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Thank you, Toronto!!! Phew…

Torontonians on here: it’s election day and I can’t vote, but support Olivia and she needs everyone out to beat this doofus. If you’re not sure you have the time/energy to vote today, please will you try your super best? ❤️

Truly, deeply, what the fuck

40 Billion dollars! Never accept the austerity narrative. From ending poverty, to zero university tuition, to clean drinking water - it’s all possible.

I proudly endorse this message from my grandparents ❤️

All the props in the world to this guy, but THIS IS NOT A FEEL-GOOD STORY IT IS A DAMNING INDICTMENT OF OUR SOCIETY AND HOW WE TREAT OUR MOST VULNERABLE

Not having a comprehensive social welfare system isn't a financial or technical choice, it's a political one. It's always austerity for the poor, and an open purse for military and law&order...

This dog perfectly captures my vibe at work this month and I blame Arsenal for that (but also love Arsenal for that, don't stop now, one more) 🔴⚪

your regular reminder that the national shoplifting crisis was a manufactured moral panic largely engineered by corporations in order to cover up their own mismanagement — and that wage theft is the largest category of theft in the U.S.

If a Croque Madame talked to another Croque Madame about anything other than a Croque Monsieur Would they have passed the Béchamel test?

Feels like next time we should not let the 500 worst people in the country be in charge of everyone else

Ha ha suck it sport-os! Art gallery strolling for the win!

I see so many guys like this. They've been raises in racist patriarchy, trained to be selfish & imperious toward other people, but then they reach a stage of life where they have no power & no one *has to* put up with their shit ... so no one does. And they are utterly at sea.

We've spent an estimated $25B on Trump's war on Iran. Now Trump and Co. want even more money to fund the war. But healthcare? Cut. Food stamps? Cut. Education? Cut. Cancer research? Cut. Environmental protections? Cut. And of course, taxes on the rich? Cut. Obscene.

Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today. One for the history books www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

There's one trait where economists clearly outperform the other social sciences: Hubris.

Jailing people increases crime in the long run

On any given day, 1.25 million kids are without their parents because of mass incarceration.

The moment we accept the idea that peace must be purchased with the blood of women and girls, we are no longer speaking of peace. If safety demands their suffering then what we are building is not a better world but a quieter graveyard.

Had a grad student submit a lit review on a topic I know about that was pure AI and it wasn’t ‘better’; it was stupid, unreliable and unusable bc a bunch of if the sources and concepts were made up.

It never ceases to confound me just how many folks think the point of essays is to provide teachers with essays. That teachers just like, collect them, or need them for sustenance or something. Rather than the point of them being the *actual fucking act of learning how to think about shit*

Note how Schank also takes credit for his former PhD student's brilliance, saying "she failed to be brilliant when I made her leave Yale; she needed a man in order to be smart; they all do." This is the logic that allows men to justify exploiting women's intellectual labor for their own gain.

If you're looking for the source of academia's leaky pipeline--it's not women's lack of commitment, it's the misogyny of men like this.

In a sea of terrible misogynistic bile, this one put me over the edge. What a pair of absolute assholes. May they rot, and I wish the same on all the other ‘brilliant men’ who’re having these hubristic conversations at this very moment. You’re awful.

Ford says about OSAP that “What we were doing was unsustainable.” I wish the reporter would give the context that the Ontario gov't "provides the lowest per-student funding in Canada.... at only 57% of the national average." ontariosuniversities.ca/news/joint-s....

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

One more way AI doesn't actually save time/effort? Because while it takes 20-30min to grade a paper, it takes 2x that to realize it's AI, check citations & document how they're hallucinated or don't at all say the thing the paper claims, write this up, respond to NONSENSE excuses that come back.....

Gen X Canadians, we're up. Time to put that grittiness to work and get our 90s crush elected so sandwich generation-ing doesn't kill us. lewisforleader.ca

Jill made history as the first Black, queer MPP in Ontario, and she’s fought relentlessly for affordable housing, health care, the arts, and gender & racial justice. She is a principled, courageous leader who knows how move a room — and a movement. I'm delighted to have her support.

Posting for researchers to do paid freelance peer reviews, neat! Except a second glance makes it clear they’re hiring PhDs to train an LLM to do reviews. We’re all screwed. www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/...

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over and over and over again at work. "Hey check the Syllabus and get back to me if you're still unsure"

My cat is sitting on a neighbour's fence, juuuust out of reach of their little dog who's now yapping himself hoarse, ignoring him and gently enjoying the sun on her face. Reminds me of something...

📢 NEWS RELEASE ALERT – Bill S-208 is a critical step toward ending unjust mandatory minimum sentences, advancing reconciliation, and redirecting resources away from punishment and toward safer, healthier communities. #SenCA #BillS208 #CriminalJusticeReform #EndMandatoryMinimums #JusticeThatWorks

No kids should be in prison, ever. How is that even something that needs saying?! NO KIDS IN JAIL

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What these goons don't seem to realize is that decades of neoliberal policies have forced the work of care downstream--from the state onto families, and then onto women, who've had to get very good at caring for others through the crises that those same neoliberal policies tend to create.