The suggestion that the evacuation of Summerland created massive emergency resource challenges does not fill one with optimism for how we'd handle a real big disaster. Over the last 30 years, we've evacuated 7k plus in Salmon Arm, Kelowna, West Kelowna, Williams Lake and I'm probably forgetting some

Looking forward to a big piece rounding up all the ways people are starting to reject technology and step back into the analog world.

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · last wk.

Went to parent-teacher night at my kid's middle school this evening and got told that the district is now moving away from technology in the classroom and going back to pen and paper. I love that this excellent news of rebellion came on the same day as Zuckerberg's AI supremacist screed.

It's dark, yes, but it's important to daylight all the social murder* happening due to failed or absent government policies. (*"term used to describe unnatural or premature deaths that occurs due to preventable problems in social, political, or economic systems")

Patrick Canning 🇨🇦@patrickcanning.bsky.social · last wk.

So, I've created a very informal climate death tracker, basically a single place to publicly track and record climate-related deaths. This is it: @climatedeaths.bsky.social

For Canada's 'Major Projects,' Consultation Is Theatre via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

For Canada’s ‘Major Projects,’ Consultation Is Theatre | The Tyee

A summer info session on Alberta’s pipeline left a chill in the room for First Nations.

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PRIDE Victoria was a blast! 🌈💖✨See you in Vancouver this weekend for Dyke march Saturday, and Pride Parade & Festival sunday 🔥🏳️‍🌈RSVP here to join us! bcgreens.ca/events

As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from humanoid sex robots to classroom "education" robots. Buckle up. nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/n... 🧵

Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot Teacher

Plans to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant at Salamanca High School have sparked debate over the role of technology in schools.

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I have never ever ever seen a newspaper story where liberal men or women whine about how conservatives don't want to fuck them but at least a couple of times a year there's a newspaper story about how awful it is that liberal women don't want to fuck conservative men

The Columbus Dispatch@dispatch.com · last mo.

Opinion: A retired professor shares how political polarization is impacting his dating life in modern America.

"Prime Minister Mark Carney and B.C. Premier David Eby’s plan to convert thousands of vacant condo units into rent-to-own housing treats a symptom of Canada’s housing crisis instead of its underlying disease." macleans.ca/economy/real...

Carney's Condo Bailout Is a Band-Aid Solution - Macleans.ca

Investors and residents aren't buying them. Why should the government?

macleans.ca

Able only to watch their hometown burn to the ground, residents of Collins First Nation flee for their lives by boat—one of at least five northern Ontario First Nations evacuated due to wildfires. That story and more on APTN News Brief: pod.fo/e/44afde

APTN News Brief

Daily update on what's making headlines in Indigenous country across Canada and beyond.

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Carney has appointed a tobacco lobbyist to the Senate and an oil exec as consul general to New York. Can't wait for an asbestos CEO who dabbles in the blood diamond trade to be made ambassador to the EU.

PM Carney replaces controversial New York envoy with oil executive

The Carney government is replacing former broadcast journalist Tom Clark as consul general to New York City with an oil executive, and naming a former cabinet minister as Canada’s envoy in Los Angeles...

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"Bottom line, we're likely to see oilsands emissions continue to rise over the next five, 10, 15, 20 years...Nothing that's been announced ... suggests that there's a real attempt to constrain oilsands emissions and see them reduce over time." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Oilsands emissions on track to outpace reductions from Pathways project: economist | CBC News

Increased oilsands production from a new pipeline to the West Coast would lead to an average of 20 megatonnes in new emissions per year, the Canadian Climate Institute projects.

cbc.ca

The healthcare system we all deserve relies on nurses being treated fairly. Nurses have been put in unsafe working conditions, and now they’re being disrespected for asking for better. This is unacceptable. The right to strike is sacred. The BC Greens stand in solidarity with the BCNU.

Who’s behind the backlash over Indigenous rights in B.C.? www.dogwoodbc.ca/news/whos-be...

Who’s behind the backlash over Indigenous rights in B.C.?

B.C.’s 180-year old “land question” is fueling a very modern culture war. How did we get here?

dogwoodbc.ca

Buster Keaton didn't stand still while a two-ton housefront collapsed on top of him with a window cut out to barely clear his shoulders on each side so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Olivia Hill@machineiv.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Sam Raimi didn't strap a Super 8 camera to a 2x4 so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

The heatwave in Europe is so extreme, it's 25–32°F (14–18°C) above normal. You read that right. France recorded it's hottest day ever. The UK had its hottest ever June day. The ground is exceeding 122°F (50°C). People are dying. Tell me again why we shouldn't talk about climate change???

