My new job is securing funding for First Nations housing, and holy shit, Mark Carney has done so much damage to these programs, which were already utterly inadequate. Carney is pure evil and a colonialist to his core.

Please stop using AI detectors (which are just AI) to detect AI.

Let’s help make Ella’s birthday special! Happy birthday, Ella!

"Birthday Girl" Ella Tailor@garaktailor.com · 4h ago

Hello. All I would like for my birthday today is this boosted everywhere and any help anyone can manage. Rent and bills forever. License renewal today costs $41 And i have to make moxie an appointment that will be at least $300. Second half of rent due in a week and a half. Anythinf helps!

My new job is securing funding for First Nations housing, and holy shit, Mark Carney has done so much damage to these programs, which were already utterly inadequate. Carney is pure evil and a colonialist to his core.

Supporters hope Winnipeg's 1st supervised consumption site will expand hours www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #mbpoli

Supporters hope Winnipeg's 1st supervised consumption site will expand hours | CBC News

Dakota Hunter believes Manitoba's first supervised consumption site, opening next week, will cut back on the number of overdoses on Winnipeg streets, but she hopes the facility's hours will be extende...

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Can’t believe this was a decade ago. If you look around at the state of this country, I think it’s fair to say that Gord was load bearing.

Dave Kaufman@davekaufman.bsky.social · 6h ago

10 years ago tonight, in Winnipeg. Photo by David Bastedo.

Safety, freedom and no misgendering: inside the Texas summer camp for trans kids www.theguardian.com/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Safety, freedom and no misgendering: inside the Texas summer camp for trans kids

At Color Splash Out, LGBTQ+ kids can play, create and connect without judgment, especially in a state that passed seven anti-trans bills last year

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I find it super fucking annoying when people claim trans people only make up X%. 1) You can’t know how many people are trans. That isn’t something you can know. 2) 1% isn’t a negligible number!

Liberal cis: Trans people can be sacrificed for the sake of democracy. Trans people: 😶 Liberal cis: See, trans people are unreasonable anyway. Clearly not fit for democracy.

I find it super fucking annoying when people claim trans people only make up X%. 1) You can’t know how many people are trans. That isn’t something you can know. 2) 1% isn’t a negligible number!

I’m old enough to remember when Trump mused that the best way to bring the COVID numbers down was to stop testing for COVID.

Sherrilyn Ifill@sifill.bsky.social · 23h ago

“If we reduce the complaints, we reduce the discrimination”

Trans women are simultaneously the epitome of failed masculinity and yet so masculine that we will inevitably dominate and destroy all women’s sports.

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 21h ago

It's weird because as @laurentheisen.bsky.social wrote, the anti-trans people have created a situation where they can stoke anti-trans sentiment and anger without there even needing to be an actual trans athlete involved. defector.com/the-right-ha...

Can we have this here in Australia? Shoppers should be paid for their efforts in serving themselves #auspol

Sound on to hear the kitty rumbles

The way that everyone sees fantom AI in original work now is such a fucked up secondary downstream AI nightmare consequence. People can’t critically identify real art any longer and so everything gets accused of not being original. I don’t know how we climb out of this hole.

I want a Bass VI.

Walked outside this morning and it was legitimately cool. I had forgotten what it’s like to not be hot.

That this rule is being asserted through the *Education* Department just shows how Orwellian the US is.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

I’m glad the Canadian media is finally starting to turn on Carney, but this should’ve happened over a year ago. Everything Carney is doing was 100% predictable. I’m so sick of mainstream media being complicit until it’s safe to be critical. The media is always too late to the actual fucking story.

I'm in the Star today with a piece on the Carney government's handling of relations with the United States. Last year, Canadians gave Mark Carney a mandate to disentangle our country from the empire to the south. By any reasonable standard, he's done the opposite. Link in first reply.

I love this channel, not just because it’s by an amazing illustrator. Really, it’s because it’s a journal of all the messy feelings that those of us who are actually interested in art and design go through.

If You're Creative But Unmotivated, Watch This

YouTube video by BEN BISHOP - JUST MAKE COMICS

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Sasha F@sashaf.myatproto.social · 3d ago

Just discovered that Ben Bishop has a whole ass YouTube channel. If you don’t know @bishart.bsky.social, he created so many of the amazing designs for the post-apocalyptic TMNT Last Ronin series.

Fuck AI. Make your weird art.

Just discovered that Ben Bishop has a whole ass YouTube channel. If you don’t know @bishart.bsky.social, he created so many of the amazing designs for the post-apocalyptic TMNT Last Ronin series.

“Inking” Comics With a Pencil

YouTube video by BEN BISHOP - JUST MAKE COMICS

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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

Look at Helo’s Elizabethan ruffle!

Just discovered that Ben Bishop has a whole ass YouTube channel. If you don’t know @bishart.bsky.social, he created so many of the amazing designs for the post-apocalyptic TMNT Last Ronin series.

“Inking” Comics With a Pencil

YouTube video by BEN BISHOP - JUST MAKE COMICS

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Every few months I learn of yet another massive hit that the “Queen of bass” Carol Kaye played on. Did you know she played on La Bamba? I didn’t even know she was playing way back in the 50s. I thought she started in the late 60s.

La Bamba

YouTube video by Ritchie Valens - Topic

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I love how much Odyssey discourse is happening. This could be happening all the time. The arts! For gods’ sake, the arts are so vital. Maybe there will be an uptick in humanities.

The fact remains though that the Coen Brothers made the best Odyssey with the embodiment of a charming clever but not always smart trickster and a banger soundtrack in a 100 minute runtime

Biblioraptor, PhD@biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 4d ago

I am fine with the change to Odysseus in the sense that it allows this particular message about war and inhumanity but stripping him of charismatic trickster qualities does make the actual journey set pieces weird and his motivations confusing