennedy to talk about the Exchange Folk Festival on August 8 • mock city council update • Globe gets a $1.38mil life line Live tonight on 91.3FM CJTR @accessnowradio.ca #yqrcc accessnowradio.ca

Unanimous vote. Globe theatre request for $1.38mil in emergency funding is APPROVED! #yqrcc

I was selfishly hoping this meeting would be farther along by now. I want to see it to the end but I think I will have to do some parenting in a bit & I have a farewell party this evening for a friend who's moving away. #yqrcc

I made a coffee while doing a council update today. In it, I explain how 4 of Clr Tsiklis' motions have been withdrawn. Gone: increasing council's expense budget motion, No Excuses on going downtown motion, light for Harbour Landing motion, benches for Harbour Landing motion. #yqrcc

Regina City Council Live Update Jul 29 2026

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Hey guys! 4 of Tsikils' 5 motions seem to have been *withdrawn*. The only motion standing is the one about slotting city priorities into 3 categories (core, discretionary, hybrid). #yqrcc

Okay… council is standing for the national anthem. I'm switching over to @pdcityhall.bsky.social #yqrcc

So yeah… it's George Tsiklis Day at city council. Send good vibes my way. #yqrcc

Another Clr Tsiklis joint coming to today's council meeting: More park benches. But only for Harbour Landing again. Which, if you missed it is, is Tsiklis' ward. #yqrcc