When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
some of the olympic women including maddie mastro have been reposting this if you’re curious about the vibe in response to the US men’s little display
in this thread I will try to "Explain In Football Terms" what it's like to have lived through the "Canadian Curling Cheating Scandal" for the past week
This has been so helpful through the games - thank you!
That was so unexpected…
My position tonight is also “I don’t want good things to happen to the Patriots”
Fascism wants you to believe that you are alone. That you are isolated. That the feelings you have are yours and nobody else has them because everybody is too afraid to speak.
But love is stronger than fascism. Community is stronger than fascism.
Thank you!! It’s been really rough.
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
Tapping the sign so hard I'm about to put a finger through it
An INCREDIBLE thread. Truly worth your time and then some.
A black and white photo shows four starts of socks balanced on a pair of knees. Each of the four have a light coloured cuff, and two completed stripes. In the background you can see a curling rock hat, and a sheet of ice with curlers.
To avoid spoilers, I’m switching to B&W for the rest of the week.
Two draws into the Olympics Trials, Two stripes down in the socks!
A sparkly white sock cuff, on the needles, balances on a black crossbar. Behind it, there are curling sheets with women playing on them.
_It begins_
We’re knitting our advent sock yarn at the Canadian Curling Trials, one stripe per draw. This might be the only photo we post “live” so we don’t spoil the colours for others.
critfailmemes on threads (!) "Okay so to keep the poor from rioting you give them bread and circuses" "Got it. However some of them were sneaking into the circus on their friend's login so we stopped that" "No you... you gotta give them the circuses" "We're ending the free bread program, too much of it was going to the poor"
You know you want to 🤞
What I love so much about the Poulin jersey is it's strictly for *us*, it needs no explanation to the average Canadian sports fan but Fox is gonna need a two-paragraph explanation where they pronounce her name wrong. Vladdy just organically understands the moment.
I’ve done this to people before 😂 Happy Blue Jays Playing the Opening Game of the World Series!
We should treat the things built with our parents’ tax dollars as our true birthright, but we do not. And it is impoverishing to our lives.
the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
It’s absolutely right that workers walk off the job in response to the government taking a chainsaw to Canada Post.
If we lose the unique national infrastructure the postal service has, it will never be rebuilt. We should be using it to expand services to the public, not nickel and diming it.
Another thing I'd like to add is that as a longtime victim of stalking, I have been sending all my mail to a PO Box since 2005. I live in a city of 1 million people and have a street address, but I'm not even on the voter registry in order to keep myself safe.
No more PO Boxes would be a huge loss.
I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service.
Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.
Solidarity with the postal workers.
The proposed cuts - the mere idea of eliminating the century-old foundational idea of "getting mail at your home", all because Canada Post doesn't "turn a profit like a business" - should be embarrassing for us as a country
Me: DAGGERbound? Oh my, are we getting a continuation of the Swordheart books?
*goes to look up the synopsis*
Me: ...
Me: ........
Me: LEARNED EDMUND WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING HERE? WOOOO!
*instabuys*
“Stay angry, little Meg,” Mrs Whatsit whispered. “You will need all your anger now.”
"Okay I get that," Meg whispered back, "but I've been angry for over a decade straight and my arteries are basically solid carbon fiber at this point. Do I ever get a freakin' break?"
once again I will remind people that the structure of unions and labor relations we have in this country was a compromise because the alternative involved firebombing the houses of the executives
The Canadian government's had their bluff completely called.
"You are ORDERED to arbitration." No thanks.
"Go back to work by NOON or ELSE." Nah we're good.
"Your strike is now ILLEGAL." Okay arrest every Air Canada flight attendant, that'll be great optics AND help the planes take off again.
Air Canada flight attendants’ union head defies back-to-work order: ‘If it means jail, so be it.’ CUPE union president Mark Hancock refused to obey Ottawa orders. “If Air Canada thinks flights will be operating this afternoon, they’re sorely mistaken,” he said as picketing continues.
Update from after the noon deadline: the flight attendants' union have told the government "fuck it we ball"
The public overwhelmingly sides with the union workers, and overwhelmingly - like, just as a constant, throughout Canadian history - does not like Air Canada. Even just for basic, naked politics reasons, you'd think the Liberal government would understand not to hitch their wagon to the latter
I get that sometimes the garbage can't pile up forever or ERs need nurses, and some strikes need intervention. Air Canada's a private company with 44% market share & stock mostly held by foreign investors.
Air Canada's *not an essential service* and the Canadian government has no right to intervene
