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I hope I would get up and leave in this situation

14.03.2026 21:39 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
person biking with sun setting

Casual road cyclist pretty sure it makes sense to spend 4K
more on a bike that is 3 grams lighter instead of just losing less than one pound of bodyweight.

person biking with sun setting Casual road cyclist pretty sure it makes sense to spend 4K more on a bike that is 3 grams lighter instead of just losing less than one pound of bodyweight.

Casual road cyclist pretty sure it makes sense to spend 4K
more on a bike that is 3 grams lighter instead of just losing less than one pound of bodyweight.

26.02.2026 00:41 👍 128 🔁 13 💬 23 📌 1
"THOSE WHO LOVE
PEACE MUST LEARN TO ORGANIZE AS
EFFECTIVELY AS THOSE
WHO LOVE WAR"
MARTIN LUTHER KING. JR

"THOSE WHO LOVE PEACE MUST LEARN TO ORGANIZE AS EFFECTIVELY AS THOSE WHO LOVE WAR" MARTIN LUTHER KING. JR

"Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

14.03.2026 21:00 👍 81 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 0

Women around the world recognize the lose-lose proposition here: emotionally immature men depend on women to keep them from making the worst possible choices and then demonize them for being killjoy nags.

ThOSE who could stop this—Congress GOP—instinctively know this and won't take the hit.

14.03.2026 20:50 👍 355 🔁 69 💬 9 📌 0

The world would be a better place if journalists and lawmakers can distinguish an ebike from an electric motorcycle.

14.03.2026 14:32 👍 385 🔁 60 💬 14 📌 7
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In Talking to Parents About Vaccines, Pediatricians Navigate a Sea of Misinformation

In Talking to Parents About Vaccines, Pediatricians Navigate a Sea of Misinformation www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/h...

14.03.2026 21:04 👍 79 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 0

So many, including a large percentage of influential elites, came to believe that relative peace and stability with thriving commerce is the natural order of things.

Fools. Naive, complacent, often selfish fools. Peace and stability take immense work to create and maintain. And not much to disrupt.

14.03.2026 19:35 👍 2476 🔁 636 💬 65 📌 12

Doing systemic racism to eliminate research on systemic racism to make systemic racism easier to hide and deny.

14.03.2026 20:21 👍 579 🔁 197 💬 7 📌 1
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He is begging like a dog, one might say.

This war and Trump’s alienation of our allies may go down as among the greatest foreign policy failures of any presidency in history.

14.03.2026 20:06 👍 2192 🔁 612 💬 349 📌 80

People generally deserve to be treated with kindness—ideas don’t.

14.03.2026 15:38 👍 53 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 0
An infographic titled "president Trump is reshaping the media", reposted from his truth social account.

An infographic titled "president Trump is reshaping the media", reposted from his truth social account.

Donald Trump is now just openly bragging about interfering in the media. He's the president. He's running a truck over the first amendment here.

14.03.2026 15:06 👍 2917 🔁 1161 💬 121 📌 113
Yeah, We're Going to Have to Tax the Middle Class
Yeah, We're Going to Have to Tax the Middle Class YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

"The signature policy of the New Deal wasn't really Social Security. It was the payroll tax that funded Social Security ...If you want a broad set of middle class benefits, you need a broad-based middle class tax." Sharp @jamellebouie.net response to Dem tax plans. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXZv...

13.03.2026 12:19 👍 174 🔁 39 💬 6 📌 3

once again, if the only thing you knew about trump was that he was a malignant narcisscist you'd be much better able to predict how this stuff goes than people who interpret his actions through the lens of geopolitics or military strategy or whatever. creates a crisis then demands credit for fixing

14.03.2026 15:47 👍 390 🔁 45 💬 7 📌 4

they're gonna spend $50B re-opening the Strait of Hormuz over the next 6 months and then act like it's this huge victory when they only thing they accomplished was restoring the pre-war status quo

14.03.2026 15:45 👍 1311 🔁 294 💬 50 📌 12

I’ll never forget how we ended child poverty and then decided that actually child poverty was an acceptable price to pay so that rich people could go skiing in Berne twice a year instead of once

14.03.2026 15:46 👍 931 🔁 206 💬 3 📌 0

“Hopefully all the other countries I trash will send their navies to help bail me out of the war I started” 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

14.03.2026 15:47 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Three shots of a green-silver colored caiman wreathed in 4-6 colorful yellow and orange butterflies.  He blinks in two of the shots, looking delighted somehow, while the butterflies swarm his head.
CREDIT:  Mark Cowan.