Leadnow wondering how y'all are feeling about AI data centres. It's a short 2 minute survey. Share your thoughts on the AI data centres here: leadnow.ca/campaigns/AI...

Share your thoughts on AI data centres - Leadnow

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The death toll in India continues to add up - 3,400 per day. Canada is planning to multiply by 7 our LNG production. Our government doesn't care who dies.

3,400 deaths in a day: India's extreme heat days are deadlier than we imagined

Official counts of "heatstroke deaths" are often low, sometimes just a few hundred in a bad season, because many heat-related deaths are not labelled as such. This implies that the toll could be much ...

indiatoday.in

Patrick Canning 🇨🇦@patrickcanning.bsky.social · 3mo ago

30,000 excess deaths over 5 days of unprecedented heat in India. Are our leaders saying "holy crap, we've gotta do something"? Nope. Carney is licensing new oil and gas. Trump is attacking Iran. They don't care.

"women can be perfectly capable of using this technology and simply choose not to" we did in fact need data backing up this incredibly obvious claim bc a LOT of companies will insist Susan from Accounting is refusing to use AI to do the books because IT needs to come explain how it works to her

jenna newman phd@jennanewman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“study of around 8,000 respondents concludes that women’s lower uptake of generative AI tools has little to do w/ skills or access. Instead, it is driven largely by how women perceive the broader societal risks associated w/ the new technology.”🧪 @josiecox.bsky.social

"Say fewer things, say them more often." 🎯

Anat Shenker-Osorio@anatosaurus.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This. And also why every round of funding fights, Dems should have been saying: No Payouts for Pedophiles (along with No Funding for Fascism, No Dollars for Dictators) Plus calling every Republican not pushing for Epstein files - Senator Pedophile. Say fewer things, say them more often.

Tech oligarchs have spent 3 years screaming that their plan is to win the race to AGI, which they define as the point when machines replace the vast majority of human economic activity. They just figured out that we could hear them. Bit late, Jensen Huang. www.channelnewsasia.com/business/ceo...

'Lazy' narrative to connect AI to job cuts, says Nvidia boss Jensen Huang

"If you don't engage the technology of your time, you'll just simply be left behind," Mr Huang told CNA's Victoria Jen in a wide-ranging interview.

channelnewsasia.com

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

This is so damning of the Ministry + VicPD. “We are now more convinced than ever that the process was just a whole set up... coordinated by senior government staff who worked closely... with police liaison officer program to try to force us to do what they wish" cheknews.ca/sd-61-truste...

SD 61 trustees reinstated, Province concedes court case

Provincial lawyers throw out case against fired SD61 trustees after texts between senior government officials and VicPD surface surface.

cheknews.ca

Did y'all know PM Carney is ending Pharmacare? Send a letter to your MP: Protect Pharmacare for all!. You can use the template or modify and write your own. via @leadnowca.bsky.social leadnow.ca/campaigns/ph...

Send a message to your MP: Protect Pharmacare - Leadnow

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Happy International Worker’s Day🌹✊ American billionaire Warren Buffett once said “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning." Call me naïve, but I believe that the working class is starting to win again.

the B.C. Coroners Service posted two reports on April 24 and I guess nobody noticed? I did just now. it should've been A HUGE SCANDAL #bcpoli Deaths of Individuals Experiencing Homelessness in British Columbia (2016-2024) www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/b...

What's wild is that the only group that actually violates property rights in Canada is corporations. They can drill through your land and excavate you from your home and send the RCMP if you protest. Yet racists want us all to be mad at Indigenous people who didn't take anyone's property title away

I feel so disconnected from the genpop in how often this Prime Minister angers me. (hello gen x babes) Today, uplifting a right wing Indigenous Rights eroding disinfo frame on the Cowichan decision. Which he entirely did not need to weigh in on. It was gross posturing.

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

USAID Whistleblower Says It Was Even Worse Than People Knew

Political appointees wanted a quiet drawdown, the whistleblower says. DOGE wanted an execution.

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Boosting the incredible resources on DRIPAfacts.ca! 📝 Share far and wide to combat coordinated misinformation campaigns. DRIPA is the path forward for human rights in BC. Send this to your family, co-workers and friends so we can collectively defend this critical legislation in the coming months.

Friends of reconciliation: please repost this! Or direct from DRIPAfacts.ca Educating fellow settlers is on all of us to help undo the damage.

Emily Lowan (she/her)@emilylowan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Boosting the incredible resources on DRIPAfacts.ca! 📝 Share far and wide to combat coordinated misinformation campaigns. DRIPA is the path forward for human rights in BC. Send this to your family, co-workers and friends so we can collectively defend this critical legislation in the coming months.