Three shots of a green-silver colored caiman wreathed in 4-6 colorful yellow and orange butterflies. He blinks in two of the shots, looking delighted somehow, while the butterflies swarm his head. CREDIT: Mark Cowan.

This photograph series by Mark Cowan documents a phenomenon called 'lachryphagy' ("tear-feeding").

The caiman excretes salt in their tears & the butterflies need the precious minerals for their metabolism & reproduction.

So, they're feeding on crocodilian tears.

(📷: Mark Cowan, Curtin Uni.)

23.07.2025 16:01 👍 1026 🔁 368 💬 17 📌 40

Carney can speak credibly to economic issues, but he needs to incorporate some empathy. Show people you feel their pain, man

13.03.2026 17:59 👍 113 🔁 18 💬 24 📌 8
Facebook post cldecrying a residential development o  a dying mall because of its impact on parking.

Facebook post cldecrying a residential development o a dying mall because of its impact on parking.

"Don't develop in my neighbourhood, develop somewhere else"

*development clusters on the site of a dying mall and its ocean of parking*

"No, no! My parking!"

14.03.2026 15:04 👍 66 🔁 12 💬 17 📌 2
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Ford government to end funding for supervised consumption sites, advocates say — including two in Toronto In Toronto, Moss Park Overdose Prevention Site and the location at Fred Victor will lose their funding, according to letters sent to the site directors.

Ford government to end funding for supervised consumption sites, advocates say, warning the move will result in more deaths at a time when the city is seeing an increasingly tainted drug supply, by @omarmosleh.bsky.social www.thestar.com/news/gta/for... via @thestar.com

14.03.2026 15:10 👍 17 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 1

They blew up USAid and doomed millions to an agonizing death but a video of them being an idiot on camera is causing reputational damage

14.03.2026 04:46 👍 5046 🔁 1413 💬 75 📌 24

The term is Schreibtischtäter (desk murderers) and they show absolutely no remorse.

14.03.2026 04:29 👍 96 🔁 29 💬 1 📌 0

Can’t believe nobody wanted to read the articles nobody bothered to write

14.03.2026 01:34 👍 6616 🔁 1798 💬 45 📌 18
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Grandma jailed after AI error linked her to crime in state she never visited: lawyer The charges were later dismissed after bank records showed she was in Tennessee at the time

If only a college professor could condescendingly yell at her that AI is useful, I bet she’d feel so much better about all this

14.03.2026 03:28 👍 4512 🔁 1046 💬 97 📌 183

“Any regimes that need changing, including the US, Israel, and ours, need to be changed by the people, not by some bloated, lying, cheating, greedy, resource-grabbing, bomb-dropping imperial power and its allies who are trying to bully the whole world into submission.”

read ⬇️ by Arundhati Roy

13.03.2026 19:45 👍 15 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1
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The people of #HaidaGwaii deserve reliable connections.
A $24M subsea fibre link connecting Haida Gwaii to the mainland's north coast means fewer outages for the people who live, learn & work there.Every $1 invested in connectivity is estimated to generate ~7X in GDP over 20 yrs
news.gov.bc.ca/33468

14.03.2026 00:34 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

This is not to say Israel does not have an influence, of course. But it's influence based in shared interests, shared militarism, shared racism, etc.

But Israel does not CONTROL America. America has no problem bombing brown people without Israel or anyone else.

13.03.2026 23:52 👍 289 🔁 46 💬 4 📌 0

My take on why many (white) progressives say that Israel is making the US go to war is that they would very much prefer that to be the case than to have to examine their own culpability and participation in America's white supremacist militaristic reality.

So much easier if it's outsiders.

13.03.2026 23:50 👍 719 🔁 158 💬 26 📌 12
Malcolm X  Front Page Challenge Jan  5, 1965     YouTube
Malcolm X Front Page Challenge Jan 5, 1965 YouTube YouTube video by Jon Stray

Just three weeks before he was assassinated Malcom X appeared on a Canadian game show. It is incredible footage. It reveals how Canadian media saw Malcom X as compared to how he was treated in the United States.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqmy...

14.03.2026 00:06 👍 446 🔁 158 💬 25 📌 16

It serves a political purpose to create the problem of open air drug use across Ontario, especially in an urban centre like Toronto. Conservatives can claim that "crime is everywhere!" and weaponize the public's fear — no matter that they created the problem. No matter that thousands will die.

13.03.2026 23:10 👍 162 🔁 110 💬 4 📌 4